John Updike

The Adventures of a Videogame Rebel: Tim Schafer at Double Fine

Ups and Downs

Alemany Food Vendors Could Extend Their City Contracts Up to Three Years

ladyJake/FlickrEl Huarache Loco must file for a contract from the city's Real Estate Division.Food vendors at the Alemany farmers' market who avoided the axe last week have an opportunity to operate under city contract for as long as three years. Yesterday, Chron's Chuck Nevius reported that the ci ... More >>

Amidst a budget crisis, the city is losing its shirt in the antiques business

ladyJake/FlickrEl Huarache Loco must file for a contract from the city's Real Estate Division.Food vendors at the Alemany farmers' market who avoided the axe last week have an opportunity to operate under city contract for as long as three years. Yesterday, Chron's Chuck Nevius reported that the ci ... More >>

Create Your Own Wordy Artwork!

Fair enough. We're addicted. A co-worker recently shot us a link to Wordle.net, where you can create art via text written by you or anyone on God's green earth -- or, depending upon where you stand on biblical literalcy, God. In fact, what follows is the "Word art" for  The Book of Genesis (Kin ... More >>

Making Eating an Art

Fair enough. We're addicted. A co-worker recently shot us a link to Wordle.net, where you can create art via text written by you or anyone on God's green earth -- or, depending upon where you stand on biblical literalcy, God. In fact, what follows is the "Word art" for  The Book of Genesis (Kin ... More >>

Cover Up

The lure of the surface and the rise of the book jacket

Death Warmed Over Again

A family's crisis feels a bit too familiar in Imaginary Heroes

As Seen On

We like books and we like TV, so why don't we like book TV?

Give Till It Hurts

A solid, if conventional, ending for the new Aurora Theatre's first season

Our Bodies, Ourselves

The Vagina Monologues could use more soliloquy and less moralizing

The Talking Penis

Basic Instinct author crawls up Bill Clinton's pants and hangs on tight

The Way We Live Now

American Beauty

Savage Love

American Beauty

Portrait of a Teenager

American Beauty

Coal Miner's Son

American Beauty

Silver Mining

Digging for the genuine article at the Telluride Film Festival's 25th anniversary celebration

Suspicious Minds

Digging for the genuine article at the Telluride Film Festival's 25th anniversary celebration

A Little Night Music

Cole Valley's Zazie is a simple cafe by day, a chic bistro after sunset

Savage Love

Cole Valley's Zazie is a simple cafe by day, a chic bistro after sunset