Margaret Thatcher

"A Bright Room Called Day": Production Is Unequal to the Play

The 84th Academy Awards: a Timeline

​ People plan parties around this stuff, so we assume you probably watched too. But just in case you didn't, here's a timeline of the 84th Academy Awards ceremony. They make it this long just to mess with us all, in case you didn't know...

Ridiculously Spacious Bay Area Home for Sale, Only $29 Million

​Here's something that will surely stoke contempt among the Occupy Movement: A San Francisco suburban home is on the market. Its asking price? Only $29 million!The mega mansion, which sits on 6 acres in the quiet town of Hillsborough, is secured by classic wrought-iron gates. It has reportedly bee ... More >>

Metallica Turns 30 with Ozzy, Danzig, Rob Halford, and a Roomful of Fanatics

Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

Pulp Doc The Beat Is the Law Explores the "Common People" Roots of the Band

​Tonight only, Noise Pop and the Roxie Theater present Pulp Documentary The Beat is the Law at 7:30 p.m. From straight out of Sheffield comes this new documentary centered around the British band Pulp, founded by teenagers in 1978, popular in the 1990s and on hiatus since 2002 (it reunited th ... More >>

Studio Gourmet: New Local Web TV Show Interviews 1300 on Fillmore Chef David Lawrence

Carina OstDavid Lawrence shares a laugh with Studio Gourmet host Brad Lev​Inside the Actor's Studio meets the Food Network is how we would describe the new web-based show called Studio Gourmet SF. The concept is that a local chef with a good story will do a cooking demo, an in-depth interview ... More >>

Working-Class Heroine

Carina OstDavid Lawrence shares a laugh with Studio Gourmet host Brad Lev​Inside the Actor's Studio meets the Food Network is how we would describe the new web-based show called Studio Gourmet SF. The concept is that a local chef with a good story will do a cooking demo, an in-depth interview ... More >>

Forgetters Reignite Jawbreaker-Caliber Angst at Bottom of the Hill

The Forgetters at Bottom of the Hill last night. Pics by Rae, whose camera broke upon arrival, leaving us no choice but to subject you to Blackberry photos.​Forgetters January 27, 2011 @ Bottom Of The Hill Better than: Living under the false hope that Jawbreaker are going to reform one day. The ... More >>

Saturday Night: Subhumans Rail Against Prejudice and iPhones

​Subhumans@Bottom of the HillJune 12, 2010Better than: Shoegaze, twee or drone.Skinny, disheveled and bespectacled, Subhumans lead singer Dick Lucas is among an endangered species of classic 1980s punk icons. Darby Crash of The Germs is dead. Sid Vicious is dead. Steve Ignorant of Crass is rarely ... More >>

The excruciating details of death by starvation in Steve McQueen's Hunger

​Subhumans@Bottom of the HillJune 12, 2010Better than: Shoegaze, twee or drone.Skinny, disheveled and bespectacled, Subhumans lead singer Dick Lucas is among an endangered species of classic 1980s punk icons. Darby Crash of The Germs is dead. Sid Vicious is dead. Steve Ignorant of Crass is rarely ... More >>

Free association economy

​Subhumans@Bottom of the HillJune 12, 2010Better than: Shoegaze, twee or drone.Skinny, disheveled and bespectacled, Subhumans lead singer Dick Lucas is among an endangered species of classic 1980s punk icons. Darby Crash of The Germs is dead. Sid Vicious is dead. Steve Ignorant of Crass is rarely ... More >>

Shots in the Dark

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Career Opportunities

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

She's Back, Possums

Treading funny old waters with Dame Edna

Stir It Up

Thirty years ago Linton Kwesi Johnson helped start the dub poetry movement, which is still inspiring artists today

Top Girls

The costs and difficulties of female ambition are examined in this staging of another Churchill play

United Nations

Week 2 of the San Francisco International Film Festival

Night + Day

Week 2 of the San Francisco International Film Festival

The House of Tudor

Week 2 of the San Francisco International Film Festival

Racket

Week 2 of the San Francisco International Film Festival

Letters

Week 2 of the San Francisco International Film Festival

Night+Day

Week 2 of the San Francisco International Film Festival

Suspicious Minds

Week 2 of the San Francisco International Film Festival

The Great Escape

Blur's class act

One World, Under Gorby

Gorbachev Foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

Whirly Birds

The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?