Love, politics, and sports -- in that order -- are the only places you can feel like this. It's where you actually have to start saying to yourself there are far worse things in this world than what just happened. Which makes you feel even worse about how much this hurts. Guilt over this first-worl ... More >>
We've been blessed here in the Bay. The Sports Gods have granted us a cornucopia of sports ecstasy. There've been dreamlike successes--from the Giants' championship to the 49ers Super Bowl run. But more than that, there've been epic performances: Matt Cain's perfect game; Pablo Sandoval's three home ... More >>
This evening, the Warriors will have their chance to send the Denver Nuggets to an early summer vacation. Such a possibility certainly seemed unlikely just a week or so ago, when the Warriors lost game 1 of the series and also All-Star forward David Lee to a season-ending hip flexor tear. Even mor ... More >>
Steph Curry's ballin'. Mark Jackson's preaching. Klay Thompson's shooting. Harrison Barnes is dunking. Andrew Bogut's blocking. Kent Bazemore's dancing. And Andris Biedrins is looking tan as ever. There's much reason for excitement in G-State. Roaracle will be thunderous when the Warriors take the ... More >>
With the New Year just hours away, we can finally say it without fear of a buzzer-beating jinx: 2012 marks The Year of the Bay Area Sports Renaissance. These things tend to come in cycles. The Bay's Age of Terrible Sports was a long, cold winter. Game Six in '02 was the first snow, and the blizzar ... More >>
Last night's win turned heads. It's not just that the Warriors beat the defending champion Miami Heat; not just that they led after every quarter. The Wizards, after all, have also beat the Heat. The win turned heads because it showed the world how the Warriors have won 12 of their last 15 games, in ... More >>
On April 3, a man walked up to Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson in a Memphis hotel, according to a criminal complaint filed this week in federal court in Oakland. The Warriors were in town to play the Grizzlies. The man showed Jackson a folder filled with "compromising pictures" of Jackson - ... More >>
The Warriors have lost 13 of their last 15 games. With six regular season games left, it is becoming increasingly crucial that the Warriors continue, if not exceed, their current losing trend. A few years ago, the team traded its 2012 first round pick for Marcus Williams, who would score a total of ... More >>
Political theater may preach to the converted, but it can still teach us something about the world
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Mark Jackson's play attempts to expose mediocrity, but winds up being mediocre itself
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Our critics weigh in on local theater
A familiar tale, told well, is a thing to behold
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Is Salome a comedy, a tragedy, or both and neither at once?
The gleeful, infectious exploding of a classical play
Meyerhold may be the best home-grown play since Angels in America
Good-humored and infectious, overwrought and underacted, and delightfully meaningless
Actors who love Hamlet too much, and the playwright who laughs at them
Art Street's Io sings with a flat Midwestern voice, yet she's outrageously sexy -- and funny, too
Why are Bay Area stages so classically minded this season?
Art Street Theater
Megan and the Magic Compass
