Poland

Revolutionary Rutting

Darkness from the East

Holiday in the Margins

Low: Big in S.F. and in ... Poland?

Low​ The long-running slowcore trio Low -- which has a great reputation for live performances -- played Great American Music Hall last night. It was a beautiful 90-minute set, with all the best songs from the band's latest album C'mon (see below), and a bunch of back-catalog tunes that our f ... More >>

Morrissey Defends Oslo-KFC Comparison, World Gives Him the Finger

via Flickr​List of things you don't want to say onstage: "Hello, New York!" when you're in Boston; "How about them Dodgers?" when you're in San Francisco; and "The tragedy is Norway was way less serious than the way fast food chains operate every day" when you're pretty much anywhere. Alas, ... More >>

Spotting Birds at a Record Pace, with a Camera and a Bike

via Flickr​List of things you don't want to say onstage: "Hello, New York!" when you're in Boston; "How about them Dodgers?" when you're in San Francisco; and "The tragedy is Norway was way less serious than the way fast food chains operate every day" when you're pretty much anywhere. Alas, ... More >>

Six Lucky Foods for the New Year and Where to Find Them

nep/FlickrBlack-eyed peas are said to resemble coins, a symbol of prosperity for the New Year.​Among numerous New Year's traditions (kissing at midnight, binge drinking, swearing at occupied cabs around 4 a.m.) are those of the culinary persuasion. Here are six foods that, if consumed in celeb ... More >>

San Francisco's Other Famous Muralist

nep/FlickrBlack-eyed peas are said to resemble coins, a symbol of prosperity for the New Year.​Among numerous New Year's traditions (kissing at midnight, binge drinking, swearing at occupied cabs around 4 a.m.) are those of the culinary persuasion. Here are six foods that, if consumed in celeb ... More >>

An Early Peek at the Diamond Lil Bustaurant

Tamara PalmerThe dazzling part of Diamond Lil.​On Saturday at Broc Cellars winery in West Berkeley, Diamond Lil prepared for a debutante ball, her coming out party, so to speak. Lil's a gray 1957 Greyhound bus-turned-mobile home belonging to Mind Your Tongue/Free Range Dining, the underground ... More >>

Diamond Lil AlmostReady to Start Serving Meals on Wheels

impakd.comDiamond Lil: Just about ready to roll.​As reported by Grub Street, roaming meals will soon be served aboard Diamond Lil, a 1957 Greyhound bus that's been restored by Free Range Dining, a team that's emigrated here from Poland and plans to open a (static) restaurant in Hayes Valley in ... More >>

Engineer: Century-Old Pipes Bursting From Old Age Won't Survive Quake

Wait! We're not ready! ​You don't need to be a top-flight engineer to figure that a century-old water main that crumbled on its own over the weekend turning SoMa into a swamp would not have survived a strong earthquake. Chris Poland, however, is a top-flight engineer, and he confirmed it -- the ci ... More >>

In the Night Museum

Wait! We're not ready! ​You don't need to be a top-flight engineer to figure that a century-old water main that crumbled on its own over the weekend turning SoMa into a swamp would not have survived a strong earthquake. Chris Poland, however, is a top-flight engineer, and he confirmed it -- the ci ... More >>

Liss Is More

Wait! We're not ready! ​You don't need to be a top-flight engineer to figure that a century-old water main that crumbled on its own over the weekend turning SoMa into a swamp would not have survived a strong earthquake. Chris Poland, however, is a top-flight engineer, and he confirmed it -- the ci ... More >>

Hey DJ! (Monday) Q&A: DJ RasCue

DJ RasCue has been hitting the decks longer than most of the kids in the clubs these days have been alive. For the past 26 years, he's spun a mix of everything from Latin to hip-hop to house and rock for little kids and big stars (William H. Macy). Now the local music community is giving something b ... More >>

Going to Pieces

Fugitive sucks the poetry and the life out of the Holocaust survival tale on which it is based.

Day 19

Fugitive sucks the poetry and the life out of the Holocaust survival tale on which it is based.

Cracking Some Eggheads

Fugitive sucks the poetry and the life out of the Holocaust survival tale on which it is based.

The Great Beyond

Fugitive sucks the poetry and the life out of the Holocaust survival tale on which it is based.

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

The Mother of All Brechts

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

Maverick or Madman?

The intensely weird world of sculptor Stanislav Szukalski

Professional Appearances

A stenographer, a geographer, and a typographer walk into a bar ...

Up From the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

Native Speaker

How knowing a second language can haunt English writers

Just Plain Loony

Spend the holidays in Chelm

The Party & Out at Sea

Two cartoons, one a sketch for the editorial page, the other by Warner Bros.

Play Rotorecall

Have fun with democracy, before it has fun with you

Reps Etc.

Have fun with democracy, before it has fun with you

Reps Etc.

Commentary by Gregg Rickman

Tanks for the Memories

Reconnoitering the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation and its 205 military vehicles. In Portola Valley.

Reps Etc.

Reconnoitering the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation and its 205 military vehicles. In Portola Valley.

Punk Rock Docs

Following junkies, musicians, and junkie musicians with gritty realist filmmaker Lech Kowalski

A Dog-Eat-Dog World

A journalist frets about job security, then realizes things could be worse -- he could be a janitor at Yahoo!

Reps Etc.

A journalist frets about job security, then realizes things could be worse -- he could be a janitor at Yahoo!

House Of Tudor

World/Inferno Friendship Society's sinister Gypsy punk, and the Rubber City Rebels' gritty Midwestern rock

Tongue of a Bird

The story of a desparate mother searching for her kidnapped daughters starts awkwardly, then takes flight.

The Magic Carpathians Project

Ethnocore II: Nytu (Drunken Fish)

Best Place to Find a Latvian Liqueur

Cannery Wine Cellars

Leaving the American Sector

Cannery Wine Cellars

Dead Head

Mr. Death

Magnetic Poles

Mr. Death

Stage

Mr. Death

Past Forward

For its 40th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival boldly goes where it has gone before

Zoom Lens

For its 40th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival boldly goes where it has gone before

Dish

For its 40th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival boldly goes where it has gone before

Night+Day

For its 40th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival boldly goes where it has gone before

Night+Day

For its 40th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival boldly goes where it has gone before

The Family Jewels

In life, Paul Kalmanovitz controlled every business decision related to his $500million brewery/real estate dynasty.He even made detailed plans forthe governance of his estateafter he died. So why is the Kalmanovitz fortune the center of two vituperative