Salvador Dali

Long-Gone Underground

Friday: The Dear Hunter Tops a Solid Bill at Bottom of the Hill

The Dear Hunter at Bottom of the Hill on Friday night.​ The Dear Hunter Kay Kay & his Weathered Underground O'Brother Naïve Theives July 16, 2011 @ Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco Better than: Seeing another Zach Rogue soundalike at the New Parish When progressive emo bands like the Dear ... More >>

Fantasy Island: The Strange Tale of Alleged Fraudster Pearlasia Gamboa

The Dear Hunter at Bottom of the Hill on Friday night.​ The Dear Hunter Kay Kay & his Weathered Underground O'Brother Naïve Theives July 16, 2011 @ Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco Better than: Seeing another Zach Rogue soundalike at the New Parish When progressive emo bands like the Dear ... More >>

NYE Roller Disco, Noisy Avon Ladies, Muni Party, Teenage Dance Craze and More

Moncrief SpeaksMuni Party: Ride Muni for free on New Year's Eve​Ticket prices for New Year's Eve events are notoriously jacked up. Save yourself the worry and the cash, and check out our list of cheap, way-cooler options. Here are 10 things to do this weekend in San Francisco for less than the mor ... More >>

Sugar Sugar

Moncrief SpeaksMuni Party: Ride Muni for free on New Year's Eve​Ticket prices for New Year's Eve events are notoriously jacked up. Save yourself the worry and the cash, and check out our list of cheap, way-cooler options. Here are 10 things to do this weekend in San Francisco for less than the mor ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Shawerma at Zaytoon and panino at Arlequin

Moncrief SpeaksMuni Party: Ride Muni for free on New Year's Eve​Ticket prices for New Year's Eve events are notoriously jacked up. Save yourself the worry and the cash, and check out our list of cheap, way-cooler options. Here are 10 things to do this weekend in San Francisco for less than the mor ... More >>

Esperpento Is Still the Happy Place

​Part of a series on restaurants that have been around so long they've slipped into a media black hole.In 1992, Carlos Muela opened Esperpento, part of the great wave of tapas restaurants that ended up changing San Francisco dining forever. So-called authentic Spanish tapas begat global-fusion tap ... More >>

Acrobatic Funk

The nimble artistry of Janelle Monáe.

The nimble funkistry of Janelle Monáe

The nimble artistry of Janelle Monáe.

Sure Real

The nimble artistry of Janelle Monáe.

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

​Life, death, sports, and Froot Loops. That's what kind of a week it was in San Francisco. You know, if you have half as much fun taking this quiz as we had writing it -- then we had twice as much fun as you. On to the quiz: 1. Which of the following statements wasn't uttered by Officer Noel Schwa ... More >>

"On a Neck: Nathan Redwood"

​Life, death, sports, and Froot Loops. That's what kind of a week it was in San Francisco. You know, if you have half as much fun taking this quiz as we had writing it -- then we had twice as much fun as you. On to the quiz: 1. Which of the following statements wasn't uttered by Officer Noel Schwa ... More >>

The Lowbrow Art Sale: Anne Faith Nicholls, Ana Bagayan & Paul Lewin

"Custom Collectors Box" by Anne Faith Nicholls Anne Faith Nichols has brought back her customizable limited edition collectors boxes. Each box is made of wood and brass and is handpainted by the artist. You choose the style of the box you want, and can even have a name added to it. Each box is then ... More >>

Design to Die For

"Custom Collectors Box" by Anne Faith Nicholls Anne Faith Nichols has brought back her customizable limited edition collectors boxes. Each box is made of wood and brass and is handpainted by the artist. You choose the style of the box you want, and can even have a name added to it. Each box is then ... More >>

Blast Happy

Majesco's Blast Works: Blowing stuff up DIY-style.

Last Night: Unpopable, The Dead Hensons, Borts Minorts at Bottom of the Hill

Majesco's Blast Works: Blowing stuff up DIY-style.

Giraffes? Giraffes!

Majesco's Blast Works: Blowing stuff up DIY-style.

Unboxed

Majesco's Blast Works: Blowing stuff up DIY-style.

Best Offbeat Theater

Majesco's Blast Works: Blowing stuff up DIY-style.

Artbeat

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

House of Tudor

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Surreal World

Well, hello, Dali

Reps Etc.

Well, hello, Dali

Reps Etc.

Well, hello, Dali

An Impersonation of Angels, or The Enigma of Desire

A little poetic inspiration and a lot of goofy impersonation of the surreal

Dali's Folly

A Gala presentation

Hair Story

Combing the aisles at the World Beard and Moustache Championships

Ween

Quebec

Bravo, Buñuel

Quebec

Muni's Mack Daddy

James Robinson used to be a pimp. Now he's a transit union bigwig. And he's got higher ambitions.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

James Robinson used to be a pimp. Now he's a transit union bigwig. And he's got higher ambitions.

House of Tudor

Free-speech wrestlers, all-girl boy bands, musical ninjitsu, and a restored Metropolis

Return of the Hawke

The breakbeat style of Gavin Hardkiss is back in vogue -- but he still can't get the respect he deserves

Emma Goes to France

Amelie serves up a daring, moving take on Jane Austen's best-loved heroine.

Holy Madness

Frank Wortham has fun with his gallery of frantic, bug-eyed eccentrics

Hello, Dali

One horny soldier and his lonely, imaginative wife conjure an energetic world, but abruptness cuts it short

The Man of Ink

Creator of Wonder Boys and supermen, Michael Chabon is a literary hero

Fringiness

Notes toward a different kind of Fringe

Facial Hair

Salvador Dali Talks to the Animals & The Beard

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Salvador Dali Talks to the Animals & The Beard

Salon.con

The fanciful stylings of an Internet stock offering

Vertigo

How Alfred Hitchcock wove his disturbing thriller into the streets of San Francisco -- and how a pair of obsessive archivists brought it back to luminescent life

Night+Day

How Alfred Hitchcock wove his disturbing thriller into the streets of San Francisco -- and how a pair of obsessive archivists brought it back to luminescent life

Night+Day

How Alfred Hitchcock wove his disturbing thriller into the streets of San Francisco -- and how a pair of obsessive archivists brought it back to luminescent life

Underground Cinema

Total Mobile Home puts avant-garde film where it belongs - in the basement

Night+Day

Total Mobile Home puts avant-garde film where it belongs - in the basement