Vanity Fair Magazine

Hepcat Michael Wolff: Facebook is 'Square'

When you're trying to decide what's hip and what's square, there's really only one place to look: Michael Wolff writing in USA Today. Wolff is a serial Internet failure who is nevertheless a highly successful self-promoter. The two don't go together at all, especially considering that he promotes h ... More >>

Eight Taylor Swift Lyrics as Good as Any in Country Music

Smart people I know have argued that Taylor Swift is not a country singer. That argument demonstrates little understanding of country music or of Taylor Swift. It's rooted, I suspect, in a belief commonly held by smart people who don't care for country music: That country music should sound more l ... More >>

Is Courtney Love Mentally Ill?

​In case you missed it, last Saturday, while performing at Brazil's SWU festival, Courtney Love had a minor meltdown after an audience member repeatedly held up a photo of Kurt Cobain. "I don't need to see a picture of Kurt, asshole!" she yelled. "And I'm going to have you fucking removed if you ... More >>

"Our Idiot Brother": Predictable and Shallow Indie Ensemble Comedy

Sexist Milk Ads and Calves Too Cute to Eat -- The Week in Vegan

​ ​• The Milk Board strikes again with another dumbass campaign! And this time it's sexist, to boot! The ads imply directly state that when women are PMS-ing, they become total psychos, and the only way to pacify the beast is to ply them with cow's milk. This is like in the 1920s when la ... More >>

Top Five Musicians We Didn't Need to See Naked (Slightly NSFW)

When Demi Moore took her kit off for the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991, it caused a storm of controversy. A -- gasp! -- naked, pregnant woman, looking -- double gasp! -- sexy! People freaked out. It was kind of cool, but the problem was that it opened the floodgates. And now, more than a decade ... More >>

Food Writers Gone Wild! Or Purple, Pustulant Prose

The literary food writer, circa 1973.​Yesterday, I came across two essays about the self-indulgent language that I and my species ― I'm talking food writers here ― are as drawn to as we are to lardo and feculent-smelling French cheese. Overwriting is hardly a new flaw among our kind. Have you ... More >>

Film director Sofia Coppola's journey to "Somewhere"

It's Funny, But ...

Notaro Public

Caustic Scribe Hitchens Cancels West Coast Swing

A hitch in the plans​We've just received word of a metaphysical disaster: professional polemicist Christopher Hitchens has canceled a string of West Coast appearances, including one scheduled tomorrow afternoon at the Commonwealth Club.His excuse is "personal issues," and reading his books and art ... More >>

Masterful documentary Crude details the toxic battle between big oil and natives in Ecuador

Jennifer Lynch returns triumphant, bringing Julia Ormond along for the ride in Surveillance

Summer Reading That Won't Make You Stupid: Portrait of the Food Critic as a Young Boho

Moira Hodgson's It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: My Adventures in Life and Food (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $24.95) might have been subtitled The Education of a Restaurant Critic. The author's addition to an ever-expanding list of food memoirs will surprise (and probably charm) anyone unfamilia ... More >>

Outside the bedroom, BDSM practitioners can't take punishment

Slow-Sex Movement Picking up Speed: Documentaries, Books, and an Upcoming Lecture Series from SF's One Taste

Nicole Daedone -- the founder of San Francisco's orgasmic meditation center One Taste (and pictured above) -- is all about intimacy. And lately, that intimacy has been getting broadcasted into the stratosphere. After a front-page story in the style section of the New York Times o ... More >>

Sly Stone is lured from hiding once again

Buy the book

Two mediocre adaptations by two directors who really should have known better.

The Terrible Infant Speaks

Harmony Korine talks about his new movie Mister Lonely and coming home.

Movie Marathon

The S.F. International Film Fest starts this week and keeps going year-round.

Loving Leibovitz

Your Guide to the San Francisco International Film Festival

Charlie The Tuna Ain't Shit: Meet The "King of Sushi"

I'd Like to Thank the Ground Beef

Television awards make us hungry for an S.F. burger and Maine lobster

Culture Clash

The immigrant experience meets generation gap in Mira Nair's The Namesake

Rest in Peace

Beloved counterculture rag Arthur stagnates somewhere between dead and indefinite hiatus

Heart Attack

Attempting romantic comedy, Sir Ridley Scott conquers neither

I'll Have the Chicken

After reflecting on the excesses of the past year, we turn to low-cal takeout

City of Love

This just in: San Francisco is a singles' paradise!

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Reese's Piece

Mira Nair's Victorian England bursts with sensuality, but not impact

Blessed Are the Cheesemakers

Python's Brian returns, bearing cinematic salvation

Best Dressed

Couture breezes through downtown S.F.

Doctor's Appointment

Commemorate a Seussian century

Vanity Fare

Ray Liotta wants to know why he loses roles to...Owen Wilson?

The Apples in Stereo

Velocity of Sound (SpinART)

Best Shop to Discover What Your Betters Are Dispensing Of

Cathedral School Shop

Dog Bites

A Quiet Evening With Henry Kissinger; Not That We're Worried, But When Did You Say It Will Be Available?; They Say Your Circulation Gets Worse as You Get Older

Cumming Up

Is he a writer, director, actor or...sex symbol? Um, yes--and more

Best Newsstand

Smoke Signals

Letters to the Editor

Week of March 28, 2001

Almost Famous

Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell isn't Carrie Bradshaw. Like, really.

The Men Who Did Too Little

Hear This

Nothing Hill

Side Dish

Night Crawler

Love Hate

Nick Broomfield's Courtney problem

Savage Love

Reel World