Benefit for the queer writers' series retreat features performances by local queer talents Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Beth Lisick and Tara Jepsen aka…
Tours are like living organisms: disparate entities with something in common come together for moments to form a cohesive whole, percolate, and part. The…
You don't go to “literary readings.” You're afraid they might suck. We have four words and an exclamation point for you: GROW THE F*CK…
Is this country in a magical time for comedy, or are we just in a good mood? San Francisco has Ali Wong, Kamau Bell,…
Last election, when we were all wondering what was on Obama’s fabled BlackBerry, the sketch comedy troupe Kasper Hauser was wondering how fast it…
We're squeamish. We can hardly believe people even get Brazilian bikini waxes, let alone give them for a living. It seems so invasive; isn't…
We have not read local author Jennifer Sey's book Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams….
At some point during the last half century, writers, editors, and publishers turned their backs on the time-honored pastime of self-absorbed problem drinking. In…
Try as we might, we've been unable to read Dan Kennedy's book Rock On cover to cover, instead rifling through it like a bowl…
By Beth Lisick William Morrow, $24.95 There's no denying that Berkeley author Beth Lisick's life is funny. Her 2005 memoir, Everybody Into the Pool,…
