Movies about losers — ahem, underachievers — comprise a delicious yet underrated genre. In films like Big Deal on Madonna Street, The Big Lebowski,…
The forthrightly activist but fun-loving documentary The Cove has a natural hero and reformed sinner in Ric O’Barry, a former trainer of dolphins for…
For U.S. fans eager to see the latest films from China (or India or Japan, for that matter), DVD has long been the mode…
The little building at the corner of Alemany Boulevard and Ocean Avenue has housed a number of restaurants over the years, none of them…
Everyone likes a good revenge movie. They are tops on my list, especially old samurai flicks. The best ones take place after the warrior…
You'd have to be living under a rock not to know that the Bay Area has fallen in love with street food. There's the…
With a main character who can't hear, see, or speak, who must emote to the back seats without stumbling into a chair or into…
The forthrightly activist but fun-loving documentary The Cove has a natural hero and reformed sinner in Ric O’Barry, a former trainer of dolphins for…
China, India, Nepal, and Tibet all have obvious stakes in the world's tallest mountain. Adventurers from everywhere consider it their own. And who knows…
There aren’t a lot of live shows where you’ll see a musician hit in the nuts with a banana. Or watch a guy do…
