An often-quoted creative motto (and business-commercial cliche) is, “Think outside the box,” but this month SOMArts invited 100 artists to perform inside the box…
The four original members of the Somei Yoshino Taiko Ensemble beat their drums for the last time this weekend in a new work entitled…
Put the sledgehammer down and reconsider killing your television. Perhaps the medium is marvelous, and it's just the commercials that irk you. Television decontextualized…
In 1791 Jeremy Bentham published plans for what he called the Panopticon. Meant to be applied to prison design, it has rooms arranged in…
The debate over a proposed state ban on the sale of shark fins has involved plenty of shouting in San Francisco. Environmentalists note that…
When she wasn't busy collecting art, fomenting literary movements, and dissing her childhood home in Oakland, Gertrude Stein used her inimitable talents to help…
Everybody loves an incredible dick trick, especially one performed for a political cause. That's just what Glen Callender, the founder of the Canadian Foreskin…
The digital age promotes communication. (We're more connected than ever.) The digital age inhibits communication. (We form superficial relationships and hide behind virtual selves.)…
Not all Asian sex workers are trafficked sex slaves. That's demonstrated by self-described “whore revolutionary” Mariko Passion in her one-woman show Modern Day Asian…
100 Profiles: SF Weekly interviews 100 people in San Francisco arts and culture. No. 89: Kirk Read It's controversial, but I'll say it nonetheless:…
