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- Hitchcock's The Birds 50th Anniversary: Q&A; with Hitchcock author Tony Lee...
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- The App that Puts You in the Book
- Read Local: The Booksmith's Buyer Tells All
- San Francisco Named Snobbiest City in the U.S.
- Meet Courtney Trouble, the Queen of "Queer Porn"
- Dita Von Teese Tells All, Takes No Prisoners: Strip, Strip, Hooray! Comes...
- The Comedy Carnival You Never Knew You Wanted Is Finally Coming
- The Director and Stars of "This Is the End" Talk About Getting Away With It
- Read Local: Michelle Tea's Mermaid in Chelsea Creek
- New Girl Finale Coming Up! This is What We've Learned...
- Good Ol' Freda, The Story of the Woman Behind the Beatles' Fans
- This Is Why Everyone on Facebook Hates You
- Upstream Color's Shane Carruth Talks About Interpretation, Control, and...
- The Arsonists Explores the Downside of Appeasement
- R.I.P. Les Blank: Five Highlights From the Career of a Great Documentarian
Arts Features
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Much of the way through Grounded, a stunning new play by George Brant at SF Playhouse, presented as part of its Sandbox Series, the unnamed young... More >>
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Noted film historian, critic, and journalist Joseph McBride has quietly maintained a parallel career for decades. While he was writing acclaimed... More >>
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They're as ubiquitous to urban life as traffic jams and things wrapped in bacon. Skateboarders wheel across surfaces and fly over sidewalks, down... More >>
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It's one of San Francisco's greatest works of street art — as good as anything Banksy ever gave this city, and certainly much, much bigger.... More >>
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Don Reed's new solo show, Can You Dig It? The 60s — Back Down East 14th Street, doesn't often feel like theater. But neither do many shows... More >>
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It's too simplistic to say that Yisrael K. Feldsott was the J.D. Salinger of the art world, but the parallels are entirely there. The early fame... More >>
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Two young women — girls, really — balance precariously on the same trapeze in a death-defying circus act. As depicted in Susan R.... More >>
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In How to Make Your Bitterness Work for You, now at Stage Werx, Kent Underwood (Fred Raker) is the kind of self-help expert who's most interested... More >>
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The war outside. The war within. Two new art exhibits mine two very different terrains: One culture's external battle against drug cartels, and... More >>
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If you stand at the southeast corner of Haight and Pierce, you might run into the very people whom Kate Deciccio painted on the walls of the... More >>
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Actor, musician, playwright, and author Mick Berry isn't the kind of guy who would drive a car into a swimming pool or flood three floors of a... More >>
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As he walks down a street on his long journey to the United States, a man carries a bag that contains his most important possessions. He holds... More >>
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True grief does not often make it to our stages. Dramatists might romanticize it with keening, sobbing, or chest-stabbing, but the real, nasty... More >>
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Drink a La Paloma at Mosto While there are several great versions of the classic Mexican Paloma, the version developed a few years ago by the... More >>
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Drink an Irish Coffee at Buena Vista Cafe Yeah, it's a tourist trap — but an Irish Coffee in the bar where it was introduced to the U.S.... More >>
From the Print Edition
A Bird's-Eye View: Drone Pilots and Pie-Makers Look for Deeper Meaning in the Domestic
Much of the way through Grounded, a stunning new play by George Brant at SF Playhouse, presented as part of its Sandbox Series, the unnamed young woman who is its… More >>
Whodunit: SFSU Professor Joseph McBride Finds a New Angle on the JFK Assassination
Noted film historian, critic, and journalist Joseph McBride has quietly maintained a parallel career for decades. While he was writing acclaimed biographies of Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, John Ford, and… More >>
Travel Photos: The Weird Beauty of Skateboarders in Stasis
They're as ubiquitous to urban life as traffic jams and things wrapped in bacon. Skateboarders wheel across surfaces and fly over sidewalks, down stairwells, along walls, and atop cars. Nothing… More >>
Untitled: ROA's Seals at 61 Bartlett
It's one of San Francisco's greatest works of street art — as good as anything Banksy ever gave this city, and certainly much, much bigger. The two giant seals that… More >>
Uncomfortably Close: Two Premieres Break the Fourth Wall and Keep Going
Don Reed's new solo show, Can You Dig It? The 60s — Back Down East 14th Street, doesn't often feel like theater. But neither do many shows at the Marsh.… More >>
