The one fascinating part of the formulaic "reality" show The Real World is the house. And now, Juanita More has Instagramed an interior picture of the new, very bright, apartment for the second San Francisco season. Notice how the map of San F...
The Write Stuff is a series of interview profiles conducted by Litseen, where authors give exclusive readings from their work. Nell Frabotta Der Williams is a friend to all living creatures. He works as a private investigator. He's pub...
by David-Elijah Nahmod Lara Parker was vamping before Kristen Stewart ever scowled at a camera It's sort of a meta-memoir: Actress and author Lara Parker, best known for her portrayal of the semi-evil, lovesick witch Angelique on the c...
Alexis Coe for Read Local, a series on books produced in the Bay Area. As Septembers nears, the milky, billowing fog thins out, and something funny happens to people in San Francisco: we feel warm. This is why, despite posting book reviews all s...
by David-Elijah Nahmod It was simple enough: One day Jeff decided that he'd had enough. The recently out gay man packed his belongings into a van and moved on. That van is now his home, and it serves as a makeshift TV studio, interviewing...
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 is off-limits, which is why skateboard photography can ...
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 the artist known as ROA painted in the Mission District, onto a three-story buildin...
The data goes to their factory in China, where co-founder and chief creative officer Heikal Gani (he's Singaporean) sits at the helm of their Shanghai HQ. Three weeks later, your suit, and shirts, vests, whatever else you want, arrives at your front ...
Skyler better call Saul. We start episode 10, "Buried", shortly after Jesse has made it rain with blood money upon a disadvantaged neighborhood, and an older gentleman notices one of the cash bundles in his driveway. Like the best breadcrumb tra...
A lot has changed since MTV's "the Real World" debuted as what is arguably the first reality show on TV. To give you an idea of just how much has changed since the first episode debuted 21 years ago, here's what was happening in 1992: Wayne's World...
Mona Caron You've likely walked by this mural a few times -- if not every day. We've passed it countless times since it was painted last year, and it wasn't until This is Colossal pointed it out that we noticed how the scene on the utility bo...
By SUSIE NEILSON "The main thing about San Francisco drag is that nobody gets up and does a straight lip sync. That just doesn't fly." This statement issued from of Dr. Fudgie Frottage, who has emceed San Francisco's annual female-to-male drag k...
Blue Jasmine . And I loved it. But, for all the locally generated hype, Blue Jasmine doesn't just utterly fail as a San Francisco movie, it fails to even attempt to be a San Francisco movie. Woody Allen could have filmed in front of a blue scree...
The Write Stuff is a series of interview profiles conducted by Litseen, where authors give exclusive readings from their work. David William Hill Jim Nelson lives in San Francisco. He is a member of the Flat Earth Collective and the au...
Ian McKellen: Not exactly Gandalf anymore. Audiences to No Man's Land at Berkeley Rep who seek classic Harold Pinter themes and devices in this later of his dramas, from 1975, will be disappointed. Sure, as with most of the absurdist playwrigh...
The entrepreneurial mythology of Steve Jobs is not unfamiliar in these parts, but here it comes again in the movie Jobs , with Ashton Kutcher as the late Apple honcho who with partner Steve "Woz" Wozniak (played by Josh Gad) launched a wee personal ...
It started out in 2008 as a documentary. Rachel Sparks, in her mid-twenties at the time, wanted to go to Thailand and document the number of children -- nearly all girls -- from rural villages whose only viable option to support their families was pr...
Have you seen the artistic mobiles popping up around the city? These guerrilla street-art installations have been spotted everywhere from the Haight to Hayes Valley to the Castro, according to neighborhood blog Haighteration .Spinning in the breez...
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. The theater, established in 1989, specializes in solo performances, with performers serving a...
Tucked between antiques emporia and car repair shops on Bryant and Fifth streets, a red door marks the spot where Joe Landini presents dance and theater productions 230 nights a year on the cozy black box stage of the Garage. Roughly 120 projects are...
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 and adulation from critics.… More >>
Two young women — girls, really — balance precariously on the same trapeze in a death-defying circus act. As depicted in Susan R. Greene's giant street art, the girls' trapeze… More >>