Amy Seiwert's Imagery presented an evening of premieres July 25 before a packed house at ODC Theater in the third of her Sketch series, meant to promote risk and experimentation within a balletic vocabulary. Sketch 3: Expectations features choreogr...
Calling all art geeks -- self-proclaimed, professional, philistine and otherwise -- The Sketchbook Project is coming to San Francisco. Founded in 2006 by by SCAD schoolmates Steven Peterman and Shane Zucker, The Sketchbook Project is an ever-evo...
Alexis Coe every other Wednesday for Read Local, a series on books produced in the Bay Area. A couple of weeks ago, I made a faux pas. At a wedding, no less. And the kicker is, I didn't even realize it. The scene of the crime was a hipster venu...
Post:Ballet rang in their fourth season with plenty of style July 18-19 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The large proscenium stage of the Lam Research Theater seems to demand a spectacle, and choreographer Robert Dekkers does not disappoint i...
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 in helping himself. Sure, he's ostensibly giving a self-help seminar on his "patent-pending, five-ste...
San Francisco, meet Harajuku. This weekend Japan will take over San Francisco for a fifth year with the 2013 J-Pop Summit Festival, a street fair celebration of Japanese popular culture organized by Japanese expats Manami Iiboshi and Mika Anami. Wh...
It was Renoir who said that a work of art "must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, and carry you away." Interviews with artists should have a similar effect. With "Artist's Statement," our interview series with prominent and upcoming visual arti...
A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of taking a class in how to make my own porn, DIY-style, at the Armory -- that lust-laden, brick fortress of pornographic pleasure. But let's be clear. This was a crash course not in how to hone your "O face...
You never know what you'll find on Craigslist, but each week we'll dive into the endless listings of classified ads to uncover the best, the worst, and the weirdest that fellow San Franciscans are selling, missing, or wanting. Summer can be harsh...
The Write Stuff is a series of interview profiles conducted by Litseen, where authors give exclusive readings from their work. Cheryl Fagalnifin Tom Pitts grew up in Canada before relocating to San Francisco in 1984. After the disint...
This week, The New York Times Lens blog featured a project by photographer Richard Renaldi , in which he invites New Yorkers, not known for being as openly affectionate as we on the Left Coast, to pose with strangers, bodies touching. The result...
Protest is never easy. Witnessing the violent Trayvon Martin protests in Oakland on Monday or the City College strikes last week proves that citizens' voices aren't always enough to prompt change, not even in the land of free speech. To which we...
Cast of 50 Shades! The Musical "It's like a twisted sort of West Side Story ," says Albert Samuels about the plotline of 50 Shades! The Musical , which he directed and helped to produce and write, based on the porn-tinged best seller 50 ...
scene from one of 2013's most action-packed feature films, a man speaks with urgency from a plastic cell. "I am a remnant of the time long past...engineered to lead others to peace in a world at war," he says. "But we were condemned as criminals, f...
Robert Dekkers's work practically defines the buzzwords grant organizations love to reward: interdisciplinary, collaborative, multimedia. As his company Post:Ballet enters its fourth season, his newest piece, field the present shifts, employs an ...
As some of you may know, Nicholas Cage is a California native: He hails from Long Beach, the land of bros and boards. And if you've tracked Cage's career since, you're well aware of the traveling he's done, from the secret stacks at the Library of C...
The war outside. The war within. Two new art exhibits mine two very different terrains: One culture's external battle against drug cartels, and one person's struggle against mental demons. Both kinds of conflict take huge tolls and demand the kind o...
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 corner building. There's the little girl who rides her scooter in the neighborhood. There's the older guy wh...
Hari Kondabolu Alt comic, post-colonial theorist, prodigious tweeter, erstwhile immigrant rights advocate, and acerbic pundit Hari Kondabolu is a natural fit for San Francisco audiences, even if grew up in New York and cut his teeth in Seattle...
We're always on the hunt for fresh local fashion, but today's trip to the sky matching, slate-grey Union Square served up some typical news. One, that the square is populated almost exclusively by tourists; two, that nobody knows where they got their...
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 >>