2013 is Courtney Trouble's year. The local pornographer, who started her first porn site more than a decade ago at 19, now operates several sites, runs her own production company, has directed 14 pornographic films, and racked up award nominations fr...
But not everyone is Dita Von Teese -- burlesque beauty extraordinaire -- and thank god, because most of us don't have the constitution for her seemingly endless roster of performances and projects. (And in a corset no less.) Born and bred in Rochest...
Alexis Coe every other Wednesday for Read Local, a series on books produced in the Bay Area. This summer, two Bay Area writers take on endangered animals in very different ways. Jon Mooallem brings us Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Re...
True grief does not often make it to our stages. Dramatists might romanticize it with keening, sobbing, or chest-stabbing, but the real, nasty thick of bereavement simply defies dramatization. For how long can you let audience members stew in a char...
? Jillian, the baby tiger cub at the San Francisco Zoo ? The unnamed 5-foot-10 baby giraffe at the San Francisco Zoo ? The baby baboon at the Oakland Zoo ? The OMG adorable newborn otter at the Oakland Zoo ? Ayo, Rufaro, and Nandi -- thr...
"It's Spare the Air Day, right?" "Muni is facing 8-hour delays from about 9 to 5." "Have you heard of Occupy My Apartment? Well, it happened." "My dog ate my Clipper Card and my car keys and my smartphone. Also, amnesia." "I can't find m...
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 talented Brooke Arthur is nearly perfect. It has El Jimador Blanco Tequila, St. Germain Elderflower Li...
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. in 1952 is one of those S.F. pilgrimages you need to make at least once. It helps that the drink is good: ...
Marin Brewing Day Trip Ride out over the Golden Gate and down into Sausalito. Go north out of town to find the Sausalito-Tiburon bike path, and take a left on Blithedalve Avenue. Turn right on Camino Alto, and ride the two-lane country road up ...
French Trail Loop The half-day French Trail Loop at Joaquin Miller Park, with its redwoods and creeks, makes up for all of Oakland's grit. Go this weekend. 7867 Redwood Road, Oakland, 888-EBPARKS, EBParks.org . Matt Davis-Steep Ravine Loop...
Pretty Little Liars High school has never looked so dark or so fashionable, and the mystery of who keeps taunting the popular crowd with threats and mysterious texts keeps the show moving briskly even when the plot points are absolutely insane....
Such Great Heights Chris Cole's retelling of The Great Gatsby via The Social Network , this pop novel is fast-paced and profound, with its pulse on the moment as much as anything you're likely to read this summer. ( Disembodied Poetics, 212 ...
Valley of the Dolls Descend into the pill-addicted world of 1940s and 1950s New York in the greatest trashy novel ever written. A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson takes off along the Appalachian Trail with a recovering-alcoholic acquaintance f...
Reasons to Cross the Bay Bridge... Enjoy the Beach Sans Hoodie Ah, the incongruities of San Francisco -- an ocean and a beach, but no warm weather. Change out of that hoodie and into those swim trunks for a warm day at Crown State Beach. Ei...
Gore Vidal: The United States of America has its West Coast premiere at 2 p.m. at the Castro Theatre as part of 2013 Frameline Film Festival. It includes the final on-camera interviews with the singular American writer, essayist, and relentless in...
San Francisco's 6th Annual Bicycle Music Festival on Saturday, you know all about the mobile concert with a sound system entirely pedal-powered by audience members. But you still might not know about its multi-talented founder, TED-talker and envi...
Chad Wright, an independent designer based in San Francisco, uses art to explore the industrial and nostalgic flavors of his childhood in Orange County. On the shores of China Beach he displayed this through a grid of sand-made tract houses -- emulat...
Shutterstock Of Craiglist's many valuable services, perhaps the most important is the Missed Connections. Some can be as simple as a quick description of a person and a setting, and an explanation of how the poster would like to meet up again. ...
In this non-scientific yet very depressing study, 83 percent of fresh-faced grads feel forced to choose an alternative path other than their chosen career after 49 days of unsuccessful job hunting. And San Francisco (once the nation's Sugar Daddy c...
Airbnb started in San Francisco several years ago, and now it has people renting out their homes and properties in over 19,000 cities around the globe. It has booked millions of nights of stays in places all over the world. So, here at SF Weekly, we ...
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 >>