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 weekly interview series with prominent and upcoming visu...
Screw holding hands in New York City's Central Park, San Francisco is officially the place for budding love. According to the dating/travel site, MissTravel.com , San Francisco was named the most romantic city in North America. How did they determi...
At age 94, Lawrence Ferlinghetti is as feisty as ever -- certainly as feisty as he was in the mid-1950s, when he was arrested and put on trial for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems . Back then, after U.S. authorities seized copies of...
Painted on the outside wall of an apartment building in the Mission overlooking Brick and Mortar Music Hall, the four men -- naked and overweight, armpits and fat-folds on full display -- are dancing the dance of their lives. Pedestrians who look up...
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. We've all had that ...
In 2011, the Asian Museum received two rare Japanese bronze sculptures, but extensive conservation work kept them out of the public eye. On May 13th, they finally made their public debut outside the Larkin Street entrance. The five-foot-tall, six-foo...
Brian Schechter has no trouble spitting out sunny characterizations. His favorite: The West Coast city is "a playground for romantic experiences" -- a place where a high concentration of jaundiced, single, over-educated but largely dissatisfied adul...
What is contemporary dance? Guggenheim fellow Brian Brooks acknowledges the references to Cunningham, release, ballet, and street dance that appear in his solo I'm Going to Explode but explains, "all the references are in the support of the guts of...
Fight Club and Burning Man come from the same place. Where flash mobs and poetic terrorism come from. Yes, a place inside of you. But The San Francisco Cacophony Society had a lot to do with putting that together for you. This is their book. This i...
Liz Tenuto and Justin Morrison are young and beautiful, and they have things to show you in Pageantry, their shared evening of new work at CounterPULSE June 7-9. Quirky, gesture-based, and unafraid of being uncomfortably close to each other and to ...
If you think ballets about fairy tales are played out, Sarah Berges shows that you can make dances about other forms of the written word: letters, historical novels, and legends all feature in the new works premiering at Dance Mission Theater June 7-...
The Write Stuff is a series of interview profiles conducted by Litseen, where authors give exclusive readings from their work. Joe Clifford 's work has been called "beautiful and vicious." He is the author most recently of Junkie Love , and pro...
New York City might be home to the big houses, but this scrappy city just happens to be the epicenter of publishing on the Best Coast. Join Alexis Coe every other Wednesday for Read Local, a series on books produced in the Bay Area. Chef Louisa S...
Plastic, fantastic, sarcastic robot dolls on the loose Anna and the Annadroids presents Dullface , the newest quarter of their tetralogy Man(u)fractured , at the Garage May 29-30. Anna Sullivan's works are surrealist meditations on replication, mec...
Last year, no Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded, but that was 2012. This is 2013, "The Year of Adam Johnson," and the Pulitzer is just the most recent, prestigious accolade the Stanford professor's New York Times bestselling novel, The Orpha...
The ODC Walking Distance Dance Festival brings together contemporary dance companies from across the nation in three programs spread over two days at the ODC Dance Commons and the ODC Theater. New York-based choreographers Kate Weare and Brian Brooks...
Star Castle . It's not necessarily my most favorite game of all time, and Tron or especially Star Trek would probably fit in more with overall collecting instincts, but Star Castle holds a particular place in my memory, that certain way t...
Joy Carlin and Beth Wilmurt in Martin McDonagh's 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane,' directed by Mark Jackson Martin McDonagh , the author of acclaimed plays including "A Skull in Connemara," "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" and "The Pillowman", as well ...
When not exuding urbane, Salinger-weaned New Yorker chic, or, relatedly, co-writing the occasional Wes Anderson film, Noah Baumbach makes movies of his own, typically involving witty portrayals of flawed individuals enduring tragicomic family dysfu...
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 weekly interview series with prominent and upcoming visu...
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 >>