Reviews
Is a first-time feature that lacks star power and is about one of the saddest, most awful stories in recent Bay Area history worth a two-hour wait in the cold, Cannes rain? The answer—at least when it comes to Ryan...More»
Long limbs The company opens with the somber “Handel” with six pieces to various baroque concertos, ending with a solo by Courtney Henry. Henry, who has to be somewhere between 5'10 and 6'...More»
Of all the films at SF Indiefest this weekend, none will leave a mark quite like Paul Bunnell's The...More»
Admittedly, I still haven’t caught up with all 800 or so movies released in 2012, but I’ve seen enough to say it’s been a robust year. That’s especially true for films with local ties; in retrospect these...More»
“Authenticity,” that smug buzzword of the modern food wonk, is an irritating term, and not just because its meaning has been muddied. It’s particularly annoying when used to promulgate the bogus notion that...More»
Ten thousand years from now, when urban archaeologists start searching for the origins of gentrified life in the Mission district, they’d be wise to commence digging on Valencia Street, the Olduvai Gorge of the neighborhood...More»
Sure, this year’s Mill Valley Film Festival (Oct. 4-14) has its usual share of prerelease peeks at fall highlights, festival-circuit hits from overseas, and famous people in...More»
The good folks at the Clay Theater (please don’t close like the Lumiere just did!) just saved you from making one of the...More»
This month, five years since the publication of his last novel, the genre-defying Pulitzer Prize–winner Michael Chabon charts his most exotic territory so far: his own backyard. Set in the ever-changing stretch of Berkeley...More»
WINNER: Beast and the Hare MEAT AND METHOD: Pork from Stone Valley Farms smoked over apple wood for two hours JUDGES’ NOTES: “Almost like a brittle.” “...More»
Visiting Chris Fraser at his studio at Real Time and Space, an artists’ residency program in downtown Oakland, you’re first asked to take off your shoes. Then Fraser turns...More»
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