Black Friday, as it does each year, fills me with a sense of happily-alienated wonder. I just can’t imagine lining up outside a store, knowing it will be mobbed, to shop. Granted, I’m probably overly[…]

there’s barely any info out yet. Eighty one years old. He sure made a lot of movies. Some of my favorites. Period pieces, politics, fashion, Hollywood, ballet. Many of his movies got panned (especially the[…]

The violence at SF High comes right after our cover story last week about the growing violent crime in SF. That story, written by Dan Frosch, was hatched after Dan and I looked through the[…]

It’s been one slamming week, and I have a lot of catching up to do. But I ain’t doing it now, folks, cause I’m hitting the Agua Fria soon. But my week ends on a[…]

I always forget (possibly in the way that women forget the pain of childbirth) the absurdity of this time of year, where suddenly we are racing through holidays, two gift guides, the writing contest issue[…]