SF Appeal: Culture/Entertainment

Appealing TV: Smash, The River, The Walking Dead, The Grammys

2012-02-06T16:30:00Z

As promised, I did not watch the Super Bowl, but did watch the commercials. Well, some of them. Once Madonna came out, and M.I.A. flipped America the bird, I figured the evening's pinnacle of...

Appealing TV: Sunday's Super Bowl Alternatives

2012-02-04T14:50:00Z

I'm not a football fan. I went through a brief phase back in 1981 and 1982, since I was, after all, a young San Franciscan, and Joe Montana was kinda sorta cute. But when...

Weekend Watch: Daniel Radcliffe's Haunted Mansion, Hormonal Superpower Teenagers, & Drew Barrymore Loving On Whales

2012-02-03T18:00:00Z

The Woman in Black - Everywhere Harry Potter living in Disney's Haunted Mansion. Ooooh spooky! Sort him into Gryffindor! Look out for Voldemort! Jelly Beans that taste like boogers! Boo! Chronicle - Everywhere I...

On the Road: Andrew W.K., Radiohead and Others

2012-01-31T20:25:00Z

Pruning next month's concert calendar for the not-to-be-missed Andrew W.K. (3/6 at Regency Ballroom · Tickets) PARTY TIP: Get wasted tonight. In case you didn't know what Andrew W.K. is all about, it's partying....

SF Ballet's Spirited "Onegin" Brings on Handkerchief-gate

2012-01-31T19:00:00Z

Flirt with your best friend's girl, and today you might get an angry text message or the cold shoulder. But in John Cranko's ballet "Onegin," your coquettish ways could mean death by handkerchief. Alexander...

Weekend Watch: Liam Neeson Dances with Wolves, a Declaration of War, and Katherine Heigl is a Bounty Hunter. Yep.

2012-01-27T19:40:00Z

One for the Money - Everywhere Katherine Heigl with brown hair, an orange face, and a terrible fake Jersey accent. In this ridiculous action rom com, she plays an out of work woman who...

Wolves Are The New Great White Shark: The Grey

2012-01-27T15:45:00Z

Judging from the title, and a trailer featuring Liam Neeson amongst a grizzled cast of two and four-legged creatures, I assumed The Grey was about a guy who fights wolves with his grey hair,...

On the Road: Sleigh Bells and Surfer Blood at Noise Pop

2012-01-24T19:30:00Z

Pruning next month's Noise Pop Festival for the not-to-be-missed Sleigh Bells (2/23 at The Regency Ballroom · Tickets) Of all the bands lumped into this year's Noise Pop festival, Sleigh Bells are probably most...

Raver Beads And Semi-Naked Bodies: Steve Aoki At The Bill Graham (Slideshow)

2012-01-24T18:25:00Z

Steve Aoki and Datsik's Dead Meat tour stop at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Saturday night ended up being a baby shower of sorts. The night before, Aoki's little sister Echo had a...

Appealing TV: Bad Girls, Real Housewives, Touch

2012-01-23T17:15:00Z

It's my birthday this week, and yet it seems TV programmers have not interrupted their regularly scheduled programming to air nothing but my favorite movies and a non-stop "Community" marathon. How dare they! Guess...

Weekend Watch: Soderbergh's Latest, Golden Globes' Best Foreign Film, Kate Beckinsale in a Leather Catsuit and Matching Cape

2012-01-20T19:50:00Z

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Everywhere Somewhat moving, ultimately cheesy/maudlin movie about a boy's confusion and heartbreak over his father's death on 9/11. Filled with fake emotions and goofy tweeness, it probably should've...

Appealing Events: Muni Diaries Live!

2012-01-20T13:20:00Z

Everything you love about Muni Diaries is back in live form this Saturday at the Elbo Room. Diarists sharing their Muni stories include KTVU traffic reporter Sal Castaneda, author and editor of The Rumpus...

The Sexual Manifesto: On the Other Side of the Peep Show Glass

2012-01-19T18:50:00Z

You're buzzed in through the employee entrance. You snake your way along a thin corridor that makes you feel as if you're backstage at a circus or on your way to the trap door...

San Francisco's Hamlet: Ghost Light at Berkeley Rep

2012-01-17T17:05:00Z

Ghost Light is a play about a theater director, Jon (Christopher Moore), who happens also to be the son of assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone. The play he is working on - Hamlet....

Appealing TV: Alcatraz, Justified, American Idol

2012-01-16T08:40:42Z

Last night's "Golden Globes" was a rather boring ceremony. Aside from that one moment when Julianne Moore looked like a complete deer in the headlights when her teleprompter went off, and some jokes about...