"Witness to War: Revisiting the Vietnam War in Contemporary Art" at San Francisco State University's International Center for the Arts begs certain questions: What does it mean to be a witness to war, and how does one revisit it through contemporary art? The exhibit revisits the conflict within a framework that reduces historical particulars to a nebulous anti-war statement, and limits its commentary in a way that lacks specific analysis.
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Paris Hilton is in hot water yet again. The heiress was arrested for driving with a suspended license — and she could reportedly face jail time for violating the terms of her probation.Paris was stopped by police Tuesday night for speeding and driving without her headlights. When cops found that her license was suspended, they arrested the "Simple Life" star and had her car impounded. Because Paris was sentenced to three years of probation following a September DUI arrest, TMZ.com reports, she could face up to 90 days in jail over the incident.
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Lois and Roger, two of my most trusted culinary informants, have been trying to get me to Hard Knox Cafe for seven years. They happen to live on Potrero Hill, just uphill from Dogpatch, a stretch of Third Street where this soul food joint is located.But it took a recent eating orgy in New Orleans to get me there. Longing for one mo’ po’boy, I found myself sitting at the Hard Knox bar in front of three huge oxtails ($10), fork tender, redolent of green pepper and napped in thickened pan gravy. I couldn’t have been happier.
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Ken Burns, perhaps the country’s most famous documentarian, is in town to screen "The War," his PBS epic about World War II as seen through the eyes of everyday Americans. Excerpts from his 14-hour, seven-part series are being shown during the San Francisco State University Doc Film Institute’s festival, called "Witness to War: Documentary Perspectives from WWII to Iraq," happening today through Sunday.
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It’s the little things that fascinate Jayson Wechter.From colorful schoolyard murals in Chinatown to cryptic messages hidden in thesidewalks of North Beach, the private investigator has an eye for the unseen details of San Francisco. Year after year, Wechter trolls the streets and alleyways of Chinatown, North Beach and Telegraph Hill in search of undiscovered city secrets to share with the masses in time for The City’s Chinese New Year festivities.
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It's no secret that filmmaker George Lucas is a genius. The man created "Star Wars," for crying out loud, and maybe some other things in between. Or is Canadian actor Charles Ross the genius? After Tuesday's performance of his genial stage show "One-Man Star Wars Trilogy," even the most die-hard fans might start leaning their light sabers in favor of Ross.
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The San Francisco Lyric Opera’s new production of Gounod’s intimately lyrical 1867 "Roméo et Juliette" is mostly not. Lyrical, that is. Instead of hushed melodies on gossamer wings, what goes down in the Legion of Honor (through Saturday) is blood and guts, not a Berlioz wannabe, but something halfway between a Verdi revenge scene and Wagner’s Valkyries riding high.
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A ceramic, Aunt Jemima-shaped cookie jar sits prominently downstage on the set of Kirsten Greenidge’s semi-surreal new play, "Rust." Like other objects and characters that appear throughout — a lawn jockey, a pigtailed "pickaninny," Uncle Ben of instant rice fame, even Jemima herself — the jar is a pointed reminder of the racist stereotypes that white America has historically perpetuated. "Rust," part of the Magic Theatre’s Hot House series of world premieres in rotating rep, posits that that shameful legacy lives on in other ways.
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Anna Nicole Smith’s photographer ex-boyfriend says he’s positive that her baby daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, is his. Larry Birkhead told "Access Hollywood" that the very moment he first saw photos of the child, "I knew. I said, ‘She’s mine. That’s my baby. She looks like me — she is mine.’ And there was not a doubt."Larry, engaged in a battle about the baby’s paternity with another former Anna paramour, Howard K. Stern, insists he is not interested in the possible vast inheritance that comes with being Dannielynn’s father, but just wants "to be a good father."
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This week,one of San Francisco’s most widely celebrated events, the Noise Pop festival, is coming to a venue near you. With events planned at nearly every intimate live-performance setting in The City, this year’s festival will be difficult to miss."For us, it’s mostly just about an opportunity to shine a larger spotlight on this particular part of alternative or underground culture," founder Kevin Arnold says. "To me, it still seems to be working to some degree."
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