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Sports & Recreation
Where to get a used bicycle in San Francisco
For those who don't know a Huffy from a headset, buying a used bike can be as daunting as buying a used car. You have your choice of road, cross, cruiser, mountain or hybrid bike. Do you want flat, Maes, or mustache handlebars? Center pull, side pull or V-brakes? Knobby, slick, racing, or touring tires in size 18, 23, 28 or 32? And more importantly, what size frame do you need - 18" or 57 cm? And is that frame measurement center-to-center or center-to-top? More
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Clothing & Accessories
There's many a diamond-in-the-rough that is Polk Street. For those who only travel to the street for pilgrimages to the Red Devil Lounge, Green's sports bar, or the Alhambra Gorilla Sports, you're missing out on some prime shopping spots. Polk has everything from antiques to high fashion. Cris, Molte Cose, Bella Cose, Girl Stuff, and Prize top the 'greatest hits list' of what you'll find on this sometimes forgotten street. More
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Restaurants
The Window could not have opened at a better time. Now that the new economy is biting down on our wallets and jobs are more prized than plentiful in wake of "the burst of the bubble," cheap, good food is a prized commodity in any neighborhood. Any locale that can throw in good service as well is a gem. A small restaurant serving a menu of flavors from all over Asia at rock-bottom prices is nothing new, so why is the Window doing so well? [Editor's Note: The Window has since moved to a new location since the article was written.] More
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Movies
The Long Way Home
Director Robert Altman has such a distinctive style that it would be easy to spot his work without even his name in the credits. His best films are richly textured panoramas, bittersweet tales driven by strong ensemble casts and sharp dialogue. His camera floats constantly from one player to the next, hesitating just long enough to capture some telling look or remark before moving on to its next target. More often than not, he focuses on those brief, sometimes mundane interactions, preferring to explore the unfolding relationships between his characters than to keep his narrative moving. More
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Music
Not So Silent Night was known for a good party but I was told that this might be the best line-up yet...The Mouse didn’t curate this one but 105 did a fine job bringing similar tastes to the BG Auditorium. The red-nosed reindeer glowing above the stage signaled to everyone there was going to be something magical happening on this night. More
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Movies
Trippy Mind Bender to Nowhere
If dialogue-driven, intellectual game playing centered on paranoid, slacker-type drug addicts, and undercover narcs in a (slightly) futuristic world leaves you cold, then Richard Linklater's (Before Sunset, School of Rock, Waking Life), adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel, A Scanner Darkly, won’t be for you. To be fair, the film wasn’t meant for most moviegoers, but you probably knew that already. More
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Movies
A Documentary about Author Ayn Rand
A Sense of Life, Michael Paxton's new documentary about author Ayn Rand, probably draws quite an interesting crowd to its Opera Plaza screenings. On the one side are Rand enthusiasts, die-hard Objectivists eager to pay homage to the matriarch of their movement. On the other side are people, like me, who have a morbid fascination with a controversial philosophy, one that’s been alternately embraced and scorned for decades by academics, politicians and society at large. More
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Literary Arts
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
"Spent the fortnight gone in the music room," writes Robert Frobisher, a disinherited composer, to his lover in England, "reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late." More
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Restaurants
New York-style pizza in San Francisco
Pizza in San Francisco often suffers from three problems: a soft, doughy crust, tinny tomato sauce, and a thick, plastic sheet of cheese. In the selfish pursuit of my own happiness, backed by an unwavering belief in San Francisco's capacity to serve top-notch food, I set out to find the perfect slice. More
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Dance
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
It's 7pm in the East Gardens of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The fog is ineluctably rolling in, and the cluster of people all around are wrapping their coats more tightly around their bodies, impatiently awaiting the spectacle promised by a mélange of synthesizers deftly mimicking nature's aural arrangements. Finally, a procession of 15 dancers robed in shades of sand and silver stroll slowly to center stage, taking their positions around individual plots of grass and cement. Vivid tableaux of leisurely movement follow -- ones that vaguely resemble tai chi, yoga, and other ancient salutations to the elements. More
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