SF Street Style: Colors
SF Station and Academy of Art University have teamed up to deliver a bi-weekly SF Street Style gallery created by AAU styling students. This week’s theme is Colors.
The Paris Review Touches Down at Tosca Cafe
When perusing the capacious commentary of fiction writers on writing, the tireless researcher will find to his or her dismay a glut of contradicting advice on what makes a terrific short story, and how exactly to construct such a tale.
Day of the Dead Exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center
In honor of the annual November day of the day tradition, SOMArts Cultural Center will be holding a number of events dedicated to giving Bay Area visitors and students a chance to experience firsthand an important cultural celebration for many communities around the world.
Movie Review: Seven Psychopaths
Martin McDonagh arrives with his long-awaited follow up to In Bruges, with Seven Psychopaths another dark comedy that’s as much a head trip as it is gripping.
Movie Review: Argo
With Argo, his third film as director, Ben Affleck solidifies his reputation as a powerhouse behind the camera.
Movie Review: Sinister
Moviegoers have long learned to expect little from the horror genre. Its most avid, avowed fans are more than willing to settle on a steady supply of scares and jolts, regardless of the cheapness of the scares or jolts involved.
Cristina Guerreiro on Memory, Migration and Identity in the Modern Age
With borders separating nation-states becoming less fluid and travel between widely separated regions assailable and affordable, people and places are bound to increasingly resemble one another as information and ideas circulate with ever increasing rapidity.
Photographs by New Journalist Danny Lyon at the deYoung Museum
Now reputed as one of the best documentary photographers to emerge in the 1960s, Danny Lyon transformed the medium of photography by choosing to become a vulnerable and active participant in his photographs, rather than ensconce himself behind a protective and isolating lens.
Art Span’s Annual Open Studio Kicks Off
Starting the weekend of October 13, lovers of the visual arts have the opportunity to once again experience all that the studios of San Francisco have to offer during the month long annual Art Span Open Studio event.
Movie Review: The Paperboy
Before we discuss Lee Daniels’s adaptation of Pete Dexter’s 1995 novel, The Paperboy, we need to clear away any misconceptions moviegoers might have about a certain scene involving Nicole Kidman’s character, Charlotte Bless, a libido-driven Southerner and object of desire for Zac Efron’s character, Jack Jansen.
Movie Review: Taken 2
While the first Taken film was a fun, get-to-the-point type of action-film, Taken 2 is sorely lacking in what made it’s predecessor worthwhile.
