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1/31/2013

Your motivation: Greed Your role model: Elmyr de Hory (1906–1976) The hoax: De Hory, who studied painting in Picasso- and Matisse-era Paris, found an outlet...More»

1/28/2013

Carl Lumbly has one of those faces you know you’ve seen somewhere. And chances are that you have—on the screen, where the actor has played prominent roles in TV (Cagney and LaceyAlias), film (...More»

1/25/2013

One thing you can count on at the de Young’s breathtaking new show from the Netherlands’ Mauritshuis: Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl...More»

1/24/2013

Toro y Moi (aka Chazwick Bundick), the über-indie chill-wave revivalist from South Carolina, has put down roots in Berkeley. With the move comes a new, irresistibly poppy direction for his music, as evidence by his latest...More»

1/23/2013

Updated 1/23/13: Fruitvale has sold for $2.5 million according to SFist.   At this year’s...More»

1/22/2013

The story: Wicked: A twisty yet conventional (and highly kid-friendly) tale about seeing past our differences to our common humanity—even if you’re green. The Wild Bride...More»

1/18/2013

1. Knife Fight: California politics as a carnival of scandal damage control? Who’da thunk it?...More»

1/14/2013

Onetime ESL professor Beth Yarnelle Edwards turned to photography in her 40s, finding some of her most compelling subjects in the Peninsula suburbs where she lived...More»

1/11/2013

JOBS: The bad-boy tech billionaire of Two and a Half Men has real-life cred as an Internet VC—and now Ashton Kutcher's channeling of Steve Jobs has...More»

1/8/2013

 Sons of Fathers, 1/12, Brick & Mortar Think Crosby, Still & Nash mixed with a bit of...More»

1/8/2013

What is fear and how does it work? In what ways can we overcome it? In his new book "The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success,...More»