TILT! Stand-Up Comedy and Storytelling at the Pacific Pinball Museum with 100+ Pinball Machines on Free Play! The inaugural monthly comedy/storytelling show brought to you by comedy darling Mary Van Note. Headlining is San Francisco’s own musical comedy weirdo DJ REAL.  Also performing are rising comedy stars Roman Leo

Lucinda Williams has been maneuvering down a path all her own for more than three decades now, emerging from Lake Charles, Louisiana, where her iconoclastic upbringing helped her forge the stunning Lucinda Williams (aka, the Rough Trade album). Somehow, that milestone 1988 set eventually disappeared from shelves, but was reissued 25

This article originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City Column for the San Francisco Examiner.  It was 8 or 9 a.m. I was standing on the corner of 14th and Folsom waiting for the light to change when I heard an enthusiastic, “Hey! You look muy guapo!” growled from the hedge

Fog City Summer Part 3 a San Francisco Romance Excerpt from a Novel by Genie Cartier Read Part 2 Last time: Djuna and Julian have an intimate evening. Julian comes over to Djuna’s house for dinner the next day, but their night is interrupted by Scott, who bursts in, clearly inebriated.

It’s been a long day. You come home and want to laugh. That’s why we have comedy television. Because real life is less often haha-funny than it is ohgodwhy-funny. But because comedy is a reflection of life, which is what makes for truly good comedy, every once in a while…it

This originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column in the SF Examiner. I feel bad for the tech workers. I’m not talking about the ones like Jack Halprin, the Google lawyer who tried to evict seven units, comprised mostly of teachers, so that he could have his own mansion. And I’m

The lovely and brilliant Victoria Smith forwarded this on to me yesterday so I figured I’d send it on to you. I’m totally just copying and pasting it cuz I’m busy as fuck:   The biggest challenge we’re facing in the fight to stop the anti-democratic Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement