It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, Do-si-do-ers! From now through early April, you can score boxes of Girl Scout Cookies, on demand and completely on impulse, at various BART stations, Safeways, and other busy street corners across the Bay Area. Not all of the locations we list below have the Girl

Can Valentines Day be redeemed?  I mean, come on, it’s the ultimate weapon in the Hallmark-Industrial-Complex’s box of patriarchal, conforming, consumerist tools. One of San Francisco’s premier nonprofits helping the homeless is hoping to do better on Valentines Day.  Community Forward SF, which provides support to the most vulnerable homeless

by Charles Irwell Mark Kermode (the BBC’s film critic in residence) is, in many ways, the horror fan’s horror fan. One topic he loves to explore again and again is that of paedophobic horror, or horror with a child antagonist. Using the examples of A Clockwork Orange, The Exorcist and

S.F. IndieFest’s Up The Oscars offers a two-fer benefit to attendees.  One is a chance to publicly make fun of the glamor and the often reactionary nature of the Oscars.  The other benefit for attendees is helping to keep alive the S.F. cinematic treasure known as the Roxie Theatre.   But

By Eddie Jen My roommate and I share a secret hand signal for embarrassing public moments. Like when the couple you’re having dinner with starts fighting. There’s no other way to express your discomfort at that moment: when you can’t talk and you can’t leave — you just have to

America is restless. And in the Golden State of California, the veneer of optimism and unlimited opportunity hides a countryside teetering on the edge of the Pacific. The hillside mansions risk burning in the wildfires while the views from oceanfront properties remind their owners that one tectonic shift will sink

Noise Pop Festival 2020, the Bay Area’s premiere week-long indie music and arts festival has recently announced the fourth wave of music acts! Along with Raphael Saadiq, Maya Jane Coles, Best Coast, and Duster, new lineup additions include a critically-acclaimed chillwave artist Washed Out; Grammy Award-nominated emcee Bas, and a

Link Link Circus, a new “theatricalized lecture” by the legendary Isabella Rossellini, is a comedic and scientifically informed look at the links between humans and animals, via Darwin’s theory of evolution. The show is illustrated with Rossellini’s short comic films, home movies, and animation. Rossellini transforms herself into Aristotle, Descartes,