Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: If You Could Go Back In Time... Dear Rain, If you could go back in time to a San Francisco era you didn't live through, when would that be? Signed, Marty McFly Dear Marty, This one is easy. Whenever I
Arts & Entertainment The Waters Of 'Baywatch' Are Tepid, At Best I lived through the 90's and somehow managed get through the entire decade without ever watching a single episode of . But it's a testament to that show's weirdly global popularity that I still
Arts & Entertainment 'Alien: Covenant' Is An Enjoyable Correction In Xenomorph Course I was too young to see the first when it was in theaters, which means I missed out on its initial visceral impact. So for years, Aliens was my favorite Alien movie, fueled
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Are There Any Notable Rivalries Between SF Schools? Dear Rain, I already know about SF's rivalry with LA, but what about intra-city conflict? Are there schools or neighborhoods that hate each other that newcomers should be aware of? I just moved
Arts & Entertainment 'Snatched' Proves That A Terrible Movie Can Still Make You Laugh I'm going to be completely honest here: Amy Schumer's new comedy made me laugh a lot, and for some, that will be enough. But it's also possible for a comedy to both make
Arts & Entertainment 'Paris Can Wait' Is Conventionally Pleasant In 1991, Eleanor Coppola turned the interviews and footage she shot during the production of her husband Francis's film Apocalypse Now into the excellent documentary And she hasn't made a feature film since.
Arts & Entertainment Third Time Is *Not* A Charm For 'The Dinner' is the third adaptation of Dutch author Herman Koch's novel to hit the screens since the book's 2009 release, and the first version to be set in America. I'll have to watch the
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What Would A Tour Of Your Childhood SF Look Like? Dear Rain, If you wanted to take someone on a tour of the San Francisco of your childhood, where would you take them? Signed, Gen-X'er Dear Gen-X'er. I don't have kids myself, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent' Allows The Legend To Retain Some Mystery I think I went to Jeremiah Tower's Stars Restaurant only once when it was close to the height of its fame. I remember this occasion because it was around 1988 or '89, and
Arts & Entertainment 'The Promise' Is A Love Story Surrounded By Horror Taxes were due this week (if this is news to you, I'm sorry), and if you're a California resident paying state income tax, you may have once again been puzzled over a question
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Are Earthquakes Just Old Hat To You? Dear Rain, This week is the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake, and that got me thinking: Where were you went it hit? I kid! But seriously, after living here your whole life, are
Arts & Entertainment Epic Adventure 'The Lost City Of Z' Tiptoes Through Thorny Racial Issues James Gray's , based on the best selling book by David Grann, is an epic adventure that brings to mind cinematic classics like Lawrence of Arabia, Apocalypse Now, and similar stories centered on obsessive
Arts & Entertainment Transphobic 'The Assignment' Is Too Inept To Deserve Much Outrage (also known as (Re)Assignment and Tomboy) is a terrible, ill-conceived, mess of a movie that, were its central premise not so tone-deaf, might have been bad enough to earn admittance into the
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What's Your Worst Muni Experience? Dear Rain, I imagine you've ridden Muni for a lot longer than many of your readers, so I want to know, what has been your worst Muni riding experience? Signed, Step Down! Dear
Arts & Entertainment Occasionally Amusing 'For Here or To Go?' Tackles Silicon Valley's Immigration Dilemma tells a story that will likely resonate with a large segment of Silicon Valley's immigrant workforce, and it's a story I haven't seen tackled by a film before. Sadly, its clunky execution and
Arts & Entertainment 'Song To Song' Is A Vacant Shell Of A Film Terrence Malick, the auteur who used to spend a decade or so between film projects, returns to the screen this week with , his fifth film in six years. It follows 2016's Knight of
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Is Tahoe The Hamptons Of San Francisco? Dear Rain, Recently, I was walking down the street, and I passed two guys sitting at an outside table at a cafe. I overheard one say to the other, "Yeah, Tahoe is basically
Arts & Entertainment Gross-Out Horror Movie 'Raw' Lives Up To Some (But Not All) Of The Hype Paramedics being called to festival screenings of your movie because audience members fainted is probably the best bit of pre-release hype a horror movie can get, so I don't blame those at Focus
Arts & Entertainment ACT's 'John' Is A Weird, Delicious Treat Annie Baker's latest play , currently running at ACT's Strand Theatre, is a story about truth, lies, madness, God, ghosts, and Vienna Fingers, although not necessarily in that order. John is set in a
Arts & Entertainment Chick Flick Cliches Abound In 'The Last Word' Wednesday was International Women's Day, so it's the perfect week to release something like , a movie centered on three generations of women, one with the kind of face that doesn't get a lot
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Turkey Day, Playland, And Winterland Dear Rain, Do you still go to Turkey Day? Or remember going to Playland at the Beach and the Winterland? Signed, DK Dear DK, Turkey Day! Playland! Winterland! Two things that are probably
Arts & Entertainment Stellar Cast Can't Save 'Table 19' Table 19 is an indie comedy that tries to capture the awkwardness of having to sit with people you don't know at weddings, especially when you wonder if you've been seated with all
Arts & Entertainment Hammy Acting Hobbles 'Bitter Harvest' is a historical drama with good intentions, but terrible execution. Set in 1930's Ukraine, it tells the story of the relatively unknown holocaust known as the Holodomor, which was, essentially, the state sponsored
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Do You Hate LA? Dear Rain, I haven't lived here my whole life, but it has been a good long while (23 years!), and while I can't remember where I first heard it, it seems like there's
Arts & Entertainment 'The Great Wall' Isn't Groundbreaking, But It's Fun It's probably mere coincidence, but the movie releases this week feel like a conscious reaction to last week's big Valentine's release, . Instead of a toxic female fantasy I'm sure more than one beleaguered
