Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Kool-Aid In an adrenaline-fueled episode of Silicon Valley, we open with Nucleus' big debut, which, as we suspected, goes horribly awry. The live-streaming UFC-style fight that was supposed to promote Hooli's technology is buggy,
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: The Monkey's Paw "Night sweats can be a precursor to bedwetting, and that is very serious." That's Richard's bad doctor, the kind that's been popular in comedies for some time and whose medical advice is best
Arts & Entertainment HBO Cancels <i>Looking</i>, Will Conclude With One Final Special Not shockingly, the cast of HBO's Looking was informed yesterday that the cable network would not be renewing the show for a third season, and this morning HBO confirmed the news in a
Arts & Entertainment Photos: A 'Game Of Thrones' Premiere Fit For A Lannister The stars of HBO's hit series and their fans descended like a dragon on Civic Center last night for the Game of Thrones Season 5 US premier, bringing a bit of Westeros to
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Monagamish Last night's Season 2 finale of Looking likely did not disappoint loyal fans of the show, and may have even impressed some late-arriving gay fans with its frank and genuinely realistic discussion of
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Opera House Prepares For <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Premiere We warned you last week that the Game of Thrones cast was descending on Civic Center tonight for the Season 5 red carpet premiere. The whole event will be streamed live on Facebook
Arts & Entertainment <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Season Five Premiere Happening Monday At SF Opera House, And Live On Facebook We'd heard a tip recently that a permit application had been filed for parking limos on Grove Street in Civic Center on Monday March 23, in connection with the arrival of the cast
Arts & Entertainment Murder Victim Susan Berman Launched Writing Career In SF, Wrote About Dating Woes For City Magazine We noted briefly yesterday that The Jinx subject Robert Durst and his suspected victim Susan Berman had ties to the Bay Area in the 1970s, with Berman writing for the Examiner and working
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Julia Duffy Returns As Patrick's WASPy Mom There are a couple of big revelations in this week's episode of Looking, not the least of which is that Patrick's sister Megan (Kelli Garner) is kind of a mega-bitch. (But we already
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: It's Finally All About Doris I think we can all agree by now that despite a premise that is supposed to revolve around three gay male characters, many of Looking's finest moments involve Doris (Lauren Weedman), and she
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Patrick's Halloween Meltdown The writers of this week's episode of HBO's Looking, the sixth in this ten-episode season, did a good job building some tension around a totally disastrous Halloween party that Patrick and Augustin decide
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Richie Is Definitely Maybe Back In The Picture We're at the midpoint of Season 2, and like I said back here, this is about where we should have been, plot-wise, by the end of Season 1. Patrick has completed a journey,
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Dom And Kevin Have Breakup/Non-Breakup Blues In the fourth episode of the new season we learn that Patrick was once a fat kid (nickname: Fatrick), Eddie is HIV-positive, and Lynn is never going to want to get serious with
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode Three: The Gang Goes To A Gay Rugby Match Everybody has hot sex in this week's episode of Looking, including Doris and her apparently well endowed new boyfriend Malik ("Did I do that?" she exclaims, seeing his member in the daylight. "Good
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Creators Discuss How The Russian River Got Gay, And Why They Shot The First Episode Of Season Two There As I mentioned yesterday in my recap/review of the opening of Looking's second season, the new episodes get off to a fun start with a trip up north to the Russian River
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Recap: 'You're Gay For My Code' In last night's Silicon Valley, the gang comes to San Francisco for the TechCrunch Disrupt conference and many jokes are made about how few women there are in tech. Also, Erlich proves himself
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Recap: Richard vs. Precocious Kids This week's episode brings us that glorious clip from the original trailer of Richard getting slapped by that suburban 10-year-old who tells him to "Get the f**k out of here," and it
Arts & Entertainment HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Will Return For a Second Season After only three episodes have aired, HBO has announced plans for a second season of Mike Judge's techie-thwacking comedy Silicon Valley. According to Variety, the show drew in just shy of 2 million
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 3 Recap: Small Is The New Big "Because if we can make your audio and video files smaller, we can make cancer smaller. And hunger. And AIDS." This week's episode opens with those words, from Hooli's evil overlord Gavin Belson,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: AT&True Detective For the last week, spot-on Matthew McConaughey impressionist Ross Marquand has been putting out this web series, which is a mashup of those AT&T "It's Not Complicated" ads, with the free-associative
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 2 Recap: How To Become An A**hole To kick off the second episode of the new HBO comedy from Office Space/King of the Kill genius Mike Judge, we have a very sad five-person "launch party" in the Palo Alto
Arts & Entertainment Mike Judge's <i>Silicon Valley</i> Tells The Hard Truths About The Startup World This post is brought to you by HBO. There's no denying startups and Silicon Valley are contentious issues these days, but Mike Judge is no stranger to it. Inspired by his own experiences
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Renewed For Season 2 HBO-loving gays across America, as well as the cast and creators of Looking, have been waiting with bated breath to see if the network was going to renew their quiet, slowly paced show
Arts & Entertainment Full Trailer From Mike Judge's 'Silicon Valley' Arrives To Skewer Tech Culture Here it is, folks, the first full trailer from Mike Judge's HBO comedy Silicon Valley. Lots of white dudes (broken up by the excellent Kumail Nanjiani), an Asperger's joke, large sums of money
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode Four: That's It For Folsom? I know that not everyone enjoys or attends Folsom Street Fair, but HBO and Looking creator Michael Lannan teased us for months with images of Jonathan Groff in his leather vest only to
