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Known for its 2013 hit single, “Trojans,” the band Atlas Genius performed at the Independent in San Francisco two days after it released its second album, Inanimate Objects. Composed of brothers Keith and Michael Jeffery, Atlas Genius gave the large crowd of hipster grown-ups a bang and a half for
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The North American tour of “The Phantom of the Opera” opened at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco with a seemingly fresh yet still familiar rendition of the longest running Broadway musical. In this new production, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterpiece sacrifices some of its extravagant stage design for a deeper
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In my second year of high school, my class performed the “Beauty and the Beast” musical for our final project. We competed against another group of sophomore students because there’s no better way to promote competition than to pit friends against each other. To avoid getting an acting role in
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Written and directed by Alex Garland, “Ex Machina” is a science-fiction thriller film that centers on Caleb Smith (Domnhall Gleeson, “Harry Potter”) and his weeklong apprenticeship. He assists the artificial-intelligence research of Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac, “A Very Violent Year”), the CEO of BlueBook, a search-engine company that Caleb works
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“White God” just made a daring accomplishment: The film captured hundreds of unleashed dogs running wildly in the empty streets of Budapest, Hungary, without any addition of CGI — even more of an accomplishment, most of the dogs used in the film are real-life rescues. Written and directed by Hungarian
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“Revolving Doors” is a camera obscura-type installation art that comprises six pivoting doors capable of rotating up to 90 degrees in either direction. When you are working your way through the room, the darkness of the enclosed space at San Francisco Camerawork is offset by the art enthusiasts brightly discussing
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“Praia do Futuro” offers an underwhelming experience that can be summed up with its opening sequence: It begins with two motocross riders, seemingly free and invulnerable, cruising along the breathtaking sand dunes in Fortaleza, Brazil, and it ends with one of them drowning in the dominant waters of the ocean.
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Annie Elizabeth Clark, a UNC Chapel Hill graduate, says that when she confronted her school administrator about her rape, she was told: “Well, rape is like football. If you look back on the game, and you’re the quarterback, Annie, is there anything you would have done differently?” This analogy —
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It would be hard to find someone who harmonizes as chaotically as Lotus does. On a pulsating February night at the Regency Ballroom, the electronic jam band created more than an ambience of energy — Lotus conceived a world, although polluted with cigarette smoke and smells of incense, where colorful light
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The trend of representing high school political drama through a teenage girl’s perspective began in “Heathers,” a 1988 film that follows a smart and liberated girl and her attempt to annihilate the domination of the most powerful clique on campus. In terms of how Hollywood depicts these sort of cliques,
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