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There’s no use avoiding the main television event of this week. Clay Aiken had his hand up a puppet’s ass on “The Celebrity Apprentice” and everybody was talking about it. No they weren’t. Who am I kidding? Everybody was (is) talking, texting, telegraphing and carrier pigeon messaging about Lena Dunham’s
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Set in Vienna in the late 19th century, “Anatol” follows the romantic dalliances of the namesake protagonist, an aging Austrian playboy in constant search of female affection. The play is an episodic depiction of Anatol’s many interrelated affairs, each depicting him simultaneously deluding and distrusting himself with his women. Originally
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The S.F. Playhouse’s quaint 100-seat theater is the perfect setting for Annie Baker’s Obie-winning “The Aliens,” which takes place on a shabby back porch behind a coffee shop in a small town in Vermont. Confined by mismatched fence posts, two grizzly 30-somethings, KJ (Haynes Thigpen) and Jasper (Peter O’Connor), try
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Nineteenth-century London — that grimy, Industrial Age time — is frequently dreamed up in novels and films as a place of chimney smoke and dark alleys, rogues and street urchins. In short, it’s a dog-eat-dog world. This is literalized in the BareStage Productions’ “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet
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When the de Young Museum first asked Jean Paul Gaultier to have a retrospective exhibition, he turned them down. After all, the word retrospective means to look backwards, and usually implies glass cases enclosing works from artists who have seen their prime come and go. As he says, retrospectives are
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Those comics aren’t for children,” I overheard a staff member say of the new Daniel Clowes exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California. With drawings that range from silly, nude strippers to grotesque and sinister monsters, her statement wasn’t exactly false. As the prolific author and illustrator of more than
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It is impossible to talk about “The Cabin in the Woods” without revealing the sinister, strange tricks it has up its sleeve. Cutting to the root of the genre, the film begins as an uninspired riff on horror mythology as five teenagers — the jock, the blonde bimbo, the smart
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Visual Art: Cal Day is approaching, and Saturday’s flurry of events will offer art lovers unexpected opportunities for special tours, exhibitions and demonstrations. These art-related events are not just for bright-eyed future Cal bears and their parents, but are also offered to the general public. At Free Speech Movement Cafe,
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There are just as many celebrity portraits as enigmas in the Berkeley Art Museum’s latest exhibit, “Andy Warhol: Polaroids / MATRIX 240.” O.J. Simpson clutching a football. A young Diane von Furstenberg, wild-eyed and wild-haired. But also lesser-known faces like the mysterious Frau Buch — dark-haired and clutching a black
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Indie writer-director Whit Stillman returns after a 14-year absence from filmmaking with his new off-kilter comedy, “Damsels in Distress.” Like the Manhattan townhouses in “Metropolitan” (1990), an isolated setting provides much of the content for this movie. In “Damsels”, it’s Seven Oaks College where a quartet of beautiful girls set
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