Issue Archive
If politics make for great live theater, then a Feb. 22 hearing held in Sacramento about the controversial strawberry fumigant methyl iodide might have been scripted by Franz Kafka. And much like a Kafka tale, there are stories behind stories.
Republican lawmakers this week again insisted on a …
As the budget battle looms in the nation’s capitol, …
Based on a children’s book by cartoonist Berkeley Breathed (known for his Bloom County comic strip), Mars Needs Moms is a tone-deaf animated disaster. Executed with the same creepy motion-capture animated design that gave The Polar Express its disturbing sense of near-realism, the 3D movie r…
Avant-garde guitarist Sean Smith is debuting somethi…
The midpoint between November and June usually means…
A graceful trio balances violin, cello and piano melodies in G major. Next a raucous reincarnation of Queen’s Freddie Mercury dons an icy white suit and tears through “We Will Rock You.” Then aluminum-coated robots propel metallic balloons into the audience.
The first time we see the Marines in Battle: Los Ang…
For Truth & Salvage Co. – playing Fernwood on Saturday – 2010 was one hell of a year.
Attorneys representing the victim of alleged sexual …
Sometime soon – perhaps by the end of the month – at…
Big Sur’s Fernwood is many different things to many …
Last week two French bulldogs sang me an enthusiastic (and ear-splitting) National Anthem in the Weekly lobby.
Michael Franzese’s entry into mafia life was greased…
Follow-up: What petty crime do you commit most?
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Dear Mr. Astrologer: Like the god Prometheus, I stole fire from the gods and gave it to people who sometimes make awful use of it. As punishment, the gods chained me to a rock on the beach, and arranged for an eagle to come daily to eat my liver. Luckily, the live…
