Miranda got away with her devilish persona because there was a method to her mania. It takes exactly zero talent to be a dick, and I do not respect unwarranted authority. By Week Four with Ħażin totali, my respect for Massimo was almost gone. I’d heard him berate contractors, clients,

A living, breathing cyclone of creativity and sharp wit resides in San Francisco. He draws artists to him, and then uplifts them in community. His name is Baruch Porras-Hernandez. If you haven’t been to see one of his curated shows, you most definitely should. Baruch is a writer, performer, organizer,

Inside a North Beach clock shop is an underground speakeasy and theater called Palace Theater. There, you’ll find SF’s best magic show, The Illusionist starring Kevin Blake. As you savor expertly crafted cocktails, prepare to be mesmerized by mind-bending illusions, featuring mind-reading and astonishing sleight of hand tricks that will

BY TOUTA BAHER Touta Baher was a child actor who was taken out of the game by Shia LaBeouf on the set of a Skippy peanut butter commercial. That traumatic incident forced him into the archaic world of poetry, where he now sits in rooms full of white people and

A clown pulls himself through a pile of corpses. He’s just escaped the gallows by offering his janitorial services. It’s his lucky day? Welcome to Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus at The Oakland Theater Project. Blood, corpses, disgruntled maids and a very healthy dose of camp await you. Oh!

Mental Health is no joke, but sometimes it can make you laugh. Laugh about the hard stuff during Mental Health Comedy Hour at The All Out Comedy Theater in Oakland on Friday, May 12th. This Saturday, May 13th, they will be in SF at Strut. May is Mental Health Awareness

There are as many wizened, crafty wizards through all the landscape of fantasty as there are origins and styles of the genre itself. Marlon James sprinkles casters like the Moon Witch through his book Black Leopard, Red Wolf and Ralph Bakshi relies on the gun-toting Avatar in his timeless cartoon

Bay Area humorists, rejoice: Oakland’s premier satirical news source is back.  If you’ve lived here since circa 2012 (or, like me, you left and came back), you may remember Oakland Unseen. The satire specialist covered local controversies like Occupy Oakland, police brutality, and the annual unwashed tide of Burning Man