February 2011
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Chinese Takeout Artist: Danny Bowien →
On an October evening in San Francisco, Lung Shan Chinese Restaurant appeared entirely unwelcoming. Like the pawnshops and 99-cent stores on this dingy stretch of Mission Street, security bars covered its windows. Rank fumes wafted from a busted sewage line out in front. But inside, surrounded by Christmas lights, cheap carpeting, and cheesy posters of galloping horses, every table was filled....
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The 2010 Big Eat SF: 100 Things to Try Before You... →
(Editor’s note: I was using dating as an excuse to try out all these great restaurants last year, but I ended up having to pay for both meals most of the time because I’m a sucker like that. If I had an accountant, he’d be burying his head in his hands. PSA: No free lunch this year, please pay your share. Thanks, -YMFY)
1. Roast chicken and bread salad at Zuni 2....
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Patrick Wolf - The City
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Everyone's a critic now →
Late last year there was a confluence of critical opinion in America the likes of which the nation hadn’t seen in years. Every single film critic in the traditional media – 350 “best” lists, the ads boast – seemed to anointThe Social Network, director David Fincher’s semi-fictionalised account of the founding of Facebook, as the movie of the year, maybe even of the...
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Bohemian, in NoHo, review : The New Yorker →
New York does exclusivity well, but Tokyo does it better. There is a Japanese phrase, “Ichigensama okotowari,” that’s used by owners of certain discriminating restaurants and shops, and means, roughly, “We respectfully decline first-time visitors.” In other words: walk-ins not welcome. To make a reservation or a purchase, you have to be recommended by a regular. It is this spirit, theoretically,...
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January 2011
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“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the...”
– The first sentence of DFW’s “The Depressed Person”.
By mixing heightened feeling and unrelenting repetition (“pain”, “pain”, “pain”) with a Latinate, clinically declarative voice (“component”, “contributing factor”), Wallace delivers his readers right where he wants them: inside...
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Terrence Malick Interview | Rome Film Festival →
“Terrence Malick is extremely shy and you must not attempt to make direct contact with him. You must pretend you are eavesdropping on a private conversation.”
I am sitting in the middle of the front row in the “Petrassi” hall of the Auditorium in Rome, Italy, where Terrence Malick is about to give an interview as part of theRome Film Festival – his first interview since 1973, and in all...
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Sun City Girls - Vine Street Piano
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