Arts & Leisure

If you have yet to catch Justin Bieber Fever, consider yourself lucky. Symptoms include: excessive shaking, screaming and/or crying at the sight of the young superstar—or, in much milder cases, failure to change the station when his music comes on. Clearly, there’s much more to Justin Bieber than his boyish charm and at-times-strikingly-girlish singing...

Incredible from its beautiful color schemes to its deep emotional acting, Tom Ford’s A Single Man is a magnificent film. With its stunning cinematography, it can be more closely compared to an exquisite art piece than the cliché bundle of laughs brought in by the typical romantic comedy of Hollywood today. The tragic storyline, set...

Got the mean ol’ coffee blues Mint Plaza Café 66 Mint Street, San Francisco (and multiple locations) www.bluebottlecoffee.net Upon parking in the dim and dreary alleyway of Mint Plaza, my comrade Logan and I received a friendly (?) warning from the neighborhood parking attendant to not leave our bags in the car as “those f—-ers would break into it...

Jive of the Sweet Java: Caffe Trieste 601 Vallejo Street, San Francisco (and multiple locations) www.caffetrieste.com I awoke from my afternoon siesta at work with the buzz of my phone. It was Erik. I knew it was time. We sped across town with Caffe Trieste of North Beach in our sights. The route was tricky. Bamboozled by one-way...

Ritual Roasters should be everyone’s ritual 1026 Valencia, San Francisco www.ritualroasters.com The Mission is definitely where you should go if you want to experience what’s happening in San Francisco today…and for coffee, that place is Ritual Roasters. Opened in 2005, the love for Ritual has been viral. According to their website, it was only a week...

Dan Hoyle ‘98 is back at San Francisco’s Marsh Theatre with a new solo show, The Real Americans, that chronicles the 100 days that Hoyle spent traveling outside of San Francisco’s “liberal bubble” in search of America. Hoyle’s quest comes in the wake of the divisive presidential contest of 2008. Having heard multiple politicians speak...

Shutter Island begins to weave its trance over the audience even before the fade-in. Deep, haunting strings instantly establish the film’s tone of unrelenting doom. As the opening credits loom out of the darkness, typography has never looked so sinister. By the time we fade into Leonardo DiCaprio throwing up over the side of...

Marsh Youth Theater’s production of The Wave elicits a pandemonium of emotions that is sure to raise hairs on the back of your neck and give you the urge to erupt in song. Directed by Lick-Wilmerding’s former acting and theater teacher Cliff Mayotte, The Wave recounts the shocking experiment conducted at a Palo Alto high...

The consensus is that this was a down year for Super Bowl commercials. I’d have to agree. At $6 million-per-minute, the highest cost ever, you might expect the commercials to live up to the cost. Sadly, that was not the case. Here are the best and the worst of the Super Bowl ads. Notice...

Lick-Wilmerding alum, Zach Sorgen, and his band shoot for the stars Zach Sorgen went to Lick for his freshman and sophomore years in 2004-2006. He played trumpet and piano in Jazz Combo and the Advanced Jazz Band and also sang in Jazz Choir. Sorgen says, “I loved Lick and definitely developed my passion for...