Dead Love: Dia de los M...

Halloween night may be in the past, but Dia de Los Muertos is now dead ahead, and the best place to celebrate los muertos is in San Francisco’s beloved Mission District. Now is the time and the Mission is the place to enjoy a crawl through the streets with the dead. Our Dead Love...

Dead Love: This IS Hall...

Nothing says Halloween like The Nightmare Before Christmas, so of course I am going to share something from the very emo stop-motion look at Samhain directed by Henry Selick and produced and co-written by master movie-maker Tim Burton. When Jack Skellington, indisputable shadow lord of...

Dead Love: Zombies in J...

True, it couldn’t be a better time to be a zombie … but author Linda Watanabe McFerrin is a die-hard fan with a dark history that goes back to her childhood. I think this interview by Scott James, author of Soma and The Sower, is dead on. Here’s what he uncovers about...

Dead Love: Zombies in S...

I could be posting till my fingers bleed zombie news, but I have other deadlines, so here’s a quick update. You need to know that there will be a Pirate Zombie Crawl through the streets of San Rafael this eve. It starts in downtown San Rafael and ends up at the Falkirk at around...

9. Let’s Make a D...

It was immediately apparent that they were in a designer grotto. A high wall of bamboo ran around its perimeter and in the center was a series of natural pools the largest of which was fed by a vigorous waterfall. A wall of stone extended from the waterfall in this largest pool to the...