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10 Things To Do For Under $10: KISS Cover Love, Screaming Females, World Cupping

Screaming Females play tonight at Hemlock​There seems to be something cheap for everyone this lovely first weekend of June. Art openings, the ultimate underground foodie event, plenty of live music and D.J.s ready to vie for your attention -- and it's all for less than the cost of a quality six-pa ... More >>

Trashcan Sinatras Q&A: Paging Barry Gibb

One of Scotland's finest musical exports, the Trashcan Sinatras, will play at Slim's on Tuesday, June 1. We asked the band a few pertinent questions. Barry Gibb, if you're reading this: Get in touch. -- Vicky Walker Izumi KamazawaTrashcan Sinatras bring the swing ​ SF Weekly: What are we draggin ... More >>

Soccer Succor

One of Scotland's finest musical exports, the Trashcan Sinatras, will play at Slim's on Tuesday, June 1. We asked the band a few pertinent questions. Barry Gibb, if you're reading this: Get in touch. -- Vicky Walker Izumi KamazawaTrashcan Sinatras bring the swing ​ SF Weekly: What are we draggin ... More >>

Fack? Feck? Fick? Fock?

One of Scotland's finest musical exports, the Trashcan Sinatras, will play at Slim's on Tuesday, June 1. We asked the band a few pertinent questions. Barry Gibb, if you're reading this: Get in touch. -- Vicky Walker Izumi KamazawaTrashcan Sinatras bring the swing ​ SF Weekly: What are we draggin ... More >>

Of Peacoats and Futile Human Striving

One of Scotland's finest musical exports, the Trashcan Sinatras, will play at Slim's on Tuesday, June 1. We asked the band a few pertinent questions. Barry Gibb, if you're reading this: Get in touch. -- Vicky Walker Izumi KamazawaTrashcan Sinatras bring the swing ​ SF Weekly: What are we draggin ... More >>

Writers with Drinks

One of Scotland's finest musical exports, the Trashcan Sinatras, will play at Slim's on Tuesday, June 1. We asked the band a few pertinent questions. Barry Gibb, if you're reading this: Get in touch. -- Vicky Walker Izumi KamazawaTrashcan Sinatras bring the swing ​ SF Weekly: What are we draggin ... More >>

10 Things to Do This Weekend for Under $10

Dear & Yonder​It took five. long. days. to get here, but man, it's finally the weekend. Let's celebrate. We've got a couple of ideas. Dear & Yonder Pt. 1: Art Show‏ @ Mollusk (Friday)We love Mollusk parties, mostly for the fact that they force us to hang out so close to the ocean. And th ... More >>

The Quality Police

Dear & Yonder​It took five. long. days. to get here, but man, it's finally the weekend. Let's celebrate. We've got a couple of ideas. Dear & Yonder Pt. 1: Art Show‏ @ Mollusk (Friday)We love Mollusk parties, mostly for the fact that they force us to hang out so close to the ocean. And th ... More >>

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Dear & Yonder​It took five. long. days. to get here, but man, it's finally the weekend. Let's celebrate. We've got a couple of ideas. Dear & Yonder Pt. 1: Art Show‏ @ Mollusk (Friday)We love Mollusk parties, mostly for the fact that they force us to hang out so close to the ocean. And th ... More >>

Read This If You Want to Live

Litquake is an earthquake. Of literature. And it is coming for us.

Club Night Review: Trivia Night at Edinburgh Castle

Litquake is an earthquake. Of literature. And it is coming for us.

Let's See Some Hustle Out There!

Litquake is an earthquake. Of literature. And it is coming for us.

A Black Mark On Your Record

Litquake is an earthquake. Of literature. And it is coming for us.

Vulgar Posing

How our columnist was seduced into watching the World's Largest Female Bodybuilder beat up on Rob Black

Stop Making Sense

Donnie Darko's exquisite muddle

The Pub in Publishing

Readings and writings at the Edinburgh Castle

Drunk and Irate

Fight or flight on election night

Best Literary Bartender

Alan Black at the Edinburgh Castle Pub

Great Scot

Bagpipes, Robert Burns' poetry, haggis, and about a million kinds of scotch

House of Tudor

Get the scoop on SF's Emperor Norton

House of Tudor

Party like it's 1984, and the swamp rock-turned-street punk of Throw Rag

I Want to Ride My Bicycle

Leave the car at home and get to work on two wheels

Tales of the City

Shaking up the local book scene at Litquake and Green Apple Books' 35th birthday party

Sound Advice

Animal memoirs, royal vocalists, and intestinal fortitude

Sound Advice

The bored, the gothic, and the really flexible

House Of Tudor

French Troublemakers, nihilistic novelists, and melancholic-altbluegrass purveyors

Traditions We Share

Like Santas who shoot carbines and a play that guts the Lord but good

Night + Day

Like Santas who shoot carbines and a play that guts the Lord but good

The House of Tudor

Like Santas who shoot carbines and a play that guts the Lord but good

Riff Raff

Like Santas who shoot carbines and a play that guts the Lord but good

Riff Raff

Like Santas who shoot carbines and a play that guts the Lord but good

Night Crawler

Like Santas who shoot carbines and a play that guts the Lord but good

Night + Day

Like Santas who shoot carbines and a play that guts the Lord but good

Night Crawler

Like Santas who shoot carbines and a play that guts the Lord but good

The House of Tudor

Like Santas who shoot carbines and a play that guts the Lord but good

Slap Shots

Like Santas who shoot carbines and a play that guts the Lord but good

Night+Day

Like Santas who shoot carbines and a play that guts the Lord but good

Revisiting the Fringe

Mea culpa to the Guardian

On the Fringes

The area's first Scottish cultural festival finds it necessary to play the name game