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House Producer MK on Sharing the Stage with a Sibling, His New Record Label, and Producing for Pitbull

​DJ/producer Marc Kinchen, aka MK, aka the 4th Measure Man, has been topping charts since the early 90s, with his signature vocal house tracks and remixes for artists including Betty Boo and Celine Dion. Though he is mostly known as a house producer, Kinchen has also shaped the dark sounds of ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music

​DJ/producer Marc Kinchen, aka MK, aka the 4th Measure Man, has been topping charts since the early 90s, with his signature vocal house tracks and remixes for artists including Betty Boo and Celine Dion. Though he is mostly known as a house producer, Kinchen has also shaped the dark sounds of ... More >>

Google Art Project Snubs Hometown SF Museums

Nothing to see here​Google Art Project, the company's new technology feature that allows you to see street views of museums, is offering 3D tours of galleries in Amsterdam, New York, and 15 other sites -- but not in San Francisco. That's right, Google is snubbing museums in its own backyard, inclu ... More >>

Top Chef: All-Stars, Week 6: Hooked and Gutted

Bravo TVThe sharks are circling for bait-bro Marcel. ​Last night's Top Chef: All-Stars began with a continuation of douchey Marcel showing his poor sportsmanship. He was drinking gin from the bottle and all up in Dale T.'s face about last week's competition. Ugh, did they forget that this was ... More >>

San Francisco's Year in Biking

Cyclists finally get a portion of their due.​Injunction Eased! Ridership Up! Is Tipping Point Near?On Aug. 6, 2010, a San Francisco judge lifted a ridiculous five-year court injunction that had prevented the city from making improvements to facilitate bicycle traffic. Soon thereafter, the city got ... More >>

San Francycle: How SF's Impending Bikeshare Will Work

​Bikesharing: crazy, right? The expense, the hills, the repairs, the theft -- it seems like it would never, in a million years, work. Except it does, in plenty of cities from Montreal to Budapest to Washington, D.C. And it's getting a little embarrassing that San Francisco isn't one of them. ... More >>

Guest Playlist: Come Out & Play SF

This weekend marks the inaugural Bay Area iteration of New York's (and one time Amsterdam's) beloved Come Out & Play Festival, a weekend's worth of sportive mischief in and around the Panhandle and the Upper Haight. Full-contact location-based Scrabble? Check. Unusually polite ninja fighting? Ch ... More >>

Bouncer acts like a classy masseuse at the Mandarin Oriental

This weekend marks the inaugural Bay Area iteration of New York's (and one time Amsterdam's) beloved Come Out & Play Festival, a weekend's worth of sportive mischief in and around the Panhandle and the Upper Haight. Full-contact location-based Scrabble? Check. Unusually polite ninja fighting? Ch ... More >>

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Last Night: Big Up Sub Party at Red Sky Records

Chandra Ganguly​Big Up Sub Party January 9, 2010 Red Sky Records (224 7th St.) Better Than: Subway sandwiches, and better for you. The Big Up Magazine subscription party at Jon Holliday's Red Sky Records store was part intimate house party with friends and strangers mingling and part warehouse r ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Miguel Migs

​Over Halloween weekend there's no shortage of options for the costumed club-goer. But if you're into supporting a local celeb behind the decks, it's hard to beat a gig where Miguel Migs is the main attraction. The founder of Salted Music has spent most of this decade making a name for house music ... More >>

Weekly Ink: Got Tattooed With Green Day

Vital Statistics: Christy Colcord, video store co-owner. Spotted: At her store, Lost Weekend, on Valencia in the Mission. Tattoo: The logo for a music venue she really dug in northern Holland. When/Where: "I got it in 1990. I was living in London at the time, booking European tours for ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Vital Statistics: Christy Colcord, video store co-owner. Spotted: At her store, Lost Weekend, on Valencia in the Mission. Tattoo: The logo for a music venue she really dug in northern Holland. When/Where: "I got it in 1990. I was living in London at the time, booking European tours for ... More >>

Not All Black and White - "Bedrooms" Exhibit Opens 5/2

Vital Statistics: Christy Colcord, video store co-owner. Spotted: At her store, Lost Weekend, on Valencia in the Mission. Tattoo: The logo for a music venue she really dug in northern Holland. When/Where: "I got it in 1990. I was living in London at the time, booking European tours for ... More >>

Let's Go to Prison

Harold and Kumar get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two.

More Adventures in Gangsterland

In Bruges, Martin McDonagh's sightseeing hit-men flick, isn't much of a trip

Dead Meadow Announce Tour Dates and New Album

In Bruges, Martin McDonagh's sightseeing hit-men flick, isn't much of a trip

Girl/Boy Interrupted

A new treatment for transgender kids puts puberty on hold so that they won't develop into their biological sex

CD Review: Sage Francis' Human the Death Dance

A new treatment for transgender kids puts puberty on hold so that they won't develop into their biological sex

SFIFF Film Capsules

A new treatment for transgender kids puts puberty on hold so that they won't develop into their biological sex

He's Really Doing That

A new treatment for transgender kids puts puberty on hold so that they won't develop into their biological sex

Repertory Film Listings

A new treatment for transgender kids puts puberty on hold so that they won't develop into their biological sex

Golda's Story

Portrait of a prime minister

Two Fools

Terry Baum's play about lesbian love draws its conflicts from dull stereotypes rather than artfully, from life

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Terry Baum's play about lesbian love draws its conflicts from dull stereotypes rather than artfully, from life

Mexican Magic

A show full of dream states, animal spirits, and fantastical realism

Boogie for a New Millennium

Zakiya Hooker preserves the legacy of her father, blues legend John Lee Hooker, plans her own musical career -- and tries to keep tradition from suffocating both

Sugary Dreams

You want one. You know you do.

High Quality

If the city starts growing and selling its own dope, will it be any, uh, good?

SHOPS

If the city starts growing and selling its own dope, will it be any, uh, good?

Remember My Name

Say goodbye to Berkeley's beloved Fine Arts Cinema, but not farewell

House Of Tudor

Teutonic new wave, Dutch sample-pop, junkyard blues, and snarling post-punk

Folsom Street Flair

From gay leather bars to Irish pubs

Letters to the Editor

Tobacco Firm Adds Insult to Injury; A Few Bike Lanes Away From Utopia; Music to Our Ears; Fish Story; Art and Censorship

Zoom Lens

Science Is Fiction

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Reel World

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The Persistence of Experimentalism

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How Strange Fruit Got Its Groove Back

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Riff Raff

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Larry Yung: Master of Incongruity

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Hear This

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Dog Bites

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Lighten Up

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Night+Day

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Mondo 1995

Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug Zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder by inter