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  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    S.F. Fat Activists Oppose Anti-Obesity Campaign

    ​ In a city where government leaders are proud to regulate your daily calorie intake, it's might be shocking to learn that there are fat activists here -- and they don't care how many Happy Meals you eat.As our sister blog, the Exhibitionist, points out, a San Francisco fat activist has launched t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    S.F. Fat Activists Oppose Atlanta's Anti-Obesity Campaign

    ​A San Francisco fat activist has helped raise more than $12,000 to launch a campaign to counter the public shaming of obese children. What set all this off: Currently in Atlanta, the second most obese city in the nation, Strong 4 Life billboards sponsored by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta show ... More >>

  • News

    November 2, 2011

    Lost Boys: New Research Demolishes the Stereotype of the Underage Sex Worker

    ​A San Francisco fat activist has helped raise more than $12,000 to launch a campaign to counter the public shaming of obese children. What set all this off: Currently in Atlanta, the second most obese city in the nation, Strong 4 Life billboards sponsored by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta show ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Treasure Fingers on Missing Live Bands, Getting Records Stolen, and Traveling the World

    Fool's Gold's Ashley Jones, aka Treasure Fingers, makes music that makes you smile, jump, and regress to days of dancing wildly before you ever had need of any liquid courage. Although primarily known for layering catchy vocals over house and disco beats, he is also part of the drum 'n' bass group E ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    SF Vegans Are More Loud than Numerous

    Marin Sun FarmsSan Franciscans as a whole prefer meat to vegetables​We hear from vegans all the time at SFoodie, often at great length, not least because we run Laura Beck's delightfully profane Week in Vegan column. But we've always wondered how important they really are. Not very, it turns ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Oakland's Lumerians Give Pensive Psych-Rock a Good Name in "Atlanta Brook"

    It's just Lumerians, the nice, mind-detonating men from across the Bay.​No, this is not your father's psychedelic rock. This is Lumerians, an Oakland five-piece whose name you may have seen on local bills; whose pounding debut album, Transmalinnia; recently came on Knitting Factory Records; and wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    New Lumerians Video Puts the Psychedelic in Psychedelic Rock

    "Did you mean 'Lemurians'?"​Remember when we all had CRT computer monitors and we could degauss them, making the screen go all trippy for a split second, and then we wouldn't be able to do it again for a couple days? This is just one of the many things you could try to think about while this video ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Watch: Matthewdavid Keeps It Analog in the Video for 'International'

    Alpha Pup Records​Flying Lotus aside, Matthewdavid threw together the best set at Low End Theory SF this past weekend. The experimental L.A. producer's digital tweaking and warping of analog source material makes for a sound that's pretty next level. And now that his International EP is out, he's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Music Links: Lumerians' Trip, Artists to Watch, Trackademicks' Latest, and Jerry Garcia's Kitchen

    Them Lumerians is crazy.​Hear "Atlanta Brook," a new track from stunning Oakland psych-rockers Lumerians. [The Bay Bridged]The Owl Mag's big bird, Jason Jurgens, on the local artists you should watch in 2011. [The OCMD]

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    See the Black Lips, Thee Oh Sees, and Bare Wires for Free Next Month

    All the Black Lips' mayhem can be yours, free -- egg nog optional.​This latest show-as-free-advertising at least has good taste -- and we're talking about the bands, people, not the booze. (Nothing against rum; sorry, Maroon 5!) Sailor Jerry is paying your way to a good-ol' garage-rock slam with A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    San Francisco Giants, Atlanta Braves: Who Can Torture Fans More?

    Brooks Conrad, the Giants' MVP​A few hours after the San Francisco Giants' Greek tragedy of a win over Atlanta yesterday, I realized the headaches have returned. Back during the World Series run of 2002, your humble narrator essentially had a headache throughout the Fall. Clenching one's teeth dur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Disco Volante Spins into Oakland, Meadowood Calendars 12 Days of Eating

    ​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Courtesy of Inside Scoop's Paolo L., we learn of Disco Volante (347 14th St., Oakland), from Kevin Cook, Damon Gallagher, and Tim Tolle. The pitch: California local-seasonal food from former ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Crunk Energy, Now in Lickable, Snortable Form

    crunkenergydrink.com​Energy drinks are tired, so Atlanta's Crunk!!! has introduced Energy Stix. We're thinking of it as a cross between cocaine and Pixy Stix, with nearly the same effects, although Lil Jon and company would probably prefer we adopt the official description: "the next generatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Cooking Channel's FoodCrafters Highlights S.F. Sweets Purveyors

    missionlocal.org​Local confectioners Kika's Treats, Sweet Revolution, and {cocoa} are profiled on "Sweet," the third episode of FoodCrafters, a program about edible artisans hosted by San Francisco resident Aida Mollenkamp for the new Cooking Channel. The trio of sinful sweet purveyors will jo ... More >>

  • News

    April 7, 2010

    Dandy Rotten Scoundrel

    Michael Manos was living the same lie that he peddled across the country. But in San Francisco, the truth caught up with him.

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    Listomania: Top Southern Rap Picks For 2009

    Yeah, it stirred the Yankees to the World Series championship, but was there a more boring album this year than Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3? Perhaps it was a geographic thing; with a few exceptions like Raekwon and Kid Cudi, most of 2009's exciting, innovative rap records came from Southern artists. Sur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    *Comme C'est Bizarre* -- Examiner Offers Sports Scores For Defunct Team

    Excusez-moi?​The old saying notes that the upside of living in the past is that it's cheaper there. And it would be a hoot to chain smoke Old Golds and pound back Schaefers -- the one beer to have when you're having more than one -- at Ebbets Field. But the notion of nostalgia evaporates when deal ... More >>

  • Music

    July 1, 2009

    “I Wanna Get Famous"

    Excusez-moi?​The old saying notes that the upside of living in the past is that it's cheaper there. And it would be a hoot to chain smoke Old Golds and pound back Schaefers -- the one beer to have when you're having more than one -- at Ebbets Field. But the notion of nostalgia evaporates when deal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Town Bizness Cancels SF Show

    EKAphotographyTown Bizness Too $hort's highly-anticipated supergroup Town Bizness  has canceled their scheduled March 27 show at the Grand Ballroom. No official reason was given for the cancellation, and the show has yet to be rescheduled. A representative for $hort's label Up All Nite, reach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Flying With the Big Boys: SFO Cracks Top-10 of Nation's Busiest Airports

    Source: anna.aero, culled from airport's monthly self-reported figuresWe're No. 1 ... or, actually, SFO's reported growth made it the 10th-busiest airport in the realmWhile 2008 was generally as entertaining a year for airport proprietors as airline dinners are for airport customers, San Francisco I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    SFPD Seeks Suspect in 1971 Slaying -- Grady from 'Sanford and Son'?

    There's no statute of limitations for murder, as evidenced by this wanted poster for accused cop-killer Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth. To the best of our knowledge, the poster is still hanging at Park Station in the city -- though Bridgeforth is accused of masterminding the murder of Sgt. John Young ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Black Lips Play GAMH in April

    There's no statute of limitations for murder, as evidenced by this wanted poster for accused cop-killer Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth. To the best of our knowledge, the poster is still hanging at Park Station in the city -- though Bridgeforth is accused of masterminding the murder of Sgt. John Young ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2008

    MP3 of the Day: Black Lips

    As 2008 has heads toward its big finale, those Atlanta punks the Black Lips have the perfect soundtrack for trading last year's sins for a whole new batch of vices. "Starting Over" is the first song the group's released from its upcoming record, 200 Million Thousand (out Feb. 24), and it's one of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2008

    SF Weekly Interview: E-40

    By Tamara Palmer It's now been more than 20 years since Earl Stevens (aka E-40) put his first independent record out on the streets of the Bay Area and set out on a mission to put his hometown of Vallejo on the international rap map and his colorful phraseology into the mouths of society at large ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2008

    MP3 of the Day: Hollow Stars

    By Tamara Palmer It's now been more than 20 years since Earl Stevens (aka E-40) put his first independent record out on the streets of the Bay Area and set out on a mission to put his hometown of Vallejo on the international rap map and his colorful phraseology into the mouths of society at large ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2008

    Bonus Beats From Rock The Bells

    By Tamara Palmer It's now been more than 20 years since Earl Stevens (aka E-40) put his first independent record out on the streets of the Bay Area and set out on a mission to put his hometown of Vallejo on the international rap map and his colorful phraseology into the mouths of society at large ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2008

    Local Treats Highlighted in the New York Times

    By Tamara Palmer It's now been more than 20 years since Earl Stevens (aka E-40) put his first independent record out on the streets of the Bay Area and set out on a mission to put his hometown of Vallejo on the international rap map and his colorful phraseology into the mouths of society at large ... More >>

  • Music

    July 23, 2008

    Eat to the Beat at Pan Ambient Brunch

    By Tamara Palmer It's now been more than 20 years since Earl Stevens (aka E-40) put his first independent record out on the streets of the Bay Area and set out on a mission to put his hometown of Vallejo on the international rap map and his colorful phraseology into the mouths of society at large ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2008

    Kidrobot Adult Swim mini figure series launches today

    By Tamara Palmer It's now been more than 20 years since Earl Stevens (aka E-40) put his first independent record out on the streets of the Bay Area and set out on a mission to put his hometown of Vallejo on the international rap map and his colorful phraseology into the mouths of society at large ... More >>

  • Film

    February 20, 2008

    The Signal Brings Zombies to the HotLanta

    By Tamara Palmer It's now been more than 20 years since Earl Stevens (aka E-40) put his first independent record out on the streets of the Bay Area and set out on a mission to put his hometown of Vallejo on the international rap map and his colorful phraseology into the mouths of society at large ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2008

    Growing a Greener, More Hydro SF

    By Tamara Palmer It's now been more than 20 years since Earl Stevens (aka E-40) put his first independent record out on the streets of the Bay Area and set out on a mission to put his hometown of Vallejo on the international rap map and his colorful phraseology into the mouths of society at large ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2007

    LastNight: Prefuse 73 Glitches Out Slim's

    By Tamara Palmer It's now been more than 20 years since Earl Stevens (aka E-40) put his first independent record out on the streets of the Bay Area and set out on a mission to put his hometown of Vallejo on the international rap map and his colorful phraseology into the mouths of society at large ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2007

    SF Garage Rock Faves Black Lips move to the big screen in 'Let It Be'

    By Tamara Palmer It's now been more than 20 years since Earl Stevens (aka E-40) put his first independent record out on the streets of the Bay Area and set out on a mission to put his hometown of Vallejo on the international rap map and his colorful phraseology into the mouths of society at large ... More >>

  • Music

    August 22, 2007

    D. Charles Speer

    Some Forgotten Country (Sound@One)

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2007

    Ladies Love Cool Clifford -- Hip-Hop Pinup for the Naughties!

    Some Forgotten Country (Sound@One)

  • Music

    April 4, 2007

    Doin' Da Mayor at the Endup

    Local candidates for national dance crazes

  • Music

    February 14, 2007

    Mixtape Shmixtape

    Wherein we review Yay Area mixes of the day

  • Calendar

    January 17, 2007

    Dance Dance Resolution

    Taking funky steps toward feeling good

  • Music

    December 20, 2006

    I Left My Heart Right Here

    Shouting out the year's best Bay Area songs

  • Music

    May 18, 2005

    Da Da

    Down at Da Corner, Bouncer gets her crunk on, coins term "muff muffle."

  • Dining

    February 23, 2005

    Mix and Match

    Two -- or more -- great tastes that taste great together

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Hip Hop Radio Show

    Ghetto Gumbo

  • Music

    December 31, 2003

    Various Artists

    Crunk and Disorderly

  • News

    March 28, 2001

    Loose Threads

    The Names Project's national foundation and its famous AIDS quilt are moving out of town this week, leaving behind a slightly tattered local chapter

  • Music

    June 14, 2000

    Changing the True School

    Berkeley's Zion I is out to prove that hip hop and drum 'n' bass aren't strange bedfellows

  • Music

    May 6, 1998

    Reviews

    Berkeley's Zion I is out to prove that hip hop and drum 'n' bass aren't strange bedfellows

  • Calendar

    October 18, 1995

    Savage Love

    Berkeley's Zion I is out to prove that hip hop and drum 'n' bass aren't strange bedfellows

  • News

    September 20, 1995

    Chatterbox

    Berkeley's Zion I is out to prove that hip hop and drum 'n' bass aren't strange bedfellows

  • Music

    August 16, 1995

    Night Crawler

    Berkeley's Zion I is out to prove that hip hop and drum 'n' bass aren't strange bedfellows

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