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The Six Best Concerts in the Bay Area This Week

6. A Place to Bury Strangers @ the Independent, Wednesday, Nov. 7 In a city overflowing with notable musicians, earning the informal title of "Loudest Band in New York" is no small potatoes. But that's what Brooklyn outfit A Place to Bury Strangers is often called, and it's an honorific the trio has ... More >>

Production Duo 5kinAndBone5 Selects Its Five Favorite Tracks of 2012

Though a long-time member of the local scene, it's taken something of a stylistic update for 5kinAndBone5 to finally break out. That update must have involved some manner of trippy cybernetic augmentation, as the duo's found itself dissolved and dispersed in a matrix of '90s cyberculture Tumblrs, oc ... More >>

Nothing Says Romance Like "Price Break on a Hotel Room"

"San Francisco was named one of the Top 10 Valentine's Day destinations," claimed the e-mail. "No surprise there," claimed me. Surprising, however, was the reasoning behind it. First, some background: The e-mail was from a publicist representing Hotwire online travel service. See, Hotwire did a bi ... More >>

The 12 Worst Rock Album Covers of 2011

It's common to round up the worst album art at the end of every year, but the ridicule is usually directed at easy targets. Album covers from old, out-of-touch musicians, second-rate rock acts, and popular bands that are already despised by music critics absorb most of the venom, while indie-leaning ... More >>

Target Christmas Album: Best Coast/Wavves, Blackalicious, Jason Schwartzman et al. Hock Holiday Cheer

Don't they know it's Christmas? Seriously. Are they aware?​Now that it's December, the merchants of the world have declared open season on premature holiday festivities, turning life into the cultural equivalent of that house on your block that puts up Halloween decorations in August. Target (pron ... More >>

Delorean Reaches for (Musical) Ecstasy at Great American Music Hall

Delorean last night at Great American​DeloreanLemonadeNovember 10, 2010@ Great American Music HallBetter than: taking drugs at the Cow Palace.With all due respect to the lovers and survivors of house and trance music, the movement has moved, onward and outward, to bigger sounds and better ideas. T ... More >>

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Dream On

When a Sunflower Is Not a Sunflower

Top 10 Onstage Gaffes of 2009

We'll admit there's more than a little schadenfreude going on in this list of the best onstage gaffes of 2009. But why else would Al Gore have invented YouTube if not to feed our obsessive need to see celebrities get taken down a peg? Here with, our favorite of the year's music-related missteps, cau ... More >>

The Eight Best Places on Earth for Foodie Vacations

San Francisco may be the food capital of the United States (at least in our minds), but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of other destinations worthy of gastro-tourism this fall. Fasten your seat belt (and undo the top button of your jeans) as we take you to some of our global favorites.​1. B ... More >>

Trademark invades a Eurocentric street with fresh American fare

Early Bird Special: Trademark

K. Todd Storch/FlickrBelden Alley: S.F.'s urban Epcot now has an American place.​An early nibble of the Weekly's Wednesday food review. Like some urban, particularly fragrant Epcot Center, Belden Alley has long offered the city a taste of global cuisines. Well, recognizably Euro cuisines, wh ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Nisus

​There are DJs who log a lotta miles, and then there's Nisus. While other vinyl slingers rack up passenger time on airlines, this guy has spent the summer getting between gigs in Germany, France, Spain, and Switzerland by bike. Overall he  traveled, (two wheel-style), across 1,300 miles, and ... More >>

I Heart Street Art: Green Thumb

As you know, I've taken a number of trips in recent weeks. Valencia, Barcelona, Berlin, Memphis. But none so foreign a destination as Sunnyside. Sunnyside is a sunny San Francisco neighborhood somewhere between Glen Park and City College -- clean, quiet, residential. Not a lot of street art. Except ... More >>

Contigo takes a bite out of Catalan

Early Bird Special: Contigo

Jen SiskaContigoAfter scarfing pork-belly bocaditos and octopus salad at Contigo in Noe Valley, SF Weekly food critic Matthew Stafford gets all dreamy thinking about the vacay he took in Barcelona. Stafford thinks chef-owner Brett Emerson gets all the details right in this local simulacrum of the Ca ... More >>

Track of the Day: Filastine

"Singularities" by Barcelona-based globetripper Filastine is an evocative track, stirring up cinematic images of emotional worlds crashing to a disastrous, beautiful collapse. There's an evil edge to the stuttered string samples and scattering beats in the song, similar to the soundtrack Kronos Quar ... More >>

Antonio Gaudi

The Art of Zen (Honk!)

"Still a Little Magic" by Miss Van at Fifty24SF

From Barcelona, Spain by way of Toulousse, France, Miss Van brings her iconic images of "poupees," -- dolls with wide eyes and luscious curves -- to our very own Fifty24SF Gallery this winter. Miss Van's latest solo showing, Still a Little Magic, presents a collection of her trademark poupee imager ... More >>

YouTube Live, No Pants Party and Of Montreal: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Weekend recap by Janine KahnThe bad news is, it's Monday. The good news? This is bound to be one short week! All Shook Down will likely be mostly crickets and echoes this Thursday and Friday as our crew heads out to spend time with their respective clans, so we overdid it this past weekend to make i ... More >>

Friday Night: El Guincho at the Independent

El GuinchoFriday, Nov. 21, 2008The Independent ( 628 Divisadero St.)Review by Jennifer MaerzBetter than: Watching your friends play Guitar Hero to Animal Collective. I imagine that being a one-man band is pretty sweet in a lot of ways. You never have to argue with your bandmates about what ... More >>

El Guincho’s global beats take flight

TiVo Alert: Bourdain on Spain Will Drive Foodies Berserk

The Young Man's Dream

Woody Allen is back from his European vacation. Next, he directs Larry David in N.Y.C. and Puccini for L.A. Opera.

Pretty in Pink

Mighty Aphrodites

Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest.

MP3 of the Day: Barcelona indie rock sampler

Private Eyes

Coachella 2008 Lineup Announced

The Sounds of Sweden

Benni Hemm Hemm, Adam Franklin, Samba Mapangala -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Monday, July 16

Small Plates, Big Array

In the restaurant-happy Presidio, you'll find global cuisine and an impressive wine selection

Lemonade samples the world on the way to the dance floor

Prenuptual Aggrievement

Meet the Parents goes Middle East in Only Human

Nabe Faves

When you're in the mood for eating — rather than fine dining — we've got three new neighborhood ethnic spots for you

Garage punks wryly needle religion; jazz stars skewer Orwellian politics

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, July 6, 2005

Best Barcelona Experience

Leonard's 2001

House of Tudor

Proto-punk European street music and neo-cabaret, Hasidic reinterpretations of Ice-T, and a shot at Paradise

Rock 'n' Bowl

Rock Soup

Hear This

Experimental composer Koji Asano explores the beauty and terror of electronic sound

Tapa the Mark

Ramblas

Cirque du Supper

Teatro ZinZanni

Best Spanish Restaurant

B44

En Español

B44

Homage to Catalonia

Spanish Mainstream

Looking for that big break at Barcelona