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Beer of the Week: Magnolia Brewery Quadlibet for Tenderfeet

The bad news is that SF Beer Week has come and gone. The good news? You're probably a lot less hungover. Wait, we still have another week of Strong Beer Month? Ok, scratch that last thing we said about fewer hangovers. The good news is that there's still gobs of delicious beer to consume throughout ... More >>

The Off-the-Menu Item at Blue Bottle You Haven't Heard Of

"Ooooh, I wonder what that is," people whisper to each other when you order it. The assertive even ask: "Excuse me? What is that?" Everyone loves exclusivity. We all can't be invited to Michael Bauer's secret holiday party like some of the city's top chefs, but we can at least console ourselves with ... More >>

Beer of the Week: Stone Vertical Epic 12.12.12.

Among the phrases you've never heard uttered, you can probably add "it ages like a fine beer." Perhaps there's good reason for that -- the majority of brews are best consumed fresh. That being said, a large chunk of the craft beer being produced in our current beery renaissance can improve with nume ... More >>

Combat the Fall Doldrums with the 'BRU/SFO' Belgian Beer Month

This coming weekend, you'll be forced to take part in one of our most perverse rituals: daylight savings time. Almost immediately, you'll switch into hibernation mode as the sun creeps past the horizon just after you get home from work. The best way to combat seasonal fatigue is to fortify the body ... More >>

How Christopher Columbus Changed the Way We Eat

Imagine an Italy without tomato sauce, Ireland without potatoes, Belgium without chocolate. Regardless of your feelings about Christopher Columbus and colonialism, the fact remains that the man irrevocably changed the culinary world when he crossed the ocean blue and made the first major contact wit ... More >>

The Top Five Parties in S.F. This Weekend: Carl Craig & Octave One, Old-School Electro, and More

It's times like these when you wonder why San Francisco doesn't have a major electronic dance music festival of its own. Yes, you guessed it, Decibel Festival has officially started to take over Seattle. Artists from all over the world are currently in planes headed for the West Coast. Of course, th ... More >>

Chocolate Tasting Today at S.F. Library

Nine times out of 10, if you see something resembling chocolate at a San Francisco library -- it's not chocolate. Today will be the 10th time. The Portola Branch will be hosting a tasting of "chocolates of the world" today for kids aged 10 to 18 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The library is located at 380 Baco ... More >>

"The Fairy": Slapstick Comedy Runs Stale

Q&A: Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister on Touring with Megadeth and His Forthcoming Solo Album

Rightfully worshipped by headbangers and punks alike, Motörhead and its iconic founder, bassist and principle songwriter Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, have been grinding out their influential brand of balls-out rock for nearly four decades. Founded after Lemmy was fired from British space-rock outfit Hawk ... More >>

This Month in Tasting Blind: Rating Sour Beers

Jason HenryOur sour beer lineup.​ After we recently offered up a sour beer primer, we decided the category was ripe for our recurring blind beer taste test. This month's panel was treated to a variety of sour beer styles from the United States, Belgium, and Italy. For a genre that generates de ... More >>

What to Do This Weekend, Mar. 25-27

jrodmanjr/FlickrThe final Outside In party happens Sun., Mar. 27.​Craving more? Scroll through additional listings here. Fri., Mar. 25: Queen of the Sun Filmmaker Screenings Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St. (at Valencia), 7 and 9 p.m. Director Taggart Siegel will be on hand for two screenings of ... More >>

How to Crash the Craft Brewers Conference

agahran/FlickrTonight: Twenty taps of Deschutes at Beer Revolution.​The Craft Brewers Conference ― an annual event that starts today ― is a time to rejoice. Spring is in the air, and brewers from around the world converge in one place for four days of boozy revelry. Unfortunately, sprin ... More >>

Side-Stepping My Religion

Today: Organic Brewers Converge on Ferry Building for Eco Tasting

MateVeza's organic India Pale Ale.​Between the World Series and Halloween we've got a lot to be excited about 'round here. If you have time between getting your Snooki or The Situation costume together and painting a sign with clever wordplay involving Jonathan Sanchez, take a moment to celebr ... More >>

Tonight: Launch Party for Nirvino Beer-Rating iPhone App

​We knew we wanted to join the legion of smartphone users when we discovered Shazam, the application which tells you what song you're hearing so you never again have to say, "Oh man, I wish I knew who sings this song." For oenophiles, perhaps the must-have app is Nirvino, the best selling wine ... More >>

Presenting the All Shook Down Music Festival Schedule

​Here you have it, San Francisco (and Bay Area) music fans: the long-awaited schedule for this year's All Shook Down Music Festival. As you've probably heard by now, the All Shook Down Festival will bring a boatload of local musical talent to stages in North Beach on July 25. Neon Indian, Janelle ... More >>

ASD Lineup Expanded: Sonny & the Sunsets, Ty Segall, Disco Shawn, the Park, Many More

Tanit SakakiniSantero and band perform at the All Shook Down fest on July 25​It is with great (and, yes, self-promotional) pleasure that we announced a wildly expanded lineup for the All Shook Down music festival in North Beach on July 25. In addition to our national headliners -- Janelle Monae an ... More >>

Spaghetti Western

Belgian Angst

Toronto International Film Festival: Day 3

Sergio Mendes

Encanto (Concord)

Saturday: World Naked Bike Ride

Metalocalypse Takes an Adult Swim in Blood

CD Review: Zap Mama - Supermoon

Zap Mama

Supermoon (Heads Up)

Blank Film

Repertory Film Listings

Placebo releases Extended Play '07

Creepy Brilliance

The Pillowman is playwright Martin McDonagh at his best

Christopher Willits' subtle soundtracks

Repertory Film Listings

BeatBox

Stacey Pullen headlines "The San Francisco-Detroit Connection." "Feather" breathes new life into disco

Very Influential

An artistic Workhorse

Hear This

Django Reinhardt Project takes on the Gypsy jazz master; the 60-piece Dakah Hip Hop Orchestra makes its SF debut

BeatBox

!!! blows the lid off of dance-punk; 2Many DJs lives up to their name with pan-genre mash ups

Sprung

A Manila-folder galleon, catered edamame at camp, and a Q&A with Dr. Beer: It must be spring

Best Chocolate Orgasm

Angelina Rumpelmayer Hot Chocolate and Neuhaus Chocolates

Real to Reel

Week 2 of the 46th San Francisco International Film Festival

Out of Africa

Lumumba delivers a thrilling, if necessarily simplified, history lesson

Three Best Launching Pads

Pop Philosophy

New Disorder Records; Mark Kozelek; Doublelife

Electro-Porn

Lords of Acid

From the Missing Persons File

"The Search for Survivors of the St. Louis"

Reel World

Black to the Promised Land, Short of Breath, The Last Waltz

The House of Tudor

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll. Korea.

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Stage

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Dish

Samples