Biology

DJ Shadow Goes Shopping for Inspiration at Amoeba

Watch: A Day in the Life KMEL's Record-Buying, Star-Discovering DJ Amen

DJ Amen at Amoeba​ Ever wonder what a day in the life of a local radio DJ is like? Well now you can know: Bay Area hip-hop website Thizzler on the Roof recently put together this short clip that follows KMEL's DJ Amen around for a day -- starting at Amoeba, heading to Papalote, and ending at a ... More >>

San Francisco's Table Scraps Make Healthier Wines

Allan Henderson via Flickr ... tastes like fine wine ​San Francisco residents may have groaned when the city passed mandatory composting laws in 2009, but now they might be sighing in relaxation as they sip wines grown on soil enriched with their city-mandated table scraps. A record amount of San ... More >>

Daniel Patterson on Copenhagen's MAD Foodcamp: International Glamor, Hyperlocal Foods

Daniel Patterson.​Daniel Patterson, chef-owner of Coi, is freshly back from last week's MAD Foodcamp in Copenhagen, at which he presented a history of beets. The two-day symposium was organized by René Redzepi, chef of Noma, which has been celebrated for its intricate experimentation of nati ... More >>

SF's Drinking Water May Be Unsafe for Those with HIV/AIDS

Daniel Patterson.​Daniel Patterson, chef-owner of Coi, is freshly back from last week's MAD Foodcamp in Copenhagen, at which he presented a history of beets. The two-day symposium was organized by René Redzepi, chef of Noma, which has been celebrated for its intricate experimentation of nati ... More >>

How to Navigate S.F.'s Record Stores (Without Crying)

You're new to San Francisco. Or maybe you're not. Either way, we have a ton of awesome record stores that are quintessentially San Franciscan (read: weird) and navigating them isn't always the easiest thing in the world. You're just buying music, right? Wrong! Here's a guide to the finest purveyors ... More >>

Flogging Molly Starts a Guinness-Fueled Sonic Riot at Amoeba S.F. (Photos)

Richard HaickFlogging Molly at Amoeba Music in S.F. yesterday​ Flogging Molly Amoeba Music, San Francisco June 2, 2011 We all know how much those free early evening/late afternoon shows at Amoeba rule. And yesterday, the Irish folk-punk dynamo known as Flogging Molly took to that small blue s ... More >>

Tonight: Free Dengue Fever Concert and Vietnamese Popup

Dengue Fever/Rice Paper Scissors Where: Amoeba Records, 1855 Haight (at Stanyan), 831-1200 When: Tues., April 26, 6-9 p.m. Cost: Free concert; food items priced individually The rundown: Hey, cheapskates: Queue up tonight for a low-cost music and food pairing that's sure to be a win. From 6 to 7, C ... More >>

Top Chef: All-Stars, Week 2: A Jonas, Dinos, and the Megabitch

Examiner.comJonasaurus rex. ​Last night's Top Chef: All-Stars had some major attitude. It went from a rock star (okay, a Jonas brother) to children to dinosaurs to a former host to a megabitch. The Quickfire Challenge: Create a midnight snack for kids. Joe Jonas would be the judge, and later ... More >>

On the Oblivious Joy of A Muni Ride Home From Amoeba Music

​He sat there, legs crossed, large yellow bag splayed open on the empty seat next to him -- last night, on the inbound 6 Parnassus, around 8:20 p.m. -- and engaged in what must be a frequent ritual for San Francisco music lovers.The old man pulled smaller yellow paper bags out of one large plastic ... More >>

Surrender to Self-Preservation

​He sat there, legs crossed, large yellow bag splayed open on the empty seat next to him -- last night, on the inbound 6 Parnassus, around 8:20 p.m. -- and engaged in what must be a frequent ritual for San Francisco music lovers.The old man pulled smaller yellow paper bags out of one large plastic ... More >>

Ninja Tune celebrates 20 years of influential electronica

​He sat there, legs crossed, large yellow bag splayed open on the empty seat next to him -- last night, on the inbound 6 Parnassus, around 8:20 p.m. -- and engaged in what must be a frequent ritual for San Francisco music lovers.The old man pulled smaller yellow paper bags out of one large plastic ... More >>

Four Things We Learned From This Vid of Groove Armada's Trip to Amoeba

Andy Cato of Groove Armada in Amoeba SF​You learn a lot about a person by following them around a record store -- especially one as big as Amoeba San Francisco. The mother of all local disc dealers just posted this video of the pleasant chaps from British electronic duo Groove Armada cruising the ... More >>

Concert preview: Fat Freddy's Drop

Andy Cato of Groove Armada in Amoeba SF​You learn a lot about a person by following them around a record store -- especially one as big as Amoeba San Francisco. The mother of all local disc dealers just posted this video of the pleasant chaps from British electronic duo Groove Armada cruising the ... More >>

It Ain't 'Brave New World' Yet: Federal Court Strikes Down Human Gene Patents

​The Center for Genetics and Society, a Berkeley-based nonprofit that watchdogs bioethics issues nationwide, is trumpeting a ruling from a New York-based federal court that squashed a biotech company's efforts to patent human genes ... YOURS!Just kidding. Well, sort of -- central to the arguments ... More >>

The Poor News Bears

City College budget cuts complicate Hollywood ending for student bioengineers.

Drink the Way the Good Lord Intended: Wine Week Celebrates All-Natural Vino

R. LauristonTerroir: Talking up the benefits of natural.​If you're a bit fuzzy on the term "natural wine," you're not alone. Here's a brief explanation, just in time for the San Francisco Natural Wine Week (August 24-30). Natural wine is similar in principle to biodynamic and organic wines, p ... More >>

"Louise LeBourgeois, Hunt Rettig, and Kim Frohsin"

R. LauristonTerroir: Talking up the benefits of natural.​If you're a bit fuzzy on the term "natural wine," you're not alone. Here's a brief explanation, just in time for the San Francisco Natural Wine Week (August 24-30). Natural wine is similar in principle to biodynamic and organic wines, p ... More >>

Hunt Rettig: "New Work"

R. LauristonTerroir: Talking up the benefits of natural.​If you're a bit fuzzy on the term "natural wine," you're not alone. Here's a brief explanation, just in time for the San Francisco Natural Wine Week (August 24-30). Natural wine is similar in principle to biodynamic and organic wines, p ... More >>

Last Night: King Khan & the Shrines at Amoeba

King Khan & the Shines Thursday, May 28, 2009 Amoeba Better than: Drinking at Murio's Who needs happy hour when you've got the Sultan of Soul to liven up the end of your work day? King Khan & The Shrines' Thursday early evening in-store at Amoeba was a bigger shot of adrenaline than a d ... More >>

Feds take the fun out of fungi hunting at Lands End

King Khan & the Shines Thursday, May 28, 2009 Amoeba Better than: Drinking at Murio's Who needs happy hour when you've got the Sultan of Soul to liven up the end of your work day? King Khan & The Shrines' Thursday early evening in-store at Amoeba was a bigger shot of adrenaline than a d ... More >>

Oyster Lovers Unite

This Valentines weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come.

Deep Freeze

Gleaning lessons from the darkness, Herzog treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World.

Black Fiction's Anthony Marin passes away

Gleaning lessons from the darkness, Herzog treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World.

Shrooms

Gleaning lessons from the darkness, Herzog treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World.

Falling Tower

Gleaning lessons from the darkness, Herzog treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World.

Send in the Clones

Infiltrator chooses a veeeeery witty headline for his story about pet cloning

Readers' Poll

Infiltrator chooses a veeeeery witty headline for his story about pet cloning

Entertain Your Brain

The new docudrama What the #$*! Do We Know!? is a real mind-bender

Readers' Poll

The new docudrama What the #$*! Do We Know!? is a real mind-bender

The Good Deed

With the help of local music, Rock Ninja! attempts to inspire Haight Street's hippies to choose life

Bugging Out

The feds hold up germ experiments at Los Alamos National Lab

Birthday Bash

The Academy turns 150

Best Place to Watch Local Professional Athletes

San Francisco's Strip Clubs

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San Francisco's Strip Clubs

Shopping & Services Readers' Poll

San Francisco's Strip Clubs

Dominant-Looking Males

Brighde Mullins' new play stirs a little neo-Darwinism into the story of a teenage castaway

Pop Philosophy

The other Friends; planned insurrection

As a Matter of Fat

The city's new weight discrimination law is badly reasoned, legally defective, costly, and bad for public health

House Of Tudor

Danny Cohen; Laughing Squid's Fifth Anniversary Celebration

Least Appropriate Vehicle for San Francisco Driving

Ford Excursion

South to the Future

Warming Up to Global Warming

Riff Raff

Warming Up to Global Warming

Riff Raff

Warming Up to Global Warming

Savage Love

Warming Up to Global Warming

Unspun

Warming Up to Global Warming

Night+Day

Warming Up to Global Warming

Samples

Warming Up to Global Warming

The Living Daylights

Some people with HIV don't get sick for years and years and years. Their lives might contain the clues for the cure.