Subject: Bob Marley

• Last Night: One Tribe Nation at the Boom Boom Room

  June 22, 2007

• Gridskipper SF: How to Pick Up a Sad, Old Pervert!

  March 13, 2008

• LastNight: Gogol Bordello at the Warfield

  March 14, 2008

• Saturday Night: Flava of the Month's Five Year Anniversary at Milk Bar

  September 28, 2008

• Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Jah Yzer

  Local DJ Jah Yzer moves acround the city and across the Bay spreading his love for reggae, roots, dancehall, and the like from behind the turntables. The DJ/MC/producer came up in Miami, where mixtapes and radio DJs helped him get a grip on his future career. Twelve years after moving to the Bay Area, this vet spends two to four days a week spinning vinyl and contributing to Jah Warrior Shelter Hi-Fi. Below he gives us a look at his history, including what it was like opening for Afrika. Name: J

  January 2, 2009

• Top 10 Albums That We Hope Will Actually Come Out in 2009 (But Probably Won't)

  (Dr. Dre might need an intervention in order to release his long-awaited Detox album)With the music industry in a continued state of shambles, even the average consumer is starting to understand that it's a risky venture to release an album and that this holds true for newcomers as well as those who have had a taste of superstardom. But we've still got to tease the artists that continually claim to put out a project and somehow just never quite end up getting there, which is why we're honoring t

  January 9, 2009

• Bob Marley Birthday Parties

  Reggae's "Conquering Lion," the Legend-ary Bob Marley, would have been 64 on Friday. Born February 6, 1945 in St. Ann's, Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley was a true musical visionary, a songwriter whose lyrics often seemed to come from Jah himself, who took reggae music to the highest "ites" while championing the "downpressed" sufferer against the "Babylon shitstem." In honor of this blessed event, let's all light a big fat spliff and get irie.  Yes, Rasta!For those wishing for more, uh, acti

  February 4, 2009

• Recordings

  June 7, 1995

• Get Up, Stand Up: Ammiano Introduces Marijuana Legalization Bill to the Press

  Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's press conference this morning announcing his marijuana-legalization bill started punctually and stayed relentlessly on-point -- thereby denying a barb to every journalist present.Ammiano and the assembled speakers at San Francisco's State Building also spoke calmly and methodically, at one point being drowned out by a floor-waxer. The famously funny lawmaker reined himself in, presenting "The Marijuana Control, regulation and education act (AB 390)" as a simple matter o

  February 23, 2009

• Bryant Terry Brings Vegan Soul Kitchen to MoAD

  EKAphotographySoul Recipe: Bryant TerryThere was a packed house last night for eco-chef Bryant Terry's official book launch for Vegan Soul Kitchen (Da Capo) at the Museum of the African Diaspora. The book, which contains over 150 recipes for "fresh, healthy, and creative African-American cuisine" (example: Roasted Red Potato Salad with Parsley-Pine Nut Pesto -yum!), may be the first of its kind, and has garnered endorsements from filmmaker Mario Van Peebles, healthy food guru John Robbins, and g

  March 4, 2009

• Redemption Song

  March 27, 1996

• Night Crawler

  April 24, 1996

• RU Sirius Releases New Book on Drugs and Music

    Rudy Rucker Yes, He Is: RU SiriusEccentric oddball and author RU Sirius --best known as onetime Editor of cyberpunk bible Mondo 2000-- has just released a new book, "Everybody Must Get Stoned: Rock Stars on Drugs." Sirius calls the book, which details the drug-induced exploits of such noted artists as Keith Richards, Bob Marley, and Paul McCartney and includes a chapter on rap stars and steroids, "a funny, tragic, silly and occasionally lucid piece of excellent trash," while

  April 13, 2009

• Taj Mahal's diversity through the decades

  October 22, 2008

• Sly Stone is lured from hiding once again

  October 15, 2008

• Go Your Own Way

  Hippie fashion sense lives on

  June 27, 2007

• Another Marley makes his mark in the reggae business

  April 18, 2007

• Unchained Melody

  Music and poetry, not plot, create A Place to Stand's emotional impact

  March 21, 2007

• Jackie Mittoo

  November 1, 2006

• Living Legends

  April 27, 2005

• Bouncer

  Journey inside the mind of Janis Joplin and Bob Marley as Bouncer gets "Crucial."

  December 15, 2004

• Band Directory

  March 17, 2004

• House of Tudor

  August 27, 2003

• Underground Mission

  Craig Baldwin: mad genius

  June 18, 2003

• Roots Radical

  Rocker-T wants to unite roots reggae's spirituality with dancehall's hedonistic swagger

  April 2, 2003

• More At 11:00

  An Exclusive Look at Secret Plans for Revolutionary Change in San Francisco Television News

  February 5, 2003

• Revenge of the Nerds, Parts One and Two

  October 9, 2002

• Speak To Me

  Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam brings hip hop home

  July 10, 2002

• Lambchop

  March 13, 2002

• Pop Philosophy

  October 17, 2001

• How Sweet It Is

  January 24, 2001

• SF Weekly Wammies 2000

  Your choices of the top local bands

  October 4, 2000

• Best Jann Wenner Memory Under Glass

  May 17, 2000

• American Psycho

  February 9, 2000

• Night & Day

  June 16, 1999

• Toaster's Jam

  February 17, 1999

• House of Tudor

  October 14, 1998

• Riff Raff

  December 17, 1997

• Learning From Scratch

  The history of reggae, dub, soul, and "meggae," as told by Lee "Scratch" Perry

  November 19, 1997

• The House of Tudor

  September 10, 1997

• Shut Up and Dance

  April 23, 1997

• The House of Tudor

  April 2, 1997

• Night Crawler

  November 13, 1996

• Recordings

  October 9, 1996

• Sila & the Afrofunk Experience celebrates Obama

  May 27, 2009

• Ten Known (and Little-Known) Facts About Tupac

  Thug Immortal: Tupac Shakur 10. Pac was born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, NYC. He also lived in Baltimore, Marin City, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. 9. The name Tupac Amaru is a reference to the last indigenous Inca ruler of Peru, who died in 1572. Amaru's name was later adopted by Tupac Amaru II , the leader of an 18th-century uprising against Spanish colonialists and by the Tupac Amaru rebels , a Communist anti-government group which formed in 1984. Clearly, the name Tupac Amaru is n

  June 16, 2009

• King Sunny Adé's legnthy reign

  June 17, 2009

• Never Can Say Goodbye

  Michael Jackson in 1987 I'm not trying to be cynical or morbid here, but Michael Jackson's death was the best thing to happen to him in years. In death, Michael lives on forever. He has now joined the ancestors, among them musical icons like Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, and Fela Kuti. I appreciated the VH1 tributes which showed his greatest moments over and over (gotta love that amazing moonwalk during the Motown 25th Anniversary, not to mention his gravi

  June 29, 2009

• Power to the Peaceful Wrap-Up

  EKAphotography copyright 2009. all rights reservedMichael Franti and Spearhead​ The 11th Annual Power to the Peaceful Festival began with a thunderclap and ended with an affirmation of love. The season's first storm hit in the wee hours, bringing warm, tropical showers - but no lightning. Most of the rain had passed over Golden Gate Park by the time the music started, at noon, although sprinkles permeated the morning yoga jam--featuring hundreds of downward dog-leaning folks--a ritualistic bl

  September 14, 2009

• Weekend Pick #2: Buju Banton

  Opti-Mystic Soul: Buju​ Three-time Grammy nominee Buju Banton has been credited with ushering in dancehall reggae's conscious revival with 1994's "Murderer," an anti-violence tune which preceded the ascension of such artists as Sizzla, Capleton, and Fantan Mojah. Beginning his career as a popular toaster with a rapid-fire tongue--which occasionally dipped into slackness, as on the sexual prowess-affirming "Stamina Daddy" and the still-controversial "Boom Bye Bye" (which he no longer perf

  October 9, 2009