Brock Keeling

The Hunger Challenge: Does It Really Mimic Food-Stamp Living?

​This week, San Franciscans such as Cooking with Amy's Amy Sherman and SFist editor Brock Keeling are taking the Hunger Challenge, an annual consciousness-raising event organized by the San Francisco and Marin Food Banks. During the week of September 11-17, they're eating on $4.72 per person per d ... More >>

Hoss Zaré Said To Be Doing Fine After Heart Attack

Hoss Zaré.​One of San Francisco's genuinely nice-guy chefs suffered a heart attack yesterday. SFist's Brock Keeling reports that chef/owner Hoss Zaré of Zaré at Fly Trap was struck with Keeling suggests was a mild attack (though on his Facebook page last night, Zaré described it as "massiv ... More >>

Representatives of the Media

Baylinks: Mysterious Disappearances, Patty Hearst, & Love Bandit

​The Appeal's Beth Spotswood and SFist's Brock Keeling investigate the mysterious disappearance of women in Point Reyes. (VIDEO) [SFAppeal]Is Plumpjack Winery the next stop for Newsom? Mayor is coy about his next step. [City Insider]Patty Hearst rides amok through San Francisco. [SF Citizen]San Fr ... More >>

A Pretty Boy in His Underwear

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Letters to the Editor

Week of 5-30-2007

The heavy hitters of hip hop jingle your bells

The French and the Fuckers

Letting your A.D.D. run rampant

She blinded me with Dirty South science; Mess around with old soul and the Castro

"Britches" offers music to drink by (or not) at Daddy's; OM Records celebrates "A Decade of Future Music"

Dead = The Dead

Ghosts love Haight

Hear This

Katastrophe and Bambi Lake worship at the throne of cock rock; Sun Burned Hand of the Man shows off its mastery of the communal hippie jam

For Love of Boonville

We find, sitting next to us, a petite and smiling Amy Tan, sadly without her legendary posse of yapping dogs

How Big?

Marga's family album

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DJ Toph One mixes it up at a new Friday happy hour; Digital Underground offers a silly reprieve from silly hip hop

Marshaling the Troupes

Glamour-rama

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"Gay Bash" at Trax toys with your queer biological imperative; Digable Planets do the "all original members" thing

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The pioneering Platinum Pied Pipers give neo-soul its due; "The Club Scene" at the Endup is the real deal

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Autechre's jagged beats, Trillville's funky crunk, and "Jigga"'s hip hop for homos

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Trainspot great hip hop breakbeats at "The Breaks"; get transported to Jamaica at "San Fiasco"

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"Bump" offers a reason to get down in downtown; the Blood & Fire Soundsystem makes its Bay Area debut.

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Aunt Charlie's Lounge gets cooler with "Suicide Tuesdays"; "Descarga" delivers Brazilian funk for free

Gilman's Treat

Magic Theatre takes a Swing

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Swayzak's techno ain't what it used to be, but Matthew Dear is picking up the slack; the Nortec Collective brings beats from Tijuana.

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Gold Chains and Sue Cie pull digital pranks; Germany's Morr Music dispatches its not-so-heavy hitters to SF

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Diplo teaches dancefloors new Hollertron-icks; the EndUp turns 31; rapper Nas makes a rare live appearance

Speed Kills. Again.

Dog Bites sniffs the Public Health Department's new Crystal Mess ad campaign

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Cool sounds abound at "Beats Vs. Bush"; "Mad Mexi Monster Party" combines erotic wrestling and saucy beats

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Jedi Mind Tricks and its horror-core hip hop; "Die Maschinen" and its non-pretentious industrial beats

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DJ Krush lays down the moody beats; "Remember" takes you all the way back to the '70s, for better or worse.

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Hip hop harbingers Tackhead take to the Independent; French fun is the name of the game at "Diabolik."

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The return of hip hop legend Pete Rock, the pop sphere of "Vanguard," and a strip club with a new M.O.

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Experience "Better Days" through house music or live viciously at the "Punk Rock Sideshow."

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Music videos rule "The Crib," Ladytron's Danny Hunt gets party-tastic, and "Peppa" shakes with lusty ladies

Quirky as Folk

Devendra Banhart's mystical trip

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"Turntables on the Hudson" brings a New York feel to 111 Minna; "The Big Payback" does just that with its stellar DJ line-up

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The homo dance scene gets a makeover with "White Swallow" and "Macho"; Felonius brings its live hip hop to 12 Galaxies.

Heavy, Man

They got the beat

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"Real People" is a breath of fresh air at the Oxygen Bar; Ghostface Killah proves he's Wu Tang's No. One.

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Get to "Wrasslin'" at Powerhouse, experience the "Deep House Project" at Wish, and sing the Tenderloft's swan song at "Dishonorable Discharge"

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Curiouser and Curiouser

Arts patronage is alive and well

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Nate Cavalieri goes "Under the Radar"; Brock Keeling makes the "Tubesteak Connection."

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"White Out!" promises frivolity, "Guilty" assures bastard electro, and the Pound Boys exhibit their "Devotion"

Soap Scum

Serial sagas meet high camp

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Get your frown on at "Dark Sparkle" or put on some stilettos and check out "High Heels"

R-o-c-k in the USA

Bar hosts bee

Lovely Hula Hands

Island boogie hits S.F.