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Best Practices for Getting Out of Berkeley Bowl Alive

​Berkeley Bowl. You hear its siren song, beckoning you, telling of a grocery store built from your dreams. Aisles packed with fair-trade cocoa, bulk bins overflowing with every type of spelt pretzel, and a produce section that'll make you slap your mama. It truly is a paradise, but as Sartre so fa ... More >>

Last Night: Wolfmother at the Fox Theater

​Wolfmother November 23, 2009 Fox Theater Better Than: Anyone had reason to expect, given the band's acrimonious breakup a little more than a year ago. What a long, strangely self-destructive path Wolfmother has traveled since releasing its eponymous debut album three years ago. Back then, the A ... More >>

Five Terrible Food-Themed Halloween Costumes

Halloween has become the Irreverent Olympics, in which everyone tries to out-whimsy each other with unexpected costumes. Oftentimes, partiers look to the pantry for inspiration. Sometimes food-themed costumes go right, and sometimes they go very, very wrong.1. Wonder Bread Baby​Congratulations. Yo ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: White Mike

​It's always entertaining hearing about a DJ's worst request. Usually they remember a poor song choice, or some dumbshit asking for "something I can dance to." But DJ White Mike's tale takes the cake: some chick wanting him to stop his set so she can get a photo of herself pretending to be on deck ... More >>

Giving the Indies a Spin

Small outposts rule online MP3 sales

Feels Like 80 Days

Jackie Chan takes a long trip without going anyplace new

Reps Etc.

Jackie Chan takes a long trip without going anyplace new

Letters to the Editor

Week of October 23, 2002

Sci-fidelity

At Worldcon, everyone -- from famous author to humble fan to mothlike alien -- is equal

Idiocy Inc.

Jon Brumit and Marc Horowitz have made it their business to be the best-known art idiots in San Francisco.

So ... y'wanna ride a Big Wheel down Lombard?

Kitschy cool

The Coctails decline to join up with the nouveau Lounge Nation