Charlie Parker

Neon N-Judah Video Makes Riding Muni Seem Like Everything It's Not: Beautiful and Relaxing

The N-Judah train carries the most passengers on a daily basis of any Muni line in the city, shuttling people from the foggy Outside Lands all the way to Giants games along the Embarcadero. On a perfect day, the train zips riders to their destinations across many neighborhoods, but the line is als ... More >>

Time Warp: Exploring the Hipster City in 1972

Bouncer Searches for Intrigue at the Burritt Room

"Chico & Rita": Musical Passion That Moves

Jazz for Kids

Plum: Daniel Patterson's intricate and affordable cuisine

This Week's Review: Plum, Where Devices and Ideals Go Hand in Hand

Lara HataSquid with smoked lentil puree at Plum.​I had a funny little off-the-record exchange with Daniel Patterson a few weeks ago, in which I asked him if he wanted to update his 2005 essay on how straightjacket California cuisine had become. His response was, essentially, that he'd said all he' ... More >>

Chotto About to Open, Ryan Scott Debuts 3-Sum Eats

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Tablehopper leads this week's edition with news that an izakaya named Chotto (3317 Steiner St.) will open Monday, Dec. 6. The pitch: sushi with Japanese fish, grilled skewers, pickles and smal ... More >>

Wrap Delight Goes Mexican-Vietnamese, Pudong to Bring Vietnamese-French to the Castro

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Inside Scoop's Paolo L. learns that a pair of Shanghai 1930 staffers are planning to open Pudong (2029 Market) in the former Mecca space. The pitch: Shanghainese food with French accents.Humin ... More >>

Mingus Amungus keeps the jazz great's wild tendencies alive

Bebop Forever

Outstanding in the Field Announces 2010 Dates

Cheryl Bower/FlickrStart saving up.​Outstanding in the Field stages al fresco dinners at organic farms around the country, touring from site to site in a 57-year-old bus that probably runs on spring onion fumes and goat cheese whey. Now in its 11th year, Jim Denevan's operation has been across ... More >>

Coda gives us all that jazz, and food too

Singer-Songwriter Joe Henry Captures Civilians at GAMH

Uncle Jim

Superstars of Greenwich Meantime

Ivo Papasov and Yuri Yunakov

Together Again: Legends of Bulgarian Wedding Music (Traditional Crossroads)

Jazz cats the Dead Kenny G's stick it to everyone's favorite wuss; DMBQ drops a bluster-bomb on 12 Galaxies

Jazz Attack

Bop returns to the Fillmore

Dave Brubeck

For All Time

Jazz But Not Least

What's that you say? You've forgotten that this town has an immense, thriving jazz scene? Well, shame on you.

Bright Lights

City Lights Bookstore turns 50, and we can hardly contain ourselves

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Bay Area tenor saxophonist Mitch Marcus' quintet evokes jazz's legacy without wallowing in easy retroisms

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Blowout's coherent, slow-simmering melodic jazz

Seven Stops on a North Beach Pub Crawl

Best Irony in Urban Redevelopment

Fillmore Street's "Walk of Fame"

Kind of Code Blue

Is jazz dead? Local experts search for signs of life.

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Saxophonist Joe Lovano's tribute to 52nd Street swing and bop.

Cannonball

Hiphopulation (43 Productions)

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Legendary Jazz drummer Max Roach demonstrates his solo percussive talents

Best Barber

1987 Hyde (at Union)

Sonic Revival

To save a floundering local avant-jazz scene, the Alliance of Emerging Creative Artists is bringing back the old-fashioned school of mentoring

Asian-American Summit

Beijing Trio

Requiem for a Church Supreme

After three decades of feeding the homeless, the only church devoted to John Coltrane now finds itself without a home

Dinner (or Not) and a Show

Night & Day

The House of Tudor

Reviews

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Riff Raff

Riff Raff

The Last of the Hipsters

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Recordings

SF Weekly Picks

SF Weekly Picks

The Essence of Jazz

Henry Threadgill's anti-purity

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Jazzmatazz

Cecil Taylor and the 13th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival

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