Cincinnati

Greg Dulli on the Afghan Whigs' Return

The Six Best Concerts in the Bay Area This Week

6. A Place to Bury Strangers @ the Independent, Wednesday, Nov. 7 In a city overflowing with notable musicians, earning the informal title of "Loudest Band in New York" is no small potatoes. But that's what Brooklyn outfit A Place to Bury Strangers is often called, and it's an honorific the trio has ... More >>

World Series: After Too Damn Much Ado, Giants Crowned Kings

Today it took the San Francisco Giants two and a half hours to roll from the Embarcadero to City Hall. And you can't blame Muni. The orange-clad fanatics began filing into Civic Center Plaza as early as 5 p.m. last night. They were rained on. They subsisted on snack crackers and Slim Jims. These are ... More >>

World Series: Everything We Ever Wanted -- And More

Sergio Romo's slider frisbeed into Buster Posey's mitt for strike three. Sit down, Triple Crown -- and everyone was dancing on top of the tables. A Caltrain engineer leaned hard on his horn and the fans swarming the streets answered in kind. Thousands of orange-clad revelers descended upon Fourth an ... More >>

Zodiac Death Valley: Show Preview

Dear Honest Tea: Is This Honest Enough for You?

Tejava is significantly better than Honest Tea​Coca-Cola brought dozens of bottles of its sweetened tea brand, Honest Tea, to downtown San Francisco yesterday, left them sitting out in Justin Herman Plaza, and expected us to pay $1 for them. Amazingly, 93% of us did! San Franciscans are just ... More >>

Outside Lands Announces Local Food and Wine Lineup w/ Flour Water, Ritual Coffee, More

Christopher VictorioBecause this will make you hungry.​ Outside Lands has always made an effort to bring in highlights of the local food and wine scene to festival goers. Every year the offerings get a little bigger, and this year's festival is no different. For its return to a three-day forma ... More >>

Smashed $27,500 Bass Leads to Lawsuit

A double bass -- in a single piece​When musician Dave Carroll's $3,500 guitar was broken on a United Airlines flight, he did what musicians can be expected to do: He wrote a song about it. Kenneth Laxer has, to date, penned no ditties -- though he's lost a far more valuable instrument to the custo ... More >>

To Market, to Market (Actually, Three Markets)

Jon Wollenhaupt Photography/YelpAt Saturday's late-night Underground Market, the munchies *will* be quelled.​Stuff a napkin in one fist and a wad of bills in the other. This Saturday, three foodie markets pepper the city with delectable treats to taste and, of course, buy. • First off, at ... More >>

Killer Groupie Samantha Spiegel

Watch Our Video Interview with the National at Treasure Island

Christopher VictorioThe National performing this past Sunday at the Treasure Island Music Festival​Just how did the National's latest album, High Violet, shoot so high up the Billboard charts when it was released this spring? Are the members of this dramatic Cincinnati-via-Brooklyn band as dreary ... More >>

What to Do? Wednesday's Pick: Why?, The Donkeys, Josiah Wolf

Photo by Jacob Hand​Why?, The Donkeys, Josiah Wolf @ The New Parish Yoni Wolf's living situation is a lot like his music, which can be all over the map but is never directionless. Wolf -- who, when not on tour, spent the past year crashing in Oakland, Miami Beach, and various parts of Ohio (inclu ... More >>

The Worst First Pitches of All Time

Karen Peterson served as a schoolteacher in nearby Woodside for many a year. Her name did not become known nationally. Prior to Saturday's San Francisco Giants game, she threw what may be the worst ceremonial first pitch in the history of humanity. And now you know who she is. Welcome to the Interne ... More >>

Passenger Pigeon No Longer Extinct -- On N-Judah

At 1 p.m. on Sept. 1, 1914, Martha, the very last Passenger Pigeon in existence, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden. She was 29 years old. Between 1492 and the death of Martha, European colonists managed to reduce a population of some 3 billion to 5 billion birds down to nothing. That's someth ... More >>

Cincinnati Called America's Craziest City, San Fran Comes Second. That's Crazy.

This morning, The Daily Beast named Cincinnati "America's Craziest City." We are now proud to announce that we have named The Daily Beast "America's Shittiest Online Newspaper." Cincinnati? What the butt?It was nearly impossible to understand how something like this could have happened, but then we ... More >>

Noah Might Be a Business Mensch, But the Bagels That Bear His Name? Meh

seventh.samurai/Priscilla/FlickrFinal boarding call.​In Sunday's Chronicle, Ilana DeBare grilled Noah Alper, founder of Noah's Bagels. As it turns out, Alper, author of the recent tome Business Mensch: Timeless Wisdom for Today's Entrepreneurs (Wolfeboro, $14.95), has tried a few unsuccessful ... More >>

We Win! San Francisco Sells Costliest Business Traveler Food (Or Hosts Most Profligate Business Travelers)

Dr. SeussEighteen bucks for green eggs and ham? You're ripping me off, Sam I Am!San Francisco has become the country's most expensive place for business travelers to eat, according to the New Jersey-based Institute of Management and Administration. "San Francisco has unseated New York City as t ... More >>

Upcoming Great American Food and Music Fest Features Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri, Marshall Crenshaw, Little Feat, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy -- and an Astounding Array of Eats

There'll be plenty for both foodies and music lovers to enjoy at the Great American Food and Music Fest, a one-day event running from noon to 10 p.m. on June 13 at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View.Chef and Food Network star Bobby Flay is the host, and will demonstrate his famed grilling te ... More >>

Heartless Bastards

Swineherdopolis: America's Healthiest Eaters, San Franciscans Depend on Porcine Tourists for Survival

San Francisco faces a crippling existential crisis now that it's been revealed in the December Self magazine that we're the healthiest eaters in America.In an article titled "Best Bodies," the magazine notes that "the real San Francisco treat isn't rice, but fruit; residents eat 52 servings a month, ... More >>

Farewell, Ferry Queen

As American as Overpriced Dolls

In Kit Kittredge, all it takes to cure the Depression is a little Miss Sunshine.

S.F. Named Healthiest City for Women. Screw You, Nassau-Suffolk Counties!

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Home on the Range

We're wowed by the New American cooking served at the Mission's snug Maverick

Heartless Bastards

All This Time (Fat Possum)

This week: a marriage of vinyl dolls and records at Milk; Slum Village helps introduce you to the "Lower Haters."

Don't Ask Why?

Yoni Wolf's Elephant Eyelash announces a new direction for the hip hop innovator

Hear This

Pelican exhibits why it's joined Chicago's post-rock pantheon; the Greenhornes open for the White Stripes, and maybe show them up

BeatBox

Hip hop hoedown Scribble Jam bumps through town in search of MCs; ferocious rapper C-Rayz Walz supports his Year of the Beast

Oompah, Ja!

Bavaria's new address

The Fix Is In

At least that's what Janet Campbell claimed about construction bids at UCSF, where she soon found herself out of a job

Breaking Out

The break dancing leaders of Sisterz of the Underground blaze a trail for women in hip hop

House Of Tudor

Silke Tudor smiles upon the Angry White Male Tour

L.A. Confidential

Stars in bars, stars in cars, stars with plastic surgery scars.

Bye-Bye Bourbon Street

Cajun Pacific

Beat Scientist

Experimental rapper Doseone is too weird for the hip hop faithful -- but indie rockers love him

A Tall Cool One

The B Spot

An Enchanting Isle

Mezes

Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Animal experts say premium pet food makes domestic animals more violent

A Fading Light

Gay literature goes mainstream, and gay bookstores fight to survive

Night Crawler

Reviews

Riff Raff

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Riff Raff

Night+Day

Night+Day

What's Your Preference?

S.F. voters may really get a choice

Recordings