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Dolly Parton

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2012

    Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Lead a Rock 'n' Roll Revival at the Fox, 11/3/12

    Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012 Fox Theater, Oakland Better than: Believing rock is dead. Grace Potter is an old-school rockstar. With golden locks veiling her eyes and mile-long thighs in leather short-short shorts, she calls to mind Nancy Wilson in her "Barracuda" days. Bu ... More >>

  • Film

    August 15, 2012

    Whitney Houston: Surveying the Great Diva's Checkered Film Career

    Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012 Fox Theater, Oakland Better than: Believing rock is dead. Grace Potter is an old-school rockstar. With golden locks veiling her eyes and mile-long thighs in leather short-short shorts, she calls to mind Nancy Wilson in her "Barracuda" days. Bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2012

    EDC 2012: Calvin Harris Plays CDs of Himself Singing

    Dance music is fighting for its soul. The charts are filled with tracks (Rihanna, Flo Rida) that borrow from the ecstatic trance and pulsing grooves of electronic dance music. The last time pop was so infatuated with the dance floor was 1979, the year disco died. This time around fans are more sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Live Review, 2/19/12: Warren Hellman Public Celebration Brings Emmylou Harris, Old Crow Medicine Show and More to Ocean Beach

    Old Crow Medicine Show at the Warren Hellman public celebration.​ Warren Hellman Public Celebration February 19, 2012 Ocean Beach Better than: Watching the live stream at home on your laptop. Some of the nation's top roots musicians gathered together yesterday with Bay Area music fans to cel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    The Top 10 Worst Film Performances By Musicians

    By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO Rock star, singer-songwriter, producer, interior designer -- now we should add thespian to the many creative hats sported by Lenny Kravitz, who performs tonight (Feb. 14) at the Fox Theater in Oakland. In keeping with the family business -- his mom was the late Roxie Roker, a.k ... More >>

  • Music

    January 11, 2012

    David Lindley: Show Preview

    By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO Rock star, singer-songwriter, producer, interior designer -- now we should add thespian to the many creative hats sported by Lenny Kravitz, who performs tonight (Feb. 14) at the Fox Theater in Oakland. In keeping with the family business -- his mom was the late Roxie Roker, a.k ... More >>

  • Film

    January 11, 2012

    "Joyful Noise": Nothing Is Sacred in This Gaudy Mess

    By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO Rock star, singer-songwriter, producer, interior designer -- now we should add thespian to the many creative hats sported by Lenny Kravitz, who performs tonight (Feb. 14) at the Fox Theater in Oakland. In keeping with the family business -- his mom was the late Roxie Roker, a.k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    DJ Shadow's The Less You Know The Better: A First Listen

    Let's get this out of the way right from the off: DJ Shadow's fourth solo studio album, The Less You Know The Better, won't finally stop long-time fans from requesting that he makes a true sequel to 1996's Endtroducing. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. (I usually don't have the patience to l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    Juke Hunt Finale: The Best Jukeboxes in San Francisco

    You saw it coming...​Over the past few months, we've found treasures and trash in San Francisco bars: Old school jukeboxes with surprisingly sincere music picks, and sad little boxes we  urge you to skip. It's all come to this: The juke hunt winners distilled into a single list, the best offe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Six Extremely Weird Cover Songs, Featuring Bill Shatner, Dolly Parton, and ... Pat Boone?

    Between Miley Cyrus covering Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and now Ben Folds covering "Sleazy" by (our guilty pleasure du jour) Ke$ha, we felt it was only appropriate this week, that we compile some other unexpected covers. Here are six of the weirdest we can think of. 6. Sonic Youth do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    R.I.P. Hazel Dickens, American Legend, Feminist Folk Singer, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Fixture

    Jay BlakesbergHazel Dickens with Dolly Parton and Warren Hellman​Hazel Dickens, a bluegrass singer who played every Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival since the free event began in 2001, died today at age 75.Described by the Washington Post as "a living legend of American music," Dickens use ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    On the Hunt for the Best Jukebox in the Castro

    The jukebox at the Last Call.​The heyday of authentic jukeboxes is long over. With many bars installing those nasty touchscreen digital Internet boxes, the old school record-flipping kind of jukebox is a dying breed. And this is in the town that originated the concept of jukeboxes back in 1889. So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    The Top 8 Songs To Listen To While Punching Yourself in the Face

    ​Dear everyone, it looks like we owe you all a huge apology. There we were last week, thinking that having a sense of humor about the fact that we live on a gigantic fault line was infinitely better than stressing ourselves out to the point of constant anxiety about the next Big One. But then our ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    A National Tour of 10 Strange Musical Sandwiches

    ​Music celebrities continue to be a fertile source of inspiration for sandwich makers across the nation. Behold some incredibly strange examples of a growing art form; call it an iTunes eatlist. The star: Lady Gaga The sandwich: Fried cod sticks, avocado, roll The location: Hapa Ramen, San F ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 31, 2010

    Spit It Ou

    ​Music celebrities continue to be a fertile source of inspiration for sandwich makers across the nation. Behold some incredibly strange examples of a growing art form; call it an iTunes eatlist. The star: Lady Gaga The sandwich: Fried cod sticks, avocado, roll The location: Hapa Ramen, San F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Got a Spare Couple Thousand Dollars? Private Brian Wilson Performance in SF.

    ​Brian Wilson doesn't do too many performances these days (the last time I saw him was on his Smile tour, a great show with a lot of help from backup singers and musicians). The Beach Boy will be in San Francisco this month, though, playing a space much smaller than the Fillmore, in support of his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Last Night: Adele at The Warfield

    Adele The Warfield January 29, 2009 Better than: Watching Amy Winehouse frolic a step away from death. British singer/songwriter Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (known simply as Adele) totes a voice that's dripping with old soul, yet she's only 20. When she took to the stage last night at the Warfiel ... More >>

  • Film

    October 15, 2008

    Buzz Kill

    The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting.

  • Music

    August 13, 2008

    Donna Summer relaces her dancing shoes

    The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting.

  • Music

    July 30, 2008

    Dolly Parton, Free Agent

    The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting.

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2008

    Getting All Dusty

    The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting.

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2008

    Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Three Kinds of Stupid

    The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting.

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2008

    Castro Theatre to Start Showing Blockbusters

    The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting.

  • Music

    October 24, 2007

    Kelly Willis

    Translated from Love (Ryko)

  • Music

    September 26, 2007

    Mekons

    Natural (Quarterstick)

  • News

    June 27, 2007

    She Opened the Box

    An avid Net radio listener shares what she´d miss about the station that cracked her musical code

  • Music

    December 13, 2006

    Punk rockers raid your mom's record collection

    An avid Net radio listener shares what she´d miss about the station that cracked her musical code

  • Music

    July 19, 2006

    Piper at the Pearly Gates

    An avid Net radio listener shares what she´d miss about the station that cracked her musical code

  • Music

    March 22, 2006

    Solitary Refinement

    Rhett Miller feeds multiple musical beasts from one well of inspiration

  • Film

    December 28, 2005

    Repertory Film Listings

    Rhett Miller feeds multiple musical beasts from one well of inspiration

  • Music

    September 28, 2005

    Shades of Bluegrass

    Gillian Welch and Split Lip Rayfield celebrate -- and upend -- tradition at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

  • Calendar

    December 8, 2004

    Lost? Found.

    Video for voyeurs

  • Culture

    June 23, 2004

    Southern Baptist Sissies

    The satire here is stronger than any drama of self-discovery

  • Music

    April 28, 2004

    BeatBox

    !!! blows the lid off of dance-punk; 2Many DJs lives up to their name with pan-genre mash ups

  • News

    April 28, 2004

    Where Were Pat and Vanna When the Lights Went Out?

    The S.F. taping of Wheel of Fortune goes momentarily dark; Spanganga fades permanently to black

  • Music

    March 24, 2004

    Mekons

    Punk Rock

  • Music

    March 3, 2004

    Norah Jones

    Feels Like Home

  • Music

    August 13, 2003

    House of Tudor

    Comic Neil Hamburger tells lame, awkward anti-jokes. What's so funny about that?

  • News

    April 2, 2003

    Trash Gawk

    Looking in on the bucolic fun at the Springtime Egg Sucking fest and the Sadie Hawkins Dance

  • Music

    September 25, 2002

    The Monster Mash-up

    2 Many DJ's is never enough

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Best Costume Shop

    Costumes on Haight

  • Culture

    June 6, 2001

    The Great Escape

    Baz Luhrmann makes movies--and audiences--in his own image

  • Music

    January 19, 2000

    Out of the Country

    Richard Buckner gave up on major labels and "y'allternative," but not the art of storytelling

  • Music

    June 16, 1999

    The House of Tudor

    Richard Buckner gave up on major labels and "y'allternative," but not the art of storytelling

  • Culture

    September 2, 1998

    Stage

    Richard Buckner gave up on major labels and "y'allternative," but not the art of storytelling

  • Music

    October 1, 1997

    Night Crawler

    Richard Buckner gave up on major labels and "y'allternative," but not the art of storytelling

  • News

    October 30, 1996

    Letters

    Richard Buckner gave up on major labels and "y'allternative," but not the art of storytelling

  • Music

    October 2, 1996

    Rhinestone Cowpie

    Richard Buckner gave up on major labels and "y'allternative," but not the art of storytelling

  • Calendar

    June 7, 1995

    Night+Day

    Richard Buckner gave up on major labels and "y'allternative," but not the art of storytelling

  • News

    April 26, 1995

    Beauty Knows No Pain

    Building a Better Body at the 28th Annual Session of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

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