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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 >>

Your World Series National Anthem Singers: Aretha and Zooey, But Not Bob Seger

So, okay, Phillip Phillips, the American Idol winner, wasn't awful at the National Anthem before last night's World Series Game 1. And tonight's singer is Matthew Morrison, who plays a character on another Fox TV show some people watch, called Glee. After that, though, the singers doing "The Star S ... More >>

Master Chef: An Exhaustive Breakdown of the Masters' Exquisite Forkplay

Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, Master Chef, a one-hour show chronicling one home cook's descent into delusion and madness (Tali), Mondays at 9 p.m. on Fox. When I review food TV shows I usually watch them once, because of Mystery Diners, Trisha ... More >>

"Ted": More of the Same from Seth MacFarlane's Minor Ursus

Live Review, 5/8/12: Death Cab Grows Up with Magik*Magik Orchestra at the Fox

Death Cab for Cutie with Magik*Magik Orchestra Youth Lagoon Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Fox Theater, Oakland Better than: Your prom and your fifteen-year high school reunion, if they happened at the same time Last night's Death Cab for Cutie concert, the first of a three-night stand at the Fox in Oakland ... More >>

Fighting Fire with Laughter

Glee to Get Its Own Music Awards Show; Suicide Rate Likely to Increase

Yesterday, Perez Hilton announced (in his usual fawning, sycophantic way) that this year -- on May 31, to be precise -- there will be a Glee music awards show. We now officially feel like the cast of that show is so damn ubiquitous, its members might as well be breaking into our homes at night and ... More >>

The Franchise Recap: The Boys Are Back

AuntJuli/Flickr​Last night, Showtime aired the first installment of The Franchise: A Season with the San Francisco Giants, a look inside the lives and clubhouse of our defending World Series champions. The 30-minute premiere acted as preview for the series, which doesn't technically start until Ju ... More >>

American Idol Tryouts in S.F.: Too Bad You're Not Like Carrie Underwood

Contestants waiting to try out for American Idol in San Franicsco earlier this week​More than 8,000 singers flocked to AT&T Park yesterday with enough ambition and dedication to wait up to nine hours in order to give a 30-second audition for American Idol. To manage their excitement, contestan ... More >>

Baylinks: The Gay-Friendly Lutheran Church, Corporate Shuttles, Worst SF Restaurants

broadwayworld.com​Gay and transgender pastors welcomed back to national Lutheran church [​SFGate]Napa Valley ban on recreational grape growing aims to protect state farms from feared European Grapevine Moth [NBC Bay Area]Innocent backpack causes panic at the Embarcadero BART station [SF Examiner ... More >>

Hunting Season for Liberals Proposed By Bay Area GOP Candidate Brad Goehring

Brad Goehring: It's liberal-hunting season! ​The would-be Republican challenger to Rep. Jerry McNerney in District-11 has been forced to cop to making a terrible "joke" after posting -- and removing -- a Facebook comment calling for "hunting" liberals. Brad Goehring -- an aptly named man, it would ... More >>

Glee Audition Videos: How Can Bad Music Be So Good?

And by good, we mean hilarious and strangely affecting. The user-submitted audition vids for Glee, Fox's teen singing dramedy, inspire heaps of schadenfreude. They also raise the question of how fame could possibly be worth such shameless public humiliation. But some of these vids--even some of ... More >>

Best Posters From the Immigration Reform March

​If you kick out the immigrants, you kick out Pamela Anderson (Canadian, eh?). And we all know Tea Partiers love them some Pam. This guy went to the history books.   ​

Gavin Newsom on Simpsons Special: The Internets Respond

So, The Simpsons is still on! The eminently quotable show is in its 20th year and Fox aired a 90-minute special directed by documentarian Morgan Spurlock to celebrate the momentous occasion. Various celebrities discussed their favorite characters. Our fair mayor, Gavin Newsom, joined Jerry Springer ... More >>

Five Sexual Partners? You've Blown Your Chance With Matthew Morrison

Elle Magazine interviewed Matthew Morrison, who plays the adorable singing school teacher in popular Fox show, Glee, in the latest issue and the resulting interview was less than awesome. In addition to asking the actor is he ever does anything to "suppress" his "gayest traits" (like singing and dan ... More >>

Revenge of the Nerds

Judd Apatow's pretty good year

Bender’s Big Score, Hot Rod, Waitress - New DVDs reviewed

The Sympathetic Spy

It Doesn't Suck!

Breathe easy, Simpsons fans

It's a ... Hit!

Judd Apatow delivers another spot-on geek-fantasy-come-true

The Short Goodbye

Way Out of Sync

KRON's Last Gasp

How a once-proud San Francisco television station became ground zero in the nation's most controversial experiment in local TV news.

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 22.

Tacos and Gimlets

Treating the author of Julie & Julia to a little taste of San Francisco

Why We Need DVDs

New releases available this week

Big Fun, Even Small

New releases available this week

Animation Nation

Get your cartoon fix

What a Dick

My favorite funny, great big mess

Show Time for Rug Rats

An audition for America's Most Talented Kid turns up some prodigies, and some very young has-beens.

And Now We Dance

A 10-day spree of performances, parties, open studios, and classes

alt.war

Traditional media mislead the public about the war in Iraq as a media revolution makes traditional media increasingly irrelevant

That '60s Show

Oliver Beene goes against fake millionaires and phony idols

Blowin' Smoke

Biker Boyz is furious, but it ain't fast, which is a real drag

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

Richter's Scale

Andy Richter deserves to control the universe, if only Fox would let him

Flunk You

If Fox expels Undeclared, blame everyone but Judd Apatow

TV or Not TV?

That's no longer the question for visionary Stephen J. Cannell, who now lives the novel life

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter

Hell of a Long Day

24 has been the most talked-about show of the season and for all the wrong reasons

Back to School

Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks grow up, more or less, and move to a dorm

Shoot Straight

Chris Carter considers the futures of X-Files and Lone Gunmen

Blow Up the Box

TV managed to suck and blow in 2000, but still, we watched...and watched

"Look! I Made This!"

Robert Altman wants your attention, if not your affection

School's Out

When Fox-TV canceled American High, the network hit a new low

Win, Lose, or Draw

Or: How do you bring a comic book to life without killing a superhero?

STUFF: Dawn of the Dead

Sci Fi's brilliant good vs. evil is a corpse in search of a burial

Geek Love

The men behind this season's best shows -- and biggest failures -- blame it all on Regis

Tense Alliance

A conversation with the makers of Blacks and Jews, a highlight of the 17th annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival