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Fishbone

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    The Top 5 Weirdest Woody Guthrie Covers

    By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO When Woody Guthrie's daughter Nora opened up the archives of her father's copious amounts of unreleased material to Billy Bragg and Wilco back in the late '90s, the union produced two Mermaid Avenue albums chock full of the late Okie's unrecorded lyrics set to new music. The re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    The Interrupters and More Free Films Screening at Oakland City Hall This Month

    Oakland City Hall's Black History Film Series continues tonight with The Interrupters, a 2011 documentary about a few brave individuals' hardcore efforts to curb inner city violence. Though it was shot in Chicago, the trailer shows a landscape that could have just as easily been filmed in East Oakla ... More >>

  • Film

    January 18, 2012

    Arthouse Movie Listings January 18-24

    Oakland City Hall's Black History Film Series continues tonight with The Interrupters, a 2011 documentary about a few brave individuals' hardcore efforts to curb inner city violence. Though it was shot in Chicago, the trailer shows a landscape that could have just as easily been filmed in East Oakla ... More >>

  • Film

    January 11, 2012

    Arthouse Movie Listings January 11-17

    Oakland City Hall's Black History Film Series continues tonight with The Interrupters, a 2011 documentary about a few brave individuals' hardcore efforts to curb inner city violence. Though it was shot in Chicago, the trailer shows a landscape that could have just as easily been filmed in East Oakla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Chris Metzler on His Fishbone Doc Everyday Sunshine, Which Plays Tonight at the Roxie

    Opening tonight at the Roxie is Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, a documentary about the highly-regarded -- if somewhat forgotten -- punk-funk band from Los Angeles. After years on the road, traveling between festivals, the film is finally in a theater run. Tonight and tomorrow, the Roxie p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Filmmaker Chris Metzler Brings Fishbone Back to S.F. With Everyday Sunshine

    Chris Metzler fits in perfectly in the eclectic documentary circles of his adopted S.F. home, even if he hasn't shed his L.A. roots. Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, the high-energy follow-up to Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea (co-directed with Jeff Springer), tracks the stormy histor ... More >>

  • Film

    January 4, 2012

    Arthouse Movie Listings January 4-10

    Chris Metzler fits in perfectly in the eclectic documentary circles of his adopted S.F. home, even if he hasn't shed his L.A. roots. Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, the high-energy follow-up to Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea (co-directed with Jeff Springer), tracks the stormy histor ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 4, 2012

    You Ain't Got No Alibi

    Chris Metzler fits in perfectly in the eclectic documentary circles of his adopted S.F. home, even if he hasn't shed his L.A. roots. Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, the high-energy follow-up to Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea (co-directed with Jeff Springer), tracks the stormy histor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    On the Hunt for the Best Jukebox in Bernal Heights

    The Juke at Nap's 3​Bernal Heights is often unfairly lumped in with the Mission as a whole. While it is backed up against the Mission, Bernal has its own plentiful offerings -- Indian pizza, indoor street food, and lesbian bars with three-story patios, to name a few. So, in deference to the vi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Our SXSW Party: Wu-Tang Clan, Erykah Badu, Wild Flag, and More

    ​And so we join the SXSW deluge: Village Voice Media, the parent company of SF Weekly, yesterday announced the details of our annual SXSW party: We'll deign to spare you any unfortunate lyrical references to the Wu-Tang Clan but it is headlining. Other eyebrow-poppers you'll want to check out ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 6, 2010

    Still Stuck in Your Throat

    ​And so we join the SXSW deluge: Village Voice Media, the parent company of SF Weekly, yesterday announced the details of our annual SXSW party: We'll deign to spare you any unfortunate lyrical references to the Wu-Tang Clan but it is headlining. Other eyebrow-poppers you'll want to check out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Matisyahu Talks Keeping Kosher, Observing Shabbat on Tour

    Beau Grealy​Shabbat is a Jewish tradition when friends and family come together every Friday night and Saturday to relax and reflect as the workweek recedes. Some Jews are more observant than others: where there's one Jew eating a double bacon cheeseburger (totally unkosher), there's another who ... More >>

  • Music

    June 24, 2009

    Our picks for Spectrum, the weekend’s big dance party

    Beau Grealy​Shabbat is a Jewish tradition when friends and family come together every Friday night and Saturday to relax and reflect as the workweek recedes. Some Jews are more observant than others: where there's one Jew eating a double bacon cheeseburger (totally unkosher), there's another who ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2009

    Race to Fame

    W. Kamau Bell has built a career on examining the messy intersections of race and class in a supposedly postracial world.

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    Who Made the First Obama Joke?

    This guy. Yep, San Francisco's very own comedian, writer, director, and frequent maker of race jokes, W. Kamau Bell. Or at least that's what researchers at Comedy Central concluded today after extensive archival probing. The jab in question took place on Premium Blend in 2005, wh ... More >>

  • Music

    February 20, 2008

    Crime pays: OG San Francisco "punks" offer rare live appearance

    This guy. Yep, San Francisco's very own comedian, writer, director, and frequent maker of race jokes, W. Kamau Bell. Or at least that's what researchers at Comedy Central concluded today after extensive archival probing. The jab in question took place on Premium Blend in 2005, wh ... More >>

  • Music

    October 24, 2007

    Shape-Shifter

    Ornette Coleman sculpts free jazz from the genre's elevated fringes

  • Summer Guide

    June 27, 2007

    Summer of Love

    Ornette Coleman sculpts free jazz from the genre's elevated fringes

  • Music

    April 25, 2007

    Lifesavas

    Gutterfly: The Original Soundtrack (Quannum)

  • Listen Up

    March 15, 2006

    Band of Brothers

    Presenting the 27-year career of Stone Vengeance, the most ass-kickin' metal band ever to come out of Bayview-Hunters Point

  • Music

    December 7, 2005

    The blue-blooded Blowfly, the multialiased MF Doom, and the lyrically infallible Casual

    Presenting the 27-year career of Stone Vengeance, the most ass-kickin' metal band ever to come out of Bayview-Hunters Point

  • Music

    May 26, 2004

    House of Tudor

    Presenting the 27-year career of Stone Vengeance, the most ass-kickin' metal band ever to come out of Bayview-Hunters Point

  • Film

    February 4, 2004

    Gettin' Windy in the City

    The Chicago clip crew gleefully gabs on in Barbershop 2

  • Music

    December 15, 1999

    Still a Beautiful Mess

    Once considered just another L.A. rock casualty, former Thelonious Monster leader Bob Forrest returns to the land of the living with the Bicycle Thief

  • Music

    December 17, 1997

    Hear This

    Once considered just another L.A. rock casualty, former Thelonious Monster leader Bob Forrest returns to the land of the living with the Bicycle Thief

  • Calendar

    July 30, 1997

    Night+Day

    Once considered just another L.A. rock casualty, former Thelonious Monster leader Bob Forrest returns to the land of the living with the Bicycle Thief

  • Music

    January 8, 1997

    Recordings

    Once considered just another L.A. rock casualty, former Thelonious Monster leader Bob Forrest returns to the land of the living with the Bicycle Thief

  • Calendar

    September 18, 1996

    Night+Day

    Once considered just another L.A. rock casualty, former Thelonious Monster leader Bob Forrest returns to the land of the living with the Bicycle Thief

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