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Five Classical Music and Opera Events to See This Fall

Our critics weigh in on local theater

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

The Rapture

Tapes (!K7)

Drowsy Chaperone is funny, but not filling

Tapes (!K7)

Gimme Indie Rock!

Local promoters take a big risk to give S.F. a music fest that will restore the city's cool cred

Repertory Film Listings

Local promoters take a big risk to give S.F. a music fest that will restore the city's cool cred

The Hanukkah Songs

Wherein we find the coining of our new favorite word: "Jew-pergroup"

Artbeat

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Holiday Happenings

A Sinful Score

Devil Music sweetens silents

Artbeat

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Artbeat

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Not Really a Deli

But discovering a great deli sandwich during a great summer festival is quite nice

Forever Young

Can ya dig it?

Slack Keys and MP3s

Two Bay Area collectors put the spotlight on vintage Hawaiian music

On Your Toes

The majesty and imagination of American Ballet Theater

The 6ths

Hyacinths and Thistles (Merge)

Branford Marsalis

Contemporary Jazz (Columbia)

Riff Raff

The Way You Wear Your Past

Emergency Plan

The Dismemberment Plan takes its cabaret-punk back underground

House Of Tudor

Magnetic Fields, Citizen Fish, Ana D., and eX-Girl

Riff Raff

Piano Woman

Night & Day

Piano Woman

Night & Day

Piano Woman

Rhapsody in Green

At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

Night & Day

At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

Hear This

At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

King Sonny

Jazz great Sonny Rollins talks about old songs, speaking in tongues, and 40 years of spiritual intensity

Night+Day

Jazz great Sonny Rollins talks about old songs, speaking in tongues, and 40 years of spiritual intensity

Stage

Jazz great Sonny Rollins talks about old songs, speaking in tongues, and 40 years of spiritual intensity

Night+Day

Jazz great Sonny Rollins talks about old songs, speaking in tongues, and 40 years of spiritual intensity

The Book of Lists

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Recordings

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Recordings

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995