Kenny Rogers

The Culture of No Culture: Muni's Museum Bus Experiment Failed, Why Not Cut it Now?

Good night, sweet busYou got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,Know when to walk away and know when to run.You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.-- Kenny Rogers, The GamblerMuni's pretty yellow culture buse ... More >>

Rick Rubin Digs Howlin Rain's Distorted View of the '70s

Good night, sweet busYou got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,Know when to walk away and know when to run.You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.-- Kenny Rogers, The GamblerMuni's pretty yellow culture buse ... More >>

Punk rockers raid your mom's record collection

Good night, sweet busYou got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,Know when to walk away and know when to run.You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.-- Kenny Rogers, The GamblerMuni's pretty yellow culture buse ... More >>

Solitary Refinement

Rhett Miller feeds multiple musical beasts from one well of inspiration

K's Choice

She's not an addict (maybe that's a lie). Bouncer visits the Page.

Imposter Impersonator

Things get ugly when Infiltrator is unmasked at a celebrity impersonator convention, but all ends well when fake Arnold Schwarzenegger marries faux Shania Twain

Of Love and Natalise

She dreams of being the next Janet Jackson, but she's just a Stanford grad who sings syrupy pop, looks absolutely fab, and makes local teens swoon.

Which, come to think of it, may be enough, for everyone involved.

Survival

When the captain brought the journalist along on the whale hunt, the elders predicted trouble. The elders were right. The whale tried to kill them all.

Pop Philosophy

I went to Burning Man and all I got was this new lease on life

Change of Heart

M. Ward's new album is damn fine folk -- from a guy who used to ignore folk music

Night+Day

M. Ward's new album is damn fine folk -- from a guy who used to ignore folk music

Take the Cannoli: S.F. Videogame Company Follows Up Mafia Game Lawsuit With Poker Chip Action

Online card sharks beware...If ever anyone wanted to design a videogame tracing the exciting life of a copyright attorney, San Francisco's Zynga Game Network would be the operation to pull it off. But then, they don't have to play this game -- they lived it. Not quite three weeks after taking a comp ... More >>

Frankenstein's Van/Truck Rolls Through San Francisco -- Was This Once Kenny Rogers' Ride?

Joe EskenaziIt's a van...​San Francisco is a city where an art car apparently designed by H.R. Giger can roll by and no one bothers to look away from Navy jet planes roaring between the skyscrapers. And yet, the vehicle pictured here threw us for a loop. From the front, as you can see, it's 100 pe ... More >>

YouTube Casino Brawls Spur Lawsuit (VIDEO)

Oh, craps...​A Colma casino has sued anonymous YouTube users for videos on the site of card house  patrons and security beating one another -- and not at cards.The videos, claim Lucky Chances Casino, "create the false impression that Lucky Chances card room is a disorderly and unsafe place" ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for December 15-21, 2010

Oh, craps...​A Colma casino has sued anonymous YouTube users for videos on the site of card house  patrons and security beating one another -- and not at cards.The videos, claim Lucky Chances Casino, "create the false impression that Lucky Chances card room is a disorderly and unsafe place" ... More >>

Broken Social Scene To Go on Hiatus After October S.F. Shows

Broken Social Scene at Treasure Island last year.​ Canadian art-rock collective Broken Social Scene is coming to the Bay Area at the beginning of next month for two shows on Oct 1: One at the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, and one at the not-free Fillmore. But while we've grown used ... More >>

The Top 50 Songs To Get High To

We'd bet Barry O. bumped some of these back in the day...​ As you might imagine, combing back numbers of my Listen to This While High column and my own vast library for a reasonable stab at the Fifty Stoniest Songs Ever is a labor and hashish intensive experience. Preliminary fossickings unear ... More >>