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Outside Lands Day Two: Street Sweeper Social Club, Trombone Shorty, Black Eyed Peas, The Mars Volta

EKAphotography​Outside Lands Day 2: Street Sweeper Social Club, Trombone Shorty, Black Eyed Peas, The Mars Volta, & more, Saturday, August 20, 2009.Better Than: sitting in the park, waiting for you.The first day of Outside Lands was a huge freakin' success, especially if you stayed at the Twin ... More >>

Kurt Vile loses job, gains indie clout

EKAphotography​Outside Lands Day 2: Street Sweeper Social Club, Trombone Shorty, Black Eyed Peas, The Mars Volta, & more, Saturday, August 20, 2009.Better Than: sitting in the park, waiting for you.The first day of Outside Lands was a huge freakin' success, especially if you stayed at the Twin ... More >>

Last Night: Vagabond Opera at Amnesia

Vagabond OperaSunday, June 21, 2009AmnesiaLast night was the closest I'd ever been to both a theremin and a musical saw. The musical saw was played by a beautiful young blonde woman, attired in black and red lace ruffles. She was performing with a multicultural modern vaudeville act called Vagabond ... More >>

Wicked Awesome

Vagabond OperaSunday, June 21, 2009AmnesiaLast night was the closest I'd ever been to both a theremin and a musical saw. The musical saw was played by a beautiful young blonde woman, attired in black and red lace ruffles. She was performing with a multicultural modern vaudeville act called Vagabond ... More >>

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 >>

Rock Legend

A classic tale is wrested from the ravenous jaws of dull academics.

Worshiping St. Vincent

Annie Clark is an indie star two decades in the making

Off the Wall

One-act opera is every bit as didactic as the mural from which it takes its title, but lacks the same punch

Repertory Film Listings

One-act opera is every bit as didactic as the mural from which it takes its title, but lacks the same punch

The Mother of All Brechts

One-act opera is every bit as didactic as the mural from which it takes its title, but lacks the same punch

Indie Dim Sum

The Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival offers tasty treats from the underground

Our critics weigh in on local theater

The Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival offers tasty treats from the underground

Happy End

Gangster movie meets musical theater in the back room at Original Joe's

Myth Interpretation

Two thieves, six actors, and one enduring Mission District legend

Rosin Coven

Menagerie

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Here Lies Jenny

An odd choice for one of the country's most prominent musical theater artists

Bebe, Baby!

Here Lies Jenny Weills away the hours

Soap Scum

Serial sagas meet high camp

The Business of War

Capitalism and its discontents in an old-fashioned Shotgun Players production

Drink It Up

Audiences adore it, but is Urinetown as fresh as the hype suggests?

Innocence Well-Fed

The S.F. Symphony's summer festival of German music sends us in search of sausage, schnitzel, and sauerbraten

House of Tudor

A "Dark Kabaret," Buy Nothing Day, synth love, and the ever-fierce Marianne Faithfull

Hear This

Postmodern genre-busters Japonize Elephants stir up a theatrical gumbo

House Of Tudor

World/Inferno Friendship Society's sinister Gypsy punk, and the Rubber City Rebels' gritty Midwestern rock

Henry and June, the Prequel

Too many songs and not enough talk. But, boy, can they sing.

House Of Tudor

Sprocket Ensemble's Valentine's Celebration; Mark Growden's Electric Piñata

Electric Japanese Cowboy

Amy X Neuburg & Men; Emeryville Taiko

Zoom Lens

Not Politics as Usual: The Jewish Film Festival

House Of Tudor

eX-Girl; Blues Fuse; Grrlyshow

House Of Tudor

The Make-Up, Ute Lemper, Erotica USA

Let No One Deceive You

The Make-Up, Ute Lemper, Erotica USA

Night & Day

The Make-Up, Ute Lemper, Erotica USA

Night Crawler

The Make-Up, Ute Lemper, Erotica USA

Night + Day

The Make-Up, Ute Lemper, Erotica USA

Weill-ed Blue Yonder

Amy X Neuburg & Men commandeer the technology of the future to leap headlong into ... the past

Night + Day

Amy X Neuburg & Men commandeer the technology of the future to leap headlong into ... the past

House of Tudor

Amy X Neuburg & Men commandeer the technology of the future to leap headlong into ... the past

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Amy X Neuburg & Men commandeer the technology of the future to leap headlong into ... the past

Night+Day

Amy X Neuburg & Men commandeer the technology of the future to leap headlong into ... the past

Zoom Lens

Amy X Neuburg & Men commandeer the technology of the future to leap headlong into ... the past

The Great Escape

Blur's class act

Night+Day

Blur's class act

Recordings

Blur's class act