Subject: Latin America

• Say What? S.F. Giants' African American Heritage Night Ads Awkwardly Worded in the Worst Possible Way

  August 13, 2008

• Ten Things Under $10 to Do This Weekend

  Here we go again: Friday rolls around and you've been broke since Monday. Whether you're just a cheapskate or seriously pinching the pennies, there's there's plenty to keep you entertained this weekend for less than a ten-spot. Below, a couple select picks. 1. Amoeba Music Factory Party @ 1343 Powell St. (Friday)Tonight's free party promises to stimulate your ears and eyes. The Factory Party boasts Velvet Underground cover bands, Warhol's "Screen Tests," an art show by Amoeba employees, people d

  March 6, 2009

• Track of the Day: Filastine

  "Singularities" by Barcelona-based globetripper Filastine is an evocative track, stirring up cinematic images of emotional worlds crashing to a disastrous, beautiful collapse. There's an evil edge to the stuttered string samples and scattering beats in the song, similar to the soundtrack Kronos Quartet composed for Requiem For A Dream but much more schizophrenic. It's a richly textured tune, much like the rest of the electronic composer's catalog--which tours through the Balkans, Latin America,

  March 23, 2009

• SOMA Samba

  Take a trip down to Rio for a taste of Carnaval.

  February 11, 2009

• Border Crosser

  January 14, 2009

• Dan Zanes kicks off an international seasonal celebration

  November 26, 2008

• Holiday Hootenanny

  November 19, 2008

• Taj Mahal's diversity through the decades

  October 22, 2008

• Che In Spain

  August 20, 2008

• Fresh from the Border

  July 16, 2008

• Mission Craziness

  May 21, 2008

• Three Kings Sing

  January 2, 2008

• Avenue G's San Francisco Cuisine Needs a Road Map

  October 31, 2007

• Repertory Film Listings

  August 8, 2007

• Bouncer

  Salvia and psychonauts at Eagles Drift In

  July 4, 2007

• Owen Maigret's Conquering Label

  S.F. export digging for reggaeton gold in Panama

  October 25, 2006

• Louder Than Bombs

  For MC Immortal Technique, planting the seeds of revolution ain't nothin' but a g-thang

  April 27, 2005

• Taste Test

  April 20, 2005

• BeatBox

  Swayzak's techno ain't what it used to be, but Matthew Dear is picking up the slack; the Nortec Collective brings beats from Tijuana.

  December 8, 2004

• Fantastic Voyage

  Get off your high horse and listen to some fine world music at "Putumayo: Latinas -- Women of Latin America"

  November 17, 2004

• Making the Cine

  Lights, camera, acción

  September 15, 2004

• BeatBox

  Rome's Nicola Conte unveils his latest jazz/electronica fusions; "Echoes of Rio" soothes your conscience and your booty

  April 7, 2004

• Various Artists

  January 14, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  November 26, 2003

• Below the Law

  September 10, 2003

• House of Tudor

  Rejuvenated West Coast hip hop, Apocalyptic movement-theater, and Jack Palance as Fidel Castro

  June 4, 2003

• Living La Vida Loca

  May 21, 2003

• Real to Reel

  Life abroad, through the lens of film

  April 16, 2003

• The Sixth Annual Latino Film Festival

  October 30, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  December 19, 2001

• The Unlikely Environmentalists

  International environmentalists claim they stopped a Mexican salt plant that endangered the gray whale. Actually, though, the Mexican government canceled the plant for reasons of its own.

  November 28, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  MUD Slinging; Dirty Money; Don't Mention It; Rural Myths; A Musical Interlude; Praising Puni

  October 24, 2001

• Latin Pride

  September 12, 2001

• Baroque Redux

  Latino artists give a modern twist to an old art style

  August 15, 2001

• Los Shakers; Various Artists

  Los Shakers: ¡Por Favor! (Ace/Big Beat); Various Artists: Jovem Guarda -- 21 Grandes Sucessos (Columbia-Brasil)

  January 3, 2001

• Best Free Acupuncture

  American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine

  May 17, 2000

• South to the Future

  April 26, 2000

• House Of Tudor

  March 1, 2000

• Nuevo Trendino

  December 22, 1999

• Letters

  April 28, 1999

• Telling Fortunes

  A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

  January 20, 1999

• Hear This

  March 12, 1997

• Second Time Around

  November 13, 1996

• Night+Day

  September 20, 1995

• Track of the Day: Toy Selectah

  Local record label Bersa Discos offers flights to Latin America for the price of a 7-inch. The cumbia friendly outpost has a new, limited edition tune from a Spanish-speaking discovery up for sale: "Hay Guey" by Tzochitl Soundsystem vs. Toy Selectah. The latter is a Mexico-based producer and remixer who digs international blends, building his beats on a cross-section of Columbian and Caribbean sytles that he dubs "Sonidero Nacional." This particular number would fit well on the Bersa's electro-c

  May 21, 2009

• Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Roger Más

  DJ Roger Más goes for the Latin flavor whether you're talking records or restaurants. The KALX DJ turned Mission turntable master lists off his favorite taco trucks unprompted, and he keeps the vinyl bilingual on both sides of the Bay. Every Saturday, you can ask for mucho Más at the Make-Out Room, where his ¡El Superritmo! evenings swing from cumbia to reggae to salsa and beyond. Later in June he'll be dragging the record trunk down to Skylark, schooling the 16th St. crowd on classic cumbia

  May 29, 2009

• Mission Protests for the Return of President Zelaya to Honduras (And Justice For Oscar Grant)

  Mission progressives descended on the 24th Street BART plaza this evening to protest for the return of President Manuel Zelaya to Honduras after the military coup on Sunday. Eric Quezada of Dolores Street Community Services and former District 9 supervisor candidate led the crowd of about 200 in a chant of "Se ve, se siente, el pueblo esta presente!" ("You can see it, and feel it, that the people are here!") and of course the old protest standby: "El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido!" ("The peop

  July 1, 2009

• 'Go Game Street Food Adventure' Open to Couch Potatoes

  Veggie buns from Heaven's Dog will be featured at SF Street Food Festival.​As street food fervor rages on in the city, the time is ripe for a scavenger hunt. 'Go Game Street Food Adventure' is a challenge that begins on August 1, hosted by La Cocina in advance of the San Francisco Street Food Festival happening on August 22. SFoodie loves a game where you don't have to get up off your ass to do anything except think of food, so we were excited to learn that you can play individually and as a t

  July 27, 2009

• UFL Fans, Be Prepared to See Advertisements -- On the Players

  American fans haven't always been thrilled to see advertisements on player uniforms​The announcement that the nascent, San Francisco-based United Football League has inked a deal with StubHub as its first sponsor was interesting on two levels. First, StubHub is a Web site that allows fans -- or veiled scalpers -- to resell tickets. If the league feels that a demand exists for UFL tickets that will compel fans to take to the Web and pay above face value ... well, good for them. More interesting

  September 8, 2009

• Sanctuary Sellout

  November 18, 2009