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"Roadie": Ron Eldard Channels His Inner Adolescent

The Top 10 Worst Film Performances By Musicians

By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO Rock star, singer-songwriter, producer, interior designer -- now we should add thespian to the many creative hats sported by Lenny Kravitz, who performs tonight (Feb. 14) at the Fox Theater in Oakland. In keeping with the family business -- his mom was the late Roxie Roker, a.k ... More >>

Fat Chef Is 400 Pounds of Bad Food TV

Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Fat Chef, a one-hour show about steamed vegetables, Thursdays at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. In another effort to put even more distance between itself and food preparation so skilled it demands to be pu ... More >>

Tequila Bowl: Royal Exchange Bartenders Face-Off

​What: Superbowl Cocktail Competition to Benefit Project Open HandWhere: The Royal ExchangeWhen: Tuesday, Jan. 31, 5:30 p.m.Cost: $5 ($10 at the door)The rundown: The best drink deal in the city might be tonight at the Royal Exchange. For $5, you're getting four cocktails, you're representing your ... More >>

How to Go to a Show and Not Be a Douche to the Bartender

Getting a drink at gigs can be a nightmare -- especially if the show is sold out. You're hot, you're sweaty, you're claustrophobic and, heck, you're really thirsty. But no matter how uncomfortable you might be, try and give a thought to the bartenders and cocktail waitresses who are trying to serve ... More >>

Late Night at 15 Romolo: The Smiths, Frat Boys, and High-Flying Wings

Carina OstThe fried-banana-and-Nutella Challah at 'Cha Boy. Pickles: bad. Pickle juice: good.​Through San Francisco's Bada Bing! landscape of strippers and cannolis runs an alleyway with a bar that defies geographic guidelines. Hipsters in jean jackets and dark-rimmed glasses sing to the Pixie ... More >>

Top Chef: All-Stars, Week 6: Hooked and Gutted

Bravo TVThe sharks are circling for bait-bro Marcel. ​Last night's Top Chef: All-Stars began with a continuation of douchey Marcel showing his poor sportsmanship. He was drinking gin from the bottle and all up in Dale T.'s face about last week's competition. Ugh, did they forget that this was ... More >>

Pioneer of Parody

Bravo TVThe sharks are circling for bait-bro Marcel. ​Last night's Top Chef: All-Stars began with a continuation of douchey Marcel showing his poor sportsmanship. He was drinking gin from the bottle and all up in Dale T.'s face about last week's competition. Ugh, did they forget that this was ... More >>

Bear in Heaven, Twin Sister and Beach Fossils at the Rickshaw Stop

Bear in Heaven​Bear in HeavenTwin Sister Beach Fossils July 26, 2010 @Rickshaw Stop Better Than: Watching Koyaanisqatsi on a beach and sipping mai tais. Last night's party at Rickshaw Stop started out as a beach bash, moved into an eclectic cocktail party and ended up feel ... More >>

10 Signs the Band You Are About to See is Going to Suck

Fuckthatband.com​Sometimes at a show you have a feeling -- a hunch, a gut instinct, a fucking prejudice -- and the feeling is right. "This show is going to suck," you think, when some greasy waif takes the stage wearing rhinestone-studded shades and a turquoise-sequined cumberbund, then yanks a po ... More >>

Are Food-Focused Arizona Boycotts for Reals?

wisefly/FlickrCalls to boycott Cold Stone Creamery stores like the one in Fisherman's Wharf (pictured) have gone unheeded.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Cool to protest: Could efforts to boycott Arizona over the immigration law Governor Jan Brewer signed last Friday be seeping into your ... More >>

What To Do? Thursday's Pick: Left Fest w/ Souls of Mischief

Souls of Mischief​Left Fest w/ Souls of Mischief @ MezzanineOakland rap quartet Souls of Mischief is most fondly remembered for a 1993 hit. Prince Paul is a legendary oddball production Svengali from Long Island who also goes by the aliases Chest Rockwell and Filthy Pablo. The idea of holing them ... More >>

Souls of Mischief embrace the Prince Paul regime

Souls of Mischief​Left Fest w/ Souls of Mischief @ MezzanineOakland rap quartet Souls of Mischief is most fondly remembered for a 1993 hit. Prince Paul is a legendary oddball production Svengali from Long Island who also goes by the aliases Chest Rockwell and Filthy Pablo. The idea of holing them ... More >>

De La Soul

Souls of Mischief​Left Fest w/ Souls of Mischief @ MezzanineOakland rap quartet Souls of Mischief is most fondly remembered for a 1993 hit. Prince Paul is a legendary oddball production Svengali from Long Island who also goes by the aliases Chest Rockwell and Filthy Pablo. The idea of holing them ... More >>

Ten Gourmet Hot Dogs That'll Make You Sit Up and Beg

A dog with ketchup and mustard? Nothing wrong with that, but sometimes you crave a bit more refinement than the classic red hot provides. There's a whole of craving going on these days -- gourmet wieners are poised to become a national (even an international) phenom, and that's just fine with u ... More >>

Fresh Lyme

A dog with ketchup and mustard? Nothing wrong with that, but sometimes you crave a bit more refinement than the classic red hot provides. There's a whole of craving going on these days -- gourmet wieners are poised to become a national (even an international) phenom, and that's just fine with u ... More >>

Five places to eat oysters in San Francisco

A dog with ketchup and mustard? Nothing wrong with that, but sometimes you crave a bit more refinement than the classic red hot provides. There's a whole of craving going on these days -- gourmet wieners are poised to become a national (even an international) phenom, and that's just fine with u ... More >>

Why the 'Black Friday Story' Is the Enemy of Real News

By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

Snacktion: Madeleines, Plain and Fancy

By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

Long Island Rhymes

By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

Kim Kardashian's Ass, Jessica Sierra's Sextape - The Best and Worst of Sex in 2007

By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

CD Review: Northern State -- Can I Keep This Pen?

By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

Grown and Chrisette

By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

Thou Shalt Not Be Too Funny

And on the seventh day, God created sketch comedy

Loyd Family Players, Langhorne Slim, Karpov -- ASD's Live Music Picks for July 13

And on the seventh day, God created sketch comedy

Death gets reanimated in the hands of Gob Iron

And on the seventh day, God created sketch comedy

Dream On

And on the seventh day, God created sketch comedy

The Hanukkah Songs

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

American Idols

They won't quit their day jobs, but the members of Kill Your Idols can still set an example of what hardcore's all about

Frogs Gone Loco

Childhood games turn into obsession in Love Me If You Dare

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Childhood games turn into obsession in Love Me If You Dare

Millennium Approaches

Our critic tries the vegan way, with mixed results

Letters to the Editor

Week of August 6, 2003

Northern State

Dying in Stereo

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Dying in Stereo

Best Place to Watch Hipsters Take a Spill

The Entry Stairs at Cafe Du Nord

Women Behind Bars

Mediocre acting keeps this lesbian sendup of women's prison films from busting free

Over the Hill

A drinking tour of Potrero

Global Village

Making the rounds of Fisherman's Wharf bars, you'll meet people from the Philippines, Bulgaria, or even Alameda

Blowin' Smoke

Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

In From the Cold

Sno-drift

Stage Capsules

Sno-drift

American Nowhere

Hal Hartley on realism, surrealism, and Henry Fool

Hear This

Hal Hartley on realism, surrealism, and Henry Fool

Night+Day

Hal Hartley on realism, surrealism, and Henry Fool

Valley Ho!

A critical guide to week two of the Mill Valley Film Fest

Night+Day

A critical guide to week two of the Mill Valley Film Fest

Purple Haze

A speedy tour of the Morehouse commune

Slap Shots

A speedy tour of the Morehouse commune