Madonna (Entertainer)

The Politics of the Winchester House

Madonna inks $120 Million Deal with Concert Baron Live Nation

Britney's 'Blackout' Tuesday Somehow Different from Blackout Wednesday, Thursday, Friday...

Madonna' "Sticky & Sweet Tour" Visits Oakland's Oracle in Nov.

Revolting Cocks

The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press

SF Weekly Letters

The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press

Filth and Wisdom

The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press

Manic Mondays: a club for the '80s and the gays who love them

The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press

You Know You Wannabe

The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press

The Good Magazine Block Party

Everybody's a GOOD Samaritan these days: the music trend of worthy causes

Misc. Reviews

Everybody's a GOOD Samaritan these days: the music trend of worthy causes

Katy St. Clair weighs in on pee-pee, poo-poo, and the Casanova

Everybody's a GOOD Samaritan these days: the music trend of worthy causes

Madonna

Confessions on a Dance Floor

Various Artists

Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story

Reps Etc.

Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story

Lipstick Thespians

This year's DIVAfest isn't all about lip gloss and halter tops

Keep Pushing It

Multimedia maven makes merry

Bloody Battle

Arabs + Jews = drama

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

Various

Left of the Dial: Dispatches From the '80s Underground

Letters to the Editor

Week of November 5, 2003

"Crappy Records"

Zagat's new "music guide" is absurd, but its "format" offers a "nice way" to review "lame albums."

Prick

Don't hate me because I'm corporate

Soul Powered

Micaya's hip hop dance troupe takes to the stage

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Micaya's hip hop dance troupe takes to the stage

And a Reagan New Year!

Learning to live with -- and even love -- a retro-'80s fad that just ... won't ... die

Who's That Girl?

Pushy's Madeline Minx wants to be both Madonna and Woody Allen

House Of Tudor

Icky flicks, modern pagans, and disturbed piano-duos

The More the Merrier

From Brazil, a lovely bossa nova fantasy -- with roots in feminist reality

Night + Day

From Brazil, a lovely bossa nova fantasy -- with roots in feminist reality

Letters

From Brazil, a lovely bossa nova fantasy -- with roots in feminist reality

Madonna's Not a Virgin Anymore

So why does she keep acting like a princess?

Riff Raff

So why does she keep acting like a princess?

Reviews

So why does she keep acting like a princess?

Slap Shots

So why does she keep acting like a princess?

Miike Snow

So why does she keep acting like a princess?

Sacrilegious Satire Comes to Town

So why does she keep acting like a princess?

What To Do? Wednesday's Pick:

​Madonna's Christmas Celebration @ Finn's Funhouse It wouldn't be Christmas 2009 in the deeply immoral Bay Area without some unholy drag spectacle rolling into town to satirize the Holy Trinity and the birth of Jesus et al. in a high flight of pop cultural and religious juxtapositions. The fourt ... More >>

A National Tour of 10 Strange Musical Sandwiches

​Music celebrities continue to be a fertile source of inspiration for sandwich makers across the nation. Behold some incredibly strange examples of a growing art form; call it an iTunes eatlist. The star: Lady Gaga The sandwich: Fried cod sticks, avocado, roll The location: Hapa Ramen, San F ... More >>

Top 5 Most Excruciating Moments in Music Documentaries

We've yet to see Joaquin Phoenix documenting his own nervous breakdown in new movie I'm Still Here, but critics have been largely disgusted by what's on view. With that in mind, here are five other moments in music documentaries that have left us feeling queasy and depressed.5. Jim Morrison Having H ... More >>

Turn, Turn, Turn

We've yet to see Joaquin Phoenix documenting his own nervous breakdown in new movie I'm Still Here, but critics have been largely disgusted by what's on view. With that in mind, here are five other moments in music documentaries that have left us feeling queasy and depressed.5. Jim Morrison Having H ... More >>

Make Her Express How She Feels

We've yet to see Joaquin Phoenix documenting his own nervous breakdown in new movie I'm Still Here, but critics have been largely disgusted by what's on view. With that in mind, here are five other moments in music documentaries that have left us feeling queasy and depressed.5. Jim Morrison Having H ... More >>

Top 6 Movie Parodies in Music Videos (Thanks, Foo Fighters)

Remember the quietly xenophobic, right-wing propaganda movie that was Falling Down? The one where Michael Douglas has a meltdown in Los Angeles and goes on a mini-rampage (against mostly immigrants) in his white shirt and horn-rimmed specs? The movie was extraordinarily silly on a number of levels, ... More >>

MTV at 30: The Top 10 Most Controversial Music Videos (NSFW)

via Flickr​As MTV celebrates its 30th birthday, it seems poised for a calm middle-aged life in a nice neighborhood, where it can safely raise Jersey Shore and Teen Mom into even more reliable moneymakers. But it wasn't always that way: Before it gave up on music, MTV swept through American hou ... More >>

Divorces Galore: Eight Musical Couples We Wish Were Still Together

Since Monday, media everywhere has been agog at the news that Kim Kardashian and her husband of just 72 days are getting divorced. If you ask us, that union was doomed from the get-go. Anyone who watches Keeping Up With The Kardashians knows that those two barely even knew each other (Not that we wa ... More >>

The Top Five Most Bizarre Superbowl Halftime Shows

​Oh, the hallowed and hyped Superbowl halftime show. This Sunday, we will bear witness to the unholy alliance of Madonna, M.I.A., and Nicki Minaj performing together, which will be -- well, beyond interesting, we're not quite sure. Sometimes, though, the stars align and something truly magical hap ... More >>

Comparing M.I.A.'s Super Bowl Middle Finger to Music's Greatest Bird-Flippers

Juvenile, numbskulled, pointless, banal, outrageous -- M.I.A. flipping the bird at this year's Super Bowl halftime show might have been all or none of those things, depending on whom you ask, but it was one thing above all: A surefire plot to join the ranks of the middle-finger-flashing musical elit ... More >>

Madonna Is Playing the Bay Area This Fall

Madonna, ridin' high.​ Fresh off her headline-generating performance with M.I.A. and a few other people at the Super Bowl this past weekend, Madonna announced a huge run of tour dates today, including a Bay Area show. The Madge will of course be touring behind new effort MDNA, which is out Mar ... More >>

"W.E.": Madonna Fetishizes Subject at Story's Cost

Madonna, ridin' high.​ Fresh off her headline-generating performance with M.I.A. and a few other people at the Super Bowl this past weekend, Madonna announced a huge run of tour dates today, including a Bay Area show. The Madge will of course be touring behind new effort MDNA, which is out Mar ... More >>

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 >>