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Madonna (Entertainer)

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Deadmau5 Comes Out as a Non-Drug-User. Is EDM Sobering Up?

    ​This week, one of the biggest stars in EDM -- Deadmau5 -- chastised one of the biggest pop stars of all time -- Madonna -- for using drug lingo (specifically the phrase "Has anyone seen Molly?") on stage at this year's Ultra Music Festival. And he didn't do it in a small way either, indulging in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Madonna's MDNA: A First Listen

    ​Sure, I heard bad things about MDNA, but when's the last time critics actually jumped for Madonna? In the pre-"poptimist" era of 1999, with Ray of Light, I'm pretty sure. Music was a billion times better, and the oft-cited failure American Life is actually pretty strange and fun (vocoder and rapp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    The Five Questions Someone Had Better Ask Madonna on Twitter

    Madonna is going to have a one-night stand with Twitter this evening, taking questions from fans tonight starting at 7 p.m. PST on the handle @MadonnaMDNAday. She's planning to hit it and quit it, so these queries are going to be crucial. (Yes, Ryan Seacrest has already submitted his: "Since Tim Teb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2012

    So Madonna Is a Satanist, According to This Detailed and Hilarious Christian Post Article

    You know everything that's ever been memorable about Madonna? The dunce-cap bustiers, the dry-humping of various taboos, the deeply remunerative pop-sexual controversies? Oh, and all those great songs?Turns out, those aren't just the signal achievements of a woman who has for decades ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    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 >>

  • Film

    February 8, 2012

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Madonna Is Playing the Bay Area This Fall

    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 March 26 and includes "Give Me A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    May 25, 2011

    Make Her Express How She Feels

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 23, 2011

    Turn, Turn, Turn

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    November 25, 2009

    Sacrilegious Satire Comes to Town

    ​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 >>

  • Music

    June 17, 2009

    Miike Snow

    ​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 >>

  • News

    March 18, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    ​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 >>

  • Film

    October 22, 2008

    Filth and Wisdom

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2008

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

    ​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 >>

  • Music

    April 16, 2008

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

    ​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 >>

  • Calendar

    April 9, 2008

    You Know You Wannabe

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2007

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

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2007

    Madonna inks $120 Million Deal with Concert Baron Live Nation

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2007

    The Politics of the Winchester House

    ​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 >>

  • Music

    July 11, 2007

    The Good Magazine Block Party

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

  • Music

    April 5, 2006

    Misc. Reviews

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

  • Music

    November 30, 2005

    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

  • Music

    November 16, 2005

    Madonna

    Confessions on a Dance Floor

  • Music

    October 26, 2005

    Various Artists

    Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story

  • Film

    July 6, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story

  • Calendar

    April 20, 2005

    Lipstick Thespians

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

  • Calendar

    April 6, 2005

    Keep Pushing It

    Multimedia maven makes merry

  • Calendar

    March 16, 2005

    Bloody Battle

    Arabs + Jews = drama

  • News

    January 5, 2005

    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

  • Music

    October 27, 2004

    Various

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

  • Music

    October 22, 2003

    Prick

    Don't hate me because I'm corporate

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Don't hate me because I'm corporate

  • News

    January 1, 2003

    And a Reagan New Year!

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

  • Music

    October 23, 2002

    Who's That Girl?

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

  • Music

    October 24, 2001

    House Of Tudor

    Icky flicks, modern pagans, and disturbed piano-duos

  • Calendar

    February 17, 1999

    Night + Day

    Icky flicks, modern pagans, and disturbed piano-duos

  • News

    July 22, 1998

    Letters

    Icky flicks, modern pagans, and disturbed piano-duos

  • Music

    July 1, 1998

    Madonna's Not a Virgin Anymore

    So why does she keep acting like a princess?

  • Music

    June 17, 1998

    Riff Raff

    So why does she keep acting like a princess?

  • Music

    March 25, 1998

    Reviews

    So why does she keep acting like a princess?

  • Music

    June 7, 1995

    Revolting Cocks

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

  • Calendar

    May 10, 1995

    Slap Shots

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

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