Martin Luther

Two Gallants, The Pack Top the SF Weekly Music Awards 2007 Nominees

Town Bizness Announce Debut Show

EKAphotographyAll Together Now: Town Bizness What do you get when you mix a hip-hop legend with some of the hottest local musicians around? Town Bizness. Having been one of the few local industry folks to hear significant portions of the upcoming Town Bizness album You Can't Take It With You, all I ... More >>

Major-Label Misfit: Mistah F.A.B.

EKAphotographyAll Together Now: Town Bizness What do you get when you mix a hip-hop legend with some of the hottest local musicians around? Town Bizness. Having been one of the few local industry folks to hear significant portions of the upcoming Town Bizness album You Can't Take It With You, all I ... More >>

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

EKAphotographyAll Together Now: Town Bizness What do you get when you mix a hip-hop legend with some of the hottest local musicians around? Town Bizness. Having been one of the few local industry folks to hear significant portions of the upcoming Town Bizness album You Can't Take It With You, all I ... More >>

The Reformation of Matthew Fox

Against the odds, an Oakland theologian -- most famous as a critic of Pope Benedict XVI -- takes his inclusive notion of Christianity global

KAH Boom

A hip hop orchestra that runs counter to mainstream beats

SF Weekly Music Awards 2003

Americana DJ/Selector/Turntablist Electronic/Electro Hard Rock/

Metal Hip Hop/Rap Jazz Latin/

International Lifestyle Music New Genre/Beyond Pop Punk Rock/Indie Rock Soul/Funk/ R&B

If music be the brandy of the damned, then we're drunk off our asses

Preaching to the Unconverted

Martin Luther wants to save your soul -- music, that is

Read On

Books and their consequences in two plays about free speech

Smooth Operator

Goapele wants to be a soul star, without all the major-label headaches

Night + Day

Goapele wants to be a soul star, without all the major-label headaches

Letters

Goapele wants to be a soul star, without all the major-label headaches

The Holy War Over Gay Marriage

Eighty Methodist pastors from Northern California plan to challenge church law by co-officiating at a lesbian wedding. It's an act of conscience that could sunder America's second-largest denomination -- and bring gay marriage to the center of national co

REAL ASTROLOGY for an unreal world

Eighty Methodist pastors from Northern California plan to challenge church law by co-officiating at a lesbian wedding. It's an act of conscience that could sunder America's second-largest denomination -- and bring gay marriage to the center of national co

Kamala Harris Benefit Announced

Cali's Next Top Cop? Kamala D. Harris It takes a lot of cojones to stand up for what you think is right in the political world, especially when faced with high-level pressure. Though she's generated controversy and made a few formidable enemies in law enforcement circles, SF DA Kamala Harris ... More >>

Art & Soul Organizer Explains What Happened To This Year's Festival

You Know You Want This, Oakland: Shawn Colvin​ Earlier this week I wrote about discovering that Oakland's Art & Soul Festival--which happens August 15 & 16--had managed to almost completely ignore the youthful 16-35 demographic with its bookings for this year. There's no live hip-hop, ind ... More >>

Martin Luther, Cody ChesnuTT Play Yoshi's

EKAphotography copyright 2007. all rights reservedSoul on a Roll: Martin Luther​ Is there life after neo-soul? The R&B subgenre, which enjoyed immense popularity in the late 90s-early 00s, long ago outlived its usefulness. The name--conceived, reportedly, in a marketing meeting by then-Motown ... More >>

SF Weekly Music Awards 2007 Program

EKAphotography copyright 2007. all rights reservedSoul on a Roll: Martin Luther​ Is there life after neo-soul? The R&B subgenre, which enjoyed immense popularity in the late 90s-early 00s, long ago outlived its usefulness. The name--conceived, reportedly, in a marketing meeting by then-Motown ... More >>

Only In S.F.: Gay, Rabbinical School Dropout Deemed Too Conservative

​In recent weeks, we've pointed out that people are largely free to fornicate on the streets of San Francisco -- but dogs cannot. Prosecutors struggle to convict vandals -- as juries state that graffiti is not vandalism, but "art." So, along those lines, only in San Francisco could a gay, rabbinic ... More >>

Sunday: Oakland Rapper Too $hort Makes His Fillmore District Debut at Yoshi's

Tamara PalmerMartin Luther and Too $hort.​Too $hort March 6, 2011 @ Yoshi's SFBetter than: Listening to a studio gangster who's behind closed doors getting his booty all spanked up.He staked a permanent place for Oakland on the international rap map over a more than 25-year career, but T ... More >>

Adachi's Latest Pension Claim Riles City Hall

This will not go smoothly...​In a pension-related version of Martin Luther nailing 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral, Jeff Adachi took to the steps of City Hall today. But, since this is a pension-related matter, you can substitute the theses with hundreds of millions in pension obliga ... More >>

Too $hort Is Still Alive, and He's Performing Tomorrow in Oakland

TMZ.comGossip outlets such as TMZ reported on the rumors of Too $hort's demise.​Maybe you heard last week's Twitter rumor that Oakland rapper Too $hort had died -- it gained enough steam to merit a mention on celebrity gossip sites such as TMZ and Entertainment Weekly. Of course, it wasn't t ... More >>