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Bike Sharing Is Finally Coming to the Bay Area -- Kind Of.

The Bike Share Stations are Coming So bike sharing is coming to the Bay Area, albeit in a modest way. If you don't hate cyclists like the Wall Street Journal, then you're probably glad that San Francisco is catching up to other world-class cities like Paris, New York, and Chattanooga, when it come ... More >>

TJR on Loving Golf, Having Psy Almost Rip-Off His Music, and the Ideal Day Off

The party hasn't stopped for Southern California house producer and DJ TJR since his hit "Funky Vodka" propelled him to the top of the charts and piqued the interest of Mr. Worldwide, aka Pitbull, last year. Now a certified platinum artist thanks to his production of Pitbull's chart-topping single " ... More >>

SmartGuy Records: Garage and Punk Vinyl Releases From an Apartment in the Mission

Name: SmartGuy Records Owner: Jerry Connolly Founded: 1997 Headquarters: Jerry's apartment, Mission District, San Francisco. Label one-sheet: SmartGuy is an independent record label founded in 1997 with the sole intention of releasing one Billy Childish single. Since its chance beginnings, Smart ... More >>

Ant-1 on Growing Up in the Local DJ Scene and Krazy Kids Radio

As a member of Krazy Kids Radio and the Ri$ky Bizne$$ Crew, local DJ Ant-1 is known for playing a broad variety of music, including '90s hip-hop and even the burgeoning trap music genre. Originally from Daly City, home to DJs like Shortkut and DJ Chicken Skratch, Ant-1 began his career in 1996 after ... More >>

Yes, They Can

Protesting in the Streets -- Top 10 Political Street Art

John Boehner makes a cameo at 18th and Valencia.​We spotted this John Boehner street art gem Tuesday night in the Mission, and it got us thinking -- political street art is pretty rad, and sometimes pretty radical. San Francisco definitely has its fair share, but, of course, we're not the onl ... More >>

Architecture in Helsinki Finds a Lean New Sound

Just Boxers — No Briefs

FreQ Nasty: Show Preview

In Which Nick Cave Humors One Terrified and Overcaffeinated Writer, Discusses Grinderman and Deep Fried Apple Pie

Deirdre O'CallaghanThat's Nick on the left, with fangs put away for the moment.​Confession: We, like many others, are terrified of Nick Cave. As excited as one would be to interview the demon prince of Australian rock ahead of tonight's Grinderman show at the Warfield, we also ran into considerabl ... More >>

San Francycle: How SF's Impending Bikeshare Will Work

​Bikesharing: crazy, right? The expense, the hills, the repairs, the theft -- it seems like it would never, in a million years, work. Except it does, in plenty of cities from Montreal to Budapest to Washington, D.C. And it's getting a little embarrassing that San Francisco isn't one of them. ... More >>

"Animal Kingdom": Aussie crime saga suffers for its ambition

David Michôd interview: "Animal Kingdom" director debuts strong

Beaches break into Australia's heavy psych scene

Ownership Shuffle Behind the Concept Change at South Food Wine Bar in SOMA

Roving I/FlickrLuke Mangan: The Sydney chef is out.​At SFGate last night, Inside Scoop broke the news that South Food Wine Bar (330 Townsend at Fourth St.) was dropping its Ozzie concept, closing Dec. 19, and relaunching in early 2010 with an American-inspired menu under new-hire chef Jennif ... More >>

Congratulations, San Francisco -- Tens of Thousands of Out of Towners Feel We're 'Happy'

Can you see the happiness? ​If ever there were an inane list of cities that place well in inane lists -- San Francisco would, inanely, make a hell of a showing. And there's something seemingly even more inane than normal about the latest elite list the city has found itself on -- apparently, D ... More >>

Delicious small plates from the Philippines, Vietnam, and China star at Poleng Lounge

Street-Food Video Takes a Sip of Blue Bottle Coffee, Talks Pee in Linden Street

National street-food chronicler VendrTV was in town sampling java at the Blue Bottle kiosk in Hayes Valley, and has just posted the video. Lovably geeky host Daniel Delaney shares a cup with Facebook's Dave Morin (something brainy about the intersection of street food and social networking), and cha ... More >>

San Francisco's Head-Turning Q-Bert, Donkey Kong, Jr. Graffitis Finally Given Their Due

I TOLD you he was real!Anyone of a certain age riding an F-Line trolley or bus on Market toward Van Ness can be forgiven for wondering if they've hallucinated, projecting a vestige of their childhood onto a passing wall. Many riders probably conclude that's the case; blink and it's gone. But those w ... More >>

Last Night: Cut Copy at the Fillmore

Cut CopyThe FillmoreThursday, March 12, 2009Review by Melissa BaronBetter Than: Doing homework. Not as good as watching The Office.Hey Cut Copy, Duran Duran called and they want their catalog back. Some critics argue that music, much like fashion, comes in cycles. The same ideas, beats, and rhythms ... More >>

The Clickable Clit: "Is There a Link Between Cybersex and Depression?"

The Bay Area Maverick

Lyrics Born is proof that going against the grain can work out in the long run.

Discord Down Under

MP3 of the Day: The Drones

BitTorrent, Comcast, EFF Antipathetic To FCC Regulation of P2P Traffic

Reduced Expectations

The Reduced Shakespeare Company brilliantly anticipated society's chronic case of attention deficit disorder. But now the idea is getting old.

Skream signals dubstep's dance with assimilation

Australian for Rock

New Interpol Live EP Releases Today in Exclusive Stores

Good Times on a Sliding Scale

The Dramatists

The Drones restlessly mine betrayal

Letting your A.D.D. run rampant

Merge Records' package tour, New Buffalo's Olivia Newton-John sweetness, and the return (yet again) of American Music Club

Fiery Architecture

Uncategorizable but lovely Australian

Best Sing-Along

Hear This

Four of the city's best ring in 2005: Rogue Wave, Kelley Stoltz, the Lovemakers, and the Paradise Boys

She's Back, Possums

Treading funny old waters with Dame Edna

Watered Down

From MTV to Rolling Stone, everyone loves the Distillers. Except us.

Down Again

Shattered in the studio, Dirty Three picked up the pieces on the road

True is stranger than fiction

The loser now will be later to win

Hear This

International indie pop nirvana returns to S.F., courtesy of Shelflife Records

Beetle Mania

The intense joy of mounting a worthy bug in proper fashion

Appetite for Resurrection

Aussie expat Brody Armstrong channels her miserable past into the glorious punk of the Distillers

House Of Tudor

Chic global travelers, New York drag kings, and horrific Halloween plays

True Professions

What do you call whores who don't have sex and porn stars who don't get paid?

Three Best Launching Pads

Reel World

Filmmakers David Elton, Tom Johnston and Eric Tignini; Indie artist-in-residence Charles Burnett; Production of Plato's Cave

Quannum Leap

Growing out of Oakland's Solesides label, the rappers and producers of Quannum Projects look to expand even further

Pew's Anatomy

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