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The Soft Moon Will Unsettle You Politely Tonight at Milk Bar

Luis Vasquez, aka The Soft Moon​Luis Vasquez sounds like a calm, well-adjusted person over the phone -- and this is something of a surprise, because the music of Vasquez's debut album as The Soft Moon winds its way through panoramas of fear, paranoia, apprehension, and darkness. It's not as overtl ... More >>

The Soft Moon Hovers Above Hallucinogenic San Francisco

​Introducing San Francisco's The Soft Moon, the haunted house of a solo project from Mojave desert native Luis Vasquez, which released its self-titled debut last week on Brooklyn spook-factory Captured Tracks. Like that label's flagship act, Blank Dogs (although check out this link too), The Soft ... More >>

Local Warming: Climate change comes to S.F.

​Introducing San Francisco's The Soft Moon, the haunted house of a solo project from Mojave desert native Luis Vasquez, which released its self-titled debut last week on Brooklyn spook-factory Captured Tracks. Like that label's flagship act, Blank Dogs (although check out this link too), The Soft ... More >>

Absurdistan

The next wave of post-9/11 political films trades sobriety for satire.

Mojave Desert Mystery Deepens with Clutchy Hopkins' New Ubiquity Release 'Walking Backwards'

The next wave of post-9/11 political films trades sobriety for satire.

Death Valley Night

A trip to the Mojave and the Amargosa Opera House, where Marta Becket has acted out a dream for 35 years

House of Tudor

Outsider artists scream "Death to Electric Guitars!"; neo-burlesque's best step into Broad Daylight.

Pipe Dreams

A veteran of the Apollo program continues a quixotic quest to send a small rocket of his own design 60 miles high and, in the process, save his soul. Maybe ours, too.

Land of the Lost

After 13 years, Savage Republic returns to find its Middle Eastern post-punk world largely intact

Sophisticated Boom Boom

S.F.'s Famous Burlesque Orchestra provides a safe haven for punks, gorillas, and other odd characters

House of Tudor

Powerful patriots, newer wave glories, Gypsy wedding partyers, and train-hopping hobos

Loudmouths

Some movies to shout about at the S.F. Silent Film Festival

Dominant-Looking Males

Brighde Mullins' new play stirs a little neo-Darwinism into the story of a teenage castaway

Laissez Ferret

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Birth of a Salesman

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Under the Covers

Emmylou Harris unearths the language between the lines

Off-Base (Part II)

The most vituperative battle ever fought over the Presidio pits a handful of activists (and a certain weekly newspaper) against a local coalition of environmentalists, business, and the majority of elected officials. Is the congressional compromise to es