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NPR Takes 'Web-First' Approach to Blogging. What Does That Mean?

Hello, Blogger...​Tomorrow, National Public Radio will formally launch the Argo Project, a group of 12 topic-based news blogs hosted by different NPR affiliates across the country. Two of the blogs are Bay Area-based: KALW's The Informant, which focuses on criminal justice issues, and KQED's MindS ... More >>

Skate and Destroy

Hello, Blogger...​Tomorrow, National Public Radio will formally launch the Argo Project, a group of 12 topic-based news blogs hosted by different NPR affiliates across the country. Two of the blogs are Bay Area-based: KALW's The Informant, which focuses on criminal justice issues, and KQED's MindS ... More >>

Rachael Ray Olive Oil Among Brands Not So Extra-Virgin

Rachael Ray-brand EVOO: From yum-o to uh-oh!​If you too fight insomnia with cough syrup and late-night episodes of Rachael Ray's cooking shows, you know the perky, much-maligned crafter of 30-minute meals uses a cute acronym for the fruity green sap she drizzles over her convenience-oriented c ... More >>

Hear It First: Ratatat's LP4

​The upcoming fourth album from Ratatat is streaming on NPR right now, and though there are still the staple strident guitar hooks the Brooklyn duo is known for, you can expect a more worldly sound replete with Japanese strings and expertly arranged world percussion. Void of any singing or rapping ... More >>

USA Today Duped by iPad Steering Wheel Hoax

Stories about a website hawking steering wheel mounts for iPads that would enable drivers to do their reading en route started popping up all over the interwebs. The idea, or course, is a safety proponents nightmare, and as one might imagine, it's most likely a hoax. Jalopnik did some rudimentary re ... More >>

First Listen: The New Pornographers

​I don't know about you, but my S.A.D. has kicked into overdrive with this shit weather, and I've been ready for some fizzy lifting drinks news. Enter NPR to coax me from the edge, with a first listen of The New Pornographers latest album Together in its entirety. Mega posi vocals all aglow with b ... More >>

Stream the New Spoon, Big Media's Favorite Indie Act

​Spoon fans, get ready to hear a lot more about Austin's big little indie band. The group is releasing its seventh album, Transference, next week, and the major news outlets are lining up to offer their support. NY Times ran a profile of the group in Sunday's paper, noting that Spoon started aroun ... More >>

Meet the Cherpumple, Turducken's Pie-Stuffed, Frosting-Coated Sibling

L. A.-based "histo-tainer" Charles Phoenix has made a name for himself (on NPR, among other places) for his affectionate performance-art forays into the richest recesses of vintage SoCal Americana. The Los Angeles Times Magazine has called him the King of Retro, the New York Times has said he "joyfu ... More >>

Unfriend Everyone At Once! Commit 'Web 2.0 Suicide'

​Are you tired of trying to decide whether your stepdad, your aunt, and that creepy dude from kindergarten are worth your social network friendship? Dude, it is exhausting trying to figure out who to allow into your inner Web, even if you only enter that web to see who all's been up in your invita ... More >>

Get A Streaming Preview of the New Vampire Weekend

​San Francisco seems to love Vampire Weekend. The band comes to town, the show quickly sells out. The New York pop prepsters also inspire a love 'em or hate 'em outpouring of opinion, though (the recent New Yorker piece on the group included a backhanded slap of a quote from Pitchfork). Personally ... More >>

Three, Two, One …

​San Francisco seems to love Vampire Weekend. The band comes to town, the show quickly sells out. The New York pop prepsters also inspire a love 'em or hate 'em outpouring of opinion, though (the recent New Yorker piece on the group included a backhanded slap of a quote from Pitchfork). Personally ... More >>

NPR: Rap as Geopolitics

Il(l) like Kim Jong: Lil' Wayne National Public Radio has an interesting take  on beef in the rap world: it's essentially a mirror of global politics, according to Marc Lynch, a professor at George Washington University and the director of the Institute of Middle East Studies. ""The way that ... More >>

Watcha Clan @ the Rickshaw Stop: Wowsers!

EKAphotographySista K moves the crowd Call it globetronica if you must, but bands with a bunch of different cultural influences who mix and mash them together over uptempo, ultra-dancey beats are anything but boring. Expanding on the accordions-in-a discotheque aesthetic commonly associated with B ... More >>

Merry Fucking Christmas

EKAphotographySista K moves the crowd Call it globetronica if you must, but bands with a bunch of different cultural influences who mix and mash them together over uptempo, ultra-dancey beats are anything but boring. Expanding on the accordions-in-a discotheque aesthetic commonly associated with B ... More >>

Cellar Rat: Week Nine at Unti Vineyards

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Our Archive

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International Pop Overthrow fest hits S.F.

EKAphotographySista K moves the crowd Call it globetronica if you must, but bands with a bunch of different cultural influences who mix and mash them together over uptempo, ultra-dancey beats are anything but boring. Expanding on the accordions-in-a discotheque aesthetic commonly associated with B ... More >>

Odissi at ODC

EKAphotographySista K moves the crowd Call it globetronica if you must, but bands with a bunch of different cultural influences who mix and mash them together over uptempo, ultra-dancey beats are anything but boring. Expanding on the accordions-in-a discotheque aesthetic commonly associated with B ... More >>

Stay Green While Getting Hammered

EKAphotographySista K moves the crowd Call it globetronica if you must, but bands with a bunch of different cultural influences who mix and mash them together over uptempo, ultra-dancey beats are anything but boring. Expanding on the accordions-in-a discotheque aesthetic commonly associated with B ... More >>

Dalai Lama to Pelosi: Get Rid of Your Negative Attitudes

EKAphotographySista K moves the crowd Call it globetronica if you must, but bands with a bunch of different cultural influences who mix and mash them together over uptempo, ultra-dancey beats are anything but boring. Expanding on the accordions-in-a discotheque aesthetic commonly associated with B ... More >>

David Sedaris Delivers A Pizza

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Worldwide Hops Shortage: Sam Adams to the Rescue!

EKAphotographySista K moves the crowd Call it globetronica if you must, but bands with a bunch of different cultural influences who mix and mash them together over uptempo, ultra-dancey beats are anything but boring. Expanding on the accordions-in-a discotheque aesthetic commonly associated with B ... More >>

Retarded Moment of the Morning, MLK Spokesperson on NPR Just Asked U.S. Treasury for $1 Billion in Reparations to King's Family

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Before the Bomb

EKAphotographySista K moves the crowd Call it globetronica if you must, but bands with a bunch of different cultural influences who mix and mash them together over uptempo, ultra-dancey beats are anything but boring. Expanding on the accordions-in-a discotheque aesthetic commonly associated with B ... More >>

Wildfires Spur Global Avocado Shortage, Or Maybe Not?

EKAphotographySista K moves the crowd Call it globetronica if you must, but bands with a bunch of different cultural influences who mix and mash them together over uptempo, ultra-dancey beats are anything but boring. Expanding on the accordions-in-a discotheque aesthetic commonly associated with B ... More >>

Wildfires Spur Global Avocado Shortage, Or Maybe Not?

EKAphotographySista K moves the crowd Call it globetronica if you must, but bands with a bunch of different cultural influences who mix and mash them together over uptempo, ultra-dancey beats are anything but boring. Expanding on the accordions-in-a discotheque aesthetic commonly associated with B ... More >>

The Water Engine

30-year-old David Mamet script could use an update from the playwright

International Relations

Anoushka Shankar displays her father's innovative spirit

Orlando Bloom, Eat Your Heart Out

Anoushka Shankar displays her father's innovative spirit

The Free Press

When do gifts to journalists turn into a conflict of interest? When a New York Times writer gets his computer repaired.

The Free Press

When do gifts to journalists turn into a conflict of interest? When a New York Times writer gets his computer repaired.

And Awards We Go

Bouncer attends last week's SF Weekly Music Awards! Exposes self! Photos included!

Best Ways to Kill Yourself in San Francisco

Bouncer attends last week's SF Weekly Music Awards! Exposes self! Photos included!

Going BATS

Inventing a bunch of stories

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 22, 2004

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 22, 2004

Quirky as Folk

Devendra Banhart's mystical trip

New Found Glory

Catalyst (Drive-Thru)

All God's Children

When terrorists breed hatred among us, they've already won the war

Him Talk Pretty This Day

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Radio Days

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Night & Day

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Get an Eiffel

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The House of Tudor

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Suspicious Minds

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Suspicious Minds

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REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

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alt.rock.out

Hooking up to the music on the Net doesn't have to be daunting