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"Simon Killer": The Ennui of French Crime

Millennial Restaurant Habits Are Pretty Much What You'd Expect

Millennials are a hot topic these days -- they're either the worst or the best, depending on who you ask -- and the much-coveted 18-34 demographic's eating habits have been the examination of many think pieces as of late. Culintro has an interesting interview with Anne E. McBride, the director of so ... More >>

Vote for Lil B To Perform at the Grammys -- It's Not Like He Could Make Them Worse

The Grammy Awards will happen Feb. 10, and since just about anybody can get themselves nominated, the Recording Academy of America has opened up the live performance roster, too. Its new "The Gig of a Lifetime" contest offers a chance for one lucky artist to perform in front of an actual live audie ... More >>

UC College Girls Tap Sugar Daddies for Tuition

UC college chicks don't need daddy to pay for school and all those four-year parties anymore, but what they do need are their sugar daddies. A new study shows that an increasing number of female students from UC Berkeley and UC Davis are tapping sugar daddies for college tuition -- and they have hi ... More >>

"Fun Size": The Teen Comedy That's Not Bad For You

Whoa: Lil B Tries Out for Golden State Warriors' D-League Team

When Lil B tweeted last month that he was going to try out for the Golden State Warriors, it was met with the same skepticism as when he said he was Miley Cyrus or Paris Hilton or Matlock. But our Young Based God actually did it this past Sunday, when he suited up and got on the basketball court at ... More >>

Lil B Releases Rock Song "California Boy," Proves He Still Has the Ability to Surprise

After declaring that he's God, he's gay, he's Justin Bieber, he's Jesus, and he's an NYU lecturer, Berkeley rap provocateur Lil B is now out to try and be something else: a rock 'n' roller. Based God's latest leg-puller is "California Boy," a parodic but somewhat credible acoustic-electric rock son ... More >>

An Open Letter to Bikini Kill: We Still Need You!

Dear Bikini Kill, Do you have any idea how much we've missed you? We just wanted you to know how thrilled we are to hear that you're launching your own record label -- Bikini Kill Records -- and re-issuing your back catalog on CD (we'd love it if you could do some vinyl too, but one thing at a ... More >>

Lil B Releases "Historical" 878-Song Mixtape

Remember when Lil B dropped that 676-song mixtape early last year? This was back before his historical NYU lecture, before his historical tentative acceptance from many in the mainstream rap world, before I'm Gay? Well, the Based God has upped his game: In a hefty gift to discographers and completis ... More >>

Jim Crow Returns: New State Laws Could Take Obama Out This Fall

IamSu! on KILT, Getting an Invite From E-40, and Why He Wants Lil B to do an "Up" Remix

E-40's "Function" is blowing up the Bay. It's a slap-happy track that also happens to feature a cameo verse from Richmond rapper IamSu!, who dropped his freebie KILT mixtape last week. So with Iamsu!'s buzz building, we checked in with the 22-year-old to talk about learning to produce under Trackade ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

The Top Five Most Important Lessons From Lil B's NYU Lecture

Props to The Fader, which has carefully transcribed Lil B's 86-minute lecture at NYU on April 11 in order to present a full Based Scripture (you can also listen below). What an act of love and extreme patience it was to note on paper B's patented go-somewhere-else sentences, which rarely conclude ne ... More >>

Tim Sweeney on His Radio Show, Beats in Space, and How He Joined DFA Records

Tim Sweeney​ Tim Sweeney's DJ and production career started out in his Baltimore basement at the young age of 15. Soon after moving to New York to attend NYU, he began broadcasting his radio show Beats in Space, which brought him notoriety across the airwaves. Now in its 12th year, listeners ... More >>

"All Good Things": Little truth in true-crime story

Riot Grrrls Return

Dum Dum Girls and the new wave of feminist punk.

An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big.

Study: Millions Spent on Campaigns For and Against Gay Marriage Totally Pointless

​A New York University professor analyzed dozens of ballot measures concerning gay marriage over the last 20 years and came up with one mighty conclusion in a study released today: expensive campaigns for and against legal recognition of gay couples do jack squat to change voters' opinions.The rep ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Movies

Local: Mission Eatery is on a local mission

Meet the Craigslist of Sustainable Food Jobs

sustainablefoodjobs.wordpress.comGet paid, eco-foodies!​Want to parlay your foraging acumen into a gig with benefits? Fixing to get your Master's in Food Studies from NYU and starting to wonder how you're ever going to pay off all those loans? From restaurant jobs and farm work to researcher a ... More >>

DJ Tim Sweeney brings "Beats in Space" to S.F.

Is This the Gayest Book Ever Written About Food?

The Gay Cookbook by Chef Lou Rand Hogan   Published: 1965, Sherbourne Press, New York What the hell?: The Boys in the Band meets James Beard -- a self-consciously campy guide to the kitchen, at a time when gays were still mostly closeted. An excerpt from the entry for grinding hamburger ... More >>

Affordable Supermarket Treats?

On Comics: File Under 'Phantasmagoric'

Night Day: Calendar Picks for 5/20

Long Live the Wrestle

The Favor

Unwelcome Visitor

Tom McCarthy's preachy liberal guilt dwarfs any good intentions.

It's the Food, Stupid

Michael Pollan's new book exposes how "nutritionism" has ruined our diets.

Kim Kardashian's Ass, Jessica Sierra's Sextape - The Best and Worst of Sex in 2007

Best Albums of 2007 — SF Weekly's David Downs

AsianWeek story tells readers why they should love black people. Hear that, Kenneth Eng?

SF Weekly Proudly Announces Ashley Harrell, Newest Member of the SF Weekly Action Force 5 (ish)

LastNight: Interpol at Bill Graham Civic Center

CD Review: Northern State -- Can I Keep This Pen?

Dangermouse and Girl Talk talk Copyright

All Shocked Out -- Vice PR is Teh Suck

Mixtape Shmixtape

Wherein we review Yay Area mixtapes of the day

Bouncer

The best new club in S.F., Madrone Lounge, is a -- gasp! -- collective art space

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Gettin' Windy in the City

The Chicago clip crew gleefully gabs on in Barbershop 2

Night & Day for the week of February 12-18, 2003

Highlights of the SF Weekly.

She's Back

Performance artist Karen Finley, that "chocolate smeared woman," is back in S.F.

House of Tudor

Pressed fairies, effete torch singers, and highly techy pop acts

International Dateline

How a 24-year-old San Jose woman became a media liaison for Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan

Royal's Screwups

Wes Anderson's film is like its characters: flawed genius

Crossing the Racial Divide

A college professor chronicles his childhood as a white kid growing up in the black and Puerto Rican housing projects of New York City

Recordings

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