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

Mac Dre's Old Record Label Affiliates Arrested in Drug Bust After Federal Thizzvestigation

As the late Mac Dre explained, Thizz Face is "a look on your face like you smelled some piss."This expression is similar to "a look on your face when you are arrested as part of a nationwide DEA drug-trafficking sweep."So we expect there were plenty of Thizz Faces to go around last Thursday when the ... More >>

Portland Man Literally Shows TSA Screeners What S.F. Nudists Won't

The year 2010 was anticlimactic for San Francisco nudists after they chickened out on their much-hyped plans to strip for TSA screeners to protest the new and invasive security measures at the airport.Well, it seems a Portland computer programmer showed us -- literally. According to press reports, 4 ... More >>

Coachella in Your Backyard: Nine Good Local Shows That Aren't Sold Out

The year 2010 was anticlimactic for San Francisco nudists after they chickened out on their much-hyped plans to strip for TSA screeners to protest the new and invasive security measures at the airport.Well, it seems a Portland computer programmer showed us -- literally. According to press reports, 4 ... More >>

The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne on Playing Noise Pop, Making The Soft Bulletin, and Feeling Free to Do Anything

As landmark albums go -- records that completely shifted the trajectory of a band's career -- The Soft Bulletin ranks among both the weirdest and the most rewarding. Which is why, to open the 20th year of the Noise Pop festival, the Flaming Lips will perform it in full tonight, Feb. 21, at Bimbo's 3 ... More >>

Ron Paul Is Crazy. Admit It.

​Congressman Ron Paul grabbed the lion's share of headlines among GOP presidential candidates last week, and not just because he is the latest improbable figure to challenge the inevitable nomination of Mitt Romney.The conservative Weekly Standard ran a rehash by writer James Kirchik of an article ... More >>

Sightglass Brothers Offer a Window on the Microroastery

Catherine ColeSightglass Coffee owners Jerad and Justin Morrison hope to open the cafe portion of their tri-level SOMA warehouse this spring.​It's been a little less than a year since Sightglass Coffee owners (and brothers) Jerad and Justin Morrison flipped the switch on their beloved cast-iro ... More >>

Mission Burger/Mission Street Food's Danny Bowien: The SFoodie Interview, Part 1

Danny Bowien.​Show up at Mission Burger ― the daytime food counter at Duc Loi Supermarket ― and you might not know that the guy cooking your fat slab of a burger is one of the city's smartest young chefs. Along with Mission Burger founder Anthony Myint, 27-year-old Danny Bowien is the guy ... More >>

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Mayoral Fantasy Football Challenge May Yet Be Won By Anonymous Yahoo Cubicle Jockey

Justin PageRon 'Mad Stork' Dellums​In less than three hours time, a stingy baker's dozen of American mayors -- that'd be 11 -- begin an odyssey toward what could be the thrill of victory or the agony of defeat ... to an unnamed office worker. Yes, it's the Yahoo Fantasy Football Mayoral showdown w ... More >>

San Francisco ranked 48th in Manliness...By a Snack-Food Company...and This is News

Bleh.I've never particularly liked Combos and there are two reasons for this. One: they're too crunchy. Two: the processed crap in the middle disgusts me. But now there is a much better reason not to eat Combo's -- the people trying to make us buy them are a bunch of sexist, ch ... More >>

Wayne Coyne loses the plot, keeps the magic for Christmas

Bleh.I've never particularly liked Combos and there are two reasons for this. One: they're too crunchy. Two: the processed crap in the middle disgusts me. But now there is a much better reason not to eat Combo's -- the people trying to make us buy them are a bunch of sexist, ch ... More >>

Poll: Bay Area Women Think McCain would be a Sneaky Boyfriend

Bleh.I've never particularly liked Combos and there are two reasons for this. One: they're too crunchy. Two: the processed crap in the middle disgusts me. But now there is a much better reason not to eat Combo's -- the people trying to make us buy them are a bunch of sexist, ch ... More >>

Xiu Xiu To Release "New Women as Lovers Double LP" and 2008 Tour

Bleh.I've never particularly liked Combos and there are two reasons for this. One: they're too crunchy. Two: the processed crap in the middle disgusts me. But now there is a much better reason not to eat Combo's -- the people trying to make us buy them are a bunch of sexist, ch ... More >>

Imagine Seeing John Lennon's Piano. 'Cuz That's the Only Way You're Going to See it.

Bleh.I've never particularly liked Combos and there are two reasons for this. One: they're too crunchy. Two: the processed crap in the middle disgusts me. But now there is a much better reason not to eat Combo's -- the people trying to make us buy them are a bunch of sexist, ch ... More >>

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Breaking Down Walls

A liberal intellectual and a right-winger on Death Row discover they have much in common

Echoes of the Revolution

The struggle between Bay Area law enforcement and the Black Panthers is still going on after 35 years

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And a Reagan New Year!

Learning to live with -- and even love -- a retro-'80s fad that just ... won't ... die

All God's Children

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

Our Bodies, Ourselves

The Vagina Monologues could use more soliloquy and less moralizing

Blind Faith

A new treatment for victims of severe emotional trauma involving rhythmic eye movements has therapists claiming almost miraculous results. Psychological researchers say the eyes just don't have it.

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Static Disposal

He'll Be There

Willie Hutch wrote one of the greatest songs ever, but he ain't done yet

Tales of the Country

How Tokyo Rose, "Machine Gun" Kelly, and Amelia Earhart are endangered by money-saving moves at the National Archives in San Bruno

Quadraphonia

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

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The Parking Police Academy

How regular folks learn the thankless, sometimes dangerous, metier of meter monitoring

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Masters of Disaster

The San Francisco Office of Emergency Services unveils its new post-apocalypse playbook

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One World, Under Gorby

Gorbachev Foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

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Gorbachev Foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?