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Blogs
April 4, 2012
Gwar's Oderus Urungus on Eating Crack, Dining on Mexicans, and Cultivating STDs
It must be difficult being billions of years old and living amongst the repulsive society of the human species, but our interview with Gwar frontman Oderus Urungus reveals that he has found certain simple pleasures to temper his hatred. The extraterrestrial heavy metal legend loudly snorted and burp ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2012
Low Limit Talks Making Music for Gangsters on Mushrooms and 'Furniture Garage'
After forming their partnership in San Francisco, Lando Kal and Low Limit, known together as Lazer Sword, quickly became leaders of the West Coast crunk-bass sound. But while Lazer Sword is primarily known for beat-oriented and percussion-heavy tracks, Low Limit's solo music is fully of syrupy chops ... More >>
Music
January 4, 2012
Better, Later, and on the Air: A Wish list for S.F. Music in 2012
After forming their partnership in San Francisco, Lando Kal and Low Limit, known together as Lazer Sword, quickly became leaders of the West Coast crunk-bass sound. But while Lazer Sword is primarily known for beat-oriented and percussion-heavy tracks, Low Limit's solo music is fully of syrupy chops ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2011
Beloved Bay Area Hip-Hop Photographer D-Ray Needs Help Paying for Surgery
D-Ray Archer (right) and hip-hop star Drake.D-Ray Archer needs no last name in the West Coast rap world; she's widely known as one of the few female photojournalists with a street stamp of approval up and down the state. Her deep love for the local Bay Area scene is apparent to anyone who tal ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2011
Author Brian Lew on the Early Days of Metallica and the Bay Area Thrash Metal Scene
Brian Lew Cliff Burton playing live with Metallica for the first time at the Stone in San Francisco, 1983 See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and L ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2011
Sugar Rush at the Sir Francis Drake: Prep Your Sweet Tooth Now
In a world of corn syrup, San Francisco chefs continue to handle sugar as well as anyone, and San Franciscans themselves have certainly supported them. Now you can support your sweet tooth, and a great cause, alongside some of the Bay's best desserts. The fifth annual Sugar Rush, Spark's ann ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2011
Swoon: Wilco Is Playing Three Bay Area Shows Early Next Year
Christopher VictorioWilco playing the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, June 27, 2009 A proposition: The best part about Wilco putting out a new album is that it means the band will be touring behind it. Yes? No? Maybe? Whatever you think of The Whole Love, Wilco's latest album (and oh damn if you ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2011
The Great American Beer Festival: Bay Area Brewers and Chefs Bring the Brew
In 1982, the inaugural Great American Beer Festival showcased 47 beers from 24 breweries. The lucky 800 attendees had a fair shot at trying every beer in the room. Thirty years later, even the most hardened liver shudders in fear of how the festival has grown. With 466 breweries pouring 2,400 beers ... More >>
Blogs
September 19, 2011
Comprehensive Guide to CSAs in San Francisco: Meat, Eggs, Dairy, Etc.
A CSA meat package from Marin Sun FarmsMany people tend to think of CSAs only for fruits and vegetables, but in the Bay Area we're also blessed with a variety of meatier options. We've done the work of finding the farmers; now all you have to do is place your order and start up the grill. In ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Straus Milk Now Comes in Lunch Box (or Cafe) Size
I grew up with milk delivered to my door, in glass bottles, from the local dairy, so when I moved to the Bay Area, Straus quickly became my milk of choice. It's whole milk with a thick cream top, just like I had as a kid. Now it might be a little easier for me to get my kids to drink the mil ... More >>
Music
August 3, 2011
Insurgent Hip-Hop: Kreayshawn, Lil B, and Bay Area Rappers Throw Out the Rules
I grew up with milk delivered to my door, in glass bottles, from the local dairy, so when I moved to the Bay Area, Straus quickly became my milk of choice. It's whole milk with a thick cream top, just like I had as a kid. Now it might be a little easier for me to get my kids to drink the mil ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2011
Climate Change: $5.3 Billion Worth of Sea Walls Needed to Protect Bay Area
Come 2151, little sea-walls like this one at The Embarcadero simply won't doClimate-change-borne threats of flood, erosion, inundation, and salinization will spur the Bay Area to spend more than $5.3 billion on seawalls and levees, according to a report released by the environmental group NRDC.Th ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
Video Proof That Children Love Nobunny -- Or at Least Squeezing His Nose
Nobunny. With children! Awesome of the day, right here: Rabbit-faced Bay Area garage-rocker Nobunny -- a favorite of sweaty rock fans from 924 Gilman to Bottom of the Hill -- is on tour right now. While in Chicago, he appeared (for the second time!) on a children's musical show called Chic-A- ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
DJ Prince Aries Talks Bay Area Rap, Loving Too $hort, and Why Busta Rhymes Is a Jerk
Prince AriesPrince Aries has been a presence in the Bay Area's hip-hop scene for more than a decade now, holding down VJ duties on the Distortion 2 Static show, throwing local rap parties, and now releasing a mixtape that combines exclusive tracks from the Bay's bright new stars like DaVinci ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2011
Underground Market Gets National Exposure, a Seasonal Produce Chart for the Detail-Obsessed
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. The New York Times Discovers the Underground. Times Bay Area correspondent Patricia Leigh Brown visits the Underground Market, which she calls a "crave." (Mmm ... not buying it. ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2011
Helpful Advice: How To Survive NOT Going To SXSW
This week, thousands of music lovers, wayward drunks, and music industry folk have descended upon Austin, Texas, for the 2011 South By Southwest music "conference" (yeah, right). If you're still here at home in the Bay Area, the reality that you're missing five days of non-stop free music/beer/b ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2011
Download a Mixtape From Clams Casino, the Most Important Bay Area Hip-Hop Producer Not From the Bay Area
Lil B fucks with him. The Jealous Guys fuck with him too. And you may or may not have heard of them yet, but Oakland's Main Attrakionz are also in love with this New Jersey producer who is quietly leaving his mark on the Bay Area hip-hop scene. His name: Clams Casino.
Music
March 9, 2011
Rocky's Swag: Roach Gigz Rides His Cocky Charm Toward Rap's Big Ring
Lil B fucks with him. The Jealous Guys fuck with him too. And you may or may not have heard of them yet, but Oakland's Main Attrakionz are also in love with this New Jersey producer who is quietly leaving his mark on the Bay Area hip-hop scene. His name: Clams Casino.
Dining
March 9, 2011
Drink 2011: In Craft Brewing, the Meek Inherit the Earth
Lil B fucks with him. The Jealous Guys fuck with him too. And you may or may not have heard of them yet, but Oakland's Main Attrakionz are also in love with this New Jersey producer who is quietly leaving his mark on the Bay Area hip-hop scene. His name: Clams Casino.
Blogs
March 1, 2011
Is Bay Area Rap Too Insular? Roach Gigz Talks to MTV About the Pitfalls of Being Indie
Roach Gigz wants to get out from behind the Bay Area fence.For whatever reason, Bay Area hip-hop is an insular beast that often fails to escape its Northern California birthplace. Sure, we have artists like E-40 and the Souls of Mischief that made it into the national spotlight ever so briefly, a ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2011
Obama to Come to Bay Area This Week to Talk Jobs
Yes, we still can The day after Speaker of the House John Boehner called President Barack Obama's budget plan a job killer, the White House announced the president will be making a West Coast swing through the San Francisco Bay Area to address the one thing we really, really need: jobs.The White ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2011
Zion I and The Grouch Reunite for Sophomore LP Heroes in the Healing of the Nation
In 2006, Zion I and The Grouch, two of the bigger names in Bay Area hip-hop, teamed up to deliver Heroes in the City of Dope. The album turned out to be a refreshing collaboration, full of exquisite wordplay and rubbery, hyphy-inspired production. It also served as a return to form for two acts ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2011
SF Weekly Settles Pricing Lawsuit
SF Weekly today settled the below-cost pricing lawsuit filed against it in 2004 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. The agreement, under which the parties have resolved and settled their differences on mutually acceptable terms, brings the legal action to an end. Details are not being disclosed ... More >>
Blogs
December 24, 2010
The Year in Food: DIY Revolution
Joseph SchellPickles from Happy Girl Kitchen Co. at the Eat Real Fest, which drew 110,000 to Oakland for street food and urban homesteading demos.Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food. At the far end of the spectrum from street food and fine dinin ... More >>
Calendar
November 10, 2010
Spirituality and Salmon
Joseph SchellPickles from Happy Girl Kitchen Co. at the Eat Real Fest, which drew 110,000 to Oakland for street food and urban homesteading demos.Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food. At the far end of the spectrum from street food and fine dinin ... More >>
Calendar
October 27, 2010
Flickering Shadows
Joseph SchellPickles from Happy Girl Kitchen Co. at the Eat Real Fest, which drew 110,000 to Oakland for street food and urban homesteading demos.Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food. At the far end of the spectrum from street food and fine dinin ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2010
Green Day's Tour Homecoming Hits Shoreline Amphitheatre
Christopher VictorioGreen Day AFI Shoreline Amphitheatre September 4, 2010 (Far) better than: A skeptical old Green Day fan would expect. "HOME! HOME! I'M FUCKING HOME!" erupted Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong at Shoreline Amphitheatre on Saturday, his first words after ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2010
The On Land Experimental Music Festival: What's Burning Man, Anyway?
From this evening through the weekend, Café du Nord and its upstairs annex the Swedish American Hall are hosting the On Land festival, a dazzling array of ambient, psychedelic, improvisational, and straight-up noise performances. Much of the lineup testifies to the Bay Area's vibrant experimenta ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2010
New York Times Prints Hallucinogenic Paean to Mission Hipster Chicks
If you thumbed through yesterday's edition of The New York Times, you may have chanced across a 1,500-word essay on the fashion of San Francisco. It's always fun and a little maddening to see what the Gray Lady makes of Bay Area culture, and this latest offering is worth a read -- if for no other ... More >>
Film
September 1, 2010
Fall Arts: Pacific Film Archive spotlights underground filmmakers
If you thumbed through yesterday's edition of The New York Times, you may have chanced across a 1,500-word essay on the fashion of San Francisco. It's always fun and a little maddening to see what the Gray Lady makes of Bay Area culture, and this latest offering is worth a read -- if for no other ... More >>
Blogs
August 25, 2010
Fillmore MC DaVinci on the Mixed Bag of Gentrification, and Why His Music Isn't Throwback Rap
Ken TaylorDaVinciEasily the most surprising and refreshing hip-hop record to come out of the Bay Area this year is the first album from DaVinci, The Day the Turf Stood Still. Not only did that record revitalize this writer's faith in local hip-hop, but praise for the massive debut has come f ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2010
Bar Adagio Opens After a Caesura, Cat Cora Queues Up to Make an SFO Entrance
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Carolyn A. at Eater SF reports that the Adagio Hotel, which shut down Cortez a while back, has replaced the restaurant with Bar Adagio (550 Geary, 775-5000, website). The pitch: More casual ... More >>
Music
August 18, 2010
Can new Bay Area rappers step out of hyphy's shadow?
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Carolyn A. at Eater SF reports that the Adagio Hotel, which shut down Cortez a while back, has replaced the restaurant with Bar Adagio (550 Geary, 775-5000, website). The pitch: More casual ... More >>
Music
July 21, 2010
All Shook Down: SF Weekly's music fest is unlike any other this summer
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Carolyn A. at Eater SF reports that the Adagio Hotel, which shut down Cortez a while back, has replaced the restaurant with Bar Adagio (550 Geary, 775-5000, website). The pitch: More casual ... More >>
Music
June 30, 2010
Town Techno
League510's high-energy, synth-fueled hip-hop.
Blogs
June 25, 2010
A Look Back at Michael Jackson's Bay Area Appearances
Michael Jackson never graced the Bay Area with a solo show, though the Jackson 5 did perform its second official concert as a Motown act at San Francisco's Cow Palace on June 19, 1970, appearing as the opening act for Tina Turner and Rare Earth; they returned to the venue in 1972 and 1973. J5 wa ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2010
Q & A w/ Ecoli
Emily Rose EpsteinThe Bay Area has a long history of punk rock debauchery. From punk's beginnings in the seventies to the nineties, Northern California boasted some of the loudest, rudest acts in America strutting their stuff at legendary clubs like the Mab. But these days, the punk rock scene i ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2010
Why Is There No Local Matzoh?
Shmurah matzoh.As SF Weekly's Joe Eskenazi wrote a couple years ago, matzoh drama has become endemic in the Bay Area. Price hikes, gluts, shortages, frantic shopping marathons. Why is this night not like any other night? Because Mommy spent six hours looking for bread, dearie. Not to add to the f ... More >>
Music
March 10, 2010
SXSW 2010 Showgoers' Guide to Bay Area Acts
Shmurah matzoh.As SF Weekly's Joe Eskenazi wrote a couple years ago, matzoh drama has become endemic in the Bay Area. Price hikes, gluts, shortages, frantic shopping marathons. Why is this night not like any other night? Because Mommy spent six hours looking for bread, dearie. Not to add to the f ... More >>
Calendar
November 11, 2009
Head Spinning
Shmurah matzoh.As SF Weekly's Joe Eskenazi wrote a couple years ago, matzoh drama has become endemic in the Bay Area. Price hikes, gluts, shortages, frantic shopping marathons. Why is this night not like any other night? Because Mommy spent six hours looking for bread, dearie. Not to add to the f ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2009
Eight Drinks That Give You the Energy of a Rapper
Janine KahnClick here for a full rapper energy drink slideshow.Even with all the vibrant energy contained in hip-hop, sometimes people need an extra little kick in order to take in the multitude of offerings the culture has to give. That's why rap-branded energy drinks are a good synergy of lifestyl ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2009
Bay Area Graffiti Documented in New Book
We live in one of those magical cities where we don't even need to visit a gallery take in fine art -- all we have to do is just step outside. The San Francisco Bay Area has always been a veritable hotbed for street art since its humble beginnings, and is documented in great detail through photogra ... More >>
Calendar
April 23, 2008
Love It or Leave It
We live in one of those magical cities where we don't even need to visit a gallery take in fine art -- all we have to do is just step outside. The San Francisco Bay Area has always been a veritable hotbed for street art since its humble beginnings, and is documented in great detail through photogra ... More >>
Music
February 20, 2008
The Demise of Hyphy
Thizzle, bling, and blunts may have helped bring down the overhyped hyphy movement. But KMEL pulled the trigger.
Calendar
February 20, 2008
Wonder Land
Thizzle, bling, and blunts may have helped bring down the overhyped hyphy movement. But KMEL pulled the trigger.
News
February 28, 2007
Must Work for Free
By not paying their interns, some Bay Area publications may be violating the state labor code
News
October 27, 2004
Jackpot
How four tiny Indian tribes, with help from powerful gambling interests, are trying to transform the Bay Area into a slot machine Mecca
Calendar
May 5, 2004
Posh Folks Exposed
Sneak into luxe green spaces
Dining
November 8, 2000
Well Seasoned
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