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

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

How Big Is Gotye? His S.F. Show Just Got 16 Times Larger

There's no doubt that Gotye is on a big rise: The video for "Somebody That I Used to Know," the first single off the Australian pop artist's latest album, is going gangbusters, racking up more than 121 million views on YouTube since it was posted last year. Yesterday brought another indication of t ... More >>

Tea Party Princess: Victoria Jackson and the Rabid Right

There's no doubt that Gotye is on a big rise: The video for "Somebody That I Used to Know," the first single off the Australian pop artist's latest album, is going gangbusters, racking up more than 121 million views on YouTube since it was posted last year. Yesterday brought another indication of t ... More >>

Outside Lands Brain-Burner: Fire on the Bayou by the Meters

​ Listen to this while high: Fire on the Bayou, by the Original Meters.Behind the buzz: Buried w-a-a-ay deep on the bill at this weekend's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival are The Original Meters, the slickest karass of funketeers ever to lurch out of New Orleans. Groomed for superstardo ... More >>

Young Adult

​ Listen to this while high: Fire on the Bayou, by the Original Meters.Behind the buzz: Buried w-a-a-ay deep on the bill at this weekend's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival are The Original Meters, the slickest karass of funketeers ever to lurch out of New Orleans. Groomed for superstardo ... More >>

Live From Studio Z

​ Listen to this while high: Fire on the Bayou, by the Original Meters.Behind the buzz: Buried w-a-a-ay deep on the bill at this weekend's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival are The Original Meters, the slickest karass of funketeers ever to lurch out of New Orleans. Groomed for superstardo ... More >>

"Bridesmaids": Women Get Their Own Apatow Comedy, for Better and for Worse

​ Listen to this while high: Fire on the Bayou, by the Original Meters.Behind the buzz: Buried w-a-a-ay deep on the bill at this weekend's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival are The Original Meters, the slickest karass of funketeers ever to lurch out of New Orleans. Groomed for superstardo ... More >>

Not Like “Duress”

​ Listen to this while high: Fire on the Bayou, by the Original Meters.Behind the buzz: Buried w-a-a-ay deep on the bill at this weekend's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival are The Original Meters, the slickest karass of funketeers ever to lurch out of New Orleans. Groomed for superstardo ... More >>

NAPT: Show Preview

​ Listen to this while high: Fire on the Bayou, by the Original Meters.Behind the buzz: Buried w-a-a-ay deep on the bill at this weekend's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival are The Original Meters, the slickest karass of funketeers ever to lurch out of New Orleans. Groomed for superstardo ... More >>

Director Judd Apatow Talks Filmmaking, Pee Wee Herman, and S.F. (VIDEO)

​Back in September, we gave our readers a chance to interview director Judd Apatow-- the man behind the TV show Freaks and Geeks, and director of movies like Knocked Up and The Forty Year Old Virgin. Readers sent in three sample questions they would ask Apatow, and we picked the ones we liked best ... More >>

Celebrity Vacation

Must be fun making a crap movie with all your old SNL pals.

Show preview: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Must be fun making a crap movie with all your old SNL pals.

Save the Date: Next Weekend's Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Promises to Give Squash Its Due

SFAntii/FlickrPumpkins are like chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.​If the shrimp-infatuated Bubba from Forrest Gump had grown up, not in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, but in Half Moon Bay, California, he might have extolled the virtues of a different food to his new buddy Forrest. We ... More >>

Just About Everybody in S.F. Loses With State's Budget Cuts -- But Losing Less Is the New Winning

​When the city controller yesterday announced state budget cuts will deal San Francisco a $26.5 million punch in the gut, your humble narrator immediately thought of Jon Lovitz. Just as the Saturday Night Live nebbish once pitched himself to single women with the battle cry "Lower your standards!" ... More >>

Knowledge Is Power: Cop's Tutorial at Head Shop Results in Big Drug Bust

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Adele-icious

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Brush with Fate

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Club Night Review: Trivia Night at Edinburgh Castle

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Let Them Entertain You

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

PianoFight's skits in ShortLived better than SNL

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Baby Mama Needs a Diaper Change

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Anne Frank, The Musical

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Kids in the Hall Tribute: LastNight

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Sketchfest stokes the musician-comedian love affair

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Cellar Beware

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Somebody's Gonna Get Pregnant?

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Hucking Filarious

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

The Beautiful Bald Head

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

They Killed the Dog

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Cannibal Corpse

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

These Dogs Still Hunt

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Our top DVD picks for the week of May 23.

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

Now Dirtier Than Ever

Wait, that's not the Uncola!A talkative head shop owner and his eager pupil on the San Francisco Police Department can take credit for a sizable narcotics seizure over in Ingleside.During a recent routine traffic stop, a pair of officers noticed a soda bottle in a plastic bag in the driver's glove c ... More >>

She's a Fighter

Bay Area represent!

You So Lazy

Martin Lawrence in a crappy kid movie? Whassup with that?

Best Theater Ensemble

Martin Lawrence in a crappy kid movie? Whassup with that?

OK Then

Ashlee-gate proves that George Bush's incompetence has corrupted our nation's pop singers

Good News

Will Ferrell's Anchorman is dumb, and funny, as hell

Kinda Sketchy

Three weeks of performance bliss

Saturday Night Jive

On tour with comedian Chris Rock, the fearless true heir to Richard Pryor

Free Will

Another SNL vet may be the next Bill Murray. Seriously.

Sucks, Dickie

Just how does David Spade keep getting work?

Best Food for Chicago Expatriates

Moishe's Pippic

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter

Mighty Funny Warriors

My Own Private Sukiprata

Soup's On

Just Won Ton

The Man Who Came to Dinner

A Kid in the Hall

This Is for All Those Size-1 Dresses, You Bitch!

A Kid in the Hall

Night+Day

A Kid in the Hall