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"Peepers, a canticle": Internet Hoax Was Launched in the Mail

Watch: Carson Daily Makes Late-Night TV Safe for S.F. Faves Thee Oh Sees

While at South by Southwest, San Francisco garage-rock institution Thee Oh Sees did something a bit more unusual than playing a bunch of shows to sweaty adorers. One night on the back patio at Red 7, the band was filmed performing for Last Call With Carson Daly. The former TRL host even joined the b ... More >>

"Casa de Mi Padre": Tastefully Parodies Spanish Telenovelas

While at South by Southwest, San Francisco garage-rock institution Thee Oh Sees did something a bit more unusual than playing a bunch of shows to sweaty adorers. One night on the back patio at Red 7, the band was filmed performing for Last Call With Carson Daly. The former TRL host even joined the b ... More >>

Here Is Video of Wallpaper. Performing "Best Song Everr" on Jimmy Kimmel Live

It's begun: Only a couple of months after signing to Epic Records, Oakland crunk-pop outfit Wallpaper. is on a media storm, pushing "Best Song Everr" on radio stations around the country and, as of yesterday, to late-night television. Clad in pink ridiculousness and showing no shortage of enthusiasm ... More >>

Are Schweddy Balls Delicious, or Just Irritating to Gay-Bashers?

​I was a little surprised this morning when Erin Sherbert, the editor of SF Weekly's news blog the Snitch, messaged me at home asking for reasons why I might want to eat Schweddy Balls. I mean, there are soooo many reasons I wouldn't want to, even though it is a new flavor of Ben & Jerry's ic ... More >>

An Albany Kid Reflects on Hometown Punks Rancid: "That's My America"

Rachel TejadaRancid​ It's probably no coincidence that it began two years ago, when I was living in New York and constantly homesick for the West Coast. Someone would put a Rancid song, generally "Roots Radicals" or "Time Bomb," on the odd punk-heavy bar jukebox, and a wave of pure, adolescent ... More >>

No Age, Grass Widow, and Rank/Xerox Bring the Ruckus at the Rickshaw

Joseph SchellNo Age at Rickshaw Stop Saturday. ​No AgeGrass WidowRank/XeroxCrazy Band February 26, 2011 @ Rickshaw Stop Better than: Standing still at Best Coast/Wavves. I have a thing for drummers who sing. There's something about it that triggers endorphins: this is a multitasking musician, bo ... More >>

Just Make It Up as You Go Along

Joseph SchellNo Age at Rickshaw Stop Saturday. ​No AgeGrass WidowRank/XeroxCrazy Band February 26, 2011 @ Rickshaw Stop Better than: Standing still at Best Coast/Wavves. I have a thing for drummers who sing. There's something about it that triggers endorphins: this is a multitasking musician, bo ... More >>

Trading Places

Joseph SchellNo Age at Rickshaw Stop Saturday. ​No AgeGrass WidowRank/XeroxCrazy Band February 26, 2011 @ Rickshaw Stop Better than: Standing still at Best Coast/Wavves. I have a thing for drummers who sing. There's something about it that triggers endorphins: this is a multitasking musician, bo ... More >>

Easy Name to Make Bad Jokes About

Joseph SchellNo Age at Rickshaw Stop Saturday. ​No AgeGrass WidowRank/XeroxCrazy Band February 26, 2011 @ Rickshaw Stop Better than: Standing still at Best Coast/Wavves. I have a thing for drummers who sing. There's something about it that triggers endorphins: this is a multitasking musician, bo ... More >>

Rheem Theater to Close Tomorrow -- And We're Nostalgic Already

That's all, folks...​It appears time has run out for a little theater where time appeared to stand still. Tomorrow will be the last picture show at the Rheem Theater, located across the bay in the small town of Rheem -- which bears no relationship to the furnace and water cooler company of the sam ... More >>

Academy of Art Prez Pens Infomercial for Her School -- on SFGate

What does it behoove SFGate to run an infomercial praising Academy of Art -- written by the school's president?​When SFGate debuted its "City Brights" blogging section, we didn't know what to think. Soon, however, the strategy became apparent -- give a space to every last person in the Bay Area an ... More >>

SF Weekly Names Winners of Masterminds Arts Grants

Hanna Quevedo​Thanks to Project One for hosting a great party and all the artists who helped make a terrific show last night. We wish we could have given out grants to everyone, but we only had enough money to give out three. Hanna Quevedo​Without further ado, here are the artists who took ... More >>

Classic Comedy: Love It

Hanna Quevedo​Thanks to Project One for hosting a great party and all the artists who helped make a terrific show last night. We wish we could have given out grants to everyone, but we only had enough money to give out three. Hanna Quevedo​Without further ado, here are the artists who took ... More >>

There Can Be Only One: Man, Armed With Samurai Sword and 'Talking Crazy,' Assaults Cops

"Samurai Hotel" debuted on Saturday Night Live in 1975. On July 30 it took place in San Francisco -- for real.​It was James Brown who famously uttered "I don't know karate but I do know ka-razy!" Well, pity the cops who encounter the man who knows both. Last week in San Francisco, it appears to ha ... More >>

SFPD Reports Bernal Heights Robbery/Fight On Moving Car Straight Out of "T.J. Hooker"

It was Candide's grating mentor Pangloss who opined that our noses are shaped as they are so as to better accommodate our eyeglasses. If Voltaire had been writing American cop shows in the 1970s instead of French social satire in the 1750s, Inspector Pangloss would have put it this way: Car hoods ar ... More >>

Phoenix crafts the season’s perfect hits

It was Candide's grating mentor Pangloss who opined that our noses are shaped as they are so as to better accommodate our eyeglasses. If Voltaire had been writing American cop shows in the 1970s instead of French social satire in the 1750s, Inspector Pangloss would have put it this way: Car hoods ar ... More >>

S.F. writers Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida give birth to a beautiful screenplay

It was Candide's grating mentor Pangloss who opined that our noses are shaped as they are so as to better accommodate our eyeglasses. If Voltaire had been writing American cop shows in the 1970s instead of French social satire in the 1750s, Inspector Pangloss would have put it this way: Car hoods ar ... More >>

Giants Fans Aren't Panicking, But Slashed Ticket Prices Indicate Team Brass May Be

The San Francisco Giants are a hell of a team. Only a few games into the nascent season and they've already got me feeling like a naive jackass for writing that "Hope Springs Eternal on Opening Day." Perhaps, with this team, hope really is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. And yet, the ... More >>

February Book Events

Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Commonwealth Club, Jonathon Keats at City Lights, and more.

Here Come the Funny People

Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Commonwealth Club, Jonathon Keats at City Lights, and more.

Here Come the Funny People

Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Commonwealth Club, Jonathon Keats at City Lights, and more.

Al Green goes back to the basics

Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Commonwealth Club, Jonathon Keats at City Lights, and more.

Oscar-Starved

Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Commonwealth Club, Jonathon Keats at City Lights, and more.

SNL Throws In It's 'I Drink Your Milkshake' Two Cents

Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Commonwealth Club, Jonathon Keats at City Lights, and more.

Walk Hard: The first biopic to address bad tripping with the Beatles and slicing your sibling in half

Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Commonwealth Club, Jonathon Keats at City Lights, and more.

Killer Climax

Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Commonwealth Club, Jonathon Keats at City Lights, and more.

Bender’s Big Score, Hot Rod, Waitress - New DVDs reviewed

Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Commonwealth Club, Jonathon Keats at City Lights, and more.

oPtion$: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs

Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Commonwealth Club, Jonathon Keats at City Lights, and more.

Killing My Lobster: For the Very First Time

Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Commonwealth Club, Jonathon Keats at City Lights, and more.

Sweet Dreams

In difficult times, a bite of cake, a sip of creamy hot chocolate, or a forkful of pie can elevate your mood

Booger and Borat. You Likes?

In difficult times, a bite of cake, a sip of creamy hot chocolate, or a forkful of pie can elevate your mood

A Masterpiece on Canvas

In difficult times, a bite of cake, a sip of creamy hot chocolate, or a forkful of pie can elevate your mood

Dream On

In difficult times, a bite of cake, a sip of creamy hot chocolate, or a forkful of pie can elevate your mood

R. Kelly and the Fall of the rock empire

In difficult times, a bite of cake, a sip of creamy hot chocolate, or a forkful of pie can elevate your mood

Fairies Get Funny

Crustacean to smooch amphibian

Do the Twist

Animation fest delights the unstable, again

A Delight in Horrors

There's no real reason to revive this weird show, but it works nonetheless

Bill Thrills

A week of Murray mania

Feels Like 80 Days

Jackie Chan takes a long trip without going anyplace new

Teen Spleen

Talking smack wreaks high school havoc in Mean Girls

A Deep Drink

Beer plus friends equals art

Just a Bowl Full of Sugar

Whether you love or hate the original, Sing-A-Long Sound of Music has found its proper home

Night & Day

Whether you love or hate the original, Sing-A-Long Sound of Music has found its proper home

Riff Raff

Whether you love or hate the original, Sing-A-Long Sound of Music has found its proper home

Night + Day

Whether you love or hate the original, Sing-A-Long Sound of Music has found its proper home

Riff Raff

Whether you love or hate the original, Sing-A-Long Sound of Music has found its proper home

Recordings

Whether you love or hate the original, Sing-A-Long Sound of Music has found its proper home

Recordings

Whether you love or hate the original, Sing-A-Long Sound of Music has found its proper home

Night+Day

Whether you love or hate the original, Sing-A-Long Sound of Music has found its proper home