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  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    The Raincoats Are Playing on an Extremely Rainy Night in San Francisco. Coincidence?

    It's raining like mad in San Francisco right now. Everyone's clothes are soaked. Our friends are complaining. Your friends are complaining. It sucks. Which is why it seems kind of magical that tonight, of all nights, a seminal all-female British punk band called the Raincoats has chosen to play in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    San Francisco Goes in for Guerrilla Grafting, While Seattle Plants an Edible Park

    ​The San Francisco-based Guerrilla Grafters have been receiving a slew of press this past month, including writeups in the Bay Citizen and Huffington Post. The Grafters are a loose group of people trying to transform, one limb at a time, some of the ornamental apple and pear trees in San Fran ... More >>

  • Music

    September 7, 2011

    Fleet Foxes: Show Preview

    ​The San Francisco-based Guerrilla Grafters have been receiving a slew of press this past month, including writeups in the Bay Citizen and Huffington Post. The Grafters are a loose group of people trying to transform, one limb at a time, some of the ornamental apple and pear trees in San Fran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    What It's Really Like To Be in a Band, Starring Seattle's Moondoggies

    ​Headlining the Independent tonight is a Seattle folk-rock band by the name of Moondoggies. Maybe you have heard of this band, or its rich, rocking, Neil Young-indebted sophomore album Tidelands, which was released on the Hardly Art label last year. Or maybe not.Maybe you imagine that because the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Worlds AIDS Day: Code Red for City Hall

    Exercising While IntoxicatedWorked before...​During the baseball postseason, City Hall was turned orange. And the Giants won the World Series. Action, reaction. A less immediately gratifying color transformation will be undertaken today when City Hall goes red in honor of World Aids Day. San Franc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Rally to Restore Sanity/March To Keep Fear Alive In San Francisco

    ​The good people at Mission Local have found something for you to do on Oct. 30. Those too busy or broke to head to the nation's capital for the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity/March to Keep Fear Alive can head to a local version scheduled for Civic Center Plaza. And you can al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Disco Volante Spins into Oakland, Meadowood Calendars 12 Days of Eating

    ​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Courtesy of Inside Scoop's Paolo L., we learn of Disco Volante (347 14th St., Oakland), from Kevin Cook, Damon Gallagher, and Tim Tolle. The pitch: California local-seasonal food from former ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Justin Bieber Doesn't Want to See Your Marriage Proposals

    This photo is NSFT (Not Safe For Tweens). You have been warned. photo via Seattle Weekly​ Our sister site, Seattle Weekly, encountered a travesty last night at a Justin Bieber concert in Washington. Security guards did the unspeakable and trashed what can only be called a tween's utmost express ... More >>

  • Music

    July 7, 2010

    Club preview: Mux Mool

    This photo is NSFT (Not Safe For Tweens). You have been warned. photo via Seattle Weekly​ Our sister site, Seattle Weekly, encountered a travesty last night at a Justin Bieber concert in Washington. Security guards did the unspeakable and trashed what can only be called a tween's utmost express ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    RN74 Spinning Off a Seattle Branch

    ​It has been a good month for RN74, Michael Mina and Rajat Parr's wine bar and oenophilia-oriented restaurant, where even the chef is a winemaker. A few weeks ago, RN74 made it to the finals of the James Beard Awards in the Best New Restaurant category. And now it's having a baby. Er, cloning its ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2010

    Lay with the Animal

    ​It has been a good month for RN74, Michael Mina and Rajat Parr's wine bar and oenophilia-oriented restaurant, where even the chef is a winemaker. A few weeks ago, RN74 made it to the finals of the James Beard Awards in the Best New Restaurant category. And now it's having a baby. Er, cloning its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Track of the Day: Hobocop Wants Good News

    ​Oakland's Hobocop, a group inspired by "the stench of nag champa and desperation," has a couple things going for it. First, there's that great name. I'm a sucker for funny puns as band names, and these guys have a good one. Second, they play trashy punk that sounds like it came out of some weirdo ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 13, 2010

    Jonathan Kauffman: Remapping the city, one memorable dish at a time

    ​Oakland's Hobocop, a group inspired by "the stench of nag champa and desperation," has a couple things going for it. First, there's that great name. I'm a sucker for funny puns as band names, and these guys have a good one. Second, they play trashy punk that sounds like it came out of some weirdo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Mandatory Recycling Hasn't Led to Fascism In Other Locales -- But San Francisco's Proposed Fines are 10 Times Higher Than Elsewhere

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Music

    March 4, 2009

    Ghost in the Machine

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Music

    February 18, 2009

    Unknown facts about Noise Pop performers

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2008

    This Is Not a Crayon

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Music

    October 15, 2008

    Howl at the Moondoggies

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Music

    September 10, 2008

    New local music making the grade

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Music

    August 27, 2008

    Fools and Urinals

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2008

    MP3 of the Day: The Dirtbombs

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2008

    MP3 of the Day: High Decibels

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Music

    July 16, 2008

    Jewish Mags and Marching Bands

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Music

    July 2, 2008

    Seattle's Sex Vid shoot their hardcore wad

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 25, 2008

    Tube Time

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Music

    April 30, 2008

    David Karsten Daniels Strikes Gold

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 9, 2008

    She Takes Many Forms

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 22, 2007

    Squeezing Beasts

    It hasn't gotten quite to this point yet...There's no getting around it -- the notion of a government employee or contractor inspecting one's refuse and approving or disapproving its composition is creepy, regardless of how altruistic the goal of waste reduction. You cannot argue about this. That be ... More >>

  • Music

    August 15, 2007

    Tiny Vipers

    Hands Across the Void (Sub Pop)

  • Culture

    August 8, 2007

    Proximity

    Dancing with strangers in the audience

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2007
  • Blogs

    June 6, 2007

    Gettin’ High on Death

    Dancing with strangers in the audience

  • News

    December 7, 2005

    City of Love

    This just in: San Francisco is a singles' paradise!

  • Calendar

    May 4, 2005

    Art Bandits

    What's stealing and what's not, in "Pirated: A Post Asian Perspective"

  • Music

    February 16, 2005

    Short, Sharp, Shocked

    Living the punk lifestyle is all the Briefs ever wanted, but it's not an easy existence

  • Music

    April 7, 2004

    The Peels Sessions

    They're San Francisco's hottest garage band -- in Los Angeles, anyway. Will their hometown give them the respect they deserve?

  • Music

    June 18, 2003

    Trüby Trio

    Elevator Music

  • Film

    May 22, 2002

    Paris Is Burning

    The Lesbian & Gay Film Festival adds a new $10,000 prize for documentaries

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002
  • Music

    February 17, 1999
  • Calendar

    August 5, 1998

    Night + Day

    Yerba Buena Gardens Carousel

  • Music

    June 24, 1998

    Hear This

    Yerba Buena Gardens Carousel

  • Calendar

    May 6, 1998

    That Giant Sucking Sound

    Yerba Buena Gardens Carousel

  • Calendar

    July 2, 1997

    Savage Love

    Yerba Buena Gardens Carousel

  • Calendar

    December 11, 1996

    Mulch

    Yerba Buena Gardens Carousel

  • Music

    November 20, 1996

    Beer-Soaked Lambs

    Hype! surpasses its title

  • Music

    November 20, 1996

    Hype! Dreams

    A conversation with the Seattle scene's chroniclers

  • Music

    September 11, 1996

    Suspicious Minds

    A conversation with the Seattle scene's chroniclers

  • Calendar

    April 24, 1996

    Savage Love

    A conversation with the Seattle scene's chroniclers

  • Calendar

    May 10, 1995

    REAL ASTROLOGY for an unreal world

    A conversation with the Seattle scene's chroniclers

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