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Sum 41 Survive a Pop-Punk Reality Show at Regency Ballroom, 1/12/13

Sum 41 Hunter Valentine IAmDynamite Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013 Regency Ballroom, San Francisco Better than: Survivor The first band of the night, IAmDynamite, a guitar-and-drum duo, used tribal-like combinations of drum beats and singing to start off the night. But these guys weren't tribal warriors ... More >>

The RIAA Responds Lamely to Claims of Piracy Advocates

​TorrentFreak, a news site that basically supports illicit downloading, last week used a half-assed ISP-lookup service to conclude that employees of both the Recording Industry Association of America and the Department of Homeland Security had downloaded illicit copies of various copyrighted works ... More >>

The Recording Industry Makes Itself Look Stupid Yet Again While Battling Piracy

​Over at Dan Mitchell's Digital Tremors column on our news blog, the Snitch, there's an interesting debate brewing over the recording industry's response to some piracy advocates' claims that its employees downloaded music and other files illegally. Mitchell's take is that while disputing thes ... More >>

The Franchise Episode Six Recap: Searching for Answers

SD Dirk/Flickr​In conception, The Franchise is not a very complicated show -- it tells human interests stories in the context of the Giants season with a healthy dose of insider access. It's built for a large audience, and as such is at its best when it's largely positive. The Giants need to be go ... More >>

The Franchise Episode 2 Recap: Hey Now, You're an All-Star

​I've written before that "The Franchise" is not really a show for Giants fans. In theory, it's a way for Major League Baseball to introduce some of the game's personalities to a broader audience at a time when they're finding it difficult to market most of their players. In its basic conception, ... More >>

Weekend's Darkly Soaring "End Times" Now Soundtracks a Dexter Teaser

​ The post-punk/shoegaze band Weekend graduated last year from local phenom to national thing with the Slumberland release of its debut album, Sports. Now the band's becoming even more of a thing: Its soaring single, "End Times," soundtracks a new teaser for the sixth season of the Showtime se ... More >>

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide

Author's debut novel is by necessity schizophrenic

Sunshine Cleaning

Sunshine Cleaning

The Sympathetic Spy

Of Boobs and Blood

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

The A-Clip A-List

A project to splice protest shorts in between mainstream film trailers

Persistent Visions

This season's cinema demands attention