South Africa

Amawele's South African Kitchen: Expand Your Lunch Horizons

Elmira Rosticceria Brings Delicious but Odd Italian to the Civic Center

With Square on the register, succulents on the tables, and galvanized tin sconces, Elmira Rosticceria looks very, very 2013. The ceiling fixtures are Edison-bulbs-within-Mason-jars, which is like a trend that ate itself. The coffee is by Bicycle Coffee, which very likely gets delivered via fixie. Fe ... More >>

Change Up Your Lunch Routine At Amawele's South African Kitchen

Spicy and sour is a seductively simply combination that couldn't be more alien to what we think of as typical American food. Its dominance in the food at Amawele's South African Kitchen is explained in a helpful blurb that describes the provenance as an amalgam of various African cultures with Briti ... More >>

Free(Dom) Movies

Dandelion Chocolate Smoothies Contain Real Cacao Fruit

The Mission's new bean-to-bar chocolate factory Dandelion Chocolate (740 Valencia) opened its cafe component last week. Included on the menu of hot chocolates (served by the cup or pot) and European drinking chocolate is an extra unusual item: Cacao fruit smoothies. This is a rare opportunity to ta ... More >>

Die Antwoord: Show Preview

Website Claims West Coast Has Only Invented Three Sandwiches (Are They Right?)

The good people at Serious Eats have put together a thorough guide to all of the sandwiches of the world (so big it's split into two editions: American and International). There are beautiful sandwich-porn photos and a fascinating rundown of the international language of stuff-between-two-slices-of- ... More >>

The Best of Outside Lands: Friday, Aug. 10

All weekend long, All Shook Down writers will be rounding up the best of the Outside Lands music festival. Here's our report from the festival's first day. Justice Okay, wait. How did we let Justice get away with appropriating the cross? There were probably other questions worth asking surroundin ... More >>

Walk the Talk

Soul Shakedown: Show Preview

"Life, Above All": Problematic Drama Delves Into South African AIDS Crisis

Toke Along with Scala & Kolacny Brothers, Then See Them at the Independent Tonight

​ This week: Toke along with Scala & Kolacny Brothers. ​ Behind the buzz: Anyone claiming mystification at this Coachella-bound rock choir needs a sharp rap across the skull with one of those dildos left over from a Die Antwoord video. You'd think cultural memory of a lopsided pair of So ... More >>

Art Disco Goes Dingo! Rainbow Arabia and Spoek Mathambo at Mighty

Romana MachadoRainbow Arabia​Rainbow Arabia Spoek MathamboMarch 8, 2011 @Mighty Better than: Greetings from war-torn Freedonia. Doors at Mighty were at eight, but staff finally cracked them open at about fifteen 'til nine. A couple dozen dour and sensitive-looking types in their late twentie ... More >>

FreQ Nasty: Show Preview

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from this week in S.F. music

John Waters Explains His Love for S.F. Muni, the Roxie Theater, and Die Antwoord

John Waters​Among other things -- like making movies and stuff -- film director John Waters is known for possessing a sick affection for public transportation in San Francisco. The part-time S.F. resident is coming to town for a performance of his Christmas show tomorrow (Saturday) night, a benefi ... More >>

Die Antwoord, Gutwrench, Rank/Xerox, Free SF MOMA Admission and More

Jillian WestRank/Xerox plays the Hemlock this Sunday with Toys That Kill​You have two major choices this weekend -- high art or low art. There's free museum admission and frolicking dancers. Or grimy South African rap and San Francisco crust punk. Whatever you choose, take comfort in knowing it wa ... More >>

Sonic Booty

Six sets worth plundering at this year's Treasure Island Music Festival.

Getting Orff

Friday Night: Die Antwoord at Rickshaw Stop

Gretchen Robinette​Die Antwoord July 16, 2010 Rickshaw Stop Better than: A live performance of most of the videos that go viral on YouTube. "Are they kidding?" is Question No. 1 raised by Die Antwoord, the South African rave-rap group that may be a clever parody or a full-blooded embrace of the ... More >>

Labor groups to picket Israeli ship to protest May 31 raid deaths

Not in Oakland you're not...​Bay Area labor groups plan to picket the Israeli container ship, Zim Shenzhen, June 20 when it is scheduled to arrive at 5:30 am in the port of Oakland, said local longshoreman Jack Heyman."South Africa, Norway, Sweden, are going to be following suit," Heyman said. "Th ... More >>

Is Die Antwoord the Next Lady Gaga?

It'll be interesting to see whether the South African "zef" act/performance artists/publicity stunt (how to classify these guys?) work as a recording act on a major label. Internet sensations Die Antwoord earned themselves a deal from the dying music industry: as Pitchfork reported, Interscope si ... More >>

If You're Hitting Coachella, Do Not Miss Die Antwoord

My buddy Kelly recently introduced me to the brilliant art hoax/ridiculously catchy/recently signed to Interscope South African hip-hop act Die Antwoord. They're a couple skinhead-dressing, Ninja-talking, super tripped out rappers who dig bad tattoos, fringe bangs, and heavy bass. If you want what ... More >>

Exotic Plant That Has Never Flowered in Cultivation About to Bloom at S.F. State

Martin GranthamA Klattia partita, photographed atop a remote South African peak​Much of a greenhouse manager's work probably wouldn't translate well into a movie scene; film montages of potting, pruning, and watering aren't for everyone. But when San Francisco State's Martin Grantham was scurrying ... More >>

Coming To America -- 100 New Citizens Sworn-In Downtown

Joe EskenaziCitizens-to-be take the oath​Considering the years of paperwork, legal wrangling, and leaping through hoops many of the would-be American citizens sitting this morning in San Francisco's Herbst Theater had suffered through, the government's last obstacle was hardly a chore: Two hours o ... More >>

Invictus

Police and Thieves

Harpoons and Harbingers

This fall, visual artists bite, reflect, and cannibalize.

Trademark invades a Eurocentric street with fresh American fare

Snacktion: Orobello's Sourdough Classic Crackers

​Name: Sourdough Classic CrackersBrand: OrobelloOrigin: South San Francisco/South AfricaFound at: Andronicos (1200 Irving at 14th Ave.)Cost: $3.99Ingredients: Unbleached wheat flour, expeller pressed palm oil, salt, expeler pressed vegetable oil, sugar, yeast, glucose, lactic acid, invert syru ... More >>

S-Rod

Let Us Atom

Bustin' Down the Door

Minority Report

The Golden Glass Cometh: Winemaker Dinner At Fifth Floor

Boyz (and Girlz) ‘n the ‘Hood

Night Day: Calendar Picks for 5/26

Hanging Around

Ladysmith Black Mambazo Views South Africa Through a Complicated Icon

Tasty Decor

An uneven Mediterranean kitchen and international wines come sleekly wrapped in exotic wood

Serious hip-hop's for the birds: Pigeon John's goofy humor

Repertory Film Listings

History Lessons

The story of an '80s anti-apartheid activist carries overtones of the present

Repertory Film Listings

Mooi Street Moves

One of the most highly polished entries in a career of fine, neglected plays about race

Reps Etc.

Word from the Motherland

Amandla Poets

Stage

Night+Day