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Steve Jobs: Was He the Fifth Beatle?

​When such Earth-shattering stories as the death of Steve Jobs break, media outlets compete for readers amid a flurry of news reports on the same topic. Perhaps that's one reason you start to see hyperbolic headlines deeming him Jesus-like.In the case of Jobs' death, we're not saying Jobs, the hig ... More >>

Saturday Night: Greg Ginn, Big Scenic Nowhere, and Glitter Wizard Rattle Thee Parkside

Romana MachadoGlitter Wizard​Greg Ginn, Big Scenic Nowhere, Glitter WizardMarch 19, 2011 @Thee Parkside Marginally better than: Listening to Billy Joel records in a Seattle parking garage. It's SXSW season, and few things are longer than the faces of Facebook non-attendees this year. My ne ... More >>

"Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico": Art Review

Romana MachadoGlitter Wizard​Greg Ginn, Big Scenic Nowhere, Glitter WizardMarch 19, 2011 @Thee Parkside Marginally better than: Listening to Billy Joel records in a Seattle parking garage. It's SXSW season, and few things are longer than the faces of Facebook non-attendees this year. My ne ... More >>

Five Great Reissues from Last Year That You Haven't Heard Yet

2010 continued 2009's heavy schedule of reissues, with release of spruced-up editions of Exile on Main St. and the Apple Records catalog being flogged as mainstream news items. Geezer rockers of course take this as definitive proof that today's music sucks. Premature post-postmods like Patton Oswal ... More >>

Prospect updates Boulevard's aesthetic, but edgy it isn't

2010 continued 2009's heavy schedule of reissues, with release of spruced-up editions of Exile on Main St. and the Apple Records catalog being flogged as mainstream news items. Geezer rockers of course take this as definitive proof that today's music sucks. Premature post-postmods like Patton Oswal ... More >>

Decemberists

2010 continued 2009's heavy schedule of reissues, with release of spruced-up editions of Exile on Main St. and the Apple Records catalog being flogged as mainstream news items. Geezer rockers of course take this as definitive proof that today's music sucks. Premature post-postmods like Patton Oswal ... More >>

Spinal Tap "Unwigged and Unplugged"

2010 continued 2009's heavy schedule of reissues, with release of spruced-up editions of Exile on Main St. and the Apple Records catalog being flogged as mainstream news items. Geezer rockers of course take this as definitive proof that today's music sucks. Premature post-postmods like Patton Oswal ... More >>

Revealed: Everything you wanted to know — or didn't — about Canuck headbangers Anvil

2010 continued 2009's heavy schedule of reissues, with release of spruced-up editions of Exile on Main St. and the Apple Records catalog being flogged as mainstream news items. Geezer rockers of course take this as definitive proof that today's music sucks. Premature post-postmods like Patton Oswal ... More >>

The Hurled SF Weekly Box Is Back! Now Starring in 'Boxhenge.'

The SF Weekly box saga continues. After someone seemingly decided to single out the SF Weekly box for a demonstration of his or her fury on Sunday (read our saga here) the box was back in its spot at the corner of 24th and Mission streets on Monday. Now, the box appears to be sunbathing, partaking i ... More >>

Judas Priest plods through history

The SF Weekly box saga continues. After someone seemingly decided to single out the SF Weekly box for a demonstration of his or her fury on Sunday (read our saga here) the box was back in its spot at the corner of 24th and Mission streets on Monday. Now, the box appears to be sunbathing, partaking i ... More >>

Creaky Machines

The SF Weekly box saga continues. After someone seemingly decided to single out the SF Weekly box for a demonstration of his or her fury on Sunday (read our saga here) the box was back in its spot at the corner of 24th and Mission streets on Monday. Now, the box appears to be sunbathing, partaking i ... More >>

Night Day: Calendar Picks for 6/11

The SF Weekly box saga continues. After someone seemingly decided to single out the SF Weekly box for a demonstration of his or her fury on Sunday (read our saga here) the box was back in its spot at the corner of 24th and Mission streets on Monday. Now, the box appears to be sunbathing, partaking i ... More >>

The Gift of Reading

Still have people to buy for? Consider these books as last-minute stocking stuffers.

New Worlds

Still have people to buy for? Consider these books as last-minute stocking stuffers.

Folk Fantasies

Oakley Hall's very American jams

I Interviewed Al Gore and Shit

Oakley Hall's very American jams

Shorties

EPs are usually ignored by reviewers. Here are a few recent releases worth taking note of.

A Thunderbird Night of Terror

Burnt-out rock stars, death metal, and a kilt-wearing bipolar Scots nationalist

Life, Cubed

A day of living by the roll of the dice expands the idea of chance encounter -- exponentially

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped,

the Folksmen turn it

way down from 11

Generation Excess

A close look at Kibu.com, the teen Web site -- backed by Silicon Valley's elite -- that vaporized $15 million in a matter of months

Abbey's Road

The stones of a 13th-century Spanish monastery lie crumbling in Golden Gate Park, a forgotten legacy of William Randolph Hearst. Trappist monks now hope to resurrect part of what Hearst tore asunder.

Mister Sandman

The Bay Area's most prolific beach artist steps forward after years of anonymity

Night Crawler

Pez on Earth

Night Crawler

Pez on Earth

Totems Are Taboo

But if the court's crucifixation is overblown, let a thousand icons bloom

City of Night

Homeless gay youths in San Francisco run an extraordinary risk of HIV infection, according to city statistics. On the street, safety is a matter of economics -- and hope.

Oriental to Occidental

The twain meet at Orocco, a supper club for the '90s