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Survival Research Laboratories

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Subculture Film Fest Alert: Video Punks, Drunken Hippies & Dangerous Robots

    "Gold": Remember when hippies used to just love the mud?​It's amazing to realize how many historical subcultures San Francisco has hosted over the years. And while a full tally of them all would probably fill an entire boring-ass academic journal, YBCA has a better way to take in the doings of cul ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 25, 2009

    Law Fought the Law and — Law Won

    "Gold": Remember when hippies used to just love the mud?​It's amazing to realize how many historical subcultures San Francisco has hosted over the years. And while a full tally of them all would probably fill an entire boring-ass academic journal, YBCA has a better way to take in the doings of cul ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 12, 2008

    Breathe Deep the Gathering Gloom

    "Gold": Remember when hippies used to just love the mud?​It's amazing to realize how many historical subcultures San Francisco has hosted over the years. And while a full tally of them all would probably fill an entire boring-ass academic journal, YBCA has a better way to take in the doings of cul ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 13, 2006

    Everyday Fringe

    Taking the measure of our once-a-year DIY theater festival

  • Film

    February 8, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

    Taking the measure of our once-a-year DIY theater festival

  • Calendar

    September 7, 2005

    Punk Rock Chores

    Gilman Street: It's a dirty job

  • News

    April 21, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, April 21, 2004

  • Calendar

    April 7, 2004

    Rise of the Machines

    Flamethrower and other metal monsters as Survival Research Labs turns 25

  • Music

    February 11, 2004

    House of Tudor

    The S.F. Mad Benefit: Help a dude who blew his face off with a confetti cannon

  • Calendar

    December 3, 2003

    Pranks for the Memories

    V. Vale and RE/Search – still disseminating the alternative-culture virus

  • News

    August 27, 2003

    Squeezing the Best From Summer

    The Cotati Accordion Festival isn't your grandmother's accordion festival. Well, yes it is. But it's more. Lots more.

  • Music

    August 20, 2003

    House of Tudor

    The all-girl punk band Las Ultrsónicas is so unhinged it's banned in Mexico City

  • News

    July 30, 2003

    Mob Rule

    Flash mobs: serious social movement or quirky entertainment (or both)?

  • Music

    April 9, 2003

    House of Tudor

    An ex-Swans singer, Robot Wars redux, a Jewish Iraqi oud player, and the Hebrew influence

  • Music

    November 13, 2002

    Land of the Lost

    After 13 years, Savage Republic returns to find its Middle Eastern post-punk world largely intact

  • Music

    March 22, 2000

    House Of Tudor

    "Wild Wild Winter," "Japan Nite," "Dead Celebrity Bowling"

  • Music

    October 6, 1999

    Little Voice

    In two years, John Vanderslice and his studio, Tiny Telephone, have become unlikely focal points of the local pop-rock scene

  • News

    September 1, 1999

    Rock Em! Sock Em! Sue Em!

    Legal battles decked the wildly popular Robot Wars competitions. Now a challenger has arisen to save the sport.

  • Music

    June 16, 1999

    The House of Tudor

    Legal battles decked the wildly popular Robot Wars competitions. Now a challenger has arisen to save the sport.

  • Calendar

    March 10, 1999

    Night + Day

    Legal battles decked the wildly popular Robot Wars competitions. Now a challenger has arisen to save the sport.

  • Calendar

    September 9, 1998

    Night Crawler

    Legal battles decked the wildly popular Robot Wars competitions. Now a challenger has arisen to save the sport.

  • News

    July 8, 1998

    The One ... the Only ... Circus Redickuless

    Chicken John takes chaos, dysfunction, and the Stupidest Show on Earth from San Francisco to Boise

  • Music

    June 24, 1998

    Riff Raff

    Chicken John takes chaos, dysfunction, and the Stupidest Show on Earth from San Francisco to Boise

  • Calendar

    January 28, 1998

    Night Crawler

    Chicken John takes chaos, dysfunction, and the Stupidest Show on Earth from San Francisco to Boise

  • News

    November 12, 1997

    The Sound of Noise

    If you grind a live microphone to bits, or amplify a flamethrower, are you making music -- or an appalling spectacle called "noise"?

  • Calendar

    August 13, 1997

    Night Crawler

    If you grind a live microphone to bits, or amplify a flamethrower, are you making music -- or an appalling spectacle called "noise"?

  • News

    August 13, 1997

    Monsters of Drag

    Craig Breedlove teams with SOMA performance artists to regain his land speed record as the fastest human on Earth

  • Calendar

    May 14, 1997

    Night+Day

    Craig Breedlove teams with SOMA performance artists to regain his land speed record as the fastest human on Earth

  • Music

    April 9, 1997

    Night Crawler

    Craig Breedlove teams with SOMA performance artists to regain his land speed record as the fastest human on Earth

  • Music

    January 15, 1997

    The House of Tudor

    Craig Breedlove teams with SOMA performance artists to regain his land speed record as the fastest human on Earth

  • Music

    November 27, 1996

    Night Crawler

    Craig Breedlove teams with SOMA performance artists to regain his land speed record as the fastest human on Earth

  • Music

    January 3, 1996

    The Book of Lists

    SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

  • Music

    December 20, 1995

    Night Crawler

    SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

  • Music

    November 29, 1995

    Night Crawler

    SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

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