One of our favorite local rock historians, Richie Unterberger, will once again be giving his secret stash of excellent rock clips a public screening this Wednesday, Feb. 11, at the Park Branch of the San Francisco Public Library (1833 Page Street) between 7 and 9 p.m. His theme this time: the 45th anniversary of the Beatles' first U.S. invasion, which means an evening devoted to British Invasion acts who performed between 1964 and 1967, including the Fab Four, the Rolling Stones, the Who
Hanna QuevedoWarhol Live Pop Party at the de YoungSugar Shack at the Paradise LoungeSaturday, Feb. 22, 2009Better than: A double feature of Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol and Grease.San Francisco is a city that doesn't easily let go of the past. From our flea markets and vintage stores to our vinyl record shops and oldies dance parties, there's always some way we're giving the old a modern spin. On Saturday night the two most obvious homages to days gone by happened at the high and
Our weekend involved cheese, ropes and Andy Warhol. In that order:Saturday afternoon's Grilled Cheese Invitational at Dolores Park was well attended - all 500 tasting wristbands sold out in minutes, a good hour before the event began! Tamara Palmer has the skinny at SFoodie.Saturday evening was quite literally tied up in knots at Femina Potens, where some lovely submissive types helped demonstrate "The Art of Restraint." See Gretchen Robinette's somewhat NSFW photo set here.
Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond.
Um, my mother with a pair of scissors?: Food Gal plays Dr. Freud, offering up the foodie equivalent of a Rorschach test in a wide-pixel photo of glistening piquillo peppers. Queries Food Gal: What do these peppers look like to you? (She reckons they look like the Rolling Stones tongue logo.) One commenter -- a Mrs. L -- takes what's better left subliminal and goes all borderline TMI: I can't tell you what I first thought of because children m
​Forget the Monsters of Folk. The real underground neo folk act to keep an ear on is Emerald Triangle. The group has a serious California soft rock pedigree: San Francisco's own Andy Cabic of Vetiver, together with Farmer Dave (Venice denizen who's played with tons of acts, most notably Beachwood Sparks), another So Cal cohort Jonathan Rice (who plays solo and with Jenny Lewis), and Jonathan Wilson (who plays with Black Crowes).So far the fruits of their collaborations are a mystery, as the Em
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