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Best Coast Finds Its Right Place, the Second Time Around

In Her Right Place

Forget about the cat — Best Coast's gorgeous second album is much more interesting.

Youth Lagoon: Show Preview

Forget about the cat — Best Coast's gorgeous second album is much more interesting.

Top 10 Songs No One Cares That You Know the Lyrics To

​You know who you are. You're that guy who starts bellowing in the middle of the bar while your friends pretend not to be with you. You're that girl who gets over-excited in the middle of Urban Outfitters and starts singing along to the song playing just loudly enough that everyone has to hear you ... More >>

Los Campesinos!: Show Preview

​You know who you are. You're that guy who starts bellowing in the middle of the bar while your friends pretend not to be with you. You're that girl who gets over-excited in the middle of Urban Outfitters and starts singing along to the song playing just loudly enough that everyone has to hear you ... More >>

Live Review: M83 Brings Its Cinematic New Album to the Stage at Mezzanine

M83 at Mezzanine last night.​ M83 Active Child Nov. 10, 2011 Mezzanine Better than: Lil B freestyling over an M83 song (Google it). Walking up to Mezzanine last night, I saw people buying scalped tickets at three times the face value without hesitation. The excitement leading up to this show ... More >>

McSweeney's Lucky Peach Food Journal Throws a Party!

​What: Lucky Peach Party Where: Heart When: Tue., November 15, 7-10 p.m. Cost: $12 The rundown: Lucky Peach, McSweeney's newish journal of food and writing, is throwing a party to celebrate the release of their second issue. The theme is "the sweet spot," and the throwdown includes David ... More >>

An Albany Kid Reflects on Hometown Punks Rancid: "That's My America"

Rachel TejadaRancid​ It's probably no coincidence that it began two years ago, when I was living in New York and constantly homesick for the West Coast. Someone would put a Rancid song, generally "Roots Radicals" or "Time Bomb," on the odd punk-heavy bar jukebox, and a wave of pure, adolescent ... More >>

One woman's quest to live without products made in China

Rachel TejadaRancid​ It's probably no coincidence that it began two years ago, when I was living in New York and constantly homesick for the West Coast. Someone would put a Rancid song, generally "Roots Radicals" or "Time Bomb," on the odd punk-heavy bar jukebox, and a wave of pure, adolescent ... More >>

Grub and Citizen's Band try to reinvent comfort food

Rachel TejadaRancid​ It's probably no coincidence that it began two years ago, when I was living in New York and constantly homesick for the West Coast. Someone would put a Rancid song, generally "Roots Radicals" or "Time Bomb," on the odd punk-heavy bar jukebox, and a wave of pure, adolescent ... More >>

M.I.A.'s diluted politics

Rachel TejadaRancid​ It's probably no coincidence that it began two years ago, when I was living in New York and constantly homesick for the West Coast. Someone would put a Rancid song, generally "Roots Radicals" or "Time Bomb," on the odd punk-heavy bar jukebox, and a wave of pure, adolescent ... More >>

M.I.A.'s Shock Tactics Dilute Her Politics

Image Courtesy of: Grant Gilliland​ M.I.A. thrives on misinterpretation. Her debut album, Arular, was named after her Tamil Tiger dad and released in the midst of the War on Terror with a lead track taunting, "I've got the bombs to make you blow." Her antagonistic resolve arrived at a time when ... More >>

It's Time to Stop Hating Hipsters

Photo from Look At This Fucking Hipster​It seems everyone on the Internet is currently either ragging on hipsters or arguing they don't exist. Even Joe Mande, the Williamsburg comedian whose hugely popular (and hilarious) Tumblr blog, Look At This Fucking Hipster was recently made into a book, got ... More >>

From Paris with Love, John Travolta's cowboy diplomacy

Photo from Look At This Fucking Hipster​It seems everyone on the Internet is currently either ragging on hipsters or arguing they don't exist. Even Joe Mande, the Williamsburg comedian whose hugely popular (and hilarious) Tumblr blog, Look At This Fucking Hipster was recently made into a book, got ... More >>

Doggy Bag: The Bard of PBRs

Club Waziema, Divisadero's original hot mess.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Cheap drunk: Check out Ramona Emerson's Citysearch guide to grabbing a beer for $3 or less on Divis. She lists more than a dozen watering holes, and yes: some are actual holes. Emerson drunk-walks from On The ... More >>

Proof the End is Nigh: The Hipster Snuggie

Judging from the model's expression, maybe it should have been called the Smuggie?​There's been much ado about the Slanket and the Snuggie, wearable blankets that look like backwards bathrobes, the most iconic of which come in Smurf blue and make the wearer look like a lazy wizard. Even the We ... More >>

American Idiot the musical fails to give Green Day’s anthems narrative arc

Judging from the model's expression, maybe it should have been called the Smuggie?​There's been much ado about the Slanket and the Snuggie, wearable blankets that look like backwards bathrobes, the most iconic of which come in Smurf blue and make the wearer look like a lazy wizard. Even the We ... More >>

Alley Squatting, Mingling with Hipsters, and Boozing with Lushes: A Foodie Day Planner

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Let's do lunch: Eat lunch squatting in an alley -- no, seriously. SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody says gorge on a waffle-and-fried chicken box and red velvet cupcake at takeout-only Little Skillet (360 Ritch at Townsend, 777-2777). Drink therapy: Mingle with crusty b ... More >>

Urban Outfitters Fixie: $400. Achieving Hipster Chic: Priceless.

Meet 'Aristotle'They sucked the hip out of ironic T-shirts, singer sewing machines, and hamburger phones. Now Urban Outfitters has a new trend-killer in stock: The fixed-gear bicycle. Fixed-gears are the gazelles of the bicycle world: simple, elegant, and more than a tad dangerous for the inexperien ... More >>

Kaya Oakes' Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture

Meet 'Aristotle'They sucked the hip out of ironic T-shirts, singer sewing machines, and hamburger phones. Now Urban Outfitters has a new trend-killer in stock: The fixed-gear bicycle. Fixed-gears are the gazelles of the bicycle world: simple, elegant, and more than a tad dangerous for the inexperien ... More >>

2008 Music Awards Nominees

Meet 'Aristotle'They sucked the hip out of ironic T-shirts, singer sewing machines, and hamburger phones. Now Urban Outfitters has a new trend-killer in stock: The fixed-gear bicycle. Fixed-gears are the gazelles of the bicycle world: simple, elegant, and more than a tad dangerous for the inexperien ... More >>

Second King Khan Show Added This Week

Meet 'Aristotle'They sucked the hip out of ironic T-shirts, singer sewing machines, and hamburger phones. Now Urban Outfitters has a new trend-killer in stock: The fixed-gear bicycle. Fixed-gears are the gazelles of the bicycle world: simple, elegant, and more than a tad dangerous for the inexperien ... More >>

SF Street Style: Mission Indie Mart

Meet 'Aristotle'They sucked the hip out of ironic T-shirts, singer sewing machines, and hamburger phones. Now Urban Outfitters has a new trend-killer in stock: The fixed-gear bicycle. Fixed-gears are the gazelles of the bicycle world: simple, elegant, and more than a tad dangerous for the inexperien ... More >>

SF Street Style: Spotted in Upper Haight

Meet 'Aristotle'They sucked the hip out of ironic T-shirts, singer sewing machines, and hamburger phones. Now Urban Outfitters has a new trend-killer in stock: The fixed-gear bicycle. Fixed-gears are the gazelles of the bicycle world: simple, elegant, and more than a tad dangerous for the inexperien ... More >>

SF Street Style: Spotted in Lower Haight

Meet 'Aristotle'They sucked the hip out of ironic T-shirts, singer sewing machines, and hamburger phones. Now Urban Outfitters has a new trend-killer in stock: The fixed-gear bicycle. Fixed-gears are the gazelles of the bicycle world: simple, elegant, and more than a tad dangerous for the inexperien ... More >>

Last Night: Justice at the Concourse at SF Design Center

Meet 'Aristotle'They sucked the hip out of ironic T-shirts, singer sewing machines, and hamburger phones. Now Urban Outfitters has a new trend-killer in stock: The fixed-gear bicycle. Fixed-gears are the gazelles of the bicycle world: simple, elegant, and more than a tad dangerous for the inexperien ... More >>

Kate Nash Makes Fillmore Appearance in May

Meet 'Aristotle'They sucked the hip out of ironic T-shirts, singer sewing machines, and hamburger phones. Now Urban Outfitters has a new trend-killer in stock: The fixed-gear bicycle. Fixed-gears are the gazelles of the bicycle world: simple, elegant, and more than a tad dangerous for the inexperien ... More >>

Shooties: the Demise of Shoes

Meet 'Aristotle'They sucked the hip out of ironic T-shirts, singer sewing machines, and hamburger phones. Now Urban Outfitters has a new trend-killer in stock: The fixed-gear bicycle. Fixed-gears are the gazelles of the bicycle world: simple, elegant, and more than a tad dangerous for the inexperien ... More >>

Street Smart

Bye-bye hippies, hello Factory model. The Haight is becoming a center for over-the-counter street art.

Nudespotting

A noble attempt to view 1,000 naked people in a single day

Shops and Gifts

A noble attempt to view 1,000 naked people in a single day

Best Locally Produced Magazine

ReadyMade

Special Delivery

The Postal Service offers up the first rocktronic masterpiece

Spade Work

Putting the lessons of Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco life and art to practical use

Down So Long

Morose singer/ songwriter Mark Eitzel delivers his best solo record, informed by -- gasp! -- upbeat electronica

Night Crawler

The Dating Game

Trojan Horse

In a city that loves to hate chain stores, plans for a new Pottery Barn in the Castro are scarcely raising a peep. The neighborhood may regret it.

Reviews

In a city that loves to hate chain stores, plans for a new Pottery Barn in the Castro are scarcely raising a peep. The neighborhood may regret it.

Lose and Draw

In a city that loves to hate chain stores, plans for a new Pottery Barn in the Castro are scarcely raising a peep. The neighborhood may regret it.

Samples

In a city that loves to hate chain stores, plans for a new Pottery Barn in the Castro are scarcely raising a peep. The neighborhood may regret it.