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DJ Nihar Shares An All-Vinyl Exclusive Mix and His View on Underground Parties

As co-founder and record selector of parties Haceteria and Warm Leatherette, DJ Nihar is known for throwing underground events which explore the history of techno, house, and rave music. Launching his DJ career as an avid record collector asked to play hip-hop at house parties, he soon felt compelle ... More >>

Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention: Inside the World of Wank-Craft

The Future Is Coming

We Read the Arcade Fire Reviews (And Collected Their Best Lines) So You Don't Have To

Are you a yea, or nay?​I came this close (<-->) to committing my own gushing, laudatory thoughts on the Arcade Fire's new album The Suburbs (out today) to type. Then I saw how many other gushing, laudatory thoughts had already been published, blogged and tweeted. So rather than walk you ... More >>

What to Do? Tuesday's Pick: Chemlab @ DNA Lounge

Chemlab @ DNA Lounge Apparently they're calling this multi-band package jaunt the "MIDI Ghetto Tour" -- a phrase that encapsulates the Chemlab ethos nicely. Chemlab has always been self-consciously cyberpunk, a gang of sci-fi rock 'n' roll poets and pill-popping console jockeys looking for their ... More >>

The Way He Lives Now

As Daniel Day-Lewis' fourth film in a decade arrives in theaters, the movies' most enigmatic leading man reveals the method behind his onscreen madness

Jack In Now

Killer App

It Was a Year Of ...

Well, lots of things, actually

Gettin' a leg up on dubstep with Hatcha and Youngsta

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

View From the Top

The rare story of a powerful female politician whose private life is secondary

Golda's Story

Portrait of a prime minister

Treasure Hunt

It's hard to figure Demonlover out, but it's fun to try

Hammer of the Gods

With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not

a pejorative

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Cain and Abel

Controversial cult director Abel Ferrara gets a Roxie retrospective

Reel World

Slap Shots

Mercury Falling

For 11 years, Markus Cook was synonymous with Bay Area bike messengers. But he didn't live to see his dream come true -- the Cycle Messenger World Championships held here in San Francisco.

Mondo 1995 (Part II)

Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder bu inter

Mondo 1995

Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug Zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder by inter

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