Woodstock

Announcing the Winners of the First Voice Media Group Music Writing Awards

Each week in our print editions and every day on our blogs, the 13 Voice Media Group papers feature some of the best music writing in the country. That's why we're excited to announce the winners of our first VMG music writing awards. The honor goes to the authors of one blog post and one print pi ... More >>

Sweet 'n' Salty

How Feedback Became the Coolest Sound in Rock

Kerrraaang! came the sound from behind my wall, in my older brother's bedroom. It was his first weekend home from college and he'd returned to our small Indiana town with new toys: a CD player and a copy of Nirvana's Nevermind. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! The noise, which started when Kurt Cobain st ... More >>

"Peace. Love and Misunderstanding": Jane Fonda Deserves Better

Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie

Next Month's Eat Real Festival Won't Just Be About Scarfing Sisig Tacos

eszsara/FlickrFood crafters, this is your Woodstock.​Our favorite morsel from the Web. A month before Eat Real takes over Jack London Square like some county fair in a parallel universe, where corn dogs taste like Mangalitsas and kombucha refreshes like Dr. Pepper, organizer Anya Fernald has ... More >>

Herbal Melodies

Choice moments in the surprising history of medical marijuana and music

Bring Yo' Motha': Ferment Change Brewing Up Events to Aid City Slicker Farms

feedpeoplenotdumpsters/FlickrKombucha makers, this is your Woodstock.​This weekend, Ferment Change starts bubbling up in Oakland with a series of microbe-centric events, lessons, and tasting parties to benefit longstanding urban farming and environmental justice group City Slicker Farms. Wit ... More >>

Works by Manson Family pal Bobby BeauSoleil’s Orkustra compiled on double album

Arthouse movie listings for November 25-December 1, 2009

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: El Kool Kyle of El Superrritmo

​If you've ever packed it into the Make-Out Room on a Saturday night, you have El Kool Kyle to thank for making you sweat. The El Superrritmo DJ goes crate digging across continents to bring back the best the barrios have to offer (and over Halloween weekend, you can take advantage of his sonic tr ... More >>

Woodsuck: Crummy festivals I attended in the late '60s and early '70s

Tonight in SOMA, Street-Food Carts Plan an Epic Convergence for SFBC's Bike-In Movie

rhondawinter/FlickrSexy Soup Lady at the summer's first Bike-In Movie Night.​Remember the classic Rockestra of the '70s? A couple dozen gods of rock, standing side by side on a stadium stage, simultaneously laying down hellaciously tasty chords? Well, the cart food equivalent drops tonight, wh ... More >>

Taking Woodstock does nothing more than recycle the same late-'60s tropes

Chron Disses, Praises Outside Lands

"Richmond then divulges that she herself has used Porta Potties at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass..."

Forget Woodstock, It's the 40th Anniversary of Cobb Salads in Cow Hollow

pbo 31/Flickr Yup, the lights are still on.Hard to believe for some of us, but it's the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Wait a minute, and it'll be the 40th anniversary of Altamont, too (cruel irony of 1969). The Gap just brought out a line of jeans called 1969. And it's the 40th anniversary o ... More >>

Masters of Puppets

Eight Summer Food Festivals Worth the Schlep

Did you miss San Francisco's Oyster Fest last month? Fear not. There are plenty of larger food festivals to satiate you -- if you're willing to travel. We've put together a roundup of some of the best. Maine Lobster Festival (July 29-August 2)Made famous by David Foster Wallace's essay Consider ... More >>

SF, NY Fight Over Woodstock Name

Jim MarshallCountry Joe at Woodstock, 1969 Who owns the name Woodstock? That's the central issue in the brouhaha between the promoters of San Francisco's Free Woodstock 40th Anniversary concert and New York-based Woodstock Ventures. Today at 1 pm at John's Grill, a group of Summer of Love survivo ... More >>

Summer of Salvation

The film snob's guide to the best cinema the season has to offer.

Richie Havens redefines folk over four decades

Bonnaroo Lineup Announced

BruceSpringsteen.netThe BossBreak out the Sharpie and circle your calendars. The lineup for the 2009 Bonnaroo Festival has just been announced, and suffice to say Woodstock and Lollapalooza have nothing on this. Just when you thought the four-day music and arts extravaganza, held on a farm in rural ... More >>

Sly Stone is lured from hiding once again

Black Power (Pop)

Warped Tour, Ollin, Richie Havens -- ASD's Live Music Picks, July 1

Various

Monterey International Pop Festival (Razor & Tie)

Repertory Film Listings

Hip Hop, Year 2 A.J.

SF Weekly's top DVD picks for the week of Sept. 14

Crowning Glory

With Earthtones, Oakland hip-hoppers the Crown City Rockers deliver on the promise of their energetic live show

Yo, Adrian!

Bet the cartoonist's never heard that joke before

Scars and Bars

Bukowski gets his in a touching, terrifying documentary

Penny Pinching

Lectured by clerks, gifted by out-of-touch relatives, and condescended to by Ph.D.s

Various Activists

On the local compilation Azadi!, the music matters almost as much as the cause itself

House of Tudor

Buffy Band

Spike the Vampire has a posse

Rewind

It's a new century. Are there still reasons to see Lily Tomlin?

Three Best Launching Pads

Less Than Seven Zeroes

The dot-com party circuit's dirty little secret

Apocalypse Then

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Night & Day

Letters

Tripmasters

The Bay Area's chemical gentry

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Dish

Surf's up

A selective guide to music on the Net