San Diego CityBeat | AnnaMaria Stephens

The Raveonettes Take on the Sexiest of the Seven Deadly Sinsnew

The band's latest album is dark, dangerous and unyieldingly sexy with a title that contains no traces of subtlety.

San Diego CityBeat | AnnaMaria Stephens | 02-27-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Lust Lust Lust, The Raveonettes

Found in Translationnew

A Welsh descendant finds a kindred spirit in Super Furry Animals.

San Diego CityBeat | AnnaMaria Stephens | 02-06-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Super Furry Animals

'I'm Good Enough ...'new

Can a life coach transform our self-help hater into a pep-talking player?

San Diego CityBeat | AnnaMaria Stephens | 01-23-2008 | Culture

White Williams Resolves to Stretch the Limits of Electronic Pop Rocknew

In 2007, Williams' debut full-length received a fawning review on Pitchfork, ensuring instant credibility with the hipster set. He was also featured in Nylon and invited to tour with Girl Talk. Such an action-packed past year would seem likely to lead to a bright future, and Williams is eager to talk about what's in store for 2008.

San Diego CityBeat | AnnaMaria Stephens | 01-23-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: White Williams

More Than a Museumnew

Lux Art Institute isn't just about art -- it's about seeing art created.

San Diego CityBeat | AnnaMaria Stephens | 01-02-2008 | Art

Tags: visual arts

A New Generation Copes With Breast Cancernew

Among women ages 15 to 54, breast cancer has the highest mortality rate of all cancers, and it's estimated that one in eight women will get breast cancer at some point in her life. If those were your chances of winning the lottery, your heart would be racing with excitement.

San Diego CityBeat | AnnaMaria Stephens | 10-31-2007 | Science

Tags: Health & Science

California Fires: Anxiety in Fallbrooknew

Residents of the agricultural area north of San Diego evacuate for the first time in memory.

San Diego CityBeat | AnnaMaria Stephens | 10-24-2007 | Disasters

Tags: California, fires, disasters

Jesca Hoop is Destiny's Childnew

The singer followed fate to strange places before finding Kismet.

San Diego CityBeat | AnnaMaria Stephens | 10-17-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Jesca Hoop, Kismet

The DIY of the Deadnew

With face paint, good riffs and an obsession with death, The Creepy Creeps are making surf rock cool.

San Diego CityBeat | AnnaMaria Stephens | 10-10-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Creepy Creeps

Rodrigo y Gabriela Rock the Worldnew

Rod y Gab, as they're known to their fans, are an anomaly, popular well beyond the world-music pigeonhole where such acts tend to languish.

San Diego CityBeat | AnnaMaria Stephens | 09-12-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Rodrigo y Gabriela

Pure Poetry: San Diego CityBeat's Annual Bar & Club Guidenew

In honor of a good drink and a good rhyme, CityBeat broke out the rhyming dictionaries and hit up some of our favorite watering holes to create as accurate-as-possible lists of amenities.

San Diego CityBeat | Kelly Davis, Edwin Decker, Sheena Hamilton, Troy Johnson, Kia Momtazi, Kinsee Morlan, Justin Roberts, David Rolland, Tina Safi, AnnaMaria Stephens, Kim Swain, Eric Wolff and Candice Woo | 08-30-2007 | Recreation

Tags: bars & clubs