AltWeeklies Wire
Greening the Leftnew
Tycoons will pay to generate leftist ideas in voters' minds, but now they want to see results.
Is Anybody Watching?new
In its struggle for cable eyeballs, Al Gore's Current TV is off to a rocky start.
Tags: media
Radio Free Nepalnew
Equal Access provides radios and radio programming that just may save lives a world away.
Take This Womannew
Piper Perabo plays a boring bride with an untimely lesbian streak in this new film.
Tags: Imagine Me & You, Ol Parker
Pouring Money Down a Holenew
A new audit shows how a PGA tournament sucked millions of dollars from San Francisco parks.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
01-30-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Luminously Melodicnew
Scheinman's world-class septet performs her spare arrangements with a note-perfect reserve that makes it seem as if the music is playing itself.
Tags: 12 Songs, Jenny Scheinman
Movin' On Up?new
Frontman Colin Meloy discusses his solo tour and the band's upcoming major label debut.
SF Weekly |
Michael Alan Goldberg |
01-23-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Decemberists
Talking With Ghostsnew
What does the ghost of INXS's Michael Hutchence think of his band's reunion?
Tags: INXS
Let It Bleednew
Prosecutors' reluctance to charge murder suspects in San Francisco leaves alleged killers on the street, flush with bravado.
SF Weekly |
Martin Kuz |
01-23-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Unintended Evictionsnew
An attempted solution to rental evictions may actually force more people out of rent-controlled apartments in an already tight San Francisco housing market.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
01-23-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: rent control, tenancies in common
A Who's Who of Prog-Rocknew
This live CD combines acid-laced sonic experimentation, conservatory-bred musicianship and a will to smash pop-music convention.
A Limited Scopenew
Pearls and Brass only seems capable of creating a bombastic, one-dimensional fusion of Grand Funk boogie and Black Sabbath fuzz, in which deafening volume replaces crafty chops.
Tags: Pearls and Brass, The Indian Tower
Wretched Rocknew
This Australian quartet slowly drags you through a long night of drink, gore and weighing whether to end it all.
The Godfathernew
James Brown is the godfather of many things, including, but not limited, to soul.
Tags: James Brown
Into the Mysticnew
Skaters make totally out there, vocal-dominated psychedelia, based on the open-ended drone heard in industrial music, minimalism, experimental electronics, folk, world music and free jazz.
SF Weekly |
Justin F. Farrar |
01-18-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: skaters
