AltWeeklies Wire
San Francisco Street Food Top Tennew
The farmers markets, taco trucks and street carts you shouldn't miss.
SF Weekly |
Meredith Brody |
07-17-2008 |
Food+Drink
State of the Cart in San Francisconew
Join us as we map the street food scene and find out why there aren't more vendors in this most food-involved and temperate of cities.
SF Weekly |
Meredith Brody |
07-17-2008 |
Food+Drink
Soundwave's AudioBus Series Offers Road Trips with San Francisco Composersnew
Alan So, artistic director of the experimental music festival Soundwave>Series, decided to have a portion of this year's Move>Sound theme on an AudioBus, a stage that moves to the rhythm of traffic lights and stop signs.
Counting Down the Top Eccentrics of San Francisconew
Even as huge swaths of San Francisco are gentrified in a trend the Chris Daly camp warns will price out the very people who gave the city its flavor, these folks are holding on (one of them BARTs in each day from the East Bay), reminding us that no matter how many high-rise condos go up in the city, we won't turn into Orange County anytime soon.
N.E.R.D. Shows All Technique and No Soulnew
Human emotion cannot be created using ProTools.
Liz Phair Returns From 'Guyville' Exilenew
By rereleasing Exile in Guyville and taking it on the road, she's allowing her fans to revel in that time when she crystallized the experience of taking bad boys to bed.
Have Money Pressures Forced San Francisco's SPCA to Lower the Bar for Euthanasia?new
Many think that the SF/SPCA has fundamentally changed its "no-kill" principle, which had made San Francisco the safest city for cats and dogs in the country and served as a model for hundreds of shelters.
SF Weekly |
John Geluardi |
06-11-2008 |
Animal Issues
Bands Fume Over Bounced Checks from Bay Area Indie Music Festivalnew
The main promoter behind the inaugural event has yet to pay almost half the talent that performed there last year, including the headliners. These artists have made repeated attempts to contact the company, locally based 3 Udders Productions, without getting a cent.
Rapper Buckshot Thinks, Talks and Records for Successnew
Few rappers give better interviews than Black Moon and Boot Camp Clik alum Buckshot.
SF Weekly |
Ben Westhoff |
06-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Usher's Latest Doesn't Break the Rulesnew
On Here I Stand, Usher claims to be a player no more, making the album a bit of a snore.
Warner Bros. Vet Launches Music Site for Baby Boomersnew
Bill Bentley creation Sonic Boomers is a website featuring music from the sixties and seventies.
Black Angels Sophomore Album Plays It Safenew
Directions to See A Ghost isn't spooky, or inspired.
Special Patrol Unit Is No SFPDnew
Nearly extinct and long at odds with the SFPD, the little-known San Francisco Patrol Special Police appears poised for a comeback.
SF Weekly |
Ron Russell |
06-04-2008 |
Crime & Justice
The Roots Still Fight the Fightnew
The state of "conscious" rap is in serious flux right now, which is why the Roots' aggressive, disorienting Rising Down feels timely and urgent.
Jamie Lidell Riffs on the Absurdnew
Though the native Englishman — who was once, believe it or not, vegetarian — is a goofy ad-lib machine in person, Jim is a fairly sober work.
SF Weekly |
Ben Westhoff |
05-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
