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Song Bird

Through beguiling contrasts and magical moments, Jolie Holland has emerged with a singular, elusive sound

By Nate Cavalieri

Published: April 5, 2006

There's not much of a view from the back row of the Central Presbyterian Church balcony in Austin, Texas, but it's clear that Jolie Holland, the figure onstage under the huge cross, is plainly...

Matt Smith

Technology Disassembled

A columnist defends himself, blames his bosses, and steps deeper into the ethical morass of accepting gifts

By Matt Smith

Published: April 5, 2006

New York Times online tech columnist and CBS News contributor David Pogue is a real card in the geek world. He writes funny computer manuals. In speeches he sings songs about the computer...

Sucka Free City

Ask a Track Bike!

By Ephraim the Track Bike

Published: April 5, 2006

Hi everyone! My name's Ephraim and I'm a track bike. What's a track bike? Great question! Track bikes are single-gear bicycles with back sprockets fixed to their back axles, so there's no...

Sucka Free City

Too Sexy for Their Social Services

By Eliza Strickland

Published: April 5, 2006

Last Friday, the founder of the Erotic Service Providers Union marched down to the Cat Club, petition in hand, to catch revelers at the Mondo Porno Party. Maxine Doogan expected the sex 'n' rock...

Sucka Free City

Great Moments in Photojournalism

By Brock Keeling

Published: April 5, 2006

Acouple of weeks ago, our city was privileged enough to be a pit stop on the Battle Cry Tour: a rock-and-rally festival of evangelical Christian teens who seek to combat the "corporations, media...

News

Eject d'Art

Just when Huck Gee is gaining international recognition for his edgy dolls, this country wants to kick him out

By Eliza Strickland

Published: April 5, 2006

It's hard to say who would be more excited by the sight of Mark "Huck" Gee's art studio: an 8-year-old kid or an art collector from SOMA. The British-born Gee specializes in limited-edition runs...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Published: April 5, 2006

MDMAngry Not feeling it: Rachel Swan's article "Feelin' Their Thizzle" [March 15] promised to explain "how the culture of Ecstasy has changed as the drug moved from raves to hip hop," but...

Music

The Birth of BOCA

SF venue brings new hope for cutting-edge dance music

By Justin F. Farrar

Published: April 5, 2006

San Francisco is overrun with meat-market clubs and parties peddling your garden-variety dance jams: commercial hip hop, nth-generation ragga and dancehall, mainstream house, and Burning Man-styled...

Music

Misc. Reviews

By EVERETT TRUE

Published: April 5, 2006

The year is 1981. Guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo are immersed in New York's No Wave scene (Lydia Lunch, Talking Heads), the fluid postpunk dance of ESG, the multilayered guitar...

Music

Reinventing Bent-Bop

Roswell Rudd captures Monk's avant melodies

By Sam Prestianni

Published: April 5, 2006

Everyone knows Monk. The bent-bop pianist who came up in the postwar '40s has long been an establishment darling. There's even a school named in his honor (the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz)...

Music

A Subtle Reminder

Surrealist hip-hop crew returns to the spotlight

By Chris Dahlen

Published: April 5, 2006

While driving through Iowa on their first national tour last February, Bay Area hip-hop experimenters Subtle hit a patch of ice in the middle of the night that threw their van off the road....

Reviewed

Jimmy Edgar

Color Strip

By Tony Ware

Published: April 5, 2006

Like a black box recorder, Jimmy Edgar's full-length debut is rather obvious on its glossy surface but contains meticulous intentions etched beneath that veneer. With their smudged melodies and...

Reviewed

The Television Personalities

My Dark Places

By Dan Strachota

Published: April 5, 2006

The Television Personalities' Dan Treacy has maintained a devoted cult following ever since his band's 1978 U.K. hit "Part-Time Punks," repeatedly offering wonderful collections of shambly punk,...

Reviewed

Porest

Tourrorists!

By Mike Rowell

Published: April 5, 2006

Inflammatory button-pushing at its finest, Tourrorists! is the third full-length from Porest, the longtime recording project of West Oaklander Mark Gergis. He's also a frequent contributor to...

Let's Get Killed

Chachi Jones' robotic daydreams

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: April 5, 2006

Androids may dream of electric sheep, but Chachi Jones falls into rapid eye movement with fantasies of warm computer melodies and intricate rhythms dancing on the backs of his eyelids. The...

Bouncer

Mixing an ElixIr with med students

By Katy St. Clair

Published: April 5, 2006

"Elixir" is one of my best-loved words, along with "pumpkin," "festoon," and "open-bar" (oh, hyphen-schmyphen). When I fantasize that I am on Inside the Actors Studio , as I am often wont to do,...

Hear This

From the Molecules to the Mekons; genres get scrambled and sanctiomy gets scrapped

By Mark Keresman, Mike Rowell

Published: April 5, 2006

It's easy to experience the cerebral dry-heaves hearing about extramusical exploits of rock renaissance men like Byrne, Bowie, and Stipe — video production, attempts at classical compositions,...

BeatBox

New-school house vs. True Skool hip hop

By Tamara Palmer

Published: April 5, 2006

Few would recognize New York house music DJ Roger Sanchez on the streets of San Francisco, but it's a different story in places like Macedonia and the notorious Spanish party isle of Ibiza....

Eat

Horse Race

Palio d'Asti to win, place, and show

By Meredith Brody

Published: April 5, 2006

As I was driving us to Palio d'Asti on a chilly, windy, rainswept night, I was secretly hoping there'd be lasagna on the menu. A few days before, I'd seen Janice Soprano serve Bobby Baccala a...

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: April 5, 2006

To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats @ sfweekly.com . Abacus: 2078 Hayes (at Cole), 387-2828, www.abacussf.com . North Panhandle . California-Chinese. Fogón: 659 Union (at...