Archive Search

Feature

Pulp Friction

The Independent Press Association was founded to champion alternative magazines, but now its members say it has become the kind of hard-hearted corporation it once opposed

By Ryan Blitstein

Published: June 14, 2006

Anne Niven recognized the pattern. She'd been in the magazine business too long not to see it. The unanswered phone calls and e-mails. The frequent staff turnover. The promised checks that didn't...

News

Beheadings and Dead Microphones

KNBR's new owners try to adjust to big-market radio

By Martin Kuz

Published: June 14, 2006

Heads had rolled by the time Bruce Macgowan showed up for work at KNBR's studios one morning in early May. The station's new owners, two days before assuming full control of its operations, already...

Sucka Free City

The Tide Is High

By Eliza Strickland

Published: June 14, 2006

Here's news to warm the hearts of wonky environmentalists: Tidal power in San Francisco has been declared officially feasible. And not only feasible, but also a damn good fit for the city's...

Sucka Free City

Sistah Kamala

By Karen Zuercher

Published: June 14, 2006

Have you ever been so embarrassed for somebody that you felt it in your gut? I felt that way last Wednesday night as I watched our high-profile District Attorney, Kamala Harris, participate in an...

Sucka Free City

Horns Aplenty

By TOPHONE

Published: June 14, 2006

The fog came in silently as ever, and just like that, summer was here. Everything was muffled and still out at Parkmerced; the S.F. State kids were quiet, and the neighbors slept soundly through...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Published: June 14, 2006

Worries and Daycares Why fund preschools when the womenfolk can stay home and raise the kids?: Matt Smith had a number of points listed on why the "meathead" preschool legislation was a...

Music

We Are the World

Global fusion takes club music to outernational heights

By Eric K. Arnold

Published: June 14, 2006

The rooftop terrace of the upscale Mission District eatery Medjool, with its urbanized Middle Eastern atmosphere and sweeping views, makes an appropriate setting for a chat with Arabic mix-master...

Music

The Dating Game

Death and the Dead surround 6/6/06

By Jonathan Zwickel

Published: June 14, 2006

Nobody wants to be the fifth wheel, but as the fifth Beatle, Billy Preston was the musical lube that kept the high-strung Let It Be sessions from slipping off the rails. When the prodigiously...

Music

Touched in the Hip

Kid606 takes a break from dementing dance floors

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: June 14, 2006

"I always thought I was making dance music, I just didn't fuckin' know that people couldn't dance to it," laughs Miguel Depedro, aka Kid606, over the phone from a hotel room in Japan. "I didn't...

Music

Men in Black

Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan tangle with trouble

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: June 14, 2006

Beyond grunge's punk bulldozers existed '90s alt-rock giants Afghan Whigs and the Screaming Trees; they were simpatico with the bombastic angst of the Northwest superstars, but traded rattling...

Let's Get Killed

Jack White bros down for an intimate in-store

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: June 14, 2006

Despite the gleaming onyx tour bus and the cop car occupying the loading zone, the crowd sprouting like Marlboro-scented weeds along the front wall, and the scratchy garble of walkie-talkies last...

Reviewed

The Black Heart Procession

The Spell

By Sam Prestianni

Published: June 14, 2006

How long can one nurse a broken heart before the healing just has to kick in? In the case of the Black Heart Procession, almost a decade. For the past nine years, frontman Pall Jenkins has led his...

Reviewed

MSTRKRFT

The Looks

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: June 14, 2006

When not causing a dance-rock ruckus with his bass-drums duo Death From Above 1979, mustachioed four-stringer Jesse Keeler likes to team up with pal Al-P to form the equally Canadian, increasingly...

Reviewed

Sound Team

Movie Monster

By Andy Beta

Published: June 14, 2006

The old adage goes that everything is bigger in Texas. Sure, Spoon may spartanly get by on the core songwriting skills of Britt Daniel and Jim Eno, but give credit to fellow Austinites Sound Team,...

Bouncer

Drinking pints with flying saucers

By Katy St. Clair

Published: June 14, 2006

Fred had always been a little bit strange, but after he visited the crop circle he got downright weird. "I didn't know it at the time," he said as we drove to the Latin American Club, "but you can...

Hear This

Stern Grove goes 'Aquatic'

By Justin F. Farrar, Chris Coomey, Dave Pehling

Published: June 14, 2006

Noise: it's hip, it's underground, and a growing number of young people are doing it — that is, feigning insanity onstage while kicking up storms of epileptic percussion and squealing-pig...

BeatBox

Drum 'n' bass 'n' benefits 'n' stuff

By Tony Ware, Tamara Palmer

Published: June 14, 2006

"With a rebel yell/She cried more, more, more. Owww. In the midnight hour, babe/More, more, more." OK, so unless you wear leg warmers as a fashion statement, the poetry of Billy Idol has little to...

Eat

Will Nopa Be the New SOMA?

Could be. Restaurants open, neighborhood follows.

By Meredith Brody

Published: June 14, 2006

In rapidly gentrifying cities, where a search for affordable housing turns every neighborhood, no matter how sketchy, grubby, or charmless, into a possible one, it's the amenities that follow that...

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: June 14, 2006

To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats @ sfweekly.com . Apollo Deli & Market: 501 Fell (at Laguna), 255-6870. Hayes Valley . Soup and sandwiches, Mediterranean food. Beard Papa's:...

Film

Tortilla Flat

Nacho's funnier than Napoleon, which isn't sayin' much

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: June 14, 2006

There is no movie more overrated in recent history than Napoleon Dynamite ; it's to cinema what the Doors are to rock 'n' roll, a thing blindly and inexplicably championed as though it were a...