JC Carlston

30 Years of Bored Stiff: Celebrating an SF Hip Hop Legacy with a Documentary
Bored Stiff, a pioneering San Francisco hip-hop collective, was celebrated at the Roxie Theater with the premiere of Sounds Like My Life, a documentary about the group’s history and influence on the Bay Area’s hip-hop scene.

Paint the City Orange and Black, It’s Opening Day SF
It’s that time of the year again, San Francisco! Baseball season is here. The bats start cracking in Cincinnati, so walk your dogs early. Shut your laptop, and if you serve beers, let’s go. It has been an inspiring spring down in Scottsdale. The left side of the infield is

How the Oakland Athletics Broke My Heart
My mother took me to my first baseball game in the mid-80s, and now the Oakland Athletics are moving to Sacramento, leaving behind a rich legacy of memories and a city that will miss them.

California Academy Of Sciences Kicked Off August’s Remix Sessions The Bay Way
NightLife has something special going on this month, and last week the Bay Area was in full effect at Golden Gate Park’s California Academy of Sciences. LaRussell made his homecoming after being on tour with T Pain and kicked off the Remix Sessions that have you covered every Thursday in

Klay Thompson Leaving the Warriors is the End of an Era
It’s the end of an era in the Bay. The best-ever backcourt duo arguably in the history of the National Basketball Association is no more. On Monday morning it was announced Klay Thompson, one half of the Splash Brothers, was taking his ball and moving to Texas to join the Dallas Mavericks.

Musician You Should Know: Brycon
Brycon, the well known of the unknown, is at it again. Last Friday Brycon, San Francisco’s busiest man on the beats, dropped his 13th solo studio album. The Shape of Things That Went which is a 14 track homage to jazz legend Ornette Coleman’s classic album The Shape of Jazz

Willie Mays “The Say Hey Kid” Passes Away At 93
It’s one of those where were you when, kind of evenings. I was at home watching the Giants take on the Cubs at Wrigley Field in Chicago when Jon Miller broke the news at 5:56 pm live on the air that the “Say Hey Kid” Willie Mays had passed away

Baseball Is Back San Francisco
It’s that time of the year San Francisco. Time to dust off those mitts, them croix de candlestick buttons and your best in Orange and Black. Baseball season is upon us today in the great city we call home. The smell of the grass, the dogs, the beers, the ‘he’s