Poster Children was formed in Champaign, Illinois in 1987 by Rick Valentin (guitar, vocals) and Rose Marshack (bass, vocals). Jim Valentin joined on guitar in 1991 and Matt Friscia (drummer #7) joined in 2001. They have released eleven studio albums, on various independent and major labels, and one feature-length film, “Zero

  ‘Striking Distance: Bruce Lee and the Dawn of Martial Arts in America.‘ This book chronicles the formative days of a young Bruce Lee amid the heated atmosphere of the trailblazing martial arts scene on San Francisco Bay. Charles Russo is an award-winning journalist based in San Francisco. He is

Fog City Summer Part 5 a San Francisco Romance Excerpt from a Novel by Genie Cartier Read Part 4 Last time: A confrontation with Scott at the People’s Music Festival leads to Julian getting hit in the face. Tension and confusion over the situation causes a rupture in Djuna and Julian’s

The son of Boogie King Ted Broussard, Marc was seemingly meant for the stage. He made his first public performance at the age of five singing “Johnny B. Good” with his father. His continuing career has brought him abroad both on tour and stylistically. Possessing a naturally gruff voice and a

Open bar and appetizers paid for by Corporate America await you all week as Dreamforce 2016 swallows up SoMa and downtown (Oct. 4-7). The world’s largest software conference is also the world’s largest party-crashing opportunity, with oodles of cash-negative startups throwing insanely opulent parties all over our fair city. Here’s

They pass out about 120 lunches a week as well as 40 to 50 harm reduction kits that contain clean needles, crack pipes, and condoms.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is probably the whitest music festival in the Bay Area. But the lineup is not completely white performers! The are some outstanding African American, Latino and Native American acts booked for this weekend’s largest free music festival in the U.S. When you’ve grown tired of the soft-country

While enduring the fluctuation between crisis and monotony inherent in the daily operation of a small, independent record label, work began on a musical project known as, Califone. The band named itself after the pedant audio supply manufacturer. Friday, October 7, 2016 | The Chapel | Tickets can be purchased here