I went to West Oakland’s Eli’s Mile High Club on Saturday night to check out the Fool’s Gold Records co-founder Nick Catchdubs and Another Party Fam’s Trackademicks and L-Deez DJ a hot dance party. Was it good? Well, the house was packed, the music was slick and everyone looked great – so yeah, it was the shit.

I’m not going to lie, in my personal opinion “soul food” and “Japanese food” comprise what I believe to be some of the happiest couplings of words known to the human language. When I first heard about Abura-Ya, Oakland’s Japanese soul food spot, I my interested was distinctly heightened

Welcome to Bay of the Living Dead, a twice-a-month column about horror movies and TV, past, present and future. Scream Factory, Shout Factory’s wonderfully sublime horror label, brings four fondly remembered B chillers from the early 1970s to Blu-Ray. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) and The Dunwich Horror (1970), both from the drive-in mavens

This Post is brought to you by the fine folks at Good Vibrations, a diverse, sex positive retailer providing high-quality products. and non-judgmental, accurate sex information. August… A tricky month, astrologically speaking. Some signs see prosperity, others are far far down Shit Creek with no paddle in site. But The Sex Unicorn

Portland, Oregon is an amazing city. So often you hear about its wet, dreary winters, that seem to stretch from one grey eternity to another. I have never formally lived in Portland, but I have spent enough winters up there to know that sound of endless months of drumming rain.

Ah, aging. Getting old hits some harder than others. Some mellow out, some get 17 cats and some just go straight crazy. Diving headfirst into the aging process is NO reason for one to stop being a belligerent, loud, shit show. I mean, one only needs to look at Oakland’s

Clar de Mayo: On the Record A few nights ago I was invited to an art show last minute, I debated on going due to how many art events I had already seen this past week. First was Art Market at Fort Mason on Thursday, then “Combine” at Blackbird Bar

San Francisco (CA) – It’s been a rough year for music, but thank Bowie that Stern Grove is our rock. Hooking us up with incredible, free shows, for the last 79 years.  It’s going to be just another year of FREE summer concerts with world class musicians in a BYB amphitheatre surrounded