This is going to be fun, opening night with delicious beers, pizza, and a great film all going off in the Mission, SF

The ninth studio album from Calexico, The Thread That Keeps Us, is a timely snapshot of the Arizona-bred band: a family portrait capturing their stylistic variety and unpredictability while still finding solace in limitless creativity. In bringing the album to life, vocalist/guitarist Joey Burns and drummer John Convertino found a

Did you say ‘MORE ART PLEASE’? Well, good.  The weather’s nice and there are lots of art openings, parties, festivals on both sides of the bay in May.  Here’s just a few in the next week or two.

Larry and His Flask are a five piece, high energy Rock and Roll band that incorporate elements of Punk, Gypsy Jazz, Folk and Americana music. Some people refer to them as “Folk Punk” or “Punk-Grass”, but regardless of genre classification they strive to bring the party to every crowd. Their goal

Shakey Graves Is A Gentleman From Texas. Before being known as Shakey Graves, Alejandro Rose-Garcia had acting roles in Friday Night Lights and the Spy Kids franchise. Shakey Graves became known for his one-man band set up and most of his 2011 self-released debut album Roll the Bones features him playing solo. This set up originated after he grew

If you lived in the bay in 1989, chances are you remember in vivid detail the big Loma Prieta Earthquake that nearly crushed you, and your little dog too.   I personally remember seeing the walls crack in my Aunts house, as I watched the Giants playoff game get started on TV,

There is no simple way to describe Shahid Buttar. He’s the son of Muslim refugees, a civil rights lawyer, an activist, a grassroots organizer, a DJ, a spoken word artist, a writer, a musician and music producer, among other things. Running as a candidate for San Francisco’s 12th District is

Joseph DeAngelo. If you don’t know that name, you will soon enough. Yesterday, April 25th, 72 year old Joseph DeAngelo was arrested in connection with a cold case that rocked the Bay area for a decade from 1976 to 1986. For a decade, the man known as The Original Night