Published on 5.10.2011 by SFCritic On probably the only sober minute of a booze-soaked getaway to the North Coast I had the pleasure of overhearing a solo violinist’s rendition of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes’s “Home” outside of a coffee shop on the edge of the Mendocino Headlands. A few hours later I had…
Later this month, Silicon Valley tech magnate Peter Thiel will announce the names of the 20 lucky college students he will pay $100,000 to drop out. Thiel believes that similar to Americans’ willingness to assume large sums of debt for housing, the ever-increasing debt being assumed by students will create a similar bubble, which too…
Immortal Technique at The New Parish, Oakland, April 3, 2011 In early January 2010, longtime Oakland jazz music scene establishment “Sweet Jimmy’s,” was reincarnated as The New Parish, and in the last year has not only solidified its place in the East Bay music scene but become a beacon in Bay Area nightlife, easily rivaling…
SKUNK MAGAZINE, APRIL 2011 by Angela Bacca with Eddy Lepp In early October, 2010, I became the second person in two years to visit Eddy Lepp in Lompoc Federal Prison, near Santa Barbara, California. I entered the main corridor, surrendered my ID and took off most of my clothing to be searched. The only items…
It took about three weeks for me to really like Radiohead’s most recent release, “King of Limbs.” At first listen, it is whiny, annoying and obscure—everything people who don’t like Radiohead don’t like about them. To those fan’s (like myself) who took some time learning to love Kid A and Amnesiac, King of Limbs was…
Shh… don’t tell anyone, the illegal business of growing and distributing pot in California is now a $14 billion a year industry. The medical marijuana industry was born in 1980s San Francisco at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Dennis Peron, Vietnam war veteran, activist and longtime friend of the late Harvey Milk saw first-hand…
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