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Last Friday, a San Francisco arcade patron wanted to spice up their life so badly they resorted to theft. On Saturday morning, an employee of Free Gold Watch, a screenprinting shop and arcade in Cole Valley, noticed a big problem in the restroom. Something didn’t smell quite right — and it didn’t have anything to do with the toilet. For several years, the tiny pink bathroom had one notable decoration: a vintage Spice Girls poster from the iconic girl group’s 1998 performance at Shoreline Amphith…
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It’s a hot Friday afternoon in San Rafael, California, and someone is knocking at the door of the Museum of International Propaganda. There are still a few minutes before the obscure attraction on the edge of downtown officially opens at 3:30 p.m., so curator Tom Areton isn’t anticipating any visitors during our interview. The surprise guest turns out to be Lori Deibel, research librarian at the Marin History Museum, carrying an unmarked envelope. “Hi, I’m Lori from the Marin History Museum,” sh…
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When the 1975 performed at this year’s Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco, they were staring down a deadline to pay a $2.6 million fine to the promoters of a Malaysian music festival. They heeded their lawyers’ advice during the set and kept quiet about the lawsuit, but months later, their singer has finally made public statements on the controversy — and called out the Strokes singer Julian Casablancas in the process. The lawsuit stemmed from comments singer Matty Healy made regardi…
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What’s that booming sound over San Francisco? Is it a bird? A plane? Superman? No, the Man of Steel has not come to save the website formerly known as Twitter from the clutches of Elon Musk. It was just another sign that Fleet Week is here. That roaring whoosh heard over the city was in fact a plane, probably one of several F/A-18 Super Hornets flown by the Navy’s Blue Angels. And it most likely won’t be the last you hear of them. Love it or hate it, Fleet Week is in full swing after a potential…
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Soon, Netflix and chilling might become a more expensive date night. The streaming giant headquartered in Los Gatos fell on tough times after the pandemic-era bingeing boom, posting its largest quarterly loss of subscribers ever in the summer of 2022. In the wake of the losses, Netflix unrolled new ad-supported subscription models and began cracking down on the ubiquitous practice of sharing passwords, a move that’s just about the least chill thing it could possibly do. The gambit seemed to have…
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That thing, that thing, that thiiiing … is coming to San Francisco. Ms. Lauryn Hill, whose single “Doo Wop (That Thing)” still stands as one of the best hip-hop songs of the 1990s, just announced a show at San Francisco’s Chase Center on Nov. 17. The news comes after a previously announced show on Nov. 7 at Oakland Arena has nearly sold out. She is set to be joined by her former group, the Fugees, who are billed as co-headliners. Hill rose to prominence alongside Pras and Wyclef Jean in the Fuge…
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The second year of the Portola Music Festival has come to a close with stunning performances amid a festival site that still needs some sprucing up. Organized by the team behind Coachella, Goldenvoice’s two-day celebration of electronic dance music at San Francisco’s Pier 80 felt like a well-oiled machine compared with its rocky first year, but it was a machine built for one thing only: music. The booking was masterful and the sound improved, with memorable performances of all stripes, from unde…
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San Francisco has officially hit peak festival season. With last weekend’s Folsom Street Fair in the rear view, this weekend brought a pair of dueling music festivals whose music and audiences couldn’t be more different. The twangy sound of banjos filled the air in Golden Gate Park for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, but across town, Pier 80 came alive with the pounding thump of drum machines and swelling synths of Portola Fest, which last year could be heard all the way over in Alameda. This year th…
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There are few San Francisco traditions as beloved as the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival. The three-day event held yearly at Golden Gate Park is free to attend, thanks to an endowment by late venture capitalist Warren Hellman. Kicking off today, the festival featured performances by the likes of Buffalo Nichols, Dawes, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and many more. The musicians got a signature San Francisco greeting as a heavy fog covered the park, offering some gentle shade for those who…
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Back when the pioneering punk band Frightwig released their first album in 1984, the minimum wage in San Francisco was $3.35. That’s how much bass player Deanna Mitchell and guitarist Mia d’Bruzzi, who have been friends since the age of 16, earned working at arthouse movie theaters along Market Street. At the time, that was enough money to afford the archetypical lifestyle of a musician. “It was tight, but we didn’t care. … I lived in a number of s—tty warehouses. You paid your rent, we didn’t e…
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After 27 years of mystery surrounding the death of Tupac Shakur, Duane “Keffe D” Davis was charged Friday with one count of murder with a deadly weapon in the 1996 drive-by shooting. Davis, 60, grew up in Compton, California, and played football at Lynwood High School alongside Suge Knight, who would go on to co-found the notorious gangster rap label Death Row Records. Davis was also childhood friends with rapper Eazy-E, a member of the rap group N.W.A. alongside Dr. Dre. Davis has a long histor…
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