This is the mural from the side of the building This is certainly one of the coolest places in all of San Francisco.  Bound Together is an Anarchist Book Collective.  Now I know that for a lot of people the word Anarchist has negative and ominous connotations, but that is

This Saturday, October 24th CMJ is partnering with NYU to offer the New York City community the chance to see the four bands that won the NYU MEISA Battle of the Bands Championship perform for FREE. . It all goes down at Crash Mansion: Hip-Hop Artist NYLE, Headbanging, stagediving Shinobi

I can’t think of a better place to hit on someone than at a midnight Muppet movie, much less one based around journalists. If you’re actually planning on going to this thing, the people that you’ll probably see will include, but is not limited to: the lonely, the uninspired and

Harry Aleo was a throwback to when San Francisco wasn’t as freaky-deaky as it is now.  As a super conservative in Noe Valley he stuck out like a sore thumb, and liked it that way.  He’s dead now, but he used to own Twin Peaks Properties of which I wrote

When you walk into a place that’s playing ABBA, and you overhear one clerk asking another, “Can we rent out these clown shoes?” you know that there’s a high probability that you’re in the best store ever.  Between the florescent purple, pink and green carpet (think Hammer pants from elementary

Consider this an addendum to Kiley’s guide to this year’s CMJ Festival, because Liz Wight, aka Love Grenades, whom the LA Weekly called “scorching” and “seductive”, is making her New York debut this weekend! Download her newest Tom Tom Club-inspired track, “Genius of Fun” here, and be sure to check

Wondering what to do for fun this week?  Feeling a little dead inside?  Wake yourself up with an event for each of the 5 senses.  And they are all FREE or almost FREE! 1st Sense, TASTE: Get your taste buds going!  Go to an event at SF’s Omnivore Books, learn how to

To avoid the ugly legal fallout that would doubtless be the result  of any sort of copyrite infringement, I have cleverly come up with an alternative title for this post! Because of the overwhelming enthusiasm  caused by my Babysitters Club post, (there was none), I decided to do it again