The lovely artwork for this was done by Richard Perez and the brilliant Jennifer Maerz edited it. This originally appeared on The Bold Italic on March 4th, 2013. My friends say they are moving to Oakland because San Francisco has let them down. The douchebags are winning. Divis is clogged with Google

Dust off your top hat and hop in your favorite steam engine for the adventure and event of a lifetime with music, art and more! The Flaming Lotus Girls, alongside Airpusher and NIMBY, are bringing you the 3rd Annual Steampunk Masquerade Promenade. The event is a fundraiser benefiting the three

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

You live in a tiny San Francisco apartment and you’re pregnant. The clock is ticking. What was once months away is now weeks. You can’t put it off anymore — it’s time to figure out where this baby is going to live. Maybe we should buy a house, you think.

  Everybody loves surprises, that feeling of not knowing what might be around the next corner — and that’s exactly the vibe that Widespread Panic gives off every time they unleash a new album. Sometimes that means taking listeners on a nice, smooth ride, and sometimes it means making ’em

This Canadian band, hailing from Vancouver, has been rocking stages since 1999. You can catch them @ The Fox theare in Oakland on Saturday, February 28, 2015 | Tickets can be purchased here.

  Headlining band, Geographer, is a San Francisc-based American indie rock band. The eight-year-old band has “described their sound as being “soulful music from outer space” using analog, electronic and acoustic elements to craft dense layers and unique sound textures.” They share the stage with local darlings, and my absolute

America’s favorite drunk, high and unemployed Canadians, will return to the stage with a new live show at the Paramount Theatre. Set in a dysfunctional trailer park community in Nova Scotia, Trailer Park Boys became a cult hit with a mockumentary-style TV show that lasted for seven seasons between 2001

Dr. Dog’s third studio album on Anti, B Room, marks the band’s greatest point of clarity in more than a decade of performing and recording. Their arrangements, while still ambitious, are much simpler, moving past the multi-tracked pastiche of earlier efforts into a unique and vibrant band voice. Indeed, it