A longtime heavy-metal hotbed (home to the likes of Metallica and High on Fire), the Bay Area is fast becoming host to a new breed of this music defined not by a particular style so much as by a willingness to experiment—call...More»
With the Marin Country Mart’s revamp, the women of Larkspur, Mill Valley, and Ross have finally found a worthwhile place to burn some plastic. Since its makeover, the open-air shopping center, steps from the...More»
We’re not exactly known for our sense of humor around these parts. Our Very Serious Interests range from locally raised, ethically harvested kale to debates on whether Nancy Pelosi is liberal enough. But San Francisco does...More»
You’ve seen pisco on practically every cocktail menu, but you don’t know the half of it. “Interest in pisco is surging like I’ve never seen it,” says James Schenk, owner of what he claims is the...More»
This summer, the 18-month-old Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute is setting out to make its green-product certification as well known as the old Good Housekeeping Seal. When eco-building guru William...More»
After a long workweek, there’s nothing better than rocking out to ’70s Nigerian Afrobeat, vintage soul, and Cambodian surfer rock, right? The dance party known as the International Freak-Out A-Go-Go outgrew the Knockout...More»
With up to 5,000 people showing up for your average Oakland Art Murmur’s First Friday centered around 23rd Street, it’s no surprise that neighboring blocks have caught the art bug. In the past two years alone, at least...More»
Rarely have backwoods and bohemian gone together so well—or with such underground notice—as they have at Andrew Mariani’s two-year-old Scribe Winery. There’s scarcely more than a crude wooden sign to...More»
In an advertising world gone wild for viral marketing, the heir apparent to Old Spice’s hilarious “the man your man could smell like” ads is not a squawking duck that sells insurance; it’s a singing unicorn...More»
You’d think the world would have room for only one crappy B movie with a rabid, yell-at-the-screen following. But The Rocky Horror Picture Show now has some serious competition for midnight motion picture money. The...More»
TechShop, Maker Faire’s studious, career-minded counterpart, sprouted a second Bay Area branch, on Howard Street in February (it started in Menlo Park)—and is already going gangbusters. Everything from jewelry to a fold...More»
Stem cell researchers used to walk a minefield. Because they needed human embryos for their work, they faced intense opposition from conservative groups, often couldn’t get funding or cell lines, and—even after the...More»
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