Saturday Fun Fun Fun Fest Blurbs

Saturday's top FFF picks

"...until 2013's fecund Big Wheel and Others peaked the Bay Area alterna-bard by peeling out a double disc of..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Music Feature

Page Two: It Was Thirty Years and a Day and a Half Ago

It's hard to get unstuck from the past when it's still so present

"...also recently moved to the Austin vicinity from the Bay Area, arriving a day or two before my b-day...."

Oct. 16, 2015 Column by Louis Black

If You Don't, Who Will?

After 16 years, Erase Errata calls it quits

"...though for not having the final show in the Bay Area...."

Oct. 14, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

ACL Preview: Jidenna

Full, uncut Q&A with a true G

"...raised in his father’s native Nigeria. Based in the Bay Area after graduating from Stanford, he invited a then..."

Oct. 8, 2015 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Meet the New Boss

Austin Film Society rolls out their public access plan

"...small number: San Francisco's SF Commons, run by the Bay Area Video Coalition. Blizzard said, "We interviewed all the..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Return of Ellen Fullman & The Long String Instrument

The Bay Area composer performs with Austin's New Music Co-op

"...who'd eventually made her way to settle in California's Bay Area, returned to play the Long String Instrument at..."

Aug. 10, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Billy Harvey’s Headed Toward Danger

ATX wordsmith on acting, building mountains, and his inner finger

"...and we started a band. He was from the Bay Area, and when he moved home I followed him...."

July 31, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Live Shots: Faith No More

Austin Music Hall, July 26

"...do anything? Rules are for the weak declare the Bay Area alt-metal/easy listening fusionists. "You asked for it," yowling,..."

July 31, 2015 Music Review by Richard Whittaker

Weird City Hip-Hop Festival Re-Ups

ATX’s early fall classic serves up a sophomore swang and bang

"...front line includes mercurial Detroit rapper Danny Brown, garrulous Bay Area wordsmith Aesop Rock, and resident hooligan MC (and..."

July 15, 2015 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

The Grateful Dead

Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, Calif., June 27 & 28

"...Garcia 20 years deceased, Phish's Trey Anastasio filled in. Bay Area pianist Bruce Hornsby and organist Jeff Chimenti also..."

July 3, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

In the Unlikely Event

Judy Blume at BookPeople Saturday

"...while she was in San Francisco for last week’s Bay Area Book Festival, to chat about this new book..."

June 13, 2015 Arts Post by Jessi Cape

X Games: Metallica

"...event where music isn't even the focus. As the Bay Area metal squad proved during its headlining X Games..."

June 12, 2015 Music Review by Michael Toland

No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead

A long strange trip contextualized

"...reunion tours after his death in 1995. Richardson, a Bay Area native, drips his best ink on the early..."

May 29, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

More Trouble for Hopkins

Suspended APD officer incurs new sanctions

"...via "House Arrest," Dec. 19, 2014). In short, the Bay Area native and Army veteran-turned-APD cop responded so proactively..."

May 29, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

13th Floor Elevators

Levitation interviews

"...ripped off their hinges. When not digesting jazz on Bay Area frequency KCSM and news through German broadcasters Deutsche..."

May 8, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Soft Moon

"...Luis Vasquez turns his Bay Area-based Soft Moon project from rickety, guitar-driven post-punk to..."

May 8, 2015 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...Fallujah 11:55pm, Dirty Dog Hailing from the Bay Area, though they take their name from an Iraqi..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Thursday Showcases

International hip-hop, or domestic, Modern Outsider sounds?

"...the Dodos brings a specific, entrancing lightness that the Bay Area duo has perfected over six LPs, the latest..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Saturday Interview

"...says the 69-year-old Sioux from his home in the Bay Area. "All politics to me – Indian or white..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music List 10

The Damned, 2 Chainz, War on Drugs, and 242 more added

"...HBK Gang (Bay Area, Calif.)..."

March 6, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music: Second List

243 + 171 = as many acts as the last two ATX fests combined

"...Also of note: Alejandro Escovedo co-writer and Bay Area rocker extraordinaire Chuck Prophet, FFF Fest highlight King..."

Nov. 18, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Playback: Lines, Rhymes, and Redemption

The line at Fun Fun Fun Fest wasn't the only show last weekend

"...The best set I saw on Sunday was Foxygen, Bay Area psych-pop sculptors known for a legendarily bad performance..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Housecore Horror Live Shot: Saturday Part 2

King Parrot squawk, Author & Punisher grinds, Neurosis evolves

"...upon initial blush – more traditional. Yet with the Bay Area cult’s 30th anniversary looming, they still hunt for..."

Oct. 26, 2014 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Can Thug Kitchen Stand the Heat?

Controversial bloggers visit Austin tomorrow

"...out, the Thugs (ugh) have canceled events in the Bay Area due to planned protests and sparked a far-reaching..."

Oct. 15, 2014 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

South Parked

Red Star dishes hospitality and humor

"...high-profile fine-dining establishments in Chicago, Nashville, the San Francisco Bay area, and Austin. After a few months back, however,..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

July Is Crime Month: Raymond Chandler’s 'The Long Goodbye'

Sleuthing for a childhood relic

"...of his career in Naval intelligence hunting our native Bay Area’s Zodiac because his employers feared the killer’s ciphers..."

July 11, 2014 Books Post by Raoul Hernandez

Mixing It Up at Foreign & Domestic

Indie chefs dinners continue with Bill Corbett

"...from washing dishes to overseeing dessert menus at four Bay Area restaurants. Although named one of the food industry’s..."

June 20, 2014 Food Post by Rachel Feit

Michael Pollan Preaches It

Author is a fantastic evangelist for better ways of dealing with food

"...and Pollan attached himself to one of the best, Bay Area baker Chad Robertson of Tartine (whose gorgeous signature..."

May 29, 2014 Food Post by Rod Machen

New York, New York

My first trip to the land of fire escapes

"...Flying into JFK, my first sight was the Jamaica Bay shoreline...."

May 27, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Chaotic Platters

"...his latest bass-groove-heavy single "Cross Your Mind," co-written by Bay area psych rocker Tim Cohen. (Sun., June 1, Hotel..."

May 23, 2014 Music Feature by Nina Hernandez

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