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  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Dubtribe on Raving: "That Renegade, Revolutionary Spirit Is Always Out There"

    Dubtribe's Sunshine and Moonbeam Jones.​If there's one way to tell the true old-school house heads from the posers, it's by measuring the natural spike in their serotonin levels whenever Dubtribe Sound System hits the airwaves. That's because the beloved San Francisco duo has been pulling hea ... More >>

  • Music

    November 10, 2011

    Kreayshawn at Mansion November 11

    Dubtribe's Sunshine and Moonbeam Jones.​If there's one way to tell the true old-school house heads from the posers, it's by measuring the natural spike in their serotonin levels whenever Dubtribe Sound System hits the airwaves. That's because the beloved San Francisco duo has been pulling hea ... More >>

  • News

    November 3, 2011

    Lost Boys: New child-sex-trafficking research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker

    And sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide.

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    Kreayshawn Appearing at SET and Performing Live at Mansion in November

    ​Rick Ross called Kreayshawn a "dirty bitch" and threatened to "slap the shit out of whoever carries her bags." But the 22-year-old rapper-slash-Ricky Rozay enemy does not give a fuck. Seriously, she does not care. In a recent Huffington Post interview, Robin Wilkey asked Kreayshawn why she thin ... More >>

  • News

    October 13, 2011

    95 Express: Pay more, get injured, wait in traffic

    ​Rick Ross called Kreayshawn a "dirty bitch" and threatened to "slap the shit out of whoever carries her bags." But the 22-year-old rapper-slash-Ricky Rozay enemy does not give a fuck. Seriously, she does not care. In a recent Huffington Post interview, Robin Wilkey asked Kreayshawn why she thin ... More >>

  • News

    October 13, 2011

    Michael Corleone Blanco lives in the shadow of his cocaine-queen mother

    ​Rick Ross called Kreayshawn a "dirty bitch" and threatened to "slap the shit out of whoever carries her bags." But the 22-year-old rapper-slash-Ricky Rozay enemy does not give a fuck. Seriously, she does not care. In a recent Huffington Post interview, Robin Wilkey asked Kreayshawn why she thin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Parable vs. Miami Beat Wave in New Video and Mixtape

    Parable.​Miami MC Parable is in fight mode. His new mixtape, VS, sees him trading hooks with artists like Llamabeats, throwing jabs at producers like the Miami Beat Wave, and stepping razors against DJ Guilletine. Soon, Parable will be crisscrossing the nation on a promo tour that'll take h ... More >>

  • Music

    March 31, 2011

    Bare Wires at Churchill's Pub April 1

    Parable.​Miami MC Parable is in fight mode. His new mixtape, VS, sees him trading hooks with artists like Llamabeats, throwing jabs at producers like the Miami Beat Wave, and stepping razors against DJ Guilletine. Soon, Parable will be crisscrossing the nation on a promo tour that'll take h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Go Greasy Punk Glam With Bare Wires at Churchill's Pub April 1

    What's slop pop? Bare Wires is gonna show you.​Stumbling straight off the hot, hard streets of the Bay Area's grittier easterly half, Oakland's Bare Wires is a group of three guys -- Matthew, Nathan, and Brian -- who look like pretty '70s stoners and make a sound they describe as slop pop. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Ty Segall Talks the Ocean and Girl Drummers

    via Facebook.com​Ty Segall is one young, talented guy who gets a good amount of buzz that is, thankfully, not Justin Bieber. For all of the awesome noise he creates, he's a humble dude who more than deserves all of the attention he's received. His last LP Melted, released on Goner Records, en ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    Thomas Keller and Alice Waters Get Their Honey Here. You Should Too.

    Lee KleinSpencer Marshall, beekeeper​These famed San Francisco Bay Area restaurateurs get theirs from Marshall's Farm Natural Honey. And so do lucky souls such as my wife and I, who took a short drive south from Napa to tour the property. It was a rainy weekday afternoon, so we were the only visit ... More >>

  • Music

    December 9, 2010

    Lemonade at Electric Pickle December 11

    Lee KleinSpencer Marshall, beekeeper​These famed San Francisco Bay Area restaurateurs get theirs from Marshall's Farm Natural Honey. And so do lucky souls such as my wife and I, who took a short drive south from Napa to tour the property. It was a rainy weekday afternoon, so we were the only visit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Lemonade Talks Doom, Digital Sounds, Sade, and Dancing

    Photo by Alyssa Robb.​A gothic metropolis in sunny California, San Francisco is a city suffering from a schizo split. It's bred hippies, Hells Angels, and the Zodiac Killer. And five years ago, old San Fran gave birth to a certain psych-pop trio called Lemonade that luxuriates in the idea of swi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Google Turns 12: Top 12 Reasons We Want to Work There

    Illustration by American painter Wayne Thiebaud, via Google​Google's gettin' old. It turns 12 this week and the more we think about it, the more we realize our favorite search engine has educated us. Whenever we can't think of the answer to something? "Google it." Whenever we need to find directio ... More >>

  • Music

    September 16, 2010

    Bassnectar at Fillmore Miami Beach

    Illustration by American painter Wayne Thiebaud, via Google​Google's gettin' old. It turns 12 this week and the more we think about it, the more we realize our favorite search engine has educated us. Whenever we can't think of the answer to something? "Google it." Whenever we need to find directio ... More >>

  • News

    April 22, 2010

    Yelp has buckled to pressure, but it ain't enough

    Illustration by American painter Wayne Thiebaud, via Google​Google's gettin' old. It turns 12 this week and the more we think about it, the more we realize our favorite search engine has educated us. Whenever we can't think of the answer to something? "Google it." Whenever we need to find directio ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2009

    Paging Spicoli

    Forty years later, it's still preps vs. stoners at Norland High.

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    The Pot Smuggler vs. the Political Flak

    Norland Senior High alum Bruce Perlowin has some damn good managerial skills. Back in the '70s, the teenage hippie-cum-drug lord ran what feds called "the West Coast's largest marijuana-smuggling ring," complete with a fleet of 90 ships that hauled 500,000 pounds of pot from Colombia to the San Fran ... More >>

  • Music

    December 14, 2006

    Before and After Science

    Thomas Dolby is the opposite of a one-hit wonder

  • News

    October 13, 2005

    Confessions of a Trafficker

    Jon Roberts was a big-time Miami coke dealer who did time in the big house

  • Dining

    August 25, 2005

    It's Not All Glamour and Glitz

    Jon Roberts was a big-time Miami coke dealer who did time in the big house

  • Music

    July 14, 2005

    Into Tomorrow

    Jon Roberts was a big-time Miami coke dealer who did time in the big house

  • Dining

    February 19, 2004

    One Name, Many Tastes

    Elia makes "Mediterranean" cuisine make sense

  • News

    May 29, 2003

    Letters from the Issue of May 29 - June 4, 2003

    Elia makes "Mediterranean" cuisine make sense

  • News

    August 30, 2001

    Digital Intrigue

    Did Miami-Dade County Manager Steve Shiver deceive commissioners in an effort to steer a lucrative software contract to a friend? The friend says no. Shiver isn't talking.

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    The Last Service Station

    Why did the big oil companies want to put Ron Gregory and other independent operators out of business? That's right, to pad their profits.

  • News

    September 30, 1999

    Holy Rollers

    To keep X-craved Miami Beach raving, Hasidic teenagers smuggled in pills by the hundreds of thousands

  • Music

    March 12, 1998

    Between Punk Rock and a Hard Place

    To keep X-craved Miami Beach raving, Hasidic teenagers smuggled in pills by the hundreds of thousands

  • News

    February 17, 1993

    The Look of a Warrior

    Tony Bryant is a black militant, a hijacker, a survivor of Cuban prisons, and a Castro-hating commando. And don't you forget it.

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