In 2006, Impact Theatre debuted the very first edition of “Jukebox Stories” — a two-man show featuring stories and songs performed and written by playwright Prince Gomolvilas and singer-songwriter Brandon Patton, respectively. What began as an experiment in the basement theatre underneath La Val’s Pizza, which Impact calls home, is Read More…
Bluntly put, I am an avid supporter of the one-night stand. That doesn’t mean I spend all my weekends seeking out and partaking in boozy sex with random strangers, but rather that I find true value in the experience. Read More…
Phoenix’s Bankrupt! Monday welcomes the arrival of the new Phoenix album, Bankrupt!, four years after the release of their 2009 breakout record Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. The 2013 Coachella headliners have since spent two years in both New York and Paris studios crafting this new record, which is sure to impress Read More…
Here’s how to put on a disturbingly hilarious and outrageously entertaining musical in a confined basement-slash-student-theater: Take six socially awkward and sensationally idiosyncratic elementary school students, give them each a Red Bull or two and have them battle it out in a local spelling bee put on by equally strange Read More…
There are many words in the English language that can be used to describe SF Playhouse’s latest production, “Reasons to Be Pretty.” However, “pretty” may not be one of them. Edgy? Yes. Hilariously entertaining? Yes. Pretty? Not quite. Written by American playwright Neil LaBute, the play is a witty and Read More…
“Environmentally friendly” might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of an alternative rock band. However, that is the main driving force behind Cloud Cult, an extraordinary eight-member experimental “chamber rock” group. Read More…
Impact Theatre’s latest contemporary revamp is William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” The play follows a familiar Shakespearean scenario. Everyone starts to fall in love with the wrong person. Chaos ensues. Read More…
This month comes the release STRFKR’s fourth record, Miracle Mile, and simply put, it is damn good. The 4-man indie electro-pop group originated in Portland, Oregon as a solo project by Joshua Hodges (vocals, keyboard, guitar and drums) under the alias Sexton Blake. Read More…
Premiering at the Aurora Theatre this past week was local playwright Anthony Clarvoe’s “Our Practical Heaven” — a family dramedy consisting of a mere cast of six female characters differing greatly in terms of generations and personalities but strung together by the word “family”. Think “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Read More…
Last Friday, The Hush Sound returned to the San Francisco stage after a lofty five-year hiatus. This time around, the 4-person jangle pop group joined forces with singer-songwriter Lucas Carpenter and openers Sydney Wayser and Brooklyn-based band The Last Royals at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco’s own baroque Read More…
