Subject: San Francisco

• Bombs Away

  July 5, 2006

• Fire-shooting genitalia, and other shows

  March 29, 2006

• Roman Numerals Get New Drummer

  July 2, 2007

• Pointless Forest Sends S.O.S.

  September 25, 2007

• Kris Kobach vs. San Francisco

  September 4, 2008

• Best Architectural Salvage

  October 19, 2000

• A Dollar Grill

  February 1, 2001

• This Day In Rock: Sex Pistols' Last Gig

  This question came up the last time I played Robert Moore's music trivia at the Record Bar, so it's only fitting to repeat it here: In what city did the Sex Pistols play their final show (the first time)? It was that ill-fated (yet bold) 1978 tour that took the Pistols through the American Deep South -- a tour that band manager Malcolm McLaren intentionally booked to stir shit up. It ended on January 14 at the Winterland in San Francisco, where, after a cover of the Stooges' "No Fun," the thoro

  January 14, 2009

• Tivo Alert: Check Please! premieres tonight

  As mentioned in Pitch Forks this week, tonight at 7:30 KCPT debuts its version of Check Please! a television show that puts restaurant reviews in the hands of normal joes, for better or worse.Here's the basic set-up: Three people each pick a local restaurant. It can be fancy or a truck stop, pretty much whatever that person likes. Then those three people try each others' picks. After all the meals, they get together with a host to talk about their experiences. The show was created in Chicago (wh

  January 15, 2009

• The Yellow Swans

  September 2, 2004

• Music Lesson

  June 9, 2005

• Mi Ami

  February 5, 2009

• Musée Mécanique

  January 29, 2009

• The Blacks

  January 1, 2009

• Milk

  December 11, 2008

• The Download

  Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

  June 19, 2008

• Bong-Ra

  May 29, 2008

• Black Cobra

  December 13, 2007

• To Save Souls

  December 6, 2007

• You Kill Me

  October 11, 2007

• The Download

  September 6, 2007

• Boyskout

  November 30, 2006

• The Court and Spark

  June 29, 2006

• Masterpiece-a-Roni

  Attention, cable-TV cooking shows: KC Masterpiece is not the Kansas City treat.

  April 27, 2006

• The Download

  April 27, 2006

• Tea Leaf Green

  January 19, 2006

• Vampire Lezbos

  Thursday, December 22, at the Jackpot

  December 22, 2005

• Breakin' Too

  November 17, 2005

• Sound Tribe Sector 9

  Saturday, September 25, at The Granada.

  September 23, 2004

• BoySkout

  Tuesday, September 21, at the Empire Room.

  September 16, 2004

• Mark Farina

  Friday, September 10, at Kabal.

  September 9, 2004

• Hector Moralez

  Friday,July 2, at Kabal.

  July 1, 2004

• Ten Mile Tide

  Thursday, August 28, at Benders.

  August 28, 2003

• Sound Tribe Sector Nine

  Sunday, February 16, at the Granada.

  February 13, 2003

• Imperial Teen

  On (Merge)

  July 18, 2002

• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

  Blow in the Wind (Fat Wreck Chords)

  July 26, 2001

• Country Scratchin'

  Hip-hop fans can’t get the P for free, now that Springfield's top turntablist has a national rep.

  April 26, 2001

• Adventures in Wonderland

  April 19, 2001

• Rough and Reddy

  Sutera's Old San Francisco Restaurant spices up the West Bottoms -- a little.

  March 1, 2001

• Bay Guardian

  As captain of Jefferson Starship/Airplane for over three decades, Paul Kantner is still fighting legal battles over use of the band's name.

  July 13, 2000

• Groove Is From the Heart

  Groove.

  July 13, 2000

• Friday, April 21

  Shutdownat El Torreon

  April 20, 2000

• Incoming: The Pogues @ Midland

  I couldn't have come back from a four-day, computer-free weekend to better news: the Pogues are coming to the Midland by AMC on October 25. Pogues.com Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 26, at 10 a.m. But a pre-sale is available today beginning at 3 p.m. to anyone who signs up for the Pogues' online community. In recent years, it seems like the storied Irish trad-rock-punk band has only played in New York (and maybe one or two other select cities) when they've bothered to come to the U.S. Ev

  June 23, 2009

• Norrit

  July 2, 2009

• Festival of Words

  August 6, 2009

• Finding sustainable sushi can be a challenge

  ​For a landlocked city, seafood is a surprising big deal in Kansas City. Everyone has opinions on where to get the best lobster bisque or clam chowder, but a regular point of debate among seafood lovers is where to get the best -- and freshest -- sushi in town. Any discussion of sushi and seafood restaurants might actually be missing the boat -- the real question might be whether the plate you're being served is actually sustainable. What if you found out that bluefin tuna could be extinct in

  August 24, 2009

• Tonight: Ghostland Observatory, the Glitch Mob at Crossroads KC

  ​Got a yen to do the danse macabre tonight? Head down to Crossroads KC at Grinders tonight for an electro-dance cruise ship of awesomeness helmed by Austin synth-vocals duo Ghostland Observatory and openers the Glitch Mob, a scruffy, knob-twisting dance quartet from Cali. Get like PBS and watch these docu-videos about both acts. The first is a quaint little Central-Texas-made piece starring people with hefty drawls tawlking about Ghostland's unique aesthetic. (Kinda reminds me of Suicide

  October 16, 2009

• What to watch -- and what not to watch -- for Halloween

  Alison Lohman in Drag Me to Hell​When the last pinky-sized 100 Grand bar is gone and the porch light goes out, how will you reckon with the waning hours of October 31? With an extra hour available, thanks to the end of daylight-saving time, there's no going wrong with the shut-in creepfest double feature. But what to watch?Our sister paper the San Francisco Weekly offers critic Brian Miller's handy guide, which rightly positions Onion AV Club and Kansas City Public Library favorite They Live n

  October 29, 2009

• Wayward Q&A: Interview with George Frayne (Commander Cody)

  Before Commander Cody became a household name for his saloon-stomping, country-rock jams in the '70s, the man behind the moniker had a career in art academia as George Frayne. In the late '60s Frayne was plying his MFA in sculpture toward teaching at the Wisconsin State University in Oshkosh when he decided to move to San Francisco in 1969 with members of his backing band to pursue music full-time. Later that same year, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen would open for the Grateful Dead

  November 6, 2009

• Passive Action

  November 19, 2009