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Aug 11, 2008

Virginal, Mobile, Festive: Saturday

Whether you’re a little bit Iggy or a little bit Moby; whether you breathlessly await each L’il Wayne mixtape or whether pop music ceased to interest you the year the Beatles stopped touring and Dylan went electric (in which case, congratulations on figuring out this old Internet), there was something to your taste at the third edition of the Virgin Mobile Festival this weekend. Not just something, actually: A lot. With a big assist from…

Jul 29, 2007

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton’s San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan’s cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a…

Jul 24, 2007

Once Ticket Giveaway

Glen Hansard (of The Frames) and Marketa Irglova, the stars of the hit avant-musical film Once, are touring under the guise of The Swell Season and and playing a selection of songs from the soundtrack. The tour stops at the 9:30 Club Thursday with Amy LaVere and to celebrate, we’re giving away a pair of tickets to the show. All you need to do is fill out the form below with your name and…

Jun 06, 2007

Once in a Lifetime: This is Not My Beautiful Wife!

Once, they call it. There’s a song by that name in the film, but the title could just as well be writer/director John Carney’s private joke about how often this premise can be expected to work: Two talented musicians, one of them very young and not yet famous; the other no longer young and probably as famous as he’s likely to become, meet cute on the streets of Dublin and spend a couple of…

 
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