It's that time of the year again for San Francisco magazine's Best of the Bay party. The annual bash features lots of eats, drinks and chances to win prizes. Be prepared to fork over nearly a bill for your ticket here -- but as an added bonus it will also get you into the afterparty at Slide. San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 8th St. Come watch contenders for the Air Guitar championship title......

SFist interviews Craig Billmeier aka Hot Lixx Hulahan, US air guitar champion. ...

SFist interviews Alexandra Lipsitz, Director of Air Guitar Nation...

Long-time readers of SFist will know that we love (love!) all things Air Guitar, both for its obvious silliness and its devotion to the rawk. So when we heard that Air Guitar Nation was playing at the San Francisco Independent Asian Film Festival, we knew we were destined to see it. How was it? Well, we’ll describe it using the one word we heard other people describe it-- awesome. It's true. We hung out......

Thanks to geniuses who created the whole air guitar competition, we have this YouTube clip of the very first air guitar competition. From 1981. Playing AC/DC. And better yet, it's of an Air Guitar Band-- drummer, singer, bassist, guitarist, and rhythym guitarist. It's tight jeans, vests over bare chests, and short shorts. Needless to say, it rocks....

SFist would like to give an official SFist Mazel Tov to Alameda's own Craig "Hot Lixx Hulahan" Billmeier who became the Fourth ever US Air Guitar National Champion. Having seen Hot Lixx in action, we can only say well done, sir, well done...

Last week's winner: the Guardian: Redmond drops the f bomb on the front page today: Prop C is not a Chris Daly power grab, darn it! Krissy Keefer gets her Green primary endorsement on the editorial page (though they note "she virtually has no hope of beating Nancy Pelosi." Oops, last week's endorsement issue forgot to mention that they're endorsing Leno in Assembly District 13. Union-busting Whole Foods might be moving to the Haight. Cover:......

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Once again the musical offerings in San Francisco are so plentiful and compelling that they force us into stressful choices. The upside is that no matter what you decide this week, you really can't go wrong. Let's get the first difficult choice out of the way by making you decide which giveaway to go after. Two amazing San Francisco acts are headlining shows on Friday night -- The Court and Spark celebrate the release of......