The concept of mash-ups is all the rage with marketers and music bloggers these days, but Negativland has been appropriating sounds, images and text and re-arranging them into new works of art since 1980. The members of the collective (for lack of a better word) mix original music and materials with bits and bytes from corporately owned mass culture and re-create them into original political and artistic statements. Culture jamming? They coined the term. more ›

Books incite strong emotions in people, as you can see from the thoughts below. Sometimes we love a book so much that we want it forever, so we pick it up at one of our fine local independent bookstores. Other times we're glad we just reserved it online from the SF Public Library, because, dang, there are a lot of crappy books out there. more ›

Sure, there are new releases this week by Britney, Eminem and Shania, but what love have they ever shown to San Francisco? more ›