Okay, okay, okay, okay -- we hear you about Laughing Squid's scoop that Chicken John running for mayor, folks! We were totally slammed at work today, that's why we're getting this up late. Who's Chicken John? He's a local countercultural legend! He's a Burning Man guy, the former owner of the Odeon Bar, and he hosts Ask Dr. Hal on Pirate Cat Radio. We had absolutely no idea! (Steve Jones at the Guardian knew,......

Corporate radio still sucks! Strike a blow for independent community airwaves and stop by Pirate Cat Radio 87.9 FM's benefit concert this Friday at the Elbo Room. The beloved low-power radio station/Internet radio streamer's hoping to use the money raised tonight to pay for their server, upgrade their transmitter, and generally keep bringing you local music and local talk! There's going to be burlesque dancers, Blag Dahlia of the Dwarves is emceeing, and the......

Pirate Cat Radio benefit concert at the Makeout Room (3225 22nd St. between Mission & Valencia) with Lisa Dewey, Bettie Black and The May Fire. Pirate Cat needs money to buy new gear and more server space so they can continue to broadcast and webcast. (9pm) At CCA in SF (1111 8th St. near 16th and Wisconsin) there are three separate art openings tonight. Capp Street Project presents an installation by Michael Stevenson examining......

This week we give thanks for the amazing music coming out of the bay area, and the best venues in the nation to see it in. Listen up to the local music you can hear this week, and let's show our appreciation to these hardworking musicians by heading out to catch some shows. On Friday, Love X Nowhere are at Hemlock with Rondo Brothers. On Saturday night, one of our favorite local labels Birdman......

If you've been wandering the FM dial on a Friday evening and stumbled onto 87.9, you may have caught a dose of "the funny" from the ladies (and gents) of She Said, She Said on Pirate Cat Radio. Popvulture, Mrs. Lachey, City Grrrl and man-friends Carrion Boy and Party Robot obsess over making out atop aquatic furniture, oh-so-cute local politicians, tear-jerker pop from the late eighties, canned booze and other issues that are so......

In honor of the one year anniversary of Janet Jackson's Superbowl nip-slip, Neighborhood Public Radio will be broadcasting "Indecency" all weekend from the window of the Artist Television Access studios. The broadcast from ATA on 88.9 will include just a few blocks around their 992 Valencia studios, but long-time Mission rebel radio jocks Pirate Cat Radio will be simulcasting it on 87.9 for the larger Mission neighborhood and also make it available as a......

..hey, there's a coupon for $2 off any purchase at Amoeba on the back page of the New Times publications! Whoa, the Weekly's kind of thin this week! What is this, Mischa Barton's paper? Embracing recursivity, the Infiltrator infiltrates an impersonator convention. PUNI makes a Newsom dyslexia joke! Gasp, but also giggle! (We hope he doesn't get sanctioned by the Board of Supes again for it.) Cover article: a Christian film studio. Social Grace tells......