Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ross Hogg Super-hero-DJ creating speculation aside, we know you're dying to know all about these two. This interview, is all about Ross, however (DJ Neta's is forthcoming). Ross Hogg spins hip-hop, reggae, dub, dancehall, soul,
Arts & Entertainment Probing the Depths of the Psyche...and not Getting Very Far So, this past October, a surreal fuss broke out on their message board, somewhat in the vein of The "If He Wants a War, I'll Give Him One" Hiker: some huffy individual (with
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Come for Dinner, Stay for the Hell We know, you've got a lot of pulls on your time these days, what with company holiday parties and SFist's first Bay Blotto tonight, but you really should know about a couple of
SF News Interview: Vinnie Esparza There are however awards that DJ's can win. Lots of papers, like the SF Weekly and The Guardian have a Best DJ category (we can already hear you shouting, when will SFist have
Arts & Entertainment Interview: David Paul Like many of us, the first hip-hop song David heard was Rapper's delight. Unlike most of us, this led David to begin DJ'ing in 1985. In 1991 he founded Bomb Hip-Hop. With everything
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P., Mac Dre Mac Dre, the Vallejo rapper shot in Kansas City last week, was laid to rest yesterday at the Mountain View cemetary in Oakland. Unfortunately, the funeral home, which only seats 100, was not
Arts & Entertainment 9th Circuit to Beasties: "You Have The Right to Party" In a victory for the Beastie Boys, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today declined to review an earlier decision which upheld a lower-court dismissal of a case brought by James
SF News Introducing SFist Listens This week SFist Mary Lynn recommends the following as a means of coping if you haven’t yet fled to Canada and are down about four more years of W: "Tragedy" by the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Meets a Hero! If you don't know, Afrika Bambaataa basically blessed the world with hip-hop - along with fellow angels Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and the people of the South Bronx (we're so jealous you have
Arts & Entertainment Reno Blue The League of Pissed Off Voters continues with their 40 Parties in 40 Days voter awareness campaign (though we're now only at a fortnight more of parties) with a big Thursday-night bash. The
Arts & Entertainment B-boy Battle in the Blogosphere! Forget Mount St. Helens - there's been an eruption right here in the blogosphere! While checking out 1115.org's debate recap, we kept scrolling to a post on Nelly dissing political MCs (classy
Arts & Entertainment Going to the Theater Makes You Feel Smarter, We Promise SFist is not above shilling for our friends - Phil Bronstein does it, why shouldn't we? So we'd like to invite you to visit tonight or tomorrow's performance of , written and directed by
Arts & Entertainment Manic Moon Day For those of you not fasting next weekend, you , can 20% of the population in San Francisco suggest Zhong Qiu Jie instead? Those of you who don't feel the Mandarin Chinese (or who
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Isaac Isaac grew up in New York and Tokyo and still doesn't know how to drive. He can however make a mean frittata and kills at karaoke. When not running an independent hip-hop empire,
Arts & Entertainment Too Cool for School Man, the entire Bay Area publishing community seems to be jumping on the DJ instruction phenomenon. First it was the East Bay Express with their "School of Scratch" feature. The next day the
Arts & Entertainment Something for your Ear Being able to afford vinyl records is one of the things that keeps SFist coming in to work every day instead of laying on the couch and scratching inappropriate places. There's nothing like
Arts & Entertainment Park Party SFist loves us some old-school hip-hop, yo. We've got an entire library of classic movies, records and books on the subject. Which is why we were so excited to attend a park party
Arts & Entertainment Grrrl Riot Calling all feminist hipsters (and those looking to pick up the same) the second Ladyfest Bay Area will be hitting the Mission this weekend (July 29-August 1). Ladyfest is the feminist DIY post-riotgrrl
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your 49ers' 2006 Draft Picks, "Fall In, Recruit!" * Picked round 7, pick 46; 254 overall / Vickiel Vaughn / S / Arkansas / 5'11" / 208 / "The Fallen Man" Story: Things've been tough for Vickiel Vaughn. While in high school, he was rated amongst the top
