Arts & Entertainment Vinyl Pressing Plant To Open In Oakland For First Time Nearly A Century Second Line Vinyl is looking to bring a record pressing plant to West Oakland by early next year. As KQED reports, this would be the first plant producing vinyl records in the city
Arts & Entertainment Internet Archive Trying To Digitize Every Old 78 Record In Existence Fans of old vinyl records will not hiss at this news: The Internet Archive and the Archive of Contemporary Music are attempting to preserve and digitize every single remaining 78-rpm vinyl album, and
Arts & Entertainment Cute: Bookstore To Transform Into Record Store For Michael Chabon Book Release In an effort to promote noted scribe Michael Chabon's latest work, Telegraph Avenue — a fictional piece about "longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the
SF News Matt Cain Signs Record-Breaking $100 Million Contract With Giants Scheduled to be a free agent after this season, noted baseballer turned fashion icon Matt Cain signed a whopping $100 million contract with the San Francisco Giants, with a $5 million signing bonus.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/7: Gene Kelly Double Feature, Turtle Island Quartet, Vinyl Swap FILM: The Castro Theatre presents a Gene Kelly Double Feature screening of An American in Paris, starring Kelly as a former GI who stays in Paris to make it as an artist, and
SF News Certified Paper Stolen From The San Francisco Office of Vital Records The latest tip on SFist's contribute page informed us that the The San Francisco Office of Vital Records has a notice on their website regarding a recent break-in at their office: "As a