Treasure Island Music Festival an Enormous Success

Chris Crowley | Staff Writer
The third installment of the annual Treasure Island Music Festival just across the Bay bridge continued its’ tradition this weekend of being a landmark festival destination for concertgoers, who were graced by big name indie, hip-hop and electronic acts including The Flaming Lips, MGMT, and MSTRKRFT.
Treasure Island, a smaller scaled down [...]

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The Frosted Tips May Be Gone, but Sugar Ray Makes a Comeback with “Music for Cougars”

Heather Spellacy | Staff Writer
If you were a teenager in the nineties you probably had a crush on hottie-extraordinaire and Sugar Ray front man, Mark McGrath. His Rolling Stone cover was most definitely looming somewhere on your poster-covered walls, and your Sugar Ray CD was undoubtedly scratched due to how often “Every Morning” was played [...]

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Something’s Transpiring with the Women of the Tenderloin

Heather Spellacy | Staff Writer
Last week I, Heather Spellacy, ventured into the depths of a tiny apartment somewhere on Fulton for a local house party. Big announcement, huh? I’m a college student, that should be my weekend ritual. Well, house parties aren’t my thing. No, in no way… especially in San Francisco. Houses, or more [...]

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Hey Ladies, if you like it, then you shouldn’t put a ring on it.

Staff Writer | Brita Thompson
This Valentine’s day was the first one I spent single in three years. Instead of having a man pay for a romantic dinner, I worked backstage for the Vagina monologues which raised over six thousand dollars for the v-day campaign this year.
Despite my happiness, the holiday forced me to think about my [...]

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A Beautiful Fall

Staff Writer: Colin Gibbons
Wednesday, October 8, 2008. Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco.
Baltimore noise rockers Ponyail have been gaining a lot of attention in the wake of their recent release Ice Cream Spiritual, an experimental celebration of all things wild and raucous. The quartet’s penchant for untethered live performances has earned them a reputation as one of [...]

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Whoever Said Justice Couldn’t Be Served?

Chris Crowley
Saturday marked the start of the second annual Treasure Island Music Festival. The festival, which ran Saturday and Sunday, held some big name headliners with Justice on Saturday and Jack White’s side project, The Raconteurs, on Sunday.
When I arrived on Saturday, I was truly awed by the site of the venue. With the whole [...]

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