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3 days ago | 
sacbee.com | Timothy Karoff
On Monday, the hyphy movement had a brief moment of national celebration when E-40 played a set for Tiny Desk Concerts, NPR's popular YouTube concert series. Backed by a full band, the rapper ran through his bag of hits, moving a small in-studio audience with tracks like "Captain Save a Hoe" and "U and Dat."Given his stature in Bay Area hip-hop, it's strange that E-40 didn't rap on Tiny Desk earlier. The concert series may be the internet's most consequential.
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3 days ago | 
sfgate.com | Timothy Karoff
Tunnel Records opened eight years ago and has grown to epitomize a certain strain of “west side cool” in San Francisco. If you’re driving along Fulton Street, you might see its bumper sticker plastered on the back of an old Toyota: “TUNNEL RECORDS.
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4 days ago | 
sfgate.com | Timothy Karoff
On Monday, the hyphy movement had a brief moment of national celebration when E-40 played a set for Tiny Desk Concerts, NPR’s popular YouTube concert series. Backed by a full band, the rapper ran through his bag of hits, moving a small in-studio audience with tracks like “Captain Save a Hoe” and “U and Dat.”Given his stature in Bay Area hip-hop, it’s strange that E-40 didn’t rap on Tiny Desk earlier. The concert series may be the internet’s most consequential.
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5 days ago | 
sfgate.com | Kimberly Alters |Charles Russo |Dan Gentile |Timothy Karoff
San Francisco is a jungle for its human residents, too, with new sights and sounds lurking behind every tree and along every promenade. To keep track of the city’s thicket of activity, we started Fogcutter, SFGATE’s weekly roundup of events, ephemera and entertainment. Every week, our reporters crawl the city’s sidewalks, studios and shopping centers and write about what they see.
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1 week ago | 
sacbee.com | Timothy Karoff
May 30-On Friday, San Francisco Pride named Harper Steele the celebrity grand marshal for the 2025 Pride parade and celebration. Steele worked as a writer on "Saturday Night Live" for 13 years, four of which were spent as the show's head writer. Steele won an Emmy in 2002 for her work on "SNL."Netflix viewers may recognize Steele from "Will & Harper," a documentary following Steele's cross-country road trip with her friend and fellow "SNL" alum Will Ferrell.
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1 week ago | 
sfgate.com | Timothy Karoff
On Friday, San Francisco Pride named Harper Steele the celebrity grand marshal for the 2025 Pride parade and celebration. Steele worked as a writer on “Saturday Night Live” for 13 years, four of which were spent as the show’s head writer. Steele won an Emmy in 2002 for her work on “SNL.”Netflix viewers may recognize Steele from “Will & Harper,” a documentary following Steele’s cross-country road trip with her friend and fellow “SNL” alum Will Ferrell.
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1 week ago | 
sfgate.com | Timothy Karoff
San Francisco’s temple of furniture is coming home. Stuff, the bright orange, 16,500-square-foot furniture and antique store on Valencia Street, closed in 2024. Now, an even bigger version of store is returning to the Mission District, under a new owner and a slightly different name. Stuff by Luxe, an offshoot of the original store, is setting up shop on Harrison Street across the street from Best Buy.
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1 week ago | 
sanluisobispo.com | Timothy Karoff
May 28-If you notice it once, you can't stop seeing it: Karl Hyde keeps making The Pose. At the climax of an Underworld song, the Warfield's stage is a visual cacophony of magenta strobes and crisscrossing lasers. Hyde, 68, is a spindly silhouette in a cloud of smoke. Kick drums, hi-hats and arpeggiators lock into a perfect grid, brutal in their mathematical precision. And then, The Pose. Hyde leans his head back and raises his arms at his sides, palms facing the ceiling.
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1 week ago | 
sfgate.com | Timothy Karoff
On Tuesday evening, a vacant storefront on the corner of 22nd and Valencia streets came back to life. Well-dressed locals milled about the white-walled room, munching on al pastor quesadillas from Papalote. Others browsed a drink fridge, crammed with items from familiar Valencia haunts: beer from Fort Point, Sidewalk Juice, canned Ritual lattes. A bartender poured drinks, and a DJ played inoffensive house music.
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1 week ago | 
sfgate.com | Timothy Karoff
If you notice it once, you can’t stop seeing it: Karl Hyde keeps making The Pose. At the climax of an Underworld song, the Warfield’s stage is a visual cacophony of magenta strobes and crisscrossing lasers. Hyde, 68, is a spindly silhouette in a cloud of smoke. Kick drums, hi-hats and arpeggiators lock into a perfect grid, brutal in their mathematical precision. And then, The Pose. Hyde leans his head back and raises his arms at his sides, palms facing the ceiling.
