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(As you) wish fulfillment: Cary Elwes to join fans at SF Sketchfest ‘The Princess Bride’ screening
Cary Elwes in “The Princess Bride.” He may be most known for a single, legendary role in cult-favorite film The Princess Bride, but Cary Elwes is not just an actor. He’s now a best-selling author and more recently, a screenwriter. SF Sketchfest: “The Princess Bride” Quote-Along Party Screening with…
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Project AMPLIFI: San Francisco nonprofit brings musicians and causes together
Project AMPLIFI, courtesy. Environmental attorney Leila Monroe was tired of the concept of benefit concerts. Hiring a music act to sell tickets and support the singular vision of one organization wasn’t enough of a conversation starter to come up with solutions to complicated problems that affect people in different…
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Another Planet’s Allen Scott gears up for Outside Lands’ seventh year
The seventh annual Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival (Aug. 8 to 10 in Golden Gate Park), once again produced by Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly Presents and Starr Hill Presents, has some new features for fans of music, food and drink. RIFF interviewed Another Planet Executive Vice President Allen…
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Outside Lands a homecoming for performers with Bay Area ties
The Bay Area artists performing at Outside Lands 2014. Clockwise from top left: Watsky, Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, Finish Ticket, Brothers Comatose, Trails & Ways, Tycho, Mikal Cronin and The Tumbleweed Wanderers. Rendering: Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Outside Lands is just one of dozens of summer music festivals that spring…
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Artists with Bay Area ties reflect on Outside Lands
Nicki Bluhm performs at the 2014 Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. I interviewed all but one of the artists with direct local connections to the Bay Area for a story on the Outside Lands Music Festival, which you can read here. The result was a magazine-length-worthy piece,…
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The 1975’s Matty Healy on the truth of three chords and hair battles with Bastille
Matty Healy of The 1975 and Dan Smith of Bastille. The mohawked frontman of Manchester’s The 1975 drops the phone just as our call is connected. “Oh, for f—‘s sake,” Matty Healy cringes, and I can tell I’m not his first interview of the morning. But just as quickly the…
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How BottleRock Napa Valley’s rebirth came to be
BottleRock Napa Valley 2014 lineup. While tens of thousands flooded the Napa Valley Expo last May for five days of music, gourmet food, wine, comedy and parties, and most of them went home happy, the two men who organized the inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley — without previous festival experience — lost millions…
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Interview: The Lovemakers reunite for Valentine’s Day
The Lovemakers, courtesy. Even after their big flameout to end 2009, Oakland dance-rock duo The Lovemakers weren’t far apart. Singer-bassist Lisa Light and guitarist Scott Blonde tended bar in the same neighborhood. The Lovemakers, Midi Matilda, Everyone is Dirty 9 p.m., Feb. 14 Popscene at Rickshaw Stop Tickets: $12.…
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Q&A: Alison Brie on her music ‘career,’ Childish Gambino and a ‘Community’ movie
The Girls, featuring Alison Brie. Courtesy. Actress Alison Brie has been busy. The current season of “Community” has already been filmed and is airing now. She’s got a new film opening in a couple of weeks (The Lego Movie), and she’s bringing her harmonizing trio, The Girls, to SF…
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Diverse group of Bay Area Grammy Award nominees honored
The Pacific Mambo Orchestra. Courtesy: Steve Jennings/Recording Academy/Wireimage.com San Francisco — Nearly two dozen local Grammy Award nominees looking forward to this year’s Jan. 26 ceremony received early honors at a gala Tuesday night in The City. Hosted by the San Francisco chapter of the Recording Academy, the party…
