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An Evening At AFK Gamer Lounge

Some day, Kevin Wick hopes to play video games in his own video game bar. That day, he tells me on the back patio,...

The Thermals, Minibosses, Gnarboots, Many More To Play Fourth Annual Rockage Festival At SJSU

Every February for for the past three years, longtime local music promoter Eric Fanali has devoted all his energy to wrangling nerds—herding a large and...

DJ Purple Brings His Dance Karaoke To JJ's

For more than a decade, Steve Hays has been spinning records at bars and clubs from the peninsula up to San Francisco. The Redwood City...

DJ Purple Brings His Dance Karaoke To JJ’s

For more than a decade, Steve Hays has been spinning records at bars and clubs from the peninsula up to San Francisco. The Redwood City...

Local Producer Giraffage Drops Fool's Gold Debut

“I fucking hate interviews,” reads one of Charlie Yin’s tweets from a couple weeks back. It’s an understandable that Yin, better known as Giraffage, would...

Local Producer Giraffage Drops Fool’s Gold Debut

“I fucking hate interviews,” reads one of Charlie Yin’s tweets from a couple weeks back. It’s an understandable that Yin, better known as Giraffage, would...

Con Brio Bring Soul Revival Sound To Poor House

A few months ago, Con Brio guitarist Benjamin Andrews had a revelation: Con Brio is his favorite band—and not just his favorite among those...

We Went To ‘The Real Escape Game’ In Japantown

“Hey, do you want to get locked in a room with nine strangers and solve puzzles for an hour?” Surprisingly enough, very few of my...
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