Nina Weiss

Bellavista recently released its self-titled album, a passionately gloomy Jesus and Mary Chain-indebted affair that has already earned raves.Though the psych-rock trio’s name, Bellavista, hints at its members’ musical history (the translation from the Spanish, “beautiful view,” evokes their now-disbanded garage-rock quintet, Vue), the threesome insist they’re starting with a completely clean slate. Vue got a taste of fame in the early 2000s touring with such bands as the Faint, bonding with fellow SF natives Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and opening for the Rolling Stones.

Potential buyers' hopes, fears, questions as well as their angst, all addressed here.Nationwide, the market is down and foreclosures are up. In SF, they say the market’s only “cooled.” Is now the time to jump in? And are we really bubble-proof? Local real-estate agents maintain that the veritable downturn in many parts of the country is merely a slight slowdown here—and a good buying opportunity.

Hip-hop documentary <em>Rock the Bells</em>&nbsp;chronicles the reuniting of&nbsp;the Wu-Tang Clan for the 2004 Rock the Bells Festival.The hip-hop documentary Rock the Bells follows entrepreneur Chang Weisberg and his guerrilla production team as they try to do the impossible: reunite all nine Wu-Tang Clan members for the 2004 Rock the Bells Festival in San Bernardino. It’s mandatory viewing for anyone planning to take in this August’s Rock the Bells show. Opens June 8; redvicmoviehouse.com

NoPa is a perfect example of how a neighborhood can go from embattled to enlivened in a few short years.

In the white-hot housing market of, say, two years ago, a few brave souls resisted South Beach and Noe Valley in favor of a not-so-pretty pocket of the Western Addition, one of the city’s toughest neighborhoods.