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Bradley Manning Pride Parade Screw-Up Leads to Local Protest Today

A day after SF Weekly reported on the strangeness of SF Pride's choices for grand marshal for this year's pride parade, the committee did something even more strange. On Friday, board president Lisa L. Williams released a statement withdrawing the committee's nomination of Army Private First Class ... More >>

Best Twitter Responses to Our Semen Cocktail Story

You might remember last week when I wrote a story about Paul "Fotie" Photenhauser, the man who wrote Semenology, the book on semen mixology. To recap if you haven't read the story (though you really should), Photenhauser is the author of a previous volume on semen cooking but decided to do an all-co ... More >>

This Ain't No Disco: How Swedish House Mafia Brought EDM to America

This Ain't No Disco

Swedish House Mafia remade rave music in rock's image — and got America listening.

Cocktails at Grand Café: Classics Meet French Charm

With bar superstar power in place at Jasper's, Startlight Room, and the Fifth Floor, Kimpton Hotel group seems to be determined to improve the quality of cocktails for visitors and locals alike. Now, Kristin Almy is at the Grand Café, where she's revamped the menu to serve what she describes as "co ... More >>

Marshmallow, PB&J, Bacon: The Extreme Vodka Taste Test

It has been 25-odd years since Absolut Peppar and Citron entered the American market, and since then, the flavored-vodka business keeps growing, now representing a quarter of the vodka market. Lemon, cranberry, grapefruit, pear, dragonfruit -- the entire fruit aisle is now being turned into 'tinis. ... More >>

Friday Night: Buzzcocks Beat it -- Eventually -- at Slims

Romana MachadoBuzzcocks​Buzzcocks Images June 10, 2011 Slim'sBetter than: Beating your meat to pulp. First off, there were way too many women for what purist old geezers up-and-down swear is orthodox for an old-skool punk show. Many of the early arrivals milling before the stage at S ... More >>

Tomorrow: Woozy Wednesday on the Embarcadero

The Pisco Book​The middle of the week isn't usually a celebration day ― it's the conservative, dowdy child of the seven, complete with headgear and prescription shoes. Well, Wednesday just got a makeover (at least this week), thanks to two events that should put the ump back in hump day. Pi ... More >>

New Spike Jonze Short Features Girls Song

Spike Jonze's latest mini-movie, I'm Here, isn't all that short. (After all, it comes with a trailer, and is reportedly 30 minutes long). But from the teaser available online, it looks pretty good, this angsty indie romance between two robots making their way in a human's world. The movie, which EW ... More >>

The Longest Day, Revisited

Barometer Fluctuates at Mercury Appetizer Bar on Lombard at Van Ness

Trannyshack Reno or Bustier

An extreme road trip that's never just a drag

Surreal Meals

Dinners we wish we'd eaten, and some we wish we hadn't

Foreign Cinema

Eccentrics, tattoos, and naked party games in the home-grown German films of Berlin & Beyond

Reps Etc.

Festivals/Fairs

California Dreaming

Hawthorne Lane

Magazine Dreams

Will San Francisco finally get the city magazine it deserves?

Side Dish

Southland

Dinner and a Show

Boys Toys

The Son and Heir

Cosmopolitan Cafe

Out on Bail

Gin Joint

Around the World

On the Right Track

Red Herring Restaurant and Bait Bar

The Thai of Your Life

2,000 Millimeters Under the Sea

Forbes Island

R&R Rundown

Night+Day

Lighten Up

Letters

Unspun

Night+Day

Night Crawler

Letters

Night+Day