Adobe Photoshop

The Top Five Parties in San Francisco This Weekend

Here's some good news for fans of dance music and high quality sound systems. Though 222 Hyde recently closed, its Turbosound rig will find a new home at Potrero Hill art-oriented nightclub Project One. Owner Brooke Waterhouse posted the news on her Facebook page yesterday, and the system is now ful ... More >>

Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Foxygen Filter the Past

Storytelling 10110001101: Comics and Novels Evolve

Bernal Heights Dads, Stoners Have Maybe Resolved the Pro-Life Billboard Controversy

After enduring a weeklong of back-and-forth nastiness for the whole neighborhood to see, Bernal Heights fathers have taken it upon themselves to bring a little sunshine and civility back to this oh-so foggy hamlet. A week ago, liberals were stoked after someone actually redesigned a pro-life billboa ... More >>

Muni's "Defeat Jihad" Ad Gets Makeover, Guerrilla-Style (Updated)

Since Muni is refusing to take down the controversial pro-Israel ad on its buses, offended passengers have taken this matter into their own hands.Take a look at this photo that's been making the rounds on Facebook:

True Dat

Liars' Angus Andrew on Making Music with Computers, What the Hell WIXIW Means, and Dire Straits

Most artists like to call themselves unpredictable, but few fit the description so fully as a little three-piece named Liars. First dipping into dance-punk with their 2001 debut They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top, the L.A.-via-Berlin-via-NYC-via-L.A. trio has since experimente ... More >>

Live Review, 5/8/12: Death Cab Grows Up with Magik*Magik Orchestra at the Fox

Death Cab for Cutie with Magik*Magik Orchestra Youth Lagoon Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Fox Theater, Oakland Better than: Your prom and your fifteen-year high school reunion, if they happened at the same time Last night's Death Cab for Cutie concert, the first of a three-night stand at the Fox in Oakland ... More >>

Salem Kirban's 1970 Photos of the Apocalypse Include a Giant Christbot

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. 666 Author: Salem Kirban Date: 1970 Publisher: Salem Kirban, Inc. Discovered at: Community Thrift, 623 Valencia The Cover Promises: The best way t ... More >>

You Look Nothing Like Your Online Dating Photo

​Should you ever confront a person who looks nothing like their online dating pictures or who has otherwise distorted the kind of person they are? This has happened to me twice on recent dates, and both times I've cut the date short and never talked to them again. Is it ever okay to tell them why? ... More >>

The 12 Worst Rock Album Covers of 2011

It's common to round up the worst album art at the end of every year, but the ridicule is usually directed at easy targets. Album covers from old, out-of-touch musicians, second-rate rock acts, and popular bands that are already despised by music critics absorb most of the venom, while indie-leaning ... More >>

Amazing Local Video Alert: Vir's New Clip for "Down By Law"

​ It isn't that often that we come across a spectacular music video, especially one made by a relatively small local band. But here we go: the clip for new single "Down By Law" from Berkeley post-punk/pysch outfit Vir. The animated vid shows a gloomy, sketched-out dystopia, with heinous monste ... More >>

Juan MacLean on DJing with Vinyl, Why the West Coast Rules for Club Nights, and His New Album

Joshi Radin​A longtime resident of DFA Records, Juan MacLean has dabbled in everything from dance-punk to electro-pop. Although mostly known for his work with bands Six Finger Satellite and The Juan MacLean, he has been touring regularly as a solo DJ all over the world since his release on the DJ- ... More >>

Examiner Proves Sperminator and Babies Don't Mix

Would you want this thing on your doorstep?​Boys who grew up with Terminator action figures may have wanted to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger one day -- all  steroid-pumped with chick-magnet muscles. But according to the Examiner's creation a Schwarzenegger baby is a mom's worst nightmare -- ... More >>

The 7 Best Veggie Burgers in the Bay Area

Ed U./YelpThe seriously red, seriously delicious Plant Burger.​You know what sucks? When you get to a restaurant, all hungry and excited to eat, and upon scanning the menu, you realize your only option is a motherloving Boca burger. Ye gads, the only thing worse is the dreaded GVP (Grilled Veg ... More >>

Chris Daly Says It Will Be on Like Donkey Kong Soon

New bartender?​While perusing Facebook, SF Weekly couldn't help but catch a glimpse of this new photo on former Supervisor Chris Day's page -- a Photoshop cutout of the fighting Donkey Kong in front of the ex-pol's Buck Tavern bar. Is it a new, cheap ad for the bar or is he tossing around potentia ... More >>

Watch: The Limousines' Amazing (Unofficial) Video Gets Made as You Watch It

Bet you can't Photoshop this fast.​So this is cool: The latest (unofficial) video from about the soon-to-blow-up Bay Area electo-pop duo the Limousines shows you how it was made while it plays. Or it gets made while you watch. Or something. Its billed as a "behind-the-scenes" sort of thing, b ... More >>

Bread People: Famous Musicians With Dough in Their Name

​We couldn't not share these geeky, jokey photos. Bun Jovi? It's all part of the greatness of Bread People, which, with a few puns and some Photoshop trickery, manages to make us laugh at repeated jokes about, um, bread. (And teaches us about lots of new kinds of baked starches, too.) There are no ... More >>

Even Steve Jobs Can't Get a Table at Flour Water

​We all know how hard it can be to land a table at Flour Water if you don't have a rezzie, especially on a Saturday night. Now even Steve Jobs knows it. Having more money than God didn't help Jobs last Saturday night, when he and a companion tried to get a table. Flour Water publicist Lia ... More >>

Jerry Brown Wants You -- To Put Him on a T-Shirt

Put that man on a T-shirt. Now! ​California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown is no spring chicken. And he needs your fashion advice. Brown has enough elections under his belt to know the value of lookin' sharp. That's why the man of many hours is calling on his supporters to "help Je ... More >>

Exclusive: Obama's Music Video Career Revealed

By now you've probably heard about the latest, most improbable, and quite possibly most awesome rumor about Barack Obama's past thus far: that he made a cameo appearance in the 1993 music video for Tag Team's "Whoomp! There It Is." Gawker's Adrian Chen made an admirable attempt to separate fact from ... More >>

SF Street Food Festival Seeks Suggestions for CartSpotting Contest

Tamara PalmerGarlic fried plantains from vegan truck Sunny Vibrations.​SF Street Food Festival, SF Cart Project, and Soul Cocina are planning a CartSpotting contest as a long lead-in to the August festival, and they've asked for the help of our dear, discerning SFoodie readers. A list of 50 di ... More >>

@sk Jamie Varon: I lied on my LinkedIn profile

Google Logo Designer Phones It In

Yeah we get it, we don't want to be at work either. Our families miss us, God is angry we're not attending church, and we're probably blogging this from an airport while buying our significant other presents at the duty free.So we were not that surprised to open up our mobile browser this morning to ... More >>

Pinot Days Festival Promises a Four-Day Crash Course in Everyone's Favorite Varietal

Photoshop Phlake/FlickrVarietal tasting time is here, winos! Get your sip on at the Pinot (that'd be Noir) Days Festival, which runs tonight through Sunday. The main event is Sunday's four-hour grand tasting at Fort Mason's Festival Pavilion, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Fort Mason seems to be considered the primo ... More >>

Whipped and Gagged

Is government spending obscene? Well, it paid to train S&M filmmakers.

Ratatat

LP3 (XL Recordings)

Fecal Face to Unleash New Art Gallery Saturday: BetterKnowanSFBlog

Tailored for San Francisco

Will Franken pokes fun at Bay Area values, but in a city of misfits, he fits right in

The Fifth Element

As mainstream hip hop stalemates in commodities, underground MCs keep old-school aesthetics alive through art

Channel Surfing

There's more than one way to play with your Wii

Bang your head on the Mall

Hate Mail Mon Amour

We pay tribute to those who love enough to write

The Dog Bites Audition: Les Misérables

Two young theater bunnies behind us discuss existentialism versus spiritualism

Bullshitting the Lie Detector

Infiltrator cooks up a criminal past. A PAX TV show absolves him of it. Ain't it a great country?

On-the-Spot Animation

Two men create an animated movie and an original soundtrack while you watch

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Sketchy Job

Clay Seibert's done 7,000 cute little sketches of houses listed for sale on real estate fliers. Yeah, 7000.

Come Together

At Deborah Oropallo's new show, the line between paintings and photos barely exists

Dog Bites

Fangxaminer rollout; Anarchy in the U.S.A.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Riff Raff

Hinkle, Hinkle, Little Star (Part II)

There are two joys in life - making things and breaking things - and pirate journalist Warren Hinkle has excelled at both

Letters