She's hot, he's a douche -- and now you can legally say so! Not long ago, we wrote about how "douchebag" is now the realm's insult du jour -- and quoted local foul linguist Reinhold Aman's recitation of the world's dirtiest lamentation. Yet "douchebag" isn't just ubiquitous -- it's also now legally protected. A New Jersey Superior Court judge earlier this month dismissed a lawsuit by a trio of "hot chicks" who objected to their photos appearing in the book Hot Chicks With Douchebags. In case yo
Here at SF Weekly, we place a high value on San Francisco's humble DJ tastemakers. But we also place high honors on music geeks whose sense of humor (and Jay McInerney appreciation) is as evident as their vinyl instinct. All this makes post-punk/disco/no wave/krautrock/etc/etc/etc DJ Tristes Tropiques a fun dude to do a Q&A with. His setlists are as inspired by filmmakers as they are by obscure bargain bin finds--and occasionally those affinities will collide, like when he spins stuff by Jim
Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug Zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder by inter