Dublin (Ireland)

Drink of the Week: Enjoying The Rebound Fling at Ice Cream Bar

When a prescription to "drown your sorrows" is issued by your friends to numb the pain and heartache caused by the conclusion of wonderfully tumultuous spring fling, it'll most likely include either ice cream or beer. We personally prefer a rebound, especially when it comes with beer and ice cream a ... More >>

BART Is Making You Pay More to Park

The only two things you really need to maintain a steady job are a constant flow of coffee and reliable BART service. Unfortunately, the price just keeps going up for both. And for some East Bay folks, presumably bound for San Francisco, the trip across the bay is about to get a little bit pricier ... More >>

Flogging Molly: Show Preview

"This Must Be the Place": Sean Penn Is Gothed Up and Great

No Cell Phones, No Problem at Love Will Fix It

Love Will Fix It The Hot Spot Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 Better than: Watching your night unfold via Instagram. In the latest edition of club-related technophobia, cell phones have grown increasingly under fire. It wasn't but a couple weeks ago that Francois Kevorkian publicly mused on his Facebook p ... More >>

Bay Area Suburb Livermore Stakes Its Claim to Indie Cool With the Front Porch Music Fest

Somewhere between the hipster meccas of Brooklyn and S.F./Oakland lies Livermore, a quiet town of roughly 80,000 adjacent to the mild East Bay suburbs of Dublin and Pleasanton. While home to a number of nice wineries, including the venerable Wente, and even an In-N-Out burger, Livermore hasn't quite ... More >>

Bouncer Plays Tourist at the Irish Bank

Major BART Delays After Man Dies on Train

(Update 4:30 p.m.): BART officials say the man riding on the train toward Millbrae died, however they could not say how the man died. He was seen slumped over in his seat.(Original Story 3:34 p.m.)If you are like us, you are probably counting the minutes until your 4th of July holiday begins. Sadly, ... More >>

Police Release Sketches of Unidentified Woman Found in Trash Can

Pleasanton police are desperate to identify a woman whose body was found dumped in a trash can last month, and have released these sketches, hoping it will help them solve this sad mystery.Police said the body was found along the 11000 block of Dublin Canyon Road on May 24. Medical authorities perf ... More >>

Chickens on Prozac, Vegan Peeps, and Field Roast at Giants games!

​Hi guys! Big news! I received word from their PR company yesterday that Field Roast vegan frankfurters will now be available at AT&T Park for this season's Giants games! I've had these dogs and they are super delicious. We are still waiting to hear if the hot dog buns are vegan--they always forge ... More >>

DJ Shawn Ryan on How He Was Forced into DJing and His Dollar Bin Jams Blog

Developing a feverish obsession with record collecting at a young age, DJ and producer Shawn Ryan traveled the world record hunting and only began DJing when friends demanded to hear his extensive collection. While early on, his primary interests were punk and hip-hop, he later moved on to collect d ... More >>

Irish Song Lyrics Rule: 10 Great Lines From Irish Musicians

We'll leave the debates over why the Irish are such champions of the written word -- Is it the island's strong oral traditions surrounding the seanchai, or storyteller? The rich vein of Celtic folklore? The really awesome beer? -- to folks who are much smarter and more sober. The Irish count four No ... More >>

President's Day Weekend: Another Carmaggedon?

Closed for business​What better way to celebrate the Great Emancipator than with hair-pulling traffic and even more of a clusterfuck than usual for Bay Area commuters? The westbound deck of the Bay Bridge heading into San Francisco will be closed at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, until 5 a.m. on Tues ... More >>

Lawsuit Accusing Hooters of Mistreating Employees Can Proceed

​A class-action lawsuit brought against a group of Bay Area Hooters restaurants by the establishments' waitresses can proceed, a state appeals court ruled this week, denying the restaurants' claim that the employees' complaints should be settled by a labor arbitrator and not in court.In a decision ... More >>

"Albert Nobbs": A Daring Story Rendered Static

Inmate Escapes Jail in Alameda County

​Police are scouring the East Bay, looking for an inmate who reportedly escaped from the Santa Rita Jail this afternoon. Media outlets are reporting that at about 2 p.m., someone called the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, saying they saw an inmate walk out of the jail. We contacted the Sheriff's ... More >>

Food Jammers: The Only Mumbly Canadian Foodie Mythbusters-Like Show You Need

​ Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Food Jammers, a half-hour show about our Canadian overlords, Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. on the Cooking Channel. When you first heard the MythBusters cannonball went errant last week, wasn't your lif ... More >>

Major BART Delays into San Francisco

Taking the late train​BART officials are warning that this morning's commute will be a total nightmare. Equipment issues caused a brief power outage that has drastically slowed trains into San Francisco.BART spokesman Jim Allison told reporters to expect delays up to 30 minutes on the Fremont-to-R ... More >>

Deconstructing Adele's Sanity-Preserving Video for "Someone Like You"

It's humiliating to be imparted a thuddingly obvious life lesson by an individual 14 years your junior. They've circumvented the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. In the new video for her massive hit "Someone Like You" (at 7.9 million YouTube views and counting), English soul singer Adele t ... More >>

Soundtracking a Soul-Cleansing Trip to Ireland

Flickr/Dargott72​ In the Irish town of Recess, there is a monument that proclaims: "On this site in 1897 nothing happened." I've never visited Recess during what has essentially become biennial excursions to Ireland; I've only passed by during bumpy bus rides from Galway to Clifden and back. ... More >>

Half-Remembered Local Rock Star Steve Harwell (of Smash Mouth) Promises to Eat Two Dozen Eggs in Public for Fame

Steve Harwell, tall and the center, pre-egg-eating.​ In in today's "file under disgusting": Dared by Internet trolls earlier this year to consume two dozen chicken eggs, Steve Harwell -- singer of a once-briefly-cared-about San Jose band called Smash Mouth -- agreed. But only on the condition ... More >>

Your Commute Home Tonight Might Suck, But Don't Blame Protesters

Y​es, trains are running a bit behind, but this time you can't say it has to do with freedom of speech or lack thereof.BART is reporting up to eight-minute delays for some East Bay bound commuters due to a car crash on Interstate 580 this afternoon. It all started at about 2:37 p.m. when a car and ... More >>

Krystal Klear on His Unusual Obsession with '80s Boogie, and Finding Obscure Records in Ireland

Shaun Bloodworth​It's hard to imagine a 22-year-old from Ireland being an expert on genres like new jack swing and boogie house, but expertise is exactly what Dec Lennon, aka Krystal Klear, conveys through his mixes and productions. While younger listeners may not be familiar artists like Al B ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi and Jazz Mafia Celebrate New Live Music Permit at City Hall

Ross Mirkarimi at City Hall Tuesday afternoon.​ Ever wonder why San Francisco isn't like New Orleans, or Chicago, or Paris, where every cafe, bar, restaurant, and shoe store seems to feature live music at one point or another? Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi thinks he knows the reason: Getting the ... More >>

Jazz Mafia's Adam Theis on the Group's New Hip-Hop Symphony, Performing with Blackalicious, and More

Jazz Mafia's Shotgun Wedding Quintet, with MC Dublin in the middle, and Adam Theis on the far right.​ Whatever you're doing this weekend, we can pretty much guarantee that the members of the Jazz Mafia are doing more. The S.F. jazz collective's hip-hop outfit, Shotgun Wedding Quintet, is serving a ... More >>

A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitimacy

Steve Ugbah, East Bay Professor, Arrested in Nigeria

Welcome home, Steve​Steve Ugbah, a marketing professor at Cal State East Bay, was frustrated by the lack of progress in his birthplace of Benue, Nigera -- which is why he decided to return home and run for governor.But that experience didn't go so well for the Dublin resident who was arrested yest ... More >>

San Francycle: Did David Chiu Drive on Bike to Work Day?

​Wasn't Bike to Work day fabulous this year? We certainly saw a lot more cyclists out than usual, and we hope to see them out again on the remaining 364 days until next year. Let's do a quick roundup of the best of the bikes. According to the Chron, the mayor and "almost every member of the Bo ... More >>

Some Books to Read Now

Love, quakes, and S.F. in this month’s best new releases.

St. Patrick's Day for the Family: How To Avoid PG-13 Drinking Songs and Worse

Dad Rock is a new column in which Ryan Foley will attempt to look at pop music and pop culture from the precipice of middle age. If he ultimately leaps, it's because tiny hands ruined his Galaxie 500 vinyl. Accusations that he's raising five insufferable hipster children can be sent to mofrackie@gma ... More >>

BART Considers Cleaner, but Less Comfortable Seats

You are supposed to sit, not shit on the seat​We all know how utterly disgusting a trip on BART is -- the seats are coated in years of grease and grime and the carpet is as sanitary as a Porta Potti.But alas, BART trains are nearing the end of their life expectancy, and the transit agency will nee ... More >>

Alice Medrich Talks Cookies at Omnivore Books

Alice Medrich.​Why couldn't some honest book publisher just call Ulysses by James Joyce Man Walks Around Dublin, Thinking? So it would sound important, maybe? The publisher of the latest book by local chocolate maven Alice Medrich had no such pretensions. Medrich's tome about cookies is called ... More >>

The Frames: Show Preview

"Fuck You All": Glen Friedman's punk and hip-hop photos are meant to inspire

"Fuck You All": Glen Friedman's punk and hip-hop photos are meant to inspire

Download a Free DJ Mix From Solar Bears

​Forgive me if this seems redundant, but I'm still deeply enamored with the work of Dublin's Solar Bears. It was only last week that I did my all to get readers of All Shook Down equally stoked on the duo's summery, psych-laden electronic tunes. But listening to bits of their upcoming debut full-l ... More >>

Discovery: Solar Bears' Psych-Tronica

Solar Bears​ New artists and musicians constantly bubble up on the electronic music radar. Not that that can't be said about nearly all musical genres, but it seems with electronic music, the ease with which people can make music via software, sampling, and a bit of creativity contributes to the ... More >>

Christine Shreeve Hubbs, 'Hummer Mom,' Accused of Sex with Boys

Christine Shreeve Hubbs is accused of allowing boys to fire pellet guns out her car window -- among other crimes​Sex, Hummers, pellet guns -- just another day in the suburbs. In an truly jaw-dropping case, Christine Shreeve Hubbs, an attractive, 42-year-old Mormon mother of three and wife of a de ... More >>

"Kisses": Fairy tale meets real life for runaway Irish kids

Last Night: All Shook Down Music Festival in North Beach

Joseph SchellJanelle Monae​All Shook Down FestivalNorth BeachJuly 25, 2010Better Than: Getting all shook down in North Beach for the very first time.Disco dancers, cowboys, glam girls, hipsters, indie rockers, hip-hoppers, sock-hoppers, punk rockers, clash city rockers, category-defiers and more: ... More >>

Tussle's Nathan Burazer Says the Band's Music is Like a Spider Goat

Winni Wintermeyer​As one of the founding members of San Francisco's krauty, dubby, polyrhythm-toting Tussle, Nathan Burazer has seen his fair share of musical trends and scenes come and go. And while the expansive instrumental jams his band has continued to write for almost a decade have never bee ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Zion I, Pep Love, and Dublin at the Independent

​Zion I, Pep Love, Dublin Friday, April 2, 2010 The Independent Better Than: Your last house party. Friday night, Zion I performed its second show in a row, joined by fellow natives Pep Love of Hieroglyphics and Dublin of Jazz Mafia fame. This evening was a showcase of Bay Area love, ... More >>

Real Irish Not Dancing Jig Over Bawdy St. Patrick's Day Hi-Jinks

It takes more than a green suit and a buzz to make you Irish...​Bridget McManus' sister-in-law is in town from Ireland this week. And, as you can imagine, today is a momentous day for an Irish visitor. Naturally, she went to church first thing in the morning. After all -- it is St. Patrick's Day. ... More >>

Our Local Beer Experts Blind-Tasted Stouts. Guess Who Won?

B. YaegerThe lineup ranged from Anglo to Cali.​For this month's blind beer-tasting, we gave in to the dark side. Stouts originated in England in the mid-18th century, and might have fizzled out had it not been for the Irish. Deriving its name from particularly strong or "stout" porter, stout i ... More >>

Double D's: depression and dickheads

Blowing It

When Stars Don't Align

Call Off the Quest

O'Reilly's Holy Grail satisfies on every level: a beautiful room with interesting and delicious food

Noe Way

Once the baby strollers are put up for the night, Noe Valley becomes a real bar neighborhood

Finnegans Cake