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April 6, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
March 22, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
March 16, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
February 17, 2012
President's Day Weekend: Another Carmaggedon?
Closed for businessWhat 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 >>
Blogs
February 17, 2012
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 >>
Film
January 25, 2012
"Albert Nobbs": A Daring Story Rendered Static
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 >>
Blogs
January 9, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
December 13, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
October 27, 2011
Major BART Delays into San Francisco
Taking the late trainBART 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 >>
Blogs
October 11, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
September 27, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
September 15, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
September 15, 2011
Your Commute Home Tonight Might Suck, But Don't Blame Protesters
Yes, 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 >>
Blogs
August 11, 2011
Krystal Klear on His Unusual Obsession with '80s Boogie, and Finding Obscure Records in Ireland
Shaun BloodworthIt'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 >>
Blogs
August 2, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
June 25, 2011
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 >>
News
June 15, 2011
A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitimacy
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 >>
Blogs
May 24, 2011
Steve Ugbah, East Bay Professor, Arrested in Nigeria
Welcome home, SteveSteve 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 >>
Blogs
May 13, 2011
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 >>
News
April 27, 2011
A Rat's Life: MS-13 Snitches Run Wild While Turning State's Evidence
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 >>
Culture
April 27, 2011
Some Books to Read Now
Love, quakes, and S.F. in this month’s best new releases.
Blogs
March 15, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
February 1, 2011
BART Considers Cleaner, but Less Comfortable Seats
You are supposed to sit, not shit on the seatWe 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 >>
Blogs
December 1, 2010
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 >>
Music
November 24, 2010
The Frames: Show Preview
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 >>
Music
November 3, 2010
"Fuck You All": Glen Friedman's punk and hip-hop photos are meant to inspire
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 >>
Calendar
November 3, 2010
"Fuck You All": Glen Friedman's punk and hip-hop photos are meant to inspire
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 >>
Blogs
August 23, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
August 19, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
August 9, 2010
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 crimesSex, 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 >>
Film
July 28, 2010
"Kisses": Fairy tale meets real life for runaway Irish kids
Christine Shreeve Hubbs is accused of allowing boys to fire pellet guns out her car window -- among other crimesSex, 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 >>
Blogs
July 26, 2010
Last Night: All Shook Down Music Festival in North Beach
Joseph SchellJanelle MonaeAll 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 >>
Blogs
June 24, 2010
Tussle's Nathan Burazer Says the Band's Music is Like a Spider Goat
Winni WintermeyerAs 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 >>
Blogs
April 4, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
March 17, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
March 1, 2010
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 >>
Music
June 25, 2008
Double D's: depression and dickheads
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 >>
Calendar
February 20, 2008
Blowing It
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 >>
Home Entertainment
April 19, 2006
When Stars Don't Align
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 >>
Dining
June 5, 2002
Noe Way
Once the baby strollers are put up for the night, Noe Valley becomes a real bar neighborhood

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