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Saturday's much blogged-about American Apparel protest outside the storefront the chain plans to move into on Valencia Street had a sadly low turnout. Perhaps they were asking a bit much (10 a.m. on a Saturday morning?). Photographer Gretchen Robinette arrived at 10 on the dot and says that proteste ... More >>
Happy Monday, folks. Here's what you may or may not have missed over the weekend: On Friday night, Mike and Jen Cash braved Zombie Prom at the DNA Lounge. Here's what our photo team had to say about the evening: Mike: Well, at least the Prom Queen looked great in RED...Jen: I don't remember having ... More >>
There was more than enough to keep even the loneliest of hearts distracted and amused over the V-Day weekend. Topping the list easily was Saturday's Great San Francisco Pillow Fight of 2009, which brought thousands to Justin Herman Plaza to beat the crap out of each other with feathers and fluff. Re ... More >>
Our weekend involved cheese, ropes and Andy Warhol. In that order:Saturday afternoon's Grilled Cheese Invitational at Dolores Park was well attended - all 500 tasting wristbands sold out in minutes, a good hour before the event began! Tamara Palmer has the skinny at SFoodie.Saturday evening wa ... More >>
Thomas LevinsonAll Shook Down's weekend kicked off with a facebook-and-Twitter-orchestrated flash rave, which drove hundreds of kiddies to the section of Golden Gate Park next to the Conservatory of Flowers Friday night. The party started at around 8:30 p.m. and went on for an hour, at which point t ... More >>
Calibree Photography On Friday night, our traveling photo booth made an appearance at DNA Lounge, where the Hubba Hubba Revue was staging a sexy coup d'etat during a celebration in honor of vile dictator Presidente Juan Baptista Maximilian "Little Bobo" Kingfish (pictured above), and his military st ... More >>
On Sunday, 10 blocks of Howard Street were blocked off for the 10th Annual How Weird Street Faire - and all the beautiful colorful people came out to play (the more thoughtful ones brought their mothers). See Hanna Quevedo's photo set.Saturday evening brought SF Weekly's Photobooth duo of Jen and Mi ... More >>
San Francisco was overrun by clever costumes this past weekend. SF Weekly hit the city to capture the best Halloween outfits in three different neighborhoods. In the Mission, photographer Hanna Quevedo shot people dressed as sexy cops, bottles of booze, and the undead. Check out the full Mission ... More >>
While the rest of the country attended more run of the mill night clubs and house parties, S.F. did what it does best this weekend, taking a walk on the weird side. Between the Insane Clown Posse and punk legend Diamond Dave's birthday party on Friday to a "Hat Flash Mob" in Union Square and Dead P ... More >>
We're new in town, so one thing we'll be grateful for this Thanksgiving is that there's never a dearth of things to cover in our new home. From swaying to the sultry sounds of bands like The Fiery Furnaces and Mastodon on the Metalocalypse Tour as well as getting our bike porn fix at the SF Bike Exp ... More >>
From outrageous drag shows, to wholesome bubble spectacles, last weekend promised something for everyone. We went to the 100th installment of Truck's drag show, Cocktailgate, where performers like Trangela Lansbury and Mutha Clucka ruled the stage and the dance floor.Hanna QuevedoLegendary DJ Ste ... More >>
The Holidays are creeping up on us, and that not only means more drinking, but more drinking in Santa hats. Red and green tinged parties are hard to avoid right now, and we went to more than a few of them over the weekend.Hanna QuevedoIn some parts of the country, the beginning of the Christmas s ... More >>
Mustache BashRickshaw StopDecember 17, 2009Better Than: New York mustaches. (And NY mustache rides, for that matter)In the world of mustaches, there are wanna-bees, there are growers, and then there are serious competitors. The latter group wound up at the Rickshaw Stop last night, as 21 of San F ... More >>
While you were out shopping or flying or arguing with the family, we were combing our photo archives to compile the best and the brightest of San Francisco 2009. From Morrissey, to Modest Mouse, from the Flaming Lips to KISS, from Dizzy Balloon to Silversun Pickups and festivals galore in between. ... More >>
We just flew in from 2009, and boy are our arms tired. In case you need evidence, check out our various "Best of the Year" photos below. See you in 2010! Hanna QuevedoView more in our "Year in Pot" slideshow. Christopher VictorioView more in our "The Year in Concerts" slideshow
There's a reason Reefer Madness has become a laugh riot among bong-toting college students across the realm. After all, you don't have to be stoned into the next dimension to get a laugh out of earnest depictions of marijuana turning people into crazed, violent killers and rapists. And boom micropho ... More >>
So, last weekend was Valentine's Day Weekend. Which means that people who weren't coupled up and doing something all barfy-cute were using it as an opportunity to hook-up. (Because nothing is more fun than waking up on Feb. 14 and wondering whether or not it's appropriate to wish your conquest a hap ... More >>
Hanna QuevedoThanks to Project One for hosting a great party and all the artists who helped make a terrific show last night. We wish we could have given out grants to everyone, but we only had enough money to give out three. Hanna QuevedoWithout further ado, here are the artists who took ... More >>
There was a lot going on this weekend, so let's just get on with it, shall we? The lovely ladies of Hubba Hubba Burlesque pulled out all the stops for a their Mardi Gras celebration at DNA Lounge, and we were there to document it all.Calibree Photography
The office coffee is burned (again) and you've got 537 emails in your inbox. You could probably take a fifteen minute pre-work break (those totally exist!) and read this before you start your week. How was your weekend? Ours was pretty busy.Gretchen Robinette
Finally, San Francisco weather, you did something right. Sunshine all weekend and then on Monday you bring the rain. We appreciate that there's a drought going on, so we're down with the wetness, but if you could keep up this trend, we'd appreciate. There was a lot of stuff going on this weekend, so ... More >>
Hanna Quevedo Video of yesterday's St. Stupid's Day Parade. [Laughing Squid]Upcoming exhibit of "extreme" mammals coming to the California Academy of Science sounds totally kick-ass. [SFAppeal]"Also a challenge to Muni operators: behaving pleasantly and not killing people." Oh, snap! [Sweet Melis ... More >>
This weekend's torrential downpour was enough to keep us inside with a bottle of Jim Beam's finest, streaming Hallmark made-for-TV Criterion movies on Netflix. But in spite of the wretched weather, we managed to pull on our on-trend galoshes and slog out into the night.Richard HaickNerds and musi ... More >>
This weekend offered a plethora of choices for music fans, pot fans, and people who are fans of racing household furniture through the streets. (Fans of all three basically had the best weekend ever.)Marijuana advocates and enthusiasts crowded the International Cannabis and Hemp Expo, that featured ... More >>
As the Summer(ish) months start rolling in, it seems the possibilities for weekend distractions multiply exponentially. This past weekend offered an embarrassment of riches: comedy, music, art and bawdiness abounded. Gretchen RobinetteYo La Tengo and the Sic Alps played the Fillmore Saturday and ... More >>
Hanna QuevedoCritical Mass kicked off a glorious weekend, departing from Justin Herman Plaza Friday evening and wending it's way through the city as the sun set.Gretchen RobinetteCanadian indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene took over the stag at the Fillmore, playing tracks from th ... More >>
This weekend, people brought home the bacon and went out in the streets for one of San Francisco's quintessential street parties: the How Weird Street Faire.Hanna QuevedoGreasy good fun was had by all who attended Bacon Camp 2010, where the fried delicacy was cooked up in a multitude of ways.Hann ... More >>
Good morning! How's that Bay to Breakers hangover treating you? Oh, you woke up in a cardboard box wearing half of your Where's Waldo costume and you're still drunk? Well, you should probably find a place to take a shower. You're late for work.Joe SchellThe race turned costumed-drunken boozefest ... More >>
It's Monday again, and if you're like us, you ate too many hot-dogs last weekend. And if you didn't, we feel a little sorry for you.Calibree PhotographyThe women of the Hubba Hubba Revue got primal at DNA lounge, where they presented a caveman themed show.Hanna QuevedoMeanwhile, at this year's ... More >>
This weekend was a great weekend to geek out. Whether you wanted to dress like a superhero or go to a nerdy picnic in Golden Gate Park, opportunities abounded to just let your inner-dork hang out.Hanna QuevedoHeroes and villains in all sorts of outrageous costumes took over the waterfront this we ... More >>
Hanna QuevedoLion dancers, street food ― and plenty of yin.Tomorrow promises to kick off a very entertaining weekend in Chinatown ― it's the 20th Annual Autumn Moon Festival, with nonstop entertainment from lion dancers, acrobats, Polynesian dancers, performances by local dance-school gro ... More >>
Hey, I have an idea. Let's convene a vertigo-sufferers convention in the Swiss Alps. Then we'll hold a family picnic in an Alaskan timberwolf preserve. And finally we can organize an ocean cruise to Kansas. But first, let's hold the San Francisco Bike Expo at the Cow Palace. It's the perfec ... More >>
Hanna QuevedoThis Saturday marks the 13th annual Black X-Mass with Karla LaVey at the Elbo Room.Can't stand another minute of the eye-drooping boredom of this whole holiday family time thing? Or are you stuck in town due to circumstances beyond your control? Either way, to fix the problem, here's ... More >>
Hanna QuevedoWhat goes better with a concert than oysters?San Francisco has a way of using food to frame things: disasters, political discussions, drugs. On Saturday. an outdoor concert with the likes of Guster and Rodrigo y Gabriela was framed with bivalves. The 12th annual OysterFest brough ... More >>
It's been four relatively normal days since the end of the Outside Lands Music Festival, and frankly, we're still going through withdrawals. With summer approaching its end, we bet lots of you are still yearning for the carefree, deafening days you spent tromping around festival grounds and catching ... More >>
It's been four relatively normal days since the end of the Outside Lands Music Festival, and frankly, we're still going through withdrawals. With summer approaching its end, we bet lots of you are still yearning for the carefree, deafening days you spent tromping around festival grounds and catching ... More >>
We already gave readers a quick look at one of our favorite costumes from Halloween in San Francisco last night -- Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi dressed part zombie, part politician. But after looking through a collection of images from the frightful festivities in the Castro last night, we thought we'd ... More >>
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