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5 Celebrities Who've Communicated With Dead Musicians

Earlier this week, the lawsuit against AEG Live over Michael Jackson's premature passing rumbled past the point of weird and drove straight into crazy town. The culprit was AEG CEO Randy Phillips, who claimed that his friend Brenda Richie -- ex-wife of Lionel Richie -- had spoken to the spirit of Mi ... More >>

Rapper 2Chainz Reportedly Robbed at Gunpoint in S.F.

Update 10:40 a.m.: San Francisco Police confirm Rapper 2Chainz was robbed, releases statement. Read after the jump. Original story 9:34 a.m.: Rapper 2 Chainz was reportedly shot at and robbed yesterday afternoon in broad daylight outside a marijuana dispensary, according to multiple news reports. ... More >>

Smoking Alcohol Is the New Idiotic Boozing Trend

Kids these days. One minute they're simply butt-chugging alcohol in a misguided attempt to get super-drunk super-quickly, the next they're involved in an elaborate scheme involving booze and dry ice to take drunkorexia to the next level. We came across this "trend" to smoke booze in order to lose we ... More >>

Tumblr Denizens Get Melodramatic Over Yahoo! Purchase

It has been amusing to watch some of the sillier, more melodramatic reactions to Yahoo's announcement that it will buy the blogging platform Tumblr. Given Yahoo's history of wrecking or abandoning services that it has purchased (GeoCities, Flickr), it's somewhat understandable that people would worr ... More >>

Bang with Friends Attracts Investors, Yet It's Still Easier to Text Someone for a Booty Call

Bang With Friends, the prurient web application that allows you to click on Facebook friends and invite them for a roll in the hay, has evidently raised $1 million in its first round of venture funding. Yep, you read that right -- $1 million for an app that was created by three (probably) drunk tech ... More >>

S.F. Resident Wins National Manischewitz Cooking Competition

It ain't the legendary Pillsbury Bake-Off, but San Francisco resident Josie Shapiro won the country's only kosher cooking competition, the Manischewitz Cook-Off Contest, which took place today in Manischewitz HQ in New Jersey. The winning recipe? "Faux pho," a soup made in under an hour with Manisch ... More >>

"The Cover Up": Nudist Porn Shoots in the Naked City

A Bleacher Report Founder's Inane Apologia

Pro tip: Whenever someone is talking about "the haters," that person has almost certainly done something worth hating. The usage is also a hint that the utterer might be a trailer person. So when I saw the headline on Bryan Goldberg's piece, "How I respond to the haters," published (appropriately ... More >>

Bouncer Looks for Love at Miraloma Club

Local Porn Stars Shoot Parody Film on S.F. Nudity Ban

Perhaps to the chagrin of Supervisor Scott Wiener, some creative and talented pornographers are giving San Francisco's nudists another shot at being in the spotlight. San Francisco studio NakedSword is creating a gay porn parody of San Francisco's nudity ban, starring who else, but Supervisor Scot ... More >>

Peter Acworth, CEO of Kink.com, Arrested for Cocaine Possession

Peter Acworth, CEO of our neighborhood BDSM porn production company Kink.com, was arrested Feb. 1 on charges of cocaine possession and delaying arrest. Police visited the Armory, Kink.com's Mission District fortress, after a video surfaced on Facebook depicting Acworth and others firing guns in the ... More >>

Reddit Troll is Horrible, but Gawker Is Not Much Better

Few people look good after this week's outing of "the biggest troll on the Web" by Gawker. Certainly not the troll, and certainly not Reddit, where the troll was given free rein to post, or facilitate the posting, of all kinds of horrible stuff. But also not Gawker, nor many of the people weighing i ... More >>

Top 5 Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World!

Pepperdine University Refuses Student's Internship With Marijuana Policy Project

Ah, working for free. That unforgettable experience in lean times -- also called an "internship" -- is the barrier for entry into the white-collar world for many young go-getters in college.So Victoria Stanzione was a bit confused when her school, Malibu's Pepperdine University, told her she couldn' ... More >>

Sign a Petition to Release the White House Honey Ale Recipe

Good news, home brewing fans: You could be brewing the same beer as President Barack Obama in a few months. Last week the news broke that the White House brews three varieties of its own beer on the premises -- White House Honey Ale, White House Honey Blonde Ale and White House Honey Porter -- all ... More >>

Todd Akin: Reaction to Rape Comment Shows the Real Power of Social Media

Social media is no doubt a powerful force. But in what ways? How does this power manifest itself? Some people, perhaps confused by the word "media," seem to think it's a replacement for dying traditional media outlets -- particularly newspapers -- despite there being zero evidence that this is takin ... More >>

Gays Protest Fried Chicken, Now Cake

Fried chicken and wedding cake doesn't sound quite as offensive as Chinese food and donuts -- but it is.Over the weekend the LGBT community in Denver, Colo., decided to protest cake -- specifically, wedding cake at a bakery in the suburb of Lakewood, after the owners refused to make a rainbow cake f ... More >>

Supervisor Eric Mar, Happy Meal Crusader, Adds Smokers to the List of Things He Dislikes

Supervisor Eric Mar, the unhappy french fry guy, has taken on some rather dubious causes: Banning Happy Meals and stripper mobiles. But since 86ing cheap meat and strippers isn't going to totally protect your children from this terrible place called Earth, Mar has decided to go ahead and ban smoking ... More >>

Ridiculous Website Claims There Are Five U.S. Cities Better for Live Music Than S.F.

Today in clickbait, ponder a new slideshow/listicle/hotel advertisement from the folks over at Oyster.com (via HuffPo) which absurdly claims to round up the five best U.S. cities for live music. What are they? Since coastal media centers and global metropoli are not excluded, we bet you can guess at ... More >>

Lesbians Take on a New Role in Campaign Fundraising With Super PAC

Being a part of the LGBT community used to be an automatic disqualifier for public officials. It's still a big deal when they do come out as homosexual, and many find their political careers go down the tubes when they're outed in places where it's still not accepted.But now we have further evidence ... More >>

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Free Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Cone Today (Try the Greek Yogurt)

 What: Three words: free cone day. Where: Local Ben & Jerry's Scoop ShopsWhen: Tuesday April 3, noon to 8:00 p.m.Cost: Once you get to the front of line-- if you get to the front of the line-- the cone is free.The Rundown: Ben & Jerry's will be handing out free ice cream to all tho ... More >>

Huffington Post Doesn't Have to Retroactively Pay Bloggers, Judge Rules

​It takes a lot of hustle to make money as a freelance journalist. You have to constantly network, send dozens of pitches a week, juggle several assignments at once -- all for low pay.Last April, about 9,000 unpaid Huffington Post bloggers turned their hustle up a notch and sued AOL for not giving ... More >>

San Francisco Goes in for Guerrilla Grafting, While Seattle Plants an Edible Park

​The San Francisco-based Guerrilla Grafters have been receiving a slew of press this past month, including writeups in the Bay Citizen and Huffington Post. The Grafters are a loose group of people trying to transform, one limb at a time, some of the ornamental apple and pear trees in San Fran ... More >>

Occupy Our Food Supply ... Today

Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Bank of America, Occupy San Francisco -- now occupy your diet, too. Today is Occupy Our Food Supply Day, a nationwide series of actions and articles hoping to raise awareness about how corporate interests have taken over the world's food supply. As Anna Moore Lappé and ... More >>

News Sites Can't Rely on Advertising

​I'm not about to pretend that I know how to solve the economic dilemma that the news business finds itself in. I've been studying the matter, and writing about it off and on, for 16 years, and, like everyone, I really don't know. Maybe it will be nonprofits. Maybe paywalls. Maybe micropayments wi ... More >>

For Sex Week, Yale University Has to Borrow Several San Franciscans

How many of us fantasized about going to college in the Ivy League? To be thought of as among "the best and the brightest," and get a shot at opportunities most people don't have? When a few of my sex-positive colleagues said they were speaking this week at Yale University at something called "Sex W ... More >>

Masterminds 2012: Honoring 10 Extraordinary Bay Area artists

Tea Party Princess: Victoria Jackson and the Rabid Right

There Are Two Conservative Girl Scout Cookie Boycotts This Year

​According to an article in Salon yesterday, this year Girl Scout Cookies are under attack. Yes, cookies. Conservative activists have spotted a tenuous link between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood -- apparently, some scouts attended an event at which a Planned Parenthood UK brochure arguing ... More >>

The Year in Music Booze: Six Artist's Beverages That Made 2011 One Long Hangover

Rock 'n' roll culture died in 2011. It's got nothing to do with your opinion of Bon Iver, but everything to do with Rolling Stone. The former leading voice of modern music upheld its immaculate reputation this year... by starting an official wine club. It's filled with bottles branded with imagery f ... More >>

It's a Bad Week To Be a Gay Animal

It's Flipper and Eve, not Flipper and Steve​SF Weekly used to bring you the regular "This Week in Gay" column, and now -- given certain events that have transpired over the past few days -- we are happy to partially resurrect the defunct column with our first edition of "This Week in Gay Pets."Oka ... More >>

Bug Me: San Francisco Helps Pioneer Insect Cuisine

Bug Cuisine: How Tasty Are Insects?

Photo by Kimberly SandieBay Area entomophagist Daniella Martin tucks into a scorpion​In this week's cover story, "Bug Me," SF Weekly takes a look at the new generation of entomophagists, or insect-eaters, who are based in and around San Francisco. Much has been made in the press of entomophagists' ... More >>

Eating Insects with San Francisco's New Mavens of Bug Cuisine

Photo by Kimberly SandieBay Area entomophagist Daniella Martin tucks into a scorpion​In this week's cover story, "Bug Me," SF Weekly takes a look at the new generation of entomophagists, or insect-eaters, who are based in and around San Francisco. Much has been made in the press of entomophagists' ... More >>

Contaminated Cantaloupes Killed 23 People. Why Not More?

llubomir / Shutterstock​According to an article yesterday in the Huffington Post, the Jensen Farms listeria outbreak has now killed 23 people and sent 116 to the hospital, making it America's deadliest case of foodborne illness in several decades. While the FDA investigates the farm to find out e ... More >>

Is Organic Produce Actually Cheaper to Grow?

​Yeah, yeah, yeah: Certified organic produce is more expensive than conventional, and the premium prices that organic farmers can charge make their farms more than twice as profitable as conventional farms. But a new study suggests that organic grains, fruits, and vegetables don't have to be so e ... More >>

Are "Emperor Chefs" Like Michael Mina and Thomas Keller a Good Thing?

Emperor Michael Mina.​ Wolfgang Puck. Michael Mina. Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Thomas Keller. Chefs, who used to be invisible and nameless kitchen generals, have become celebrities. And since the 1990s, more than that -- they're empire builders. Yesterday, Huffington Post ran a feature about the ... More >>

See Who Unfriended You on Facebook with New Timeline

Are you sure you want to know who doesn't want to be your friend?​Warning: this will probably cause some bruised feelings. Maybe even a case of Facebook depression.Ever curious about who decided you weren't worth the hassle on Facebook? For those willing to spend a few minutes, you can quickly see ... More >>

Media Jumps On 'Americans Can't Cook' Story

The only way to lure Don Draper into the kitchen was with an open bottle of whiskey​Sometimes the food media travels in mindless packs just like White House correspondents. Such is the case about a story trending today, that 28% of Americans over age 25 say they can't cook. The story comes fr ... More >>

Fall Arts: Nato Green Brings S.F. Truth to Red-State America

"The Road to Hades": Unfunny Combo of Greek Drama and Fart Jokes

Music Links: San Francisco's Problem with Live Music, Kreayshawn at Thrift Town, and More

Kreayshawn at Thrift Town​ "Hey San Francisco, why don't you like live music?" [HuffPost SF] Kreayshawn goes to the Mission's Thrift Town. [Mission Mission]

Hot Dogs Stink, S.F. HuffPo's Does Food, and Willie Brown Eats in the Mission

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Looking for the hot dog cart near AT&T park? Come back after July 27. Currently the Department of Public Works is playing its lovely waiting game with Gorilla Pete's, the hot dog vendor that had been park ... More >>

Huffington Post Suspends Reporter for Rewriting Article

Arianna Huffington​If you're at all familiar with The The Huffington Post, the above headline should sound odd. The Website spawned by journalistic dilettante Arianna Huffington built its wild success, after all, largely on "aggregating" (read: rewriting without performing actual reporting) the ne ... More >>

"Page One": Producer Kate Novak on Getting Inside the New York Times

Evolution and Big Media

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: Please Let Me in the Bubble

Yaniv Golan/Flickr​AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is jealous of the new Internet bubble, and he wants in. Last week during a meeting with investors, Armstrong noted the high valuations of companies like LinkedIn and Pandora and concluded that AOL is "severely undervalued." The Wall Street Journal quoted ... More >>