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National Geographic Society

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2012

    Honey Badger Don't Care That It Inspired Some BBQ Sauce

    A video posted on YouTube called "The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger," a witty parody of a National Geographic wildlife documentary, has garnered more than 48 million views since January 2011 and officiated a meme and catchphrase: "Honey badger don't care!" More recently, it has inspired a new line of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Harold Camping Apologizes for There Still Being a World

    ​A letter of apology from apocalypse-predicting nonagenarian radio preacher Harold Camping was released yesterday on his Family Radio web-site. "Yes, we humbly acknowledge we were wrong about the timing," Campbell writes, and he even goes so far as to call his prediction "incorrect and sinful ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Food Hoarders Is Pretty Much Regular Hoarders, Just with Food

    Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Stuffed: Food Hoarders, a one-hour special that sours as you watch it, Feb. 11 and 12 on the Cooking Channel. Kudos to the Cooking Channel for showing food in as disgusting a light as possible, and for pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    S.F. Fashion: Body-Painting, Live Art, Vintage Clothes, Pizza -- It's La Femme Fatale

    Thursday night I checked out La Femme Fatale, a monthly all-female fashion and art event at the tucked-away John Colins, slightly SoMa. The evening featured body-painting by Gina Bernardino, live art from the art collective Black Diamond Shining, and a fashion show from Urban Vintage. The event is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Vegan Doritos (!!!), Bakesales Galore, and Fish Use Tools!

    ​ Scott Gardner/National GeographicA blackspot tuskfish prepares to use a rock to get to its dinner​• National Geographic has a series of pictures of a fish using tools because fish are so much smarter than people want to think they are so they can feel fine eating them. Well, they're a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 23, 2011

    Listen Up

    ​ Scott Gardner/National GeographicA blackspot tuskfish prepares to use a rock to get to its dinner​• National Geographic has a series of pictures of a fish using tools because fish are so much smarter than people want to think they are so they can feel fine eating them. Well, they're a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Soul-Funk Outfit The Budos Band Wants To Harsh Your Mellows, Hippies

    Lotsa people, lotsa attitude.​You've got to love New Yorkers for their blatant honesty. Speaking to Jared Tankel, baritone saxophone player in 10-piece Staten Island global-funk group The Budos Band, he makes it clear to aspiring rappers that his instrumental band is not interested in collaboratin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Has a Deadly Anteater Come to San Francisco?

    Ahhhhhhh!​Not exactly -- at least not yet. But who's to say the adorable baby anteater who just came into this world at the San Francisco Zoo won't one day be a match for the likes of Godzilla and Mothra?Bear with us, folks. This isn't just scare journalism. As we all know too well, the beasts of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Do Oakland Zoo Chimps Read More Than You?

    It's a page-turner all right...​When the Oakland Zoo yesterday sent out a press release announcing preschool children donating toys and books to the Oakland Zoo, your humble narrator figured the zoo would sell them and use the money for a good cause. Wrong. It turns out, the toys and books are for ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 8, 2010

    They Give Us Those Nice Bright Colors

    It's a page-turner all right...​When the Oakland Zoo yesterday sent out a press release announcing preschool children donating toys and books to the Oakland Zoo, your humble narrator figured the zoo would sell them and use the money for a good cause. Wrong. It turns out, the toys and books are for ... More >>

  • Music

    September 1, 2010

    Oneohtrix Point Never straddles noise pop

    It's a page-turner all right...​When the Oakland Zoo yesterday sent out a press release announcing preschool children donating toys and books to the Oakland Zoo, your humble narrator figured the zoo would sell them and use the money for a good cause. Wrong. It turns out, the toys and books are for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Plastiki, the Boat Made of 12,500 Recycled Bottles, Arrives in Australia Intact

    ​It seems like just yesterday that David de Rothschild's Plastiki, a vessel constructed of 12,500 recycled bottles, was setting sail from Sausalito. But 130 days and 8,000 miles later, reports indicate that the Plastiki has reached its destination: Sydney, Australia.   It apparently wasn't ea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Porn Scandal: Planner Says Photo of Rio Revelers Got Him Fired

    The ongoing porn scandal within the city's planning department has just gotten a bit more hardcore. Dozens of planners are now facing termination for offenses such as using work computers for fantasy sports or sending around National Geographic-worthy images, sources say. Planner Jim Miller, who has ... More >>

  • Film

    June 30, 2010

    Film is a battlefield

    Journalist-filmakers go to war in "Restrepo."

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    Magazine Publishers Compare the Internet to 'Instant Coffee'

    I am going to get offline right now and buy a magazine. ​Imagine that you are the head of a American magazine publishing company. You publish  Vogue, or Sports Illustrated, or National Geographic. Your ad revenue has plummeted. You  have recently shuttered several magazines. The Web site ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2009

    Leveraging Synergy Across Multiple Platforms

    I am going to get offline right now and buy a magazine. ​Imagine that you are the head of a American magazine publishing company. You publish  Vogue, or Sports Illustrated, or National Geographic. Your ad revenue has plummeted. You  have recently shuttered several magazines. The Web site ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2009

    Getting Super High

    I am going to get offline right now and buy a magazine. ​Imagine that you are the head of a American magazine publishing company. You publish  Vogue, or Sports Illustrated, or National Geographic. Your ad revenue has plummeted. You  have recently shuttered several magazines. The Web site ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 4, 2009

    Orion Shepherd expresses his love for books through painting

    I am going to get offline right now and buy a magazine. ​Imagine that you are the head of a American magazine publishing company. You publish  Vogue, or Sports Illustrated, or National Geographic. Your ad revenue has plummeted. You  have recently shuttered several magazines. The Web site ... More >>

  • Film

    January 14, 2009

    Kung Fu Pandamonium

    Bollywood goes east — Far East — for Chandni Chowk to China.

  • Culture

    December 10, 2008

    The art of the art press release

    Bollywood goes east — Far East — for Chandni Chowk to China.

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2008

    Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Jef Stott

    Jef Stott's current address may be in California (LA/San Francisco), but his music is a global endeavor. Pulling from the instruments and sonic styles of the Middle East and North Africa, among other locales, Stott records and DJs with an international population in mind. He says there's no excuse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2008

    Prelude to the Plastiki

    Jef Stott's current address may be in California (LA/San Francisco), but his music is a global endeavor. Pulling from the instruments and sonic styles of the Middle East and North Africa, among other locales, Stott records and DJs with an international population in mind. He says there's no excuse ... More >>

  • Film

    May 28, 2008

    The Fall

    Jef Stott's current address may be in California (LA/San Francisco), but his music is a global endeavor. Pulling from the instruments and sonic styles of the Middle East and North Africa, among other locales, Stott records and DJs with an international population in mind. He says there's no excuse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2008

    Clay, Alligator Blood, Kitchen Sink Proposed as Treatments for MRSA

    Jef Stott's current address may be in California (LA/San Francisco), but his music is a global endeavor. Pulling from the instruments and sonic styles of the Middle East and North Africa, among other locales, Stott records and DJs with an international population in mind. He says there's no excuse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2008

    Shocker: S.F. Ranked Second Greenest City, Behind Portland

    Jef Stott's current address may be in California (LA/San Francisco), but his music is a global endeavor. Pulling from the instruments and sonic styles of the Middle East and North Africa, among other locales, Stott records and DJs with an international population in mind. He says there's no excuse ... More >>

  • Film

    January 17, 2007

    Accidental Tourists

    Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history

  • Music

    June 14, 2006

    Stern Grove goes 'Aquatic'

    Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history

  • News

    April 19, 2006

    SFIFF Film Capsules

    Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history

  • News

    November 16, 2005

    A Bridge Too Far

    The Chronicle's series of stories on Golden Gate suicides goes "radioactive."

  • Calendar

    November 9, 2005

    Rise of the Machines

    Robots settle the score

  • Calendar

    May 18, 2005

    Sudden and Unexpected

    Art, tunes, and 'toons

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Six Best Bookstores

    Art, tunes, and 'toons

  • Culture

    February 11, 2004

    Eye

    A solid but overwritten tale of international politics and self-discovery

  • Summer Guide

    June 25, 2003

    The Only Way From L.A. to S.F.

    One definition of heaven: A week, a t-top Camaro, and the Pacific Coast Highway.

  • Holiday

    November 20, 2002

    GIFTS

    DVDs | Music DVDs | CDs | Books

  • News

    October 23, 2002

    Notes From the Edge

    The choices are dark and dreary, but the only candidate for governor is (be still, pounding heart) Gray Davis

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Best Place to Find the July 1967 National Geographic

    McDonald's Bookshop

  • Holiday

    November 21, 2001

    Holiday Highlights 2001

    Holiday Event Lisitngs

  • Dining

    April 5, 2000

    South Pacific Trip

    Holiday Event Lisitngs

  • Calendar

    February 17, 1999

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    Holiday Event Lisitngs

  • News

    June 10, 1998

    36,000 Feet Under the Sea

    The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.

  • Calendar

    March 4, 1998

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.

  • Calendar

    May 7, 1997

    Night+Day

    The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.

  • Calendar

    April 23, 1997

    Slap Shots

    The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.

  • Calendar

    February 26, 1997

    Unspun

    The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.

  • News

    September 25, 1996

    Logic Boards, Not Blackboards

    The schools' low-wire act leaves students dangling

  • Calendar

    May 29, 1996

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    The schools' low-wire act leaves students dangling

  • Calendar

    February 28, 1996

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    The schools' low-wire act leaves students dangling

  • News

    January 17, 1996

    Barron Storey's Life is an Open Comic Book

    The demons -- personal andfantastical and pop cultural -- that have shaped the art of a San Francisco illustrator

  • Film

    May 31, 1995

    Out of Iowa

    The Bridges of Madison County drips with corn syrup

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