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May 22, 2012
Facebook's Swoon a Symptom of Wall Street's Sickness
Facebook's newly issued shares lost 11 percent of their value on Monday, their first full day of public trading after Friday's snafu-filled IPO. That's a loss of $11.5 billion. Tuesday, the fall continued, taking the stock down another 3 percent. Too many shares were issued at too high a price by an ... More >>
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May 8, 2012
Desperate Newspapers Pin Hopes on Annoyed Readers
News publishers have always treated readers like commodities -- because that's what readers are. The real customers for publishers aren't readers, but advertisers. Readers are the product. It's not quite that simple, of course, and more enlightened publishers treat readers with respect and cover the ... More >>
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April 3, 2012
Center for Copyright Information: An Anti-piracy Measure That Makes Sense
About seven years ago, I read something online about a then-recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Overcome with the desire to watch the episode for myself, but without a subscription to HBO, I fired up LimeWire, the now-defunct file-sharing software, and quickly found the episode I wanted. An hou ... More >>
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March 23, 2012
Vegan Eggs, Ethical Meat, and a Cupcake ATM!
Hey guys! March 20th was Meatout. I refrained from eating meat. Best holiday ever. The UN's World Water Day was this week too! Second coolest holiday of the week. Since this year's theme was food security, people actually talked about how meat is a nightmare for water conservation! It's ... More >>
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March 19, 2012
The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012
The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>
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March 14, 2012
The Adaptability Shuffle
The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>
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March 8, 2012
SOPA, Limbaugh, Komen: This Is What Happens When the Mob is Right
There is far too much cheerleading for the "wisdom of crowds." The undiscerning among us, often motivated by an understandable (if often mindless) disgust with institutions, tend to employ buzzwords like "crowdsourcing" and to preach the idea that "the people" are always right even if "the people ... More >>
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February 15, 2012
Blades, Flames, and Boobs
There is far too much cheerleading for the "wisdom of crowds." The undiscerning among us, often motivated by an understandable (if often mindless) disgust with institutions, tend to employ buzzwords like "crowdsourcing" and to preach the idea that "the people" are always right even if "the people ... More >>
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February 14, 2012
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 >>
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January 31, 2012
Sorry, Twitter, if You're in the Media Business, You're a Media Company
Given how Silicon Valley moguls flee from the term "media company," you'd almost think it was as bad as "child-porn merchant." But whether they like it or not, companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are media companies. They don't have precisely the same business models as News Corp., Disne ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
Megaupload Bust Highlights Absurdity of SOPA/PIPA
Last week, just as two ill-conceived anti-piracy bills were disintegrating in Congress in the face of a massive online protest, the FBI, with help from foreign governments, was busting Megaupload, one of the biggest sources of pirated digital goods. The timing was interesting, though the feds s ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
Craig Finn's Clear Heart Full Eyes: A First Listen
If I may make two predictions about Clear Heart Full Eyes, the solo debut from combustible, fan-friendly Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn, they are that: 1. It's not going to save rock 'n' roll. 2. It's not going to be a meta-narrative about how it doesn't save rock and roll. If the last Hold Stea ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
There's No Trans Like PubTrans
If I may make two predictions about Clear Heart Full Eyes, the solo debut from combustible, fan-friendly Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn, they are that: 1. It's not going to save rock 'n' roll. 2. It's not going to be a meta-narrative about how it doesn't save rock and roll. If the last Hold Stea ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
TSA Clarification: You Can Take Some Kinds of Cupcakes on Planes
Thanks to NPR, SFoodie now knows what to pack the next time we plan to drive straight from Kingdom Cake to SFO. On its blog, the federal Transportation Security Agency has just issued some clarifying rules about what kind of cupcakes you can take on a plane. The agency has come under criticism a ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
MySpace Says It's Bringing TV to the Web -- But It Isn't
Specific Media, now the owners of MySpace, took Justin Timberlake on stage with them Monday night at the Consumer Electronic Show, and with a lot of fanfare, they announced ... essentially nothing. The purported big news is that MySpace is revolutionizing television by bringing it to the Web an ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
There's a Reason We Think Lard Is Unhealthy: Marketing
Lard wasn't always considered artery-clogging gunk or the rebel chef's fat of choice. A century ago, rendered pig fat was just what American cooks used -- for frying, cakes, biscuits, and hundreds of other dishes. Yet by the time most of us were born, lard was off the table. Poisonous, even. Over ... More >>
Music
January 4, 2012
Christopher O'Riley and Matt Haimovitz: Show Preview
Lard wasn't always considered artery-clogging gunk or the rebel chef's fat of choice. A century ago, rendered pig fat was just what American cooks used -- for frying, cakes, biscuits, and hundreds of other dishes. Yet by the time most of us were born, lard was off the table. Poisonous, even. Over ... More >>
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January 3, 2012
You Ate a Ton of Food Last Year
Yeah, that's what most of us have been saying to ourselves over the past few weeks, but it's true, according to the USDA. NPR's food correspondant, Allison Aubrey, looked over the agency's food consumption data and reported some of the numbers she found: 185 pounds of meat, 31 pounds of chee ... More >>
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December 7, 2011
Cup Noodles: Don't Let Them Near Your Child
Jonathan KauffmanInstant noodles, arranged in order of risk.Instant noodle cups -- not the kind in packets, the kind you pour hot water into -- aren't just 69-cent easy meals, NPR reported this week. They're burn delivery devices, responsible for putting kids in the hospital every day. The steep s ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Facebook's Cheesy Ads: Do They Make it Worth $100 Billion?
A couple of weeks ago, Business Insider, the puerile gossip 'n' lies site run by disgraced, bubble-era Internet-stock analyst Henry Blodget, informed us that a "source close to Facebook employees" said in an e-mail to the site that the company would go public within weeks. The article's author, N ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Your Seasonal Produce Guide: Pomegranates
JOE MARINARO/flickr A weekly series on what to do with your farmers' market impulse buys and CSA box surprises. Pomegranates have been celebrated throughout history, especially in the Middle East, and they hold significance for many world religions and cultures. NPR even calls them "the ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
An Anthropologist Discounts the Paleo Diet
Sure, it looks tasty, but it wasn't all our Paleolithic ancestors ate.You've read about them: The dudes who eat raw meat just like the cavemen, the women who claim their genes clamor only for turkey, kale chips, and sugar-free soda. There's even a magazine devoted to "modern day primal living." O ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
The Girl Scouts' New Locavore Badge: What You Have to Do to Earn It
The Girl Scouts' Locavore badge.Last week, NPR reported that the Girl Scouts of the USA had just revised its badges for the first time in 20 years. The update included introducing a new "Locavore" badge for senior scouts ages 14-16. But what do the scouts have to do to earn it? A fair amount of ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Contaminated Cantaloupes Killed 23 People. Why Not More?
llubomir / ShutterstockAccording 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 >>
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October 11, 2011
Sonic.net: The Li'l ISP that Stood up to the Feds
I way overpay for my monthly Internet service. There are a bunch of reasons: Sonic.net, my ISP, has great customer service. It almost never goes down. The website is simple and user-friendly. It updates it quickly with service info. When you call them, they talk to you like you're a fellow human, ... More >>
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September 23, 2011
Does Reality Television Help Viewers Lose Weight?
Could this be you if you watch The Biggest Loser?For all the studies showing that watching reality television -- OK, all television -- makes us fatter, a new research study whose findings were just reported on Salt, NPR's new food blog, suggests that one kind of reality TV could help you lose wei ... More >>
Music
September 21, 2011
Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music
Could this be you if you watch The Biggest Loser?For all the studies showing that watching reality television -- OK, all television -- makes us fatter, a new research study whose findings were just reported on Salt, NPR's new food blog, suggests that one kind of reality TV could help you lose wei ... More >>
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September 14, 2011
S.F.'s Girls Make Their TV Debut on Jimmy Fallon, with Backup Singers
Girls on TV Tuesday night. Musical performances on late-night shows are always a crapshoot, but San Francisco's Girls sounded great in their TV debut on Tuesday's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The band played two songs from its new (out this week!) album, Father, Son, Holy Ghost -- "Honey Bun ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
Organic Chicken Actually Proven to Be Safer
Alarmed by the recent outbreak of drug-resistent salmonella in ground turkey, which killed one Californian woman? The way to protect yourself might be to buy organic. Yesterday, NPR reported that a University of Maryland study found that big organic chicken farms have much lower levels of antibio ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Netflix Saga: Fight for Your Right to Cheap Video Rentals
Americans have collectively developed a keen sense of entitlement. That's why so many of us think we have a "right" to undeserved pay raises, undeserved good grades in school, free software, free music, low-priced gasoline; that we have a "right" to act like jackasses in traffic or in Internet co ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and Factory Farms, the Angry Birds Cookbook
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Antibiotics and Factory Farms. This weekend, the august Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times wrote an op-ed spelling out the links between antibiotics given to animals raised in ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
This Is Post-Rock
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Antibiotics and Factory Farms. This weekend, the august Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times wrote an op-ed spelling out the links between antibiotics given to animals raised in ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
Tune-Yards, Citay, Among DIY Artists Who Celebrate Our Band Could Be Your Life Anniversary: Listen
Local DIY acts tUnE-yArDs and Citay joined up with other indie acts at the Bowery Ballroom on Sunday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of indie/punk bible Our Band Could Be Your Life. In order to give a proper homage to the revered tome, and the bands that inspired it, each artist covered so ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
How Much Should We Believe in Activia? How Much Do You Throw in the Tip Jar?
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Food as Medicine. The New York Times ran a great article yesterday about the increase in foods marketing themselves for their health benefits. The FDA, finding some of these claims ... More >>
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May 10, 2011
Country Star Eric Church Hates Your Hip-Hop Hat and Sagging Jeans
On occasion, All Shook Down gives a listen to the music that is to real America what brine is to a cucumber. This is one of those occasions. Eric Church, "Homeboy" There's a fine bit of bullshit in Jay-Z's Decoded, that tony slab of image-sprucing book art in which the man who once bragg ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Cults Play a Short, Sweet Set at the Independent
Cults at the Independent last night. Cults Magic Kids April 14, 2011 @ The Independent Better than: Joining the punchline. It was short but sweet. Like most, I went in to the Cults show at the Independent last night knowing a mere three songs by the headlining band: "Most Wanted "(aka that ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
Hear All of Tune-Yards' Amazing New Album on NPR Now
Tune-Yards' Merrill GarbusWe've already sung the praises of Tune-Yards new album, w h o k i l l, here once before. But today, the whole album's up on NPR for you to stream. We recommend you do. With w h o k i l l, Oakland-based Merril Garbus has blown way past her project's lo-fi roots and i ... More >>
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March 18, 2011
This Just In: The U.S. House of Representatives Hates NPR
National Public Radio is good. Very good. They entertain us with such shows as This American Life, inform us with Morning Edition, and drop some musical knowledge on All Songs Considered. But the United States House of Representatives doesn't feel the same way: today it voted to cut off government f ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
Stream Julianna Barwick's Looping, Swooping New Album
Okay, CupidLast night at the Bottom of the Hill, curtain-haired Smith Westerns singer Cullen Omori introduced the band's third number with an exhortation to "fuck your girlfriend to this song." Well-meant though it may have been, this advice was logistically baffling (where were we, Dolores Park? ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Hey Lazybones Musicians! Record An Album This Month!
Welcome to February, the runt of months. Just four weeks until March -- four boring, bitter weeks of Valentines and Presidents and groundhogs and Sri Lankan independence. Thanksgiving and Christmas and National Novel Writing Month are all more than half the year away. If only there was a way to u ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Standing Up for Bullies, Taking the Rest of the Beef Out of 'Taco Meat'
SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Uh, did you know that if you live in S.F., you can get a free spay or neuter at the SFSPCA for your dog or cat during the month of February? TRUE FACT. So if any of you are running around with companion animals ... More >>
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January 3, 2011
WikiLeaks Reporting Error Corrected, Thanks To Former Chronicle Scribe Henry Norr
If I see you guys make one more mistake, I'm gonna blow my topHenry Norr, an ex-San Francisco Chronicle technology reporter who was fired for his anti-war kibitzing, has turned his energies to sideline critiques of the media.Calling Norr "one persistent listener," NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard sai ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
'Fruitcake That Ate New Jersey' Has San Francisco Origins
It's got Trenton! East Orange is next! We all learned in school that multiplying two negatives together makes a a positive. Turns out it can be true in real life, too. You just need one more ingredient: Publicity. For instance, a recent discussion on NPR radio's Weekend Edition noted that the fru ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
Elfin Magic
It's got Trenton! East Orange is next! We all learned in school that multiplying two negatives together makes a a positive. Turns out it can be true in real life, too. You just need one more ingredient: Publicity. For instance, a recent discussion on NPR radio's Weekend Edition noted that the fru ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
So, What Exactly Is A "Supergroup"? Some (Not Entirely Serious) Definitions
Mister HeavenlyThe news today out of indieville is that Sub Pop has signed Mister Heavenly, a new group featuring Nick Diamonds from Islands, Honus Honus from Man Man, and Joe Plummer from Modest Mouse. (Can we pause for a second to ponder what a mischievous mindfuck this outfit will be? Have you ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
Say My Name, Say My Name
Mister HeavenlyThe news today out of indieville is that Sub Pop has signed Mister Heavenly, a new group featuring Nick Diamonds from Islands, Honus Honus from Man Man, and Joe Plummer from Modest Mouse. (Can we pause for a second to ponder what a mischievous mindfuck this outfit will be? Have you ... More >>
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October 27, 2010
Stream Brian Eno's Time-Warped New Album, Small Craft On a Milk Sea
Small Craft On a Milk Sea, the 25th (!) solo album from oblique strategist and art-tronic music O.G. Brian Eno, isn't out until next week -- on Warp Records, in a partnering of great karmic appropriateness -- but you can stream it now courtesy of NPR's First Listen. At the aural equivalent of fi ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Will Supermarkets Be Irrelevant in the Future?
allaboutgeorge/FlickrMap of community gardens and urban farmland in West Oakland.The awesome Raj Patel turned up on NPR this morning, withstanding a brief grilling by affably-voiced Steve Inskeep about "Five Things You Don't Know About Supermarkets," Patel's piece in the latest Foreign Policy ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
Will Payne Was Hungry for Radio Food Talk, So He Created Sound Bites
FacebookPayne: Feeding the unmet appetite.These days, radio is a medium often relegated to background noise -- buzzing through the kitchen, perhaps, as you prepare dinner. That's why it's so nice of Will Payne of Pirate Cat Radio to host Sound Bites, a fine, filling radio show about food you ... More >>
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November 4, 2009
Help the Kitchen Sisters Name Their New Series and Win a Wild Boar Dinner
Kitchen SistersThe Sisters need a little help.NPR's Kitchen Sisters -- radio trailblazers at finding hidden kitchens near and far-- are launching a new project. There's a contest to name it (wild boar dinner with Angelo Garro anyone?) and chance to submit your very own story about girls. And ... More >>
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