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Jason Collins Becomes First Openly Gay Male Athlete Playing in America's Major Sports

"I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay." So begins Jason Collins' essay in the upcoming issue of Sports Illustrated. And with that, Collins became the first active male athlete from America's major sports to come out as gay. We all knew somebody was going to do it sometime. It was j ... More >>

Mighty Unveils Its New, High-Powered Soundsystem

Second City Sessions with Colette & DJ Heather Saturday, March 30, 2013 Mighty My vision became a blur of Nike and Adidas, with legs and arms shooting out to occasionally grab onto the rhythm. I was standing at the far corner of Mighty's dancefloor, on the periphery of a house dancer's circle that ... More >>

Oakland Soldiers Make McDonald's All-American Team

In June, we ran a feature story, Swoosh Dreams, that explored the growing commodification of elite summer league basketball, a world that talented and media savvy teenage ballers use as a platform for scholarship opportunities. The story focused on the Oakland Soldiers, "one of the most prominent co ... More >>

Police Looking for Dexter Oliver, Man Accused of Setting Woman on Fire

Police are looking for a 22-year-old man who is on the loose after allegedly tossing flammable liquid on the woman he's been dating, and setting fire to her. Yesterday at about 12:17 p.m. officers in the Bayview responded to the area of Hollister and Jennings streets on reports that a women who wa ... More >>

Top Five Musician-Based Video Games You Can Play In Your Browser Right Now

2012 has seen a bumper batch of musician-helmed video games hitting the Internet. They're ostensibly meant to promote an artist's latest release, but also act as snappy diversions to play in your browser while you should be concentrating on something far more important. Here are five of the best rec ... More >>

"Step Up Revolution": Capitalism Triumphs Again

Oakland Soldiers Win Nike EYBL Championship

The Oakland Soldiers, subjects of last month's feature story Swoosh Dreams, won the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League title on Sunday, beating Toronto's CIA-Bounce in the Peach Jam tournament final. It was a circuitous route to the top. Led by Archbishop Mitty's Aaron Gordon, who some people thin ... More >>

Oakland Soldiers YouTube Video Guide

Type "Oakland Soldiers" into the YouTube search box and 18 pages worth of highlights and interviews load up. As suggested in last week's feature story, Swoosh Dreams, the teenage ballers on this AAU team are written about and viewed all over the internet. There are three primary genres of summer le ... More >>

Swoosh Dreams: How Nike Helped Turn the Oakland Soldiers Into Pros

Sideshow No More

Weekend Parties: Masters at Work, Ghostly International Meets Spectral, Nightbeat, and More

Masters at Work plays 1015 Folsom on Friday​ House, house, and more house. If nothing else, this weekend offers a lot of rare opportunities for those whose tastes tend towards all things four-on-the-floor. First there's a performance by Masters at Work, then a showcase of canonical electronic ... More >>

The Cool Kids: Cool with Recording for Mountain Dew

In Print: The Cool Kids Are Happy to Record for Mountain Dew, and More

From SF Weekly's latest print music section: The Cool Kids​The Cool Kids: Chuck Inglish, one half of Chicago's retro-styled rappers the Cool Kids, is speaking about releasing the duo's new album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, through a quasirecord label funded by Mountain Dew, the lurid-colored so ... More >>

Hip-Hop Word Count: What If You Could Search the Lyrics of 40,000 Hip Hop Songs?

A sample entry.​Tahir Hemphill has launched a Kickstarter fundraising drive for an interesting new project he's working on. It's called the Hip-Hop Word Count, and its aim is to allow you to search through the lyrics of over 40,000 hip-hop songs released between 1979 and the present. But more than ... More >>

New Starbucks Logo Avoids Mentioning Coffee. Or Starbucks

Starbucks.comEvolution of the Starbucks logo.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Starbucks today unveiled its new logo, one that keeps the chesty, tiara'd mermaid grasping the double fins of her tail (the company calls her "the Siren") but dumps the company name along with the word "coffee." ... More >>

Top Six Most Inappropriate Uses of a Song on TV, Ever

​Having heard the news that Lou Reed reportedly refused to let Susan Boyle perform "Perfect Day" on America's Got Talent last week (resulting in her apparently fleeing the country in floods of tears; Reed says legal issues were to blame), we couldn't help but start thinking about the variety of so ... More >>

Feds Indict Fisherman's Wharf Merchants For Selling Fake Louis Vuittons

No, you didn't get a real, $5 Louis Vuitton...​In what is being billed as the largest takedown of retailers of designer fakes on the West Coast, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement busted a slew of Fisherman's Wharf merchants for allegedly smuggling and trafficking in fake Oakley, Nike, A ... More >>

Last Night: Gil Scott-Heron at Yoshi's

Image Courtesy of: Mischa Richter​Gil Scott-Heron
 Tuesday, March 16, 2010 â€¨Yoshi's 
Better than: Anything on TV Gil Scott-Heron is old. For those born in the 1980s, you might have heard his "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" for the first time in a Nike commercial, which ... More >>

I Wish I Knew How to Quit You: S.F. Chamber of Commerce Won't Leave Global Warming-Denialist U.S. Chamber

​People in fields such as petroleum, investment banking, or running chambers of commerce, know what it means to be blessed. They are embedded within industries that love to put on conventions and trade shows. Workers travel to distant cities, check into the Hyatt, mingle with people who went the s ... More >>

Full-Court Press: Flamboyant Former Warrior World B. Free Sues Nike

Don't name your shoes after this man without asking him firstAs a scintillating scorer with the Golden State Warriors and four other NBA teams, World B. Free was no stranger to knocking down seemingly impossible shots in the face of swarming defenders. Well, it's an apt metaphor for the retired bask ... More >>

Foodie Film Fun via Time Magazine's "50 Top 10 Lists of 2008"

Thanks to Time magazine and its infernal time-wasting "50 Top 10 Lists of 2008," I've discovered a genius filmmaker called Adam Pesapane, a digital artist who calls himself PES. Time featured, as its #2 Viral Video of 2008, a lovely bit of magic called Western Spaghetti, less than two minutes of ... More >>

Daedelus

Love to Make Music To (Ninja Tune)

MP3 of the Day: DJ A-Trak

The Lowbrow Art Sale -- Glenn Barr, Eric Bailey & Mitch O'Connell

Election Night in the Mission - Nobody Even Mentioned Edwards

What a Drag: Use a Parachute To Workout

More Milk: Open Casting Call For Castro March Extras

Golden Gate for Sale

The people overseeing the San Francisco landmark consider selling ad space on the bridge

Newsom Unleashed

"I told him I'll go after any mayor that didn't try to improve conditions." – Bay View Publisher Willie Ratcliff

Rock Artist

Andy's outdoor factory

Outsiders In

Is it still street art if it's on the wall of a museum?

House of Pain

It's Kingsley versus Connelly in a heart-wrenching battle of wills

Capital Rap

From revolutionary rapper to stockbroker to rapper again -- the long, strange trip of Paris, aka Oscar Jackson Jr.

Best Combo Bike Ride and Run

The Marin Headlands

Southern Discomfort

Travis Somerville's paintings have been called provocative, brilliant - and racist

Pop Philosophy

Indie Tunes Apt for Ads You'd Hate

Mel Sells Out

What Women Want is a better movie than this two-hour Nike ad

Night Crawler

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Savage Love

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Letters

Unspun

Unspun

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

When the Bay was Groun Zero

A look at the Cold War ghosts that haunt the rim of the city

Going Ballistic

The Stick-Up Artist

Man's Ruin: The Posters and Art of Frank Kozik

Slap Shots