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Whoa: Lil B Tries Out for Golden State Warriors' D-League Team

When Lil B tweeted last month that he was going to try out for the Golden State Warriors, it was met with the same skepticism as when he said he was Miley Cyrus or Paris Hilton or Matlock. But our Young Based God actually did it this past Sunday, when he suited up and got on the basketball court at ... More >>

Weekend Parties: Warm Leatherette's Third Anniversary, Hard French Returns, Monarch Goes Late, and More

We're now a week on from Paris Hilton's DJ debut and Deadmau5's flame-baiting blog post. Thankfully, the world hasn't collapsed, and it seems as though both events have prompted some serious discussion about the place of the DJ in contemporary society. For those of you interested in such things, we ... More >>

Five Awful Attempts at Making Music by Rich, Beautiful, Famous People

As we all know, it's easy to take pot-shots at stupid, beautiful people. Incredibly entertaining, yes, but easy nonetheless. Honestly, we would stop doing it altogether, if only these clueless floozies would stick to having ridiculous incompetence levels in only their general lives, rather than step ... More >>

Bouncer on Paris Hilton, the Hilton Hotel, and S.F.'s Urban Tavern

​From this week's Bouncer column: No one seems to be watching The World According to Paris, so I have had to take up the slack on my lonesome. The premise of the most recent reality show based on the life of heiress Paris Hilton is her day-to-day existence in Los Angeles. She has to keep rein ... More >>

Hilton Hotels Sued for Charging Guests for a Morning Newspaper

Hey, I didn't ask for that. ​People just don't want to have to pay for newspapers these days. Americans are cancelling their subscriptions in droves. Everyone is still groaning about the New York Times website's pay wall. And now, people are suing Hilton Hotels for allegedly charging 75 cents for ... More >>

The Top 5 Dave Grohl Smackdowns

You may have seen Dave Grohl a few days ago giving Glee creator Ryan Murphy a good verbal kicking for acting like a prissy pants (no surprise there -- have you seen that show?) every time an artist refuses to let him use their music for the series. Grohl -- clearly the eternally sane voice in a worl ... More >>

Top Six Celebrities Who Should Never Sing Again

Brace yourself, everybody. Not content with torturing us back in 2006 with her debut album, Paris Hilton is apparently preparing to unleash a second one. So, in her honor and as a means to prepare ourselves, here's our list of the top six celebrities who should never make music ever again. Oh, and f ... More >>

Was Mogwai Based Before Lil B Was Based?

No, not that kind.​Scotland's dignified linear noise factory Mogwai has released the tracklisting for its forthcoming seventh studio album, which you may have mistaken for a David Shrigley print hanging in the punk rock section at the coolest record store you've never been to: Hardcore Will Never ... More >>

The Sounds of 2010

What we'll remember from the year in S.F. music.

The Year in SF Music: Stories We'll Remember From 2010

​From SF Weekly's latest print music section: Is Lil B God, the Devil, or Paris Hilton?: Rap in 2010 had no voice more prolific or polarizing than Berkeley's Lil B. After some local success with post-hyphy quartet the Pack, B subchristened himself "the Based God" and showed the world what it ... More >>

Film director Sofia Coppola's journey to "Somewhere"

Top 10 Weirdest Recent Couples in Music

We found out last week, from a variety of tabloidy sources, that 50 Cent and Chelsea Handler are currently -- well, not exactly hooking up, but having intimate conversations in a bar and talking about maybe hooking up. W.T.F. people? We'd like to take this opportunity to pat Chelsea on the back for ... More >>

Couples Have Sex In Coffin Buried In Dumpster (VIDEO)

​The mile-high club is so cliche -- but how many can say they're in the six-foot-under club? Possible necrophiliacs, voyeurs, and your run-of-the-mill sex-positive folks descended on the pariSoma Innovation Loft on Howard Street Saturday night for the crown event of the Arse Elektronika sex and te ... More >>

Mini Cows Just Might Save the Planet

guardian.co.ukMini cows: Three times the beef for a third of the feed.​Part of why agribusiness beef is such an environmental nightmare is that the cows are fucking huge, often tipping the scales at over half a ton apiece. However, for every pound of meat ranchers can glean, cows chomp 16 poun ... More >>

Remix The Glitch Mob's 'Drive It Like You Stole It' in New Contest

The Glitch Mob​Possibly one of the biggest names to emerge from L.A.'s hip-hop-indebted, electronic beat scene (other than Flying Lotus, of course), The Glitch Mob released its debut album, Drink the Sea, towards the end of May, after years spent producing one-off tracks and remixes. The record ha ... More >>

San Francisco Woman Sues -- Well, She Doesn't Know Who -- For Posting Her Nude Pics

​No need to dream of being Pamela Anderson or Paris Hilton or even former Miss California Carrie Prejean. You, too, can have your own internet sex scandal. Or nightmare.A private citizen of San Francisco has filed suit in Superior Court against some rotten anonymous internet trolls who posted phot ... More >>

Guinea Pig Rampage! S.F. Animal Control Notices Spike In Piggie Adoptions as Talking Rodent Movie Tops Box Office.

Some one-sentence movie summations tell you all you need to know about a film -- and its sure-fire financial success: "Jessica Alba is a stripper" or "Will Ferrel drives a stock car" or, the box office champ du jour, "Guinea Pigs talk and operate high-tech gadgetry." That G-Force edged out Harry Po ... More >>

'Air Sex' Championships Headed for San Francisco

Well, it had to happen sooner or later. Preceding next month's Air Guitar Championships at San Francisco's Independent will be the "Air Sex" showdown -- meaning all we need are some folks pantomiming the shooting up of heroin or toking a bong and we'll have Air Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll. What, ... More >>

Paris Hilton Syndrome hits S.F. Animal Control

The 10 Awesomest Wardrobe Malfunctioning Celebs

(Is All My Children's Cameron Mathison wearing a thong?)10. Cameron MathisonThe sole male representing on this list, All My Children's Mathison (who plays leading man Ryan Lavery) flashed what looks awfully similar to a thong during an episode of the soap last December. He claims it was just his s ... More >>

Track of the Day: The Juan MacLean

Tim Soter If you dig the new millennium disco fogging up windows in clubs across the country, you'll feel love for the Juan MacLean track "The Simple Life." The song luckily has nothing to do with Paris and her former BFF Nicole. Rather, it's a bit of Star Wars meets Donna Summer, a gorgeous track t ... More >>

Barry Zito Mows 'Em Down -- The Ladies, That is

The conventional wisdom used to be that chicks dig the longball. Not true. Chicks dig Barry Zito. Who would have thought being young, wealthy, handsome, and articulate could be such a turn-on? Rick Reuschel may kick Zito's ass on paper -- but, in the flesh, Giants pitcher Zito gets to hob-nob with P ... More >>

Trenchcoat in Common explores loss of privacy in a Web-connected world

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Who wants to read books about the Internet?

Hollywood's bad b-boys: Dirt Nasty and Andre Legacy

Sharon Jones' 100 Days 100 Nights Life Lessons

Paris Hilton's Jail Guard Wins SF Drag King Contest

The Popcorn King

Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

Scared Healthy

Inadvertent Paris Hilton Sighting...

Boxing Bootcamp Day 876,234 (10) -- Half-Heartedly Apologizing for the Penis Jokes

Last Night: Sage Francis

Is Ed Jew a target of racism?

Brazilian electro-poppers CSS rock the big frickin' afterparty

Diva Dumbdown

I Am Woman

Four plays redefine the word diva, for good and bad

Spell Me

The bee may be just a game, but in Putnam County we see a dark side, too

What's in store for indie rock and prime time in a post-O.C. universe

BeatBox

Mu brings the techno stompdown to Rx; Mighty hosts a hip hop jammy-jam block party

Framing Picture

Cold outside, hot inside

Problems at Home

Brad and Angelina are out to kill each other. You may want a piece of them, too.

Wax Off

With plenty of gore and even more bore, House of Wax can't hold a candle to the original

Word Warriors

The Perpetual Motion Roadshow -- indie publishing meets rock 'n' roll

Hawaii Oh No

The Hawaii West fails as a dive bar, but Bouncer still figures out what makes Gavin Newsom cool

The Giving Trees

Mayor holds shovel

Best Queer Fiction Journal

Lodestar Quarterly

Best Sneering Sports Guy

Gary Radnich

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Vincent Gallo

When (Warp)