Paris

"Polisse": A Lively "Law and Order: SVU" in Paris

Papito's Pollo Empanizado Quesadilla Brings New Promise To A College Staple

​The quesadilla has become a staple of late night drunken consumption. Frat boys the nation over have staved off the gnarliest of hangovers with hunks of cheese, possibly smothered in Sirracha, sandwiched between two crisply grilled circles of tortilla. It's a simple, filling staple of Tex-Mex c ... More >>

DJ Shadow Goes Shopping for Inspiration at Amoeba

​The quesadilla has become a staple of late night drunken consumption. Frat boys the nation over have staved off the gnarliest of hangovers with hunks of cheese, possibly smothered in Sirracha, sandwiched between two crisply grilled circles of tortilla. It's a simple, filling staple of Tex-Mex c ... More >>

Two Sisters Bar & Books Opens Friday and ACRE/SF Sells Coffee and Clothing

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Two very worldly sisters are channeling Krakow, Vienna, Paris, Brooklyn, and our own Northern California into Two Sisters Bar & Books. Grub Street reports, via Urban Daddy, the bar will open this Friday f ... More >>

"Sarah's Key": Holocaust Movie Wrings Sentimentality from Atrocity

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Two very worldly sisters are channeling Krakow, Vienna, Paris, Brooklyn, and our own Northern California into Two Sisters Bar & Books. Grub Street reports, via Urban Daddy, the bar will open this Friday f ... More >>

Wall of Sound, Plate of Cakes

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Two very worldly sisters are channeling Krakow, Vienna, Paris, Brooklyn, and our own Northern California into Two Sisters Bar & Books. Grub Street reports, via Urban Daddy, the bar will open this Friday f ... More >>

The Top Five Utterly Embarrassing White Girl Rap Songs

Kreashawyn's "Gucci Gucci" is blowing up. The video to the song from the Bay Area-raised female rapper, which features cameos from members of Odd Future, is on track to top over a million YouTube views since its release last week. It's a high point in Kreashawyn's short career so far, as she attempt ... More >>

When You Mash Up Girl Talk With Girl Talk, Does The Universe End?

Girl Talk Girl Talk = Catastrophe​Surprisingly, the answer to that question is no, but the end result of combining two Girl Talk albums in their ENTIRETY is so annoying, I kinda wish that it did.

Look at Art, Then Drink It

bittermelon/FlickrThe Press Club is offering tastes of wines featured in SFMOMA's current exhibit.​How Wine Became Modern, SFMOMA's new exhibit on visual and design evolution in the wine world, is a fascinating look at both the aesthetics and processes of modern American winemaking, tracing th ... More >>

San Francisco's Other Famous Muralist

bittermelon/FlickrThe Press Club is offering tastes of wines featured in SFMOMA's current exhibit.​How Wine Became Modern, SFMOMA's new exhibit on visual and design evolution in the wine world, is a fascinating look at both the aesthetics and processes of modern American winemaking, tracing th ... More >>

Real Horrorshow!

bittermelon/FlickrThe Press Club is offering tastes of wines featured in SFMOMA's current exhibit.​How Wine Became Modern, SFMOMA's new exhibit on visual and design evolution in the wine world, is a fascinating look at both the aesthetics and processes of modern American winemaking, tracing th ... More >>

Market, Street

bittermelon/FlickrThe Press Club is offering tastes of wines featured in SFMOMA's current exhibit.​How Wine Became Modern, SFMOMA's new exhibit on visual and design evolution in the wine world, is a fascinating look at both the aesthetics and processes of modern American winemaking, tracing th ... More >>

Track of the Day: Pantha Du Prince

​Anyone who has guests Noah Lennox of Animal Collective and Tyler Pope of !!! and LCD Soundsystem on an album is worth a listen. But even without the indie extras, Pantha Du Prince weaves a beautifully complicated web for the ears.  Hendrik Weber, a Paris- and Berlin-based DJ and producer who ... More >>

Video of the Day: Paris Takes on the Health Care Debate

This video isn't big on the visuals side, but I like the fact that Bay Area rappers are so quick to respond to current events and social memes (see Kev Choice's "The Bridge"; Mistah F.A.B.'s "Hit Me on Twitter"). Davey D's Hip Hop Corner highlighted local rapper Paris' new clip for "Side Effect," w ... More >>

Up Next: San Francisco

This video isn't big on the visuals side, but I like the fact that Bay Area rappers are so quick to respond to current events and social memes (see Kev Choice's "The Bridge"; Mistah F.A.B.'s "Hit Me on Twitter"). Davey D's Hip Hop Corner highlighted local rapper Paris' new clip for "Side Effect," w ... More >>

Pete Rock

This video isn't big on the visuals side, but I like the fact that Bay Area rappers are so quick to respond to current events and social memes (see Kev Choice's "The Bridge"; Mistah F.A.B.'s "Hit Me on Twitter"). Davey D's Hip Hop Corner highlighted local rapper Paris' new clip for "Side Effect," w ... More >>

Theater of the Horrific

This video isn't big on the visuals side, but I like the fact that Bay Area rappers are so quick to respond to current events and social memes (see Kev Choice's "The Bridge"; Mistah F.A.B.'s "Hit Me on Twitter"). Davey D's Hip Hop Corner highlighted local rapper Paris' new clip for "Side Effect," w ... More >>

The Dodos' "Take-Away Show" Clip

I love the idea of these Take-Away Shows. They've been running for a while now, featuring various indie acts performing acoustically on the streets of Paris for the most part. (Here's one from the Fleet Foxes that's darn good). But San Francisco has such scenic walkways, what about more street mi ... More >>

The Art of the Sandwich

My first revelatory sandwich experience was in Guadalajara, Mexico when I was five years old. Our hotel restaurant crafted a double-decker turkey on white toast that Dagwood himself would have lusted after, and upon sampling it my blind devotion to Underwood Deviled Ham on Langendorf ... dwindled. A ... More >>

"Patrick Segui: Curiosa Natura"

My first revelatory sandwich experience was in Guadalajara, Mexico when I was five years old. Our hotel restaurant crafted a double-decker turkey on white toast that Dagwood himself would have lusted after, and upon sampling it my blind devotion to Underwood Deviled Ham on Langendorf ... dwindled. A ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Hélène Renaut

Ah, to be sitting in a little cafe in the Oberkampf, sipping from a glass of pastis as a French chanteuse fills your ears with acoustic bonbons. For those who can barely afford french fries, let alone a trip to Paris, we have a little bit of the République française here in San Francisco, thanks ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Cheb i Sabbah

Ah, to be sitting in a little cafe in the Oberkampf, sipping from a glass of pastis as a French chanteuse fills your ears with acoustic bonbons. For those who can barely afford french fries, let alone a trip to Paris, we have a little bit of the République française here in San Francisco, thanks ... More >>

Tech N9ne: Self-Made Killer

Ah, to be sitting in a little cafe in the Oberkampf, sipping from a glass of pastis as a French chanteuse fills your ears with acoustic bonbons. For those who can barely afford french fries, let alone a trip to Paris, we have a little bit of the République française here in San Francisco, thanks ... More >>

The Teenagers

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Digging It Up

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Coachella 2008 Lineup Announced

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Will Paris' Bike-Share Program Work in S.F.?

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Just Don't Sit Down in It

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SFoodie: Maple and Mustard-Glazed Wild Canadian Leopard Salmon

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SFoodie: Maple and Mustard-Glazed Wild Canadian Leopard Salmon

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Beirut's Zach Condon: Young Success 'Fucked With a Lot of Things' -- Interview

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After Sunrise

The long walk over, Julie Delpy explores what comes next (i.e., the hard part)

The 12th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival: Day three

The long walk over, Julie Delpy explores what comes next (i.e., the hard part)

Octet

Cash and Carry Songs

Best Lingerie

Les Cent Culottes

Reps Etc.

Les Cent Culottes

Unhampered by Sanity

Here's a plot for you: Courtney Love meets the ghost of an avant-garde German baroness whose husband also shot himself

Reps Etc.

Here's a plot for you: Courtney Love meets the ghost of an avant-garde German baroness whose husband also shot himself

Horse Plié

The splendor of Le Carrousel du Roi, an exacting re-enactment of a 17th-century equestrian ballet, and the squalor of the crowd

House Of Tudor

Chic global travelers, New York drag kings, and horrific Halloween plays

Best Place to Eat Fruit and Cheese on a Sunny Afternoon

Cafe Bastille

Le Rouge et le Velours Noir

Getting a bit decadent at a current-day version of Le Moulin Rouge

The Best Ambassador Money Can Buy?

Republican mega-donor Howard Leach is reportedly headed to France. At least we're not sending him to an important country.

Night Crawler

Soap Dish

Second Time Around

Soap Dish

Night Crawler

Soap Dish

Second Time Around

Soap Dish

High Attitude

Tasting the good and the bad of Paris at South Park Cafe

Of Myth and Motown

Homer G. is an ambitious, if somewhat muddled, recasting of the fall of Troy

What's Killing Hip Hop?

From the Western Addition to the East Bay, police and wary club owners have all but banished hip hop. Have the cops overreacted? Are the clubs at fault? Or have a few well-armed fans hijacked the positive vibe of the hip-hop nation?