Pittsburgh

Shack Up!

The Roxie's Post-Punk Film Series This Weekend: Here's What You Need to Know

We absolutely thrive on live music, but the snarky bartenders, fickle sound systems, and the general social hustle of attending local concerts can be draining. Occasionally we need a weekend of solitude and darkness, but don't want to forego assimilating new music and information about it. Luckily, ... More >>

Bouncer Hangs with Regulars and Hobos at Pittsburgh's Pub

Mistah F.A.B. Immortalizes Trayvon Martin in "God Don't Love Me"

Oakland's Mistah F.A.B. is one of a few rappers around the nation who have released songs about the death of unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Empathy has always been one of F.A.B.'s strongest suits, lyrically speaking, and it's clear from "God Don't Love me" that this incident hits close to hom ... More >>

Medjool's New Direction, Dumpling & Buns Will Close, and a Cerveceria de MateVeza Update

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. It's true. Medjool has a new face at the helm, while Gus Murad remains the landlord. Inside Scoop reports that Adriano Paganini (Beretta, Delarosa, Starbelly, Super Duper) has plans for a Latin-themed men ... More >>

MTV Gains Weight -- and Some Insight

​As a child of the 1980s and '90s, I routinely saw a handful of plus-sized bodies on my MTV  interspersed between taut video vixens and studs. The Fat Boys. Heavy D (rest in peace). Missy Elliott. Biggie Smalls, Fat Joe, and Big Pun. Since then, MTV has ceased playing videos and has corn ... More >>

SF Rapper San Quinn Reviews His Own Discography

What the shirt says.​ San Quinn is a certified Bay Area rap veteran. Since dropping his debut, Don't Cross Me, back in 1993, he's gone on to amass a 15-album discography, with his latest project, Can't Take The Ghetto Out A Ni**a, released in July. With that album's new single, "Big Bank," sti ... More >>

Wine with a Side of Diamonds, Sweet Treats, Vegas Rolls In, and a Holy Dog

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Baubles and bubbles: Inside Scoop reports the first U.S. jewelry store with a fully licensed wine bar is now open. Lucky enough for us, while not so lucky for our wallet, it's in the Castro. D&H Sustainab ... More >>

Sandwiches Are Hot, and People's Catches Fire

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Sandwich lovers rejoice! Three new spots will be serving up anything but the hum-drum PB&J. Eater SF shares that Hot Press will be toasting paninis at 2966 Mission (at 26th St.), but no word yet on an ope ... More >>

Wiz Khalifa Sends Smoke Signals Through Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Wiz Khalifa at Bill Graham Civic last night. All photos by Calibree Photography.​ Wiz Khalifa Big Sean June 22, 2011 @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Better than: The other kind of secondhand smoke Pittsburgh MC Wiz Khalifa (government name Cameron Thomaz) takes his moniker from an abbreviatio ... More >>

Ryan Vogelsong Poised to Make History. Sort of.

Ready for the win column?​For Giants fans of a certain vintage, the name Ryan Vogelsong evokes a particular kind of nostalgia. There are the hazy memories of a promising player who never amounted to much, moved along, and continued to never amount to much. Think Randy Bockus, Eric Gunderson, or Je ... More >>

In Print: Girl Talk vs. Irony and the Eagles, Warpaint's Fleet-Footed Psychodrama, and More

Girl Talk​Girl Talk: At the center of the stage is a sweaty dude leaning intently over a laptop. Surrounding him is a forest of half-naked young people writhing to a mix of Notorious B.I.G. rapping over Elton John's "Tiny Dancer." This is the spectacle at a Girl Talk show, where Pittsburgh native ... More >>

SF Police Arrest Teen in Connection with Mission District Shooting

aim, fire, and arrested​Just seven hours after a shooting erupted on a Mission District corner, police quickly arrested a Hayward teen accused of pulling the trigger. At about 9:40 a.m., two men got off a Muni bus at the corner of 16th and Folsom streets and got into an argument with a group of Af ... More >>

'Why Are You Doing This?': A Timeline from Sunday's No Pants Bart Ride

Yesterday was the No Pants Bart Ride (click for more photos), for which willing participants were told to board trains, take off their pants/skirts/whatever was on their lower halves, and ride the train in their undies, completely straight-faced, to meet en masse at Powell St station at 2:10 p. ... More >>

'Boring' Story: Google Pays $1 in Damages to Couple for Street View Transgressions

To the victor go the spoils​Pennsylvania residents Aaron and Christine Boring -- yes, you may now chuckle at our headline -- have notched a somewhat ambiguous victory in their legal battle against Google's Street View function.While the Mountain View-based company admitted that it trespassed on th ... More >>

Legalize It So Wiz Khalifa'll Come Party With Us In California

In arguably the least surprising development in the lead-up to next Tuesday's general election, Wiz Khalifa -- promising Pittsburgh rapper and successor to the weed-rules-everything-around-me mantle of Devin the Dude -- has come out in support of Proposition 19. 

Dolores, Lamb Dumplings, and Fries On a Sandwich: This Week in Food Bloggery

Lou BustamanteFrom Giordano's, with love.​Five highlights from the blog this week: 1. The Blue Bottle Dolores Park cart drama has ended with BB pulling out of the park and canceling its lease. John Birdsall's post-mortem post is a lovely elegy for a scene that could have been. 2. Catch up, foodist ... More >>

Don't Fear the Dark

Bouncer finds friends in Pittsburgh's Pub

Money-Shot View, Decent Eats at Epic's Quiver Bar

Ed U./Yelp​The place: Quiver Bar at Epic Roasthouse, 369 Embarcadero (at Folsom), 369-9955 The hours: Mon.-Fri., 3-6:30 p.m. The deals: Specialty cocktails and select sparkling, white, and red wines by the glass $5 ($7 for a well-vodka martini); select bottled beers $3; hefty small plates $2 ... More >>

Marijuana Advocate Calls Bogus on S.F. Man Blaming Pot For Airline Rampage

How many cookies did I eat?​There's a reason Reefer Madness has become a laugh riot among bong-toting college students across the realm. After all, you don't have to be stoned into the next dimension to get a laugh out of earnest depictions of marijuana turning people into crazed, violent killers ... More >>

Were Pot Cookies Responsible for In-Flight Freak Out?

There's a reason Reefer Madness has become a laugh riot among bong-toting college students across the realm. After all, you don't have to be stoned into the next dimension to get a laugh out of earnest depictions of marijuana turning people into crazed, violent killers and rapists. And boom micropho ... More >>

Track of the Day: The Seven Fields of Aphelion's Winter Soundtrack

​On stormy San Francisco days like this, all I want to do is curl up on the couch and listen to the thunder. But it's also fitting when you discover an artist whose music brings a little warmth to winter weather, something you can space out to on headphones as you watch your windows get pounded wi ... More >>

Please Forget Your Pants This Sunday on BART

Some sharp local prankster is organizing a Bay Area chapter of Improv Everywhere's annual No Pants! Subway Ride. The New York based-instigators encourage cities around the country to start up their own naked-kneed chapters, catching commuters off guard by catching trains with their bottom halves ba ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Drinking in the Atmo - or Just Drinking

RAY S./YelpJust another night at Pittsburgh's.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. B-gals: In different posts, the girls of SFAppeal mingle with the hammered and sweaty in the city's murky taverns. Last week, it was Katie Ann Doze sloughing brain cells in Outer Sunset alky pit Pittsburgh's Pu ... More >>

The 'Land of the Lost

Dynamic Don

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 >>

Strings Attached

Modey Lemon

Season of Sweets (Birdman)

Last Night: Mortified at the Make-Out Room

Alchemical Art

The Best Art Prints on the Web: Creep Machine's Josh Curates His Top 5 of the Week

Lo-fi Spotlight: Julie Sokolow's "Violins"

Boxing Bootcamp Day 19 -- Andy Warhol's Got It Coming

Bayonics moves Latin funk to free jazz and frenetic hiphop

Gay Around the [Fucking] Bay! Pride, The Homosexual Agenda, Fake Lesbians!

Accidental Tourists

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

Deep thoughts on punk rock

Indie Rock

Ay, no mi tengo

Best New Sandwich Concept

The Dog Bites Interview: Robots That Protest

An interview with men who make robots that protest.

The Church

Forget Yourself

Best Local Writer

Michael Chabon

Jitney

A fresh look at August Wilson's first play, an intense story about cabdrivers in a black area of Pittsburgh

The Piano Lesson

In this August Wilson play about race and power, a 1930s black family argues over the fate of a cherished family heirloom

Outer Limits

Discover the Alaskan Duck Fart and other charms of the Outer, Outer Sunset's dive bars

Charmed

The amazing transformation of Carmen Policy, defender of mobsters, babysitter to flashy kid moguls, and now savior of the Cleveland Browns

Hear This

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World