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The Top Five Weirdest Playboy Appearances By Musicians

​After all those Twitter cries for help and suicide attempts last month, Sinead O'Connor has apparently found a new reason to stay alive: she wants to pose for Playboy before she dies."There's so much I [would have] liked to do when I was younger and I was too miserable and Irish," she told the U. ... More >>

Aural Assault

​After all those Twitter cries for help and suicide attempts last month, Sinead O'Connor has apparently found a new reason to stay alive: she wants to pose for Playboy before she dies."There's so much I [would have] liked to do when I was younger and I was too miserable and Irish," she told the U. ... More >>

Metallica's Top 5 Most Alienating, Hate-Inducing Actions

​"Metallica loves to be hated," James Hetfield told Playboy in a 2001 interview. The group's detractors would argue that over the years, Hetfield and the boys have done a more than capable job of cultivating that hate. There are young music fans, born around the mid-1990s, who only know a wor ... More >>

More Than Just a Pretty ... Face

​"Metallica loves to be hated," James Hetfield told Playboy in a 2001 interview. The group's detractors would argue that over the years, Hetfield and the boys have done a more than capable job of cultivating that hate. There are young music fans, born around the mid-1990s, who only know a wor ... More >>

Friday at Noise Pop: Kid Koala Plays Records That Tell Us How To Dance To Them at Mighty

Matt SeufererKid KoalaKid Koala DJ Swayzee Jel J HouseFebruary 25, 2011@ MightyBetter than: An evening of mediocre music from DJs with good names. I arrive around 9:30 p.m. at a very sparsely populated Mighty, wonder why I don't go to Mighty more, and then remember that I don't like to dance. J Hou ... More >>

Alcohol Fee Hard to Swallow

ZastedThe city's most hard-up drunks do not resemble the folks who'd be funding their treatment under 'Charge For Harm'​Much argumentation -- drunken and sober -- has been made over the "Charge for Harm," the proposed fee on alcoholic beverages the city's Budget and Finance Committee will once aga ... More >>

Shock G 'Fesses Up About Humpty Hump

Digital Underground in 1989​Rap ruses get no better than Humpty Hump. The alter-ego of Digital Underground's leader Shock G, Humpty's mythology has him wearing a fabulously-personalized Groucho Marx-style nose to cover up horrific facial scars incurred during a (fictional) accident with a deep-fat ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Movies

Digital Underground in 1989​Rap ruses get no better than Humpty Hump. The alter-ego of Digital Underground's leader Shock G, Humpty's mythology has him wearing a fabulously-personalized Groucho Marx-style nose to cover up horrific facial scars incurred during a (fictional) accident with a deep-fat ... More >>

The Eyes of the Hurricane

She's been called the female Manny Pacquiao. But can Ana Julaton make people care about women's boxing?

The Harvard Psychedelic Club: Altered states of America.

She's been called the female Manny Pacquiao. But can Ana Julaton make people care about women's boxing?

Olivia Munn: A Follow Up Post

Via Wikipedia CommonsOlivia Munn​A rumor* has been circulating on the interwind that Olivia Munn (recently written about here) was leaving or had left G4's Attack of the Show. I have found no evidence to corroborate this piece of gossip despite an exhaustive, minute long search on the Googles. I e ... More >>

Lie To Congress, Get Probation: Wrist-Slap for Former Athletic Tejada Makes Bonds Prosecution/Persecution Look That Much Sillier

Funneling vast sums of money from the government into the hands of miserable bastards has, in effect become federal policy. So has wasting vast sums of money in futile legal pursuit of miserable bastards -- and folks are starting to get mad.After expending somewhere in the ballpark of $60 million in ... More >>

The 10 Most Annoying Reality TV Stars

(Jon and Kate Plus 8 makes 10. . . but only Kate makes our list) It's not an easy feat to be considered one of the most annoying stars of reality television when the bulk of the competition is fierce, loud, obnoxious and willing to do just about anything in front of the cameras. Like the fat that c ... More >>

Reporter: Government Has Struck Out in Bonds Case -- Prosecution Won't Resume

Since 2003, Marin writer Jonathan Littman has intimately covered the government's investigation and prosecution of Barry Bonds and other athletes ensnared in the BALCO scandal. He's shown up at nearly every court hearing and sifted through thousands of pages of court documents. And he's confident in ... More >>

Parent Trap

Since 2003, Marin writer Jonathan Littman has intimately covered the government's investigation and prosecution of Barry Bonds and other athletes ensnared in the BALCO scandal. He's shown up at nearly every court hearing and sifted through thousands of pages of court documents. And he's confident in ... More >>

Fundamentally Flawed

Pigeonholing Muslims doesn't help the cause or the play.

Correction: Van Halen Will Not Run to Oakland, The Devil Considers Solo Appearance

Pigeonholing Muslims doesn't help the cause or the play.

Moolah for Mullahs

All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols' good-time Charlie

Shepard's Headlock

All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols' good-time Charlie

Paying for It

Fury, injustice, humiliation — and humor — in Campo Santo's four-story program

Sinking Feeling

At the bottom of the ocean lies a worthless Blue movie

OK Then

Debbie Gibson's new material is her most revealing yet

Phantom Menace

Joel Schumacher's version of a theater classic gets a tragic ending of its own

Live Rude Girls

"It's pure empowered female sexuality," in the form of cute tattooed and pierced gals dancing onstage

Sophisticated Boom Boom

S.F.'s Famous Burlesque Orchestra provides a safe haven for punks, gorillas, and other odd characters

Date Night

How you, too, can be named one of S.F.'s 100 most eligible bachelors

Cat Fight

Bogdanovich works out his demons on Citizen Hearst

House Of Tudor

Gypsy caravans, heavily shellacked starlets, and eccentric emperors

Playing God

Francis Ford Coppola re-creates his Vietnam phantasmagoria

Dinner and a Show

Boys Toys

Porn to Sell

Product placement comes to adult videos...hey, watch where you put that thing!

Bang, Bang,

The ins and outs of a disorganized try at the gangbang record

The Man Who Came to Dinner

The ins and outs of a disorganized try at the gangbang record

Web Rouser

Former Lusty Lady dancer Caity McPherson struggles to make a living on the oversexed Internet

Dog Bites

Former Lusty Lady dancer Caity McPherson struggles to make a living on the oversexed Internet

In Heaven There Is No Beer

Polkacide is San Francisco's longest-running musical in-joke

Sex on Wheels

Playboy magazine throws a sexual revolution party, and nobody comes

The Probe Guy

In The Probe, Aaron Muentz writes about sex, booze, and rock 'n' roll -- in that order

Fewer Pen Pals

As more prisons move to ban skin mags, California prisoners' rights lawyers turn a deaf ear to inmates' howls

Buttheads

A longtime cigar nut examines the sudden crass commercialism of his favorite vice

Recordings

A longtime cigar nut examines the sudden crass commercialism of his favorite vice

Fandemonium

Idle Worship with KISS, Nancy Sinatra, Camille Paglia, and Chevy Chase

Night+Day

Idle Worship with KISS, Nancy Sinatra, Camille Paglia, and Chevy Chase

Cybercitizen Jim

Jim Warren makes the Net safe for democracy