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Laughing Squid Defeats TSA, Sort Of

Stupid Is As Stupid Does: 30th Annual St. Stupid's Day Parade

Last Night: Laughing Squid's Second Annual Unholiday Party

(Mark Growden Trio perform live at the Unholiday Party) Laughing Squid's Second Annual Unholiday Party "SOMA Venue Without a Name" December 27, 2008 Words, Photos and Video by Tamara Palmer Better than: Reading about it afterwards on Twitter Like its multi-tentacled namesake, Laughing Squ ... More >>

Night+Day

(Mark Growden Trio perform live at the Unholiday Party) Laughing Squid's Second Annual Unholiday Party "SOMA Venue Without a Name" December 27, 2008 Words, Photos and Video by Tamara Palmer Better than: Reading about it afterwards on Twitter Like its multi-tentacled namesake, Laughing Squ ... More >>

Mob Rule

Flash mobs: serious social movement or quirky entertainment (or both)?

The Wizard of Ass Has Spoken!

Hal Robins - erudite comic of the absurd, underground cartoonist of note,co-host of the world's strangest radio program, early member of the Church of the SubGenius - has a new hit with the "Ask Dr. Hal Show." But he really could use a paying gig. Really

House Of Tudor

The moon, "Dark Sparkle," Amazing Embarrassonics, "Guy's Eggnog Giveaway," and "Night of Naughty Santa"

Riff Raff

The moon, "Dark Sparkle," Amazing Embarrassonics, "Guy's Eggnog Giveaway," and "Night of Naughty Santa"

Night+Day

The moon, "Dark Sparkle," Amazing Embarrassonics, "Guy's Eggnog Giveaway," and "Night of Naughty Santa"

The House of Tudor

The moon, "Dark Sparkle," Amazing Embarrassonics, "Guy's Eggnog Giveaway," and "Night of Naughty Santa"

Plancast at SXSWi: Nothing Says Body Shots Like a Bar Full of Tech Reporters

Photo by Laughing Squid/ Scott Beale​ It's T minus 19 hours until the annual liquid re-union that is SXSW. While the more massive crowds show up for the music festival on the 17th, SXSW is also home to the world's biggest tech-fest, SXSWi, which runs from the 12th to the 16th.  That means a ... More >>

SXSW Interactive Is Dead

Image of a VIP fence via Flickr/Adrants​No annual festival, conference, or party will ever be as good as the first year you went. That's not what I'm talking about when I say that South by Southwest Interactive died this year. Earlier this week, Jolie O'Dell wrote the usual "Why SXSW Sucks" post. ... More >>

Every Time a Blogger Tweets, A Post Gets Its Wings

Photo by Laughing Squid/ Scott Beale​Jacob Harris, Senior Software Architect at The New York Times took the stage earlier today at Chirp Twitter conference in San Francisco. He reminisced about how something he started as a hobby, Twitter, is evolving into the primary way we now interact with jour ... More >>

Download A Free Mix in Honor of Laughing Squid's 15th Anniversary

Hey! Do you like cat videos and robot in-jokes and urban derring-do and painfully topical mashups and groaningly pop-culture-referential T-shirt designs and straight-up geek bliss? Don't front like you don't! Remember where you live?Well, Scott Beale was way ahead of you fifteen years ago when he s ... More >>

Recchiuti Opening a Cafe in Ex-Piccino Space

Scott Beale / Laughing Squid Part of the Piccino space on 22nd Street, slated to become a Recchiuti cafe.​It's no secret that Dogpatch is becoming one of the coolest playgrounds for food in San Francisco. And ever since Piccino announced last year that it would move to bigger and badder digs a ... More >>

Ben Kaminsky of Ritual Coffee Dreams of Life After Latte

Scott Beale / Laughing Squid​SFoodie is on a mission to sit down with the city's most intelligent, influential, and experienced coffee folk to pick their brain about what makes our city such a hot bed of coffee trends.Today we speak with Ben Kaminsky, Ritual Coffee's quality control expert and ... More >>