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Sen. Dianne Feinstein to Introduce New Bill Banning Assault Weapons

Sick and tired of people killing each other, democratic leaders, including San Francisco's Dianne Feinstein, are using the horrific school shooting in Connecticut to seriously pounce on gun control. Feinstein (D-Calif.), went on Meet the Press yesterday morning to announce her intentions to stamp ... More >>

DJ Apollo on DJ Contests and the Positive Vibes of the Free Doin' It In The Park Party This Weekend

As a pioneer of the turntablism movement, which in the '90s redefined what it means to be a disc jockey, DJ Apollo's numerous accolades include membership in the first DJ team to ever win the 1992 DMC world DJ championships, as well as founding the famous turntable-band Invisibl Skratch Piklz with f ... More >>

Reganomics

A Lot to Love

World's Largest Penis: Jonah Falcon's Dong Visits San Francisco, Dick Jokes Ensue

This week it was revealed that the world's largest penis and the nebbishy, 41-year-old man it's attached to visited our fair city. In the ostensibly newsworthy portion of this development, he was asked by airport security personnel if he had the world's largest penis in his pocket or was just happy ... More >>

Here Is Video of Wallpaper. Performing "Best Song Everr" on Jimmy Kimmel Live

It's begun: Only a couple of months after signing to Epic Records, Oakland crunk-pop outfit Wallpaper. is on a media storm, pushing "Best Song Everr" on radio stations around the country and, as of yesterday, to late-night television. Clad in pink ridiculousness and showing no shortage of enthusiasm ... More >>

Tea Party Princess: Victoria Jackson and the Rabid Right

R.I.P. GWAR Guitarist Cory Smoot, AKA Flattus Maximus

GWAR's Flattus Maximus (Cory Smoot)​ GWAR lead guitarist Cory Smoot, aka Flattus Maximus, was found dead by his bandmates yesterday as their tour bus prepared to cross the Canadian border. His age and the cause of death are currently unknown. Smoot's passing is especially unfortunate as it c ... More >>

Obama Dodges S.F. Protesters, Leaves Through Side Door

Flickr/Steve RhodesAaaaand, scene!​President Has Yet to Publicly Address Medical Marijuana CrackdownPresidential visits are a big deal, even in big cities like San Francisco: As president, George W. Bush never visited us. But after President Barack Obama's reception Tuesday -- where some prominent ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Advocates to Protest Obama's Visit to San Francisco

villagevoicemedia.com​Lunch with the president isn't cheap -- it also doesn't come without some clamor.About 200 diners will munch on whatever $7,500 nets them at the W Hotel tomorrow where President Barack Obama -- and medical marijuana advocates -- will be for his fundraiser. Dispensary operator ... More >>

Fighting Fire with Laughter

Lloyd Fishback, San Francisco Nudist, Stars as Congressman Anthony Weiner on Jay Leno

By Francisco BarradasLloyd Fishback, right, has been getting attention in San Francisco for awhile. ​Lloyd Fishback is a must-see San Francisco tourist attraction that's as impressive as Coit Tower -- just much more phallic. On many afternoons, Fishback will strip down to nothing but a cock ring a ... More >>

Junk Portraitist

Conan O'Brien at Google: The World Has Completely Changed

Rounding out an unofficial tour of Silicon Valley, Conan O'Brien visited Google's Mountain View headquarters on Wednesday, ribbing Google CIO Vivek Kundra about the company's infamous aloofness: "You guys are so power mad here at Google, You're such entitled A-holes. Hey, Conan's in the area, make ... More >>

John Stewart to Jobs: Microsoft Was Supposed to be the Evil One

Appholeswww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party In testament to the ever increasing mainstream appeal of the high drama, high stakes tech and gadget world, The Daily Show host John Stewart tore into iPhonegate during his opening monologue tonight, making an interesting ... More >>

Seen In S.F.: The All-Wood Suit. No Typo!

Joe EskenaziToo much starch! ​Say what you will about Jay Leno, one feature of his tenure on The Tonight Show that even he couldn't cheese up and ruin was Monday night's "Headlines" compendium of bizarre newspaper clippings from throughout the realm. One of the Leno headlines I remember from the d ... More >>

Video of the Day: The Dodos on Letterman

While Letterman offered little opinion about SF pop act the Dodos other than making fun of their album title ("Time to Die, well happy new year") his show helped push the band to a national audience. Above, a clip of the trio's performance of "Fables" from Friday's Late Show with David Letterman. ... More >>

Video of the Day: Snoop Dogg's Fireside Reading of the Grinch

Pretty much a classic in the making here. Snoop Dogg offered a holiday good night story on Friday's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, when the rapper sat fireside and read the classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Of course, he had to give the Dr. Seuss classic a Dr. Snoop twist, throwing in referenc ... More >>

Former KGO Reporter's Bloody Demise in 'Rough-Sex Stabbing' By 16-Year-Old Shocks Colleagues

This, to put it as mildly as possible, is not how friends and colleagues thought George Weber was going to go out. Salacious details regarding the 47-year-old former KGO talk show host and newsman's bizarre death have hit the New York papers and have begun their inevitable trickle westward. Police h ... More >>

San Francisco Snuggie Pub Crawl This Friday

SF Weekly editorial assistant Andy Wright and staff writer Ashley Harrell know a lame trend when they see one.As predicted on this blog back in January, the Snuggie -- an astoundingly unnecessary blanket with sleeves -- has become all the ironic rage. Millions of people have purchased the shitt ... More >>

Feeding Frenzy

TiVo Alert: Oprah and the Omnivore's Dilemma

Aisha Tyler Cancels Late Show at Fillmore

We Read Nancy Pelosi’s Book So You Don’t Have To

Last Night: Rob Riggle at Cobb's Comedy Club

Jimmy Fallon to Replace Conan O'Brien on 'Late Night'

Elvis Costello Gets His Own TV Show

Chris Rock! What Are You Doing on America's Next Top Model?

Conan O'Brien Builds His Wine Palate The Hard Way

For Sale - KRON-TV Channel 4, $800 Million, Fixer-Upper

Daily Show's John Oliver Plays in SF

YouTube Cofounders Throw A Steaming Pile Of PR At Oprah

What Intersex Local Hida Viloria Didn't Tell Oprah: How Hermaph-tivists Pander To Homophobes

Emo Phillips, Phillips and Bassprov, RoboGames, Jeff Capri, Jason Hart, Duck Soup -- Night and Day: Saturday 6/16

Digital icing, an unfortunate stunt man, curmudgeons and Kerouac

Repeat Offender

A second, slimmer Capote movie fails to improve on its predecessor

They Stand Alone

Beheadings and Dead Microphones

KNBR's new owners try to adjust to big-market radio

A Very Long Run

A Wise Approach

Interpretive improvisation that brings life (and dance) to talk-show topics

I Spy a Bullshit Columnist

In your top-secret heart of hearts, are you a Bob Novak supporter? Take quiz, find out.

The Jester Speaks the Truth

We know you get your news from comedians. Now here's one of the best.

Laddio Bolocko

The Life & Times of Laddio Bolocko

Best Beds

The Four Seasons Mattress

Going Pubic

Live Nude Bands

Riff Raff

Audra, Oprah -- Oprah, Audra, Strange Bedfellows, Free Ink

Savage Love

Blakk Power

San Francisco drag queen Joan Jett-Blakk aims for the presidency