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New Tumblr Reviews Restaurant Bathrooms Along With Food

In the hypersaturated world of Bay Area food blogs and restaurant reviews, it can be hard to find a new angle. But some enterprising local has started a new type of restaurant review Tumblr, Table and Throne, which reviews restaurant bathrooms as well as the restaurants themselves, thus combining ... More >>

The Top Five Parties in San Francisco This Weekend

Prep the tequila, Coronas, and kitschy Mexican apparel -- this Sunday is Cinco De Mayo! Unfortunately, it's a little awkwardly placed this year, so we imagine a lot of you will be "enjoying your beverages responsibly" during the middle of the day. Should that be the case, we recommend you keep this ... More >>

The Tall Guy: Ben Pack Takes the Short Path to Big Fame

Bury the Muse: Let's Stop Denying Women Full Credit For Their Music

If I had to pick one story in all the history of music to illustrate everything I love and hate about pop, I would choose the one about Veronica Bennett and her one-time partner, Phil Spector. What's great about Bennett and Spector is the music they made together: "Walking in the Rain," "Why Don't ... More >>

The Top Five Parties in San Francisco This Weekend

Have you ever dreamed of a 4 a.m. last call in California? Allow us to remind you that Sen. Mark Leno has proposed a bill to make that into a reality. It's called SB 635 and, if passed, it would do a lot to improve the city's club culture by allowing for the possibility of an extended-hours liquor l ... More >>

National Day of Unplugging: 5 Things You Can Do Instead of Stalking People on Facebook

If the thought of "unplugging" for an entire day makes you feel empty and useless, that's because you are, thanks to all this ubiquitous technology. But guess what, on Friday you will have a chance to hop out of your digital vortex and detox from technology for an entire 24 hours for this year's N ... More >>

The Internet Has Been Too Good to Sociopaths

The Internet gives the very worst people among us the power to easily spread their awfulness around. We now hear regularly from and about people who 20 years ago would have been sitting alone, unknown, in dank apartments, surrounded by empty Funyons bags, watching pro wrestling and wondering why the ... More >>

DJ ChaunceyCC on the Spooky Side of Hip-Hop, and Stopping with the Stupid Subgenres Already

East Coast-rasied hip-hop DJ-producer ChaunceyCC began his career in a very straightforward way: "I became a DJ pretty much out of the sheer fact that I can't rap, and everyone else I grew up around could." The observation paid off, as the selecter born Chauncey Johnson has since toured with indie r ... More >>

Top 9 Trends in Local Music From 2012

The 10 Best Bay Area Electronic Records of 2012

Two-thousand-twelve was an especially good year for electronic dance music in the Bay Area. Local club culture is experiencing a full-on renaissance that's bringing a whole new group of producers, labels, and promoters pushing exciting new sounds. There's a lot of stuff out there to choose from, but ... More >>

Big Boi's Day in the Bay: Apple, Twitter, and Popeye's Chicken

Daddy Fat Sacks, aka Big Boi, aka one-half of OutKast, was in the Bay Area yesterday -- and because the Bay Area is what it is, we can pretty much follow his day on Twitter. In fact it looks like the occasion for Mr. Patton's visit was a pair of visits to two Bay Area tech giants: Apple first, for w ... More >>

Strange Beliefs

Body & SOUL Is the Best Party Ever

Body & SOUL Mighty Oct.10, 2012 Better than: I saw a press release this morning that described some Tumblr bass DJ as "deep as fuck and playful as a kitten." The next time someone says something is "deep" to me, I'm just going to nod my head and laugh. You don't even know. Words are a difficult th ... More >>

Charli XCX: Show Preview

Huge Sculpture of Digital Underground's Humpty Hump Can Be Yours for Free

A man who calls himself Johnny Payphone is looking to bring a ginormous, functional sculpture shaped like Digital Underground frontman Humpty Hump into your home or storage facility for free. It's been abandoned in an Oakland storage facility for years, and oh, the stories it could tell. This thing ... More >>

Tame Impala on "Brain-Squelching" Music, S.F. Psych, and Trying to Make Guitars Not Sound Like Guitars

Though it hasn't quite reached the level of recognition achieved by histrionic Aussie blooze-rawkers Wolfmother, Perth's Tame Impala seems poised to deliver its lush, tuneful brand of psychedelia to a global audience. Led by guitarist, singer, and songwriter Kevin Parker, the band shared some common ... More >>

Frank Ocean: The Only Band That Matters

Frank Ocean. Even his name sounds like it was dreamed up, because it was. Ocean is 2012's Clash, its Radiohead, its -- if you insist -- Animal Collective. From his no-name-on-the-cover mystique to the 10-minute opus, pre-career record company troubles and a grassroots indie following, he's an altern ... More >>

5kinAndBone5: Show Preview

Justin Bieber's Believe: A First Listen

Like my colleague Andrew Stout, I have mostly managed to avoid Justin Bieber for what I'm pretty sure are good reasons. He's a typical "innocent" white male singer trying to represent universality to nonwhites and nonmales. Then there's his musical blandness: bits that crept through my defenses of " ... More >>

Meet Anna Roth, S.F. Weekly's New Lead Food Critic

Here's some good news from the food desk: Starting July 16, author/editor/good person Anna Roth will take over the role of S.F. Weekly's lead food writer, restaurant critic, and SFoodie blog wrangler.You might know Roth from her work at eHow Food, Citysearch, her Tumblr, or her excellent book o ... More >>

San Francisco's Latest Food Critic: Whilst in SF

Whilst in SF is an incisive, GIF-driven Tumblr page that is open to public submission, but appears to have a unified wit. It's open to general critiques of the city, but much of the playful frustration expressed here relates to the local food scene. A choice selection of Hollywood hipster douchebag ... More >>

Weekend Parties: Jus-Ed and Marcellus Pittman at Beatbox, Dirtybird at Mighty, and More

Another week, another crop of parties. As you might imagine, the sunny weather forecast for this weekend portends nights of heavy partying. We advise you get into the spirit of things by enjoying yourself at one of the following events. Read on -- your weekend awaits. Friday, May 12 What: As You L ... More >>

Personal Needs: Tech Dude Seeks Young, Materialistic Women

Exploding Pig Farms, Trader Joe's Veg Eats, and Vegan Ryan Gosling!

​• It's Vegan Ryan Gosling! Pull your pants back up -- he's not actually vegan. It's just one in the sea of Gosling memes. Ryan Gosling is totally the house that Tumblr built. Anyway, this particular meme is pretty funny and you get to look at shirtless photos of Gosling, so since I have a Tumbl ... More >>

Masterminds 2012: Honoring 10 Extraordinary Bay Area artists

John Hodgman Explains the Beauty of the Internet

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

Alanna Hale Photographs Mission Chinese Food From the Inside Out

Alanna HalePreparing for battle.​Photographer Alanna Hale, who's been filing SFoodie's "Behind the Menu" series of chef portraits, is working on another project: a profile every day, which she posts on her Tumblr, alannahale.tumblr.com. Most of them are insiders' shots of  Mission Chinese Foo ... More >>

Weekend Parties: Virgo Four at No Way Back, Paul Devro at Tormenta Tropical, and More

araabMUZIK is at Lights Down Low this Friday​ With the passing of Labor Day, we've finally moved through summer and hit fall. Now that the agony of that realization is over, we can finally look back and appreciate just how good Summer 2011 was for San Francisco nightlife, with huge bookings, r ... More >>

Jonathan Gold, Francis Lam, Robb Walsh Speak at This Year's Street Food Conference

​SFoodie has been previewing this Saturday's Street Food Festival, but public gluttony is only the splashy half of the event. On Sunday, Aug. 21, and Monday, Aug. 22, La Cocina has also organized a National Street Food Conference, which is bringing many names from the local food scene, as well as ... More >>

Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne: A First Listen

​ Have we been waiting for this? Who knows -- even big fans of Jay-Z and Yeezy know they never shut up for too long. Big-budget collab albums we know aren't Jay-Z's strong suit (Unfinished Business? Collision Course?). And judging by the awful "H*A*M" (now a bonus cut) and the mesmerizing "Ot ... More >>

Insurgent Hip-Hop: Kreayshawn, Lil B, and Bay Area Rappers Throw Out the Rules

Kreayshawn: Overnight Sensation, White Girl Tourist, New Rap Paradigm?

The rapper herself.​ During a five-day promotional stay in New York City earlier this month, a cab driver ran over Kreayshawn's foot. The unceremonious snub came after the Bay Area-raised rapper spent her time in NYC taking meetings, granting interviews, posing for photos, dealing with 100 deg ... More >>

Before Lil B's I'm Gay: Five Great Hip-Hop Homages to Marvin Gaye

​When it comes to creative career moves, the rapper Lil B usually blazes his own distinct and very often quirky path. But his decision to re-up the cover art of Marvin Gaye's I Want You album for his own I'm Gay project taps into hip-hop's long and lustrous admiration for the music of Marvin. ... More >>

Is SpongeBob-Beating Ad Rock the Coolest Man Alive? (Why, Yes. Yes He Is.)

Don't you know that crime doesn't pay, SpongeBob?​This week, Ad Rock proved that not only is he still one of the coolest men in music, he's actually probably one of the coolest humans alive. For the record, we thought the Beastie Boys had used up their 2011 cool quota with the mind-blowing, cameo- ... More >>

Today in Internet Cat Worship: Adopt a #BASED Cat Like Lil B's

It's never not a good day for cats on the Internet, but today is a particular boon for that post-cinco de Mayo hangover. (Also, we have a contractual obligation to report on everything Brandon McCartney does.) Ladies and gentlemen, meet Keke:​Lil B adopted this she-beast at least a year ago, but ... More >>

To Tumblr or Not to Tumblr?

​Now that I finally got my blog going, everyone's telling me to get a Tumblr. I don't even know what that is and feel bombarded by all these social media programs! What are the benefits of Tumblr? Do I really need one?~AnnoydWhat do any of us really need, Annoyd, besides food, water, shelter, and ... More >>

Outing of L.A. Times Restaurant Critic a Kind of Rape

What Ruth Reichl did to keep her identity hidden as critic of the New York Times.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. The restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times is no longer anonymous. In an incident that's caroming around the Twitterverse like the latest from Ruth Bourdain, 16-year L.A. ... More >>

SF Weekly Commenting System Finally Enters the 21st Century

Norman Rockwell, of courseSounding off just became that much easier...​Give a shout if you're enamored with SF Weekly's current commenting system. Anyone? Oh -- thanks, Dad. Well, get ready to ditch the ordeals we put you through to prove that you aren't an evil robot. We hate to break it ... More >>

How to Be a Tech Company for Halloween

​ Forget the Zuckerberg mask -- be a whole damn tech company for Halloween. Here's how. Apple How to dress: Wear all white with silver shoes. Limit your ports: No pockets, no fly. Your hair should be seamless.   How to scare people: Jailbreak your pants.   The night's over when: You call ... More >>

Bridge School 2010: Last Grizzly Bear Show for 'Quite Some Time'

Grizzly Bear has a sense of humor. Witness it soon or wait a while.​Yesterday, we posted the facial-expression-inducing lineup for this year's Bridge School Benefit concert, where Neil Young and Stephen Stills will likely draw thousands of former Bay Area hippies with a Buffalo Springfield reunion ... More >>

Been a Long Time, Been a Long Time

Magic Kids, ZineFest, Prince vs. Michael, Doin' It in the Park, and More

Magic Kids plays Bottom of the Hill this Sunday​It's Labor Day! Meaning: an extra day to your weekend, 10 percent more texts than usual and even more chances to nurse epic hangovers. Have fun San Francisco, you deserve it. Here's our list of fun things to do this weekend for less than a ticket to ... More >>

Print Party

Album Tacos: Now We Know What Michael Jackson Was Really Thrilled About (Pics)

​​Credit for all three images goes to albumtacos.tumblr.com​Although it's nice to think that MJ would go for a tasty Mission taco, or some hybrid food-truck creation, rather than the apparently Taco Bell-produced fare that seems to be pictured here. But fret not, fellow taco fiends: tastier lo ... More >>

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What To Do? Wednesday's Pick: Kyle Kurpinski and Terry D. Johnson @ Booksmith

​Kyle Kurpinski and Terry D. Johnson @ Booksmith How to Defeat Your Own Clone: And Other Tips for Surviving the Biotech Revolution author Kyle Kurpinski didn't get lucky with a popular humor Tumblr, or a witty Twitter feed, or an auspicious Foursquare check-in near a HarperStudio book editor desp ... More >>

It's Time to Stop Hating Hipsters

Photo from Look At This Fucking Hipster​It seems everyone on the Internet is currently either ragging on hipsters or arguing they don't exist. Even Joe Mande, the Williamsburg comedian whose hugely popular (and hilarious) Tumblr blog, Look At This Fucking Hipster was recently made into a book, got ... More >>

Clone War

Get Off My Internets: Here's Something You Didn't Care About, and Shouldn't

My mentor, the journalist Paul Boutin, taught me plenty of rules about developing a story. My favorite is this: If the reader hasn't yet heard about your subject, you need a good reason to tell them about it. Never write a post that goes "here's something you didn't care about, and shouldn't." I dr ... More >>

Last Night: Blogging Sex at the Center for Sex & Culture