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    December 18, 2012

    Sandy Hook Shooting: Technology and Law Should Serve Us, Not Control Us

    On Friday, not long after the Sandy Hook shootings, NPR's political editor Ken Rudin took to Facebook to tell his followers: As tempting as it may be to once again debate guns and gun contro -- and try to come to grips with this madness -- we know nothing is going to change. The fault/blame for th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2012

    Eat This for Lunch Today: Porcetta Sandwich at Carmel Pizza Co.

    Yesterday for lunch we popped over to Carmel Pizza Company at Fisherman's Wharf, because ever since we read about it a few weeks ago, visions of its porcetta sandwich have been dancing through our head. This version had less fat than previous porcetta sandwiches we've known and loved -- the fresh c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2012

    Todd Akin: Reaction to Rape Comment Shows the Real Power of Social Media

    Social media is no doubt a powerful force. But in what ways? How does this power manifest itself? Some people, perhaps confused by the word "media," seem to think it's a replacement for dying traditional media outlets -- particularly newspapers -- despite there being zero evidence that this is takin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2012

    Twitter Proves it's Just Another Corporate Weasel With No Soul

    Twitter has officially entered the ranks of corporate weaseldom. This week, it suspended the account of a journalist who complained about NBC's Olympics coverage, and who tweeted the supposedly "private" e-mail account of an NBC executive. NBC, you see, is the "corporate partner" of Twitter for cove ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2012

    Check Out Livefyre, Our Cool New Commenting System

    Today, we here at All Shook Down say goodbye to Disqus and hello to Livefyre, the new commenting system for this and all other SF Weekly blogs. Livefyre is pretty cool -- futuristic, even -- so we're excited for you to get acquainted. Here's a rundown of some key features: Tag your friends on Faceb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Felix Cartal on His Favorite Karaoke Song and What's Going on With His Hair

    Lately, the talk surrounding Canadian producer and DJ Felix Cartal has focused on his hair, his love of sushi, and his latest album, Different Faces. Growing up in Vancouver listening to punk bands like Death From Above 1979, he later developed a taste for the electronic side of music. Eventually he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Drifting Away from Twitter, Toward Reality

    I've been known to strongly defend Twitter, which some people have found surprising because of my default digital skepticism. But of course, I was skeptical of it at first (if nothing else, because of the name, which is stupid), until I started using it. It really can be used for quite practical pur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    Twitter Defends Occupy, Challenges Court Order to Release Protester's Tweets

    Occupiers aren't the only ones resisting the government these days. Now Twitter has decided to sit with protesters, figuratively speaking.We told readers last month about the New York judge who ordered the San Francisco-based Twitter to turn over tweets from Malcom Harris, a 22-year-old writer and o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Number 13: Gobi Aloo Kati Rolls from the Kasa Indian Truck

    SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Kolkota's version of a New York slice, kati rolls were  designed to eat on the street. Originally a meat skewer wrapped in a paratha (flaky flatbread), the rolls have evolved in numerous directions over the years ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Drug-Laced Cookies Make South Bay Teens Cry on 4/20

    Isn't pot supposed to make you laugh, not cry?A group of Live Oak High School teens were reportedly sad after they munched down on some drug-laced cookies this morning -- presumably in observance of the high holiday. According to news accounts, the girls ate the cookies, then started crying, falling ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Oikos University Creates Memorial Fund for Victims in Mass Shooting

    University officials said they have established the Oikos University Victims Foundation, a memorial fund to help the families of the seven people who were killed in the April 2 shooting spree. University officials made the announcement today during a morning memorial service, which was held at the u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    Family Found Dead in House Near City College This Morning in Apparent Murder-Suicide

    ​(Update 1:27 p.m.): Cmdr Lyn Tomioka gave reporters an update on the tragedy, saying four of the five victims are definitely related, and the fifth victim is probably an acquaintance. She would still not confirm that the shooting was a murder-suicide, but noted that they are not looking for any s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Number 50: Cafe Zitouna's Kufta Tajine

    ​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Does it sound like a paradox to say that Cafe Zitouna's kufta tajine is spicy and comforting at the same time? Perhaps. Among the soups, pepper-lashed couscous dishes, and mild, sweet-inflected Moroccan stews on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    Twitter User Who Wants to Sodomize Michele Bachmann Can't Remain Anonymous

    ​A man who proclaimed on Twitter his desire to sodomize conservative Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann with a machete will have his identity revealed to federal investigators, a U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled.The man -- who for now remains anonymous in public court ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    Man Stabbed During Bar Fight in Excelsior

    ​A 24-year-old man is clinging to life today after he was brutally stabbed in a bar fight early this morning. Police say the fight started at about 1:40 a.m. inside a bar on the 4700 block of Mission Street. Three men in their 20s got started arguing with the victim at the bar when one of the men ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Why Sex Is Not Spiritual

    One of the things that sets my teeth on edge about what an old friend calls San Francisco's "Kinky Konfederacy" -- the loose affiliation of queers, kinksters, fetishists, swingers, pornographers, sex workers, and perverts who band together under the ethic of sex positivity -- is the idea that sex s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Who's Serving Foie Gras? Palio d'Asti, Le Charm, and BayWolf

    ​Counting down the meals before July 1, when California's foie gras ban takes effect. At Palio d'Asti, which weathered its first anti-foie protest on Valentine's Day, chef Daniel Scherotter serves an appetizer of hazelnut-encrusted seared Sonoma foie gras with balsamic glazed cippolini onions an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Twitter Hates You: Don't Believe It? Ask Roland Martin

    Twitter is not your friend. Twitter does not have your back. Twitter is a cold, conniving gossip. Twitter is horrible at keeping secrets. Twitter is an old man who sits on his porch watching everything that goes by and telling everybody what everybody else is doing. Don't get me wrong. It's fun when ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Brazil Sues Twitter Over DUI Checkpoint Tweets

    ​Last week, Twitter users were outraged by the company's new policy to allow censorship country-by-country -- not that this will have any influence in places like China or Iran, where tweeting is entirely blocked. In any event, the new policy is getting its first real test after Brazil filed a law ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    If Twitter's Any Evidence, Cooks Are a Very Peeved People

    ​Here's your time-wasting assignment for the morning: type #kitchenpetpeeves into the search bar of Twitter. Yesterday's biggest Twitter meme in the food world began with a New York cook with the handle @jasoncooksfood, who posted a picture of what looks like bacon half-covered in plastic wrap, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Sorry, Twitter, if You're in the Media Business, You're a Media Company

    ​Given how Silicon Valley moguls flee from the term "media company," you'd almost think it was as bad as "child-porn merchant." But whether they like it or not, companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are media companies. They don't have precisely the same business models as News Corp., Disne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Coachella 2012 Lineup: Radiohead, The Black Keys, Dr. Dre and Snoop, Pulp, The Weeknd, and More

    See also: * Fauxchella: How to See Your Favorite Coachella Bands Without Leaving S.F. It's here: The lineup for the biggest music festival in the west, Coachella, and the first year in which the festival will span two weekends, April 13-15 and 20-22. The billing is a blockbuster even by Coachella ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Rupert Murdoch on Twitter: Insipid and Pedestrian

    ​It's sort of hard to believe after all this time, but I still regularly see people making fun of Twitter as if it's just a bunch of morons saying moron things. Okay, it is mostly that when taken as a whole. But I see very little of that kind of thing because I generally don't follow morons. Twitt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Fire Blazes in Western Addition: 3 Firefighters Injured, Buildings Partially Collapse

    ABC 7 News ​(Update 4:20 p.m.) Media outlets are reporting that the fire is finally under control. Also, scratch the information below about heading to the Red Cross in the Western Addition later tonight to help victims. If you want to help, just go to the downtown San Francisco Red Cross at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Wine of the Week: Mercury Rising Bordeaux-Style Tastes Pricier Than it Costs

    "Exceptional value-per-dollar ratio" is how Cinnabar, or at least their publicist, promotes their wines. Based on our tasting of their 2008 California Mercury Rising "Bordeaux-style" wine, we see substance in the statement. ​ We taste wines blind-ish. We don't brown bag and mix them up to confus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    List: How Will S.F. Cope with State Spending Cuts?

    The good ol' days are gone ​Gov. Jerry Brown recently announced another $1 billion in state spending cuts. How will S.F. cope? We'll have to cut back 15 percent on jokes about Ed Lee's mustache. Homeless people will have to put up with bupkis instead of crapola. The Recreation and Parks d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Occupy Melbourne Uses Tent Monsters to Evade Police

    Meanwhile, in Australia, Occupy protesters have come up with a more choreographed way to escape police.

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    Occupy SF: Tension Takes Over Camp, Cops Barricade Site

    ​Police did show up at Justin Herman Plaza last night, riot gear and all, but a raid on the Occupy SF camp never happened. Rather, police decided instead to erect metal barricades around the camp, which of course only incited protesters, who obviously didn't like the idea of being caged in.Police ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Is This the Coachella 2012 Lineup?

    Coachella 2012 is still more than four months away -- so naturally, it's time to start hyperventilating over rumored lineups for the first year the festival will stretch over two weekends. One "leaked" lineup appeared last week on StarzUncut, a celebrity gossip website with more than 58,000 Twitter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    How To Deal With Break-Ups Gracefully In the Digital Age

    ​ Anna, Your previous advice regarding approaching ladies the right way online landed me a really fun date that turned into about 15 more, but now that we've had an argument or two I'm thinking maybe I should start over. How can I tell when it's time to break up when you're not even really "datin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Occupy Oakland Shooting Spurs Insensitive Tweets

    Oakland is reeling from yet another murder, and one that's severely damaged the reputation of Occupy Oakland, which was planning to celebrate the first month of the encampment yesterday. While protesters insist last night's shooting near the camp at Frank Ogawa Plaza had nothing to do with their mov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    11/11/11 -- 11 Tweets in 11 Minutes

    Numerologists, rejoice. People are losing their minds today over the fact that it's 11/11/11, an event that happens only once every 100 years, and packs a much better palindromic punch than 9/9/09 or 10/10/10. The date also has connections to the Mayan Apocalypse and probably some other stuff that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Judge Grants Feds Access to Twitter Accounts as Part of WikiLeaks Investigation

    Only you and the government know your passwords​In a major blow to Internet privacy, a district court judge ruled today that federal investigators were allowed to collect private records of three Twitter users as part of their investigation related to WikiLeaks.According to the Electronic Frontier ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    Charlie Palmer's Coming, Pot Pantry Moves, and The Melt's Second Location is Open

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Last week we spotted a liquor license for Charlie Palmer's restaurant group in the window of the Crescent Hotel. Now, Inside Scoop confirms Palmer will create a new concept in the space, with a restauran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    OccupySF: Politicians Crash the Party

    Hey, I support the movement, too! Solidarity!​Those grumbling about the caliber of people camping out at Justin Herman plaza can't be thrilled about the latest wave of demonstrators drawn to OccupySF: politicians. Last night a near-quorum of the Board of Supervisors squatted along with the squatte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street App Comes in Handy When You Get Arrested

    Ping NewsThere's an app for that...​Some might say that the Occupy Wall Street protesters are out there trying to upend capitalism by demonstrating against big banks and economic disparity. But, somewhat ironically, it's these very protests that have spurred a new enterprise -- with the inevitable ... More >>

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    October 5, 2011

    What a Pushover

    Ping NewsThere's an app for that...​Some might say that the Occupy Wall Street protesters are out there trying to upend capitalism by demonstrating against big banks and economic disparity. But, somewhat ironically, it's these very protests that have spurred a new enterprise -- with the inevitable ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Best Wine Bar Ever: Wine & Spirits' Top 100 Tasting Event

    What: Wine & Spirits Magazine's Eighth Annual Top 100 Wines Tasting Event Where: City View at Metreon, 101 4th St. When: Wed., October 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $105 The rundown: There are lots of different kinds of lushes social drinkers but perhaps my most favorite are the winos. They are jus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    The Meat Industry Lies, Banana Cream Pie Rules, & You Better Work (for Vegan Cheese)!

    ​ • The National Pork Producers Council is still denying that it's at all responsible for antibiotic resistance in humans. In related news, Olestra wants you to know it's only responsible for solid shits and Joe Camel says, "Smoke if you got 'em!" iStockLeave me in the ocean or I'll eat your ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    News Nerds: We Want Your Nominations for the SF Weekly Web Awards

    ​The SF Weekly Web Awards nominations are here, which means it's time to make sure your favorite news hounds get onto the ballot. From our cosmopolitan and well-informed readers of the Snitch, we'd love to know who you think is the Best Local Politics Blogger, the Best Media Personality Twitter, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Where in the World Is Anthony Bourdain? Swan Oyster Depot!

    via FlickrAnthony Bourdain -- he's here.​Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain of No Reservations fame is visiting San Francisco, according to his Twitter feed. And where does a famous chef choose to eat his lunch? via yfrogSecret TV star seafood stew?​Bourdain just posted this photo on Twitt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Lie, Ed, Lie Twitter Account Up and Running

    Fred Noland​Even before Mayor Ed Lee could officially sign the paperwork declaring his candidacy for mayor, some pissed-off people cleverly created the "Lie, Ed, Lie" Twitter account, riffing off Lee's about-face decision to run for mayor. The account was created about five hours ago, stating "I w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Why You Should Never, Ever Write Anything Negative About Phish

    .bbpBox98874552691597312 {background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Twitter Preens Itself Over $800 Million Funding Boost

    Twitter​Twitter has good reason to be chirpy today -- the company just received an estimated $800 million in funding, raising its value to $8 billion. The funding came from both old investors and new investor Digital Sky Technologies, a prominent investment company run by Russian billionaire Y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Watch This Now: OK Go Takes Over Your Browser

    ​It's no secret -- OK Go is really good at making music videos. Ever since these Chicago-via-L.A. rockers hit the gym in the coolest fashion we've ever seen, they've has killed it with bizarre but joyous video concepts, all of them done in a single continuous shot. Well, to borrow the cliche, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Why Are Tech Journos Suddenly Interested in News Corp. Scandal?

    ​When I was a staff editor at the tech-news site CNET News.com in the late '90s, one of the top editors there used to insist that we "localize" big news events by writing about how they were being covered and discussed on the Internet. So, for example, the death of Princess Di and the impeachment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Women's World Cup Final Breaks Tweeting Record

    ​The FIFA Women's World Cup soccer final yesterday had thousands of people on the edge of their bar stools as Japan tied the U.S. and went into a nerve-wracking penalty shootout, sending Twitter users on a rampage. Twitter reported that the match set the record for tweets per second, surpassing ev ... More >>

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