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  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    John Mayer Blames Twitter for His Own Stupidity; World Rolls Eyes

    ​So, guess what happened the other day? John Mayer announced to an audience of students at Berklee College in Boston, that he was addicted to Twitter, prompting the sympathy of, we imagine, literally nobody. "I was a Twitterholic," he announced (possibly sobbing). "I had four million Twi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    In Print: A Tribe Called Quest Finally Gets its Documentary

    Andrew Roberts​Beats, Rhymes, and Life: So much petty drama has clouded the release of Michael Rapaport's a Tribe Called Quest documentary. One version of the backstory casts the first-time director as a doofus actor wannabe (arguably best known for his role as Phoebe's boyfriend in Friends) w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Going Legit, Part 1: With the Underground Market Shut Down, How Do You Start a Food Business?

    Albert LawScene's from the SF Underground Market (RIP, for now).​ After the Health Department shut down the ForageSF Underground Market last month, a victim of its own national-news-making success, SFoodie spoke to organizer Iso Rabins about the vendors who had debuted their jams, bibimbap bowls, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    The Best #AskObama Questions from Obama's Twitter Town Hall

    President Obama's Twitter Town Hall is currently unfolding at the White House -- and it's a great idea to have ordinary Americans pose questions to the country's chief executive via the #AskObama hashtag. But we also knew this medium for political dialogue would bring out the inner child in some who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Interview with PieTisserie's Jaynelle St. Jean: 'People Started Calling Me the Pie Lady'

    Robin JolinPieTisserie's Janelle St. Jean.As I was writing this week's review of roving pie bakers, I spoke to Jaynelle St. Jean, whose "provincial pie window" has settled for the summer at 1015 Clay, a temporary restaurant of sorts in Old Oakland. You can find pictures of her pies, as well as order ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Hunx and His Punx and the Black Lips Do Battle on Twitter Over Homophobia and the F-Word

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  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Hilarious: Local Rappers Erk Tha Jerk and LoveRance Beef on Twitter Days Before They Gig Together

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  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Will Somebody Please "Like" the Department of Elections?

    Elections officials want to give you a reason to "like" ranked-choice voting​Are you following San Francisco's Department of Elections on Twitter? Yeah, we didn't think so. Granted, the department's foray into social networking just began two days ago, but you would think it could scrounge up more ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    Here's What Would Happen if You Remade Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day" in S.F. Today

    Angry Birds on the iPad. Does this look familiar?​ We can say with near-total confidence that Jello Biafra will hate the people in this video. You tech-employed, indie-pop loving Twitter users might just love it, though. This none-too-subtle advertisement for a new wireless speaker is a music ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    State Bird Provisions Close to Flight, Al's is Back, and Passion Cafe is Sticking Around

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Are kitchen turn-overs trending? Inside Scoop reports Douglas Marschke and Nick Fasanella's two-week old Tacko is already closed -- temporarily -- until next week, due to the firing, rehiring, and trainin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    E-mail Spammers Are Migrating to Social Media

    Cramming your life​This morning, I had 12 e-mails in my spambox. That includes a few false positives, so really it's only nine. Older spams are deleted automatically -- every night. A few months ago, I was getting anywhere from a few dozen to a couple of hundred new spams a day -- the overwhelming ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    SPIN Magazine "Bullies" Man to Get Twitter Handle

    It's @SPINmagazine​SPIN magazine has issued a cease and desist order to a common man, Eric Rice, forcing him to give up his Twitter handle, which just so happens to be a riff off his nickname -- @SPIN. According to the letter, issued by the magazine's lawyers, Rice's Twitter handle is causing "sig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    How To Get The Band To Play What You Want

    We've all been there. You hand over good money to go see a band you love, spend weeks salivating in anticipation and then, when the big night finally comes, they do nothing but play tracks from their new album. The bad one. That nobody likes. (We're looking at you, Sonic Youth...) Some artists, even ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Foursquare: The Silliest Thing Ever Invented

    ​Before I started using Twitter a couple of years ago, I, like many people then and now, assumed it must be the silliest thing ever invented. The stupid name didn't (and doesn't) help. Mainly, I thought people used it for telling the world what they had for lunch, but I then looked into the matter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Who's Got a Beard (Award)?

    ​Friday night was the first of the James Beard Foundation's two national awards galas this year. This one celebrated the media, with awards given out for television shows, print and online journalism, and cookbooks. There were upsets (Jonathan Gold only took home one one of the three awards he was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Bay Area Freshman 10 Rappers List Includes Riche Cunning, Rafael Casal, Young Gully

    ​It's out! After weeks of anticipation, shouting on Twitter, more anticipation, argument, make-ups, breakdowns, tweets about tweets about tweets, and more anticipation, DJ Amen, Thizzler, and KMEL 106.1 FM finally dropped their Freshman 10 list of the hottest up-and-coming Bay Area rappers. G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    No, Twitter Hasn't Replaced CNN

    ​It's become perfectly predictable: Every time there's a major news event, people spend several days talking about how Twitter and Facebook are replacing traditional news organizations -- the (sigh) "MSM." Even if the word "replacing" isn't used, that's often the implicationIn the present case -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Osama bin Laden vs. Michael Jackson: Whose Death Got More Twitter Chatter?

    Left Image: PhilipRood.com"//Flickr | Right image: Kecko/Flickr​Like many people around the world, we learned about the death of Osama bin Laden not from a newspaper or TV, but from social networking sites, specifically Twitter. Standing in a long line for a movie, the news slowly rippled up and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Twitter Confirms It Will Stay in San Francisco

    Done deal ​Much to nobody's surprise, Twitter officials signed a lease to keep the multibillion-dollar company in San Francisco -- tax break and all. And although progressives balked at the idea of cutting the microblogging giant a six-year tax break to keep its headquarters in San Francisco, they ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    WikiLeaks Investigation: Electronic Frontier Foundation Fights to Keep Twitter Records Private

    How private can you really be on the Internet?​Last month, a lower court ruled against the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, which tried to block the U.S. Government from obtaining secret tweets for its WikiLeaks investigation. Now the EFF, which works to protect the people's dig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Twitter Tax Break Sails Through, Corporate Blackmail Does Work

    A done deal ​As Supervisor John Avalos so bluntly put it: "The big boys won out today."Needless to say, Avalos ain't happy that his fellow supervisors approved a controversial tax-break deal that would surely keep Twitter from bolting San Francisco.  SF Weekly previously reported on the deal, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Twitter: Aha! So There Aren't As Many Users After All

    A defining moment for Twitter​Techies have long debated whether the number of people using Twitter is bloated thanks to spammers. But now we have some data, although not scientific, that show indeed just how few Twitter accounts are active. Twitter reportedly had an "aha moment" when it realized t ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 30, 2011

    Roundup: The Best New Barbecue in the Bay

    A defining moment for Twitter​Techies have long debated whether the number of people using Twitter is bloated thanks to spammers. But now we have some data, although not scientific, that show indeed just how few Twitter accounts are active. Twitter reportedly had an "aha moment" when it realized t ... More >>

  • News

    March 23, 2011

    SF Weekly Letters

    A defining moment for Twitter​Techies have long debated whether the number of people using Twitter is bloated thanks to spammers. But now we have some data, although not scientific, that show indeed just how few Twitter accounts are active. Twitter reportedly had an "aha moment" when it realized t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    It's Freshman 10 Time Again -- Start Choosing Your Favorite Up-And-Coming Local Rapper

    ​Ah, March. Music fiends flock to Austin. Men become obsessed with watching other men (who are still in college) flail wildly while trying to stuff an orange ball into a tiny hoop. And Bay Area rappers turn into glad-handing politicians, littering their Facebook pages and Twitter feeds with pleas, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Chronicle Books Bake Sale Raises Over $7,800 for Japan

    ​Yesterday's Chronicle Books Bakesale to Help Japan? Some three dozen bakers ended up donating treats (staff, spouses, and neighbors, as well as Poco Dolce, Sweet Constructions, and Angel Cakes), says CB's David Hawk, netting just over $2,300. Chronicle Books doubled that figure for its donati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Twitter Promises to Stay in San Francisco -- if City Gives Tax Break

    Just a wink and a nod​It appears a sop to corporate blackmail does work. The Examiner is reporting that Twitter fired off a letter to city supervisors earlier today, saying it will stay in San Francisco if the city signs off on a deal giving the microblogging giant a mega tax break. "Twitter is co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    Twitter Tax Breaks Would Bring Millions to San Francisco, Controller Says

    Follow Twitter ... to Market Street​The city's number-crunchers today released an analysis that spins the highly criticized Twitter deal as a win for San Francisco taxpayers. Businesses with an annual payroll expense of more than $250,000 now pay a 1.5 percent tax. Yet a break for Twitter would no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Clean Cheese, Ginger Ale, and the Mighty Subway

    Madame Fromage/FlickrSally Jackson's amazing cheese, now lost to the world after an FDA crackdown.​A new daily column: Notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other miscellanea dredged up from the food media.1. Cheese makers under attack? San Francisco diners haven't felt the i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Sunday: S.F.'s Most Elaborate Beer Run

    Google MapsNot exactly Bay to Breakers, but then, B2B doesn't fall in the middle of Beer Week.​Much about beer is subjective, like what style/brewery/IBUs/glassware is best, or if a beer should taste great or be less filling. But there are a few universal truths when it comes to beer, includin ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2011

    Eight Top Things Twitter Wants from San Francisco

    Google MapsNot exactly Bay to Breakers, but then, B2B doesn't fall in the middle of Beer Week.​Much about beer is subjective, like what style/brewery/IBUs/glassware is best, or if a beer should taste great or be less filling. But there are a few universal truths when it comes to beer, includin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    A Moderate Move: S.F. Supervisors Try to Lure Twitter with Tax Breaks

    Moderately progressive​Yesterday was the first real showing of how the political pendulum on the Board of Supervisors has swung the other way -- toward the moderates. Supervisor Jane Kim rolled out business-friendly legislation, which sparked criticism from progressives; even former Supervisor Chr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Funny Pic: Meet 50 Winfrey, a Mutant Cross Between Oprah and 50 Cent

    Meet the mutant, 50 Winfrey​Now this is just wrong -- but it's so, so right. Here are four reasons why:1. This is a great photoshop job, duh. Love that they kept Fitty's 'stache.2. Back in '06, if you're old enough to remember, 50 Cent beefed with Oprah, telling Elle magazine:She started out with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Free Produce at Ferry Plaza! Sort Of

    Sean TimberlakeBe among the frst 50 to get a coupon at Ferry Plaza tomorrow, and you can walk away with a free bunch of beets from County Line.​Deal fiends who eat produce: Get your fix starting tomorrow, Feb. 1, at the Tuesday Ferry Plaza farmers' market, when CUESA's "First 50 Freebies in Fe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Toast Almost Ready to Pop, Cupola Brings Pizza to S.F.'s Last Pizza-Free Block

    ​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Grub Street has been chasing this one down for a few days: The Lark Creek Restaurant Group's new restaurant on the fourth floor of the Westfield San Francisco Centre (the old Zazil space, n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    Twitter Considering Moving Out of San Francisco

    Follow Us To Brisbane​Mayor Ed Lee admits that he doesn't use Twitter, but maybe he is feeling the pressure to start tweeting now.The social media company is still growing, so much so, that it might dump San Francisco and move its headquarters down south. Media reports say that Twitter Inc. n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    Tonight: Loco Street Cream Hits Folsom

    ​"Street cream" doesn't sound like anything we'd ordinarily want to pick up on Folsom, but our interest is piqued by new frozen dessert vendor Loco Street Cream, who's selling pints of hand-cranked ice cream in chocolate and maple walnut flavors tonight at Bloodhound (1145 Folsom at Seventh St ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    Local Rapper The Jacka Wants You To Name His Near-Trainwreck of a New Song

    ​Pittsburg rapper The Jacka has a new album on the way next year called Murder Weapon. Today, he released the first track from the forthcoming project, simply called "Untitled." But there's a (marketing) catch: He wants fans to name the song.

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    In 2010, Time Is What Matters: A Nugget of Wisdom from the Music Critic of the Year

    Zing!​Our sister blog in New York today published an interview with the anonymous Twitterer @Discographies, whom it declared Music Critic of the Year. Go read that fascinating, funny and worthwhile interview, but first, it's worth calling out a particularly wise morsel from it. For me, these few s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    On the Fascinating and Often Listenable Feedback Loop That Was 2010

    Japandroids at the Fillmore​Ah, twenty-ten. Two thousand and ten. Two years before our state warps and crackles and slides into a boiling sinkhole that used to be the Pacific Ocean. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. There was a pretty good Sage Francis song called "The Best of T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    Steve Smith of HopeNet Demonstrates How Hash Is Made (VIDEO)

    Eat your heart out, Betty Crocker. SF Weekly met Steve Smith of HopeNet inside the dispensary for an old-fashioned hand-pressed hash-making demonstration. The clicking you can hear in the background is photographer Gil Riego, Jr.'s camera; he captured images of the hash-making process. The demonst ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    Where are Wikileaks' Media Friends?

    ​Where are the First Amendment's establishment warriors as government-spooked businesses try to shut down Wikileaks? Hackers with computers, not hacks with press passes, have been the first line of resistance. More to come.

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    How To Not Offend People on Twitter

    ​So the whole benefit of twitter (for me at least) is to be able to vent and talk shit about different aspects of Bay Area life, which usually ends up being the (local) music scene a lot. Now that I'm starting to build a following, the people that read my tweets are the ones I'm usually talking sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Are There Any Food-Related Cyber Monday Deals Worth Getting?

    Online retailers are apparently stampeding after customers today.​SFoodie had never heard about Cyber Monday until this year, even though it was created in 2005. Yesterday, our Twitter feed began spilling forth a torrent of blips about Cyber Monday deals. Today the tweetstream has risen higher. So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Not So Silent Night: Which One Of These Local Bands Should Share a Stage with the Smashing Pumpkins?

    Caleb KuhlThey are IAMEMPIRE.​Live 105 recently announced a shortlist of local bands vying to perform at Not So Silent Night, the radio station's annual holiday concert, alongside the Smashing Pumpkins, the Black Keys, Phoenix, and some other band no one cares about. Ever since the announcement, o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Ex-Gather Sous Chef Rolls Out Boffo Cart

    Tamara Palmer​We spotted Boffo Cart at the weekly farmers' market at Emeryville's City Hall (Thu., noon-7 p.m.). The tent, named after a 1940s superlative, was selling salads, piadini, panini, and calzones. We ordered the latter ($6) and received something the size of a kid's softball mitt stu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Monk's Kettle Chef Leaves, Hana Zen Hits the Big Time

    ​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Eater caught on to a tweet sent around by Kevin Kroger announcing that he was no longer chef of Monk's Kettle, then stalked Kroger's blog and learned it was an amicable departure.Eater also rep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Nancy Pelosi Running for Minority Leader

    ​Rep. Nancy Pelosi's team has been relegated to the minor leagues -- but she still wants to be the manager. In an announcement made via her Twitter account, the Speaker of the House announced she will be running for Democratic Minority Leader. Win or lose, it seems @SpeakerPelosi will be needing a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Bat-Wielding Attacker Roams San Francisco

    ​On the eve of the World Series, an accused violent criminal has found a diabolical manner of blending into a crowd. He's the guy with the baseball bat. Details are sparse, but this much we know:

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Thermidor's 'Tasty Tacos' Stand

    Jonathan KauffmanThermidor's tacos, two for $5.​Monday, October 18, 2010Thermidor's been taking advantage of the Indian summer -- well, what little of an Indian summer we've had -- to set out a fleet of chairs and tables in Mint Plaza. Last week, they added a cooking stand that appears at irregula ... More >>

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