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April 30, 2008
Although hating on hipsters is, oddly enough, very hip right among self-consciously nerdy Bay Area denizens, SFist must delve into the scene for a moment. Why? Well, to point out some glaring omissions with regard to DJ Times magazine's America's Best DJ nominee list. According to ASD, loads of local, talented, but predictable faves--such as : DJ Theo; Gabriel & Dresden; Kaskade, DJ Shadow; Mark Farina; DJ Qbert; DJ Behrouz; Bassnectar; Claude VonStroke; Miguel...
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This has the stench of Academy of Art student project emanating from it, but...who knows? An SFist reader (hillary's_quivering_lip) sent it in to us, taken at Montgomery and Sacramento. It's been posted there for a week, and said reader did not look up quietly. ...
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File this -- again -- under "there's ALWAYS a San Francisco connection". We recently discovered that Charlie Chaplin, America's favourite clown (and perhaps the most influential performer in motion picture history), shot one of his bazillion-odd silent movies on location in and around Golden Gate Park. "A Jitney Elopement" is classic slapstick, featuring a case of mistaken identity, a jitney (think "flivver"), a mustachioed scoundrel and -- inevitably -- madcap hilarity. This milestone 1915...
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Photo by Jim Herd People who probably live in a household with an annual income of $71K and upward enjoying their ice cream at yesterday's Free Cone Day in the Haight....
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We’re well off Broadway — actually, we’re just off Lombard — in the toppermost reaches of North Beach. In fact, we’re not far from where the old neighborhood abuts the landfilled tourist stronghold that stole North Beach’s shore years ago. It’s OK — we’re safe here from Crazy Shirts etc., although there’s a Bay Quackers vessel rolling by a few steps away over on Columbus. A moment later, an artist — shirtless, but sleeved — emerges for a smoke from Tattoo City at Mason and Lombard on this pleasant spring afternoon. He spots the amphibious truck carting visitors up North Beach’s diagonal commercial drag and can’t disguise a mild scoff. San Francisco loves its visitors from Cincinnati and beyond; it just gets a bit hrumphy when groups of them venture south of Bay St. in bright yellow military transport vehicles dating from World War II. Perhaps it’s not such an unfair reaction. But today, that debate’s beyond our scope and interest. We’ve landed on this residential block around the corner from Joe DiMaggio North Beach Playground and Pool, and we’re totally looking for action on a sunny Saturday. We find it: live music, street retail, plenty of pedestrian traffic, even a preening housepet....
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April 29, 2008
In order to balance out the mammary glands below, we give to you an oldie but goodie: a shirtless John Stossel....
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"Orders bust of himself erected at City Hall," reports SF Citizen. Will advise of impending doom....
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M&R of La Chron has put out another great piece on the gripe-vine: those $100 fines for leaving garbage bins out past 6 p.m. on garbage days. Yes, DPW is actually going around and issuing these tickets -- we barely missed getting one four months ago when we received a "warning" but not a fine. Last month, 189 people were fined, which comes out to (according to our mad super blogger math skillz known as...
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Photo by SF Citizen Bust out your baggy clothes, tiny backpacks, and heroin cooking spoons: '90s fashions have returned to San Francisco....
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We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist and you can win a pair of passes to the SFMOMA after the jump. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." A Wolf at the Table, the new memoir from Augusten Burroughs, in stores on Tuesday. ING Bay to Breakers, where you can register today for next month's race. The Rape of the Sabine...
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Mr. Brock, While I appreciate your coverage of the spray situation I don't appreciate the stereotyping and blatant prejudice against people who become ill from being around cologne.(chemicals, paint, new carpeting car exhaust etc etc) ...
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(CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE) "Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni Yilmaz XXX...
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Photo by SF Citizen It's a squirrel! In Golden Gate Park! Eating peanut butter and jelly sandwich! OMG, it's so cute i&*(eeee&*T^& BbhgF#!...
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Federal alcohol regulators are asking Vaune Dillmann of Mount Shasta Brewing Company to stop producing bottle caps for his beer with the slogan "Try Legal Weed." See, apparently these alcohol regulators think that Dillmann is referencing the illegal marijuana (technically, it's still illegal, people -- let's not get in a snit) but really, oh my goodness, he's not! Dillmann says the Mary Jane reference is to the town where the brewery is located: Weed, California....
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Tired of having your thoughts transmitted to Moscow? Exhausted with having yet another threat of rape hurled against loved ones? Have you just had enough of Cold War paranoia? If you have, like Nickolay here, and want your radio implant removed, AgentAkit sent us this handy flyer to tell you how to go about doing so....
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April 24, 2008
Photo by Cynner_SF We'll let you in on a little secret: we love the Embarcadero Center. It reminds us a little of South Coast Plaza a bit, but a bit smaller, not as chic, and with unnatural natural light coming through. Here's a dizzying shot one of their many spiral staircases....
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As disgusted as we were by the fact somebody left the remains of their microwaved 7 Eleven nachos on the guard rail of the 38 Geary, we have to admit to being somewhat amused by watching rider after rider walk by and stare for a few seconds to determine if getting a seat on a crowded bus was worth taking the chance that one bad jolt could cause half-eaten beans to wind up in their hair....
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She is becoming a woman after our own heart, that Jen. According to the Gate, the future First Lady of San Francisco accidentally registered as a member of the all-too-exclusive American Independent Party. As M&R tell it: "[T]he onetime Republican registered as a member of the American Independent Party - the anti-immigrant, anti-abortion, anti-NAFTA and anti-tax party." This is something we would totally do, similar to the many years we spent as a member...
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Photo by Steve Rhodes Singing legend, feminist icon, and occasional Teatro ZinZanni guest star Joan Baez at...some sort of Earth Day event....
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Found at Van Ness and McAllister by Jameth. Bush Sr. killed JFK? Well, it serves him right for killing Marilyn Monroe....
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Perfect for celebrating Earth Day, Citizen Sugar is offering one lucky winner $500 in gas relief. ("Gas relief." Har.) All you have to do is register and take a brief quiz (e.g., "how much does it cost to fill up a 2008 Hummer 2 [H2]?"), and then you'll be be entered in lottery. And if you win, you'll can temporarily stop whining about the price of gas these days. Oh, and the contest is...
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Photo by Jim Herd Because it's precious: a puppy wearing a hoodie....
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Photo by Citizen Jim Behold the 10th Annual Anime Costume Contest. Just what is the deal with people into anime? Seriously....
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We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." PGE's We Can do This, showing you what you can do to help fight global warming. Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. If you're interested in advertising on SFist or any other site in our network, check out our online mediakit....
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Photo by SF Citizen Ferrari 355 Spider gets pulled over in Haight Ashbury. So if your dealer was late last night, now you know why....
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April 17, 2008
Since Flickr give us so much, it's only natural for us to want even more. Last week SFist Dianne reported on the web's demanded for Flickr to give us donuts. Flickr's Matthew Rothenberg (a Captured! By Robots fan!) said sure, and yesterday was Flickr's first Donut day. Ta-da. Sadly, we missed it. Here are some tasty (har!) images from the day in case you missed it as well. Check out the images of Wednesday's of...
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J-Schoolers and other assorted graduate students, please stop clogging our inbox with shit like this, especially if you don't know our name or plan on getting us drunk beforehand. Thanks. What are we bitching about, you ask? This: To Whom It May Concern: Our names are Kristin McCasland and Chris Troutman. We are graduate students in the Mass Communications Department at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. We are studying ethics and the...
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Photo by Michael Aires Taken at Market between 7th and 8th Streets....
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Photo by AgentAkit This sign was found at Geary and 21st Ave. See what meth can do, kids?...
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Both of these photos were snapped up somewhere in poor, put-upon San Francisco. Sheesh. Why so disillusioned and pissy, SF residents? ...
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(Image credit: hailtothethief21) Is this for real?...
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Today is the final day, folks. Have you finished your taxes yet? Yeah, neither have we. (Math is hard.) But for all you anal retentive types who, like, know how to balance a checkbook and look at your receipts, Whole Foods can help alleviate some of your tax-day worry. Today they're paying the sales tax on any and all items at Whole Food stores in Nor Cal and Reno. So, basically, now would be...
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April 14, 2008
SF Examiner received a makeover today. (Just a few month's after the Gate went under the knife.) It's much more dark and emo than before, appearance-wise, and their journos get nifty little images next to their featured articles. Also, news bits from other local Important News services are linked and timestamped at the top of their homepage. Overall, we kinda like it. How about you? (Pssst, American Idol is on tomorrow night.)...
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April 14, 2008
Remember when we posted on a recent LA Times article, claiming that Danielle Steel--that's "Ms. Steel" to you--spends $4 to $5 mi