The Sound of Young America Live: Live public radio featuring Jesse Thorn, Morgan Murphy, Merlin Mann, Danny Hoch, and Bucky Sinister perform le stand-up hot. Zach Rogue (of Rogue Wave) provides the music. It's indie rock and comedy all rolled into one. Ta-da! Oh, and it's part of SF Sketchfest, so you know it's good. Show starts at 8 p.m. at the Eureka Theatre; $10.BiFriendly Social: A bisexual coffee klatch for men and women......

We saw this house the other day while running in Noe Valley, so it seemed appropriate to go back today and snap a photo. The decorations are on a scaffold next to the house, and that's a working model train down near the bottom. If you want to check it out, it's on 21st, up the hill a bit from Church Street.......

We were walking home last night, and came across this Mini on Church Street. Front bumper flush with the truck, rear wheels right on the curb. How did this happen? Is the Mini driver the best parallel parker ever? Was the truck driver just being an ass? Either way, getting out's not going to be easy... Image credit: The author......

If you're unlucky enough to be a regular Muni rider, you may have followed the ongoing ridiculousness involving the NextMuni displays at Church Street Station. As you can see above, the display now shows information. True to form, that information manages to be both wrong and useless. As we noted when MUNI pretended to take public comment on the location of these displays, it makes no sense to put arrival information after you've already......

From Lady_K via Contribute page, who found this note on Church Street in front of the Blockbuster near Market -- also, how on earth does that Blockbuster remain open for business? -- she found this detailed 9/11 to-do list, presumably written today: On 9/28/07 Everyone should stuff your bras, dress like a woman, act like a woman, and then tip a bus on 9/11. Chocolate Rain... Chocolater Rain… Uhhh This letter will self destruct in......

If you're like us, you noticed that MUNI put up these little paintings in several stations a few weeks ago. The one pictured above is at the Church Street station, right when you come down the escalator. We started wondering what exactly these little paintings were supposed to do. Are we supposed to comment about them? Is MUNI asking us if there's a better place in the station to put an LCD display? We......

Let's see… big event? Check. Lots of people involved? Check? Lots of drunk people involved? Double check. Muni somehow screwing the pooch? Check, check, checkity check....

Remember how effed-up Muni was at last year's Bay to Breakers, with no signs and riders vomiting and drivers getting lost and nobody having any idea how to get anywhere? Yeah, it's probably going to be rough this year, too. (The race is on Sunday, the 20th.) We've got some reasons to be scared, very scared, but also some tips for avoiding the worst of it. Muni promises to be doing their best to keep......

This is not a post we're happy to be writing, and probably not a post you're happy to be reading either. As everyone knows by now, the autopsy of James Kim was inconclusive about the time he died, and honestly, that's probably not something that we as members of the public need to know about anyways. And the mainstream media has done an admirable job (Rick Sanchez aside) of summarizing the tragic errors the......

The SFPD has put out a missing persons bulletin on a local Noe Valley family, who haven't been heard from since last week. James and Kati Kim, along with their two daughters Sabine and Penelope, drove to Seattle to spend Thanksgiving with James's family. The Kims were scheduled to be in southern Oregon last Saturday night, and had called the inn where they had reserved rooms and asked for a key to be left at......

We studied the Doña Tomàs cookbook, of the eponymous Oakland Cal-Mexican restaurant, by cooking a few recipes for a dinner party. We tried three, and we can safely say that Thomas Schnetz and Dona Savitsky's batting average with the clumsy home cook is a respectable .667. We had a decent success with the budín de elote, a recipe of which you can find here. It was a fluffy corn pudding with bits of zucchini, light......

This was the scene at the Church street Muni tunnel yesterday at 4:50 p.m., where 5 Muni trains were at a complete standstill. You can only see four in the picture (two outbound, two inbound), because the fifth is the one we had just been released from when we took the photo, and there was no way to get it in the shot. Fortunately for us, Church Street was our stop. When our driver announced......

Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi..... ....Oh, hello! We were just warming up our voice over here. After we posted about local choral group Volti's world premiere of No More To Hide, a choral work in tribute to same-sex marriage, and after its rave review by left-wing choral blogger Civic Center, we thought we'd go check out their full performance last night at St. Francis Lutheran (the church between the Blockbuster and the Burgermeister on Church Street). The show was organized around the theme of love and commitment, and featured not only the world premiere of No More To Hide but also a setting to song of three sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The chorus's voices were in full throttle and they easily ran through a Rita Dove poem and some e.e. cummings as well. Volti specializes in contemporary choral music written by living composers -- wjhich made for a very nice touch when three or four of the composers came up before each piece and explained the effect he or she was trying to achieve with the work. We particularly enjoyed not only Stacey Garrop's entertaining explanation of her rollicking Millay numbers, but also her mother's beaming expression in the audience. Sweet! A sick soprano and a cantata to celebrate Gavin Newsom after the jump. Picture of Volti from their website...