Quick -- which one of those pictures above is of Valencia Street in SF and which is of Williamsburg in Brooklyn? Bay Area blogger Overstated has put together his list of what New York neighborhoods correspond to which San Francisco ones. Check out his list, and let the great debates begin! Here's some calls we agree with: --Totally Williamsburg is the Mission. Last time we were on Bedford Avenue, honest to God we thought......

Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free t-shirt. And they might have the next YearlyKos in Philly. You know who's going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The Houston school system. Houstonist also reports on some redevelopment shenanigans over a landmark theater. LAist's sex advice column on......

Free tickets and concert picks for the week of 10/20-10/26. San Francisco's own Oranger is returning home after nearly a month on the road to celebrate the release of their CD New Comes and Goes. Check out their e-card to preview some songs off the CD and enter for your chance to win two tickets to their show at the Independent this Saturday with Sensations, The 88 and Black Fiction. (Contest ends tomorrow at noon!)......

It's been an exciting week so far in the sleepy, overpriced oasis that is South Park: local resident and Hollywood bigshot Chris Columbus has moved in a crew to shoot a few exterior scenes for "Rent." Some minor tweaks were necessary to complete the illusion that we were back east: extra graffiti was installed, as well as some broken fences, dinged-up taxis, an oddly cinematic hobo encampment, a non-functional hot dog cart, and a......

Well, SantaCon has come and gone, but you still have that urge to make with the merry this holiday season, preferably through participatory art? Well, you're in luck -- San Francisco is hosting its annual performance of Phil Kline's Unsilent Night tonight. Unsilent Night is music intended to be played on boomboxes on a stroll through the city, so participants become in essence a big stereo system, playing Christmas carols (yeah, sort of like KOIT, if they played the Kronos Quartet). The original Unsilent Night was performed in 1992 on a walk through a block in the East Village, and now the piece is performed every year in New York, San Diego, Vancouver, and Cleveland, along with SF. If you're interested in participating, bring a boombox with a cassette player and fresh batteries and meet up at Dolores Park before 7 p.m. (RSVP so they'll know how many tapes to bring; if you don't have a boombox, you can borrow one). The group will be walking around the Mission too for about 45 minutes so bundle up. ...

First we had to deal with the drama of New Yorkers whining over Rent interiors being filmed on Treasure Island, prompting Revolution Studios to assure Gothamist that exteriors would be shot in NYC. Now we have to deal with former Supervisor and current Treasure Island Development Association director Tony Hall whining over Rent interiors being filmed on Treasure Island. No, Tony isn't nostalgic for the East Village of the early nineties -- he's more......

We're just blamelessly living our idyllic lives out here: blue skies, a Democratic mayor, a modern art museum that doesn't cost $20 to get into, a panda bear coming to Oakland..... when suddenly, out of the blue -- this! A fresh cuppa New York hate because they're filming part of Rent out here! ...