Results tagged “flickr”

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• Gothamist found that an explosive set off outside the Times Square army recruiting center may be similar to five past bombings in New York City.
• Seattlest worried when severed right feet and bottles of rat poison started washing up on local beaches.
• Shanghaiist was surprised by Bjork's rooting for Tibetan independence at her concert (see video), and the political fallout has only just begun.
• SFist debated the merits of new bronze plaques that will be placed in locations where San Francisco's homeless have died.
• DCist was obliged to respond to the worst Washington Post Outlook column ever published, in which conservative writer Charlotte Allen tried to make the case that women are dumb.
• LAist found Satan's ice cream truck trolling the streets, and they recorded the music.
• Some crafty Torontoist readers didn't like the dearth of ski hills in downtown Toronto, so they just built one of their own on their deck and (of course) recorded a video of them all taking turns on it.
• Bostonist knows the city's subway and bus system, the MBTA, has problems. So does this 17-year-old who submitted a report and told the MBTA brass how to fix it.
• Phillyist explored the possibility of an Ivy League prostitute, while their commenters debated the most ethical approach to proving or debunking the story.
• Londonist spent a little too much time looking at airbrushed operatic private parts, and enjoyed an enlightening comment from someone who was there.
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While Golden Gate Bridge shots tend to veer on the boring side of SFist's Flickr stream, we really admire this image here shot by Jameth. Amazing yet so simple. Brilliant.

Always rockin'? Hell yes.

James Brown impersonator killing it at Saturday's 27th Annual Black Cuisine Cooking Contest & Street Festival.

We found ourselves asking ourselves lots of questions when we decided to post this piece of urban art that SFist reader Mike found on the corner of Sutter and Larkin last week. We were like, is this not suitable for work? It's just graffiti, and it looks just like all the beautiful vagina clichés that are cliché for a reason. It's like a lovely clam, or a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, or a head of cabbage resting in a loaf of French bread (see full image after the jump). This tagger is the Georgia O'Keeffe of the streets, we tell you. (But, if they hadn't written "VAGINA," would we be at all sure, it was in fact, a vagina?)

Hooray! We're back with more Ed Jew news! And this time, with a vast Sunset-wing conspiracy.

SFist reader Mai sent us this precious find that she found last Friday at 22nd and Valencia. Below is Mai's transcription, about which she said, "I tried to stay as true to the capitalization as I could." Thanks, Mai!

Outside Citizen Space on Second Street. Heh. (For another view of the Will Ferrell cum toddler tranny hilarity, check out Curbed's shot.)

Hey, it's another Polk post, folks!

Oh, San Francisco. You amuse us so.

Behold the Baron, a figure drawing class model. Who is he? Well, according to Flickr user lovenotes:

This philosophic message/challenge adorning/"besmirching" Caffe Trieste's bathroom wall in North Beach last November comes to us from Seven Morris via the "sfist" and "found" tags.

The (Oakland) Hills

(Check out the actual chin scratching occurring, lower right, at an intelligentsia event. Har!)