Tonight, for one night only, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be featuring two sneak previews of Dirty Country, a highly entertaining documentary about the underground world of raunchy music, directed by Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, founders and hosts of the Found Footage Festival, which sold out four shows at the Red Vic last month. Dirty Country, which won the Audience Award at this year's South By Southwest, is part of Yerba... more ›

As we wrote before, you're staring to hear the phrase "San Francisco values" thrown around and around and not in a good way, more in a trying to scare the bejeesus out of Mr. and Mrs. Red State kind of way. But what exactly do people mean by "San Francisco values." more ›

We saw this on Wonkette today and it had us wondering what is going on here. Is this one of Nancy's attempts to try and reach out to the Red State NASCAR voter? You know, just to show that she's not some scary Liberal Dem from San Francisco. Like, we're so down with you, we even have trucker hats you can buy! We know you guys love Trucker Hats! more ›

Yeah, we know, we're supposed to hate on Starbucks, hate on them with the passion of a thousand burning suns. In fact, if there's one thing the tribes of San Francisco can all agree upon it's that Starbucks is the anti-Christ of strip-mail confecteries. So much so we often think San Francisco should adopt as it's slogan "Give us your tired, your poor, your Starbucks hating masses yearning to drink free trade, Sumatra blend coffee." But today, we come to praise Starbucks, not bury them. For in all the fire and brimstone directed at Starbucks' way, one simple incontrovertible truth still lays out there. That once you leave the cozy confines of the Bay Area (which we think a lot of people in this city need to do just to gain some perspective on things), Starbucks is really the only place you can get good coffee. And yes, we're totally serious. more ›

After being blamed for the re-election of W., made a virtual pariah in the Democratic Party, and befriended by Angelina Jolie all for letting a few gay people marry, you would think that the Gavster would go quietly into that good night on the issue. After all, there’s nothing the Democratic Party hates more than some Democrat standing on principles and scaring off all those Red State types. Turns out he’s not going quietly. In fact, he has been pumping up both the jams and the volume on the issue. In the past week, he gave a speech at Harvard where he called out his fellow Democrats and yesterday, totally dissed New York Mayor Bloomberg over Hizzoner’s little problem with the issue. more ›