Arts & Entertainment Inspired, Piercing "U Can't Touch This" Routine Our sister site over in Shanghai notified us to this. Sure, on the surface it seems like a viral, isn't-that-darling clip of a Chinese man executing a well-choreographed tribute to "U Can't Touch
SF News MUNI Update: J-Church (No Longer) Dead...for Now SFist Dan reports that the J-Church "is dead from 18th Street/Church" and on. "Clusterfuck"ing and madness found at the site of transportation-free chaos. UPDATE: J-Church is up and running.
SF News Day Around the Bay -- The Giants are best for bear bottoms: Cubs wipe up with us, 12-1. [the Chron] -- Bay Guardian dislikes big, corporate-chain retail stores? You don't say. [SFBG] -- Matt Stroud's final, fatal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Happy Hour Pain-Killing In SF Unthirsty breaks down the top-ten San Francisco happy hours for stopping the shakes. Although we have to disagree with the number-one spot going to the thematic, fun, yet sometimes overpriced Tonga Room --
SF News Behold! (A Very Young) Gavin in Uniform The Chron's Beth Spotswood lands a most delicious photo: a pre-Mayoral Gavin Newsom poured into a baseball uniform. Oh my. Well, then. (Not sure if this has been around, but it's the first
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Bad Boys of Summer: It's like Oz meets Field of Dreams, or something like that. Catch this documentary about San Quentin convicts playing baseball. Film starts at 7:30 p.m. at
Arts & Entertainment The Blog Post Too Hot for <em>SF Weekly</em>? Having co-founded the now-defunct Deek Magazine, talented Matt Stroud was plucked from the other coast to act as web editor at VVM's SF Weekly to spearhead their nascent blogs. Yesterday, it seems, Stroud
Arts & Entertainment Style? On the Streets of SF? Oh But Yes. Street fashion sites like The Sartorialist -- whose frightening clarity made us weep after saying that the "idea of dark pattern mixing for summer at Prada was one of the best looks of
SF News SF Almost the Best Place for Yuppies Coming in at a respectable number two, Forbes Magazine named San Francisco the second best spot to park your yuppie ass. As if you didn’t already know that. (Although we’re puzzled
SF News Sao Paulo's Congonhas Airport Plane Crash Last night’s crash killed all of its 180-plus passengers onboard.
Arts & Entertainment Gmzeeo/Amaze Dead But a few chips of yellow paint remain of Gmzeeo (OK, fine -- "Amaze.") Alas. Hooray for many; sob for a very few. Image by SFist Jim.
Arts & Entertainment Om Malik Poaches Adena DeMonte Guys, please -- take this outside! And who knew the carbon neutral could act so sneaky? Why, this makes them almost interesting.
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Chris Daly walks out of today's Board meeting after colleagues show no support [UPDATE: or he merely went to go tinkle]; looks stunning sporting a beard and purple tie. [CUIP] -- Stephen
Arts & Entertainment Gwen Verdon's Hip Hop Moves It looks like it's going to be a song-and-dance kind of day around here, kids. Gwen Verdon's dance to "Mexican Breakfast" (choreographed by Bob Fosse, which you can see here as to how
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Double Indemnity (1944) and Clash by Night (1952): Barbara Stanwyck sears the screen tonight in two gems: Billy Wilder's shadow-heavy, film noir hit about adultery and murder, followed by Fritz Lang's fick
misc <em>Dreamgirls</em>' "Family" Via NBC's Family in the '80s Here are some of your favorite NBC stars from many, many years ago, singing one of the weaker ditties from Dreamgirls. Who knows? Maybe this will jumpstart cast members from The Office and
SF News Day Around the Bay -- "Not guilty," says you know who. [Chron, Examiner, ABC 7] -- Beautiful, steel, and glassy Rincon Hill (and its streets) want a little love, too, you know? [RinconHillSF] -- The Cesar Chavez/
Arts & Entertainment UPDATE: Gmzeeo (Amaze?) Strikes Again...Gone? Tipster Jessica reports that the Gmzeeo/Amaze Gap-y art graffiti was in the process of being erased early this morning. "Someone was washing off the huge graffiti on the Gap at Haight and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox: Ultra-pepperminty "all-purpose" soap -- the one with the the loony, small-font and text-heavy label -- and its titular creator get the biopic treatment from Sara Lamm. Screenings tonight
SF News Bonds Snaps. Again. "'It's an embarrassment for me to be wearing this (expletive deleted) uniform 'cause of the way I'm playing. There, that's it. Now go away,' Bonds said at his locker" after yesterday's game,
Arts & Entertainment <em>Star Wars</em> PSA Star Wars-ish stuff sometimes seems done to death, but we fondly remember this PSA. What we forgot, though, was the pillow talk at the very end of this anti-smoking propaganda. It's very moving.
misc Canine-On-Canine Crime in Golden Gate Park And for God’s sake, if you live near the park, keep your cat(s) indoors. They don't need to be outdoors as much as us human beings do, so keep them safe.
SF News J-Church Graffiti And on the lighter side of MUNI news, this swiped-genitalia graffiti was found on the J-Church this past Friday night. Not sure if "they" means women, queers, Noe Valley residents, all three, or
SF News Day(s) Around the Bay -- Whole Foods might be in a whole mess of trouble. Federal regulators look over seven years worth of (not-so) anonymous, ethically-questionable financial site postings made by chief executive John Mackey, who apparently
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Transfer kicks off their new Sunday party, "Tea With Honey," with famous Bay Area rave DJ Gavin Hardkiss. (The ’90s really are back. Beware of pacifiers and lollipops used as accessories.
