Arts & Entertainment Area Man Buys Satire Site The Onion, Also Happens to Be Twilio Co-Founder Jeff Lawson Beloved humor site and “America’s Finest News Source” The Onion has been sold to San Francisco resident and Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson, who says “The Onion is an institution, a national treasure, and we need it.”
Arts & Entertainment 'The Hunt For The Unicorn Company' As Told In Medieval Tapestries Hanging today in The Cloisters of New York, The Hunt for the Unicorn Company is perhaps the most famous series of tapestries in human history, numbering seven in total, six of which survive
Arts & Entertainment Video: Meet San Francisco's 5-Year-Old Venture Capitalist Everything But The News, PBS's answer to The Daily Show/The Onion has taken on San Francisco tech culture before, with a report on the early days of ridesharing and an attempt to
Arts & Entertainment Here's Bambo & Janice's Understated 'Save The Date' Video Bombastic "Save the Date" videos are, it seems, the new choreographed wedding entrances. Take, for example, this insane "Save the Date," care of a local lawyer couple, which made the rounds today. It
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crestfallen Cafe Responds To SFist's Criticism See, now that's funny. Almost. Two-year-old Mid-Market cafe and eatery Machine — who, last week, poked fun at area addicts and homeless, among other characters in the changing neighborhood — responded to SFist's criticism via
Arts & Entertainment 'Everything But The News' Takes On S.F. Ridesharing Everything But The News is a news parody show, similar to The Daily Show, but with more PBS-focused jokes. In it, freelance reporter/out and proud Canadian Steve Goldbloom ventures throughout the Bay
Arts & Entertainment Full House: What If Michelle Was A Figment Of Danny Tanner's Imagination? What would life be like had Michelle not been a part of Full House? Not a chic one, at the very least. It would have, in part, been a world without this. But
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Women Reading Grindr And Scruff Messages Thank you to Second City for giving us these dramatic readings from women using actual message threads from gay men on the apps Grindr and Scruff. Yes, they are full of misspellings, both
Arts & Entertainment Watch John Oliver Skewer Techies At The Crunchies John Oliver On The Tech Industry | Crunchies 2013 Last night I had the pleasure of watching John Oliver emcee the Crunchies. His opening monologue was only brimming not with attacks on San Francisco
SF News Shirley Temple Neither 'Icon' Nor 'Legend,' Says Chron Oh boy, do I love editorial notes left in a published piece. A glimpse inside the minds that run your favorite publication. Take, for example, today's death announcement of former child star Shirley
Arts & Entertainment Mike Judge's 'Silicon Valley' Actually Looks Good After Bravo's colostomy bag of a reality show, disastrously produced by Randi Zuckerberg, and Amazon's ho-hum Betas, Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-Head) takes a stab at the tech world with Silicon Valley. The
Arts & Entertainment Colin Kaepernick Might Be Gay, Dating A 'Gay Circuit DJ' (But Probably Not) Hey, bro. Not sure if you heard, but noted nude model and 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick might be into other guys, at least that's the silly question posed by Queerty. The simple answer?
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Adam Scott And Paul Rudd's 'Bosom Buddies' Reenactment Paul Rudd (of Clueless and your daydreams) and Adam Scott (of Party Down and Parks & Rec) joined forced and made this impossibly wonderful reenactment of the Bosom Buddies opening. Hurray! Scott has
Arts & Entertainment Video: Pastor Delivers 1-Minute Sermon In Order To Watch 49ers Playoffs Way, way over in Butte, Montana, Pastor/49er zealot Tim Christensen of Gold Hill Lutheran Church cut things short with God on Sunday in order to watch SF beat Carolina. "Would you all
SF News Seattle Seahawks Shut Californians Out Of Ticket Sales For NFC Championship Fans of the San Francisco 49ers won't be able to purchase tickets this morning to Sunday's NFC Championship game in Seattle against the Seahawks because the team is barring ticket sales to fans
Arts & Entertainment Bulges And Butts: Photos From 'No Pants Subway Ride' 2014 Saturday marked the annual 'No Pants Subway' ride around the world, wherein passengers do just that: ride various forms of public transportation sans pantaloons. Fully naked? No. But you could see loads of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Conan, Ice Cube and Kevin Hart Try Out Lyft Bay Area ride sharing service Lyft has apparently hit the mainstream, attracting the notice of late night's Conan O'Brien, who enlisted pint-sized comedian Kevin Hart and the multi-talented Ice Cube to assemble on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Which We Interview Bi-Rite's $50 Fruitcake "An elegant organic one-pound fruit cake, perfumed with port and brandy." - The New York Times "I had to make a special trip to BiRite just to see the $50/lb. fruitcake I
Arts & Entertainment Perfect For That Hard-to-Shop-For Relative: This $40K Bordello/Art Project Black Friday is on the way, and that means it's time for the familiar, creeping, awful realization that gift-giving is back on the agenda. But what to gift that one intransigent person on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Penis Vanilla: Scream Sorbet Facebook Page Hacked Over the weekend, this bold new menu popped up on Scream Sorbet's Facebook page. Flavors included Meat Lemon, Coconut Thai Queso, Almond Pink Twinkie, Vallium [sic] Chocolate, Penis Vanilla, and Salt. Unless the
Arts & Entertainment 'Friends: Live' Coming! Could You Be Any More Excited? Local drag artistes have joined forces to reimagine onstage what is arguably the greatest sitcom ever to air. We are, of course, talking about Friends. (Fine, it's a three-way tie between Seinfeld and
Arts & Entertainment Matt Werner, Mind Behind 'Oakland Unseen,' Talks About Switching To Print, Faking The News, And More Matt Werner, author and tech writer at Google, has had unbridled success with the advent of Oakland Unseen, a popular parody Tumblr billed as Oakland's answer to The Onion. Last Friday, Werner released
Arts & Entertainment Your Topical S.F. Halloween Costume Ideas, 2013 Edition It may not feel like it, but we've entered October, and that means Halloween is fast approaching. Halloween is a dark and spooky day when the souls of the dead rise up to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: Baby Drinks Bad Beer On Live TV Soaring rent prices, our Daisy getting assaulted at Candlestick, Jeff Daniels' Emmy for the exceptionally awful The Newsroom ... it's been a tough day to swallow. We know. But on the lighter side of
Arts & Entertainment In Which We Interview One Rincon Hill's Second Tower As the second tower of the One Rincon Hill complex takes shape, we asked him to stop by SFist for a chat. Here's what the up-and-coming North Tower had to say about sibling
