Arts & Entertainment Interview: Reverend Billy As you walk around and see stores decorated for Christmas before Halloween, it’s hard not to think that consumerism has gone out of control in this country. Unlike other problems, there’s
Arts & Entertainment SF Works: the Handwriting Analyst By Evan Roberts Behold! The handwriting analyst. If you're reading this via an RSS reader, please click through to access the sound file. And, as always, if you have or know of a
Arts & Entertainment SFGate Dupes a Few Trolls In an effort to tame the trolls, SFGate's site (as well as a few others like ThinkProgress) use software from an outside company that implements a unique "block user" function. This feature blocks
SF News Glen Park Woman Raped Twice By Same Assailant Oh Jesus H. Christ, this is an upsetting story. We caught wind of this today on SF Weekly's The Snitch We're (not at all) surprised that major local media outlets haven't reported on
Arts & Entertainment Who's Gossiping, Getting Murdered On Your Street? While walking around our neighborhood the other day, we noticed a couple of cop cars outside a residence, with the fuzz scurrying about. Being the nosy, concerned citizens that we are, we immediately
Arts & Entertainment Great Scott: Novato Goes Hollywood! Disney & Co. will be setting up shop at Hamilton Landing, where they will convert two aircraft hangars leftover from its Air Force base days. According to the Chron, next year ImageMovers Digital
Arts & Entertainment New Alternate-Reality Game Forces You To Walk, Interact Last week Numb3ers -- that Tiffany network show starring the reportedly-difficult-to-work-with Rob Morrow -- featured an Alternate-Reality Game (ARG) as a plot device. It turns out that this was an actual launch for
Arts & Entertainment SF Works: the Animal Communicator By Evan Roberts After showing a spirit the face of her killer and helping people chat with loved ones on the other side, animal communicator Charles Peden now helps animals, well, communicate with
Arts & Entertainment SF Works: the Gold Teeth Maker By Evan Roberts Roy works at Mr.Bling Bling. And he makes your grill look sparklingly tacky or superfly, depending on where you stand with gilded teeth. Check it. If you're reading this
SF News Oracle Open World Chaos to Commence Okay, granted, we're personalizing this a bit. We digress. But Oracle Open World causes so much congestion in the downtown/SOMA area; we're surprised that this is still allowed to go on. But
Arts & Entertainment SF Works: the Body Waxer By Evan Roberts Today, we hear about the glories of body waxing, spreading cheeks, and holding your package over at Potrero Hill-based Lonni's Punani (you heard us...Lonni's Punani. [chortle]) Just try listening
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Back in the News Thanks to a 5.6 earthquake and tonight's "Will there be a Halloween in the Castro or not?" question plaguing the minds of locals and bridge and tunnelers alike, San Francisco is back
SF News Your Earthquake Review Either under the table for protection or hiding from someone sporting a fiendish fannypack-khakis combo, Catherine Kilkenny of San Jose's Willow Glen looks scared as all hell, doesn't she? Many people were. Last
SF News Go Blackle™ Yourself Australia's Heap Media created Blackle™, a Google-powered search engine that provides Internet users with an environmentally-friendly alternative to search engines that use an energy-hogging white background. Apparently, having a black background saves a
Arts & Entertainment Bill O'Reilly: As Dated As He Wants to Be Someone put this man out of his misery. This is just...sad. It seems that NBC 11 caught Bill O'Reilly's film crew taking in the (non)X-rated partying that went on at last
SF News High Nerd Concentrations = Top Blogging Markets Who knew? According to the Scarborough Research -- an institute that measures the lifestyles, shopping patterns, media behaviors, and demographics of unholy, evil American consumers -- San Francisco was ranked as one of
Arts & Entertainment Examining Today's <em>Examiner</em> Headline On our way to Subway Whole Foods for lunch this afternoon, we noticed this headline in today's Examiner. And we must say: we love it. The paper is finally living up to its
Arts & Entertainment SF Works: Knife Sharpener By Evan Roberts One of the few remaining knife sharpeners left in SF these days, this is a must-listen. Why? Because it's important to get your knives sharpened. (America's Test Kitchen can't stress
Arts & Entertainment SoCal Fires Monopolize Local News Pay attention to us, pretty please? We promise we'll be good, and stay out of the Castro on Halloween. We'll even maybe pretend to care about mayoral elections. Well, if we try, will
Arts & Entertainment Craig Newmark Visits Stephen Colbert Behold: Craig Newmark sits in on The Colbert Report. (We had to find out about it on Laughing Squid. Always pay your cable bill, kids!) Read more about it here and here.
Arts & Entertainment Village Voice Media Rulers Larkin and Lacey Arrested Oh my. According to the Snitch: Two executives of Village Voice Media, the parent company of the SF Weekly, were arrested in Arizona last night in connection with a story they wrote for
Arts & Entertainment SF Works: Kellyann the Sound Healer By Evan Roberts Kellyann offers her throat to the divine. Take a listen, won't you? If you're reading this via an RSS reader, please click through to access the sound file. And, as
SF News All I Need are Some Tasty Waves, a Cool Buzz, Matt Gonzalez, and I'm Fine According to the story, Matt really wasn't sure if his bud Sean was making a joke or not (although we've yet to hear Sean Penn make a joke and can't be sure he
Arts & Entertainment Catching Up with Former KTVU Anchor Leslie Griffith (Don't go looking for this somewhat mean-spirited article online kids - it's been electronically dissappeared. Or rather, it does not appear where one would expect to find it on the any of the
