Big Soda's sketchy grassroots support
The Guardian published a story today fact checking a list of local businesses who oppose the Sugary Beverage Tax, a list used by American Beverage Association funded publicists to slam the tax. The...
View ArticleNoise Pop goes electronic: The indie rock festival continues branching into...
By Whitney PhaneufOver the course of its 22 years, the Noise Pop Festival has expanded its definition of indie beyond rock and into genres like hip-hop and electronic music. The festival had to evolve...
View ArticleEyewitness account from Molotov’s conflicts with Google Glass Explorer’s story
A Google Glass "Explorer" and social media consultant from San Mateo made international headlines after visiting San Francisco for being “verbally and physically assaulted ... because of some Google...
View ArticleSynthesizers, saxophones, and one African grey parrot: The Other Minds music...
Charles AmirkhanianPHOTO BY MICHAEL MACORBy Micah DubreuilWhen Charles Amirkhanian was 5 years old, he received a John Cage record as a gift from his father. It was a mistake — the elder Amirkhanian...
View ArticleA personal goodbye to Bush Man 2, RIP
Courtesy adventuretimeinsanfrancisco.blogspot.comSan Francisco has lost one of its own. Gregory Jacobs, KTVU confirmed today, passed away of heart failure last Sunday. He’s less known by his full name,...
View ArticleFeds indict SFPD officers for allegedly stealing from the poor
Adachi showed reporters video footage that appeared to show SFPD officer stealing from SRO residents in 2011.Steven T. JonesUpdate: Click here for the latest as this story develops.Federal civil rights...
View ArticleSF just won the Beyoncé video parody contest
...with this sensuous art film about the deepest love of all, the love of donuts. "Dunkin Love," for your viewing pleasure below, features Bay Area artists Reggie White and Adrian Anchondo, and was...
View ArticleCourtney Barnett gets droll at the Rickshaw Stop
Courtney Barnett at the Rickshaw Stop Monday night. By Sloane MartinStanding outside the Rickshaw Stop before Courtney Barnett's set, I'm watching her chat with her bandmates when one of the girls...
View ArticleFeds indict SFPD cops, alleging a drug ring and shakedowns of the poor
Federal grand juries today indicted four San Francisco Police Department officers, an SFPD sergeant, and a former SFPD officer on a variety of corruption, civil rights violations, and theft charges...
View ArticleCoal export facility considered for Port of Oakland
UPDATE: The Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners voted to reject the proposals.A company that operates a coal mine in Colorado is looking to ship its fossil fuel products to Asia via the Port of...
View ArticlePromo: Dan Savage’s HUMP! Tour (Extra screening added!)
It's the sexiest, funniest, most creative dirty movie fest in the world: HUMP!Since 2005 the HUMP! Film Festival has challenged ordinary people from all over the Pacific Northwest to become temporary,...
View ArticleI watched Rebelution next to Dusty Baker
Rebelution at the Independent, Tue/25.PHOTOS BY LAURA B. CHILDS“Put in this story that you watched Rebelution next to Dusty Baker,” said Dusty Baker. As I stood against the railing on the upper level...
View ArticleRIP Josh Ezelle, SF house pioneer
Horrible news this morning -- pioneering house DJ Josh Ezelle died last night in a motorcycle crash in Thailand. He was 42.Read more »
View ArticleMovers/Shakers: Two rare visits by European contemporary dance-makers this...
My Own BodiesHere are two very special opportunities to see (and, in at least one case, join in on) the work of some leading European contemporary dance/performance makers passing through town this...
View ArticleNoise Pop goes electronic: The indie rock festival continues branching into...
By Whitney PhaneufOver the course of its 22 years, the Noise Pop Festival has expanded its definition of indie beyond rock and into genres like hip-hop and electronic music. The festival had to evolve...
View ArticleEyewitness account from Molotov’s conflicts with Google Glass Explorer’s story
A Google Glass "Explorer" and social media consultant from San Mateo made international headlines after visiting San Francisco for being “verbally and physically assaulted ... because of some Google...
View ArticleSynthesizers, saxophones, and one African grey parrot: The Other Minds music...
Charles AmirkhanianPHOTO BY MICHAEL MACORBy Micah DubreuilWhen Charles Amirkhanian was 5 years old, he received a John Cage record as a gift from his father. It was a mistake — the elder Amirkhanian...
View ArticleA personal goodbye to Bush Man 2, RIP
Courtesy adventuretimeinsanfrancisco.blogspot.comSan Francisco has lost one of its own. Gregory Jacobs, KTVU confirmed today, passed away of heart failure last Sunday. He’s less known by his full name,...
View ArticleFeds indict SFPD officers for allegedly stealing from the poor
Adachi showed reporters video footage that appeared to show SFPD officer stealing from SRO residents in 2011.Steven T. JonesUpdate: Click here for the latest as this story develops.Federal civil rights...
View ArticleSF just won the Beyoncé video parody contest
...with this sensuous art film about the deepest love of all, the love of donuts. "Dunkin Love," for your viewing pleasure below, features Bay Area artists Reggie White and Adrian Anchondo, and was...
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