Google Glass Explorer opens up on bar fight, privacy
Last week, I interviewed a Google Glass “Explorer” for an article about Glass and privacy. It wasn’t Sarah Slocum.“Explorer” is a Google term for people enrolled in a program to beta-test Glass, a...
View ArticleMusic Listings: March 5-11, 2014
WEDNESDAY 5ROCKBoom Boom Room: 1601 Fillmore, San Francisco. “The Larkade,” w/ Major Powers & The Lo-Fi Symphony, Rachel Lark, JK47, 9:30pm, free.Bottom of the Hill: 1233 17th St., San Francisco....
View ArticleSF votes to ban plastic water bottles on city property
San Francisco continues to lead the way in the nation’s environmental policy, with the Board of Supervisors today [Tues/4] voting unanimously to bar the city from buying plastic water bottles and to...
View ArticleBleached brings the sunshine at the Rickshaw Stop
Bleached at the Rickshaw Stop, Fri/28.PHOTOS BY ERIN DAGEIt's no question that Bleached has come into success within the past year with the release of its debut album, Ride Your Heart, on record label...
View ArticleHacker pranks San Francisco FBI using Google Maps exploit
A hacker utilized a Google Maps exploit to reroute calls to the San Francisco FBI office and the Secret Service, allowing him to record the calls. Image via ValleywagAn ex-Marine turned hacker used his...
View ArticleMessage to techies: Identify with your community, not just your industry
Yelp "Community Managers" from around the world are gathered in the company's San Francisco headquarters.Steven T. JonesI appreciated the opportunity to address a couple hundred Yelp community managers...
View ArticleListen: New M. Lockwood Porter single "Chris Bell" pays tribute to the...
M. Lockwood Porter opens for Mirah tomorrow night [Thu/6] at Brick & Mortar Music Hall.This happens very rarely, but every now and then, I'm actually in step with some kind of larger musical...
View ArticleMore than 86,000 say they’d risk arrest over oil pipeline
On Mon/3, nine environmental activists were arrested in San Francisco for marching through the financial district and entering One Spear Tower, the building that houses local offices of the State...
View ArticleModern English
TABLEHOPPING Eat like royals: New openings include The Coachman, The Square (N.B. not related to Square), sweet coffee spots, and hot hot dogs.Hawt dawg! Go bun wild at Los Shucos.culture@sfbg.comCHOW...
View ArticleYesterday, today, and Tomorrow
Cartoonist Dan Perkins reflects on 25 years of 'This Modern World'Tom Tomorrow's most recent bookARTIST PHOTO BY JP TROSTLEcheryl@sfbg.comVISUAL ART Tom Tomorrow's real name is Dan Perkins. This is...
View ArticleNorman Solomon: The problem with Obama denouncing a breach of international...
International law is suddenly very popular in Washington. President Obama responded to Russian military intervention in the Crimea by accusing Russia of a “breach of international law.” Secretary of...
View ArticleJason "Shake" Anderson is Oakland's 'Candidate X'
Illustration by Sean MorganCandidate XIn our Jan. 1 issue, the Bay Guardian spun the tale of Candidate X, a fictional progressive mayoral candidate aiming to save San Francisco’s wonderfully weird soul...
View ArticleGoogle Glass Explorer opens up on bar fight, privacy
Last week, I interviewed a Google Glass “Explorer” for an article about Glass and privacy. It wasn’t Sarah Slocum.“Explorer” is a Google term for people enrolled in a program to beta-test Glass, a...
View ArticleMusic Listings: March 5-11, 2014
WEDNESDAY 5ROCKBoom Boom Room: 1601 Fillmore, San Francisco. “The Larkade,” w/ Major Powers & The Lo-Fi Symphony, Rachel Lark, JK47, 9:30pm, free.Bottom of the Hill: 1233 17th St., San Francisco....
View ArticleSF votes to ban plastic water bottles on city property
San Francisco continues to lead the way in the nation’s environmental policy, with the Board of Supervisors today [Tues/4] voting unanimously to bar the city from buying plastic water bottles and to...
View ArticleBleached brings the sunshine at the Rickshaw Stop
Bleached at the Rickshaw Stop, Fri/28.PHOTOS BY ERIN DAGEIt's no question that Bleached has come into success within the past year with the release of its debut album, Ride Your Heart, on record label...
View ArticleHacker pranks San Francisco FBI using Google Maps exploit
A hacker utilized a Google Maps exploit to reroute calls to the San Francisco FBI office and the Secret Service, allowing him to record the calls. Image via ValleywagAn ex-Marine turned hacker used his...
View ArticleMessage to techies: Identify with your community, not just your industry
Yelp "Community Managers" from around the world are gathered in the company's San Francisco headquarters.Steven T. JonesI appreciated the opportunity to address a couple hundred Yelp community managers...
View ArticleListen: New M. Lockwood Porter single "Chris Bell" pays tribute to the...
M. Lockwood Porter opens for Mirah tomorrow night [Thu/6] at Brick & Mortar Music Hall.This happens very rarely, but every now and then, I'm actually in step with some kind of larger musical...
View ArticleMore than 86,000 say they’d risk arrest over oil pipeline
On Mon/3, nine environmental activists were arrested in San Francisco for marching through the financial district and entering One Spear Tower, the building that houses local offices of the State...
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