Goodies by Anna: Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Strawberry Coulis
Culture

Goodies by Anna: Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Strawberry Coulis

This pound cake is a great recipe to have on hand for a delicious, fool-proof dessert that everyone will love. The addition of cream cheese…

Supervisor Campos “doing everything we can to make sure the Tamale Lady stays in business”
Business

Supervisor Campos “doing everything we can to make sure the Tamale Lady stays in business”

A week after a San Francisco bar said it would no longer be able to allow the “Tamale Lady” to serve her famous food at…

SF Giants Open Social Media Cafe At AT&T Park
Culture

SF Giants Open Social Media Cafe At AT&T Park

The San Francisco Giants, one of the most active sports teams on social media, today unveiled a new cafe at their ballpark dedicated to all…

Appealing TV: Storage Wars, Hannibal, Veep, and Whodunnit?
Culture

Appealing TV: Storage Wars, Hannibal, Veep, and Whodunnit?

E3 was this past week. That’s the Electronic Entertainment Expo, to those who don’t give a crap about video games. Besides games, the event showcased…

Weekend Watch: This Is the End, Man of Steel, and Pussy Riot!
Culture

Weekend Watch: This Is the End, Man of Steel, and Pussy Riot!

Man of Steel – Everywhere It’s the new Superman movie, and you’re either gonna see it, or you’re not. If you do see it, you’re…

Of Nanobots and Knitted Puppets: An Interview With They Might Be Giants’ John Flansburgh
Culture

Of Nanobots and Knitted Puppets: An Interview With They Might Be Giants’ John Flansburgh

While the world was waiting for the Apple Developers Conference to unveil its updates to operating systems and additions to iProducts, They Might Be Giants…

Appealing Events: TEEN Supporting Eleanor Friedberger at the Independent
Culture

Appealing Events: TEEN Supporting Eleanor Friedberger at the Independent

Fiery Furnaces frontwoman Eleanor Friedberger is set to play the Independent in support of her just-released sophomore LP Personal Record. Perhaps just as enthralling as…

Smokin’ Fast: Risk, Reward and the Dipsea Race
Culture

Smokin’ Fast: Risk, Reward and the Dipsea Race

It was a delightfully gray Sunday in Mill Valley when I arrived to pick up my bib for the 103rd Dipsea Race. Clouds shrouded Mount…

Men Planning 1000th (You Read That Right) Swim To Alcatraz Tuesday
Culture

Men Planning 1000th (You Read That Right) Swim To Alcatraz Tuesday

Not many people can say they’ve swam from San Francisco to Alcatraz but open water swimmers Gary Emich and Steven Hurwitz will mark their 1,000th…

Shots Fired: Rapper 2 Chainz Escapes Injury During Mission Street Mugging
Crime

Shots Fired: Rapper 2 Chainz Escapes Injury During Mission Street Mugging

Well-known rapper 2 Chainz was robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood on Sunday afternoon, police said today. The rapper, whose real…

Intimate Dynamics: Beth Orton Plays The Chapel
Culture

Intimate Dynamics: Beth Orton Plays The Chapel

Beth Orton is not one to be confined. The songstress is known as a pioneer in the combination genre of folktronica, finding success in the…

Appealing TV: Major Crimes, Chopped, Royal Pains, and Top Hooker
Culture

Appealing TV: Major Crimes, Chopped, Royal Pains, and Top Hooker

On the heels of the Breaking Bad finale penned by creator Vince Gilligan that made him cry, the first one sheet and teaser trailer announcing…

Energy Unleashed: Free Energy Plays Slims

It’s not easy pulling off an effortless air of positivity that is at once genuine and relatable. Those rose-colored glasses can only tint the world…

Weekend Watch: The Purge, The Internship, The Kings of Summer And More!
Culture

Weekend Watch: The Purge, The Internship, The Kings of Summer And More!

The Purge – Everywhere Dystopian future-meets home invasion horror movie starring Ethan Hawke. Now, I don’t really understand why letting everyone in America commit any…

Punk Prose: Parquet Courts Plays the Rickshaw Stop
Culture

Punk Prose: Parquet Courts Plays the Rickshaw Stop

Who says punk rock can’t hold a candle to literature? Though it may lean more towards giving authors a hot foot rather than commiserating in…

A Weekend-Long Party: Much Ado About Nothing
Culture

A Weekend-Long Party: Much Ado About Nothing

I wrote previously of Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing when it played the San Francisco International Film Festival, and mentioned my history with Shakespeare…

Komen Cutbacks Won’t Impact This Year’s SF Walk, Race for the Cure
Events

Komen Cutbacks Won’t Impact This Year’s SF Walk, Race for the Cure

The Susan G. Komen 3-Day fundraising walk will not return to the San Francisco region next year, officials from the breast cancer organization announced this…

An Afternoon in Wonderland SF (Slideshow)
Culture

An Afternoon in Wonderland SF (Slideshow)

As soon as my aunt Chris, Sparrow (my dog), and I set foot in Wonderland SF, we were greeted warmly by the vibrant proprietress Irene…

The Friendliest Of Skies: What To Wear On A Private Jet
Culture

The Friendliest Of Skies: What To Wear On A Private Jet

As I write this I am accomplishing three major life goals and am soon to live a fuck-you-that-aint-neva-gonna-happen-dream. 1. I’m writing a weekly column that…

SF Tops List Of Romantic Destinations
Culture

SF Tops List Of Romantic Destinations

San Francisco topped the list of the most romantic destinations in North America in a recent web listing. According to the travel dating website MissTravel.com,…

Bad Berries: Yet Another Local Hepatitis A Case Tied To Costco’s “Organic Antioxidant Blend”

A Hepatitis A case linked to a recalled frozen berry product has been reported in Santa Clara County and is at least the third case…

Appealing TV: America’s Got Talent, Total Blackout, Graceland, and Game of Thrones
Culture

Appealing TV: America’s Got Talent, Total Blackout, Graceland, and Game of Thrones

Summer season is upon us, the “put me in coach” of the television year. These shows are the the rag-tag bunch of misfits on the…

Weekend Watch: After Earth, Venus and Serena, Now You See Me
Culture

Weekend Watch: After Earth, Venus and Serena, Now You See Me

After Earth – Everywhere What’s that? You don’t hate M. Night Shyamalan yet? You’re willing to give him another shot? Well then this is the…

Deft Illusion: Now You See Me
Culture

Deft Illusion: Now You See Me

Here’s the thing about magicians: They’re kind of insufferable. Either they take themselves waaaay too seriously, or they’re irreverent, but come off as thinking they’re…

Way Past The Honeymoon Stage: Before Midnight
Culture

Way Past The Honeymoon Stage: Before Midnight

I’m going to come right out and say it: If you haven’t seen Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, do not–DO NOT–go see Before Midnight. It…