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Hi Haters, We See You.

Channing Joseph 2016-08-10 17:30:00
Dining Eat

Eat: Newest Neighbor, Corridor

Peter Lawrence Kane 2016-08-10 17:30:00
News Feature

Fox News

Tom Molanphy 2016-08-10 17:30:00

Music All Shook Down

Live Review: Alabama Shakes and Kurt Vile Made Their Own Weather at the Greek

Zack Ruskin Mon., August 15 @ 11:58 AM

Brittany Howard didn’t chat much between songs, but with a voice like that, why waste it on talking? Taking the stage for the second of two sold out shows at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre, the Alabama Shake's singer made sure More >>
News The Snitch

S.F. Seen As Perfect Host City For Summer Olympics － in 2088

Max DeNike Mon., August 15 @ 11:30 AM

Those who’ve lived here long enough might remember that San Francisco really, desperately wanted to host the 2016 Olympics. In 2005, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom put forth a bid that would have included the entire Bay Area participating in the mega-sporting More >>
Music All Shook Down

Premiere: Dangermaker's New Single "I Won't Let You Down" Is A Love Song, But It's Definitely Not Mushy

Jessie Schiewe Mon., August 15 @ 10:43 AM

Dark-pop quartet Dangermaker aren't known for crafting love songs. Formed in 2008, the San Francisco band has released three EPs and one full-length album, all the while managing to avoid the mushy topic of love, focusing instead on subjects related More >>
Culture The Exhibitionist

Go Color In a Bag of Dicks! (With This Totally NSFW Coloring Book)

Peter Lawrence Kane Fri., August 12 @ 3:37 PM

Sometimes, after a bad breakup, you just have to have sex with as many people as possible until you stop feeling like shit about yourself. But if you're artist Nathan Rapport, a onetime San Franciscan who now lives and works More >>
Dining SFoodie

Eat This: the Pork Bowl at Dabba

Peter Lawrence Kane Fri., August 12 @ 2:15 PM

There's something slightly suspicious about the category "fast-casual." Lunch is so rushed, and it's easy to settle for an unsatisfactory meal just to get something in your stomach, that a few buzzwords can lure us in. Fast-casual is the food More >>
Dining SFoodie

Friday Eight: Farm to Fork SF's High-Production Philanthropic Pop-Up

Peter Lawrence Kane Fri., August 12 @ 1:53 PM

Plus the short-lived Antoinette will become Limewood, Second Act Marketplace winds down, and Hamlet temporarily closes for a second act of its own. [jump] Claremont Club's Ill-Fated Restaurant Space to Become Limewood For a short time this year, it was More >>
Music All Shook Down

The Pessimist: Experiencing "1 Night" With Lil Yachty

Jessie Schiewe Fri., August 12 @ 12:21 PM

Eighteen-year-old rapper Lil Yachty has been making headlines for the last seven months, starting with his modeling stunt at Kanye West's Yeezy Season 3 fashion show/album release party at Madison Square Garden. Since then, he's been remarkably active. The More >>
News The Snitch

Filmmaker’s Time-Lapse Video Shows Stunning SF Fog

Max DeNike Fri., August 12 @ 11:45 AM

Loaded question: What’s the most iconic thing about San Francisco? Those are certainly fighting words in some circles, but mention a certain weather phenomenon and you’ll probably get few arguments against. The city’s fog is, to put it mildly, legendary. More >>
Culture The Exhibitionist

Fighting for the Soul of the Republic, in the S.F. Mime Troupe's Schooled

Peter Lawrence Kane Thu., August 11 @ 6:40 PM

Move over, Common Core. Babbittry is the dogma at the former Eleanor Roosevelt Academy once it becomes the Learning Academy of Virtual Achievement (or LAVA) in the San Francisco Mime Troupe's production of Schooled. With encomiums to "make American More >>
Dining SFoodie

Drink This: The Horchata Latte at Noman Coffee

Peter Lawrence Kane Thu., August 11 @ 1:00 PM

In Homeric myth, Odysseus fools Polyphemus the man-eating cyclops by getting him drunk, telling him his name is "Noman," and driving a spear into his eye. When the other cyclopses ask Polyphemus who hurt him, he says, "Noman!" and Odysseys More >>
Dining SFoodie

Thursday Six: 20th Street Block Party Announces Its Food Lineup

Peter Lawrence Kane Thu., August 11 @ 12:30 PM

Plus 1601 Bar & Kitchen throws a Sherry Pairing Dinner, Buffalo Theory hits Polk Street, the Girl Scouts of Northern California announce that they will sell S'mores in their 2017 lineup, and a nonexistent taco won an award. [jump] What More >>
Music All Shook Down

Video
UK Post-Punkers, Shopping, Are The Best Band You've Never Heard Of

Jessie Schiewe Thu., August 11 @ 10:00 AM

Who said punk music isn't for dancing? Certainly not the members of UK trio Shopping, because, well, that's exactly what their fast-paced, bass-heavy music is meant for. Formed in 2012, the band released its debut album, Consumer Complaints, last More >>
News The Snitch

Millennial Problems: Most Pokemon-Obsessed City Is NOT S.F.

Max DeNike Thu., August 11 @ 9:45 AM

We stumbled upon something this week that has us utterly flummoxed. How, for the love of all things Squirtle, did San Francisco only register eighth on a list of Top 10 Cities Most Interested in Pokemon Go?! Well, millennial More >>
Film Film

Little Men

Sherilyn Connelly Wed., August 10 @ 5:30 PM

At first glance, Ira Sachs' Little Men would appear to be geared toward those who thought his previous film Love Is Strange didn't spend nearly enough time on the travails of the straight teenage boy. Thankfully, it's playing on a More >>
Music Some Thoughts of a Certain Sound

Top Five Parties This Week Plus Notable Local Records

Chris Zaldua Wed., August 10 @ 5:30 PM

Each year, As You Like It throws a free day party in Golden Gate Park — a kind of "thank you" to fans and supporters. Each year, the lineup features a diverse selection of mostly local DJs, spinning daytime-appropriate tunes More >>
Sponsored Travel

Road to Hana

Kyle Ellison Wed., August 10 @ 5:30 PM

Maui’s famous Road to Hana is far from being a secret. This scenic, squiggly, serpentine road has been Maui’s top highlight for so many years that seemingly everyone who’s traveled to Maui has tales of the tropical adventure. Those tales, More >>
News News

Hi Haters, We See You.

Channing Joseph Wed., August 10 @ 5:30 PM

San Francisco has long been a sanctuary for outsiders. Hippies, hobos, queers, and kinksters of all colors have called it home, and it is tempting to believe that hateful extremists could never gain a foothold here. Yet they already have. More >>
Dining Eat

Eat: Newest Neighbor, Corridor

Peter Lawrence Kane Wed., August 10 @ 5:30 PM

It's a little hard to get excited about a restaurant group. Like when a car commercial boasts that a mid-size sedan is the "best in its segment," it's a bit too dry of a concept to really give anyone goosebumps. More >>
Music Hear This

Alabama Shakes @ The Greek Theatre

Zack Ruskin Wed., August 10 @ 5:30 PM

Remember the claw machine at the pizza parlor? Few things compared to the sheer joy of managing to snatch not one but two prizes with a single play. Well, the Alabama Shakes' upcoming concert at UC Berkeley's Greek Theatre may More >>
Film Film

Anthropoid

Jeffrey Edalatpour Wed., August 10 @ 5:30 PM

If anyone's forgotten what a country looks like after a fascist rises to power, Anthropoid will be a welcome reminder. This World War II film is set in Prague after the Nazis have taken control of what was then Czechoslovakia. More >>
Culture Art

Depopulation Agenda

Jonathan Curiel Wed., August 10 @ 5:30 PM

Lauren Marsolier says she'sliberated from traditional photography. Forget asking people to pose. Forget waiting for what Henri Cartier-Bresson, her French antecedent, called "the decisive moment." There are no singular moments in Marsolier's images. Hell, there aren't even any people in More >>
Music Music

Faith No More Will Re-Release Its Out-of-Print Debut After Founding Bassist Bill Gould Discovered The Masters 8

Jessie Schiewe Wed., August 10 @ 5:30 PM

It's San Francisco in the early '80s, and Faith No More is a little-known punk-rock band consisting of four musicians all under the age of 21. In their short time together, they've already had three name changes — previously they More >>
News Sucka Free City

Crime Doesn't Pay, Even for Shrimp Boy

Jonah Owen Lamb Wed., August 10 @ 5:30 PM

Alicia Lo was hit with two blows last week. First, her boyfriend, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, was sentenced to life in prison for ordering the murder of a rival and for running an organized crime outfit out of a fraternal More >>
Film Film

Miss Sharon Jones!

Sherilyn Connelly Wed., August 10 @ 5:30 PM

With all due respect to Nuts! and Aferim!, no film this year has earned its exclamation point quite like famed documentarian Barbara Kopple's Miss Sharon Jones!. Miss Jones is a gifted soul singer who was marginalized for decades by a More >>
Music Hear This

Ben Harper @ The Fox Theater

Jessie Schiewe Wed., August 10 @ 5:30 PM

"Shibui" is a Japanese word used to describe an aesthetic that is simple and subtle, but at the same time covertly complex, with hidden details and depths. It is also the perfect word to describe Ben Harper's music. On its More >>
News Feature

Fox News

Tom Molanphy Wed., August 10 @ 5:30 PM

On the same day in May that President Obama made bison the "National Mammal," a calf struggled across a frigid river in Yellowstone National Park's Lamar Valley. Seemingly abandoned, it stumbled to the warmth of a car's tailpipe, shivering. Taking More >>

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The Soiled Dove
Vau de Vire Society presents The Soiled Dove – an immersive, circus-infused dinner theater set in the reincarnation of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast red light district. Friday and Saturday, July 15th & 16th. From the co-creators of the Edwardian, New Bohemia NYE, Lagunitas Beer Circus…comes an event that’ll titillate your every sense. Set amidst a thematic backdrop inspired by SF’s notorious gold rush era, guests can expect an engaging evening filled with danger, decadence, world-renowned performance and an innovative culinary extravaganza worthy of royalty. Guests are encouraged to submerge themselves in the revelry by putting a little (or a lot) of effort into their attire—styles that cover Victorian, Edwardian, 49er, Harlots, Crimps or their most stylish period couture. Circus and theatrics by Vau de Vire Society. Interactive gourmet dinner by Work of Art. Music by Jazz Mafia/Realistic Orchestra. Taking place under Italy’s Tortorna Big Top on Point Alameda. Ages 21 +. TheSoiledDove.com or facebook.com/vaudeviresociety