We were sad to read that one of favorite spots for First Thursdays, the second-floor galleries at 77 Geary are slated to shutter to make room for -- yes, you guess it, tech, according to KQED.
On the same day KQED was sharing this news, the Guardian asked, "Is San Francisco Losing Its Soul?" The article noting how much the City has changed since Lawrence Ferlinghetti moved here -- the creative enclave of the City By the Bay morphing into a gentrified landscape, where artistic pursuits are secondary to tech (among other observations).
Chances are, Disney songs have been a part of your life. Whether you haven't heard one since you were seven years old or if you have the entire Beauty and the Beast soundtrack on your iPod, we bet you have some memories associated with at least a few Disney songs.
If any of those songs are from Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, Winnie The Pooh, The Aristocats, or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, they were written by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman.
But those aren't their only songs, the Sherman Brothers, wrote the songs for over 30 Disney films, as well as "It's a Small World," the oh-so-catchy tune featured at the Disneyland ride by the same name.
Collectively known as the Sherman Brothers, the songwriting siblings wrote more movie soundtracks than any other duo of composers ever.
What a truly fascinating season. The Bachelor has gone full-meta, people, and the comparative literature deconstructionist geek inside me is freaking out.
Last night's episode was all about the Fantasy Suite, a regular event in the franchise that some TV writers have referred to as (and I paraphrase) "an example of the strange sexual politics of the show." It's basically the one time that the Bachelor and the remaining three contestants can be alone without a camera, and its implied that they get naked and bang the night away. In essence, he's auditioning his future wife's sexual compatibility like some Arabian sultan.
But last night something went terribly wrong... or right, depending on how you look at it. The Fourth Wall of the Bachelor came tumbling down in a cloud of Drakkar Noir and champagne when Andi, one of the final three, actually told the truth about the show.
No other actor has a reputation quite like Nicolas Cage. Because of his overly-dramatic acting style, the ridiculous plots of his movies, and the massive amount of Nic Cage memes to which he owes his enormous Internet popularity, Cage has become the celebrity that everyone loves to hate on, even if they secretly love him.
Perhaps able to describe the Nicolas Cage phenomenon best is DJ and event-planner Ezra Croft, who wrote on the website for his Nicolas Cage art show that "Nicolas Cage is an enigma, of misunderstood sex appeal, raw, unfiltered power." Yes, you read that correctly -- Croft is hosting a Nicolas Cage art show.
