Like they did with New York and Tokyo earlier in the year, Foursquare has put its check-in data in San Francisco to good use. The company has condensed a years' worth of its check-in data into a single day and visualized it, showing where and when residents of different cities check in to the site.
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Check Out This Mesmerizing Video Tracking Foursquare Check-Ins in NYC and Tokyo
Classic cocktails are a little bit like ghosts: apparitions from bygone eras who have weathered the test of time, and who are not allowed to cross to the other side until their work in this mortal plane is complete. Originally commanded by great spirit guides of the 19th and 20th centuries, conjuring up one of these cocktails to do your bidding merely requires performing the proper incantations with your jigger, while uttering the commands from your bar necronomicon.
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Spin! Pizza has signed a franchising agreement to open five outposts in San Mateo County within the next seven years. Founded in 2005, Spin! currently has five locations around Kansas City and recently opened its first restaurant in Orange County. The Spin! founders and owners also launched the nationally successful Einstein Bros. Bagels chain of delis. Spin! is best known for preparing everything by hand in-house daily, from the three types of pizza crust to the mozzarella and blood orange sangria. There's no word yet on exactly where and when you'll be seeing this Kansas City pizzeria opening on the Peninsula. Stay tuned.
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The San Francisco Album Project at the Chapel on Valencia Street has garnered national attention for amazing monthly drag performances set to seminal pop music albums, performed start to finish. (November is Roxy Music's Roxy Music. Huzzah!)
Of course, for everything happening on Valencia that you can't physically ingest, a new restaurant must open, lest the laws of physics be violated. So the Chapel -- where you can already eat casually -- has expanded, opening the somewhat more formal Vestry. As the entire space was a funeral home from 1914 until the 1970s (and later, an experimental college), there is a macabre atmosphere throughout.
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