More good news for Bay Area fans of fast, technical rock. For those of you who missed their coveted Slim's date, we get em at the Great American Music Hall. Bring your ear plugs!
Full release after jump.
Thursday --11.1.07 Great American Music Hall --San Francisco, CA W/ No Age
Easy, Exotic, and a Great Case for Gender Bias!
By Chef John from Food Wishes Video Recipes
Today’s post is perfect for the person that’s afraid to try anything that seems exotic because they think it’s going to be hard to prepare. Couscous has to be one of the easiest things on the planet to make. Can you boil stock and pour it into a bowl of Couscous? Then this dish is for you. This was a hard demo to edit down to a reasonable length, so I did go pretty fast with some of the steps and I thought I better give some additional info to help you follow along. So, I’ve put a few steps along with the usual ingredient list...The Chronicle scores a big win in the you're-fucking-kidding-me-right? department today with their "news" about this crazy new eating utensil called -- wait for it -- the "spork" (their quotes, not mine).
Yes folks, under the headline "What's New," writer Lynne Char Bennett informs us that the spork is, in fact, a spoon combined with a fork. But wait! There's more! If you buy one of these magical devices, you'll "never worry about having to use disposable plastic forks or spoons again." Whew, what a relief!
Oh wait. Apparently sporks aren't so new after all. Besides being ubiquitous in school cafeteria lunches and KFC meals since time memoriam, they've also been mass-maufactured since at least the late 1800s.
Who says newspapers aren't relevant anymore?
-- Brian Bernbaum
Did anyone catch Ozzfest 2007, the most laughable metal tour in America? Was it any good?
More importantly, who is actually going to attend this concet, other than a bunch of douchebags? Either way, Rob Zombie should be headlining and Ozzy should be opening, IMHO. -David Downs
From the P.R.:
OZZY OSBOURNECONFIRMS FIRST OAKLAND SOLO CONCERT IN MORE THAN A DECADE
SET TO ROCK ORACLE ARENA ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18th 2007
WITH SPECIAL GUEST ROB ZOMBIE WHOSE NUMBER ONE FILM 'HALLOWEEN' BROKE ALL RECORDS FOR THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND
TWO OF ROCK'S BEST AND MOST DYNAMIC FRONTMEN IN ONE UNFORGETTABLE
EXTRAVAGANZA
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TICKETS ON SALE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH @ 10:00 AM
OZZY OSBOURNE will bring his massive 40-concert North American tour to
ORACLE Arena in Oakland, CA on Sunday, November 18th 2007. This will be
his first Oakland solo concert in more than a decade and will feature
special guest, Rob Zombie. The tour follows BLACK RAIN- Ozzy's
critically acclaimed first album of new studio material in six years and
ZOMBIE's hit film Halloween, which premiered number one at the box
office in its debut weekend and broke all Labor Day Weekend records,
grossing an estimated 31 million dollars.
Tickets are on sale Saturday, September 29th at 10:00 AM and can be
purchased at the ORACLE Arena Box Office, all Ticketmaster locations, by
calling (510) 625-TIXS or online at Ticketmaster.com. Tickets are
subject to applicable service charges and event time and date are
subject to change.
Promoted by AEG Live, these concerts will mark OZZY's first solo arena
tour in six years and pairs two of rock's best and most dynamic frontmen
in one unforgettable extravaganza.
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This just in from improv troup SPF7:
Breakups suck. Believe us.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etWo-nJ99Bc
Also, SPF7 has two big shows coming up in the next week.
Saturday, September 29:
The Eureka Theatre in San Francisco (w/ Crisis Hopkins and Blind Dynamite)
215 Jackson St.
8:00 PM/ $15.00
It's us and two other really great improv troupes. They also have cooler names than us. At least, I think that at first, but then I think about our name again, and it's blandness starts to make it cool again. Like how the White Stripes don't have a bass player. Unless Jack plays it instead of a guitar and then lays those tracks under eachother, hence cheating the concept of his sound. What? There's gonna be beer at the show. Come see it.
Wednesday, October 3:
Headlining One Night at the Purple Onion in San Francisco
9:00 PM/$10
The Purple Onion is the best room for comedy in the world. It's legendary, it's awesome looking, it's classy, and SFWeekly just voted it the best comedy club in the city. One Night is an awesome showcase of the city's up and coming comedic talent, and we're really excited to be headlining. Seriously, come to this show. We're going to crush, or we quit.
Hugs and kisses.
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SPF 7
www.spf7.org
www.myspace.com/spf7
www.youtube.com/spf7
thanks guys.-David Downs
Check out this "Baconfest 2007" posting from Tribe.net:
It's that time of the year again. Time to come up with some great Bacon dishes and party down. It starts around 5pm Oct 6th @ 91 Lobos street in Sanfran(right off the 280) Bring a Bacon dish,extra bacon and party materials(and extra camping stove would be nice too). I'll be making Prawns stuffed with blue cheese, wrapped in Bacon AND Bacon Bloody Mary's Spread the word and I'll see you all there (it's the night before Decom)
-Otto Von Danger
Hell yeah. The world's most perfect food! (Well, actually that would be bacon and pepperoni pizza, but I digress.) Still, I don't get it — he mentions Decompression, which means that he's a Burner, but surely 99.9 percent of all Burners are fuckin' vegan, right? A meat-eating, bacon-frying, Bloody Mary-chugging hippie? Since when? -- John Graham, Listings Editor
You gotta be a sad sack of shit to lose a 12-er of beer and then post to Craigslist to find it.
Then again maybe it's stealth comedy. Here's the excerpt:
Hi,I bought 12 cans of beer from smart and final (El Camino, Santa Clara) and forgot to pick them from the cart (they were lying in the platform below the cart basket). Please email me if you found them. I'll share couple of them with you :-)
Thanks!
French Laundry impresario Thomas Keller may officially be the new Britney Spears of the food press, with stories far and near popping up to declare his fall from the dizzying apex of fine dining.
With five Keller-brand restaurants under his belt -- three restaurants, two bistros -- as well as two bakeries and a catering business, inquiring minds want to know: Is the king of French-American cuisine getting too big for his britches?
As if all those ambitious projects weren't enough, there are also plans in the works for "an inn, butcher shop and burger joint," according to Bloomberg News, and -- like the final nail in the coffin of doubters everywhere -- the line of Thomas Keller frozen food, as well as the admission that Bouchon uses frozen French fries. There's nothing like frozen food to raise the ire of high-falutin' foodies.
While Michael Bauer today shrugs off the hullabaloo over Keller's use of frozen French fries saying "Fresh or frozen, I don't really care. To me, the proof is in the eating," over at the New York Times, Frank Bruni seems disappointed by Keller's new directions, saying " ... it represents a diversification and division of interests that arguably contradict Mr. Keller's words and posture in the past."
Frankly, we don't give a shit if he uses frozen French fries, it's not like we can afford to eat at Keller's restaurants anyway.
-- Brian Bernbaum
By Meredith Brody
A couple of weeks ago, two friends who are expatriate New Yorkers who have lived and worked in Mexico City and San Miguel de Allende for the last decade came to town hungry for Chinese food, in short supply in their neighborhoods. (And they should know: Jim Johnston is the author of Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide for the Curious Traveler, and Nick Gilman of Good Food in Mexico City: A Guide to Food Stalls, Fondas, and Fine Dining. Full disclosure: I contributed a blurb to Nick’s book.)
The Foggy Bridge Wine Cruise has been sailing San Francisco Bay less than a month, but already most of the cruises -- offered for evenings and Sunday brunch, $130 a pop -- have been booked solid. As we stood in line on Pier E, next to the Ferry Building, and looked around at the crowd, it made sense why: Foggy Bridge knows their target demographic. Silver hair, and lots of it.
Urged by the pamphlet to "dress as if you are having Sunday brunch with the president on his yacht," most guests were formally clad, with a few of the snappiest dressers wielding Panama hats and folded handkerchiefs -- a little cheesy, but then, it's not so different than any other theme party.
