Arts and Culture

30 Sep 2014

A Funny Video About The Tech Industry Finally Giving Back to San Francisco

The funny video below launched today to promote One City, “an initiative bringing together San Francisco’s technology companies and its residents to find common solutions to issues facing our​ ​community”. It was made by Portal A and is filled with the Bay Area’s top political, tech, business, sports and entertainment personalities,

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29 Sep 2014

FREE Unknown Mortal Orchestra Show at The Chapel in SF Tonight

My boy Aaron just hipped me to this. He’s like “There’s a rad free show tonight.” And I said “Are you asking me on a date or are you telling me so I should write about it?”  He wasn’t asking me on a date…sad face. Anyways, Unknown Mortal Orchestra are

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29 Sep 2014

This Just In: FREE Brugal Rum and Appetizers at Distilled in NYC Tonight!

This bit of magic awaited me in my inbox this morning so I just had to share it. Apparently there’s gonna be FREE Brugal Rum and appetizers at Distilled in NYC tonight. I’m cutting and pasting all the info below: TONIGHT join Brugal Rum at Distilled tonight for a Monday Funday evening party at the main

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26 Sep 2014

City Shutterscape- Folsom Weekend in Licking Colour

Well, fellow denizens of Sodom, you’ve outdone yourself again.  Folsom weekend has come and past in all it’s smutty glory. Although the presence of creepy, square onlookers seems to increase every year, the true pervs that make this town great came out in force to show their freaky-deaky solidarity.  Sure

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25 Sep 2014

Privacy Tips for Anyone Who Sends Nude Selfies

I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t receive intimate photos of a lover’s ‘cash and prizes’, and widespread sexting and oversharing are probably with us to stay. But people, we’ve got to be vigilant about sexting intelligently to avoid personal risk. In the above selfie, we

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25 Sep 2014

When The Savoy Tivoli was the Heart of North Beach Bohemia

In The City That Was, Bohemian Archivist P Segal tells a weekly story of what you all missed: the days when artists, writers, musicians, and unemployed visionaries were playing hard in the city’s streets and paying the rent working part time. The Savoy. If you’ve ever wandered up Grant Avenue in North Beach,

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24 Sep 2014

Ello: Ad-Free Empowerment in the Era of Social Networking

Yesterday Stuart invited me to try out a Beta version of this new site Ello. My knowledge went no further than a pal mentioned he had applied to join. I thought that sounded rather official for a social networking site, so I decided to investigate. Ello was started in early

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23 Sep 2014

The Best Craigslist Missed Connections from the Folsom Street Fair

I don’t go to the Folsom Street Fair. It comes to me. Literally, I open my front door onto it. So, Sunday was a pretty fucking insane day. I saw men dressed as firemen blowing each other (there’s a joke about hoses there). I saw people dressed as horses dragging

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