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The Bizarre Backstory of the “Can You Feel It” Amazon Commercial Song
That awesome “Can You Feel It” Amazon commercial song in the awful “Singing Boxes” holiday commercial is so catchy that you figure there’s no way an Amazon ad person wrote it. They did not! That song was written by Michael Jackson himself (along with brother Jackie), and has a fascinating early

There’s a Festival of Old Archival Footage of San Francisco
The people at the Long Now Foundation have been putting this on for 13 years and it keeps getting bigger each time. This year it’s happening over two nights at the Castro Theatre. The info below is from the Eventbrite page, which is where you can also buy tickets. The Long

Drink w/ Us! To Help Camp Fire Survivors
Drink! To Help Camp Fire Survivors WED. 12/5 | 6 – 9:00PM @ Soda Popinski’s 1548 California St, San Francisco Come drink with us and win great prizes like the coveted SF Wine Passport (which is completely sold out)! Why? Because our neighbors need our help! It’s 2 for 1

We wanna send you to see She & Him and a very merry christmas!
with special guest Jamie Lee A Very She & Him Christmas Party Since their 2007 inception the talented partnership of Zooey Deschanel and M.Ward have released six acclaimed albums as She & Him. A Very She & Him Christmas, the duo’s first collection of holiday music, was released in 2011 and quickly became a staple of the

We wanna send you to see Perry Farrell’s Kind Heaven Orchestra for the BILL GRAHAM FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS!
PERRY FARRELL’S KIND HEAVEN ORCHESTRA TO DEBUT NEW MUSIC IN SPECIAL PERFORMANCE AT THE FILLMORE FOR THE INAUGURAL BILL GRAHAM FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS Musical Super-Group to Headline Gala Celebrating Bill Graham Menorah Day in San Francisco Farrell has assembled a dream team of musicians and performers to deliver an immersive experience of

Farmerbrown in the Tenderloin Shut Their Doors
How is that an establishment like farmerbrown could fall from grace in an age of culinary renaissance inside a city brimming with obsessive foodies? The Tenderloin soul food restaurant mixed up the right ingredients for success when they opened their doors in 2006, but a lot has changed in the

The Pink World of Portia Munson at Bedford Gallery
Once you enter the pink world of Portia Munson at Bedford Gallery, you might get lost in it. “Her Room/Her World” is the artist’s first solo show on the West Coast, and consists of thousands of discarded pink objects. The great majority of these products were originally created for and marketed

Only Idiots Think ‘A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving’ is Racist
‘Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Criticized as Racist’ article went viral, and is a complete, Fox News, fabrication