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Giving a Painter New Arms
A story of how an artist lost the use of his arms, and how a new design may give him back the power to eat, drink, and paint again. Meet Raul Pizarro, an artist you should know
Vandalized ‘Super Bowl 50’ Statues, Ranked
What are the best vandalism jobs thus far performed on the Super Bowl 50 statues erected all over San Francisco? Unless your name is Mayor Ed Lee, you’re up in arms over these ugly-ass, taxpayer-funded, expensive-but-cheaply-produced Super Bowl 50 statues foisted on our otherwise-lovely city by a profiteering third-party outdoor
Super Bowl 50 Traffic Maps & Infographics
New maps and schedules to help you understand outages, rescheduling & traffic due to Super Bowl City.
Hot Glass, Cold Beer
A bright light shines from a loading dock on a dark, industrial street in the Bayview district….
Learn to blow glass, and then drink out of it
We’ve got your tickets to Tom Rhodes @ Punchline SF!
Tom’s latest TV appearances were Dave Attell’s Comedy Underground and Comedy Bang Bang. His latest one hour special, Light Sweet Crude, is currently on Netflix. It’s called Light Sweet Crude. He has a podcast, Tom Rhodes Radio, featuring more than 100 episodes that include Judah Friedlander, Steve Byrne, John Cooper Clarke
10+ Days of Creative Activist Mayhem Coming to San Francisco
The media’s buzzing with the old news of artists’ displacement in San Francisco. Every month the remaining members of the city’s arts community mourn the loss of yet another place where creative people lived or worked together for years. The cause celebre of artist David Brenkus ‘s eviction from his
Preston Picus Thinks He Can Beat Nancy Pelosi for Congress
When I was running for mayor of SF I went to the US Conference of Mayors to try and stir things up. I failed at that, but I did get to see some important people speak including Barrack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. A funny thing happened when Pelosi spoke though.
Fear and Loathing in NYC: 5 Things We Hate Yet Love About the Big Apple
This place is terrible. No really, it is. I’ve encountered some of the harshest, brutal, no good kinds of denizens that inhabit this city. Whether it is people not saying “Please” or “Thank You” when you are in need of, or giving away a subway seat, to those hipsters living