AltWeeklies Wire
On Utopian Frequenciesnew
The month-long Streetopia festival in San Francisco takes it to the streets with visual art, music, panels, workshops, ritual, community, and a bonus eclipse!
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Nicole Gluckstern |
05-31-2012 |
Performance
Tags: San Francisco, Streetopia 2012
Todd Smith's Shady Venturenew
If you asked Todd Smith seven or eight years ago what he'd be doing by 2010, the words "online sunglasses entrepreneur" probably would never have come out of his mouth. But after losing his job at Merrill Lynch, he decided to turn his fashionable hobby into a new online business venture.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
01-11-2010 |
Fashion
Tags: stunners, Sunglasses, San Francisco, California, business, web, Bay Area, Pittsburgh, fashion, online
The Bay Area's Wonderful Women of BDSM Aren't Bound by Conventionnew
In San Francisco, the old Rousseauian adage "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains," could easily be rephrased as: "Woman is born free, and everywhere she uses chains to get off."
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Juliette Tang |
09-23-2009 |
Culture
Burning Man Seeks a Higher Profile as Black Rock City Cultivates the Metropolitan Idealnew
Maybe Burning Man can't save the world, but its leaders and participants are increasingly focused on using the models and principles involved with building and dismantling Black Rock City in the Nevada desert every year to help renew and restore urbanism in the 21st century.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones |
09-16-2009 |
Culture
San Francisco Bay Guardian's Photography Issuenew
Changing faces, surprising places, and wild paces -- the Guardian's third annual salute to Bay Area photography.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
San Francisco Bay Guardian Staff |
08-05-2009 |
Art
Tags: San Francisco, photography
Outdated Rules Threaten the Life of San Fran's All-Ages Clubsnew
The livelihood of San Franciso's best-known all-ages venues is under siege based on issues that have nothing to do with public safety, but rather on archaic views of how a nightclub should operate.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
05-27-2009 |
Recreation
Iso Rabins: Out of the Wildnew
Iso Rabins' foraged food is the toast of San Francisco's gourmet set. Health inspectors and environmentalists aren't so thrilled.
SF Weekly |
Peter Jamison |
03-20-2009 |
Food+Drink
The Rise and Fall of a Polk Street Hustlernew
Corey Longseeker is a telling remnant of this gentrifying San Francisco neighborhood's colorful past.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Joey Plaster |
03-18-2009 |
Culture
Tommy Hall, an Originator of Acid Rock in the '60s, is Still Psychedelicnew
For many of his 66 years, Hall has been pursuing intellectual enlightenment through acid. He began that quest in the mid-'60s with the 13th Floor Elevators.
Clash of the Duck Tours in San Francisconew
The Bay Quackers tours were a big duck in a small pond until another duck tour -- Ride the Ducks -- migrated to the city this summer.
Turning the SF Armory into a Lucrative Palace of Fetish Pornnew
When it comes to BDSM porn peddlers Kink.com, apparently size does matter. At least, that's how it seems now that the steamy studio has purchased the 200,000-square-foot San Francisco Armory. Suddenly, everyone wants to know: What's the carnal concern going to do with all that space?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Molly Freedenberg |
09-24-2008 |
Tech
SF's Academy of Art Enters the World of NCAA Athleticsnew
This month, the art school kicks off an intercollegiate sports program, fielding 12 teams in the NCAA Division II Pacific West Conference. And if the notion of an art school recruiting players for NCAA competition and doling out athletic scholarships strikes you as odd -- it is. The Academy of Art is the only one.
Tear Your Knee, Wrench Your Back, Pirouette: Dancing at the San Francisco Balletnew
Pain is not the ballet dancer's friend, but it is his or her constant companion. The majority of a dancer's day is a high-energy quest to twist oneself into a series of poses and steps seemingly designed to belie the mechanics of the human body.
SF Weekly |
Joe Eskenazi |
07-24-2008 |
Performance
San Francisco Street Food Top Tennew
The farmers markets, taco trucks and street carts you shouldn't miss.
SF Weekly |
Meredith Brody |
07-17-2008 |
Food+Drink
State of the Cart in San Francisconew
Join us as we map the street food scene and find out why there aren't more vendors in this most food-involved and temperate of cities.
SF Weekly |
Meredith Brody |
07-17-2008 |
Food+Drink
