Posts Tagged ‘weekly’
Friday, June 15th, 2012
And please remember, “Use your key now 6/13/12″
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The newly-arrived Twitter people are already calling this place “Hotel Chasing the Dragon.”
“Chasing the dragon” (a slang phrase of Cantonese origin from Hong Kong, Traditional Chinese: 追龍, Simplified Chinese: 追龙, Cantonese Jyutping: zeoi1 lung4, pinyin: zhuī lóng) refers to inhaling the vapor from heated morphine, heroin, oxycodone or opium that has been placed on a piece of foil. The ‘chasing’ occurs as the user gingerly keeps the liquid moving in order to keep it from coalescing into a single, unmanageable mass.[1] Another more metaphorical use of the term “chasing the dragon” refers to the elusive pursuit of the ultimate high in the usage of some particular drug.”
Tags: 1278, 1278 market, 2012, bay area, california, chase, Chasing the Dragon, Employees, gold, goldwn, heroin, hotel, hotel chase, market, mid market, monthly, morphine, nightly, nitely, nitely weekly monthly, Opium, oxycodone, residential, residential hotel, San Francisco, st., street, tenderloin, twitter, twitterloin, use your key, weekly
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
Via Ron Russell’s Bay Area Observer comes word of this post from John Mecklin that’s been getting attention today.
The SF Weekly‘s Editor from 1997 to 2005 starts off with news of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies changing its name to the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and then he offers thoughts.
Thusly:
“Much of what had been staples in the bag of alt-weekly editorial tricks — event listings, music coverage, restaurant reviewing, smart-aleck attitude, general (though not universal) leftyism — was also undermined, coopted, replicated, done better or made obsolete by the rise of a host of online competitors, from the lightly staffed city observer sites (SFist, Gothamist, etc.) to Yelp to Gawker and on and on and on. In the lingo of the trade, the alt-weekly was unbundled, disaggregated, knee-capped by the kind of entrepreneurial twentysomethings the founders of many an alt-weekly had been, once upon a time, back in the historical mists of the 1970s.”
Yep, pretty much.
Read the whole thing, if you want.
Tags: 2011, alt weekly, Association of Alternative Newsmedia, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, bay area, bay area observer, california, editor, Gothamist, John Mecklin, online, Requium, San Francisco, sf weekly, sfist, SFist.com, village voice, weekly
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Here’s the music schedule for our Legion of Honor museum.
Now, what I used to call the organ, that thing you sit at and play, they call the “console.”
This is the organ itself, taking up most of the attic.
To the right is the dome that you can see from the main lobby – it appears to be made of something solid, but it’s made of thin fabric to let the sound go downstairs:
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And here’s just part of the organ proper – see the people down there?
Big big big.
And here’s what else is going on these days at the Legion:
August 6, 2011 - February 12, 2012
August 20, 2011 - December 31, 2011
October 22, 2011 - January 22, 2012
See you there!
Tags: 2011, bay area, california, concerts, console, legion, legion of honor, museum, organ, pipe, San Francisco, weekly
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
Allan Hough of Mission Mission draws attention to this week’s Necessary Conversation from Famous Sweet Melissa Griffin and famous Beth Spotswood.
ZOMG:
What’s the next stage beyond irreverence?
I think it’s snark.
Houston, we have snark.
Tags: 2010, bay area, Beth Spotswood, california, clip, district, media, melissa griffin, mission, Necessary Conversation, Necessary Conversations, Necessary Conversationz, news, San Francisco, sweet, sweet melissa, Sweet Melissa Griffin, tenderloin, uptown tenderloin, Video, Vimeo, weekly
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
It begins. Famous Sweet Melissa Griffin and famous Beth Spotswood now have a new weekly joint called Necessary Conversation.
Check it:
“Ever since Beth and I met, we’ve talked about doing a joint project. Well, years later, here’s the first episode of our newest endeavor: Necessary Conversation. Anyway, we’ll be putting out one of these a week. Hope you like it! (Oh, and we’ll have a dedicated NC website as soon as I figure out how to transfer the files.)”
Vimeo never looked so good:
Take a look why not?
Tags: 2010, bay area, Beth Spotswood, california, clip, media, melissa griffin, Necessary Conversation, Necessary Conversations, Necessary Conversationz, news, San Francisco, sweet, sweet melissa, Sweet Melissa Griffin, Video, Vimeo, weekly
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
This is it – years of competition betwixt the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the SF Weekly will culminate at a free-for-all tomorrow morning in the Thunderdome that is the recording studio of KQED-FM.
KQED Forum host Michael Krasney will play the role of Aunty Entity (seeing as how Tina Turner is unavailable). Expect the bout to begin at 9:00 AM, Friday, January 8th, 2010 on 88.5 FM and online.
It’s on - Friday, Friday, Friday!
Two Alt-Weeklies Enter, One Alt-Weekly Leaves
UPDATE: On It Goes…
Tags: +3, 2010, 885.fm, 8th, alt weekly, Aunty Entity, bay area, bay guardian, benjamin, Benjamin Wachs, beyond, big, blog, City, debate, editor, Eskenazi, fm, forum, gavin newsom, iii, january, Joe, Joe Eskenazi, kqed, kqed-fm, krasney, mad max, Mayor, Michael, Michael Krasney, mike, newspaper, One Alt-Weekly Leaves, one man enter, one man leaves, politics, radio, redmond, San Francisco, sf weekly, sfbg, snitch, thunderdome, tim redmond, Tina Turner, Two Alt-Weeklies Enter, United States, Wachs, weekly, worst-run, wrter
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Famous San Francisco writer Matt Smith is the cause of a boycott call in the Castro District due to his Whipped and Gagged piece, the one that dealt with Kink.com, aka Cybernet Entertainment, LLC. Matt’s article seemed perfectly cromulent, but some disagree.
Irregardless, here’s one of the flyers from Castro Street betwixt 17th and 18th.
Tags: 17th, 18th, bondage, boycott, castro, Cybernet, Cybernet Entertainment, district, Entertainment, flyer, gagged, kink, kink.com, market, matt smith, newspaper, San Francisco, SF, sfweekly, street, weekly, whipped, Writer
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
One thing’s for sure - if you leave your car parked on the side of the street in San Francisco during the hours when street sweeping is scheduled, you WILL get a $50 ticket.
DPT’s 99%+ success rate at meting out justice compares favorably with your chances of paying the price for committing other similar crimes, such as shoplifting or murder.
Look at ‘em go!
Some areas of the City are getting less street sweeping these days. Too bad! Other areas of the country make do with tickets that cost just $30 - how do they manage that?
If only all parking spaces in San Francisco were like these two…
Tags: car, DPT, mta, park, parking, parking control officer, San Francisco, street, sweeping, ticket, weekly
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
What’s up with that? Earlier today, people trying to read the SFWeekly got sent to Ohio’s Cuyahoga County, in a way. More precisely, their browsers got sent to Cleveland Scene. Did somebody hack on the pooooor Weekly? Was this some kind of joke against Ohio’s Mistake By the Lake or agin Village Voice Media? Now who would do a thing like that? Thankfully, things are back to normal now.
But what about over at the San Francisco Sentinel? Some web surfers interested in learning about the people working for Proposition G and Lennar Corporation weren’t able to access this page. All they could see is “Not Found” and “Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.” Isn’t that a shame?
But through the miracle of the cache, here’s the missing webpage:
After all, information wants to be free and available, doesn’t it?
Wasn’t it Chairman Mao who said, “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let the hundred schools of thought contend”? It sure was. So, let’s stop all this internet fooferall and stop messing with peoples’ websites.
Capische?
Tags: bay guardian, bevan, castro, Chris daly, cleveland, corporation sf, dufty, election, gavin newsom, hacker, hacking, hunters, lennar, mark leno, Newsom, point, proposition f, proposition g, San Francisco, scene, sfbg, walk, webpage, weekly
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Here’s what they want you to believe: the route of the Bay to Breakers footrace is all downhill after topping the Hayes Street Hill. From the website:
ING Bay to Breakers is a 12K (7.46 miles) course. From sea level at the Embarcadero the course rises steeply along Hayes Street Hill. Around the 2.5-mile mark runners climb an 11.15% grade between Fillmore and Steiner, bringing them to the highest point in the race, approximately 215 feet above sea level. The remainder of the course gradually flows downhill alongside the Panhandle and through Golden Gate Park.
But that’s simply not true. Take a look at this elevation profile. See? After dipping down a bit the course continues to rise and reaches its highest point in Golden Gate Park. So there’s a reason why it feels you’re going uphill after conquering the Hayes Street Hill – you are going uphill.
Thousands of runners are in Golden Gate Park today preparing for tomorrow’s race. Going to the west uphill in the Panhandle:
Why does the mainstream media repeat a falsehood year after year? Laziness, mostly.
But check for yourself, if you want. Mike did last year and came to this conclusion:
According to the Garmin GPS I was using, the highest point is indeed in GG Park, not the top of Hayes Street Hill.
So plan your racing strategy accordingly.
Have fun tomorrow!
Tags: 2008, 97th, bay to breakers, california, chronicle, conspiracy, drive, Examiner, footrace, golden gate park, guardian, Hayes street hill, highest point, ing, jfk, jogging, lie, mainstream media, marathon, media, newspaper, panhandle, prayerbook cross, race, running, San Francisco, Stow lake, weekly
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