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Snoop Dogg Calls Caitlyn Jenner A “Science Project,” Continues His History of...
Snoop Dogg and Napa Valley aren’t terms that usually go together, but the pairing made sense this weekend when the rapper made an appearance at BottleRock. Gabe Meline, KQED Arts’ music editor, was...
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The Bold Italic Rises from the Dead, Planning a Comeback
Remember back in April, when local lifestyle blog The Bold Italic suddenly called it quits? We all listened to Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day” for a while, looking heavenward and asking...
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#LoveWins: The Best Reactions to the Supreme Court’s Marriage Equality Ruling
The day has finally come! After a seemingly endless string of ballot initiatives and court battles, marriage equality is finally the law of the land, thanks to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor,...
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Kim Kardashian Talks Gun Control, Feminism and Everything Else at...
When INFORUM, the Commonwealth Club’s Innovation Lab, announced that they would be hosting Kim Kardashian, people freaked out, to put it mildly. The reaction was similar to the outrage many felt after...
View ArticlePaula Deen Hasn’t Learned a Thing, Shares Photo of Son in Brownface
Oops, she did it again. Paula Deen, who has been off the radar since her 2013 admission of using the N-word and wanting to hire “slaves” to cater a pre-Civil War era wedding, shared a photo on social...
View ArticleMorrissey Says He Was Sexually Assaulted by Security at San Francisco Airport
Passing through security at any airport is bound to be unpleasant. The lines are long, the space smells of damp socks and the pat-down process can feel pretty invasive. But what Morrissey says happened...
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What It’d Look Like If Madison Bumgarner Joined the SF Ballet
On the surface, baseball and ballet don’t seem to have much in common. But in a game against the Chicago Cubs yesterday, SF Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner brought the two worlds together with a...
View ArticleThis Week in Pop Culture: #BeyDay, A Daring Rib Rescue, Wes Craven Will Haunt...
Dear reader! We find ourselves on a Friday afternoon before Labor Day weekend, perched on the precipice of three long days of freedom, cookouts and massive block parties. You’re not doing any actual...
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Hiero Day 2015: High Temps, High Spirits and Hip-Hop Fest Growing Pains [VIDEO]
Hieroglyphics, the collective that in the early ’90s birthed Del the Funkee Homosapien, Souls of Mischief, and other mainstays of the fiercely independent sound that would come to define Bay Area...
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R.E.M. to Donald Trump: ‘Go F*** Yourself’
Do politicians never learn? Or, in the case of our collective crazy racist uncle Donald Trump, are they just so rich they don’t give a damn? In yet the latest example of a presidential candidate using...
View ArticleThe Last Cassette Tape Factory In the U.S. Is Doing Better Than Ever
Have you heard? Technology is moving forward so fast we can barely keep up with it. There’s smart new stuff all the time, and newer always means better, right? Today I received an email press release...
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The Tipper Sticker at 30: The Most Entertaining (and Least Effective) Attempt...
Don’t trust anyone over 30, goes the old adage. By that age, the thinking goes, people are settled in their ways, more prone to social conservatism, to convention, to the rat race, man. Nothing rock...
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The Top 10 Yogi Berra-isms
How do you know Yogi Berra was one of the greats? He was a Yankee, and San Francisco Giants fans still love the crap out of him. Yes, the idiosyncratic Hall of Famer died at his home in New Jersey...
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#ShoutYourAbortion Co-Founder Discusses Hairy Armpits and Fighting Stigma
Until just a few days go, Kimberly Morrison wasn’t really a political activist. For years, she’s been known more for playing in several popular Seattle bands, including The Intelligence, the Fallouts,...
View ArticleEddie Murphy’s First Joke In Nearly Three Decades Was About Bill Cosby
Back in February, when Saturday Night Live held a rather self-congratulatory three-and-a-half-hour marathon of a 40th anniversary party for itself, one of the most hotly anticipated moments was former...
View ArticleJon Stewart Staging a Comeback with HBO’s Help
Have you been missing Jon Stewart recently? Yeah, me too. Have you spent many days staring out your window looking up at the sky wondering where he is, while singing “Somewhere Out There” from An...
View ArticleMAP: San Francisco Rent Prices Most Expensive in the Nation
It’s been a while since we’ve posted a depressing map about how bad the Bay Area rental market has gotten. You might remember the one that charted where you could find an affordable one-bedroom along...
View ArticleBack Away From the Beatbox: Ben Carson’s Rap, and Other Cringeworthy Pitfalls...
Some days, you wake up and the swirling black hole that is Mother Internet has nothing but bad news for you: Natural disasters, gun violence, confirmation of the unholy sexual union between Gwen...
View ArticleThis Black Friday to Be Less Gross, Thanks to Free Redwood Parks
The day after Thanksgiving is all about leftovers and lounging. But for many Americans, it’s also all about stampeding toward the mall to buy stuff no one actually needs just ’cause it’s on sale. One...
View Article‘Serial’ Season 2 Is Here
Yes, Serial fans — amateur sleuths and broadcast journalism geeks alike — our wait has come to an end. The second season of the wildly successful podcast, a longform spinoff from This American Life,...
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