Category : San Francisco

Stars | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

The band Stars do a Takeaway Show in a San Francisco bar.

Great Summer in San Francisco cards from Dowling | Duncan.

Because you were curious, here’s how San Francisco streets got their names.

Just in time for Christmas, Gristleism from Chris Carter.

San Francisco photographer Alex Fradkin has made some beautiful photos of concrete bunkers ruins around the San Francisco Bay Area. Built by the U.S. military to defend against an enemy that never came., some have fallen into the Pacific Ocean and some just sit quietly as they are absorbed back into the earth.

NATURALLY RISEN from Michael Evans.

Anthony Mangieri, who ran the Una Pizza Napoletana in New York until he closed up shop earlier this year, is going to reopen the restaurant in San Francisco next Spring. A notable zealot fringe leader of the recent Naples-style pizza revolution in New York, Mangieri’s obsessed with using perfect tomatoes, perfect flour and having the perfect wood-fired oven. (At Pizza Napletana in NY, Mangieri ripped out the last oven which he had custom built for the restaurant for another one custom built in Naples just two years later–at a cost of $40,000). Mangieri makes only four kinds of pizza: Margherita, marinara (no cheese), bianca (no sauce), and filetti (with fresh cherry tomatoes). There are no appetizers, no desserts, no salads, no slices, no substitutions, no delivery, no extra toppings. Each plate-sized pizza is $21. Watch him make a pie in Michael Evans’ short film Naturally Risen.

Happy Park(ing) Day. See a slideshow of the newly-global phenomena and read more.

Hear those sirens the other night? Check out this new crime map of San Francisco to get comprehensive crime data visualizations of the city. Using geographical data from the OpenStreetMap project and the City of San Francisco’s newly-launched clearinghouse for city government dat, a DataSF, the map lets you browse crime by type, time and geography. Along with a 510-friendly map too, you should check out more great data visualization project from Stamen Design.

It’s Virginia the Tamale Lady’s birthday on Monday. Many will celebrate at Zeitgeist.

A few pranksters installed swings in a BART train Monday night. According to witnesses, a team of six or so people hopped on to a north-bound train from 24th Street station in San Francisco around 8:30 p.m. [Monday] night, installed three matching red swings, and then exited at 16th Street leaving their swings behind for public consumption.. See photos of the BART swingers.

Lucas Murgida at 667 Shotwell from Chris Sollars.

There’s a new guide in town. From the good people who brought you The Onion and their A.V. Club, comes a new food, music and nightlife guide to San Francisco. Decider’s already conquering eight other U.S. cities with its good balance of listings and features. And with Yelp’s clueless-d-bag to knowledgeable-insider ratio climbing everyday, Decider may have shown up just at the right time. I’m especially fond of The Drink Finder, which is probably one of the best Google Map guides for drinking available.

Gentrify is a bitchin Gmaps mashup of Craigslist and Yelp. And it’s a great way to watch the gentrification of San Francisco in almost real-time. SF-only for now.

Remember that dream the other night, where you were floating 1,300 feet over San Francisco in a zepplin larger than a 747. You can do this. For about $500 an hour starting next month. Read more about this New Age for dirigibles Luftschiff hoch!

Look out, old man! Great glimpse into the lives of the juvenile delinquents of San Francisco in this 1961 film Ask Me, Don’t Tell Me. Spoiler alert: in the second half of the movie all the kids turn into squares. L7, man

Like something out of The World Without Us, sea creatures seem to be reclaiming downtown San Francisco. Last week, what appeared to be an adult bat ray was found– still flapping and jumping by some witness accounts– on a Market St. sidewalk near Montgomery. And then today a seastar was found at a bus stop a block away on Market St. While bat rays and seastars are native to the San Francisco Bay, both were found nearly a mile from the Bay.

New San Francisco skyline in Jell-o as seen from Alcatraz. See it big and see more of Hickock’s great Jell-o work.

The AIA San Francisco has an interesting conversation with Thom Mayne of Morphosis and the writer Andrew Blum talking about the new Federal Building. And it comes with lots of great images of the building, inside and out.

Check out this great video of Don Fisher walking San Francisco Chronicle art critic Kenneth Baker through his juicy collection of contemporary art and talking about his new museum ideas. Fisher’s plans for CAMP, Contemporary Art Museum in the Presidio– as the museum to house the estimated $1B collection will probably be called– will have more exhibition space than all of SFMoMA to display more than 1,000 works in the Fishers’ collection. Lots of Lichtensteins, Warhols, Kiefers and Richters, Richters, Richters. He’s no Charles Saatchi, but it’ll still be amazing to have this collection on public view nearby. For a taste, go to the Gap Corp. art gallery at 2 Folsom, open weekdays between 11-2.

For an exhaustive study of noodles, the Rameniac has made a useful guide to the 22 popular ramen styles of Japan. And there’s also reviews of a handful of Bay Area ramen shops.