SAN FRANCISCO

San Francisco is the fourth-largest city in California. Despite the fact that it is not the largest city in the state, it is truly a major center of politics and culture. Its outspoken style and politically liberal climate have made San Francisco synonymous with the GLBT and green movements. Its tolerant outlook makes it a home to countless artists, musicians, and social experiments. Its bevy of colleges and universities and proximity to Silicon Valley make it a major home of technology; and it's just down the road from wine country, resulting in its status as an epicurean epicenter.

Although it is occasionally hamstrung by its own sense of irony, San Francisco (along with the greater Bay Area) consistently produces vast amounts of geek cool, sophisticated culture, and intellectual experimentation. Such Internet pillars as Wired and Yelp have their roots in San Francisco, as do revered blogs Laughing Squid and BoingBoing. Burning Man calls this city home, too.

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• THE SLITS ALBUM ‘TRAPPED ANIMAL’ OUT NOW – PLAYING LA, SAN FRANCISCO + NYC IN DECEMBER

  
  MVRemix — Authority: 144
  THE SLITS ALBUM ‘TRAPPED ANIMAL’ OUT NOW – PLAYING LA, SAN FRANCISCO + NYC IN DECEMBER The Slits will be playing three very special shows this December in support of their first full-length album in over 25 years, Trapped Animal, which is out now! The Slits became a part of the punk pantheon with songs that ...
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• Broke-Ass Stuart Book Reading and Signing

  
  Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website — Authority: 547
  photo by Julie Michelle of I Live Here SF . I’m sure I’ll probably post this a couple more times in the coming weeks, but I figured I’d throw this up here now for all you super organized cats who plan shit out way in the future. Book Passage in the Ferry Building has asked me to come and do a reading and ...
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• Libby - Valencia Street, SF

  
  Fashionist — Authority: 128
  Libby has been on fashionist a handful of times . She has a way of dressing that makes me re-evaluate what Im wearing when I run into her because she always looks perfectly suited to whatever her current task calls for. Right here, shes on the way to work at a coffee shop. You see what I mean right? That oversize ...
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• Ignite Bay Area | Women Innovators: December 8

  
  The San Franista — Authority: 129
  Registration is now open for the first ever Ignite Bay Area | Women Innovators on December 8th, when some of the Bay Area’s most notable thinkers will come together in Berkeley to explore innovation across communications, entrepreneurship, programming, and development. I’m most excited as this will be the launch ...
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• Bay Area Haute :: Threadshow ‘09

  
  Edopeno — Authority: 133
  To all Bay Area’s style/fashion aficionados/aficonadas: On November 21-22 from 11AM – 6PM Threadshow is returning to the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. Showcasing emerging and independent fashion designers to/from the Bay Area; Threadshow is your kippu into emerging, trend forecasting, style breaking ...
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• Bros vs. Buddhists: The Medjool Debate

  
  Mission Mission — Authority: 583
  Steven Seagal: Both bro and Buddhist Laurie forwards a note from the Director of the San Francisco Buddhist Center, in order to provide us with “another side of the story.”  Read on: Dear friends of the San Francisco Buddhist Center, The SFBC wants to let you know about a situation that will potentially have ...
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• Top 10 Most Searched Homes on REALTOR.com®

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 142
  With the chilly temperatures really starting to hit hard, the warm-weather states are seeing some action this week in the top 10 most searched homes list on REALTOR.com®. California has three listings as does Florida, two of which are in Boca Raton. The data is compiled using homes that have a list price within [...]
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• Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Two-Way Adds Three More

  
  Haute Living Magazine — Authority: 495
  In a recent interview, chef Thomas Keller revealed his plans to expand his camera monitoring system which already exists between his Per Se and French Laundry restaurants to include all three of his Bouchon restaurants. The infamous chef is gearing up for the grand opening of Bouchon Beverly Hills, one of three ...
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• 17 hours of artful fun.

  
  dennis yang dot com — Authority: 103
  For the past few years, my friend shooey has gone to this super cool event called Visual Aid — it’s a charity art auction, proceeds of which go to artists with life-threatening illnesses.  How it works is this.. admission is $35, and it’s a “flat price auction,” so each piece of art is $160 — and every ...
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• Donna Summer to Reign at the Center’s 36th Annual Candlelight Concert

  
  Haute Living Magazine — Authority: 495
  Singer/songwriter/pop culture icon Donna Summer will be the star of this year’s Candlelight Concert at the Orange County Performing Arts Center on Friday, December 4 in Segerstrom Hall. Each year, Candlelight Concert ushers in the Orange County holiday season and raises more than $1 million for the Center. The ...
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• The Thing About Nate Ballard, Former Director of Communications for Gavin Newsom

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 510
  Here’s the thing about Nathan Ballard – he was almost always in this damn-the-facts-Gavin-Newsom-is-always-right mode. That’s just the way the bulk of his profession does it these days.* Oh well, he won’t be in that mode any longer, see the news release below. But what if the roles had been reversed? ...
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• Art of Prince

  
  Drfunkenberry.com — Authority: 490
  The poster from Princes Monaco show | Anthony Malzone We got word today of a new art show opening in San Francisco on December 9th. “Art of Prince” will feature works by Anthony Malzone, whose designs have been featured extensively on Prince’s website , as well as the poster for Prince’s August 2009 show ...
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• Seeking Two male and Two Female Mandarin VO Artists (Northern California)

  
  Free Casting Calls and Auditions — Authority: 148
  We have 400 screens in an e-learning program that require Mandarin Voices (Two males and two females) Must work in Northern California. See www.marpoltraining.com  for demos in English and other languages. PROJECT: MANDARIN VO ARTISTS CASTING CALL CATEGORY: VOICE-OVER AUDITIONS LOCATION: SAN ...
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• Protesting PelosiCare on Pelosi’s own turf

  
  Bookworm Room — Authority: 627
  It wasn’t a huge turn-out, but it was an imaginative, committed, informed turn-out — and that, in the long run, will matter a great deal.  Check out The City Square for photographs of yesterday’s “Sick-In” in San Francisco protesting PelosiCare.
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• The Cute Raccoons of the Legion of Honor Go Viral – a Worldwide Sensation

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 510
  San Francisco’s hungry raccoons are delighting the online world the world over , entertaining millions with their poses of masked banditry. And why not – aren’t they cute? Here’s another view from the camera of shutterbug Stephen Thompson . It was 2:00 AM at the Legion of Honor museum : And ...
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• Now You Have Another Chance to Ask for a Bay Area Bridge Toll Increase: Dec. 7th, 2009

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 510
  Ah, the Powers That Be . They don’t just raise rates on you all of a sudden, oh no. They have meetings first, to tell you how “needed” and ”necessary” their proposed “adjustments” are. Then, when the rates go up, they’ll tell you all about the meetings on that very topic that you neglected to attend. ...
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• A Win in Green Bay: How the 49ers Can Beat the Packers

  
  Bleacher Report - Front Page — Authority: 769
  After the San Francisco 49ers broke their four game losing streak by narrowly beating the Chicago Bears last week, the team had a couple days to relish in the victory. However, three days after pulling out their first win since week four, the division leading Arizona Cardinals matched the 49ers with another win of ...
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• Green Festival SF: Life Without Plastic & Luna Pads Give-Away

  
  Fake Plastic Fish — Authority: 568
  The Green Festival … this weekend was my third and probably best experience attending. I’ve read negative reviews of the Green Festival from green bloggers bemoaning that the vendor floor is so consumption-oriented and there is still so much plastic packaging and plastic products. Those comments may be valid. ...
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• San Francisco Offers Christmas Trees that Live on After the Holidays

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 743
  Since loads of us love Christmas trees and all things that bring Christmas cheer, here’s a way to indulge in your tree without killing it (strange tradition we’ve had all these years, eh?) The city of San Francisco has launched a program offering live local trees that you can take into your home. Then after ...
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• The Rich NIMBYs of “Neighbors of SFGH” have a Grand Party on Potrero Hill

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 510
  If you can tell the difference between the helipad-hating “ Neighbors of SFGH ” vs. the Stop the Helipad  haters, well, then you’re one up on me. What they are, they’re a bunch of NIMBYs on a hill who don’t care how many people have died, and how many more will die, due to the lack of a helipad at San ...
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