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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• FREE Food at Namu Tonight

  
  Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website — Authority: 512
  Damn these look good. I just saw this a few minutes ago on Facebook .  The restaurant Namu has been doing this thing on Mondays where they give out FREE food while a DJ spins and motherfuckers dance their asses off.  If that doesn’t have your broke-asses written all over it, then I’ve completely ...
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• The Hundreds Delorean in San Francisco

  
  Individual Sole — Authority: 144
  This past Saturday the Hundreds ‘ Delorean part of the Delorean Collection was out for a showing.  The DMC-12 was looking real fresh with the black paint job with the jagged Hundreds pattern.  More pics after the jump!
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• McSweeney’s San Francisco Panorama

  
  We Love You So - Where The Wild Things Are - Spike Jonze — Authority: 517
  San Francisco is a town of many pleasant associations. To start, there’s sourdough bread, Pier 7, 826 Valencia, the Embarcadero, fog, Keith Hufnagel, Barry McGee, burritos, bridges, hills, bookstores, FTC, Amoeba, and so forth. The list goes on. That’s why it’s particularly exciting that Issue 33 of ...
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• Giants, Mariners, Rockies Interested In Olivo

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 730
  The Giants, Mariners, and Rockies are leading the charge for free agent catcher Miguel Olivo , tweets Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star .  Olivo, 31, hit .249/.292/.490 in 416 plate appearances for the Royals this year, catching 845.6 innings.  The Royals, intending to reboot their catching situation, declined ...
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• Supreme Court takes case on student group that excludes gays, nonbelievers

  
  USATODAY.com Money - Block — Authority: 797
  USA TODAYs Supreme Court correspondent Joan Biskupic says the Supreme Court today has agreed to decide whether a state law school can refuse to recognize a Christian student group because the group excludes gay students and nonbelievers.
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• The Stylish Vegans Coat Guide: For Men!

  
  vegansaurus! — Authority: 566
  FUCK WOOL ! No seriously, fuck wool . Winter means keeping warm and dry, and wool means people doing unnatural things to sheep . I’m looking at you, Australia. Lucky for you (and the sheep) I’ve done your homework for you. Every coat or winter jacket here is free of wool and secret leather, and stylish as hell. ...
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• Long Night’s Moon concert

  
  CatSynth — Authority: 429
  This past Thursday I attended the latest installment of the Full Moon Concert series: the “Long Night’s Moon”, in anticipation of the winter solstice. Both sets played off the theme of the perception of time, perhaps an allusion to the passage of time as one moves through the longest night of the year. ...
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• Ho Hum – Another Arrest for Burglary on San Francisco’s Duboce Avenue

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 509
  This is how it goes when you’re a little less than cooperative and you’re arrested for burglary on Duboce near Steiner in San Francisco. You’ll have SFPD  ten cops sitting around waiting for the paddy wagon. When the van arrives you’ll get picked up by four of them and get carried away horizontally and ...
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• 5 Sexy Things to Do in San Francisco When it Rains

  
  San Francisco is Sexy — Authority: 100
  The rain has started. It’s going to continue off and on for awhile now so we might as well embrace the fact that it’s here right? It might not always be pleasant to venture out into the rain but it’s not all bad. There are some totally sexy things that you can do here when [...]
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• MUNI Giveth, and MUNI Taketh Away – New Spruced Up Stops on the 21 Hayes Line

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 509
  Until recently, there were two bus stops on the same side of this short block of Hayes Street near Masonic. See ? But a few of the stops had to go away to comply with the new changes that came about on December 6, 2009 . The remaining stops got a bit of sprucing up last week, with red paint and what not: ...
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• Is That What You All Call Snow, Bay Area? Nothing Beats the Winter of Ought-Two for Snow

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 509
  If it’s colder than normal this AM and there’s some white stuff on the ground , well then I guess you could say it snowed in the San Francisco Bay Area. But back before the global warming the climate change, back in 2002, we had SNOW, baby. As here, in ought-two up in Marin County on Mount Tamalpais, when I ...
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• CBB Column: Top 5 Candidates for Arizona State

  
  The College Baseball Blog — Authority: 487
  Here are my Top Five choices to take over the Arizona State baseball program for the 2011 season if I was in Lisa Love’s position. Tim Esmay was named the Interim head coach for the 2010 season on December 3rd. The new coach will have to deal with potential NCAA or university sanctions from [...]
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• SF with Kevin, Eli, Rowdy, Tanya, and Lady Dirty

  
  Dirty South Wine — Authority: 464
  Rowdy , Kevin Gillespie , Eli Kirshtein , Tanya Melillo , Tracy and I, hit La Mar in San Francisco. (Fancy dancing by the awesome Beth and Jenna)
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• The Cars of San Francisco: Chevelle Malibu

  
  Flint Expatriates — Authority: 131
  During a break from watching Flints Mark Ingram run Alabama into the college football title game on Saturday, I spotted this matte black Chevelle Malibu near 24th and Treat Streets in San Francisco. (Malibus were a version of Chevelles until 1978, when the Malibu became its own line.) I know some Chevelles were ...
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• $11,500,000 • Carmel, CA

  
  Haute Living Magazine — Authority: 456
  Totally remodeled and superbly located on the Western tip of Carmel Point with unobstructed views of the Pacific Ocean and near renowned Carmel Beach and the charming village of Carmel-by-the-Sea. This 4000+ square foot home situated on a double, street to street lot offers the best of everything in a most ideal ...
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• San Francisco Magazine Covers The Lembi Fallout

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 548
  The Lembi story in San Francisco is not a new story. The family, through Trophy Properties, Skyline Realty, and CitiApartments, was at one point was the largest owner of apartment buildings in the city. The group controlled over 8,000 apartment units at the peak, using extremely high amounts of leverage to acquire ...
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• Your Week 13 NFL Recap

  
  The Smoking Section — Authority: 639
  For the third and fourth time in the last five years, Indy and New Orleans enter December as unbeatens. Both teams maintained the course on their quest for perfection, Indy with a routine win over the feisty Titans (sorry Gotty™) and New Orleans with anything but against the Washington Redskins. Down to the ...
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• Tishman Completes 550 Terry Francois Sale to GLL

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 548
  The Business Journal is reporting that the sale of 550 Terry Francois to GLL is a done deal. We previously reported on the sale in October.A Tishman fund, traded on the Australian Securities Exchange as Tishman Speyer Office Fund, sold the 283,000-square-foot building for $135.5 million. The sale, which closed Nov. ...
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• The best thing Ive heard in a long time

  
  Ten Thousand Places — Authority: 124
  Peter, Paul & Mary - San Francisco Bay Blues - 1965 by thegirlstheyrock
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• Thousands protest in Iran, battling police

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 175
  Security forces and militiamen clashed with thousands of protesters shouting “death to the dictator” outside Tehran University on Monday, beating them with batons and firing tear gas on a day of nationwide student demonstrations, witnesses said. The protests… Iran - Tehran - Internet access - 2007 Burmese ...
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