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Brahms' ein deutsches Requiem
Each year, the Symphony organizes a summer festival dedicated to a theme or a composer. Next year sounds pretty intriguing: Schubert/Berg, two Viennese schools, two different styles to contrast and highlight each other. We're looking forward to it. This year, not so much: the festival was…
Memorial Day: Remembering Our Troops
If a loved one is serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, this post will seem pedantic and insufficient at best. There's absolutely no way to quantify the experience of military personnel...
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A week in which puppies equals pageviews [Recap]
Presenting "the most beautiful bulldog pups ever," at least according to proud papa Clive Okill of Abbotsham, North Devon, England — after this week, we can't even begrudge the Daily Mail for a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Quote of the Day: iPhones and Stubby Fingers
Coming from the Editor's mobile communication device, we received a text today with the following signature: Sent from my iPhone / Typed with my pinky Yes, yes -- it's funny because it's true. But... it is true. Unless you shun digesting, it's sometimes difficult to text using iPhones's…
Rent Control/Prop 98: the Video
Care of Current TV, here's a nifty video about Proposition 98, which, if passed, would eliminate rent control. Zoinks. It also features someone with a very thick East Coast accent. Double zoinks. Anyway, rent control: y/n?
Sunday schedule on Memorial Day, May 26
BART operates a Sunday schedule on Memorial Day.
Elliot and Sheryl, king and queen of the Facebook Prom [Caption Contest]
Most of Facebook's adult supervision gave the Facebook Prom a skip, we hear. But not recently hired Google execs Elliot Schrage, now Facebook's top flack, and Sheryl Sandberg, the formidable new COO... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ding, dong, Akimbo's dead [Deathwatch]
Akimbo, the online video company that just laid off most of the staff, has finally closed its doors. Its failure comes only months after a fresh infusion of $8 million from investors, including AT&T.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
MUSIC: Can't wait until Sunday? Well, check out this pre-Carnaval party, called Carnaval Fever, featuring Aphrodesia, Bayonics, Boco do Rio, and DJ Sep pumping out choice Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Latin, Afrobeat, funk and reggae beats for your all of your butt-shaking needs. 10 p.m.…
What's Going On Here?
Photo by Steve Portigal/Flickr We love--yes, LOVE -- this piece. It positively brims with whimsy. But what happened? Why is Cupid's Span broken? When will it be fixed? It's been like this for months now. Speaking of public art, check out the Hayes Valley's latest piece of public art. Wow.…
Zune no longer taking up valuable GameSpot shelf space [Digital Music]
Microsoft's iPod imitator, the Zune, will no longer be sold at videogame and electronics retailer GameStop according to GameStop CFO David Carlson. They probably need that space for Grand Theft Auto... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Zune no longer taking up valuable GameStop shelf space [Digital Music]
Microsoft's iPod imitator, the Zune, will no longer be sold at videogame and electronics retailer GameStop according to GameStop CFO David Carlson. They probably need that space for Grand Theft Auto... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
There's More Than Corn In Indiana*
(By Eyleen Tavy) SFist TV writer, SFGate Culture Blogger (and, for those of you who like dead trees, her weekly TV picks on on the cover of the Chron's TV section Sunday) Rain Jokinen has a great chronicle of her relationship with the Indiana Jones movies on her Musty TV blog: After the…
By advertiser demand, Valleywag now under "adult supervision" [Sponsors]
Our overseers haven't cracked down on us as severely as Yahoo's board has on Jerry Yang, but they're keeping a close watch on us nonetheless. Under their gaze, we'd like to thank our advertisers: ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Protect Tenants Rights and the Environment!
Vote No on 98/Yes on 99 on June 3rd! Join Co-Hosts Alysabeth Alexander, Robert Haaland, Alex Lantsberg, Eric Mar, Gordon Mar and James Tracy No on Prop 98 Fundraiser Monday, 5/26 (Memorial Day) 3-5pm @The Plough and The Stars Irish Pub 116 Clement Street (near 2nd Avenue) Richmond…
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Red Herring website outage an unfortunate coincidence [Deathwatch]
Alex Vieux's Red Herring isn't just poorly managed; it's unlucky as well. I just got off the phone with Vassil Mladjov, CEO of Blogtronix, the blog-software company which hosts RedHerring.com. He... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel
Check it out, it’s our very first guest blog post! Our first guest blogger is RICK!, talking about the The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel. - Scott Scott posted about the Telectroscope, an art project allowing London dwellers to connect visually with New Yorkers, which reminded me the 30th…
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Ariel Waldman, Twitter, and the "whore" algorithm [Nerdfight]
Don't call Ariel Waldman a "whore" where Google can hear you. That's the only firm conclusion we can draw from a confusing fracas that left even Twitter cofounder Biz Stone unsure who can call whom a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Sprint customer gets biblical over charges [Great Moments In Customer Service]
Saying he was screwed out of $56,000, Allen Harkleroad of Web design and development firm GMP Services in Stonesboro, Georgia started website Sprint Sucks. It's an absolutely mesmerizing look into... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Your Hand-y Guide to Sunday’s Masturbate-a-Thon
(By Joe Kukura) We just got off the phone with Carol Queen, who is gripped in preparations for this Sunday’s seventh annual Masturbate-a-Thon – where good folks publicly drop trou and raise money by seeing who can masturbate the longest, climax most often, and ejaculate the furthest.…
The Sun Sets Over San Francisco (And This Week At SocketSite HQ)
The sun sets over San Francisco as seen from the 23rd floor of One Rincon Hill. Have a great Memorial Day weekend. And safe travels if you are (traveling that is). ∙ Trying To Establish The True Secondary Resale...
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Take Me Baby Or Leave Me
Over in Oakland this morning, a premature newborn was found "unconscious and unresponsive" in a dumpster by a homeless lad looking for recyclables. The dead infant was discovered on the 600 block of 14th Street at around 7:40 a.m. Everyone was all kinds of upset. According to the Merc: The…
Wired editor believes magazine could have been Google [History]
Kevin Kelly, Wired's past in-house futurist, has given an interview in which he makes the seemingly ludicrous claim that Wired could have been Google. The New York Observer has a giggle at Kelly's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Weezer's "Pork and Beans" deconstructed [Viral Video]
newVideoPlayer("Viral_Video_Montage.flv", 506, 423,"");Want to understand the viral-video references in Weezer's "Pork and Beans" without having to actually play all 24 source videos? Video whiz Nick... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Working Hard or Hardly Working?
After a disturbingly easy commute, no line at Blue Bottle, and 15 minutes spent deleting the zillions of Out of Office emails that cluttered our inbox, we're ready to face the day. And, in the words of that damned Carrie Bradshaw, we had to wonder just who is at work today? We know why…
Red Herring cancels China event with one week's notice [Deathwatch]
Red Herring's magazine has not been regularly printed in ages. Today, its its website has been displaying error messages — not that readers are missing much of the understaffed RedHerring.com's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Renee Blodgett brings oversharing to the world of tech PR [Great Moments In Pr]
We live in an overfamiliar age. Why should our flacks be any different? Even so, Startup-PR consultant Renee Blodgett has raised the bar for the rest of her industry. Blodgett, PBS informs us, "is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
You Say Tomato: A Very British Grocery
There’s more to urban hunting and gathering than visiting one’s local supermarket. Grocery shopping need not be limited to the likes of Safeway, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe’s. They’re just so… corporate, and this shopper is a bit bored with the over-marketing of,…
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Oye, Carnaval! [Valleywag Calendar]
For those of you uninvited to the Chris Saad and Jessica Mah birthday bash tonight at an undisclosed location or heading out of town, there's plenty of fun to be had. Carnival Mecanique is being... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Scene From a Valencia Street Apartment Fire
Photo by John Murphy Eeps! SFist received word this morning that Valencia Street fell victim to yet another apartment fire. Sigh. Reader Jeff Cleary tells us: Aye, there was an apartment fire this morning on Valencia street, between 16th and 17th. Thing is, it was on the 2nd floor of the…
Mr. Page goes to Washington, demanding bandwidth [Wireless]
"If we have 10 percent better connectivity in the U.S., we get 10 percent more revenue in the U.S.," Google cofounder Larry Page told the FCC. He argued in short, that what's good for Google is good... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Pork and Beans by Weezer, A Mashup of Internet Memes
The music video for “Pork and Beans” by Weezer is an awesome mashup of popular internet memes. The song is from their new “Red Album” which is coming out on June 3rd. I think we should invite Weezer to perform at the next ROFLCon. Related PostsROFLcon Is Filling Up Fast,…
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Times casts aspersions on Quincy Smith's fashion sense [Great Moments In Journalism]
The New York Times has learned a hard lesson: Say what you like about CBS Interactive head Quincy Smith — just don't criticize his duds. The bastion of class consciousness falsely claimed that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]