Wolf vs. Colbert

06.13.07 - 8:53 am | Steven T. Jones |

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By Steven T. Jones
Formerly jailed blogger Josh Wolf faced off against Stephen Colbert's pseudo-conservative schtick and wit last night on the Colbert Report -- and Wolf came through it like a champ. Check it out for yourself, here. BTW, Josh, love the mohawk and suit combo.

Dell'uva: my kind of wine bar

06.11.07 - 9:58 pm | Molly Freedenberg |

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By Molly Freedenberg

I like wine bars. Not only for the obvious reason -- good wine -- but because they tend to be small, intimate, and a bit quiet – the perfect place for an intimate conversation or romantic rendezvous. The thing about them, though, is they also often tend to be pretentious. Or stark. Or cold. Or all of the above. Read more »

I'd dump her too

06.11.07 - 8:29 pm | Molly Freedenberg |

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By Molly Freedenberg

I must admit, I was excited about . I like Debra Messing. I liked the First Wives Club. And I have some kind of strange, in-born affinity for the dumped, abandoned, lost, and unappreciated. Read more »

Ye olde Expansion: days of wine and roses

06.11.07 - 1:32 pm | sfbg |

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By Stephen Torres

Back when I was bright-eyed youngin' in the city and my liver was still shiny and hale, I made my daily bread by working at the recently deceased MacArthur Park in Jackson Square. Read more »

Cool shit: A brief history of women in art

06.08.07 - 1:25 pm | sfbg |

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posted by Molly Freedenberg

By "brief" I mean 3 minutes. And by "history" I mean 500 years.

Sure, it gets a little tedious after awhile. But tell me that shit isn't cool.

Money for nothing and the booze for free

06.08.07 - 1:08 pm | Molly Freedenberg |

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By Molly Freedenberg

During the summer of 2000, as a a recent college grad with a lot of desire to drink and only a little money with which to do it, I made a chart of Portland bars’ happy hours, drink specials, and free food nights so I’d always have know where to drink affordably. The chart was divided by day. It was color coded. Read more »

Arrrooo! 'Oceans Thirteen' vs. cougars

06.08.07 - 11:25 am | Music Blogger |

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OK, someone has to voice it: was I the only one who detected a whiff of misogyny in the latest three-quel to shamble lazily into our movie theaters, Oceans Thirteen? Read more »

All hail Air Guitar Nation

06.07.07 - 4:03 pm | Music Blogger |

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Bang your head and break out your best moves, rockers. Director Alexandra Lipsitz's Air Guitar Nation was one of the sweet, funny, and shockingly heart-warming surprises of the Asian American film fest this year; you get another chance to see it at the Red Vic today, June 7. Read more »

Pop! goes Monterey

06.07.07 - 1:28 pm | Molly Freedenberg |

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By Molly Freedenberg

In case you hadn't heard (though you'd have to have spent the past two months on acid to have missed the news by now), this year is the 40th anniversary of just about every major event that defined the music and culture of the 60s. Read more »

Hip to be screwed

06.06.07 - 4:11 pm | sfbg |

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By Deborah Giattina

As always, a trip to the Commonwealth Club proved to be an edifying venture. For last night’s event, Hot Young Sommeliers (that’s pronounced so-mol-yay), the club rounded up three of the aforementioned creatures from the front houses of our city’s finest restaurants.

Now, I don’t know very much about wine, and young is such a relative term, n’est-ce pas? Read more »