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DJ Earworm's top pop mashup

12.29.10 - 12:23 pm |

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Honestly, we meticulously avoid the TV, the radio, the mall, the Explorer dealer, and Chili's all year, just so local wiz DJ Earworm's annual mashup of Billboard's top 25 hits will surprise us -- with brilliance. It's the only way we can digest all that auto-syrup in one big candy-colored blast.

Fine (and found) dining with Wild Kitchen

12.23.10 - 1:55 pm | Ariel Soto-Suver |

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Wild boar, Monterey squid, light-it-yourself flambe -- local, wild edibles are foraged and transformed into multi-course gourmet meals, as ForageSF hosts underground restaurant Wild Kitchen. Dig in to this SFBG exclusive.

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Video babies of 2010: A wee look back

12.20.10 - 3:07 pm | Marke B. and Johnny Ray Huston |

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Smoking Baby, Preacher Baby, Iron Baby, Samba Baby, Mini Daddy -- Is it too premature to nominate 2010 for "Year of the Video Baby"? Copious amounts of Gaga-goo aside, this year had plenty to offer li'l sprout gawkers -- the baby meme has definitely replaced the baby mama as our go-to young 'un pop cultural signifier of choice. Here are some of our favorite kid video (kideo?) shout-outs from the past year ...

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A twisted "Alright" from Public Jones

12.07.10 - 12:14 pm | sfbg |

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In the grand tradition of creatively uglifying yourself for videos comes this catchy (if somewhat bleak) little number from LA "groove-based electronic art rockers" Public Jones, who'll be playing the Red Devil Lounge on Fri/10 with Fake Your Own Death.

Paging zombie Jesse Helms: AIDS art scapegoating, political showboating returns

12.01.10 - 7:59 am | Marke B. |

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Well, the '80s are back (again and again and forever). Here's an echo of the tedious, right-bred "Culture Wars" of that decade. Republicans John Boehner and Eric Cantor have successfully pressured the National Portrait Gallery to remove this beautifully rage-filled, pretty-innocuous-for-nowadays (and NSFW) 1987 video work by late AIDS acivist and artist David Wojnarowicz, with singer Diamanda Galas, from LGBT-centered "Hide/Seek" exhibition. On World AIDS Day. Because there are ants on a crucifix. As one astute Gawker commentor noted: "Why not just wash them off with some piss?"

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El Guincho deconstructs the male gaze (NSFW)

10.06.10 - 2:26 pm | Marke B. |

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Surreal '70s porno homage meets gender-theory gymnastics in the latest vid from Spanish "space-age exotica" techno-tropicalist El Guincho. He'll be live at this week's Tormenta Tropical party (Sat/9, 10 p.m., $15. Elbo Room, 657 Valencia, SF. www.elbo.com).

Save Day of the Dead!

10.01.10 - 10:02 am | Marke B. |

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Another wonderful local cultural event, Día de los Muertos, is falling prey to the city's War on Fun -- watch the video, and donate here to help reach the $6k goal. (via SFist, Mission Local)

Russian twink porn or kick-ass Transformers tribute?

09.20.10 - 3:51 pm | Marke B. |

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Our friends at Boing Boing just posted this awesome amateur clip -- but really, who else thought these guys were gonna start making out before playing with their toys?

Showtime for Miss Cass!

09.09.10 - 12:21 pm | Marke B. |

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It seems like forever since gloriously booby SF transsexual performer Cassandra Cass was handing out out-dated calendars of herself at drag shows for the elderly. Now she has a show on Showtime, premiering tonite. And it makes me love America again.

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Behind the Scenes: Shooting our 2010 Local Heroes

07.29.10 - 10:59 am | Mirissa Neff |

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Take a peek at the robo-amazing Blue Sky Studios, as photographers Keeney + Law shoot three of this year's Best of the Bay Local Heroes. Video by Michael Keeney.