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Nominate Your Favorite Bay Area Small Business!

We love celebrating the Bay Area's entrepreneurial spirit and vibrant economic scene. In the spirit of San Francisco's Small Business Week (May 13 - 18), we present 7x7's third annual Small Business Awards!

SFMade Week Shows Local Love

Next week is your chance to get up close and personal with the city's plethora of local makers.

Musings of a Parking Guru

Photo Courtesy of the Limo King

When most people’s minds wander, they think about things like what they’re going to have for lunch, or if that girl or guy is interested in them, or if coconut water really is the magic cure for hangovers. My mind often wanders effortlessly to parking and transportation thoughts. Here is a real-time linear recording of my mind wandering.

We Wanna Be Friends With: Principal Ballerina Frances Chung

Frances Chung

Our city is chock-full of interesting people and wild personalities. Overwhelmed by the coolness? Every week we'll pick one standout local we'd love to be friends with to answer seven essential questions about their life in San Francisco.

Our Top Seven Picks at the SF International Film Festival, Week Two

The San Francisco International Film Fest is halfway over, and highlights from week keep rolling in all over the web and locals, but there are still plenty of days left in the festival's fourteen-day run and a whole catalog of films to look forward to.

Steven Soderbergh's State of Cinema Speech at SFIFF Gets Leaked

After the massive success of Magic Mike, ponderous failure of Side Effects and with the Liberace biopic Beyond the Candelabra coming to HBO in the next few months, director Steven Soderbergh shocked audiences and pundits by announcing his retirement earlier this year, allegedly due to frustrations with the industry. So who better than Soderbergh himself to give the SF International Film Festival’s annual State of Cinema speech this year?

See You in the Park, San Francisco

It’s already 70 degrees outside and the day's not even half over. The weather thingy on my computer says the high is gonna be 78 today but what the fuck does it know? In my experience here, anytime it’s predicted to be above 73 it invariably ends up being in the 80s. And there’s nothing worse than a gorgeous day in the Bay Area in the middle of the work week.

Dennis Quaid and Director Ramin Bahrani on Their New Film "At Any Price"

Looking for a way to avoid the heat this weekend? Grab your favorite refreshing cocktail at the Sundance Kabuki theater and embrace your inner movie critic. We recently did just that and sat down with actor, Dennis Quaid, and director, Ramin Bahrani, to learn about the making of their new film At Any Price, which debuts at the Kabuki this Friday. 

Two Sense: My Dad’s Facebook Is Freaking Me Out

Two Sense Photo credit: Ysbrand Cosijn

Before my mom passed away last year, she maintained an active Facebook account. My father did not. Recently, my 72-year-old father started using my deceased mom's account to post photos with and comment on status updates of two 20-something women that he is now dating.

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