San Francisco Voice

I had another post in mind for this morning, a post sprung from a thought that formed while I was reading a book this morning by a San Francisco author. But as a I write this, a highly agitated man is screaming obscenities at tourists right outside my window and I’m having trouble focusing on what I’d originally planned to say.
What I’m thinking about instead is what a good friend of mine said last year on his first visit to San Francisco. We were riding the bus, going to or coming from some event, and I’d casually asked him if …read more

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San Fran Voice is all about finding great things in this city from great venues for live music to lessons in love learned from the streets of San Francisco.  One of the daily finds in the Bay Area is entertainment.  There’s simply no shortage of art, oddities and experiences in San Francisco.  To reflect that, San Fran Voice has a daily YouTube pick which shows off someone or something related to San Francisco.
Today’s YouTube pick is … lots of stuff from previous years of Bay to Breakers which is taking place in the city again today!
 
 
 

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Yeah, sure, technically the ING Bay to Breakers event is a 12 mile race on foot … but this historically San Francisco event has been much more than that since its early days and the fun just keeps on growing.
The History of Bay to Breakers:
It started in 1912 as one of the events designed to rally the city in revitalization after the Great Earthquake.  It was originally run entirely by men, with approximately two hundred participants competing in the first race.  In true San Francisco style, the early 1940’s brought a female-in-drag to the competition.  Today, over 65,000 people will …read more

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San Fran Voice is all about finding great things in this city from great venues for live music to lessons in love learned from the streets of San Francisco.  One of the daily finds in the Bay Area is entertainment.  There’s simply no shortage of art, oddities and experiences in San Francisco.  To reflect that, San Fran Voice has a daily YouTube pick which shows off someone or something related to San Francisco.
Today’s YouTube pick is … from the “Joe Gets” series (on CurrentTV).  Joe comes to San Francisco and gets crossdressing information from Adam to Eve transformation services.  Fun …read more

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Today’s SF-themed YouTube video is an old school clip of street mime Robert Shields acting silly on the streets of San Francisco.  He was once considered to be “San Francisco’s Main Tourist Attraction“.

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San Francisco is a politically charged place where rallies and protests have been happening all throughout history.  But it’s also a place that really loves fun and can laugh at itself with parodies and oddities.  Here’s footage from the 2006 Zombie protest.

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Anyone who spends time out and about in San Francisco eventually runs into the 12 Galaxies guy walking around with his sign.  Most people don’t bother trying to figure out what his deal is.  The guy filming this started to get some info from the guy and then ended up getting distracted by an amusing drunk girl on the street.

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Did you know that the fortune cookie was a food that was invented here in San Francisco?  The Bay Area happens to be the birthplace of a number of different foods including the Popsicle, Crab Louis salad, Cioppino stew and the Martini.  This clip that tells you the history of the fortune cookie is set at the Japanese Tea Garden, a beautiful retreat within Golden Gate Park.

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Cookie Mongoloid performs crazy metal (“Sesame Speed Metal”) in that creepy Cookie Monster voice at the Cyclecide Bicycle Rodeo Benefit which was held at San Francisco’s ACE Junkyard.  Really, watch it just for the voice.

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Most of the world has started to get familiar with the Bay Area music movement, hyphy.  It’s been around for a few years now (since the ‘90s in terms of the really underground scene and since the turn of the new century for those less in-the-know) and it’s got some sub-genres spinning off of it.  If you ask the average high school kid what it means to “go dumb”, they’ll know that you’re talking about the world of hyphy and they’ll also know that you don’t know nothing about it if you still have to ask that.
But this post isn’t …read more

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