Meet Cheryl Shuman, the Martha Stewart of Marijuana

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She doesn't make pot-leaf doilies or anything (yet), but Cheryl Shuman, the self-proclaimed "Martha Stewart of Marijuana," is definitely bringing a more suburban mom image to our favorite herb. Shuman was recently on The Ricki Lake Show (which is still on?) talking about her struggles with ovarian cancer and her quest to make weed more adorable.

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Campaign Against Video Game Sexism Met with -- Surprise! -- More Sexism

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Video of the Day: The Onion Mocks Jodie Foster's Quazi-Coming Out Speech

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If you missed Jodie Foster's rambly, kinda coming out speech at the Golden Globes the other night, we suggest you skip it and just watch The Onion parody instead, which reports that Foster's speech is inspiring LGBT youth to come out to their parents in vague, confusing riddles, such as, "I just want to let you know that I'm here and I love who I love, and I'm not who you never thought I wasn't going to be."

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Meet the Man Who Had Sex with a Dolphin (and Wrote a Book About It)

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Matt Saincome
Malcolm J. Brenner, with his book, Wet Goddess

Malcolm J. Brenner, the controversial author of Wet Goddess, the autobiographical novel of a young man's love affair with a dolphin, relaxes on a computer chair inside a San Francisco apartment, gently stroking one of the two cats occupying the room with us. His red sweater is wiry and frayed, like the hairs on his balding head. He's 40 years older than he was when he drove to a near-abandoned Florida amusement park with the intent to "make love" with a dolphin he had been photographing for nine months.

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The Sweet Spot: The Truth Behind Puppy Play


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Keep It Classy This New Year's Eve With These Hot Events

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Stephen Kelly Photography/Flickr

You can only Peter Pan your way through the most festive night of the year so many times before you realize there might be perks to actually making plans -- free champagne, for instance, or a place to finally wear that designer gown you scored at the thrift store. If one of your resolutions for 2013 is to start acting like a grown-up, there's no better place to start than NYE.

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Video of the Day: The Claire Danes Epic Cry-Face Supercut

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Claire Danes has a lot of achievements under her belt. Awards, accolades, Emmy nods, cult followings, and so on. But we think she is actually most famous for her Cry-Face. You heard it here first, folks (if you haven't seen the Internet in a decade). Claire Danes has taken that pain-filled, shaky chin, spit-bubbling mug all the way from Little Women (1994) to Homeland (now), and thanks to teh Intertubez, we have a compilation of her Cry-Face career.

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The 20 Most Memorable Cosplay Costumes Involving Cleavage

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Christopher Morgan
20. "My eyes are up here, guys."

We'll be honest, we didn't know what cosplay was until we googled it just now. For those in the dark who are, like us, no doubt carving blog posts out of stone tablets, cosplay, "short for 'costume play,' is a type of performance art in which participants wear costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea." We put together a slideshow of the best cosplay outfits of the entire year (Merry Christmas!), from comic book conventions, anime events, sci-fi shindigs, and more. Such representation helps to debunk the image of cosplay folks as pale, overweight men, shedding much-needed light on the outdated assumptions and stereotypes that plague our ... sorry, what? We couldn't hear you over all the boobs.

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Our full slideshow, 100 Memorable Cosplay Images of 2012 

Talk on Internet Dating Is Like a Blind Date With Group Therapy

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Video of the Day: Retro Sex Musicals

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Credit Cruiser Productions

Local film historian Matthew Kennedy's forthcoming book, Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s, recounts in juicy, gory detail how bloated bombs like Doctor Dolittle, Paint Your Wagon, Star!, and Finian's Rainbow torpedoed the venerable genre as well as the Hollywood studio system. Just a few years later, however, the mainstreaming of pornography (thank you, Deep Throat) opened the (back)door for a burst of low-budget musicals with a fresh come-on: Nudity and fornication.

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Video of the Day: Dodgeball, San Francisco's Real Favorite Sport

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Matt J Smith
Go balls to the wall, er floor.

By Nelson Estrada

Dodgeball SF is a local league holding dodgeball competitions weekly. It's a mix of competitiveness and fun while getting a good workout. Teams are beginning to compete for the finals and hoping to take the championship. With wacky team names like Dodgenam Style, Harry Ballsagna, and The Dodgefathers this is bound to be a peculiar sport with some guaranteed laughs.

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San Francisco Featured in World's Most Beautiful TV Ad

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In an effort to tug at our heartstrings and make us long for simpler, childhood times, Sony created a video ad for their Bravia HD TV that consisted of dropping 250,000 colorful bouncy balls down the hills of San Francisco.

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Dear Champ: Advice from a Fictitious Pro Wrestler

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pic courtesy of WWE

In honor of the wrestling buzz that's been making the rounds in San Francisco's arts scene (and beyond), we present to you this very sincere advice column, told from the point of view of a professional wrestler, known simply as The Champ.

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