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How Bay Area Corporations Resemble Their (Human) Neighbors

San Francisco Among California's Top Three Job-Creating Cities

​"Pandering to the conventional wisdom," former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller once observed, is "the mortal sin of journalism." There are plenty of journalistic sinners out there, particularly when it comes to the conventional wisdom on San Francisco.Self-consciously middle-of-the-ro ... More >>

Hear a Sample of Lou Reed and Metallica's "The View," Which Doesn't Seem Like the Best Thing Ever

​ We could make a lucrative IPO with all the hype Lou Reed has expelled about his upcoming album with Bay Area metal stalwarts Metallica. But if the one sample of Lulu that's leaked so far is any indication, the Reed self-praise machine might just be blowing a bubble the size of Bakersfield. ... More >>

Merle Haggard vs. San Francisco: Five Songs in Which Country's Best Works Through His Issues With the Bay

The Hag will make you eat that gee-tar, hippies​Merle Haggard may contain multitudes, but he tends to feel just one of those multitudinous things at a time - and to feel it so hard and pure that he seems to have forgotten all the previous things he's felt that might not square with it. Perha ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

The Hag will make you eat that gee-tar, hippies​Merle Haggard may contain multitudes, but he tends to feel just one of those multitudinous things at a time - and to feel it so hard and pure that he seems to have forgotten all the previous things he's felt that might not square with it. Perha ... More >>

Saturday Night: Fuckaroos, Sandwitches, Earth Girl Helen Brown, Sonny & the Sunsets Cover for Loud Fast Fools at Amnesia

Romana MachadoFuckaroos​ Fuckaroos, Sandwitches, Earth Girl Helen Brown, Sonny & the SunsetsApril 2, 2011@ Amnesia BarBetter than: Pulling the mask off the old Lone Ranger. It seems everyone's tired of hipsters, but no one's tired of complaining about them but me. You can scarce swing a dead ... More >>

And the Most Partisan District in California Is ... Compton? San Francisco Doesn't Even Crack Top-10.

We may not be his best friend after all​San Francisco may be the national Democratic Party's ATM. But, counter-intuitively, it does not flaunt the most lopsided percentage of registered Democratic voters in the state. Or the second-highest. Or third. Or tenth. According to the city's Department of ... More >>

Leaving San Francisco -- at 52 Times the Speed of Sound

Perhaps you've seen this before -- but it was a new thrill to us. A pair of gents with a time-lapse camera that snapped photos every 10 seconds have distilled their cross-country automobile journey down to the above four-and-a-half minute haul from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. In case you're wo ... More >>

Just Doe It

Perhaps you've seen this before -- but it was a new thrill to us. A pair of gents with a time-lapse camera that snapped photos every 10 seconds have distilled their cross-country automobile journey down to the above four-and-a-half minute haul from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. In case you're wo ... More >>

Rearing and Bucking

Perhaps you've seen this before -- but it was a new thrill to us. A pair of gents with a time-lapse camera that snapped photos every 10 seconds have distilled their cross-country automobile journey down to the above four-and-a-half minute haul from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. In case you're wo ... More >>

Dancing on the Culture Bus' ashes

Perhaps you've seen this before -- but it was a new thrill to us. A pair of gents with a time-lapse camera that snapped photos every 10 seconds have distilled their cross-country automobile journey down to the above four-and-a-half minute haul from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. In case you're wo ... More >>

The Great Buck Howard

Perhaps you've seen this before -- but it was a new thrill to us. A pair of gents with a time-lapse camera that snapped photos every 10 seconds have distilled their cross-country automobile journey down to the above four-and-a-half minute haul from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. In case you're wo ... More >>

Tackled By National Federation, Creators of Two-Quarterback Football Offense Look Downfield

As SF Weekly foreshadowed, the National Federation of State High School Associations last month voted, 46-2, for rule changes that effectively kill the innovative, two-quarterback A-11 offense -- which is every bit as lopsided a tally when it comes to governing high school sports or playing a foot ... More >>

San Francisco in Canada

Lots of locals in the Toronto Film Fest.

SF's Parking Pains Place Fourth in the U.S.

Lots of locals in the Toronto Film Fest.

Photos: Elton John at the Honda Center on 4/19

Lots of locals in the Toronto Film Fest.

Merle Haggard at Regency Center - Today’s Calendar Pick

Lots of locals in the Toronto Film Fest.

Haggard Far from Tired

Lots of locals in the Toronto Film Fest.

All Bucked Up

Lots of locals in the Toronto Film Fest.

Better Late than Never

Lots of locals in the Toronto Film Fest.

Red Meat

We Never Close (Rancho Records)

Dave Gleason's Wasted Days

Just Fall to Pieces (Well Worn Records)

Paying for It

Fury, injustice, humiliation — and humor — in Campo Santo's four-story program

Music News

Important stories about important shit. This week: Train workers in a wreck over latest from Train.

What the Fuck, 2005

The 10 most head-scratching, insulting, crass, craven, and weird musical moments of the year

City of Love

This just in: San Francisco is a singles' paradise!

The Assjacks of Hazzard

Hank Williams III puts the "dick" in Dixie, and the mosh pit in a country music show

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, January 5, 2005

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Grand Old Partying

Infiltrator joins the Young Republicans to experience the blue suits, big hair, and free beer of the Republican state convention

Cook's Tour

Sharing a taste of our town with L.A. chefs results in a serious case of Bay Pride

Sonny's Days

In which we meet a donkey, some crows, and Sonny Smith, who is not a folk singer

Best Country Band

Red Meat

Digitized Dance

When computers meet choreography

It's a Twang Thang

When computers meet choreography

sex, lies, & videotape

Veering off into madness with first-time moviemakers David Owen and Paul Stephen

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Honky-tonker Jill Olson infuses her solo album with a touch of sadness

Hear This

Buck Owens displays the West Coast sound that brought the rock generation into the honky-tonk fold

Death of a Death School

The 72-year-old San Francisco College of Mortuary Science -- perhaps the country's premier institution of funeral service education -- has its last graduation and moves (gulp) into the great beyond

I Like Trouble

Julia Roberts' next film will be shot, and set, in San Francisco

House Of Tudor

Silke Tudor smiles upon the Angry White Male Tour

The Mother Hips Connection

Or, how a fascination with a slew of genres turned into California soul

Honky-Tonk Angles

Western swing musician Johnny Dilks plays scholar to California's country music past and suggests its future, if Charlie Louvin has anything to say about it

Reviews

Western swing musician Johnny Dilks plays scholar to California's country music past and suggests its future, if Charlie Louvin has anything to say about it

Laissez Ferret

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Country and Midwestern

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

House of Tudor

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Night Crawler

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

The House of Tudor

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Aisle Seat

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law