Beverly Hills (California)

Noel Gallagher Claims Rock Stardom Will Go Extinct, Apparently Hasn't Heard of Other Forms of Stardom

Aw, look: Another one of Oasis' Gallagher brothers uttered a statement that managed to be arrogant, ignorant, and fuddy-duddy all at the same time! This time it was the elder (and usually saner) one, Noel, speaking to the U.K.'s Sunday Express about the impending die-off of that rare and vital spec ... More >>

Fortune Telling

Peter Thiel Is Nation's 4th Biggest Super PAC Funder

​The nonprofit investigative-reporting outfit ProPublica has published a handy guide to the country's top 10 super-PAC funders -- individuals with enough dough on hand to bankroll, to the tune of millions, independent political committees supporting presidential candidates. Such unfettered spendin ... More >>

How Oakland's Wallpaper. Graduated to a Major Label

How Wallpaper. Got a Record Deal, Local Artists Tackle Nick Drake's Pink Moon, and More

From SF Weekly's latest print music section: ​Wallpaper. Gets a Record Deal: It was around 10 o'clock on a Friday night in December when Ricky Reed walked into a meeting at the Sony Music building in Beverly Hills with no idea what to expect. Less than 36 hours later, Reed -- the creative for ... More >>

Young Widows Talk Recording in a Funeral Home, and Why Experimentation is Necssary

Nick ThienemanYoung Widows perform Friday at Thee Parkside​ An unusual recording environment helps add mystique and character to a record. Nine Inch Nails made The Downward Spiral in the Beverly Hills house where the Sharon Tate murders happened. Bon Iver fans have that great visual of Justin ... More >>

Top Chef Masters: Traci Des Jardins Hosts Her Own Party

Carina OstWatching Top Chef Masters from Public House.​ SFoodie got word that cheftestant Traci Des Jardins would be having a Top Chef Masters viewing party at her casual dining joint, Public House. It was, of course, open to the public, so we headed down there for a seat at the bar. The sound of ... More >>

Kinky Internet Photos Land Family Court Psychiatrist in Hot Water

​This week's SF Weekly cover story examined the sometimes disastrous child-welfare decisions made by officials in California's family courts. In one of those cases -- and in many others not discussed in the story -- a court-appointed psychological expert helped determine which parent would get chi ... More >>

Outing of L.A. Times Restaurant Critic a Kind of Rape

What Ruth Reichl did to keep her identity hidden as critic of the New York Times.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. The restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times is no longer anonymous. In an incident that's caroming around the Twitterverse like the latest from Ruth Bourdain, 16-year L.A. ... More >>

Harvey Milk's Camera Shop Defiled, and Other Outrages

WWHD?​There's an emerging pattern in Gayville lately. It's not a new thing -- not new to the gays or the general population either for that matter -- but it's still disconcerting. It's called whorishness.Does everything good have to be sold out, watered down, or compromised? The Human Rights Campa ... More >>

The Seven Worst Fictional TV and Movie Raps

For a period extending roughly from the mid-1980s and throughout the '90s, producers of TV and film for youth audiences decided that rap was way cool and that the way to inject a level of street cred into any project was to have some characters rap about something. Anything, really. Filmmakers are s ... More >>

Oliver Stone, Zsa Zsa Gabor on Witness List in Gay Grifter Trial

Zsa Zsa Gabor in "The Diva Defense"​​Danny Garcia, the 27-year-old alleged San Francisco con man awaiting trial in Palm Springs on murder charges, has produced a defense witness list that reads like a Hollywood A- and B-list.Garcia is representing himself against murder, larceny, and other charg ... More >>

Get a Newspaper Job, No 'Complexity, Analysis or Narrative' Required

I CAN HAZ NEWSPAPER JOB​Paging David Simon: The San Diego Union-Tribune is reportedly laying off about 35 journalists from their newsroom, and replacing them with new "Jr. Staff Writers." What will these "Jr. Staff Writers" do? According to the journalismjobs.com posting: "Under supervision, will ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Movies

Going Places

Jason Reitman is the director to watch in the next decade.

Sprinkles Planning a Cupcake Shop for Union Square in 2010

daysies/FlickrThe Sprinklesmobile is gone, but a brick-and-mortar shop is planned for S.F.​We're guessing the Sprinklesmobile has made its long, straight trip down Interstate 5 by now, and is all tucked up amid the incandescent warmth of Beverly Hills. The Southern California-based mobile cupc ... More >>

Wes Anderson's comeback: Gen Y's anointed auteur returns

Goapele Debuts New Video, Performs Tonight

EKAphotographySpotted in the O: Goapele​ Last weekend, I spotted local songstress Goapele lunching at a restaurant during Oakland's Lakefest. "Sssh... don't tell anyone I'm here," she said. "I'm supposed to be in LA." Choosing to lunch at a Lakeshore Ave. eatery rather than a trendy see-and-be-se ... More >>

Paulette: A New Obsession

Paulette (437 Hayes) opened last week and provides definitive proof that a French macaroon can be a sensation in the right hands. Sure, the ones at Miette (449 Octavia) around the corner are eminently edible, but Paulette's are a story.

Driver's Eddie

As Happy-Go-Lucky's angry road instructor, character actor Eddie Marsan enters the fast lane.

Exhibit A: Bad Biofuel

By Meredith Brody On first reading, this bright idea seems heaven-sent for combining two New Year's resolutions: contributing to a greener planet by using less gasoline, and, hey, dropping a few pounds while you're at it. Alas, this Beverly Hills (where else?) liposuction doctor's simple plan - ... More >>

SF Only Gets One Slot on Gourmet's Legendary US Restaurants List

Media Analysis: Gay Marriage Looks Good On Us

Weezer

Weezer (DGC/Interscope)

Hit List

The top movies of 2007

Savage Love

Testing the limits of familial bonds, one nursing-home application at a time

MySpace To Open SF Office -- Emperor Murdoch Visits System

Skater Boyz N the Hood

Teen rebels rule in Larry Clark's Wassup Rockers

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This week: Rick Rubin's moxie.

Slices of Heaven

Enjoying pizza in several locations, including between covers

Pop Goes the World

Will Schwartz and Hey Willpower want you to think about why you like pop, or, barring that, get your booty bouncin'

Call Him Al

An epic story turns human -- and fallible -- in Oliver Stone's Alexander

Crooked as They Come

Criminal swipes its story from a far superior movie

Body Manipulation

Eve Ensler, back again to talk about private stuff we should all be discussing

Bickering Bikram

A copyright dispute pits yoga king Bikram Choudhury against competitors and followers alike

Best Sushi-on-Acid Experience Without Actually Having to Be on Acid

Country Station Sushi Cafe

Best Smoked Sturgeon

East Coast West Delicatessen

All Quiet on the Western Front

At local indie houses: Anti-Bush docs and, uh, "Sing-Along West Side Story"

Chicken: A 1-Ho Show

A boy prostitute and the Beverly Hills ladies who love him

House of Tudor

Remedial Cinema, Voodoo Organists, studs for hire, and more

Nuggets from the Golden State

Golden Nuggets and the Kitchen Sink

Chow for Champions

A local chef cooks for the U.S. snowboard Olympic team. The team wins gold, silver, and bronze. Any connection?

The Tired Gun

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing sight of a career

Oodles of Flavors

Second Time Around

City of Angles

How Curtis Hanson brought James Ellroy's epic crime novel L.A. Confidential to the screen

The House of Tudor

Slap Shots

Recordings