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  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Could "Thrashed" Ocean Beach Become a Blissful Playland?

    Nice, but it could be better...​Imagine a dense, beautiful city bordered by a sandy, public beach.Now if you're Los Angeles, you will see palm trees, basketball and volleyball courts, cafes, bars, galleries, ice cream parlors, and surf shops. It's paradise. Go to San Francisco, and you will see Oc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Muni Goes Topless! (Video)

    The Christmas lights are a nice touch, too...​Muni' car No. 228 is certainly the most eye-catching in the fleet -- which is a tactful way of stating it's not the most conventionally attractive. The open-topped, English-built "Blackpool" car is a green-and-cream blunderbuss resembling a pair of Vol ... More >>

  • Music

    October 21, 2009

    Tocadisco

    The Christmas lights are a nice touch, too...​Muni' car No. 228 is certainly the most eye-catching in the fleet -- which is a tactful way of stating it's not the most conventionally attractive. The open-topped, English-built "Blackpool" car is a green-and-cream blunderbuss resembling a pair of Vol ... More >>

  • Music

    October 7, 2009

    A new postpunk festival highlights a genre's revival

    The Christmas lights are a nice touch, too...​Muni' car No. 228 is certainly the most eye-catching in the fleet -- which is a tactful way of stating it's not the most conventionally attractive. The open-topped, English-built "Blackpool" car is a green-and-cream blunderbuss resembling a pair of Vol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    Britain Survived the Blitz, But Can it Take Bowdlerized San Francisco?

    If California is now a role model for Britain -- well, God Save the QueenIn the faded English coastal resort town of Blackpool, there's a restaurant three blocks off the shore called West Coast Rock that specializes in California cuisine as a blinkered Brit might imagine. When my wife and I visited ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2008

    Concerning That Strange Chopped-Top Muni Car

    If California is now a role model for Britain -- well, God Save the QueenIn the faded English coastal resort town of Blackpool, there's a restaurant three blocks off the shore called West Coast Rock that specializes in California cuisine as a blinkered Brit might imagine. When my wife and I visited ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2007

    New Interpol Live EP Releases Today in Exclusive Stores

    If California is now a role model for Britain -- well, God Save the QueenIn the faded English coastal resort town of Blackpool, there's a restaurant three blocks off the shore called West Coast Rock that specializes in California cuisine as a blinkered Brit might imagine. When my wife and I visited ... More >>

  • Music

    October 17, 2007

    SF Weekly Music Awards 2007 Program

    If California is now a role model for Britain -- well, God Save the QueenIn the faded English coastal resort town of Blackpool, there's a restaurant three blocks off the shore called West Coast Rock that specializes in California cuisine as a blinkered Brit might imagine. When my wife and I visited ... More >>

  • Film

    October 13, 2004

    Soft-Shoe Soft Sell

    Gere and J.Lo Dance, and there's nothing dirty about it

  • Music

    October 30, 2002

    Back from -- and with -- the dead

    Kimo's and the Dead Kennedys return

  • Music

    August 7, 2002

    All Mod Cons

    We're gonna dance like it's 1964

  • News

    December 26, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Ring Master; Salt in the Wound; S.F.: 237, N.Y.: 1

  • News

    December 5, 2001

    Visionary Thinking

    The "X Plan," a draft of Muni's hopes for the future, offers a glimpse of transit utopia

  • Film

    April 26, 1995

    On Dislocation

    Rootlessness rules the 38th S.F. International Film Festival

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