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Our Three Favorite Mixology Parodies, in Honor of This Week's Review

In this week's review, I called out new Mission hot spot Trick Dog for coming dangerously close to being a parody of the worst kind of mixology bar (it isn't, by the way, because the food and drinks are almost uniformly awesome). This was very much on my mind during my visits, partially because the ... More >>

Live Review, 9/29/12: William Elliott Whitmore Keeps it Simple at Slim's

William Elliott WhitmoreSaturday, Sept. 29, 2012Slim'sBetter than: Drinking actual moonshine.The world that William Elliott Whitmore inhabits is one of dirt roads and wooden shacks and vast fields and howling dogs and rushing rivers and moonshine. His voice is so seeped in grit and struggle and resi ... More >>

The Artisanal Irony: The Mass-Produced Hand-Crafted Food Dilemma

Facebook's Top Check-In Spot for San Francisco: AT&T Park

We figured local strip clubs and the proctologist's office probably wouldn't be on list of Facebook's top "check-ins." But you know what is: AT&T Park. In the study released yesterday, Facebook analyzed data from 25 cities, including San Francisco, and found that a majority of their users are ca ... More >>

Bay to Breakers: Most Everyone Behaved, 19 Arrested

Out of the more than 40,000 who braved the Sunday morning stampede known as Bay to Breakers, fewer than a dozen were arrested on suspicion of having just too much damn fun.According to news reports this morning, police only had to haul 19 people off to jail during the annual footrace, however, they ... More >>

Berkeley's Annie's Homegrown Goes Public, Rakes in Cash

​If decades-old boxes of Annie's Homegrown Macaroni and Cheese were the equivalent of stock shares, nearly every person reading this would be just a little bit wealthier today. As the San Jose Mercury News reported, yesterday Berkeley's own little natural food behemoth began trading shares on the ... More >>

Twitter Hates You: Don't Believe It? Ask Roland Martin

Twitter is not your friend. Twitter does not have your back. Twitter is a cold, conniving gossip. Twitter is horrible at keeping secrets. Twitter is an old man who sits on his porch watching everything that goes by and telling everybody what everybody else is doing. Don't get me wrong. It's fun when ... More >>

Jeff Mangum is Vegan, Milk Ads are Hilarious(ly Bad), & 20 Best Vegan Dishes in the Mission!?

​• The awesome Compassion Over Killing launched ads on Hulu this week and they're being very well received! I love the idea of people sitting down to watch Paula Deen tap dance on a dead pig or whatever she does and then BAM! Here's the real deal! Love it -- give COK all your money so they can k ... More >>

San Francisco Giants To Get Second Victory Parade -- In San Jose

Alan EskenaziAre Aubrey Huff -- and his beer and Rally Thong -- headed to San Jose's festivities? ​For members of the San Francisco Giants hoping to spend their $318,000 World Series bonuses -- do you know the way to San Jose? The team -- collectively, the entire team -- will serve as the honorary ... More >>

Wild Flag Rocks Our Faces Off, Covers the Stones and the VU at Bottom of the Hill

Wild Flag at Bottom of the Hill last night​Wild FlagGrass WidowRoyal BathsNovember 18, 2010@ Bottom of the HillBetter than: Performing in a toilet.Carrie Brownstein, you are way too fucking modest. "We're just up here learning how to be a band," she said, near the end of Wild Flag's fifth sho ... More >>

In Chico, a Craft Beer Pioneer Turns 30

Brian YaegerSierra Nevada is the nation's largest independent brewery.​Nov. 15, 1980: Twenty-six-year-old Ken Grossman brews his first commercial beer. Last night, Grossman briefly took the stage at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.'s 30th anniversary party in Chico where it all began. Thirty di ... More >>

"Unstoppable": Denzel Washington and Chris Pine save smalltown USA

The 10 Worst Answers to 'What Kind of Music Do You Listen To?"

BrokeNCYDE: All your fears about the younger generation, realized.​It's a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible question. And a necessary one. Why necessary? Hell, we need some way to talk about the stuff. And it's terrible, obviously, because there's no successful way to answer it ... More >>

What's the Best-Selling Beer in the Castro? The Mega-Brews Making a Play for Gay Dollars

​There, on the bottom right corner of the official Pride website, four tiny, alternating ads flash that link to corporate sponsors, each with a tagline that winks to their support of the LGBT community. Anheuser-Busch, a corporation that pulls in almost $37 billion in sales by virtue of contro ... More >>

If You Didn't Get Tix to Giants Brewfest, There's Always Next Week in Oakland

francobobfred II/FlickrSummer essential: Chugging beer in some stadium parking lot.​The only thing more exciting than the prospect of a series the Giants can actually sweep (vs. the cellar-dwelling D'backs) is great, free-ish beer beforehand in the form of Saturday's first annual Giants Brewfe ... More >>

Comfort Food: At home on the Nicaraguan strip

Doggy Bag: Punch Drunk at Omnivore

thesecondlunch.com The making of Mission Gutter Juice.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Guttersnipe: Blogger Sam Tackeff of the thesecondlunch.com has a photo-rich report on Saturday's punch contest at Omnivore Books, where Tackeff works. We'll let her refresh your memory: The rules were s ... More >>

So, Top City Elected Officials Lost 2.45 Percent of Their Salaries? Here's What They Could Have Bought.

Apparently, even this guy has been forced to give up $4.90 every time he passes "Go"​The official reason that 18 of the city's highest paid elected officials will take a minuscule pay cut was a recent city charter. But you could trace this one back to the Code of Hammurabi. Way down at the end, it ... More >>

Ken Will Help You Move

As Economy Leaves Us Crying Into Our Beer, Local Brewery Laughing Its Way to the Bank

Your untaxed dollars at play: Schmaltz Brewing is reporting record sales, despite a crap economyWhen the current financial crunch rumbled into the big time late last year, 499 of the Fortune 500 companies' experienced plummeting stock prices. The one that didn't? Campbell's Soup. The notion of futur ... More >>

Drink of the Week: 21st Amendment's Watermelon Wheat

Sunday Dispatch: Bay to Breakers

Chasing Bonds' History Ball: SF Weekly Gets Wet for Community Comment

Full Nelson

Can pro basketball's second-winningest coach put the Warriors back on the warpath? Don't count him out too quick.

Dog Town

Artists buck tradition

Marty Anderson is Okay

A story about the music we make out of the things we carry

Gabba Gabba Henh

The Ramones bopped toward history and an unhappy end

Playing With History

A fictional account of a real event leaves us choking on our cream puffs

The Self-Loathing Hipster's Guide to [the Universe] S.F. Night Life

The Pain Train

Two years later, a digital-video short film became an overnight ad sensation

Bow to the King

Or, why we love Barry Bonds, even when he's a royal Jerk

Year of the Elephant

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Slap Shots

Recordings

Night Crawler