Burlingame

Big-Headed, Tight-Lipped: Barry Bonds' Hall of Fame Defense

Yes, Santa Will Let Your Pet Snake Sit on His Lap

For all you crazy cat ladies out there, here's your chance to get even crazier with your feline. Santa Claus is coming to the Peninsula Humane Society specifically to let your pets sit on his lap and bark, meow, or hiss what it is they would like for Christmas this year. If that sounds weird, it's ... More >>

Puck Yeah: Taking the Ice with the S.F. Bulls

For all you crazy cat ladies out there, here's your chance to get even crazier with your feline. Santa Claus is coming to the Peninsula Humane Society specifically to let your pets sit on his lap and bark, meow, or hiss what it is they would like for Christmas this year. If that sounds weird, it's ... More >>

Alexander Svidler, S.F Businessman, Off to Prison for Bilking Hospital Out of Millions

Don't do the crime if you don't want to do the time. A San Francisco man was sentenced Monday to 18 months in jail for taking part in a scheme that defrauded a Pasadena hospital out of millions of dollars. As if health care costs weren't high enough. Alexander Svidler, 54, was in cahoots with two ... More >>

Hun Saelee, Judiana Lau Arrested After Halloween Party Shooting

San Francisco police arrested two people accused of opening fire in a parking lot, striking a 21-year-old man in the head. Officer Carlos Manfredi says police tracked down 30-year-old Hun Saelee and 26-year-old Judiana Lau at a San Leandro residence Sunday morning after the shooting. Both were arres ... More >>

Peninsula SPCA Is Giving Away Kittens, Go Get One Now

If this weather makes you feel lonely and sad, then you probably are in need of a companion. Chin up: We found one -- or 20 -- for you. Go down to the Peninsula today and get your free kitty. We said FREE, damn it. Right now as we type, the Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA is waiving adoption fees ... More >>

Hiding in Plain Sight: A Homicide Suspect Spent Four Years on the Lam

If this weather makes you feel lonely and sad, then you probably are in need of a companion. Chin up: We found one -- or 20 -- for you. Go down to the Peninsula today and get your free kitty. We said FREE, damn it. Right now as we type, the Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA is waiving adoption fees ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Update: Court Papers Detail "Damage" to Son from Judge's Stay-Away Order

​Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's wife, whom he has been charged with physically abusing, appeared in San Francisco Family Court today asking a judge to allow her husband supervised visits with the couple's son, asserting that a court order barring Mirkarimi from seeing his family is doing "damage" to the ... More >>

Paul Nave, "Marin County Assasin," Can't Outlast Boxer Half His Age

Dan O'NeillPaul Nave got in his shots, but couldn't outpunch Father Time​It turns out there is a grandfather clause in boxing. As in, boxers who are grandfathers seldom win. Paul "The Marin County Assassin" Nave, proud grandpa and celebrant of his 51st birthday tomorrow, stepped into the ring Frid ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Doping Investigation: Leak Shows 60 Minutes Expose Was Right

Matt SmithIt's hard to stop a leak.​Attorneys for Lance Armstrong pivoted from demanding an apology for purported inaccuracies in a recent 60 Minutes doping exposé to lambasting the "leakers" who proved that the report was true. Last month, Armstrong hired a San Francisco law firm famed ... More >>

Masterminds 2011: SF Weekly Recognizes Local Artists

Matt SmithIt's hard to stop a leak.​Attorneys for Lance Armstrong pivoted from demanding an apology for purported inaccuracies in a recent 60 Minutes doping exposé to lambasting the "leakers" who proved that the report was true. Last month, Armstrong hired a San Francisco law firm famed ... More >>

Wesley Snipes Tax Evasion Sentence Outrages Libertarian Party

Wesley Snipes: Tax protester and vampire hunter​The leader of the nation's Libertarian Party said today he's outraged that Wesley Snipes has been sentenced to three years in prison, citing it as an example of the IRS' unfair "selective enforcement," and of the fact evaders evade because "THE TAX I ... More >>

Skateboarding Dogs Invade San Francisco (Video)

Tillman the skateboarding bulldog distracted office workers in Mission Bay today​You don't get to meet an internet meme every day. Rarer still does one drool on you. But for SF Weekly, today was the the day. Tillman -- the world's fastest skateboarding dog -- and three of his less rapid canine ska ... More >>

Where Can I Buy Locally Made Chocolate In a Post-Scharffen Berger World?

Who cares if Scharffen Berger left town when we have E. Guittard?​A question came in from D.F. this week:I used to buy Scharffen Berger chocolate, but now that Hershey bought out the company and left Berkeley, I don't know where to buy local chocolate. I've been buying bags of Guittard chips at th ... More >>

Facial Profiling

Will face-recognition technology get an accused killer off the hook?

Chairman Bao is Already Controversial, But is it Worth Fighting Over?

Tamara PalmerBaked bao with Chinese spiced duck confit and mango salad.​Chairman Bao launched just yesterday and is already embroiled in controversy, but that didn't stop us from crossing the (invisible) picket line today as it parked for its second day of operation in front of Economy Restaur ... More >>

Dead Sea

An unpublished study shows the surprisingly lethal effects of the Cosco Busan oil spill. Why are government scientists helping the ship's owner keep it a secret?

Strange Courtfellows — Driver and people he ran into in parking lot

An unpublished study shows the surprisingly lethal effects of the Cosco Busan oil spill. Why are government scientists helping the ship's owner keep it a secret?

SFPD polygraph expert's controversial views

An unpublished study shows the surprisingly lethal effects of the Cosco Busan oil spill. Why are government scientists helping the ship's owner keep it a secret?

SFPD can't tell a lie: It still uses unreliable polygraph to screen recruits

Even though scientists have discredited the polygraph, the SFPD still relies on the flawed device to screen recruits.

Inside a Happy Habit: A Factory Tour of See's Candies

Janine Kahn Our tour guide, Jim Paine."We have so much going on here that you really need to go through everything four or five times to remember it all!" warned Jim Paine, longtime production manager at See's Candies' headquarters in South San Francisco.Paine probably didn't intend  ... More >>

Teenage Balloon Animal Prodigy Hopes To Put Himself Through College -- One Balloon Monkey at a Time

Joe EskenaziJonathan Zambole and some of his creationsThere's no way around it -- Jonathan Zambole's reputation is inflated. That's not a knock on him; the kid is a balloon animal -- and mineral and vegetable -- prodigy. The 18-year-old Burlingame man is skinny as one of his balloons, and Conan O'Br ... More >>

Ex-S.F. Supe Ed Jew's New Defense: My Brain Hurt

Aaron FarmerTapioca Ed Jew now blames a brain-freeze (of sorts) for his corruptionA tired writer could describe Ex-Supervisor Ed Jew's rise and fall as "meteoric" -- but, then, meteors don't really rise that often. So let's liken Jew to a bottle rocket -- he ascended gloriously before flaming out fo ... More >>

A Protest with Extra Cheese: Costumed Carpenters' Questionable Claims

Atsa spicy protest! San Francisco is a town where you can often turn more heads wearing a three-piece suit than nothing at all. And yet, the sight of two burly union carpenters from the Local 22 handing out fliers in front of Amici's Pizza on King Street -- while dressed as Italian chefs - still ma ... More >>

Poor Turnout for Palin Look-a-like Castro Meeting

Atsa spicy protest! San Francisco is a town where you can often turn more heads wearing a three-piece suit than nothing at all. And yet, the sight of two burly union carpenters from the Local 22 handing out fliers in front of Amici's Pizza on King Street -- while dressed as Italian chefs - still ma ... More >>

Last Night: George Lopez at the Warfield

Atsa spicy protest! San Francisco is a town where you can often turn more heads wearing a three-piece suit than nothing at all. And yet, the sight of two burly union carpenters from the Local 22 handing out fliers in front of Amici's Pizza on King Street -- while dressed as Italian chefs - still ma ... More >>

The Chronicle Mashup: An Amalgamation of All the Stories Our Local Paper Has Covered to Death

Atsa spicy protest! San Francisco is a town where you can often turn more heads wearing a three-piece suit than nothing at all. And yet, the sight of two burly union carpenters from the Local 22 handing out fliers in front of Amici's Pizza on King Street -- while dressed as Italian chefs - still ma ... More >>

Richard Thalheimer, Founder of Sharper Image, Talks for the First Time About His Ouster

Atsa spicy protest! San Francisco is a town where you can often turn more heads wearing a three-piece suit than nothing at all. And yet, the sight of two burly union carpenters from the Local 22 handing out fliers in front of Amici's Pizza on King Street -- while dressed as Italian chefs - still ma ... More >>

Steroids Confidential

Greg Anderson has given up his freedom rather than testify about Barry Bonds. But one man has learned the deepest secrets of the trainer behind baseball's new home run king.

SF Mayor Wannabees: Goat Slaughterers, Big Booty Butts and 'Fems' into 'Brain'

Greg Anderson has given up his freedom rather than testify about Barry Bonds. But one man has learned the deepest secrets of the trainer behind baseball's new home run king.

Kid Code

Greg Anderson has given up his freedom rather than testify about Barry Bonds. But one man has learned the deepest secrets of the trainer behind baseball's new home run king.

Golf in the Hole

Will the city turn over our golf courses to the very people who are making them lose money?

Powerful Advice

Leaders should ignore the temptation to over-regulate energy policy and let competition reign

Fast Times at Marin Catholic High

A case that the Archdiocese of San Francisco apparently doesn't want you to know about

Holiday Gift Guide

A case that the Archdiocese of San Francisco apparently doesn't want you to know about

'Roid Ragers

Two macho men and the bitchy bodybuilding world that surrounds -- and, perhaps, spawned -- the BALCO steroids case

Jew Eat Yet?

What does a girl have to do to get a decent hot pastrami in this town?

See No Evil

S.F. Archbishop William Levada styles himself as a leading advocate for openness among Catholic leaders on the clergy sex-abuse issue. So why doesn't he practice what he preaches?

Salsa Cultura (If You Go...)

S.F. Archbishop William Levada styles himself as a leading advocate for openness among Catholic leaders on the clergy sex-abuse issue. So why doesn't he practice what he preaches?

Letters to the Editor

More on Maher; Striking Back; Assertive. Opinionated. We Bet You're an Aries.; Editor's Note

Letters to the Editor

Week of March 28, 2001

Pop Philosophy

Hip hop show in memory of Ken Hamilton; music in Matt Gonzalez's office

Night Crawler

Pez on Earth

When Do Losers Win?

When Willie Brown is mayor, and one of their limiteds is Angelo Tsakopoulos

The Man Who Came to Dinner

When Willie Brown is mayor, and one of their limiteds is Angelo Tsakopoulos

Cothran

When Willie Brown is mayor, and one of their limiteds is Angelo Tsakopoulos

Night+Day

When Willie Brown is mayor, and one of their limiteds is Angelo Tsakopoulos

Night+Day

When Willie Brown is mayor, and one of their limiteds is Angelo Tsakopoulos

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?