Subject: Cali

• Pigeon John, Marc Broussard, Bowling For Soup -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Thursday, August 16

  August 16, 2007

• Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Cali

  September 19, 2008

• Listen to Morrissey's New Single, "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris"

  We haven't heard much from Morrissey since his glorious visit to S.F. last year, so it was a pleasant surprise to hear Morrissey's new single from his upcoming album, Years of Refusal. The track for "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris" continues Moz's trademark juxtaposition of pensive lyrics matched with an upbeat melody. Stereogum just put up a streaming version of the track, as well as a list of upcoming U.S. tour dates that doesn't have a single stop in Cali. There's probably no need to worr

  December 29, 2008

• It May Not Be Trendy, But Berkeley's Cheeseboard Does Pizza Right

  aloveletteraway via FlickrThe essence of CaliAs for the pizza wars of the Bay Area, our attitude is, Flame on! Let us just go on record as saying that the apotheosis of all that is great about California's big, sloppy love affair with Italian and Mexican cuisines is evident in the corn, cilantro, cotija, and lime pizza at the Cheeseboard Pizza Collective (1512 Shattuck at Vine, Berkeley). Delfina may try, Pauline's may try, Little Star may try, but nothing beats sitting on the grassy median in t

  May 29, 2009

• SF Weekly Letters

  April 8, 2009

• Being unfaithful to San Francisco at Murphy's Pub

  January 7, 2009

• Uneasy Riders

  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club dishes disappointments

  May 2, 2007

• It Was a Year Of ...

  Well, lots of things, actually

  December 20, 2006

• Goy Gevalt

  October 5, 2005

• Den of Iniquity

  December 8, 2004

• BeatBox

  Aesop Rock makes the unintelligible, well, entertaining; the legendary Shapeshifters shuffle up from L.A.

  December 1, 2004

• Hear This

  All-star MCs line-up for the "Cali Comm 2004" tour; Sondre Lerche is one more reason to love Norway

  November 24, 2004

• I Am the Eggman

  October 1, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  March 12, 2003

• Blowin' Smoke

  January 29, 2003

• Schizophonic Illness

  October 16, 2002

• SF Music Awards 2001

  An exotic adventure into the mysterious world of sound!

  October 17, 2001

• Zoom Lens

  May 10, 2000

• Reviews

  November 12, 1997

• Recordings

  April 30, 1997

• The House of Tudor

  March 19, 1997

• Letters

  March 29, 1995

• Letters

  March 22, 1995

• Gay Marriage Fail: The Twittersphere Responds to Prop. 8 Ruling

  Twitter's Fail WhaleWe've been live-tweeting the Prop. 8 happenings over at @SF_Weekly for the past few hours but have also been keeping a close eye on the response from our fellow twits. Here's a sampling of the mixed (but predictable) sentiments: @roxaloxa: California fails, sad day. @ginatrapani: California upholds Prop 8; my legal marriage (1 of 18,000) stands. *facepalm* @dmuth: F*ck you, California. Thanks for trampling on human rights @mindshifter: Prop 8 upheld. Religion poisons eve

  May 26, 2009

• The Doggie Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Torte reform: Not sure if this means we live in the most litigious society ever or the stupidest. Slashfood left us slackmouthed with news that a woman in Cali tried to sue Quaker Oats parent PepsiCo because she felt the word "berries" implied that Cap'n Crunch Crunch Berries are, in fact, a fruit. A judge booted the suit, but not before issuing the following: This Court is not aware of, nor has Plaintiff alleged the existence of, any actual

  June 5, 2009

• Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Beto

  DJ Beto is the perfect subject for a DJ Q&A. He's a Latin Musicologist who digs through bug-filled crates in Central and South America in order to find the choice cuts from Costa Rica, Columbia, Cuba, and beyond. When Beto gets retro, he's feeling mambo jazz and classic salsa, and he's busy on a book about Latin jazz and dance music spanning a period in history long before he was born. This DJ doubles as a writer, a compiler (he's released a couple excellent comps for the Soundway label), an

  June 12, 2009

• Kamala Harris Benefit Announced

  Cali's Next Top Cop? Kamala D. Harris It takes a lot of cojones to stand up for what you think is right in the political world, especially when faced with high-level pressure. Though she's generated controversy and made a few formidable enemies in law enforcement circles, SF DA Kamala Harris has remained firm in her opposition to the death penalty. No doubt, the lady's got balls. She's also got ambition. A candidate for state Attorney General in 2010, she hopes to bring her "smart on cri

  June 19, 2009

• El Mundo de Mando: The Great Taco-Burrito Smackdown

  Mando Rayo: Which one roolz?Austin, Tex., taco blogger Mando Rayo (aka El Mundo de Mando of TacoJournalism) is in Cali this week, getting his first-ever taste of Bay Area-style flavor. We've asked him for a blog-by-blog account of his findings in the MIssion and beyond. Got a tip for Mando? Leave a comment, homie. When I started my in-depth taco inquiry in the Bay Area this week, everyone I met kept telling me, "Try the burritos -- it's California, man!" But being a taco lover I said no guay Jo

  June 24, 2009

• El Mundo de Mando: A Texas Taco Blogger's Crawl Through the Mission

  Mando Rayo The holy trinity at Taqueria Pancho Villa.Austin, Tex., taco blogger Mando Rayo (aka El Mundo de Mando of TacoJournalism) was in Cali this week, getting his first-ever taste of S.F. flavor. How did the Mission stack up to taco culture in Central Texas? Read on, homie. Ahh, San Francisco: What a great city. You are home to Journey, Rice-A-Roni, trolleys, and most important ... tacos! I was told that tacos would be hard to find in the city by the bay but, alas, I have found you,

  June 26, 2009

• Early Bird Special: 54 Mint

  Jen Siska54 Mint's caprese salad.​An early taste of SF Weekly's Wednesday food review. This may be a city whose obsession with thin-crust shows no sign of cooling, but newcomer 54 Mint (16 Mint at Jessie) isn't exactly willing to pander. No, the still-new Italian restaurant in Mint Plaza's sleek Euroscape has a very Sicily-meets-Manhattan sense of itself, one that doesn't include Cali-style pies. Not surprising, since one of the owners here is co-owner of Il Buco in New York City. SF Wee

  August 11, 2009

• SF Weekly Music Awards 2007 Program

  October 17, 2007

• Fish & Farm's Chad Newton: The SFoodie Interview

  C. NewtonChad Newton: Wants Gordon to keep yelling.​Growing up in Mountain View, Chad Newton got a taste of restaurant glory via family trips to Stars, Jeremiah Tower's watershed Cali brasserie. "I used to always gravitate toward the regular menu, not the kid's menu," Newton said. He graduated from the Restaurant Management program at S.F. State, and in 2001 scored a front of the house job as food runner at Postrio during the reign of Steven and Mitchell Rosenthal (now the forces behind To

  September 15, 2009

• Think You Could Survive on $4 a Day? Here's Your Chance to Find Out

  clementine gallot/Flickr​It's a dare meant to get you thinking: Could you eat on just $4 a day? Next week, the Hunger Challenge will be asking folks to do just that. Four bucks is the average amount a food stamp recipient in Cali gets for daily sustenance -- tough to imagine surviving (not to mention rustling up something even vaguely tasty) on such meager funds. The Hunger Challenge is a project of local food banks, bloggers (including Cooking with Amy's Amy Sherman, who gave us the hea

  September 18, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  ​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Ravenous: Mission Loc@l's Brooke Minters took up the San Francisco's Food Bank Hunger Challenge last week. Think you could eat on $4 a day, the typical amount a food stamp recipient receives in Cali? Minters does the sensible thing: With $28 for the week, she hits TJ's: spaghetti, bread, eggs, ground turkey. She finds that being poor is fricking hard -- since you can't just dip into Bistro Burger when munchies-stricken, you've got to plan ahead. Like,

  October 1, 2009

• Track(s) of the Day: Music Awards Nominees (Electronic/DJ)

  ​Once again we're spotlighting tunes by this year's nominees for SF Weekly's annual music awards. The full ballot can be viewed and voted upon here and the winners will be announced at our big party at Ruby Skye on Thursday, Oct. 15, with performances by Wallpaper., Loco Bloco, and Lazer Sword. (The party is $20 and open to the public)Today we're highlighting acts in the Electronic/DJ category.Check out these bangers: "1-2-3-Go" by HottubLazer Sword's remix of Lyrtta's "You Got Nothing""Get Yo

  October 8, 2009

• Hot Meal: Ryan Kat at Bruno's

  J. BirdsallThe BBQ Pork Rib Plate: A successful mashup of snarl and finesse.​In July, Ryan Ostler and Kat Zacher wadded up their aprons and split from The Broken Record, where they'd racked up critical hype as independent kitchen operators at the rough-edged Excelsior bar. They're back, this time at Bruno's (2389 Mission at 20th St.), cooking five nights a week (Tues.-Sat). Judging from dinner last night -- a week after they fired up the range -- the break from the Record was good for them

  November 11, 2009

• Flora Chef, Sweet Adeline Baker Collaborating on Pizza and Frozen Custard Concept

  Andrew B./YelpThe former Spud's in South Berkeley will offer N.Y.-style pizzas with Cali toppings.​Looks like South Berkeley is set to become Ground Zero for the next wave of Bay Area pizza frenzy. Hot on the heels of Emilia's (2995 Shattuck at Ashby) comes word of Addie's Pizza Pie, a collaboration between Thomas Schnetz (Dona Tomas, Flora, Tacubaya) and pastry chef Jennifer Millar, owner of Sweet Adeline Bakeshop (3350 Adeline at 63rd St., Berkeley). The location is 3290 Adeline (at Ashb

  November 20, 2009