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Three Places to Satisfy Your Ice Cream Soda Craving This Thursday

Sweet creaminess and hilarious slurpy straw noises used to be why we loved getting an ice cream float at the cherished A&W back in the day. Dad would be all tanned and relaxed, and back then none of us had a care that we were slurping sugary soda that today would possibly be fraught with deeper mean ... More >>

Marin County Asking Residents Nicely To Stop Drinking Soda This Summer

Here's a thing that'll go over well with the kids: The Marin County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution making June, July, and August "Soda Free Summer" months. While the measure doesn't outright ban sugary carbonated beverages, it does encourage Marin residents to adopt "soda free policies" a ... More >>

The Tech Dream Factory: Networks and Incubators Promise "Insider Access," for a Price

Haute Links: When Blogs Become Ads

Environmentalists Campaign Crissy Field, Yosemite to Ban Bottled-Water

Bottled-water might not be as sexy as, say, public nudity in San Francisco, which actually isn't sexy, but environmentalists have launched an equally passionate campaign to ban bottled-water across national parks. Their next stop: San Francisco, where city officials have been barred from bottled- ... More >>

Blind Spot: A Motorcycle Death Raises Unanswerable Questions

"Greedy Lying Bastards": No Thanks for Wrecking the Planet

New Study Shows Voter Support for Genetically Modified Food Labeling in California

A new study has just come out that shows that 67% of voters continue to support the labeling of genetically modified foods, despite the defeat of Prop. 37 in last November's election. The controversial Prop. 37, which would have required a label on any genetically modified food sold in California, w ... More >>

U.C. FUBAR: The Logo Is Dead. Long Live the Logo

Bobble-Headed Dog in Car Actually a Real (Bobble-Headed) Dog

The old Coca-Cola motto used to note "you can't beat the real thing." This Yellow Cab driver seems to agree. Rather than settle for a standard dashboard bobble-headed dog for his vehicle, he's got the real thing! SF Weekly at first mistook this creature for a Made-in-Taiwan decoration. We were disab ... More >>

The Top 15 Most Cocaine-Influenced Albums of All Time, Nos. 5-1

See also: * The Top 15 Most Cocaine-Influenced Albums of All Time, Nos. 15-11 * The Top 15 Most Cocaine-Influenced Albums of All Time, Nos. 10-6 Here we are, at the end of the blizzard: the final installment of our list of the most coked-out records ever made. Less an endorsement than an assessme ... More >>

Ice Cream Bar Owner Juliet Pries on eBay, Tinctures, and Coca Leaves

​Thanks to byzantine SF permitting processes, it took Juliet Pries almost two years to open the Ice Cream Bar in Cole Valley, the subject of this week's restaurant review. But the delay gave her time to change the focus of the shop, expanding from ice cream into its most distinctive feature: pre-P ... More >>

WikiLeaks' Data Dump: Let's Hold Off on Pronouncing It a Dud

​If the widespread derision of WikiLeaks' latest document drop is any indication, the struggling organization might be nearing the end of its useful life. Still, the stolen e-mails it started publishing on Sunday night so far seem more interesting in general than the trove of diplomatic cables it ... More >>

Q&A: Mux Mool on Videogame Music and the Limitless Possibilities of Laptop Production

Intentionally or not, some electronic musicians -- like Daft Punk, Deadmau5, Eskmo, Tobacco, and Tycho -- come off as spectral, detached figures. Mux Mool, whose real name is Brian Lindgren, is not the shadowy type. He portrays himself as the sort of guy you could invite over to your place for barbe ... More >>

S.F. Fat Activists Oppose Atlanta's Anti-Obesity Campaign

​A San Francisco fat activist has helped raise more than $12,000 to launch a campaign to counter the public shaming of obese children. What set all this off: Currently in Atlanta, the second most obese city in the nation, Strong 4 Life billboards sponsored by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta show ... More >>

Tea Party Princess: Victoria Jackson and the Rabid Right

S.F.'s Extra Classic Tastefully Updates Dub and Reggae Sounds

Why Are Bottled Water Companies Going After African American and Latino Consumers?

TLC's Chilli is now hawking Dasani. (Side note: Chilli looks amazing.)​A decade or two ago, bottled water was associated with the WASPiest of the white -- alpha-dog fitness geeks, neurotic soccer moms, people too good for what comes out of the tap. Now, according to a new Mother Jones article, bot ... More >>

How Google Ended the 'Browser Wars'

​Today is the 16th anniversary of Netscape's initial public offering. It occurs to me that many of you might be only vaguely aware of Netscape, and of what it meant to us in the mid-'90s. That's because many of you were toddlers, or perhaps not even born yet. That's depressing and mindblowing ... More >>

America Keeps Getting Fatter, but We're Now Eating Less Sugar

​We hear it so often that the fact has become white noise: Close to one third of all Americans are obese, and the percentage keeps rising. Is the culprit high-fructose corn syrup? Happy Meals? Coca-Cola? Nintendo 3? According to the LA Times, Americans may be cutting down on one of those culprits ... More >>

Dear Honest Tea: Is This Honest Enough for You?

Tejava is significantly better than Honest Tea​Coca-Cola brought dozens of bottles of its sweetened tea brand, Honest Tea, to downtown San Francisco yesterday, left them sitting out in Justin Herman Plaza, and expected us to pay $1 for them. Amazingly, 93% of us did! San Franciscans are just ... More >>

In Transit: From S.F. to L.A. via Public Transportation

Bob Marley's New Beverage Wants To Mellow You Out

Get mellow?​ Everyday stresses got you slurping caffeine like a crazed fiend? Workaday lifestyle keep you so amped up that you can never relax? Do you just need a little something extra to mellow you out at the end of the day? No, we haven't switched to writing ad copy. We're just expressing ... More >>

The Top 6 Most Ridiculous Examples Of Lyrical Censorship

Fact: it is impossible to fight crazy. So what the hell are the radio stations of Malaysia thinking, going up against Lady Gaga? Apparently they've taken her new LGBT-empowerment anthem, "Born This Way" and removed all the, uh, LGBT content. Way to miss the whole point of the song, Malaysia! Gaga ... More >>

Sunday: Oakland Rapper Too $hort Makes His Fillmore District Debut at Yoshi's

Tamara PalmerMartin Luther and Too $hort.​Too $hort March 6, 2011 @ Yoshi's SFBetter than: Listening to a studio gangster who's behind closed doors getting his booty all spanked up.He staked a permanent place for Oakland on the international rap map over a more than 25-year career, but T ... More >>

It's Your Super Bowl Drinking Game

​America's national excuse for going on a bender the night before a new workweek is upon us. Super Bowl Sunday is nigh, and if you needed a more organized drinking regimen than "imbibe when your team wins, loses, or draws" then you've come to the right place. SMALL SIPS Mentions of: Vince Lombar ... More >>

Iron Man Free of Lead, Test Finds

Congrats, Dakari! That toy won't poison you! ​When 4-year-old Dakari Vieyra was made to hand over his prized Iron Man toy, he wept bitterly. When Caroline Cox of the Center for Environmental Health determined that Iron Man was lead-free, Vieyra was all smiles. He probably doesn't know the differen ... More >>

Jack Daniel's Files Suit -- Aims to Jack Up Competition

Time for a Lynchburg lawsuit...​The makers of America's most ubiquitous bourbon, Jack Daniel's, have poured out a legal shot at a competitor. Their argument in San Francisco District Court: When it comes to marketing liquor, you don't know Jack. While even teetotalers know Jack Daniel's distillery ... More >>

The Myth of Fernet

The saga of Fernet, and its cultlike popularity, says a lot about San Francisco

Chances Are

A seasoned chef throws caution to the wind and leaves his old standbys behind

The Real Thing

Things do, it turns out, go better with Coke

Double Play

Dinner at Acme Chophouse followed by a swell game in the world's most beautiful baseball stadium -- score!