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Do you want to live in a world without "The Fantasy Bedtime Tour"?

Gay Shame in San Francisco -- Mary Wants You!

News of the Hour -- The Lethal Injection Cocktail, Mike Webb Found Dead, Ted Nugent Found Irritating

SF Cable Access On the Ropes

Will Paris' Bike-Share Program Work in S.F.?

Comcast Denies Virtual Crank Calls on BitTorrent

Writers Guild of America on Strike: Rerun City

Porn, Pirate Bay Likely Topics in Prof Timothy Wu vs. AT&T's Richard Clarke Symposium Saturday

Trash Talking: Worst Company in '08

Comcast Cable Box Watches You!

Comcast and BitTorrent to Hold Hands, Skip Through Daises

Comcast Tech Abuses Power to Exact Revenge, Also Enjoys Bong Tokes

And the Primary Results are In

TiVo Alert: Falstaff's Leiva Competes on Next Great Chef

So Who's Responsible for the Ear-Bleeding Hold Music on 311? We Called 311 to Find Out

Callers to our municipal 311 information line are almost always given solid information from folks headquartered right here in downtown San Francisco (The receptionists at the Comcast call center, incidentally, are in Guadalajara. When I asked one gent if he was in San Francisco, he replied, "I wish ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Supes Huddle in Closed Session to Gossip About Catholic Church and Landmark Trees

I wish I were a supervisor. Then I could have only three meetings this week. I kid, of course: It's hard work pretending to take this stuff seriously. Monday, Feb. 22 10:30 a.m. -- City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee If I had to pick one word to describe this meeting, it wou ... More >>

Tattoo You

I wish I were a supervisor. Then I could have only three meetings this week. I kid, of course: It's hard work pretending to take this stuff seriously. Monday, Feb. 22 10:30 a.m. -- City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee If I had to pick one word to describe this meeting, it wou ... More >>

Finding better ways to fail at Molotov's

I wish I were a supervisor. Then I could have only three meetings this week. I kid, of course: It's hard work pretending to take this stuff seriously. Monday, Feb. 22 10:30 a.m. -- City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee If I had to pick one word to describe this meeting, it wou ... More >>

Comcast ads anger taqueria owners

I wish I were a supervisor. Then I could have only three meetings this week. I kid, of course: It's hard work pretending to take this stuff seriously. Monday, Feb. 22 10:30 a.m. -- City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee If I had to pick one word to describe this meeting, it wou ... More >>

Proudly Wasting Bandwidth in SF Weekly Letters

I wish I were a supervisor. Then I could have only three meetings this week. I kid, of course: It's hard work pretending to take this stuff seriously. Monday, Feb. 22 10:30 a.m. -- City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee If I had to pick one word to describe this meeting, it wou ... More >>

BitTorrent, Comcast, EFF Antipathetic To FCC Regulation of P2P Traffic

I wish I were a supervisor. Then I could have only three meetings this week. I kid, of course: It's hard work pretending to take this stuff seriously. Monday, Feb. 22 10:30 a.m. -- City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee If I had to pick one word to describe this meeting, it wou ... More >>

White Hot

I wish I were a supervisor. Then I could have only three meetings this week. I kid, of course: It's hard work pretending to take this stuff seriously. Monday, Feb. 22 10:30 a.m. -- City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee If I had to pick one word to describe this meeting, it wou ... More >>

Turner Around

I wish I were a supervisor. Then I could have only three meetings this week. I kid, of course: It's hard work pretending to take this stuff seriously. Monday, Feb. 22 10:30 a.m. -- City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee If I had to pick one word to describe this meeting, it wou ... More >>

Tight Agenda

Maker of Boy Butter says Comcast won't air his racy sex-lube ad in San Francisco

Letters to the Editor

Week of 4-4-2007

Is Anybody Watching?

In its struggle for cable eyeballs, Al Gore's S.F.-based Current TV is off to a rocky start

Reps Etc.

In its struggle for cable eyeballs, Al Gore's S.F.-based Current TV is off to a rocky start

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on Feb. 23, 2005

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on Nov. 24, 2004

Fiber-Optic Illusion

Why Tom Ammiano's plans to create a city-owned broadband network are a boondoggle-in-the-making

Sexy Dishes Week Coming May 4-8

TasteTV's new book Sexy Dishes highlights Bay Area chefs and the hot recipes they create. The local food channel (viewable both online and on-demand on Comcast), which recently presented its third annual San Francisco International Chocolate Salon, will celebrate its release throughout the Bay Ar ... More >>

Adjust Your Television

The YouTube-ification of public-access TV in S.F. is about to begin – and the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn’t like it one bit.

Our Handicap for 'Top Chef' Season 6: Will S.F. Root for the East Bay's Little Bear?

Ash Fulk/Facebook Ash Fulk: Will the Bay Area native prove a local fave? In case you've turned to reading and misanthropy lately, allow us to break the news that Season 6 of Top Chef begins on Bravo tonight (9 p.m., channel 48 on Comcast). It's based in Sin City this time around, so expect pl ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Eyes on the Prixe (Fixe)

​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. We few, we happy few: A current meme has Oakland as the future epicenter of Bay Area dining, we're still not done with the pop-up, and even a place as steeped in classic hospitality as Town Hall once reportedly flirted with the notion of rolling out a food ... More >>

Will *Any* Sports Bars In San Francisco Be Showing Tonight's United Football League Opener Between S.F. and Vegas? Apparently Not.

San Francisco sports bars have turned their backs on the California Redwoods​We've talked about the United Football League's business plan, personnel, and ghastly, ghastly uniforms. But with tonight's debut game between the hometown California Redwoods and the host Las Vegas Locomotives, we'll fin ... More >>

Cloud technology and the future of portable music

San Francisco sports bars have turned their backs on the California Redwoods​We've talked about the United Football League's business plan, personnel, and ghastly, ghastly uniforms. But with tonight's debut game between the hometown California Redwoods and the host Las Vegas Locomotives, we'll fin ... More >>

The Loneliest Wine Bar

San Francisco sports bars have turned their backs on the California Redwoods​We've talked about the United Football League's business plan, personnel, and ghastly, ghastly uniforms. But with tonight's debut game between the hometown California Redwoods and the host Las Vegas Locomotives, we'll fin ... More >>

Ladies Get Love in Tech: Meet the Fempire of SXSW Interactive

Taylor DavidsonSarah Evans, Shauna Causey and Sloane Berrent​The old adage that ladies get no love in tech is a thing of the past, at least here in Austin, TX. On Saturday March 13, a group of 90 wave-making women gathered at the top of Frost Bank Tower (the building that looks like a giant nose h ... More >>

Techies Optimistic S.F. Will Enter Google Fiber Sweepstakes

​The city's technology mavens are anticipating the Board of Supervisors will tomorrow give them the go-ahead to enter Google's much-ballyhooed fiber sweepstakes. A sub-committee of supes last week unanimously sent a motion to the full board recommending San Francisco get in on Google's game. The M ... More >>

DVR Alert: Humphry Slocombe on New Food Network Show Outrageous Food

Tamara PalmerGotta get there early for Fetal Kitten.​Frozen dessert wonderland Humphry Slocombe is featured on Outrageous Foods, which has its premiere tomorrow night on Food Network. Hosted by Aaron McCargo (Big Daddy's House), the program focuses on the wildest eats in the country, beginning ... More >>

Ray Ratto Leaving Chronicle

​Word out of the San Francisco Chronicle newsroom is that Ray Ratto, the paper's longtime prolix sports columnist, is leaving the newsprint world -- a move Ratto has confirmed to SF Weekly. Ratto is jumping ship and heading over to Comcast, where he'll do TV work and write a blog; he is already a ... More >>

'Giants Baseball: Torture' Still Yours to Trademark

​The other day, we asked a lawyer if Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper's all-too-apt catchphrase, "Giants baseball: torture!" could be trademarked. His answer? You bet it can. And if you want to trademark it, swing away. Staci Slaughter, the San Francisco Giants' vice president of communications, sa ... More >>

Watch San Francisco Giants Playoff Games As God Intended

You bastards aren't invited!​During the San Francisco Giants ongoing playoff run, SF Weekly published a guide for fans who desperately wanted to watch the games -- but didn't want to deal with the two-headed monster that is Joe Buck and Tim McCarver.  There was a market for this service. The ... More >>

Bouncer: Who Cares Whether the Comcast Chats Are Real?

You bastards aren't invited!​During the San Francisco Giants ongoing playoff run, SF Weekly published a guide for fans who desperately wanted to watch the games -- but didn't want to deal with the two-headed monster that is Joe Buck and Tim McCarver.  There was a market for this service. The ... More >>

Bouncer: Who Cares Whether They're Robots or Real Humans?

​From this week's Bouncer column: There is an enduring mystery which, no matter how much I Google, I cannot find an answer to. The mystery is this: When you are on the Comcast website and a chat window suddenly pops up and a "Customer Service Representative" asks whether he or she can assist ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

​From this week's Bouncer column: There is an enduring mystery which, no matter how much I Google, I cannot find an answer to. The mystery is this: When you are on the Comcast website and a chat window suddenly pops up and a "Customer Service Representative" asks whether he or she can assist ... More >>

TV Show Reveals Swan Oyster Depot's Secret Stew

Chris MacArthur​Swan Oyster Depot has a secret: if you ask nicely, owner Tommy Sancimino might make you an oyster stew that TV host Ben Sargent called "one of the best stews I've ever had." SFoodie learned this because we've seen Tuesday's new episode of "Hook, Line and Dinner," which airs at ... More >>

"Easy Chinese: San Francisco" Uses Our Town Like a Blank Screen

Cooking ChannelChing-He Huang in the studio kitchen​The Cooking Channel's "Easy Chinese: San Francisco" was an exciting concept to me: an entire 14-episode series, premiering tomorrow, based on the great Chinese food we have here. Wouldn't you like to know how to make Golden Gate Bakery's cus ... More >>

Media Companies Outspend Tech Giants in Fight Over SOPA

Can content pirates be stopped?​The tech industry has been paying quite a bit of attention to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill wending its way through the U.S. Congress that would allow media companies to pursue legal remedies against online search engines and social networks that link to ... More >>

MySpace Says It's Bringing TV to the Web -- But It Isn't

​Specific Media, now the owners of MySpace, took Justin Timberlake on stage with them Monday night at the Consumer Electronic Show, and with a lot of fanfare, they announced ... essentially nothing. The purported big news is that MySpace is revolutionizing television by bringing it to the Web an ... More >>