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Barred from Freedom: How Pretrial Detention Ruins Lives

Top 5 Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World!

See Food: A Guide to Local Culinary Television

The successes of the Food Network and the Top Chef franchise have opened the doors for more food-related television both locally and nationally. Fortunately, with the assistance of DVRs and the fact that certain stations screen full episodes online, gone are the days when you'd have to wait until th ... More >>

The Internet Red Scare

Congressman Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty organization sounds like it's worried that Commies, or maybe Russian-style state capitalists, are plotting to take over the Internet. In a manifesto issued last week, the group warns that "the road to tyranny is being paved by a collectivist-Industrial com ... 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 >>

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 >>

"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 >>

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 >>

SF Weekly Letters

Bouncer: Who Cares Whether the Comcast Chats Are Real?

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 >>

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 >>

'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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Loneliest Wine Bar

Cloud technology and the future of portable music

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

Turner Around

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 >>

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 >>

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

Finding better ways to fail at Molotov's

And the Primary Results are In

Comcast ads anger taqueria owners

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

Comcast and BitTorrent to Hold Hands, Skip Through Daises

Comcast Cable Box Watches You!

Trash Talking: Worst Company in '08

Proudly Wasting Bandwidth in SF Weekly Letters

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

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

White Hot

Writers Guild of America on Strike: Rerun City

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

Comcast Denies Virtual Crank Calls on BitTorrent

SF Cable Access On the Ropes

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

Gay Shame in San Francisco -- Mary Wants You!

Tight Agenda

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

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.

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