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Yoshi's S.F. Files for Bankruptcy, But Says It's Not in Peril

Yoshi's S.F., the swanky Fillmore District jazz club and Japanese restaurant that opened in 2007, filed for bankruptcy last week, SF Weekly has learned. Yoshi's representatives say the move is intended to allow restructuring of the struggling club's debt -- which includes a $7.2 million loan from t ... More >>

Carl Icahn's Move on Netflix Spells Trouble

The last thing Netflix needs right now is Carl Icahn, but there he is, his dour puss looming above Los Gatos as he buys up shares in the company and makes noises about how he thinks it should be run. The trouble is that he has no idea about how it should be run, and all he cares about is pulling in ... More >>

Phil Anschutz to Sell the San Francisco Examiner

Does this mean they will stop endorsing Tea Party Republicans?​Clarity Media Group announced today that it will sell the San Francisco Examiner -- the city's daily free tabloid. Phil Anschutz, the evangelical media mogul, announced that his Denver-based company has agreed to sell the Ex to Black P ... More >>

Bryan Stow Family's Attorney: Lawsuit Will Not Be Affected by Dodgers Bankruptcy

The Dodgers may be bankrupt, but the Stow lawsuit is safe. ​Bryan Stow's family's lawsuit against  Dodger Stadium will likely go forward without any major hiccups even after the team filed for bankruptcy this week, an attorney for the family told SF Weekly. Thomas Girardi, a Los Angeles-based ... More >>

S.F. MusicTech Summit: How Do Listeners Want to Discover New Music?

Flickr/aquababe​Designed to be a business-to-business convergence of the worlds of music and technology, the S.F. MusicTech Summit, which took over the Hotel Kabuki yesterday, is really many events rolled into one. The top three: A trade show, a forum for new ideas, and a place to make connect ... More >>

San Francisco's Credit Rating Takes a Hit

​In our recent cover story on San Francisco's burgeoning, billion-dollar health care and pension obligations, we included the following hilarious assessment from Moody's Investor Services: "Our Aa1 rating on the city's [general obligation] bonds assumes that the city will prepare a long-term solu ... More >>

First Kremlin Tweet Sent from Twitter's San Francisco Headquarters

Hello everyone, I'm now on Twitter and this is my first message​The history of Twitter is strewn with specialness -- celebrity tweets, happy birthday tweets, tweets advertising that the tweeter had just taken a nice dump -- but the company today enjoyed one of its most special days ever with the d ... More >>

DOJ Approves Live Nation-Ticketmaster Merger

​On Monday, the David and Goliath of concert ticket promotion and sales -- Live Nation and Ticketmaster -- joined forces to become Live Nation Entertainment, a music industry behemoth that promises to force other music labels and promoters to rejigger their business plans to accommodate. The U.S. ... More >>

Icee Hot

Amidst a budget crisis, the city is losing its shirt in the antiques business

State Bar Takes Over 'Son of Super Swindler' Law Firm -- 2,000 Con Jobs Too Late

The State Bar of California has taken over the law firm of Mitchell Roth, who had, in partnership with convicted felon Paul Noe II, convinced more than 2,000 troubled homeowners to fall for an apparent "foreclosure assistance" scam.The apparent swindle, fist described in the September, 2008 SF Weekl ... More >>

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fishwrap: Today's the Last Day for Many Chronicle Vets; 80 Staff Buyouts Confirmed and 100 Or More Anticipated

Today at 4 p.m., San Francisco Chronicle staffers will cut a cake and lift a glass to the abrupt end of many of their careers. At least 80 union employees have accepted the paper's buyout offer and guild rep Carl T. Hall anticipates that number will easily grow to 100 or perhaps even 150 by the buyo ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: The Supes are Dead! Long Live the Supes! Plus: Why It Doesn't Matter Who the New Board President Is

By Benjamin Wachs I cannot imagine a board without Aaron Peskin, Jake McGoldrick and Gerardo Sandoval - let alone Tom Ammiano. As the old board reaches its end and transitions to the new this week, I find myself hoping that - like a bad sitcom - our departing cast members will come back as guest ... More >>

Facing foreclosure? Con man Paul Noe II has a deal for you

Shaky bond insurers cost taxpayers money

Falling Tower

The Tide Is High

Pecking Order

Dale gets childish

Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle

You've Stolen My Heart

Requiem for a Pension Fund?

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger launches an attack on CalPERS. The giant pension fund's Democratic allies aren't taking it lying down

Rent Controllers

Charles Grodin's new satire of the New York City real estate racket rings true but falls flat

Prick

Don't hate me because I'm corporate

Rude Awakening

Major news organizations need to snap out of 9/11 emotionalism and ask impolite financial questions about Saudi elites and President Bush

The Tangled Path to a Response

As we prepare to retaliate for last week's atrocities, let's take time to be sure of our targets

Projected, Not Stirred

How much does Peter Moody love martinis? He's spent 13 years making a movie about them, if that tells you anything.

Death Becomes Her

A dubious agenda and clichéd lines overshadow this otherwise skillful one-woman show

Dog Bites

Board of Supervisors; Population Growth; Dot-com Layoffs

How to Kill a Nonprofit

A federal audit reveals the waste and mismanagement that ruined a once-promising minority aid program

Mecklin

Anatomy of a Mau-Mau

Indecent Disclosure

Willie Brown plays hide-and-seek with his tax returns

Cothran

We're Honored

Cothran

W.L. Brown: A Public/Private Partnership

Mayor Willie Brown has made official decisions benefiting business entities that are partners in the mayor's own private business endeavors. Is this intersection of Brown's public decisions and private finances a coincidence - or a conflict of interest?

Sex and the Singular Swami

Since the '60s, the Ananda Church of Self-Realization has grown from a Northern California commune into a worldwide New Age empire. Its leader has grown fond of sex with young believers.

Telling Fortunes

A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

Letters

Let's Make Appeal

UCSF-Stanford merger challenged directly in appellate court

Letters

Dog Bites

Daring Daylght Merger

Giving Away the Hospital

University of California regents are set to vote next week on finalizing a merger of the UCSF Medical Center with Stanford University's health service. Supporters claim the merger -- a transfer of $380 million in public assets to the private sector -- is

The Merger's Tangled Web

Times Two

In the UCSF-Stanford merger, the busiest health care workers are the doctors of spin

Temperature Rising

The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

Mulch

Pinstriped Medicine

How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

In Sickness and in Wealth

It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

A Message to Our Customers

Dog Bites