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Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Concord, Calif., Named One of Country's 10 Best Music Scenes

The website Livability today compiled a list of the top 10 cities with the best music scenes that aren't New York, L.A., or Nashville. The results were in some ways predictable (Minneapolis, Athens, Ga., and Portland all made it), and in some ways spectacularly weird: Omitted from the list for no ap ... More >>

Where to Eat Foie Gras This Week: Campton Place and Prospect

​Counting down the meals before July 1, when California's foie gras ban takes effect.While Wolfgang Puck is urging restaurants to get used to the forthcoming ban on foie gras, San Francisco chefs are taking this time to honor the foie: At Campton Place Restaurant, Srijith Gopinathan is serving fo ... More >>

President's Day Weekend: Another Carmaggedon?

Closed for business​What better way to celebrate the Great Emancipator than with hair-pulling traffic and even more of a clusterfuck than usual for Bay Area commuters? The westbound deck of the Bay Bridge heading into San Francisco will be closed at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, until 5 a.m. on Tues ... More >>

"Linus and Lucy" and Lawsuits: Guaraldi Heirs Sue for Royalties

Closed for business​What better way to celebrate the Great Emancipator than with hair-pulling traffic and even more of a clusterfuck than usual for Bay Area commuters? The westbound deck of the Bay Bridge heading into San Francisco will be closed at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, until 5 a.m. on Tues ... More >>

A Charlie Brown Christmas Composer Vince Guaraldi's Heirs Suing for $2M in Unpaid Royalties

Given the time of year, you've probably seen -- and heard -- A Charlie Brown Christmas recently. The 1965 animated TV special's celebrated soundtrack was performed by noted San Francisco jazzman Vince Guaraldi's trio, and recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. But for the pianist and composer's c ... More >>

Fresh Eats: SoMa's New Burmese Gourmet Food Truck

Given the time of year, you've probably seen -- and heard -- A Charlie Brown Christmas recently. The 1965 animated TV special's celebrated soundtrack was performed by noted San Francisco jazzman Vince Guaraldi's trio, and recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. But for the pianist and composer's c ... More >>

Burma Superstar Founder Launches Burmese Food Truck

Jonathan KauffmanBurmese Gourmet's powerful tea leaf salad, $5.​Three weeks ago, William Lue put three signs up on the food truck he has rented on Townsend and Fourth. The first, "Burmese Gourmet," he moved over from his Concord truck when he decided to break back into the San Francisco food scene ... More >>

Saturday: MC Hammer, En Vogue, and Other East Bay Artists Reminisce at KBLX Stone Soul II

KBLX Stone Soul II Oct. 1, 2011 Sleep Train Pavilion Better than: Listening to KBLX for nine hours MC Hammer, the Oakland bred '90s pop star and early Twitter adopter, took to tweeting on Saturday night after his performance at the KBLX Stone Soul II concert in Concord: Lol .. The worst sound cre ... More >>

Fewer Slices of Pie, Cupola Opens Under the Dome, and the TL Sees Pink

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Marie Callender's evokes images of pies rotating in a display case, country cottage decor, and portions that don't skimp on calories. And now, without warning, many of those pie display cases have gone da ... More >>

Roundup: The Best New Barbecue in the Bay

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Marie Callender's evokes images of pies rotating in a display case, country cottage decor, and portions that don't skimp on calories. And now, without warning, many of those pie display cases have gone da ... More >>

Interview with Slow Hand BBQ's Dan Frengs

Jonathan KauffmanSlow Hand's Texas-style barbecue ribs.​ I tasted Dan Frengs' extraordinary ribs at last month's New Taste Marketplace, but Frengs' Slow Hand BBQ stand also shows up outside Mission bars The Homestead and Dirty Thieves and, farther afield, the Concord, Walnut Creek, and Brentwood f ... More >>

BART Delays ... Again

Late for dinner​Update 6 p.m.: BART trains are running on time. Go home before there is another mechanical breakdown.Original Story 2:39 p.m.:BART trains are running late, and they are expected to be even later by the time you leave work. The transit agency is reporting 10-to-15-minute delays on a ... More >>

Bay Wolf Staying Put, Hyde Away Blues BBQ Announces Itself

​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Michael Bauer at the Chronicle reports that the 35-year-old Bay Wolf, which was reportedly considering an offer to buy the restaurant, is staying put. Owner Michael Wolf is instead starting up c ... More >>

Soulive: Show Preview

​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Michael Bauer at the Chronicle reports that the 35-year-old Bay Wolf, which was reportedly considering an offer to buy the restaurant, is staying put. Owner Michael Wolf is instead starting up c ... More >>

Flight of the Concords (and Other Varieties): How to Preserve Grapes

P200eric/FlickrGrape varieties at the Ferry Plaza farmers' market.​My name is Sean, and I have a grape problem. If I purchase a bunch (or 10) of grapes, I will mindlessly sit and eat them, one by one, preferably chilled, until they are gone and I have an aching stomach. I seriously cannot help ... More >>

Rejewvenator Beer Adds Fruity Poignancy to Rosh Hashanah

Infused with Concord grape juice, Rejewvenator bears a whiff of Manischewitz ― not unlike Uncle Marvin.​We fondly remember the High Holiday dinners of our youth. We'd wait for Uncle Marvin, his silk shirt opened three buttons, revealing a large, diamond-studded chai, to pass out after his 10 ... More >>

We Chugged Our Way Through Saturday's SF Street Food Festival

Tamara PalmerChez Papa Resto's watermelon agua fresca.​We got to the SF Street Food Fest early on Saturday, ready to eat, but we didn't expect to find so many tasty beverages on offer. How refreshing it was to bypass cans of Coke for rose milk (Azalina's Malaysian), mint-lime soda (Aziza), pur ... More >>

This Weekend: Check Out Japanese Summer Festivals Marking Obon

Luis ChongThe weekend's Nihonmachi Street Fair in J-Town will offer an array of eats.​It's the weekend of the Bay Area's Japanese summer fests, known in Japan as Obon (or Bon) festivals. Originating from the Buddhist custom of honoring departed ancestors, they've evolved into a very important ... More >>

Forrest Day's Surprise Ending at All Shook Down, Morcheeba Reunited, Scorpions' Last Sting

Neon Indian onstage at Sunday's All Shook Down Music Festival​Most of the live performances at the first-ever All Shook Down Music Festival went off with nary a mishap. But hip-hop/funk/soul outfit Forrest Day was another story. At the band's second set of the day, exhausted frontman Forrest Day p ... More >>

Never Mind Those Pit Bull Maulings: 'Bun Bun,' 'Piglet' Need Good Homes

Leave Pit Bulls Alone!!!!!​Last week, a herd of pit bulls mauled a 2-year-old boy to death in Concord, and  an Oakland dog bit a girl's face over the weekend. They killed a 12-year-old boy in the Richmond District back in 2005, prompting a city law mandating all pits be spayed or neutered. Th ... More >>

The Week in Gay: Heterosexual Bloodbath

This week, let's check in on the heteros​The National Organization for Marriage is on a month-long, 23-city tour in the U.S. to promote heterosexual supremacy. During the tour, NOM is depicting itself as the victim of a campaign similar to the one they are engaged in to marginalize and defame LGBT ... More >>

SFPD: DNA Links Dead Man to Murder of San Franciscan Charles McAleer-Bonilla

Charles McAleer-Bonilla​The San Francisco Police Department is announcing that DNA evidence ties a suspected bank robber and kidnapper who recently died in a shootout with the Sacramento Sheriff's Department to the April stabbing death of San Franciscan Charles McAleer-Bonilla in Noe Valley.

Concord Man Has Nation's Best Stache

Not the winner​ Rich in cultural, technological and pharmaceutical history, the Bay Area is now justly famous for facial hair. A man from Concord -- that's in the East Bay, kids -- won first prize in the country's first-ever National Beard and Moustache Championships.

Gerald Anthony Ortega, Accused of Hanging Puppy, Back in Court Again

Not the actual dog, no...​The Antioch man accused of beating his girlfriend, breaking into her apartment, and hanging her Jack Russell terrier puppy to death with an electric cord was arraigned yesterday. He was given a May 13 date to next appear in court in Martinez for a "further arraignment," a ... More >>

On Christmas Day, Man Pretends to Be Cop Then Sexually Assaults Prostitute

​Around noon on December 25, the SFPD got a call from a prosititute who said she was assaulted by a man who said he was a cop. She described the man -- a 5'7, 195-pound, balding African-American -- and the 1993 Isuzu Rodeo he was driving, which the cops soon learned was re ... More >>

Keeping Delicious: Waiting for God's Wrath to Strike at Humphry Slocombe

J. BirdsallKosher crash: Boccalone prosciutto ice cream with Manischewitz sorbet.​Yesterday ― Day Three of Hanukkah ― we found ourselves at Humphry Slocombe (2790 Harrison at 24th St.), facing perhaps the most perverse juxtaposition of frozen goodness this godless city has ever conceived: ... More >>

Bay Links: Fashion, Flyers and Fleeing Furniture

Fashionist​I love that Emma was in a mac'n'cheese contest. I love that she is wearing a gold pasta necklace to commemorate the experience. I love her red clogs. I love...Emma? [Fashionist]In other S.F. street fashion news: Oh. No. [SF Citizen]This is the way we wash our streets, wash our streets, ... More >>

Drink Therapy: Cheap Whiskey and a Whiff of Leather

gretchen robinette/FlickrThings can get messy.​ Even if you only aspire to the whole neckbeard and ink-sleeve look, and haven't yet wangled the sort of job (bread delivery guy? A.M. barista? ) that affords afternoons off, you can feel totally at home at this scuffed slice of Mission real estat ... More >>

Drink Therapy: Biker Dreams in a Scuffed Corner of the Mission

gretchen robinette/FlickrThings tend to get a tad messy.​Even if you only aspire to the whole neckbeard and ink-sleeve look, and haven't yet wangled the sort of job (muffin delivery guy? A.M. barista? ) that affords afternoons off, you can feel totally at home at this scuffed slice of Mission ... More >>

Class Action Lawsuit Sticks It To Kaiser For Allegedly Double Charging on Co-Pays

A Contra Costa County woman has filed a class action lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente in federal court in San Francisco, claiming the health care provider double-charged her co-pay in a case that her attorney says could affect "hundreds, potentially thousands" of policyholders who've reco ... More >>

A Sighted Account of Dining in the Dark

Foundation Fighting Blindness' "Dining in the Dark" event at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco was a fundraiser for the organization's groundbreaking research in the field of degenerative eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and macular degeneration, which collectively affect over 10 m ... More >>

R.I.P. Pound SF

Wanted: mid-sized club for total mayhem

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Music Highlights

Bands reunited, sock-stuffing legends, and chanteuses from Charo to Chaka? It could only mean summer sounds in the Bay Area!

Music Highlights

From Mahler to Morrissey, the Bay Area has it all this summer.

Urban Explorer

Some of the best things our critic consumed in a year of eating around a constantly evolving town

Summer Events a Go Go!

What to do, all summer long

GIFTS

DVDs | Music DVDs | CDs | Books

Music

DVDs | Music DVDs | CDs | Books

Top 10 reasons for making a Top 10 list

The forgotten Top 10: The best records of 2001 that you won't see on anyone else's list

Big Bang

In the Beginning is a musical bomb

Night & Day

In the Beginning is a musical bomb

Demonstrating Exploitation

A Latino activist group has gained largely positive media coverage for organizing student walkouts to protest government social policies. But how admirable is it, really, to endanger young children for political purposes?

Nut of This Earth

The Acorn's light-handed cooking pays homage to and plays off the food's ethnic character

Slap Shots

The Acorn's light-handed cooking pays homage to and plays off the food's ethnic character

Night+Day

The Acorn's light-handed cooking pays homage to and plays off the food's ethnic character