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"The Island President": What Was Democracy in the Maldives

The Jug Shop Ushers in a New Year of Beer Tastings

It's only a few days into 2012, but you've been behaving very well. The New Year diet is working, and tonight you'll be gorging on raw carrot sticks, a handful of unsalted almonds, and a tall glass of water. At the end of the week, celebrate the success of your resolution by breaking it in grand fas ... More >>

Rene Redzepi Comes to Forage in the Bay Area

Enah Manson/FlickrDaniel Patterson, left, and Rene Redzepi.​The "I ate at El Bulli" essay named the food-writer's cliché of the past decade has been supplanted by the endlessly repeated "I foraged with Rene Redzepi" article. The media has annointed Redzepi, the chef of Noma in Copenhagen, this de ... More >>

Yes, They Can

Enah Manson/FlickrDaniel Patterson, left, and Rene Redzepi.​The "I ate at El Bulli" essay named the food-writer's cliché of the past decade has been supplanted by the endlessly repeated "I foraged with Rene Redzepi" article. The media has annointed Redzepi, the chef of Noma in Copenhagen, this de ... More >>

Faith No More's Billy Gould on His New Project, The Talking Book, and Playing Deathstock This Sunday

​ The Talking Book -- the debut effort from the team of Faith No More bassist Billy Gould and experimental composer Jared Blum -- is challenging stuff indeed. A collection of vintage vinyl samples inlaid within a series of darkly shifting soundscapes, they combine to form a spectral and uneas ... More >>

Daniel Patterson on Copenhagen's MAD Foodcamp: International Glamor, Hyperlocal Foods

Daniel Patterson.​Daniel Patterson, chef-owner of Coi, is freshly back from last week's MAD Foodcamp in Copenhagen, at which he presented a history of beets. The two-day symposium was organized by René Redzepi, chef of Noma, which has been celebrated for its intricate experimentation of nati ... More >>

Four Barrel, Bar Agricole to Sell Belinda Leong's Pastries

Photos by Kristen BaggerlyBelinda Leong's kugelhopf​Belinda Leong has contracted with San Francisco's Four Barrel Coffee and Bar Agricole to sell her artisan baked goods beginning August 22.

Drone-Metal Duo Barn Owl Talks Desert Motifs, Meditative Sounds, and Performing in Cathedrals

Barn Owl​ San Francisco's Barn Owl makes densely layered guitar music that is equal parts heavy and beautiful. Guitarists Jon Porras and Evan K. Caminiti arrived at their textured sound six years ago while students at SF State, munching vegan tofu burritos and taking in music by rock god Neil ... More >>

Hookahs Go Out, Chef Changes, and Breaking a Curse

​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. All S.F. hookah flames are set to be extinguished, so if you want to get in a little more of that shisha, better do it soon. The Feast shares, via Inside Scoop, Kan Zaman and Marrakech Moroccan R ... More >>

The Raveonettes, Tamaryn Trip Out at Bimbo's 365 Club

Kevin HendersonThe Raveonettes at Bimbo's last night.​The RaveonettesTamarynMay 10, 2011@ Bimbo's 365 ClubBetter than: Love in a trash can.Bimbo's 365 Club was built in 1931, during the latter years of Prohibition. Despite its status as San Francisco's first modern nightclub, you can still see des ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Kevin HendersonThe Raveonettes at Bimbo's last night.​The RaveonettesTamarynMay 10, 2011@ Bimbo's 365 ClubBetter than: Love in a trash can.Bimbo's 365 Club was built in 1931, during the latter years of Prohibition. Despite its status as San Francisco's first modern nightclub, you can still see des ... More >>

San Francycle: How SF's Impending Bikeshare Will Work

​Bikesharing: crazy, right? The expense, the hills, the repairs, the theft -- it seems like it would never, in a million years, work. Except it does, in plenty of cities from Montreal to Budapest to Washington, D.C. And it's getting a little embarrassing that San Francisco isn't one of them. ... More >>

Bitches Brew Revisited brings psychedelic Miles Davis to the stage

​Bikesharing: crazy, right? The expense, the hills, the repairs, the theft -- it seems like it would never, in a million years, work. Except it does, in plenty of cities from Montreal to Budapest to Washington, D.C. And it's getting a little embarrassing that San Francisco isn't one of them. ... More >>

Running with the Bull

​Bikesharing: crazy, right? The expense, the hills, the repairs, the theft -- it seems like it would never, in a million years, work. Except it does, in plenty of cities from Montreal to Budapest to Washington, D.C. And it's getting a little embarrassing that San Francisco isn't one of them. ... More >>

Alexander's Steakhouse Invades SOMA, Carnelian by the Bay Docks at Ferry Plaza

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Paolo L. at Inside Scoop reports that Alexander's Steakhouse (448 Brannan, 495-1111, www.alexanderssteakhouse.com) will open in the old Bacar space on Sept. 13. The pitch: steakhouse with Jap ... More >>

Ruining the Suits

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Paolo L. at Inside Scoop reports that Alexander's Steakhouse (448 Brannan, 495-1111, www.alexanderssteakhouse.com) will open in the old Bacar space on Sept. 13. The pitch: steakhouse with Jap ... More >>

The Copenhagen Stomp

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Paolo L. at Inside Scoop reports that Alexander's Steakhouse (448 Brannan, 495-1111, www.alexanderssteakhouse.com) will open in the old Bacar space on Sept. 13. The pitch: steakhouse with Jap ... More >>

Terribly Happy

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Paolo L. at Inside Scoop reports that Alexander's Steakhouse (448 Brannan, 495-1111, www.alexanderssteakhouse.com) will open in the old Bacar space on Sept. 13. The pitch: steakhouse with Jap ... More >>

New Shows Announced at Adobe Books

​Adobe Books gigs usually fly under the radar, and it's sometimes easier to hear about what's coming up after the show's over than before. The Mission's literary, art, and sometime music outlet lists upcoming Thursday shows on its MySpace blog, but here's a five-month rundown of experimental, popp ... More >>

New York Times' YouTube Investigation: Bicyclists Sometimes Run Stop Signs

​The odd media war unfolding in San Francisco -- in which major dailies establish editions here while local periodicals fade away -- advanced in a new direction Friday, with a page A-19 story in the New York City edition of the New York Times titled "San Francisco's Cyclists Facing Backlash for Fl ... More >>

Last Night: Joyride Art Show at Market Street Gallery and Ever Gold Gallery

The Bicycle Film Festival in San Francisco Multiple locations: See here. Joyride Art Show: Market Street Gallery - 1554 Market Street Ever gold Gallery - 441 O'Farrell Better than: Critical Mass Also see: The Film Festival Trailer It's the stuff of nightmares: A clear fall afternoon in Man ... More >>

S.F. Study: Immigration Judges More Burned Out Than Prison Wardens

What happens when judges' job burnout level gets too high? You don't want to know.According to a just-published survey of 96 U.S. immigration judges, the men and women deciding delicate asylum cases are stressed and burned-out to the point that the term "asylum" begins to have unpleasant connotation ... More >>

Masturbate-A-Thon 2009 Champion Masanobu Sato Speaks

Well, it's been a week since Masanobu Sato blew away his own masturbating world record at the 9th Annual Masturbate-a-thon, held by the Center for Sex & Culture last Saturday. This guy was a pro, bringing an arsenal of masturbating aids from the Japanese sex product company he works for.  L ... More >>

Artist Mads Lynnerup's new routine

Well, it's been a week since Masanobu Sato blew away his own masturbating world record at the 9th Annual Masturbate-a-thon, held by the Center for Sex & Culture last Saturday. This guy was a pro, bringing an arsenal of masturbating aids from the Japanese sex product company he works for.  L ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Jamie Jams

Well, it's been a week since Masanobu Sato blew away his own masturbating world record at the 9th Annual Masturbate-a-thon, held by the Center for Sex & Culture last Saturday. This guy was a pro, bringing an arsenal of masturbating aids from the Japanese sex product company he works for.  L ... More >>

Can't We All Just Roll Along?

There is a way bike riders and car drivers can more safely coexist, and help the environment.

George Michael Visits HP Pavilion in June

There is a way bike riders and car drivers can more safely coexist, and help the environment.

S.F. Signs of the Apocalypse: Probably Our First of the Year!

There is a way bike riders and car drivers can more safely coexist, and help the environment.

Oakland Metal Titans Saviours Are the Real Deal

There is a way bike riders and car drivers can more safely coexist, and help the environment.

Wedding Crashers

What comes after the nuptials in this Danish melodrama? A hell of a lot more than the reception.

You Spin Me

The ethnomusicologist and the flack tell a beguiling tale of influence

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, October 26, 2005

The Nuclear Option

An original opera about the makers of the atomic bomb fails to ignite

Home Fires Burning

A soldier returns a changed man in the gripping Danish drama Brothers

His Will Be Done

A father's Inheritance leads a son to financial success and personal ruin

Kinda Sketchy

Three weeks of performance bliss

Noises Off

The triumphant revival of Michael Frayn's 20-year-old London hit

Booty-Trapped

The legendary Jungle Brothers have returned. Why doesn't the hip hop world give a damn?

Alarms & Excursions

Benny Hill-esque fragments from Michael Frayn's cutting-room floor

Give Till It Hurts

A solid, if conventional, ending for the new Aurora Theatre's first season

The Man Who Wasn't There

Copenhagen delivers a good lecture, but its key character never quite ignites

The Silent Type

Mark Lanegan's downbeat folk-rock speaks volumes -- without resorting to a whole lot of noise

Dominant-Looking Males

Brighde Mullins' new play stirs a little neo-Darwinism into the story of a teenage castaway

Hear This

Saxophonist John Tchicai offers free jazz

Reel World

Kitten With a Whip and Chasing Rainbows

Night Crawler

Kitten With a Whip and Chasing Rainbows

Hear This

Kitten With a Whip and Chasing Rainbows

Lighten Up

Kitten With a Whip and Chasing Rainbows

Calling It Rape

Two decades after the nightmare with a bronzed boatman on the Salmon River, I still hadn't forgiven myself for not fighting back. But there was no time like the present.