Subject: Count Dracula

• Tour of California Explained: Borat in San Francisco?

  Very Nice! Now that Bay Area resident and Lance Armstrong teammate Levi Leiphiemer took Monday's lead in the Tour of California bicycle race, some Snitchophrenics have taken notice of this Big International Sporting Spectacle, and come away confused.Funny clothes, foreign sponsors, misshapen bodies, absurd bikes, and weird nomenclature made the Tour seem more like a rolling production of Borat than a bona-fide sporting event.SF Weekly sets out to clear up confusion with our first installm

  February 17, 2009

• Anti-Social Investment Watch: Ratings Agency Downgrades Half Moon Bay 'Vampire Bonds' To 'Robin Hood Bonds'

  This economic metaphor comes equipped with a band of merry menLast Week we urged anti-social investors -- the opposite of do-gooder "social investors" who shun tobacco, blood diamonds, and the like -- to load up on a pending "vampire bond" coming out of Half Moon Bay, 30 miles southwest of San Francisco.The bonds were designed to pay off an apparently bloodsucking Woodside land speculator who'd purchased a piece of property out of town, then went to court because of pre-existing environmental co

  May 19, 2009

• Grave Undertaking

  July 18, 2007

• Incredible, Edible

  Brad Bird does it again; health inspectors everywhere shaken to their core

  June 27, 2007

• Monster Smash

  Van Helsing explodes monster movie legends with hip upgrades

  May 5, 2004

• Eye Spy

  August 13, 2003

• The Vampires

  April 23, 2003

• This Is Your Sport, on Dope

  State Sen. Don Perata's bill on drug testing for pro athletes isn't nearly tough enough on doped-up athletes or their enablers

  August 7, 2002

• Art of the Scare

  How two Bay Area animators hope to revolutionize Saturday-morning TV

  March 27, 2002