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If Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ban Is Overturned, You Can Thank An Escort Service

In this world, we're blessed and cursed with things, with the things we want but can't get, and the things we want but can't have. In California, of course, we can have most things -- except when we want to have a medical marijuana dispensary in Daly City, Danville, or any of the other estimated 200 ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

California Appeals Court Strikes Down Medical Marijuana Dispensary Bans

Medical marijuana dispensaries are protected under California state law, and cities and counties have no right to ban cannabis collectives outright, according to a state Court of Appeals ruling released Monday.The decision invalidates a ban on dispensaries in Los Angeles County, which was enacted in ... More >>

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano Pulls Plug on Medical Marijuana Reform Bill

Attempts to reform California's oft-confusing and always-contentious medical marijuana industry have been put on hold until next year -- at the earliest.Assemblyman Tom Ammiano on Monday withdrew from consideration Assembly Bill 2312, medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access announ ... More >>

Hodo Soy Beanery Ships Products to Costco Today

​Today, Hodo Soy Beanery sent the first shipment of their stellar tofu to Bay Area Costcos. We wonder, is this the first company that's in the Ferry Building that will also be at Costco? Will we see a continued trend of local gourmet foods available by the discount dozens? What other wonders does ... More >>

Mitchell Katz, Bay Area Winemaker, Sues Wife Over "Dirty DUI"

rachelmnop via Flickr Mitchell Katz's divorce is dirtier than a dirty martini ​East Bay winemaker Mitchell Katz, is suing his wife and Chris Butler, the notorious Contra Costa County private eye who has been at the center of a massive police scandal, claiming the two were in cahoots to trap him in ... More >>

Draeger's Makes American Kobe Beef Pastrami Sweet

​Viognier restaurant, atop the impressively upscale San Mateo grocery store Draeger's, is moving into meat production, and was kind enough to drop us off a taste of its first product, American Kobe Beef Pastrami. The idea is fascinating. Pastrami, usually made from beef brisket -- one of the ... More >>

Marijuana Advocates Unsure if New State Law Is Good or Bad

Who's he helping?brokencountry.com​Earlier this summer, medical marijuana advocates sounded the legislative alarm over a bill penned by a Southern California assemblyman that gives local governments the right to ban medical cannabis dispensaries, as many a Bay Area burgh from Danville to Daly City ... More >>

Jasper's Corner Tap Gives Pub Food an S.F. Locavore Update

Photos by W. Blake GrayJasper's mini burger doesn't come with a quarter; that's for size comparison​The worlds of food buzz and drinks buzz are different, and that's the only reason we were able to easily get a good seat and fast service at the official opening of Jasper's Corner Tap last nigh ... More >>

Grocery Chain Fresh & Easy Opens First Location in S.F.

Previewing San Francisco's New Fresh & Easy Markets

Jonathan KauffmanFresh & Easy's prepared salads are attractively packaged.​Wednesday, June 22, is opening day for the Richmond District Fresh & Easy, a Britain-based grocery chain spreading across California with the speed of kudzu vines in Georgia. Owned by Tesco, Fresh & Easy opened ... More >>

Michelle Le Update: Family Offers $20,000 Reward for Missing Student

Michelle Le​The mystery over what happened to 26-year-old Michelle Hoang Thi Le deepened over the weekend after the nursing student never showed up to Reno where she was supposed to meet friends for the holiday. Her brother, Michael Le, has been too devastated to talk to reporters, but last night ... More >>

Allison 'Alliy' Bayliss Update: Cops Say Missing Teen's Case Is "Not Criminal"

Allison Bayliss is still missing​Early this morning, police expanded the search in San Francisco for missing Danville teen Allison Bayliss, whose bike was located at Crissy Field Tuesday morning -- a day after the 15-year-old was reported missing. However, Danville Police Chief Steve Simpkins is n ... More >>

Allison "Alliy" Bayliss Likely Jumped from Golden Gate Bridge

Allison Bayliss ​The anxious search for Allison Bayliss, the 15-year-old missing teen, came to a tragic ending today after police reportedly said she jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge in an apparent suicide. Bayliss, a San Ramon Valley High School sophomore, was last seen on Monday at about 8 a.m ... More >>

Allison Bayliss', Missing Danville Teen, Bike Found in San Francisco

Allison Bayliss​On Monday, Danville police found missing teen Allison Bayliss' bicycle locked up at a bike stand in San Francisco's Crissy Field. Bayliss was last seen on Monday at 8 a.m. near her locker at San Ramon Valley High School where she is a sophomore. Media outlets are reporting that the ... More >>

Bill Laddish, Victim of Steroid-Cheating Cyclist, Gets Revised Race Results

Laddish's put in hard training miles, only to be beat in 2008 by a doper.​Earlier this month we told you about how antidoping authorities penalized Oakland journalist and amateur cyclist Andrew Tilin after he released The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Dru ... More >>

Sunday: Britney Spears Plays God (For Some, Anyway) at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Britney at Bill Graham Civic yesterday. Photos by Joseph Schell.​Britney Spears March 27, 2011 @Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Better than: Dashing to Vegas for a 55-hour marriage. Sunday at around 10 a.m., a man carrying a tray of giant "Britney Spears Is God" buttons shuffled past another man ho ... More >>

Cupcakes for Choice, Drinks for Dogs, and Gumbo for Mardi Gras!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Pissed about Congress-approved federal funding cuts for Planned Parenthood? I am because it's total bullshit. In response, we're doing some culinary activism in the form of a delicious bake sale at this Sunday' ... More >>

Twenty Five Lusk Rolls Out the Grandeur in SOMA

Lara HataTwenty Five Lusk is money, baby.​Deciding where to come down on Twenty Five Lusk ― the super-money SOMA eatery that launched in October ― depends on your closet, probably. If it harbors a $600 Theory sportcoat, SFoodie would like to introduce you to your new power center. Gap 1969 ... More >>

State Claims Chiropractor Is Crooked

Ben Altadonna, seen here with Ed McMahon amazingly enough, is not the state's favorite chiropractor​Bent out of shape by the alleged actions of chiropractor Benjamin Altadonna, the state of California has filed suit, claiming the health practitioner is deeply crooked. In a case filed in Alameda Co ... More >>

Do You Need to Know About Every Last 2.0 Quake?

Now that's an earthquake! ​The search for content in today's media market is constant. So, it would seem, are the number of minor earthquakes rattling the Bay Area. Like chocolate and peanut butter, the marriage of online journalists desperately in need of material and neverending reports of piddl ... More >>

TyFlo Gets Him Some Momofuku, Joltin' Joe Appears to Be Down in the Count

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Tyler Florence must slip bags of unicorn glitter into the pay envelopes. Either that or issue signing bonuses bristling with Food Network stock. Either way, a week after reporting that the Wayfare ... More >>

Unions Convince John Avalos to Soften Local Hiring Goal

What do you mean you don't like workers from Danville?​Supervisor John Avalos says he plans to soften his proposal to require firms doing construction work for San Francisco government to hire 50 percent local workers. This comes after labor leaders complained that the measure would harm, rather t ... More >>

Cainan Schierholtz, Charged in Alleged DUI Rampage, 'Feels Terrible'

​Cainan Schierholtz is charged with speeding drunkenly through the sleepy streets of Danville at the usually sober hour of 10 a.m. on Sunday. He allegedly struck a bicyclist, a pedestrian, two other vehicles, and finally came to rest against a pole not far from his alma mater, San Ramon Valley Hig ... More >>

Nate Schierholtz' Brother Arrested in Alleged DUI Rampage

​While the San Francisco Giants are celebrating a sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers, outfielder Nate Scheirholtz has bigger things to worry about. His 23-year-old brother, Cainan, was yesterday arrested after leaving a mile-long trail of carnage in hiws wake while allegedly driving drunk in a red p ... More >>

Flavor Brigade: Philly Italian Water Ices and Frozen Custard in Oakland

Tamara PalmerSour apple water ice.​Flavor Brigade's Braedon Galloway was stunned to see a non-neighborhood customer waltz in last week, even more so when we told him we'd come to Oakland's Dimond District specifically to see his frozen dessert shop. Open since January, Flavor Brigade has flown ... More >>

A Little Slice of Succulence in the 'Hood: A SFoodie Lunch Planner

phxpma/FlickrAll eyes here.​Thursday, November 12, 2009 It's the Tenderloin, for god's sake, not some food court in Danville -- you expect a little atmosphere. Once the food arrives, you won't notice, especially if you order the extra-succulent chicken tikka masala, saag dal (lentils and sp ... More >>

Sanctuary for Salvadoran Food

Give me your tired, your poor, but most definitely your pupusas.

LastNight: Hustler Club Hosts the SF Fire Fighters Union Toy Drive Kickoff

Bones of Discontent - Andrew Galvan carves a unique, controversial role in relocating Native American skeletons

Last Night: ColdWarKids Make Warfield All Hot and Bothered

Going on a gender bender at Truck

The power of positive drinking

We've Got Issues

Community theater worth watching

Nu Shooz

Film School grows better as it grows older -- shoegazer comparisons be damned

Award Show Guide

Americana/Folk/Country DJ/Turntablist Electro/Electronic/Experimental Hard Rock Hip Hop Indie Rock/Noise Pop Jazz Soul/R&B World Music Music Video

Say-It-Ain't-So Joe

Why does Joe Morgan -- the best second baseman in history and a prominent TV broadcaster -- hate Moneyball? And Billy Beane and his Oakland A's? And you, too, if you think the statistical revolution that's overwhelmed Major League Baseball has any

Letters to the Editor

Week of December 10, 2003

Capital Rap

From revolutionary rapper to stockbroker to rapper again -- the long, strange trip of Paris, aka Oscar Jackson Jr.

Raw Sue-age

Let us not squander the gift of mass lawsuits against average Joes: Fuck the RIAA!

Continental Drifter

You can take Hudson Bell out of the South, but you can't take the South out of this singer/songwriter

All in the Name

On Sutter Street, a tour of bars with funny names, unusual locations, and strange colors

Esprit de Corps

Hotel Biron is a little bit of Paris in San Francisco

Pop Philosophy

Riffage.com riffs its last, so the Great American Music Hall’s for sale. Again.

Dog Bites

They’re Here. They’re Drear. They Won’t Go Away.; Two Cheers for ... Oh, Forget It; When the Gap Sneezes ...

Trojan Horse

In a city that loves to hate chain stores, plans for a new Pottery Barn in the Castro are scarcely raising a peep. The neighborhood may regret it.

Night + Day

Unspun

Bitch, Bitch, Bitch

Politicos, prudes, and the paranoid protest the programming heard on Bay Area radio stations to the highest authority in the land -- the Federal Communications Commission

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?