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10 Movie Sequels We're Not Looking Forward to This Year. . . At All

Alvin and the Chipmunks will return this year in a Squeakuel, unfortunately.Not every sequel can be The Empire Strikes Back or even Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, and there seems to be a disproportionate amount of potentially rotten ones coming out in 2009. None of these turkeys would have gotten t ... More >>

More Than a Pretty Face

Alvin and the Chipmunks will return this year in a Squeakuel, unfortunately.Not every sequel can be The Empire Strikes Back or even Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, and there seems to be a disproportionate amount of potentially rotten ones coming out in 2009. None of these turkeys would have gotten t ... More >>

One-Man Band

Dining at Canteen is like having your own private chef

The Manly Men of God

No women allowed into the Promise Keepers, but that didn't stop Infiltrator from getting on the Prayer Team

Like Moths to Flame

Americans will likely swarm to Ladder 49, an unabashed homage to firefighters

House of Tudor

The S.F. Mad Benefit: Help a dude who blew his face off with a confetti cannon

Reps Etc.

The S.F. Mad Benefit: Help a dude who blew his face off with a confetti cannon

Reps Etc.

The S.F. Mad Benefit: Help a dude who blew his face off with a confetti cannon

Think Different

Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies actually requires a brain cell or two?

Devil's Advocate

Audiences love Jerry Bruckheimer. Critics don't. Like he cares.

A Kinder, Gentler Dope Fiend

In Ted Demme's Blow, Johnny Depp summons an American snowstorm

Blowin' Smoke

Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Denis Leary is on The Job, but can ABC find him an audience?

Making a Mountain Out of an Anthill

Denis Leary is on The Job, but can ABC find him an audience?

The Lying Game

Denis Leary is on The Job, but can ABC find him an audience?

Kooky Proles and Gucci Buddhism

A neo-noir, an Ur-neo-noir, and a black political satire color a pallid year of retreads, bogus events, and charity cases.

The Albanian Candidate

A neo-noir, an Ur-neo-noir, and a black political satire color a pallid year of retreads, bogus events, and charity cases.

Slap Shots

A neo-noir, an Ur-neo-noir, and a black political satire color a pallid year of retreads, bogus events, and charity cases.

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Eat, pay, and get out: Hot Food Porn gets all reflective about the kind of restaurant a chef who refused to compromise would open. No distracting bar scene and extra layers of service -- it's a matter of getting potentially douche-y staff the hel ... More >>

Saluting the Sentinel: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

Clean up your own mess afterward.​Tues., Feb. 9, 2010Lunchtime self-protection rule number 403: If you're standing outside Dennis Leary's downtown sandwich shop The Sentinel, fretting over your 30 seconds in front of the menu before the fast-flowing line washes you up to the counter, and the woman ... More >>

Canteen's Spring Vegetable Salad with Tuna Mayonnaise

Premshree Pillai/FlickrDennis Leary.​Every week, SFoodie calls a local chef to ask what he or she is putting on the menu that night, and what inspired its creation.Dennis Leary is not a man to stand still. Not only did I have to catch the chef between shifts at The Sentinel, his FiDi sandwich sh ... More >>

Humphry Slocombe Expanding, CAV Slims Down, More Tacos Due

​The biggest news of the day comes from Paolo L. of Inside Scoop, who discovers Humphry Slocombe is opening a bake shop and ice cream "parlour" at 300 20th St. (at Florida), home, eventually, of Flour Water's Central Kitchen spinoff.    Tamara PalmerHumphry''s deliciously inked Jake ... More >>

Local Rockers Say Goodbye to Shows at House of Shields

Dee Adams​ This Wednesday, House of Shields manager Schlomo Rabinowitz will hand over the keys of the century-old bar to a new boss. As his seven years of management come to an end, another piece of the bar's legacy  will likely end as well: its celebrated place as a venue for local music ... More >>

Zaytoon Opens, House of Shields Kicks Out the Bands

​The last 24 hours in rumor, innuendo, and straight-out facts about restaurant openings and closings in San Francisco.Mission Loc@l reports a few facts: That Zaytoon Mediterranean Wraps (1136 Valencia, www.zaytoonsf.com) opened yesterday. That babaghanoush flowed like ... that babaghanoush flowed ... More >>

The Week in Gay: Defense of Marriage Act Indefensible

Judge Joseph Tauro​The story of the week: A federal judge in Massachusetts declared that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) - passed by Congress in 1996 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton - violates the U.S. Constitution. In his decision, Judge Joseph Tauro (A fiery young radical aged ... More >>

Dennis Leary's Golden West Sort of Opens for Breakfast, But Not Really

Golden West.​Golden West, Dennis Leary's new lunch spot and bakery near the Montgomery Muni station, appears to have opened for breakfast and pastries today. According to an Eater interview in late June, the Canteen chef promises it will be slightly more ambitious than his nearby Sentinel, and wil ... More >>

Citizen's Band: Two Dishes After Two Weeks

John BirdsallHorseradish-capped pot roast.​Ghosts of Folsom's leatherman past still haunt the corridor between Fourth Street and Eighth. But these days ― after a recent surge of bakery and restaurant openings along the central SOMA corridor ― the area's on the verge of being better known f ... More >>

Golden West's Barbecued Short Rib Sandwich

Barbecued short rib sandwich ($8.50).​For the past few weeks, Golden West, sister to the Sentinel, has quietly been opening in the mornings. The tiny takeout window on Trinity and Sutter sells coffee (Mr. Espresso) and a few pastries; customers who crane their necks around the counterwoman can get ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Tony's Coal Fired Pizza, Golden West's short rib sandwich

Barbecued short rib sandwich ($8.50).​For the past few weeks, Golden West, sister to the Sentinel, has quietly been opening in the mornings. The tiny takeout window on Trinity and Sutter sells coffee (Mr. Espresso) and a few pastries; customers who crane their necks around the counterwoman can get ... More >>

Looking at Grub's Grub, Ebisu Opens a Window

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.It was a slow weekend in gossip country, but Eater SF's Carolyn A. scores two finds. The first: Grub (758 Valencia) is several months past its target opening date, but an Eater tipster snaps a ... More >>

House of Shields and Daddy O's of SOMA Finally Open

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. According to Inside Scoop, the revamped House of Shields (39 New Montgomery) should open on Thursday. Dennis Leary (Canteen, Sentinel, Golden West) is now the owner of the place and Eric Pass ... More >>