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Bouncer Discovers the Ultimate Tiki Dive Bar in Bamboo Hut

Bouncer Searches for Intrigue at the Burritt Room

Bouncer Takes the Disneyland North Beach Ride at Vesuvio

Forget Skiing, It's Cheese This Weekend

​This weekend, it's Disneyland for cheese, expect instead of rides there are tours of cheese making facilities; instead of performances and plush, strolling characters there are cheese seminars, authors, and producers; and instead of crappy food at the end of long lines it's all cheese.  &nbs ... More >>

Bouncer Makes Caffeine Pals at Starbucks

In Praise of Starbucks

​From this week's Bouncer column: All the Starbucks-haters can suck it. Where else can you buy a muffin and get a receipt for a "pumpkin muff"? Sure, there is generally one ultra-perky ringleader who grates on your 7 a.m. ears like a swarm of rabid bats, but the rest of the minions just go ab ... More >>

Win Barbecue and Baseball Tickets in Our Haiku Contest

​We've got three $48 tickets to the Bay Area BBQ Championship on Saturday, July 16, and we're going to give them away! The 'cue will be cookin' at the Oakland Coliseum before a doubleheader between the Oakland Athletics and the Los Angeles Angels of Disneyland. The lucky winner gets three pas ... More >>

Good Old-Fashioned Food Fight at East Bay High School Makes Headlines

Gross but safe fun​It was innocent fun -- a flashback to the good 'ol days in high school. You know, when kids weren't shooting each other for no reason. Still, the senior class at Leadership High School in Hayward are in big trouble after a group of teens started a food fight that escalated in th ... More >>

Out with the Kids: Sushi at ICHI

Alex HochmanWho cares if she'll never earn an athletic scholarship? She eats shrimp heads, dammit!​In my twisted little food-obsessed world, my daughters' sushi-eating exploits are just as important, if not more, than their academic achievements or athletic prowess. Your son scored two goals t ... More >>

Drag It Up

Bouncer: Enjoying the handlebar mustaches at the Uptown

The Uptown: Disneyland for Handlebar Mustaches

​This week, I returned to a place that I have never said anything bad about, the Uptown on Capp Street. I love it there. It is like a cafe with booze. There's plenty of comfy seating and a relaxed clientele. It's hip without being pretentious. It's full of regulars, but newbies will feel just as w ... More >>

Saturday Night: Dean Wareham Plays Galaxie 500 at the Fillmore

​Dean Wareham The Papercuts November 13, 2010 @ The Fillmore Better than: Listening to On Fire and pretending someone could love you. The rise of the Galaxie 500 cult is one of the many gratifications of onrushing rock geezerdom. Like that of many other music fans around during the trio's thr ... More >>

Best Practices: How to Shop at Rainbow Grocery

​Yelp/Kenny Y.​Wait -- do you really want to do this? Trader Joes, Safeway, and Whole Foods are all within a mile. Heck, Costco is around the block. So is Foods Co. We shopped Safeway for years before we realized that Foods Co was super competitive price-wise and neat as a pin. Its Jarri ... More >>

Bouncer: Visiting fantasy worlds at the Sausage Factory

Bouncer: The Alternate Universe of S.F.'s Sausage Factory

​As a rule, people like being something they are not. We like to pretend. We play make-believe when we are little. We dress up for Halloween. We wear Cover Girl. I am not going to say that all of this is somehow inauthentic or wrong. No. I am not going to get all Holden Caulfield on your ass. Act ... More >>

Burning Man 2010: A Freakishly Cold Fish Barrel for Cops?

Taymar Richard Gillmore​"Hell," as P.B. Shelley wanly admitted, "is a city very much like London," but it's hard to imagine this simile gaining much traction at this year's Burning Man. The theme for the 2010 installment of the gigantic annual art party held in the Nevada desert was "Metropolis: ... More >>

This Year's Eat Real Festival Is Bigger, Better Organized, and More Entertaining

Jonathan KauffmanThere are moments like this at Eat Real, but they're rare.​ In their second year, the organizers of the Bay Area's back-to-back street food festivals have clearly learned from the surprise throngs and food shortages of last year. Last week, John Birdsall commented how much better ... More >>

Ghosts On Tape Comes Out Creepy

myspace.com/ghostsontapesf​"Tropical plants and girls with the daisy dukes on." "The future and the dirty south." "Brain sandwich." These are a few of the phrases used by Ryan Merry, the DJ behind Ghosts On Tape, to describe the sounds he makes with floppy discs and turntables. Ghosts On Tape ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ B and Not B

​Bay Area natives B and Not B have been playing together for a little over a year, pairing witty lyrics with 60's-inspired pop hooks to keep your head bopping from beginning to end. Wrapping up a five city tour of the Northwest, the band recently recorded a full-length, self-titled LP slated for a ... More >>

Congratulations, San Francisco -- Tens of Thousands of Out of Towners Feel We're 'Happy'

Can you see the happiness? ​If ever there were an inane list of cities that place well in inane lists -- San Francisco would, inanely, make a hell of a showing. And there's something seemingly even more inane than normal about the latest elite list the city has found itself on -- apparently, D ... More >>

Fetish Ball Brings the Pain

Is that your typewriter or are you just happy to see me? All tied up and nowhere to go? Have a closetful of spandex and PVC? Tired of just watching grainy BDSM clips on the Internet? Like playing Dungeons and Dragons - minus the Dragons? Interested in exploring your wild side? If you answered yes ... More >>

Pay for Play

Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

California Nightmare: 'Urbanologist' Labels S.F. 'Ground Zero For California Narcissism'

Are ghost towns the wave of the future for California? They may be, if a certain 'empty suit' wins the Governor's raceJoel Kotkin is SF Weekly's favorite urbanologist -- you can read the short series he helped us with about the transformation of San Francisco into an "adult Disneyland" here and here ... More >>

San Francisco Is the City That Knows How ... To Bust Up Drunken Revelry

Enjoy the memories. This is done. Whether San Francisco can host a party is a debatable proposition. But when it comes kicking over the soundsystem, flicking on the lights, tossing the lovebirds off the couch, and shutting down the festivities, nobody competes with us. We are so very good at killing ... More >>

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Tuvans! Everywhere!, (Insert Carnegie Hall Joke Here), and There Are No Current Plans to Change the Name to Club Y2K

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