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New WiFi Hotspot in San Francisco? Bah Humbug!

This Just In: Radio-Wave-Borne Computer Messages Discovered In SF Office Complex​In Year's Deadest News Week, TV Reports There's WiFi in an Office ComplexThe week between Christmas and New Year's is the news businesses' deadest. Bureaucrats, politicians and business honchos aren't in their offices ... More >>

Film Showtimes for the week of November 10-16, 2010

This Just In: Radio-Wave-Borne Computer Messages Discovered In SF Office Complex​In Year's Deadest News Week, TV Reports There's WiFi in an Office ComplexThe week between Christmas and New Year's is the news businesses' deadest. Bureaucrats, politicians and business honchos aren't in their offices ... More >>

Stone Soup: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

J. BirdsallStone Korean Kitchen's soon dubu, i.e. tofu soup.​Tues., March 30, 2010 Stone's soon dubu chigae is one of the restaurant's best dishes. Its slabs of tofu: soft and custardy. The gochujang-orange broth: warmth and salt, without straying into tongue-searing. Its miscellany of pork b ... More >>

New Restaurants

J. BirdsallStone Korean Kitchen's soon dubu, i.e. tofu soup.​Tues., March 30, 2010 Stone's soon dubu chigae is one of the restaurant's best dishes. Its slabs of tofu: soft and custardy. The gochujang-orange broth: warmth and salt, without straying into tongue-searing. Its miscellany of pork b ... More >>

Ten Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

By this point you're probably exhausted from all those hours of ripping shiny wrapping paper off lackluster presents and regaling relatives with stories of your wacky life in the big city. And like us, you're probably hurting for cash a bit in this last week of the month after spending all your hard ... More >>

New Restaurants

By this point you're probably exhausted from all those hours of ripping shiny wrapping paper off lackluster presents and regaling relatives with stories of your wacky life in the big city. And like us, you're probably hurting for cash a bit in this last week of the month after spending all your hard ... More >>

New Restaurants

By this point you're probably exhausted from all those hours of ripping shiny wrapping paper off lackluster presents and regaling relatives with stories of your wacky life in the big city. And like us, you're probably hurting for cash a bit in this last week of the month after spending all your hard ... More >>

New Restaurants

By this point you're probably exhausted from all those hours of ripping shiny wrapping paper off lackluster presents and regaling relatives with stories of your wacky life in the big city. And like us, you're probably hurting for cash a bit in this last week of the month after spending all your hard ... More >>

Here Comes Christmas: Your Seasonal Nightlife Picks

The Golden Girls, S.F.-style​It's a shame to start the holidays with so much news about shopping when there are plenty of other ways to milk December for all its worth.Personally, I'm a big fan of The Golden Girls - The Christmas Episodes. In the hands of comedic drag queens Cookie Dough, Matthew ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for November 11-17, 2009

The Golden Girls, S.F.-style​It's a shame to start the holidays with so much news about shopping when there are plenty of other ways to milk December for all its worth.Personally, I'm a big fan of The Golden Girls - The Christmas Episodes. In the hands of comedic drag queens Cookie Dough, Matthew ... More >>

Free Screening of 'Food, Inc.'

Still haven't seen Food, Inc.? Your procrastination is paying off, for once. Catch a free screening of the startling film -- sponsored nationwide by the burrito chain Chipotle -- on Thursday, July 16, at Embarcadero Center Cinema (One Embarcadero Center) at 7:30 p.m. Get there s ... More >>

Documentary Blasting Big Ag Blasted by -- Guess Who? -- Big Ag

Food, Inc., the documentary that blasts Big Ag the way An Inconvenient Truth blasted carbon dioxide, is racking up breathless reviews. The film, which exposes the nation's industrial farming practices as ruinous, rapacious, and just plain gross, opens tomorrow at Landmark Theatres' Embarcadero Cente ... More >>

And You Thought Your 401(k) Looked Grim: SF Restaurant Closures in May

After seven years, Jeanty at Jack's foldedThe city's highest-profile closures last month were Jack Falstaff and Jeanty at Jack's. PlumpJack Group announced the closure of Falstaff, its SOMA fine-dining outpost, in April -- its Balboa Café (3119 Fillmore at Greenwich) remains open, and the company i ... More >>

Massive Law Firm to San Francisco Attorneys: 'Guess What? You're All Going to East Palo Alto'

"It's a hard time to be a lawyer, no doubt about it." "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- Henry VI, Act IV, Scene III. Mr. Shakespeare was wrong in his chronology. The first thing you do, if you want to kill the lawyers, is kill the economy. Then the attorneys will wither and die ... More >>

New Restaurants

"It's a hard time to be a lawyer, no doubt about it." "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- Henry VI, Act IV, Scene III. Mr. Shakespeare was wrong in his chronology. The first thing you do, if you want to kill the lawyers, is kill the economy. Then the attorneys will wither and die ... More >>

New Restaurants

"It's a hard time to be a lawyer, no doubt about it." "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- Henry VI, Act IV, Scene III. Mr. Shakespeare was wrong in his chronology. The first thing you do, if you want to kill the lawyers, is kill the economy. Then the attorneys will wither and die ... More >>

New Restaurants

"It's a hard time to be a lawyer, no doubt about it." "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- Henry VI, Act IV, Scene III. Mr. Shakespeare was wrong in his chronology. The first thing you do, if you want to kill the lawyers, is kill the economy. Then the attorneys will wither and die ... More >>

New Restaurants

"It's a hard time to be a lawyer, no doubt about it." "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- Henry VI, Act IV, Scene III. Mr. Shakespeare was wrong in his chronology. The first thing you do, if you want to kill the lawyers, is kill the economy. Then the attorneys will wither and die ... More >>

SF Weekly's 7-Day Dish

"It's a hard time to be a lawyer, no doubt about it." "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- Henry VI, Act IV, Scene III. Mr. Shakespeare was wrong in his chronology. The first thing you do, if you want to kill the lawyers, is kill the economy. Then the attorneys will wither and die ... More >>

Unforgettable,That's What You Are

The best dishes of 2007 — it was a very good year

New Restaurants

The best dishes of 2007 — it was a very good year

New Delis

If a place called Morty's isn't Jewish enough, what is? Our quest for a great delicatessen continues.

Safe Harbor

At Harbor Village, the Cantonese nights are more exciting than the dim sum days

Gyms/Exercise Clubs

At Harbor Village, the Cantonese nights are more exciting than the dim sum days

Side Dish

Live Free and Dine

Reel World

A lot of people have told writer/director Nick Katsapetses that his new comedy is too dark. But he seems enthusiastic anyway.

And to All a Good Night

Neecha Thai Cuisine

Lesbian Lite

Neecha Thai Cuisine

Charmed Circle

Neecha Thai Cuisine

Zoom Lens

Neecha Thai Cuisine

Side Dish

Neecha Thai Cuisine

How Strange Fruit Got Its Groove Back

Neecha Thai Cuisine

Birth of a Salesman

Neecha Thai Cuisine

Poetry in Locomotion

Neecha Thai Cuisine

Blow Hard

Neecha Thai Cuisine

Highland Fling

Neecha Thai Cuisine

Night+Day

Neecha Thai Cuisine

Night Crawler

Neecha Thai Cuisine

Night Crawler

Neecha Thai Cuisine

Behind the Scenes

Neecha Thai Cuisine

Avant Starred

Stork Club booker Lorrie Murray moves on; Idiot Flesh wigs out

Tex-Mex

John Sayles' Lone Star limns the uncertain border between past and present

Play Acting

Kenneth Branagh's A Midwinter's Tale is an entertaining valentine to the British acting profession

Gothic Fun House

The City of Lost Children is a dark paradise of visual wonders -- but not much else

Aisle Seat

The City of Lost Children is a dark paradise of visual wonders -- but not much else