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Drink(s) of the Week: Three Cocktails to Charm the Year of the Snake

The first night of Chinese New Year begins on Saturday, and while lucky foods like mandarins (to symbolize wealth) and noodles (for longevity and a full life) are traditional, we found three different cocktails to ensure a full year of good luck. Enjoy all three and triple your happiness -- and hope ... More >>

Central Valley Orangutan Predicts 49ers Will Definitely Win the Super Bowl

When you think of the Central Valley, only negatives come to mind: Scott Peterson, insanely high foreclosure rates, and creepy teachers who move in with their students. But Siabu, the 49ers-loving orangutan at Fresno's Chaffee Zoo, has given the sweltering hot, Republican-loving region a decent na ... More >>

Drink of the Week: P37 Mary at Parallel 37

The first thing that you'll notice as you take a sip of the P37 Mary ($14, ancho chili infused vodka, lemon, olive juice, house made tomato water, celery-habañero shrub, fresno chili pickling liquid, pickled vegetables, smoked salt rim) is how much finesse the drink has. Parallel 37 bar manager Cam ... More >>

California: Privately Rich in Big Cities, Publicly Broke

Welcome to the hub of American prosperity. Yesterday, the Census Bureau released the results from the 2011 American Community Survey, and in the competition for Wealthiest City in America, the Bay Area snagged gold and silver. San Jose took the top spot, with a median income of $76,593 and San Fra ... More >>

The Great Food Truck Race Features Lame Truck Design, Tyler Florence's Neck Beard

Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, The Great Food Truck Race, a one-hour show that once saw a food truck drive past it, Sundays at 9 p.m. on the Food Network. Part of the fun of eating at a food truck is hanging around the trucks themselves, with t ... More >>

The Mallard on the S.F. Garage-Rock Scene, Walking Around Town, and Playing Drums Standing Up

As frontwoman Greer McGettrick points out, it's easy to pigeonhole The Mallard as a new tenant of San Francisco's flag-bearing garage rock scene -- but the band's uneasy, ramshackle approach is fraught with a brooding tension that defies the genre's trappings. The evidence lies on the Mallard's Cast ... More >>

Francisco Carrillo-Beltran, Mexican National, Accused of Smuggling Meth Through Airport

Great for massages, not so great for drug smuggling​Border Patrol agents seized about 11 pounds of methamphetamine from Francisco Carillo-Beltran's luggage as he traveled through the Fresno/Yosemite International Airport on Sept. 11. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested 42-year-old Carr ... More >>

The Franchise Episode 2 Recap: Hey Now, You're an All-Star

​I've written before that "The Franchise" is not really a show for Giants fans. In theory, it's a way for Major League Baseball to introduce some of the game's personalities to a broader audience at a time when they're finding it difficult to market most of their players. In its basic conception, ... More >>

The Franchise Episode 1: Promising Rookie Looks a Little Raw

UCinternationa​When Showtime aired a preview for The Franchise in April, the Giants were only two weeks into the MLB season and still riding high in defense of their World Series title. Back then, the show looked like a window into the lives of baseball players, rather than a rough-and-tumble vie ... More >>

Republicans Propose New State: Southern California

It's like Arizona and San Francisco in one​One Southern California pol is sick and tired of the Democrats up in Sacramento -- tired of the "pillaging" of local governments and worse, the left-wing policies that dominate the blue state. That's why he's dusted off that tired proposal to let Southern ... More >>

Eat a Goddamn Carrot, Go to Fresno, Save a Fish

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • The Onion has this amazing video up of what the FDA could be like if they were honest. You just buy a bag of fucking carrots and you eat them the way you'd normally eat a package of hot dogs, okay? Watch: • ... More >>

Giants' World Series Trophy in City Hall Tomorrow

You think he was there for the trophy or the supes meeting? ​The confluence of the current Board of Supervisors' final meeting and a two-day stopover by the Giants' World Series trophy portends for large crowds in City Hall over the next several days. Expect lots of wild clothing and boisterous sp ... More >>

Giants World Series Trophy at City Hall (PICS)

Oh happy day! ​At San Francisco's City Hall, one eventually gets used to the sight of statuesque brides in frilly gowns and strappy sandals clomping through the metal detectors. But a fella with a two-foot-tall, traffic cone orange hat, a matching scarf and a gleeful Jack-O-Lantern smile? No, he's ... More >>

Dueling Dubs

Dozens of San Francisco City Employees Live in Southern California. Huh?

Abandoned in San Diego by a firefighter recalled to SF?​The Bay Citizen published a nifty online database over the weekend that shows the pay and partial mailing addresses of San Francisco city employees. The accompanying article parsed the data, and debunked the idea that city employees -- who ar ... More >>

Waterbar Adopted a Peach Tree. So Can You

benketaro/FlickrPeach tree at Masumoto Family Farm, making "take me home" eyes at you.​In the grand tradition of adoption ― highways, children ― Embarcadero restaurant Waterbar has assumed responsibility for a tree, a lovely Elberta peach ensconced at Masumoto Family Farm south of Fresno. ... More >>

Is Fresno Rapper PtheG Purely Clueless Or Just Totally Cynical?

Is Fresno's Princeton the Great One, or PtheG, really "the worst rapper in the Bay Area," or is he having a laugh at rap's expense? The conceit of "Cheeseburger" is asinine, from the rhythmically braindead chorus to the way P keeps forgetting to lip-sync and reaches for the steering wheel instead, b ... More >>

Straight Outta Fresno: Fashawn Hits Slim's

​Plenty of cities you wouldn't normally associate with hip-hop have been producing their fair share of beats and rhymes. That said, it's still surprising to learn that one of rap's brightest young stars is from the same place that just hosted the Future Farmers of America's Leadership Conference. ... More >>

Upper Haight Farmers' Market Debuts in Golden Gate Park

A market in the trees.​Yesterday marked the launch of the new Upper Haight Farmers' Market on an unused access road/parking lot just off Stanyan at Waller. Market organizers estimate that 1,500 people showed up to shop in the shadow of cedars and eucalyptus trees ― not bad considering the recurr ... More >>

Bay Area Beasts: Pterodactyls, Mystery Cats, and Sea Serpents

From Charles Gould's Mythical Monsters, via archive.org​This month saw two stories of mysterious monsters crop up in rapid succession. In Britain, the inhabitants of Buckshaw Village fear a creature that looks like a cross between a boar, a dog and large cat that upends trash bins and devours deer ... More >>

Chronic City: Fresno's Freakin' -- But Marijuana Dispensary To Stay Open

Medmar ClinicMedmar Clinic is under legal attack from the City of Fresno.​You've gotta pity the poor, put-upon city officials of Fresno. After all, they've only had 13 years to suss out Proposition 215, this newfangled medical marijuana law that's being forced upon their fair city by more progress ... More >>

The Growhouse That Just Keeps Giving: Sunset Marijuana Operation Burns, Then Serves as Burglar Magnet

Like the warehouses of unscrupulous businessmen mired in debt, marijuana growhouses have a nasty habit of bursting into flames. But while the practice of "insurandburn" at least benefits someone, everyone loses when a clandestine urban pot farm goes up in smoke: The big-time dealers who own the th ... More >>

How to Sell Marriage Equality

Bizarre Craigslist Barter of the Week: Have Car, Need Rims, So...

Look, to paraphrase Lincoln, honesty is one of the better policies. So, let's be honest. You've got a chicken coop. It may have four wheels (or close to that) and a windshield, and it may even say "Datsun" on the exterior. All we're saying is, it's...        & ... More >>

WTF?: Cool Stuff We Found at the Market

Go easy Scored: Fillmore Saturday Farmers' Market Source: Xiong Farm, Fresno Wiry, curly pea tendrils come from the same plants peas are plucked from, says Christine Farren, events manager at CUESA, the nonprofit that runs the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. If you're lucky, the shoots will have edible ... More >>

For the Fans

Pop residencies gain traction in S.F.

San Francisco's Bitterness Toward Our Glamorous SoCal Neighbors Shows Through in the Stands

If the media hyperventilates when this guy shows up at a ballgame -- your city might have an inferiority complexWhen a spokeswoman for San Jose's mayor last week told SF Weekly that Gavin Newsom didn't belong on a Washington, D.C. junket along with the boss men of San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Dieg ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: The Sleepover Disaster

Remember that time when you invited the girls over for your birthday and you stayed up too late drinking Capri Sun and eating Round Table pizza and then, like, Mindy locked herself in the bathroom and started crying because she said Repo Man was scary (but really she just had never been away from ho ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Rademacher

Photos: PETA Takes A Shower At Union Square

Portland Post-Punkers in Serious Van Wreck Following S.F. Show

SF Weekly Best Albums Of 2007 : Jennifer Maerz Rounds Them Up

Best CDs of 2007

Rademacher Alchemizes Arcade Fire and Modest Mouse for Pure Indie-Pop Gold

Supercuts

Fresno? Fres Yes!

Lukewarm Lidell; Rademacher shows shades of Pavement

Fresno offers hip hop to do California proud, Stockton Hustles for Change, and Kazakhstan sends electronic love

Dead Beat

The full Día de los Muertos treatment is a thing to behold

Best Reuse of a Historic Whorehouse

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, July 7, 2004

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Ecstasy Is an Art Car

Philo Northrup and his wacky automotive tribe take a road trip to places in California you can't even imagine

Steaking a Claim

Mel Hollen's Bar & Fine Dining

Tudor's House

The Gourds; Brian Kenny Fresno; Guitar God-A-Thon and Wet Sweatpants Competition

House Of Tudor

Hammertoes; Jucifer; Duncan Wilder Johnson; Jump Up! Records Showcase; Einstürzende Neubauten; Who Wants to Shag to Be a Millionaire

Cothran

Snatching Saroyan

How Stanford University aced out UC Berkeley and acquired the million-dollar archives of San Francisco's most prolific author, William Saroyan -- without paying a dime