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Solar-Powered Plane Takes Off From Bay Area for Cross-Country Trip

Those of you enviro nerds who have kept up with solar news might have caught sight of the Solar Impulse, the solar-powered airplane gliding over the Golden Gate Bridge a few weeks ago. At the time, it was taking a few practice laps before making its cross-country trip, which began this morning when ... More >>

Antwon's Twisted Vision: Sex Rap, Punk Vibes, and Kid Rock

Waste Management: Why Muni Won't Ban Serial Bus-Soilers

Crip-less: S.F.'s Dislike of Franchises Extends to Street Gangs

San Jose Sharks and San Francisco Bulls Seal Affiliate Deal

In late June, San Francisco Bulls president and coach Pat Curcio said he wanted his fledgling hockey team to be a minor league affiliate of the San Jose Sharks even if it took a whole season -- or two. It didn't even take a whole month. The teams today announced a deal, meaning the Cow Palace-based ... More >>

San Francisco Bulls: Hockey Team Inks First Player; Affiliation With Sharks Remains Elusive

Unless you're within the devoted cadre of Slovakian hockey aficionados, you probably don't know much about Peter Sivak. You've probably heard of the San Jose Sharks, however. They're the guys with the teal uniforms who fly onto the rink via an oversize shark head and through a mist of dry ice. Well, ... More >>

S.F. Track Star Inspires New York Giants Super Bowl Win

Holland Reynolds, the 17-year-old San Francisco track star above, is being credited with inspiring the New York Giants Super Bowl victory last night. The video above was posted on YouTube, showing Reynolds as she struggled to finish the last 100 meters of a cross country 5K race in Fresno in 2010. ... More >>

The Best Place to Find Rare Citrus Like Yuzu and Pink Limes: De Santis Farms

​For years, SFoodie has found it impossible to visit the Alemany Farmers' Market without gawking at Rosa de Santis's citrus stand. Her cara caras and oro blanco grapefruit are positively mundane -- there are boxes of sweet limes and nobbly Seville oranges to paw through and smell, and up on the ca ... More >>

Gary Scott Holland Pleads Guilty to Murdering Kate Horan

Horan and Holland​Gary Scott Holland, 44, today confessed to the brutal slaying, of 46-year-old Kathleen "Kate" Horan -- a stranger he beat to death in a drug-induced rage.Holland, an alleged Satanist, appeared in court today where he plead guilty to murder charges. In exchange, prosecutors droppe ... More >>

Admiral Radley and Social Studies at Bottom of the Hill: A Tale of Two Indie Bands

Admiral Radley​Admiral Radley Typhoon Social Studies Fake Your Own Death February 23, 2011
 @Bottom of the Hill Better than: Starting an indie rock supergroup with your co-workers called the Water Coolers. Every night at the Noise Pop Festival is a dilemma. The schedule holds a musical em ... More >>

Marty and Kelli Christensen Reunite - Marty Opts To Stay Homeless (VIDEO)

Found at last.​Kelli Christensen's long hunt to reconnect with her homeless father ended at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday when she walked up to a Muni bus shelter in front of a Market Street 7-Eleven store downtown. There, sat a man in an orange baseball cap with his head down. Her cousin, Caine, who drove ... More >>

Daughter of San Francisco Homeless Man Is Looking for Dad on City Streets

Have you seen this man?​For years, Kelli Christensen knew very little about her father, Marty, only that he had a drinking problem and he had been estranged from the family. She and her family -- who live in Kingsburg, near Fresno -- had heard he was homeless in San Francisco. Christensen traveled ... More >>

Trial Imminent for Steve Vender, PI Charged with Witness Tampering

Steve Vender, in a 2007 SF Weekly photo​The closely watched case of a San Francisco private investigator charged with dissuading a witness from testifying is scheduled to go to trial next month.We've reported in the past on the murky circumstances surrounding the District Attorney's prosecution of ... More >>

Same-Sex Marriage in 2012? That'll Be the Day.

Sorry, pal. Maybe next year. Or the year after that. Or not. ​Yesterday Restore Equality 2010 announced it was abandoning its efforts to repeal Prop 8 on the November ballot. The not-unforeseen announcement was also posted at a handful of blogs on Monday: Autumn Sandeen reported at Pam's House ... More >>

Catch and release: Did the SFPD lose track of a star witness?

Grand Jury Wanted Further Probe of Defense Lawyer in Witness Intimidation Case

In today's print issue of SF Weekly, we report on suggestions in previously unreleased court documents that San Francisco police officers lost track of an important attempted-murder witness while trying to scrounge up dirt on a private investigator. But the cops' use of questionable spy games agains ... More >>

Breaking: Prominent S.F. Private Investigator Indicted For Allegedly Scaring Off Witness

A San Francisco private investigator who works with criminal defense attorneys has been indicted on a felony count of dissuading a witness, a charge stemming from his alleged efforts to scare off a star witness in an attempted murder case last month.Steve Vender, in a 2007 SF Weekly photograph​Ste ... More >>

Raising the Roof: San Francisco Places Well In Solar Power Study -- But Not at the Top

Look, Ma! Solar panels and a three-car garage!If asked to guess which city in California sported the most rooftop solar installations, you might well guess San Francisco, right? And if asked which city would be most likely to include such information on its official travel brochure or within the stu ... More >>

Anti-War Smackdown: Baez vs. Sheehan on Whether Obama Deserves His Own Camp Casey

She's closed Camp Casey outside George W. Bush's Crawford ranch and recently lost her bid to unseat Nancy Pelosi in Congress. Now Cindy Sheehan is taking on Barack Obama, claiming the U.S. president is the same sort of warmonger as her previous foes. But no less an anti-war authority ... More >>

Saturday Night: Feel the Bass at the Voodoo Lounge

Just Say No

Conventional wisdom says psychiatric drugs save lives, but for some San Franciscans the pills are a prescription for disaster

Hot Air

Richard Branson's phony plans to fight global warming, his Virgin startup at SFO, and the Fox host who missed a dig

The Man Who Would Be Feinstein

So you've never heard of Christopher Dahl. He'd still like to be your U.S. Senator.

OK Then

Isn't it Ironic? No. Believe it or not, the gaudy Christian rock of the Knights of the New Crusade is meant to be taken seriously

The City That Would Be King

To maintain its natural position atop the local political food chain, San Francisco must be benevolent, as well as strong

She's Back, Possums

Treading funny old waters with Dame Edna

What Would Jürgen Do?

A degraded character actor comes to Gov. Schwarzenegger's rescue

Trannyshack Reno or Bustier

An extreme road trip that's never just a drag

Promises, Promises

In which the boy mayor shows off his basketball, um, prowess, while his wife just shows off

Paradise Lost

The last leg of a traveling exhibition on California's vanishing resources

Pipe Dreams

Former Thrasher photographer Nik Freitas trades his skateboard for a keyboard -- and the glories of '70s pop

Festivals/Fairs

Mark of Effectiveness

Why Mark Leno ought to serve in the Assembly, and Harry Britt should go back to New College

Letters to the Editor

The Plane Facts; Review Redo; Winner or Loser? You Make the Call.; Grousing About Housing; Speechless

On the Homeless Front

Providing comprehensive services for street people is morally uplifting -- and, as shown in New York, good policy

Out of Santa Rosa

The Safari West wildlife reserve is like a bit of Africa in the Bay Area

Letters to the Editor

Next Week: The Case Against Cable Cars;

Letters to the Editor

Tire Iron vs. Baseball Bat; Trashing SUVs Is Rude? Well Then, We'll Stop Doing It.; Or We Could Just Deport Them to Fresno; Modesto, My Modesto; Say, People Are Still Saying "Meme"?

Out of the Country

Richard Buckner gave up on major labels and "y'allternative," but not the art of storytelling

Riff Raff

One-Hit Wanderer

Since moving to the Bay Area a decade ago, Alec Palao has diligently tracked the history of local bands before the Grateful Dead (yes, such bands existed)

Reviews

Riff Raff

Trial by Liar

The snitches mumbled, stumbled, equivocated, and perjured themselves The jury found Bernard Temple -- the man prosecutors believed to be a bloodthirsty assassin for drug dealers -- not guilty of murder.

Feet, Fins, and Heads

Unspun

The Grid

It Came From Lubbock

Terry Allen on remains, human and otherwise

Dog Bites

Letters