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The Company Bar & Kitchen Aims To Be a Triple Threat

The Company Bar & Kitchen is currently being built at 133 Steuart Street, in the space that formerly housed Shanghai 1930 restaurant. The project is the latest in the Mina Group collection and is led by longtime Mina group star sommelier Rajat Parr. AK Design Network from Los Angeles is transforming ... More >>

The Mallard Prepares for Takeoff

Bay Area Nurses to Strike on Christmas Eve

If you are feeling under the weather, now is a great time to stockpile Vitamin C. Bay Area nurses are planning to walk off the job at various Sutter Health hospitals come Monday as part of a larger effort to draw attention to the inadequate staffing at regional hospitals.

Moms Sue Fresno School District Over Bad Sex Education Policy

It appears the educators over in Fresno might have eaten one too many fried chicken sandwiches from Chick-fil-A . In the small suburb of Clovis, the school district is refusing to teach kids about sex prevention, telling students instead to abstain from the natural act, and "get plenty of rest" to s ... More >>

Kamala Harris Busts "Skimmer Operation" That Stole From Hundreds of Chase Bank Customers

Attorney General Kamala Harris used her newly created eCrime Unit to break up two high-tech bank scam operations that ripped off hundreds of Chase customers over the last three years. In both "skimmer operations," the defendants, organized as "crews," replaced the card readers at Chase Bank ATM ves ... More >>

Train, Worst Band Ever to Come From San Francisco, To Play Small Venues Citywide

[Post updated Feb. 21 at 7 p.m.] Unless this is some kind of early and ill-timed April fool's joke on us, the week of April 10, 2012, will bring a bland and terrible horror to many hallowed local stages: Train, the San Francisco embarrassment, wine-shilling ruse, and mom-pop juggernaut, is apparentl ... More >>

Livin' It Up with the "Hotel California" Menu at Orson

Robin Jolin ProductionsThe dish is called "Can't Kill the Beast," but it looks dead to us​"Hotel California" by the Eagles is best known as a slightly spooky song that every dummy at a party will bust out on the guitar in an effort to impress girls. At least that's what I remember from college ... More >>

Few Deportable Inmates Are from San Francisco

Mexicans top the list, but the Soviets aren't so far behind. ​Yesterday, we told you about California being a national leader when it comes to the number of criminal aliens incarcerated in our state prisons. It turns out that very few of those criminal aliens hail from San Francisco. Criminal alie ... More >>

Examiner's Phil Anschutz Dumps Money into California Politics -- Except San Francisco

No money for you, chumps.​San Francisco Examiner owner Phil Anschutz, his companies, and his employees, donated $92,582 to 30 California politicians between 2003 and 2009, according to campaign finance filings compiled by Anschutz's competitor, Bay Area News Group.But the railroad, telecommunicati ... More >>

Indiana's Native Shoots Straight, Drives Slow, Plays Twice This Weekend

"Hi"​Native, a noisy prog-core quartet from Northwest Indiana, are playing two shows this weekend at the Bottom of the Hill in support of their last album, Wrestling Moves, which combines all the rhythmic intricacy and interlocking near-melodies and committed yelling of post-hardcore exemplars lik ... More >>

L.A. Rhymeslinger Dom Kennedy on Why He's the Best Kennedy After Bobby

Ich bin ein accomplished rapper​Few rappers would have the audacity to rhyme over a Biggie beat, much less have the skill to do it well, but... well, Los Angeles mainstay Dom Kennedy is audacious and talented. To wit, he likes to refer to himself as the Best After Bobby -- download the mixtape of ... More >>

Daughter of S.F. homeless man looking for dad on city streets

Richmond Rap Duo The Dime: You Might See Them Playing Chess Onstage This Weekend

​Meanwhile, over in Richmond, a duo called The Dime has been keeping it quietly, gently, uncompromisingly real. Chioke Jelani and Knightshift are a two-man bundle of pretty much all the affiliations you usually need to make a rap record: they produce their tracks, write their rhymes, sing the ... More >>

San Francisco Is Still Smoking

​County-by-county smoking data released Monday by the state Department of Public Health reveal ashtray-makers are still doing pretty good business here in San Francisco. According to the California Adult Smoking Prevalence 2008 survey, 13.5 percent of San Franciscans are lighting up. To put that n ... More >>

Kamala Harris Declares Victory -- In Los Angeles

Perhaps Kamala Harris made her 'major announcement' in L.A. because of the George Lopez factor...​As expected, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris declared victory in her race for Attorney General this morning in her "major announcement" this morning in Los Angeles. "I stand before you t ... More >>

Gary Scott Holland, Accused of Kathleen Horan Murder, To Be Arraigned

Police released this suspect sketch almost simultaneously with Gary Scott Holland's arrest​Gary Scott Holland, the man charged with impersonating a utility worker, talking Kathleen Horan into allowing him into her Russian Hill apartment, and murdering her, will be formally arraigned tomorrow. Holl ... More >>

Gary Scott Holland Charged With Murder of Kathleen Horan

Is this Gary Scott Holland?​On the very day the San Francisco Police Department blamed a man impersonating a utility worker for lying his way into Kathleen Horan's apartment and murdering her, they made an arrest in the case. Gary Scott Holland, 43, is charged with murder in the death of Horan, a ... More >>

Transgender Republican Gun Advocate To Speak At San Francisco Gun Conference

All smiles until messed with...​San Franciscans probably have their ideas about the sort of folks who will descend on the Hyatt Regency airport hotel this weekend for the Second Amendment Foundation's gun rights conference: white, Tea Partyish, Red State-y, straight. Then here comes panelist Nicki ... More >>

Where Do San Francisco's Firefighters Live?

​Coeur D'alene? Really?Not long ago, SF Weekly played with a data application the Bay Citizen created regarding where the city's employees live. It turns out, a number of city workers -- including more than a few firefighters -- live in far-off realms such as Placer County, Los Angeles, or even Sa ... More >>

Filipino Taco Truck Hapa SF Lives Up to the Hype

Jun BelenHapa's lumpia were the best we've tasted here.​It's been a couple of weeks since chef William Pilz launched Hapa SF, his mobile Filipino food venture. Pilz is quickly getting his bearings around the newly rehabbed, burgundy-colored taco-truck kitchen, as Hapa's following seems to mult ... More >>

Your E-Filed Taxes Saved IRS $195M (and Counting). But Post Office Not Thrilled.

​Yesterday we reported that nearly eight of every 10 tax forms received by the IRS by early April was sent electronically. This put members of the United States Postal Service in the position of another blue-uniformed figure with little to do: The Maytag repairman. With the late-evening Tax Night ... More >>

And the Most Partisan District in California Is ... Compton? San Francisco Doesn't Even Crack Top-10.

We may not be his best friend after all​San Francisco may be the national Democratic Party's ATM. But, counter-intuitively, it does not flaunt the most lopsided percentage of registered Democratic voters in the state. Or the second-highest. Or third. Or tenth. According to the city's Department of ... More >>

Jury Convicts Attempted Murderer Despite Disappearance of Victim Allegedly Scared Off By Private Investigator

​A San Francisco jury convicted Phil Pitney, 19, of attempted murder Thursday, even after the victim he shot at was a no-show for the entire trial -- apparently because he was threatened by the defense attorney's investigator.The Chron reported last week that Steve Vender, a private investigator w ... More >>

Down-home goes upscale at Wexler's

Chronic City: Marijuana, Money, and the Media

Compassion Family MinistriesYes, Grasshopper... Money grows on killa trees.Things are smoking on the marijuana front, and I'm not just talking about the ringing cash registers at newly emboldened dispensaries statewide. Time after time this week, the media brought together money and marijuana in pub ... More >>

San Francisco Giant Misses His Date to Read to Kiddies at Library -- As He's Been Demoted to Minor Leagues

It's a good bet that Emmanuel Burriss would have loved to be in San Fran today reading to the kiddies rather than suiting up to play Minor League ball in FresnoWhether professional ballplayers really enjoy the litany of camera-friendly community events they're trotted out to is a matter only known b ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: The Budget's All finished, Except for the Backstabbing

Our story so far: The Supervisors were drinking champagne in City Hall last week after reaching a budget deal that restored an unprecedented amount money to programs that Mayor Gavin "Call me Governor" Newsom cut from San Francisco because he thought it would play well in Fresno. Par-TAY! B ... More >>

Kitchenette to Star at Mission Street Food

Say adios to the loading dock, at least for one nightOne of the biggest food stories in a year destined to be remembered for depressing restaurant closures is Kitchenette, which (in case you just blew in from Fresno) serves up amazing weekday lunches from a loading dock in Dogpatch. Brace yourselves ... More >>

Monsters vs. Aliens

In this latest round of effects vs. storytelling, effects win. Big.

Last Night: David Dondero and Rademacher at the Knockout

(David Dondero)David Dondero/RademacherSunday, January 4, 2009The KnockoutWords and photos by Jonathan KieferBetter Than: Admitting the weekend, and the holiday, and another year of your unproductive life, is over.As Sunday night crept toward Monday morning and another crap-job working week loomed, ... More >>

Look Back in Anger

Exotic Erotic Ball Couches Tits as Freedom: Get Real! ... about Freedom (not Tits; fake Tits are fine)

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Bait and Snitch

Lying under oath, threatening witnesses, revealing the names of federal agents -- it's just another day on the job for one of the DEA's paid drug informants

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Fussy Fusion

Limón still delights, but at the new Circolo, Nuevo Latino seems old

Blowin' Smoke

Biker Boyz is furious, but it ain't fast, which is a real drag

Jurassic 5 Skhool Yard

Jurassic 5
Power in Numbers (Interscope)
Skool Yard
A New Way of Thinking (Threshold)

The North and South

A Southern California artist imagines a literal civil war between L.A. and San Francisco

First Call

Celebrating the dawn in the bars of San Francisco

House Of Tudor

Sprocket Ensemble's Valentine's Celebration; Mark Growden's Electric Piñata

The Plot Thins

Yes, SF Weekly has been secretly trying to rid the city of artists. It's working pretty well, don't you think?

Crushing Grapes

Frank Galati's adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath arrives, at last, in Santa Clara

Pagan Lounge

Rosin Coven

For Love and Money

Cali Agents' Rasco and Planet Asia are underground rappers who want to go platinum. You got a problem with that?

The Modesto Invasion

The San Francisco rock scene is alive and well -- 90 miles from San Francisco

Rhyme Schemes

With an acclaimed single and album behind him, San Mateo rapper Rasco remains underground -- which is just fine with him

Riff Raff

Unspun