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Arthouse Movie Listings for Feb. 27-Mar. 5, 2013

Top 10 Best Places for Fried Chicken in San Francisco

These days it seems that chefs must constantly compete to remain relevant in modern culinary culture. Especially in San Francisco, where food trends roll in and out with the fog. But no matter the direction the most recent current shifts or what the latest fuss is about, there will always be a place ... More >>

Metallica at Outside Lands: The Five Best Parts of the Band's Fiery Hometown Show

Metallica Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012 Outside Lands Festival, San Francisco Better than: A skeptic could imagine. Metallica, headlining Saturday night of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, proved just about as huge and satisfying and powerful as Metallica can be in 2012. W ... More >>

Live Review, 5/11/12: S.F. Symphony Looks Back at the City's Colorful Past in 'Barbary Coast'

San Francisco Symphony: Barbary Coast and Beyond Friday, May 11, 2012 Davies Symphony Hall Better than: Your grandparents' (but maybe not your great-great grandparents') symphony. When you hear there are gonna be banjo pickers and fiddlers on the stage, you tend to expect a high-lonesome hoedown o ... More >>

In Defense of General Tso's and the Whole U.S. Friggin A.

Alex HochmanOur new national dish?​ Last week, SF Weekly's Jonathan Kauffman penned a column lamenting the introduction of the Chinese-American staple General Tso's Chicken to Beijing. Well color us red, white, and blue, but any country lucky enough to have this foodstuff shoved down its throat sh ... More >>

Umami Burger is Coming! Umami Burger is Coming! But Is it Any Good?

​There is a wave of hysteria around the local arrival of Los Angeles-based chain Umami Burger. They've got tattooed buns, secret magic spices, and ridiculously long waits for the same dish that McDonald's is selling for $3 -- all things that typically make people go crazy for something.I believe t ... More >>

Horror in a Fedora

Merle Haggard vs. San Francisco: Five Songs in Which Country's Best Works Through His Issues With the Bay

The Hag will make you eat that gee-tar, hippies​Merle Haggard may contain multitudes, but he tends to feel just one of those multitudinous things at a time - and to feel it so hard and pure that he seems to have forgotten all the previous things he's felt that might not square with it. Perha ... More >>

All Shook Down Isn't Your Average Music Fest

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes": Origin Story Shines When Apes Are Onscreen, Falters with Humans

Misguided Bacon Slam Comes to Thirsty Bear

​San Francisco Bacon Takedown Where: Thirsty Bear Brewing Company, 661 Howard (at 3rd St.), 974-0905 When: Sun., July 10, noon Cost: $15 The rundown: We're squeamish about this bacon cooking slam, but not because we don't love bacon. In the wake of last week's publication of Mother Jones' ... 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 >>

Emperor Norton's Jazz Band Looks, Sounds Nothing Like Buddy Holly

Emperor Norton's Jazz Band: Apparently they have a thing for Weezer​Denatured cover of the week--nay, the year so far: when the hepcats of Frisco sextet Emperor Norton's Jazz Band played on Sunday at Amnesia, as they do the first Sunday of each month, they unveiled a sterling NoLa-jazz cover of a ... More >>

Download A Free Mix in Honor of Laughing Squid's 15th Anniversary

Hey! Do you like cat videos and robot in-jokes and urban derring-do and painfully topical mashups and groaningly pop-culture-referential T-shirt designs and straight-up geek bliss? Don't front like you don't! Remember where you live?Well, Scott Beale was way ahead of you fifteen years ago when he s ... More >>

Grab A Bat-Ass Beat Tape From SF Producer Edison at 900Bats

What's new in the Bat Area -- excuse me, the Bay Area -- right now? Enclosed find some new sounds for the weekend courtesy of Frisco beatsmith Edison, who peddles grimy skip-hop jams made from a monome done up like a lunchbox. Here he/it is in action: Not that Edison needs any particular reason t ... More >>

Fresh Eats: SFoodie recommends fried chicken, tortas, and pre-Prohibition beer

Chicken and Waffle at Frisco Fried

John BirdsallHouse Special two-piece fried chicken and waffle ($5.99, $1 extra for the breast).​Thursday, July 15, 2010 John Birdsall​Hard to believe Frisco Fried has been open only six months. At 2 p.m. yesterday, the Bayview soul-food restaurant felt like the kind of place that define ... More >>

The Honor Roll Crew's Top Dancers, Players & Pleasures

​Headed up by Trackademicks, The Honor Roll Crew is a creative collective of eight Bay Area-based MCs, singers, producers and DJs. They bring a fresh approach to hip-hop, as exemplified by critically acclaimed late-'09 releases by Track ("Enjoy What You Do") and Spank Pops (Beautiful Noise).  ... More >>

Macho meets homo in the laudable but terrible "La Mission"

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

New biker club in town is Hells Angels affiliate

Police say new biker club in town is Hells Angels affiliate

"We All We Got" Moving in July

Frisco's Finest: SelassieTonight (Wednesday, June 24) is the last We All We Got at Levende Lounge. The local open mic talent showcase -- in many respects, a sort of low-key, urbanized version of "American Idol" -- will be reappearing at the Blue Macaw beginning July 24. The reason for the move? Lev ... More >>

The High Tide time capsule

Hey, FOX News: San Francisco Has Enough Problems. Don't Pin Oscar Grant's Killing on Us.

They 'report,' we decideConspiracy theories are not our thing. But considering the vitriol directed against San Francisco by FOX news' talking heads, it's a bit harder to shake off the above headline as a mere copy editor's boo-boo. To wit: Oscar Grant, who hailed from Hayward, was shot to death at ... More >>

Frisco Disco Shuts Down, Blames Transfer

We score an exclusive interview with the Olympic torch

Last Night: Justice at the Concourse at SF Design Center

The San Francisco 100: The Best 'Baghdad by the Bay' Songs, Ever

Beat Box

S.F. gives a big ol' "Funk You" to Burning Man

Mark Twain would never have settled for the suburbs

Night+Day San Francisco

By Julianne Balmain and Kate Chynoweth

Some of My Best Friends Are Records

SF Weekly writers pick their favorite Bay Area records of all time

Our top DVD picks for the week of February 14.

Christmas for in-betweeners at the Black Magic Voodoo Lounge

Feeling Crabby

Must we love everything about S.F. -- even the Dungeness?

Six Best Bookstores

House of Tudor

Get the scoop on SF's Emperor Norton

Candy Land

A nonpareil new show

Skits and Skin

Is it getting hot in here?

Letters to the Editor

Letters from April 4, 2001

Dog Bites

Legoland Solves All Your Problems

Night + Day

Recordings

Recordings

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