Frisco

When We Were Red Hot: S.F.'s Tamale Industry Once Ruled America

TV Show Reveals Swan Oyster Depot's Secret Stew

Chris MacArthur​Swan Oyster Depot has a secret: if you ask nicely, owner Tommy Sancimino might make you an oyster stew that TV host Ben Sargent called "one of the best stews I've ever had." SFoodie learned this because we've seen Tuesday's new episode of "Hook, Line and Dinner," which airs at ... More >>

Janet Jackson Delivers the Hits -- All of Them? -- to Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Richard HaickJanet Jackson at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium last night.​ Janet Jackson April 19, 2011 @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Better than: What you probably remember of the late '80s and early '90s. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a Jackson in the house. She can sing (although her thinn ... More >>

Hog and Rocks blurs the line between bar and restaurant

Richard HaickJanet Jackson at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium last night.​ Janet Jackson April 19, 2011 @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Better than: What you probably remember of the late '80s and early '90s. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a Jackson in the house. She can sing (although her thinn ... More >>

Motel Hell

It took years for the city to move against an SRO that was full of pests. So one resident took her case to court.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Kemble Scott's debut novel, SoMa, chronicles the city's seedier side

Too Much Sanity

Musical about one of S.F.'s oddest characters is a curiously staid affair

If You're Goin' to San Francisco ...

If Haight Street is wall-to-wall people, it must be tourist season. How do you really feel about all those outsiders who swell the city's population?

Parchman Farm

Mining San Francisco's psych-rock past to forge a bright new future

Bouncer

Find out what dancers at "The Crib" thought of last week's debates

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Find out what dancers at "The Crib" thought of last week's debates

GIFTS

DVDs | Music DVDs | CDs | Books

The Sounds of Silence

Why the Bay Area has stopped producing big-time rock bands

The Keys to Success

DJ Lebowitz may be the strangest punk pianist around -- or even the only one

Letters to the Editor

Week of March 28, 2001

A New War of Words

Are you ready for a real newspaper rivalry?

Letters

Welcome to Newark, Calif.; Apparently, Ali, We Didn't Hit You Hard Enough; Natural Selection; Invasion of the Dot-Com Parasites; They Aren't All Millionaires; So, You Think We Should Start Paying Silke?; Cursing Those Who Curse the Morg

Riff Raff

Clubbed

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Clubbed

Letters

Clubbed

Chain Chain Chain

Clubbed

His Caribbean Majesty

Clubbed

Hinckle, Hinckle, Little Star (Part I)

There are two joys in life -- making things and breaking things -- and pirate journalist Warren Hinckle has excelled at both

Recordings

There are two joys in life -- making things and breaking things -- and pirate journalist Warren Hinckle has excelled at both

Letters

There are two joys in life -- making things and breaking things -- and pirate journalist Warren Hinckle has excelled at both