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  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Russell Brand and Kristen Wiig Are Sexy, Spam Is Evil, and S.F.'s Best Vegan Junk Food

    ​This news is from last week but I was in Greece and Russia (WHAT'S UP I HAVE A PASSPORT) so I'm gonna talk about it anyway, okay? Okay! Also, I've got mad jet lag, a nasty cold, and a really bad attitude. Things could get extra real today and I apologize in advance/YOU'RE WELCOME. • So! SFood ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 22, 2011

    Wall of Sound, Plate of Cakes

    ​This news is from last week but I was in Greece and Russia (WHAT'S UP I HAVE A PASSPORT) so I'm gonna talk about it anyway, okay? Okay! Also, I've got mad jet lag, a nasty cold, and a really bad attitude. Things could get extra real today and I apologize in advance/YOU'RE WELCOME. • So! SFood ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Summer Food Festivals, Product Placement, and the Mysteries of Meal Snap

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Mark your summer calendar. Every year I swear I'm going to make it to events like the Fiesta Filipina and the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral's Taste of Greece but always fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    A Field Guide to Sustainable and Delicious Dry Farmed Wines

    Whole lotta irrigation goin' on in Napa.​Irrigation is plainly a function of the modern world. Though the ancient Romans built spectacular gravity-driven aqueducts, drip irrigation for agriculture was not invented until the late 1960s in Israel, and only in the 1970s did water-bearing pipes a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    In Print: the Forward Leanings of Baths, Eskmo, and oOoOO, Plus the Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise

    Baths' Will Wiesenfeld​From SF Weekly's latest print music section:You're Okay, Computer: Consider Baths, the stage name of 21-year-old bedroom producer Will Wiesenfeld, who uses a laptop and various other tools to make beat music, with vocals, that is melancholic and complex and beautiful. A sudd ... More >>

  • News

    September 22, 2010

    SF Weekly Letters

    Baths' Will Wiesenfeld​From SF Weekly's latest print music section:You're Okay, Computer: Consider Baths, the stage name of 21-year-old bedroom producer Will Wiesenfeld, who uses a laptop and various other tools to make beat music, with vocals, that is melancholic and complex and beautiful. A sudd ... More >>

  • News

    June 9, 2010

    Doyle Drive's costly pothole

    Governor Schwarzenegger is willing to pour billions of public dollars into a schemeto benefit private investors.

  • Culture

    May 12, 2010

    Theater Review: "Hot Greeks" at the Hypnodrome

    Governor Schwarzenegger is willing to pour billions of public dollars into a schemeto benefit private investors.

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Local Band Q&A with Local Noiseniks CCR Headcleaner

    Alan Miknus​​It took some time to track down CCR Headcleaner. Messages were left, mailboxes were full, emails went unread. Finally, on a crisp San Francisco afternoon I got a hold of drummer Nick Givens, who blurted out "Every member of CCR Headcleaner is officially homeless! Can we meet at nine ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2010

    Salacious Drag from Ancient Greece

    Alan Miknus​​It took some time to track down CCR Headcleaner. Messages were left, mailboxes were full, emails went unread. Finally, on a crisp San Francisco afternoon I got a hold of drummer Nick Givens, who blurted out "Every member of CCR Headcleaner is officially homeless! Can we meet at nine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2009

    Eight New Year's Food Customs from Around the World

    In the United States, the new year is usually ushered in by champagne and as many hangover-inducing beverages as we can get our hands on. In other countries, however, hearty food traditions mark the start of the year. Below, some of our favorites.​8. The Christ CakeIn Greece, the vasilopeta cake i ... More >>

  • Music

    December 2, 2009

    Argy

    In the United States, the new year is usually ushered in by champagne and as many hangover-inducing beverages as we can get our hands on. In other countries, however, hearty food traditions mark the start of the year. Below, some of our favorites.​8. The Christ CakeIn Greece, the vasilopeta cake i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2009

    The Baker's Wife Will See You Now

    In the United States, the new year is usually ushered in by champagne and as many hangover-inducing beverages as we can get our hands on. In other countries, however, hearty food traditions mark the start of the year. Below, some of our favorites.​8. The Christ CakeIn Greece, the vasilopeta cake i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009
  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Blue Monkey Used San Francisco as Springboard to World Tour

    This is Wilbert, everyone. He's a a three-haired, yellow-bellied, stuffed monkey who started his world travels in San Francisco on May 4, 2008. Since then, he's hit up Paris, Jamaica, New York City, Toronto, Vegas, Tokyo, the Amazon, Rio De Janeiro, China, Greece, Oklahoma, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Why Can't Radicals Protest JUST ONE THING At a Time?

    "What're you protesting against, Johnny?" "Whaddya got?" Why protesters who can't stick to the subject deserve nothing but contempt To those of us who live in the Bay Area, it's old hat by now - but to my family and friends in the Midwest, it's still baffling. "Wait, so, these people went t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2009

    Grave Robbery in San Francisco: Protesters Evoke Oscar Grant's Bloody Corpse to Flog their Causes in Gaza, Greece, and God Knows What Else

    Two protesters, nine photographers. This is a problem. The Prison-Industrial Complex or the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy or whatever form The Man is assuming these days can rest easy in his bed. That's because the rabble-rousing radical left (aka white kids from the East Bay wearing hankies over their ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 22, 2008

    The Shadow Knows

    Two protesters, nine photographers. This is a problem. The Prison-Industrial Complex or the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy or whatever form The Man is assuming these days can rest easy in his bed. That's because the rabble-rousing radical left (aka white kids from the East Bay wearing hankies over their ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2008

    Sports Buffs

    Two protesters, nine photographers. This is a problem. The Prison-Industrial Complex or the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy or whatever form The Man is assuming these days can rest easy in his bed. That's because the rabble-rousing radical left (aka white kids from the East Bay wearing hankies over their ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 4, 2008

    Mack the Kunafa

    New tastes from the Middle East.

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2008

    Roman Holiday

    New tastes from the Middle East.

  • Dining

    February 13, 2008

    Inner Richmond's Troya Takes Turkish Up a Notch

    New tastes from the Middle East.

  • Dining

    July 25, 2007

    Tasty Decor

    An uneven Mediterranean kitchen and international wines come sleekly wrapped in exotic wood

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2007

    Placebo releases Extended Play '07

    An uneven Mediterranean kitchen and international wines come sleekly wrapped in exotic wood

  • Film

    December 7, 2005

    Repertory Film Listings

    An uneven Mediterranean kitchen and international wines come sleekly wrapped in exotic wood

  • Film

    November 30, 2005

    Repertory Film Listings

    An uneven Mediterranean kitchen and international wines come sleekly wrapped in exotic wood

  • Film

    November 23, 2005

    Repertory Film Listings

    An uneven Mediterranean kitchen and international wines come sleekly wrapped in exotic wood

  • Music

    November 9, 2005

    Opa!

    Katy St. Clair has a big, fat Greek encounter at the Silver Crest

  • Dining

    August 10, 2005

    Everything We Ate

    Pleasant food in a pretty room at a new Turkish-accented "Mediterranean" spot in the Marina

  • Music

    June 22, 2005

    BeatBox

    Funky house impresario Chris Fortier; "The Hottest Dyke March After Party" at the Rickshaw Stop

  • Film

    June 15, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    Funky house impresario Chris Fortier; "The Hottest Dyke March After Party" at the Rickshaw Stop

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2004

    E Pluribus Unum

    A tribe with many faces

  • Dining

    May 5, 2004

    Hits and Myths

    A fancy Greek restaurant explodes our expectations of cheap, unmemorable fare

  • Dining

    January 7, 2004

    Feta (Not Quite) Accompli

    Our second meal isn't as dazzling as our first at a new Greek eatery

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003
  • Dining

    August 28, 2002

    Toga Party

    O Mythos

  • Dining

    January 2, 2002

    Passing Through

    Sampling the cozy bars along Divisadero

  • Film

    August 15, 2001

    Ship of Fools

    The setting is the only real star in the cliché-ridden Captain Corelli's Mandolin

  • Dining

    June 6, 2001
  • Dining

    October 18, 2000
  • Dining

    October 27, 1999
  • Calendar

    June 9, 1999
  • Dining

    March 24, 1999
  • Calendar

    November 26, 1997

    Night+Day

    Jianna

  • Dining

    September 18, 1996

    Dish

    Jianna

  • Calendar

    September 18, 1996
  • Dining

    August 14, 1996

    What's in a Name?

    At Pride of the Mediterranean, well-done is the order of the day

  • Film

    July 19, 1995

    Speaking in Tongues

    A cacophony of accents, from Russian to Arabic, rings through the Jewish Film Festival

  • Calendar

    June 21, 1995

    Night+Day

    A cacophony of accents, from Russian to Arabic, rings through the Jewish Film Festival

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