Callers to our municipal 311 information line are almost always given solid information from folks headquartered right here in downtown San Francisco (The receptionists at the Comcast call center, incidentally, are in Guadalajara. When I asked one gent if he was in San Francisco, he replied, "I wish.").We're also treated to transcendentally awful hold music, music that never quite sounds the same but is always hypnotically wretched. It's so bad, in fact, that you strain to hear it so as to bette
My first revelatory sandwich experience was in Guadalajara, Mexico when I was five years old. Our hotel restaurant crafted a double-decker turkey on white toast that Dagwood himself would have lusted after, and upon sampling it my blind devotion to Underwood Deviled Ham on Langendorf ... dwindled. After that tastebud-expanding experience, I was open to new flavors and sandwich-building concepts, and began my own experiments in the field. My father was a trailblazer in this regard, but I still ha
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Maybe Next Time: CorneliusIf you were planning on attending Japanese avant-funksters Cornelius' May 12 show at the Fillmore, we've got bad news for you: Cornelius' 2009 North American tour with Deerhoof, which included dates in Mexico City and Guadalajara as well as San Francisco and Santa Cruz, has been canceled, due to "swine flu concerns and increased government travel restrictions." As noted on Cornelius' MySpace page, "big bummer."
DJ Roger Más goes for the Latin flavor whether you're talking records or restaurants. The KALX DJ turned Mission turntable master lists off his favorite taco trucks unprompted, and he keeps the vinyl bilingual on both sides of the Bay. Every Saturday, you can ask for mucho Más at the Make-Out Room, where his ¡El Superritmo! evenings swing from cumbia to reggae to salsa and beyond. Later in June he'll be dragging the record trunk down to Skylark, schooling the 16th St. crowd on classic cumbia
Russell ManningSan Francisco art dealer Russell Manning, 67, has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges related a to the December killing of a Palm Springs collector. He is the sixth suspect charged in the so-called gay grifter murder, in which a group of sex-partner-swapping alleged con men attempted to loot the assets of Clifford Lambert, 74.Manning had been held in a Guadalajara-area prison on unrelated charges prior to his arrest by Palm Springs police last week. Police had not to
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Chill killers: At Bay Area Bites, Andrew Simmons risks serious bloating on a chilaquiles crawl through the Mission. Simmons: The other weekend, hungover and exhausted from a morning of pick-up basketball, I was looking for comfort in sustenance. I found it easily, several thousand calories' worth: two distinct and excellent versions of chilaquiles served up at two very different Mission Dist
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