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Cocktail Week Events for Tuesday, Sept. 18

Tonight's festivities include a fantastic sounding food truck event (bring warms clothes!), a vodka dinner, classic Cuban cocktails, and sexy secretaries making cocktails. No, it doesn't get better than this. Be aware: There's a Giants home game tonight at 7:15pm, Howard street is closed between 3r ... More >>

L.A. DJ Trio Droog Selects Five Favorite Summertime Jams Ahead of Its S.F. Show

For this week's Signal to Noise, our focus turns southward toward Los Angeles. From that city's thriving dance community comes the accomplished DJ trio known as Droog. In its native scene, the group has built a reputation as a streamlined unit, throwing raves at the high capacity Avalon Hollywood an ... More >>

Behind the Beat with Relentless

Relentless​Relentless is a name I've seen around the local San Francisco electronic music scene for a long time, but I never took the time to get to know the duo's music or backstory. I've come to find out that the tale behind Ian Buzz's and Austin Heap's musical collaboration is as classic as the ... More >>

Cigar Bar: Staggered Deals and Strutting Mambo Dancers

Stacey D./Yelp​The place: The Cigar Bar and Grill, 850 Montgomery (at Pacific), 398-0850 The hours: Mon.-Fri., 4-7 p.m. The deals: $3 off specialty cocktails and 30 percent off food items and bottled wine from 4-5 p.m., $2 and 20 percent off from 5-6 p.m., $1 and 10 percent off from 6-7 p.m ... More >>

Dancing in the Streets

SaltShaker Lists Underground Dining Spots in S.F. and Beyond

TastyTwosome/FlickrNotes from underground: Blair Warsham of S.F.'s graffEats.​The Internet often makes our world seem as tiny as a quinoa pearl. A native New Yorker (he eats, he writes, he cooks) sequestered in Buenos Aires also runs a Web site offering a thorough, immensely tantalizing rundow ... More >>

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We Totally Scored at Last Night's 18 Reasons Book Swap

M. BrodyThe books nobody wanted -- even as freebies. Sorry, Guy -- and Gourmet.​We made out like a bandit at 18 Reasons' cookbook exchange last night. We're slightly embarrassed about it. We already have a sister and two friends we regularly give castoff food books to, and we're pretty attac ... More >>

La Novia del Filin

Alex Cuba Inaugurates New Parish

EKAphotographyHavana Good Time: Alex Cuba​ In certain Afro-Diasporan traditions, ritual baptism is a well-worn, time-honored tradition. Voudun in Haiti, Santeria in Cuba, Condomble in Brazil, and Pentecostal Christianity in the Southern United States essentially do the same thing. Any importa ... More >>

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Lost Weekend: A Tweet-Driven Bar Crawl through North Beach

bpfastball/FlickrFeel the swingin' swagger.​Saturday was not only a typically crisp San Francisco midsummer's eve, it was birthday night, that special time of year when we wander the streets and alleys of North Beach in search of fun, frolic, and alcoholic stimulation. This year's celebration ... More >>

Sandwich Day, Mojito Nights, and a SOMA Classic: A Foodie Day Planner

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Let's do lunch: Pal's Take Away (2751 24th St. at Hampshire, 203-4911) can single-handedly rekindle your love for the sandwich, says our food critic Meredith Brody. A good place to start: today's slow-roasted pork with balsamic Knoll Farm figs, Gorgonzola, and house-pickled ... More >>

Boozing in North Beach

Repertory Film Listings

Award Show Guide

Americana/Folk/Country DJ/Turntablist Electro/Electronic/Experimental Hard Rock Hip Hop Indie Rock/Noise Pop Jazz Soul/R&B World Music Music Video

Expo Sure

Picturing S.F. and beyond

Could Be Verse

A love story told in iambic pentameter? Yes, and yes again.

Outside the Ordinary

Even when it's foggy, there's great, comfortable alfresco dining in San Francisco. Here are some of our current favorites.

Rhythm Nation

The passionate beat and sultry scene of Mambo overcome a weak script

Best Cigar Bar

Hear This

Drive By Truckers deliver Southern-fried rock; get high on Leftover Crack

Music Awards Nominees

Showoff

Collectors bare unknown troves

Picture This

At Photo San Francisco, four days of all things emulsified, exposed, and enlarged

Outside Game

You have to pick the right time and place, but if you do, you'll swear San Francisco was made for patio dining.

Reps Etc.

Best Cuban

Habana

Best Mojito

Habana

Film Capsule Reviews

Choose Me

Where are all the locals in next year's Sundance lineup?

Merry Melodies

Mosh the night away

All That Jazz

All-ages concerts at the Stanford Jazz Festival

Hear This

Brooklyn's Mink Lungs exhale rock that suffers from a delightful identity crisis

Fair Ball

Love of the national pastime, on display at a downtown art gallery

Welcome to Holiday Highlights

SF Weekly's guide to the holiday season in San Francisco

Moore Cuba

The decaying opulence of Havana caught in lush, insightful photographs

Reps Etc.

Best Mojito

Luna Park

Letters to the Editor

Tobacco Firm Adds Insult to Injury; A Few Bike Lanes Away From Utopia; Music to Our Ears; Fish Story; Art and Censorship

Hot Hot Hot

Ban Rarra

Zoom Lens

Latino Film Festival

Reel World

Grotto Film Project; Latino Film Festival

Irony on the High Seas

Can Cesar Ascarrunz and Los Van Van, swimming in contradictions, turn the Cuban ideological ferment into the dance of the century?

House Of Tudor

Bamboleo, Pendulum, "Fetish 2000," Johnny Dowd

¡Holy Cohiba!

Federal agents smoke out an insidious Bay Area smuggling ring as part of their ceaseless efforts to keep our streets safe from illegal Cuban cigars

Buttheads

A longtime cigar nut examines the sudden crass commercialism of his favorite vice

The Mission Valdes

Afro-Cuban jazz legends Chucho Valdes and Irakere return to the U.S.

Rock of la Raza

Dr. Loco's Rockin' Jalape–o Band celebrates the history of Latin American music

Revolution Run Amok

Communism takes a wild ride in I Am Cuba