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Here Are the Songs They Play at a Middle School Dance

[Editor's note: The following post by Houston writer and ESL teacher Shea Serrano was named the best blog post of the year in the first-ever Voice Media Group music writing awards. Originally published by our sister blog at LA Weekly, It's a sidesplitting minute-by-minute account of an afternoon he ... More >>

SF Weekly Sold to Voice Media Group

SF Weekly has been sold. Last night, it was announced the San Francisco-based alt-weekly has split from its parent company, Village Voice Media. It was sold to a new, Denver-based entity in a management buyout: Voice Media Group. The purchase includes the dozen other alternative newsweeklies in th ... More >>

EDC 2012: Calvin Harris Plays CDs of Himself Singing

Dance music is fighting for its soul. The charts are filled with tracks (Rihanna, Flo Rida) that borrow from the ecstatic trance and pulsing grooves of electronic dance music. The last time pop was so infatuated with the dance floor was 1979, the year disco died. This time around fans are more sa ... More >>

EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds

[Update at 2:48 a.m]: EDC is over for the night. Organizers are waiting for crowds to thin out before making an official announcement. More details and older updates at the bottom.Electric Daisy Carnval in Las Vegas tonight was shut down temporarily as a result of high winds buffeting tall sound st ... More >>

EDC 2012: Coachella or Electric Daisy Carnival: Which One is Better?

See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage Dance music is coming to an arena near you: Kaskade will be the first DJ ever to play Staples Center (July 27). And mainstream concert promoters such as Live Nation are diving into the electronic dance explosion. Electric Daisy Carnival, which is being hel ... More >>

Bryan Stow's Alleged Attackers Wear Dodger Blue Jail Outfits

There's not much fun to had recounting the grim details in the ongoing trial of Marvin Norwood and Louie Sanchez, who are accused of beating Giants fan Bryan Stow to within an inch of his life at Dodgers Stadium last year. But, there is this: During the trial, both Sanchez and Norwood -- who, accord ... More >>

Cochella on 420: Meet the Most Stoned Festivalgoers

See also: *The Best of Coachella: Friday, April 20 *Our Complete Coachella Coverage Friday was 4/20. It was also Coachella. And so, the percentage of festival-goers who were stoned rose from a paltry 75 percent to a full 98 percent. (These estimates come courtesy of LA Weekly music editor Ben West ... More >>

Best of Coachella Weekend One: Friday, April 13

Day one of The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival brought something more unusual than ironic outfits or that poor guy who couldn't get his flip flops on for the life of him: rain. Usually, the desert festival is known for scorching, sometimes three-digit heat. But rain and wind be da ... More >>

Delicious Charity Bakesales, Ellen & Portia To Open Veg Eatery, and Vegan Halloween! Spooky!

​• It's Halloween on Monday! Which is a whack day for Halloween but I have no control over that, so take it up with God if you're so upset. Since the most holy day of the year for children and slutras is upon us, that means you should stock up on non-shitty candies at Rock Candy Snack Shop, bust ... More >>

Top Five Reasons P. Diddy Is Hilarious Now

​Earlier this week, Rolling Stone our colleagues at L.A. Weekly reported that an ex-LAPD detective has implicated Sean Combs in Tupac's murder. Greg Kading apparently asserts in a new book that Suge Knight and Puffy ordered the murders of Biggie Smalls and Tupac, respectively, and that h ... More >>

Sigh. More Food Words We're Not Supposed to Use.

Taken from this week's review.​Chow/Chowhound have just posted their list of the 78 most annoying words and phrases used in a restaurant review, which includes "tucking into," "organic," and "unctuous." Add the list to a growing genre: the LA Weekly's funny two lists of "Foodie Words We Hate," as ... More >>

Your Bread Basket Hates Mother Earth, Jonathan Gold Hates Substitution-Deniers

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. They're not being cheap, they're being green. It's becoming harder and harder to score a hunk of bread in San Francisco restaurants, no matter how saucy the food. Cost cutting? Su ... More >>

Giovanni Ramirez: Police Release Photo of Man Accused of Beating Bryan Stow

Giovanni Ramirez​Police are certain Giovanni Ramirez was the man who beat Bryan Stow into a coma the night of March 31 after the opener game between the Dodgers and the Giants. Yet Ramirez, 31, is telling police that he has an alibi -- his 10-year-old daughter. But last night the case against Rami ... More >>

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New Year Brings Us The Same Ol' Gay Hot Potato: Marriage

Bring In The Gays​Where did we leave off?  In December, a (sort of) repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell was passed by the Senate and signed by the President. I predicted a long, slow and agonizing death of the policy while John McCain lamented the end of DADT saying that soldiers will lose their l ... More >>

The Changing Street Food Landscape: LA Trucks Get Letter Grade

stevelyon/Flickr​Yesterday, SFoodie ran an interview with Jessica Phadungsilp and Christina Aviles, the owners of the Global Soul truck, who had migrated from the Bay Area to Los Angeles because they couldn't find a way to make a living in San Francisco given the difficulty and price of obtaining ... More >>

Did AG Candidate Steve Cooley Let Bell Police Chief Off the Hook?

Peace Officers Association of L.A. CountySteve Cooley, left, handed disgraced Bell Police Chief Randy Adams an award in 2008. Did he do so again by not prosecuting him?​Will the bell toll for Randy Adams? A group of incensed SoCal cops are sure hoping so. Our sister publication, LA Weekly is repor ... More >>

Kamala Harris Kept Felon's Donation While Insisting Opponent Return Tainted Funds

Don't worry Kamala. Tyra still loves you. ​While attorney general candidate Kamala Harris spent the past three weeks denouncing her opponent Steve Cooley for accepting tainted campaign donations, it turns out her campaign kitty contained $1,250 from ex-Democratic moneyman Norman Hsu -- now serving ... More >>

Jonathan Kauffman Snags Silver at AAN Awards

​Congratulations to SF Weekly food critic and SFoodie blogger Jonathan Kauffman for bagging silver at the 2010 AltWeekly Awards in the category of Food Writing (circulation over 50,000). Kauffman won for work he did last year, when he was staff writer for our sister paper in Seattle. LA Weekly ... More >>

With Locanda de Eva, Former SF Weekly Critic Robert Lauriston Switches Sides

Locanda de Eva​I find myself in an odd position: Interviewing one of my former restaurant-critic colleagues about the restaurant he's opening. Robert Lauriston, prominent Chowhound and eater-about-town, has written restaurant reviews for both the East Bay Express and SF Weekly, as well as SFoodie ... More >>

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Coachella in Photos: Jay-Z, She & Him, Perry Farrell, Boots Riley, More

We had our own little Coachella last week in SF, with shows by MGMT, Beach House, Faith No More, Charlotte Gainsbourg, the Dead Weather, Passion Pit, Spoon, and Atoms For Peace, among other Bay Area gigs. But photographer Christopher Victoria went to the actual Coachella down south and sent us the f ... More >>

Exit Through the Gift Shop

"Exit Through the Gift Shop" brings you Banksy, kind of

Mike Patton's Mondo Cane Disc Says Ciao to Italian Oldies

Along with corralling his Faith No More bandmates into appearances at Coachella and The Warfield, musical chameleon and Bay Area legend Mike Patton has been brushing up on his Italian. The adventurous Patton's upcoming album Mondo Cane indulges his love for '50s and '60s Italian oldies, and f ... More >>

The Driskill Hotel Yell: "Get Off My Lawn!!!"

Shannon CottrellMaya Baratz and Alexia Tsotsis at The Driskill​There comes a time during every party hopping night when you want to stop hopping, but keep your juices flowing along with the champagne and wine. The unofficial designated venue for this practice last night was Austin's historic hotel ... More >>

Republican Meg Whitman's secret past as a porn-peddling CEO at eBay

The Outsider

George Gascon is S.F.'s first police chief in 30 years who wasn't homegrown — and he's promising big changes. Criminals and lazy cops, you have been warned.

Leave Us Alone, Jonathan Gold, to Huddle Over Our Hefty Burritos

Comforting as a SnuggieIn a blog post at the Web site of our alt-weekly sis LA Weekly, food critic Jonathan Gold does the equivalent of grinding out a cigarette in the Bay Area's beloved burrito: "Bay Area residents tend to have peculiar ideas about burritos, which they regard as monstrous things wr ... More >>

The Lowbrow Art Sale: Travis Louie, Lori Earley & Ryan Heshka

Warner Bros. vet launches music site for baby boomers

"Gentrification Bad," Says Myopic Play Taking Over at Berkeley Rep

Hip-hop theater artist Danny Hoch plays many characters who all deliver the same message: Gentrification is bad

Oxbow's Eugene Robinson chokes rowdy concertgoers

So, how will he behave on his new book tour?

The Crowd You're in With More Cliché Than Cathartic

Letters to the Editor

Rest in Peace

Beloved counterculture rag Arthur stagnates somewhere between dead and indefinite hiatus

Keira Get Your Gun

Domino chronicles the life of a model turned bounty hunter

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Angels in Berlin

Why Tony Kushner is no George Bernard Shaw

House of Tudor

Auditory cataclysms, TV theme-song hell, and a Grimm opera

Yuet Lee

The Late Shift

House of Tudor

The House of Tudor

Slap Shots

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