Enjoy the memories. This is done. Whether San Francisco can host a party is a debatable proposition. But when it comes kicking over the soundsystem, flicking on the lights, tossing the lovebirds off the couch, and shutting down the festivities, nobody competes with us. We are so very good at killing a good time. So the news that this year's Bay to Breakers won't be the piss-and-beer-soaked Mardi Gras in running shoes that has come to embody the yearly race was no surprise -- nor was the chorus o
Rocket Fuel, Straight Up: Kool Keith We've always thought of indie rock as being perfectly matched with cheap beer, rotgut whisky, and hangover-inducing vodka. And certainly, you'll find a lot of two-buck Chuck in the places where musicians live. But now, you can have a nice merlot or cabernet alongside your feedback, distortion, and shoegazing, thanks to a recently-announced venture between Noise Pop and Karl Wente, the fifth-generation winemaker behind Livermore's Wente Vineyards. Starting wit
A complaint arrivesAs journalists, we hate to admit it, but San Francisco isn't exactly a hotbed of political-corruption scandals. (Local political observers say there are a few reasons for this silver lining, which is amply clouded by the city's general dysfunction and ideology-driven policy blunders.) Our most recent poster boy of malfeasant politicians, former supervisor Ed Jew, was busted for the relatively venal sin of lying about where he lived on campaign forms (and shaking down those tap
The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?
Want a schooling in traditional Japanese cooking with a Slow Food approach? Oakland bento-maker Peko-Peko is slated to rock Mission Street Food on Saturday, June 20, with a pristine menu set to include braised pork belly with sake, kombu-cured halibut, and the last of the season's fresh bamboo shoots from Livermore. According to Peko-Peko owner Sylvan Mishima Brackett, none of the eight dishes will cost more than $12, and a portion of the take will benefit Mercy Corps. Learn more in the next day
Possibly heading to Nevada is one more thing to be grouchy aboutSan Francisco's current waste management service, Recology -- formerly known as NorCal -- wants to ship the 20,000 tons of garbage we produce per week (not including weekends) on a freight train to a proposed landfill near Winnemucca, Nevada. Apparently San Fran hasn't quite reached that zero-waste goal yet -- and until we do, we will face the problem of where to stash our trash so that we don't have to be anywhere near it. The c
Oaktown is the site of tomorrow's appropriately named Oaktoberfest in the Dimond District (Ground Zero: MacArthur and Fruitvale), 11 a.m.-6 p.m. It's continuing a longstanding tradition: In the early 1900s, the area was full of beer gardens and German-owned vacation spots for S.F. families.
Expect fresh brews from Lagunitas, Trumer Pils, Linden Street Brewery, Santa Cruz Ale Works, Thirsty Bear, and others, in a giant covered beer hall. Sip away in the biergarten while the kids enjoy th
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