Livermore

Traffic Snarls East Bay After Pedestrian Killed on Highway

As if Monday wasn't bad enough.Traffic is reportedly backed up along I-580 all the way to Livermore after a pedestrian was killed earlier this morning.

Bay Area Suburb Livermore Stakes Its Claim to Indie Cool With the Front Porch Music Fest

Somewhere between the hipster meccas of Brooklyn and S.F./Oakland lies Livermore, a quiet town of roughly 80,000 adjacent to the mild East Bay suburbs of Dublin and Pleasanton. While home to a number of nice wineries, including the venerable Wente, and even an In-N-Out burger, Livermore hasn't quite ... More >>

Really Mean Man Seen Throwing Chihuahua Out Motel Window

A Livermore man is sitting behind bars today after he was spotted this morning hurling a chihuahua from a motel balcony and then pointing a gun at a guest who confronted him about the animal cruelty. A guest at Motel 6 on Lassen Road saw 39-year-old Michael Hamby toss the dog from a second-floor ba ... More >>

Hodo Soy Beanery Ships Products to Costco Today

​Today, Hodo Soy Beanery sent the first shipment of their stellar tofu to Bay Area Costcos. We wonder, is this the first company that's in the Ferry Building that will also be at Costco? Will we see a continued trend of local gourmet foods available by the discount dozens? What other wonders does ... More >>

Safeway May Pour Wine, A Haunted Bar, and the Second Nopalito

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Wine tasting at Safeway? Maybe. Haighteration reports there is an "Instructional Tasting" liquor license application pending for the Duboce Triangle Safeway (2020 Market at Dolores). While no one at this ... More >>

Local Idiot to Burn the Koran

He'll need more than hose to put out this fire. ​While a Michigan jury debates whether the Koran-burning pastor should be able to repeat his act outside a mosque today, the leader of the Bay Area National Anarchists says he's still planning on burning a Koran -- he's just not saying when or where. ... More >>

Nationalist Anarchists to Burn at Least One Koran

About to create a furor again. ​The leader of the Bay Area Nationalist Anarchists, the white nationalist group that got beat down by black bloc anarchists at an immigrant rights march last year, will join the right-wing furor over Sharia law by burning a Koran on Friday at a to-be-disclosed locati ... More >>

Christine Shreeve Hubbs, 'Hummer Mom,' Pleads No Contest to Sex With Boys

Hummer mom faces jail time​Readers might remember the truly disturbing case of Christine Shreeve Hubbs, the attractive Mormon mother from Livermore who was arrested in August for allegedly having sex with young teenage boys. Now in a plea deal, Hubbs will likely go to prison for five years.On Thur ... More >>

Tasting Petite Sirah, California's Little Big Wine

Alastair BlandTasting panelists Noah P. and Eleni K. strike a pose with the Petite empties.​It was born in 1880, and four years later came to California. But for another 80, almost nobody knew it. Petite Sirah is one of California's historical vines and among the earliest varieties introduced ... More >>

Brady Campaign's New Push to Ban Open Carry in California Restaurants

formatted_dad/FlickrThe CA Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is planning a protest Jan. 20 in Manhattan Beach.​The Jan. 8 shooting massacre at a Tucson mall is giving new impetus to a drive to make California eateries gun-free zones. State chapters of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Vio ... More >>

High-tech Thieves Jury Rigged Gas Pumps to Steal Customers' Identities

​A pair of MacGyver-esque identity thieves has pleaded guilty to implanting devices in gas pumps that stole customers' checking-account information, a scheme that state officials say brought in $90,000.The California Attorney General's office announced today that the men -- David Karapetyan and Zh ... More >>

First Transgender Judge Victoria Kolakowski's Long Road

Here comes the judge...​Winners of Alameda County Superior Court Judgeships usually don't get calls from national media. But Victoria Kolakowski -- "spelled just like it sounds" -- isn't just any judge. She's almost certainly the first transgender judge in American history, and even more almost ce ... More >>

2009 Big House Red, the Ultimate Kitchen Sink Blend

rick/FlickrPerfect for kicking back with the cats. ​Finding under-$10 reds that don't suck can be an abject journey through liquor store fodder, Safeway drivel, and undrinkable vintage wines. Hell, some of the wines I've tried in the single-digit dollar category aren't even fit to cook with, b ... More >>

Sara Cole, Suburban Mother of Four, Arrested for Sex With Minor

Sara Cole and her children. The mother of four is accused of having sex with a minor.​A suburban mother of four towheaded boys has been arrested on charges of unlawful sex with a minor. Sara Cole, 47, of Los Gatos, was yesterday booked into Santa Clara County jail on three counts after a two-month ... More >>

Manure Truck Dumps 20 Tons of You-Know-What on I-580

Peeee-eeeew...​What do you call 20 tons of manure dumped in Livermore? An improvement. Sorry, it's a variation of a joke one year older than God's parents. But, on the serious side, traffic along the I-580, well, stinks after a big rig flipped over and dumped its load of organic fertilizer and bar ... More >>

The Gay Marriage Waiting Game - The Week in Gay

Joe EskenaziLuis Juarbe, facing camera, and Mike Reardon will just have to wait a little longer...​This week was full of more of damn waiting. Just like last week. Last week we waited for Judge Vaughn Walker to decide that Prop. 8 was a piece of anti-American trash. This week we had to wait to fin ... More >>

Top 10 Responses to San Francisco Residents Who Bitch About Cold Summer Weather

​San Franciscans complain about everything. War in the Middle East, high rent, the job market, Muni (which really does suck) -- there's no subject too grandiose or pedestrian for us to bitch about over a too-expensive cup of Blue Bottle coffee. Of late, our critics' sensibilities have turned to an ... More >>

Christine Shreeve Hubbs, 'Hummer Mom,' Accused of Sex with Boys

Christine Shreeve Hubbs is accused of allowing boys to fire pellet guns out her car window -- among other crimes​Sex, Hummers, pellet guns -- just another day in the suburbs. In an truly jaw-dropping case, Christine Shreeve Hubbs, an attractive, 42-year-old Mormon mother of three and wife of a de ... More >>

Peko-Peko Doing Lunch with Local Bamboo Shoots Tomorrow

weretable/FlickrPeko-Peko's Sylvan Mishima Brackett harvested the shoots in Livermore.​Peko-Peko is doing another totally cool Japanese food event this weekend. Tomorrow at Zinc Details on Fillmore ― at a party to promo the biodegradable paper dishes from Japanese company Wasara ― Peko-Pek ... More >>

Oom-Pah-Pah in Oakland Tomorrow at Oaktoberfest

​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. ... More >>

S.F. Might Start Outsourcing Its Trash to Cheaper States

Possibly heading to Nevada is one more thing to be grouchy about​San 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 ... More >>

In environmental terms, Cash for Clunkers is a jalopy

Bento Maker's Traditional Japanese Menu Offered at Saturday's Mission Street Food

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 shoot ... More >>

East Bay Laborer Alleges Union Corruption in Federal Lawsuit

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 blunde ... More >>

Noise Pop Teams With Wente Vineyards

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 along ... More >>

San Francisco Is the City That Knows How ... To Bust Up Drunken Revelry

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 ... More >>

2008 High School Battle of the Bands Semi-Finalists Announced

Let the Sun Shine, You Hypocrites

Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

Stargazers Rejoice: Bay Area Total Lunar Eclipse Wednesday

Harvard Professor: Guardian’s Theory “Irrational”

Proudly Wasting Bandwidth in SF Weekly Letters

God Rides BART, Gets His PSP Stolen

Art Boom In The Boonies

Surprise!

If you think S.F. is ready for a terrorist attack � even two years-plus after 9/11 � think again

A-A-America!

Two frankly offensive one-acts about lynching and American racism

Absolutely Fabulous

Transformed by a romanticized airport novel, our heroine constructs a strangely compelling life

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Sports/Outdoors/Races

Apocalypse Then

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Trojan Horse

In a city that loves to hate chain stores, plans for a new Pottery Barn in the Castro are scarcely raising a peep. The neighborhood may regret it.

Cothran

The New Nuclear Age

Livermore protest is mere theater, but lab's research raises real questions

The Lady in Question

Sara Felder's screwball comedy mixes conventions and convictions, with mixed results

Slap Shots

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

Whirly Birds

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?