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Loma Prieta

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2013

    Marlena's, San Francisco's Coolest Drag Bar, Sold

    We panicked when we read the news that Marlena's, the city's most delightfully tacky bar, was closing down. However, we're now relieved after talking to Marlena over at the bar, who tells us that the watering hole (we love double entrendres!) has been sold, and, yes, it will close in March, but on ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 11, 2012

    Ponder the Unthinkable

    We panicked when we read the news that Marlena's, the city's most delightfully tacky bar, was closing down. However, we're now relieved after talking to Marlena over at the bar, who tells us that the watering hole (we love double entrendres!) has been sold, and, yes, it will close in March, but on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Disaster Drills Promise Pre-Halloween Blood and Gore

    No pulse! No pulse!​Saturday morning, you will find screaming victims writhing on the ground throughout city parks. Throngs of trained rescue workers will be on hand to carry them off on stretchers. Be not alarmed, dear San Franciscans. This is not a zombie flash mob, and no, you didn't miss Hallo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Elizabeth Falkner's Iron Chef Run and Ice Cream Making, and a Moving Farm

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Chef Elizabeth Falkner (Citizen Cake and Orson) will flambé, sauté, and chop her way through the Food Network's Next Iron Chef: Super Chef. Eater SF reports the battle starts Oct. 30. And while that's g ... More >>

  • News

    September 22, 2010

    Who cares about gas lines? Worry about killer cellphone radiation

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Chef Elizabeth Falkner (Citizen Cake and Orson) will flambé, sauté, and chop her way through the Food Network's Next Iron Chef: Super Chef. Eater SF reports the battle starts Oct. 30. And while that's g ... More >>

  • Music

    May 12, 2010

    Bassnectar's big beat network

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Chef Elizabeth Falkner (Citizen Cake and Orson) will flambé, sauté, and chop her way through the Food Network's Next Iron Chef: Super Chef. Eater SF reports the battle starts Oct. 30. And while that's g ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 17, 2010

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • News

    November 25, 2009

    Screwed

    A lawsuit against the city highlights an affordable-housing program's decades of mismanagement — and the middle-class homeowners who lost out as a result.

  • Calendar

    November 18, 2009

    Rees' Pieces

    A lawsuit against the city highlights an affordable-housing program's decades of mismanagement — and the middle-class homeowners who lost out as a result.

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    Shakedown 20: Day of the Flying Goldfish

    Living on the edge -- of the San Andreas Fault​The afternoon of Oct. 17, 1989, is marked for me by one of those brief and intense visual recollections that tend to define childhood memories: A pair of goldfish hovering in the air above their bowl.I was nine years old when the Quake of '89 hit. I g ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 2, 2009

    Rebecca Solnit argues that disasters bring out the best in humanity in A Paradise Built in Hell

    Living on the edge -- of the San Andreas Fault​The afternoon of Oct. 17, 1989, is marked for me by one of those brief and intense visual recollections that tend to define childhood memories: A pair of goldfish hovering in the air above their bowl.I was nine years old when the Quake of '89 hit. I g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    SF Weekly Bugs Library To House Giants-Related Exhibit. Good News! It Was Already On Its Way.

    Jon Leonoudakis prior to 'The Earthquake Game' in 1989​Earlier this month, SF Weekly noticed a sports-centric exhibit commemorating the Giants-Dodgers rivalry being shown in enemy territory at the Burbank Public Library. We vowed to hit up the San Francisco Public and wheedle them into hosting thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    Pending Bay Bridge Closure Will Be Longest Not Caused By Act of God

    The four days and change the Bay Bridge will be closed from 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3 to 5 a.m. on Tuesday Sept. 8 will be the longest period the span was shut down -- intentionally. Longtime Bay Area residents may well recall the one month and one day marathon rebuilding session between Oct. 17 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Guardian Angels Want a Piece of the Action in the Tenderloin

    Drugs? Violence? Crime? We're there. Following an announcement last week that the Tenderloin plans to step up a neighborhood program of citizen patrols, the Guardian Angels -- a national outfit that sends its members into the streets to deter crime -- is now trying to establish a beachhead in the ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2007

    Ding-Dong! Who Is It? EARTHQUAKE! ... Could Alarm's Ring Reveal Quakes?

    Drugs? Violence? Crime? We're there. Following an announcement last week that the Tenderloin plans to step up a neighborhood program of citizen patrols, the Guardian Angels -- a national outfit that sends its members into the streets to deter crime -- is now trying to establish a beachhead in the ne ... More >>

  • News

    May 2, 2007

    Where There's Smoke

    Yet more allegations of racism and mismanagement reveal smoldering tensions within the Fire Department

  • News

    April 18, 2007

    A Step Forward

    Whether it's Agnos or Gonzalez, one of them needs to jump into the race

  • News

    May 24, 2006

    Toxic Acres

    The fill below Treasure Island is filled with dangerous toxins left by the Navy

  • News

    April 26, 2006

    Ready to Rumble

    It's the 100-year anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. Are you a fan of all the hoopla? Take our quiz and see.

  • Culture

    September 28, 2005

    Art in the Balance

    A sneak peek at the new de Young reveals a rethinking of museum ideas

  • News

    June 29, 2005

    The Streets of San Francisco:

    A History

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Five Best Pre-Quake Structures

    A History

  • Culture

    January 26, 2005

    City Lights

    Capturing the Embarcadero at night and the 22 Fillmore all day long

  • News

    January 26, 2005

    A Bridge Too Far

    Is it your fault that the seismic retrofit of the Bay Bridge will be years late, billions over budget, and uglier than ever? Maybe.

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Is it your fault that the seismic retrofit of the Bay Bridge will be years late, billions over budget, and uglier than ever? Maybe.

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Bed & Breakfast

    Chateau Tivoli

  • News

    March 17, 2004

    A Bridge Too Weak?

    A UC Berkeley professor believes the unique new Bay Bridge design is fatally flawed

  • News

    January 21, 2004

    Surprise!

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

  • Dining

    December 31, 2003

    Urban Explorer

    Some of the best things our critic consumed in a year of eating around a constantly evolving town

  • News

    December 26, 2001

    Organ Failure

    An ambitious plan to relocate a historic pipe organ to the Embarcadero threatens nothing but sour notes

  • Film

    November 21, 2001

    Reel World

    Why a drop in tourism could mean unexpected trouble for local arts groups

  • News

    August 1, 2001

    Rubble With a Mortgage

    What could be worse than a devasting earthquake in the Bay Area? The day after, when we all realize that no one is covered by insurance.

  • News

    March 21, 2001

    Sweat, Steel, and Stealth

    Retrofitting the Bay Bridge will take five years, hundreds of workers, a million bolts, and 19 million pounds of iron. The hardest part? Making sure no one notices.

  • News

    July 12, 2000

    Postscript

    Mint Conditions

  • News

    December 8, 1999

    Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! (Yawn.)

    Lame city regulation leaves burned-out residents of nine SRO hotels completely SOL

  • Music

    August 18, 1999

    Riff Raff

    Lame city regulation leaves burned-out residents of nine SRO hotels completely SOL

  • Calendar

    September 23, 1998

    Ticket to Ride

    Lame city regulation leaves burned-out residents of nine SRO hotels completely SOL

  • Calendar

    July 8, 1998

    Night + Day

    Lame city regulation leaves burned-out residents of nine SRO hotels completely SOL

  • News

    December 10, 1997

    Splendor in the Court

    How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

  • Calendar

    October 8, 1997

    Night+Day

    How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

  • Calendar

    August 27, 1997

    Night+Day

    How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

  • News

    November 6, 1996

    Seismic Punt

    UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care

  • Dining

    July 3, 1996

    Dish

    UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care

  • News

    May 29, 1996

    Final Deadline

    David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

  • Calendar

    May 22, 1996

    Night+Day

    David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

  • Calendar

    January 10, 1996

    Night+Day

    David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

  • News

    December 13, 1995

    Letters

    David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

  • News

    November 29, 1995

    Clockers

    Residents of a downtown loft tell you where to get off

  • News

    August 30, 1995

    The Jolt Patrol

    QuakeProof profits from the coming apocalypse

  • News

    July 26, 1995

    Carey Nation

    As ACT returns to its home at the restored Geary, Artistic Director Carey Perloff stages a coup de theatre for her fourth season

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