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Bradley Manning Pride Parade Screw-Up Leads to Local Protest Today

A day after SF Weekly reported on the strangeness of SF Pride's choices for grand marshal for this year's pride parade, the committee did something even more strange. On Friday, board president Lisa L. Williams released a statement withdrawing the committee's nomination of Army Private First Class ... More >>

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Shanghai Tries to Break a Restaurant Curse

Shanghai opened on August 22 on Market and Dolores, and although the large space is in what many might consider to be a prime location, others have deemed it something of a cursed location. The building has been home to three restaurants in the past two years: Scenester Cal-Ital spot Mecca (2006-20 ... More >>

Organized Labor Flexes Muscle for Medical Marijuana Dispensary

Support from UFCW Helps Mission Organics Win PermitSan Francisco's reputation as a union town was hard-won on the docks and picket lines of the 1930s. Less violence accompanied the city being known as a haven for pot-smoking freaks, but it took the carnage of the AIDS epidemic for San Francisco to b ... More >>

King of the Nerds Is Looking for Bay Area Geeks

​When television producers say they're looking for the biggest nerds out there for a new reality show, it's hard to tell whether it's one of those laughing-with-you or laughing-at-you situations.But it sounds like the people behind King of the Nerds mean no disrespect by the nerds they hope w ... More >>

City Beer Store Celebrates Five Boozy Years

Jason HenryWanderer, Rouge Baril Baltique, and Open Container, all brewed to mark City Beer Store's fifth anniversary.​With the proliferation of local beer bars, gastropubs, and grassroots brewing operations, it's easy to forget how much our beery landscape has changed in five short years. The ... More >>

Pudong Closes

Genevieve Y./YelpPudong offered both Chinese and French dishes, like this tartare.​After only three months, Pudong ― the sleek Shanghainese restaurant in the old Mecca space at 2029 Market ― has shuttered. When it opened in mid-December, Pudong was noted as a Chinese brasserie that stayed ... More >>

Scottish Cops 'More Gay-Friendly' Than S.F Police

Real cops wear skirts​It turns out San Francisco isn't the gayest city after all. New research shows that Scottish cops are friendlier toward its gay community and it's not just because they are willing to wear kilts. Lisa Buchanan, an adviser on the Northern Constabulary, the police force for Nor ... More >>

Google Art Project Snubs Hometown SF Museums

Nothing to see here​Google Art Project, the company's new technology feature that allows you to see street views of museums, is offering 3D tours of galleries in Amsterdam, New York, and 15 other sites -- but not in San Francisco. That's right, Google is snubbing museums in its own backyard, inclu ... More >>

San Francisco Is Still Smoking

​County-by-county smoking data released Monday by the state Department of Public Health reveal ashtray-makers are still doing pretty good business here in San Francisco. According to the California Adult Smoking Prevalence 2008 survey, 13.5 percent of San Franciscans are lighting up. To put that n ... More >>

An Alamo Square Produce Stand?

Joe EskenaziToo pretty to eat, apparently​Alamo Square is one of the most photographed places in the city, if not on God's green earth. But precious few photos of Alamo Square have a gorgeous produce stand in the background. Simply put, that's because Alamo Square doesn't have a produce stand. Get ... More >>

America's Cup: No 'Dramatic Swing' in Cost to City in New Report -- It'll Still Cost a Ton

Still sinking...​Last week, the city's budget analyst released an eye-catching report claiming that San Francisco would lose out on hundreds of millions of dollars should it see fit to host the America's Cup regatta on the terms currently before the city. The mayor's office dropped into a defensiv ... More >>

How airport officials let Hertz drive off with nearly $1 million

San Francisco Shadows Enchant Photographer

All photos | Ian WangShadowy man in a shadowy city​ San Francisco's amazing scenery makes it a Mecca for professional and amateur shutterbugs alike. City newcomer Ian Wang, however, prefers to eschew the beaten path and stick in the shadows. We asked Wang what gives, and got back a long, thoug ... More >>

S.F. Museum & Historical Society Talks Coffee, Seafood, Produce, and Place

Tamara PalmerLet's Be Frank's Larry Bain.​Next week, San Francisco Museum and Historical Society turns its venerable monocle towards food, exploring how a combination of "coffee, seafood, produce, and place" created the foundation for San Francisco culinary culture. Esteemed edible storyteller ... More >>

The Regulars

Bouncer visits bars in three very different S.F. neighborhoods and discovers people everywhere all want the same thing: companionship. Oh, and booze.

Notes On a Funk Revolution

EKAphotographyStanding in the Shadows of Funk: Bnai RebelfrontHaving just spent the past three nights at Yoshi's SF for the "We Got the Funk" series--featuring emerging neo-funksters Punk Funk Mob, Bnai Rebelfront, and Greg Scott--I've come to some realizations. Funk is forever. While classic funk ... More >>

Street Economics: Lopsided Moving Rates, Discarded Furnishings Portend San Francisco Jobs Exodus

Adventures in moving indeedBusiness boosters may talk about "green shoots" suggesting an economic recovery, but SF Weekly has been monitoring real-world indicators implying things are still bleak in San Francisco. Two informal economic indicators suggest the city is suffering a jobs exodus. First, c ... More >>

All Quiet On the Castro Front: Prop. 8 Ruling Received With a Shrug

At 10:01 a.m., a Castro barkeep sighed, glanced at his wedding ring, and switched off the television. "Guess I'm still married," he muttered. Paraphrasing T.S. Eliot, the state Supreme Court's affirmation of Proposition 8 was received here not with a bang but a whimper -- save for the solitary cell ... More >>

Randy Lewis Named Lark Creek Chef

kellycorryn, via FlickrLewis is replacing Erica Holland-TollThe Tavern at Lark Creek has a new chef. Randy Lewis will step into the void created by Erica Holland-Toll's last-minute departure, first reported here earlier today. Lewis made a name for himself at Restaurant Indigo in Louisiana. After mo ... More >>

San Francisco Slips Beneath the Waves -- But This Is a Good Thing

U.S. NavyThe U.S.S. San Francisco rides againJust as cranks who warn us we're playing with our lives for living in the natural disaster Mecca that is California predicted, San Francisco yesterday sank beneath the waves of the Pacific and headed for the bottom of the ocean. But that's okay. San Franc ... More >>

Dolla Bill Ya'll: You Can Buy Some Really Strange Stuff in the Mission for a Buck

High School Musical 3 came out in October of last year and its marketing flotsam and jetsam has since drifted into a dollar store near you. Want a Zac Efron night-light? A HSM3 sticker set, pencil case, box of tissues? The discount stores strung between 26th and 16th Streets on Mission have a pletho ... More >>

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