Modesto

Cater The Best Super Bowl Party Ever

Even the most football-adverse people we known plan to cheer on the 49ers this Sunday for the Super Bowl, and if you don't want to go out to root for the home team, plenty of local restaurants are getting in on the catering game. Whether you're throwing your own party or want to show up at someone e ... More >>

California: Privately Rich in Big Cities, Publicly Broke

Welcome to the hub of American prosperity. Yesterday, the Census Bureau released the results from the 2011 American Community Survey, and in the competition for Wealthiest City in America, the Bay Area snagged gold and silver. San Jose took the top spot, with a median income of $76,593 and San Fra ... More >>

R.I.P. Matthew Africa, Beloved Oakland Hip-Hop DJ

We're just getting word via Facebook and other sources that beloved local hip-hop DJ Matthew Africa passed away this Monday in a car accident. He was 40. His sister, Julia Africa, posted the following on Facebook: My brother, Matthew Africa, was killed in a car accident on Monday afternoon. He and ... More >>

Christopher Bryan Ablett Off to Prison for Killing Mark Guardado, President of S.F. Hells Angels

Christopher Bryan Ablett, a member of the Modesto Mongol motorcycle gang, was hoping to elevate his position within the biker gang when he murdered San Francisco's president of the Hells Angels. But now, the aspiring Mongol will have to trade in his patches for prison scrubs. Earlier this year, Able ... More >>

James Hooker, Modesto Teacher, Wins Back Former Student, Jordan Powers

Perhaps James Hooker, the 41-year-old teacher/lover/inmate who ditched his wife and kids for a student, took our advice on how to lure 18-year-old Jordan Powers back into his arms.After the Modesto high school teacher was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting another student 14 years ago, Pow ... More >>

James Hooker, Modesto Teacher Who Moved in with Student, Arrested for Alleged Sexual Assault

James Hooker, the 41-year-old Modesto high school teacher who ditched his wife and kids for one of his students, was arrested today -- but not for his questionable relationship with 18-year-old Jordan Powers. While police had been investigating whether that relationship was legal, they came across a ... More >>

James Hooker Update: Assemblywoman Tries to Legislate Teacher's Love for Student

​Despite efforts to derail James Hooker and his questionable relationship with his student, the Modesto teacher, who ditched his wife and kids for 18-year-old Jordan Powers, has managed to keep his young girlfriend and also his pension. Well, at least he will have money to take care of her.As we p ... More >>

James Hooker, Modesto Teacher Who Ditched Wife and Kids for Student, Should Lose His Pension, Lawmaker Says

​A few weeks ago we told readers the Jerry Springer-like story about James Hooker, the 41-year-old Modesto high school teacher who dumped his wife and kids to move in with one of his students. Of course, the not-so-young love has drawn ire from readers, and now lawmakers, too.Assemblywoman Kr ... More >>

James Hooker, Modesto Teacher, Leaves Wife and Kids, Moves in with Student

​Some might say this is yet one more example of the education system failing us.A 41-year-old Modesto teacher has reportedly dumped his wife and kids for one of his former students at Enochs High School. According to the Modesto Bee, James Hooker (could this get any worse?) quit his job at Enochs ... More >>

Holiday Glow

The Six Best Restaurants to Bring Tourists to (Besides the Ferry Building or the Wharf)

Imelda/FlickrThe Ferry Building is the ideal place to bring tourists to, but it's not the only one.​ So your Aunt May is in town from San Diego or Modesto or Charleston and you've promised her two days of guided sightseeing, just as long as you don't have to accompany her to Pier 39. (Don't worry ... More >>

Watch Andre Nickatina's Slick New Video for "Money Shark"

​"Money Shark," the new video from San Francisco-bred rapper Andre Nickatina, features a few prominent elements: the Las Vegas skyline, a pliable female backside, and a giant crab meant to represent his favorite S.F. seafood spot, Crustacean. The cut, from director Ben Griffin (who's also prod ... More >>

Republicans Propose New State: Southern California

It's like Arizona and San Francisco in one​One Southern California pol is sick and tired of the Democrats up in Sacramento -- tired of the "pillaging" of local governments and worse, the left-wing policies that dominate the blue state. That's why he's dusted off that tired proposal to let Southern ... More >>

Slow Money Entrepreneur Showcase Brings Money Down to the Soil

beyondtheplate.netBrentwood's Frog Hollow Farm.​Most people are familiar with Slow Food, the organization founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986 to encourage a return to traditional foodways and reconnect with the sources where our food comes from. So what if we took the same mentality and applied i ... More >>

International Peloton Skips S.F. for First Time in Decade

No Shaven-legged, 2-percent-body-fat Europeans allowed!​For the first time in 10 years, the international professional bicycle-racing circuit will bypass San Francisco, while today's stage three of America's biggest cycling event, the Tour of California, is skipping the city with a jaunt from Aubu ... More >>

How to fund your project with online tools in 2011

Sprint 4G's San Francisco Future To Be Decided By Board of Supervisors

Not here you don't...​San Francisco's route to really fast handheld Internet access has slowed to a crawl as activists in Bernal Heights have compelled a Board of Supervisors hearing over their concern that broadband antennae might shake loose in the event of an earthquake and accidentally zap res ... More >>

Sarah Palin Contract Released: Read it Here

Lo, the contract is here...​Following this week's ruling that CSU Stanislaus broke the law by fighting to obscure its contract with Sarah Palin, the school has finally disclosed the details behind the former vice presidential candidate's controversial June appearance. Here's the number you were al ... More >>

Mi Grullense Owner Talks Oakland Taco Truck History

Edgar G./Yelp​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. At his California Taco Trucks blog, Cyrus Farivar queries the son of the guy who first drove the Mi Grullense taco trucks into the Goodwill parking lot in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood. Edgar Galindo maps the history of the Oakland truck, f ... More >>

In This Week's Issue: Noise Pop Picks, D-Lo's 'No Hoe,' & Vitalic Paranoia

D-Lo (left) and DJ Fresh​In case you've yet to pick up this week's issue of SF Weekly, a couple music highlights for you here:Emily Savage looks at what makes Noise Pop different from every other local music fest/good week in venue booking. The secret, it seems, is in limited-edition events, wheth ... More >>

Seen in Modesto: Birther Idiocy Creeps Closer to Bay Area

But we've still got plenty here​Notwithstanding a barrage of intemperate comments on our recent post discussing the comparative claims to insanity of the "birther" and "truther" movements, we here at The Snitch had thought that adherents of these conspiracy theories were comfortably removed from t ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Jason Lytle

Yours Truly, the Commuter (ANTI-)

Monsters vs. Aliens

In this latest round of effects vs. storytelling, effects win. Big.

The Lowbrow Art Sale: Cam De Leon, Basil Gogos & Ken Keirns

Mark Farina

House of Om (Om Records)

Grandaddy

Just Like the Fambly Cat

Play Ball

Glove Up in S.F.

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 22, 2004

Apathy to the Rescue

How to make the undecideds break for Kerry? Threaten to turn off Survivor and Friends reruns.

Great Scott!

Could you unknowingly be a Scott Peterson apologist? Let us help you find out.

Fiver

Here It Comes (Devil in the Woods)

Letters to the Editor

Letters from December 20, 2000

Letters to the Editor

Tire Iron vs. Baseball Bat; Trashing SUVs Is Rude? Well Then, We'll Stop Doing It.; Or We Could Just Deport Them to Fresno; Modesto, My Modesto; Say, People Are Still Saying "Meme"?

The Modesto Invasion

The San Francisco rock scene is alive and well -- 90 miles from San Francisco

Night Crawler

Tales From the Dark Side

Modesto Calling: A Critical Guide to Noise Pop

Dial Saddam for Murder

Sargon Dadesho survived an Iraqi assassination plot. Now he's out for blood money.

Night Crawler

Slap Shots

Dog Bite

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

Dish