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Not Lying with the Fishes: TwoXSea's Fresh-Caught Seafood Takes on S.F.

Analysis: Damning Text Messages Emerge in Ross Mirkarimi Spouse Abuse Case

​One of the major missing pieces in the domestic-violence case against newly elected Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi emerged during his arraignment on three misdemeanor counts yesterday: Text messages and e-mails, allegedly sent by his wife, that prosecutors say demonstrate her concerns that Mirkarimi was ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Update: Prosecutors Read Alleged Text Messages from Wife, Judge Issues Stay Away Order

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi appears in court ... for his own hearing​Update: (4:41 p.m.): Judge Susan Breall issues stay away order, barring Sheriff from seeing his family. Meanwhile, prosecutors read Eliana Lopez's text messages in court. Read updated story below.Original story: Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi ... More >>

Mission Street Food to Bring Technique-Driven Comfort Food to a Bowling Alley

Mission Bowling ClubA 'before' shot of Mission Bowling Club, due to open in February 2012.​In the Mission District, the dream of a brand new sporting center with satisfying, original food grows. After navigating a fiery pit of Planning Department fees that could have destroyed the project before i ... More >>

"Easy Chinese: San Francisco" Host Loves Mission Pie

The Cooking ChannelChing-He Huang​On Saturday, the Cooking Channel launches "Easy Chinese: San Francisco," a full season of 14 30-minute episodes showing Taiwanese-born Ching-He Huang cooking her recipes in our town. I spoke with Ching on the phone earlier this week from her home in London ab ... More >>

Majority of San Francisco's Illegal Immigrants Live in the Mission District

Missionites: up to 15 percent of your neighbors are undocumented.​San Francisco's highest concentration of illegal immigrants lives in the city's Mission District -- a zip code of day laborers, black-market hot dog vendors, and fake document peddlers.The Public Policy Institute of California relea ... More >>

What Fish You Can Buy, and When, in San Francisco

Missionites: up to 15 percent of your neighbors are undocumented.​San Francisco's highest concentration of illegal immigrants lives in the city's Mission District -- a zip code of day laborers, black-market hot dog vendors, and fake document peddlers.The Public Policy Institute of California relea ... More >>

Go Fish: S.F.'s Coastal Foraging King Shows How to Fish (and Eat) Locally

Missionites: up to 15 percent of your neighbors are undocumented.​San Francisco's highest concentration of illegal immigrants lives in the city's Mission District -- a zip code of day laborers, black-market hot dog vendors, and fake document peddlers.The Public Policy Institute of California relea ... More >>

Erosion at Ocean Beach could send sewage into the sea

Missionites: up to 15 percent of your neighbors are undocumented.​San Francisco's highest concentration of illegal immigrants lives in the city's Mission District -- a zip code of day laborers, black-market hot dog vendors, and fake document peddlers.The Public Policy Institute of California relea ... More >>

Christmas Forecast: Wind, Rain -- Thunder?

Merry Christmas, indeed...​As San Francisco empties out and its residents head "home" to places that possibly feature traditional Christmas weather, the hangers-on will cope with a different sort of holiday climate. The weather prediction for Dec. 25: breezy, rainy, cold -- but not cold enough to ... More >>

Kamala Harris Declares Victory -- In Los Angeles

Perhaps Kamala Harris made her 'major announcement' in L.A. because of the George Lopez factor...​As expected, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris declared victory in her race for Attorney General this morning in her "major announcement" this morning in Los Angeles. "I stand before you t ... More >>

Dozens of San Francisco City Employees Live in Southern California. Huh?

Abandoned in San Diego by a firefighter recalled to SF?​The Bay Citizen published a nifty online database over the weekend that shows the pay and partial mailing addresses of San Francisco city employees. The accompanying article parsed the data, and debunked the idea that city employees -- who ar ... More >>

Etymology of a Special: A16's Chanterelle Bruschetta with Cresta di Gallo

A16Liza Shaw.​A new SFoodie feature: Every week, we call a local chef to ask what he or she is putting on the menu that night, and what inspired its creation.Liza Shaw has been at A16 since 2004 and its executive chef since Nate Appleman's departure in 2009. All it took was a 15-second explanation ... More >>

What's With This Cold Weather? We Ask Some Scientists -- They Tell Us to Grow a Pair.

C'mon man. It's not that cold​Ask a weather scientist why it's so damn cold today and you'll get two answers, both of them equally valid. The first is a scientific rationale involving high-pressure systems and advection and whatnot. And the second is that San Franciscans are wussies. We told you t ... More >>

Last Night: New Folk Rock Supergroup The Emerald Triangle

The Emerald TriangleMonday, Nov. 2, 2009The IndependentBetter than: Watching Vetiver open for Chris Robinson's Wooden Family open for Jonathan Rice open for Ryan Adams open for Interpol.Paul Scott ​"We're aware that this is a very strange thing," Vetiver front man Andy Cabic announced from the sta ... More >>

Music Awards Program Guide

The Emerald TriangleMonday, Nov. 2, 2009The IndependentBetter than: Watching Vetiver open for Chris Robinson's Wooden Family open for Jonathan Rice open for Ryan Adams open for Interpol.Paul Scott ​"We're aware that this is a very strange thing," Vetiver front man Andy Cabic announced from the sta ... More >>

The Feinstein-Panetta Back Story

By Peter JamisonObama's tapping of former Monterey congressman Leon Panetta for CIA director was bound to raise hackles among pols and pundits. While Panetta has that rarest of political assets -- an unimpaired reputation for probity among his colleagues and former constituents -- he has little dire ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

By Peter JamisonObama's tapping of former Monterey congressman Leon Panetta for CIA director was bound to raise hackles among pols and pundits. While Panetta has that rarest of political assets -- an unimpaired reputation for probity among his colleagues and former constituents -- he has little dire ... More >>

One more time: Spraying “bad,” Nazis “worse” - We watch the “Light Brown Apple Moth” hearing so you don’t have to.

By Peter JamisonObama's tapping of former Monterey congressman Leon Panetta for CIA director was bound to raise hackles among pols and pundits. While Panetta has that rarest of political assets -- an unimpaired reputation for probity among his colleagues and former constituents -- he has little dire ... More >>

New Restaurants

By Peter JamisonObama's tapping of former Monterey congressman Leon Panetta for CIA director was bound to raise hackles among pols and pundits. While Panetta has that rarest of political assets -- an unimpaired reputation for probity among his colleagues and former constituents -- he has little dire ... More >>

New Restaurants

By Peter JamisonObama's tapping of former Monterey congressman Leon Panetta for CIA director was bound to raise hackles among pols and pundits. While Panetta has that rarest of political assets -- an unimpaired reputation for probity among his colleagues and former constituents -- he has little dire ... More >>

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

By Peter JamisonObama's tapping of former Monterey congressman Leon Panetta for CIA director was bound to raise hackles among pols and pundits. While Panetta has that rarest of political assets -- an unimpaired reputation for probity among his colleagues and former constituents -- he has little dire ... More >>

Mother Nature or Nurture?

The question of whether to begin saving creatures and habitats from climate change

A Good Steak Conquers All

Bradley Ogden's newest place offers some excellent food, but watch out for the server, Mr. X

She'll Be Back

Bradley Ogden's newest place offers some excellent food, but watch out for the server, Mr. X

Our top DVD picks for the week of August 22:

Bradley Ogden's newest place offers some excellent food, but watch out for the server, Mr. X

California Sunshine

The golden state of Skygreen Leopards' cosmic roots-pop

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.

Speechless

Dominic Di Mare's handmade books tell a quiet tale of obsessiveness

Festivals and Fairs

Dominic Di Mare's handmade books tell a quiet tale of obsessiveness

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, March 31, 2004

The Raccoon Next Door: Getting Along With Urban Wildlife

Wry, affecting tales about the animals that live around us

Nailed?

Lawyers for hundreds of sex-abuse victims have California's Catholic dioceses in a dire financial bind. Can church leaders finagle an escape, or are they ...

Calling All Yahoos

Worried about what John Poindexter's up to as federal information czar? Call his home number and ask.

Of Vice and Men

Brilliant acting brings the characters of Steinbeck's Cannery Row alive

Spellbound

Incanto

Letters to the Editor

Week of August 21, 2002

Joining Distaff

From Polynesian fire-spinning to polyamory, there's something for every girl at Ladyfest Bay Area

Kind of Code Blue

Is jazz dead? Local experts search for signs of life.

Songs of Science

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

Hear This

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

Burma Fave

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

Stage

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

The 1,001 Arabian Bites

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

Riff Raff

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

The Real "Fresh Mex"

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

Dish

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

Welcome to S.F. Give Us Your Money

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

Off-Base (Part II)

The most vituperative battle ever fought over the Presidio pits a handful of activists (and a certain weekly newspaper) against a local coalition of environmentalists, business, and the majority of elected officials. Is the congressional compromise to es

Globetrotting Southwest

Abiquiu melds international ingredients and Mexican standards with sensational results