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Kamala Harris: Is She Really the Nation's Foxiest AG?

President Obama yesterday calling out Kamala Harris as, "by far, the best-looking Attorney General," was, unquestionably, an odd moment. It was a clunky thing to do for a man with strong reputations as both an egalitarian and a glib orator; it'd be akin to watching Richard Petty driving slowly in th ... More >>

Ridiculous Websites Claim S.F. Doesn't Lead the Country in Brewing or General Booziness

So we do understand that, statistically speaking, San Francisco can't be the best at everything food- and drink-wise (even though it totally is), and also that complaining about silly Internet lists is like complaining about philandering politicians or high gas prices -- these things will happen no ... More >>

Charles J. Dowd, Retired S.F. Firefighter, Disappears After Boarding Amtrak Train

Authorities are looking for Charles J. Dowd, a San Mateo resident and former San Francisco firefighter, who mysteriously vanished after he boarded an Amtrak train in the East Bay earlier this week. Dowd, 69, boarded a train in Emeryville on Wednesday morning with plans to change trains in Chicago on ... More >>

Worst New Song of the Week: Karmin's "Hello"

Man. When we heard that really ironically-titled new 3OH!3 song ("You're Gonna Love This"), we were like "Wow. Nothing could ever be more inane and vacuous than this auto-tuned piece of shit." But then we heard the new Karmin song, "Hello," and decided it should be the first in our new Worst Song of ... More >>

San Franciscans Eat Healthier Than Almost Everyone Else in the Nation

The only thing worse than being no. 2 is coming in second place to our frenemy, New York City. Alas, San Francisco has fallen one place short of being no. 1 when it comes to healthy eating. But no reason to wallow in a pint of Ben & Jerry's just yet; we're still way healthier than your ... More >>

San Franciscans Apparently Eat More Healthfully Than Almost Anywhere in the Nation

The only thing worse than being no. 2 is coming in second place to our frenemy, New York City. Alas, San Francisco has fallen one place short of being no. 1 when it comes to healthy eating. But no reason to wallow in a pint of Ben & Jerry's just yet; we're still way healthier ... More >>

How To Not Piss Off Tyga at His S.F. Show

Los Angeles rapper Tyga's March 19 concert in Omaha, Nebraska didn't end well -- after the show, there was a shootout. The rapper told XXL that a local act was mad because Tyga wouldn't let the group open up for him on the spur of the moment, and that the locals started throwing debris on the stage ... More >>

S.F.'s Eux Autres: '60s Pop-Rock with Love to France

By J POET For most of the past 20 years, indie bands pretended the '60s never happened. Today the sounds of the Summer of Love are back in a big way, albeit with a modern spin that will keep old hippies from getting too wistful. San Francisco trio Eux Autres (say ooz-oh-tra) has been playing retro- ... More >>

List: Why Burning Man Sold Out Early This Year

Nebraska Farmers Get Rich, Georgia Farmers Learn Immigrants Work Hard

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Farming as a lucrative endeavor? Time has an odd, interesting story about how rising food and biofuel prices have Nebraska farmers making money, despite the recession. "Want to Ma ... More >>

Big 4 Tour: Are More U.S. Dates Likely for Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth?

Richard HaickWide-eyed Kirk Hammet, coming soon to a major city near you?​ Pretty much since the moment we heard about the Big 4 tour, we've been wanting to see it hit the U.S. Interstate system. Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax have played dates all over Europe, so when they announced ... More >>

Jewel Thieves, Accused of 'Brazen' S.F. Burglary, Nabbed ... in Nebraska

We're not in Kansas anymore​Cops finally caught up with some local jewelry thieves as they cruised along Interstate 80 -- in the middle of Nebraska. The tale begins on the 300 block of 29th Avenue -- a quiet residential block near upscale Sea Cliff. Jewel thieves plotted what police are calling a ... More >>

Hey Lazybones Musicians! Record An Album This Month!

​Welcome to February, the runt of months. Just four weeks until March -- four boring, bitter weeks of Valentines and Presidents and groundhogs and Sri Lankan independence. Thanksgiving and Christmas and National Novel Writing Month are all more than half the year away. If only there was a way to u ... More >>

Standing Up for Bullies, Taking the Rest of the Beef Out of 'Taco Meat'

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Uh, did you know that if you live in S.F., you can get a free spay or neuter at the SFSPCA for your dog or cat during the month of February? TRUE FACT. So if any of you are running around with companion animals ... More >>

Local Mission Eatery's Harvest Dinners Feature Stuff the Chef Grew in Lodi

John BirdsallRecent salad of beets and green tomatoes at Local Mission Eatery.​Just about every chef in town yearns to cook food with a close connection to the field, though usually that means cultivating connections with wholesale produce dealers. For Local Mission Eatery's Jake Des Voignes, ... More >>

California Faces Interstate Lawsuit -- If Voters Don't Pass Prop. 23

Don't touch that greenhouse gas, warn out-of-state attorneys general...​If California voters don't pass Proposition 23 -- which would pull the rug out from under the state's 2006 law limiting greenhouse gas emissions -- a gang of out-of-state attorneys general have threatened to file suit against ... More >>

Slow's 'Margherita'

John BirdsallHeirloom tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil on "puffed flat bread" ($5).​Monday, August 16, 2010 Kyle Anderson isn't the first chef to be gobsmacked by Bay Area farmers' markets. He might, however, be the first to chuck an exec chef gig in Omaha, Neb., to wangle access to produce th ... More >>

Guardian Editors Would Benefit from Prop. 13 Legislation They Endorsed

It's always nice to get in the game early and pull up the ladder after you...​On Nov. 3, 2003 the Wall Street Journal published a letter from Warren Buffett in which the Nebraska billionaire explained his negative view of California's Proposition 13, the 1978 law that limits property tax assessmen ... More >>

Falling in Love Again with Butchers

Claudine/FlickrDo you have one of these?​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Meat-isans: As a culture, we've portrayed butchers as scary, we've thought of them as sexy. Today at Civil Eats, Kathryn Quanbeck makes an argument for butchers as necessary, even as they're seriously endangered. Qua ... More >>

Got Stress? List of Most and Least 'Stressed' Counties Updated -- S.F. Makes Neither.

Dorothea LangeYes, San Francisco's economic 'stress levels' have been worse...​If you needed a statistical analysis to back up your gut feeling, here it is: San Francisco ain't such a bad place to be. At least that's what the Associated Press' Economic Stress Index reported on Monday. The index -- ... More >>

Jocks Vs. Nerds: Former College QB Sues NCAA, Videogame Company Over Use of Athletes' Names and Likenesses

Those videogame nerds stole your likeness, Ogre... The plot of many a 3 a.m.-caliber movie has featured the put-upon nerd matriculating to vast wealth in the computer industry -- while the bullying quarterback peaks before age 22. Yet in San Francisco Federal Court you could call it "Revenge of the ... More >>

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

Feeling a little bit country at Pissed Off Pete's

Cowboy Up: 'Hottest Senate Candidate' Inspires Sudden S.F. Interest in Nebraska Politics

Films on Location

The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.

Tuesday Night: The Faint at the Grand Ballroom

He Can Laugh About It

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Two Gallants

The Scenery of Farewell (Saddle Creek)

A League of His Own

Nick Nolte knows a thing or two about getting old

Death gets reanimated in the hands of Gob Iron

Kees to the City

The mysterious obsession with Weldon Kees, poet, polymath, and icon of San Francisco bohemianism

I Ain't No Holocaust Girl

Shuffleboard at the El Rio and why calling your boss a Nazi is passé

Whining and Dining

An intriguing wine list and excellent tapas are perfect after Sideways

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, July 7, 2004

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, May 5, 2004

My Ántonia

Willa Cather would not have been happy with this adaptation of her novel

Toy Story

The "Make Your Own Dildo" kit -- plus airport shuttles, zine geeks, and reform school for dogs

Desaparecidos

Read Music/Speak Spanish (Saddle Creek)

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.

House Of Tudor

Silke Tudor sings the praises of punk rock karaoke, swoons over the Faint, and revels in girlhood

Battle Sushi

Spite in the Heartland

Stage

Night + Day

Slap Shots

Letters

How Sweet It Is

A brisk taste-test of S.F.'s worst cigars

The Grapes of Wrath

Bruce Springsteen reinvents himself as working-class hero

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World