Subject: New York

• Sorry Bloggers - The Internet is BAD for Kids' Brains

  October 31, 2008

• Bush and Confessions agree: Go shopping! (Wait, don't.)

  February 11, 2009

• Also Playing

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  January 30, 2008

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  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  January 23, 2008

• Also Playing

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  January 16, 2008

• White Hot

  January 9, 2008

• The Tao of Twosomes

  Matt & Kim's band romance

  January 10, 2007

• Beat Back

  An extraordinary collection of San Francisco avant-garde art is hanging in a Norwegian school. Why not here?

  March 22, 2006

• The World on a String

  As the San Francisco Conservatory of Music moves to fancy new digs, its students struggle with a shrinking professional marketplace.

  April 20, 2005

• Outsiders In

  Is it still street art if it's on the wall of a museum?

  August 18, 2004

• What Is Normal?

  Charles Gatewood is the pervert next door

  April 28, 2004

• A Question of Risk

  Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

  January 28, 2004

• Through the Cracks

  There are some benefits of big-city gentrification. Jesse Malin's brilliant new record is one of them.

  August 27, 2003

• The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

  Antipop Consortium brings wee-hour surrealism to hip hop.

  December 5, 2001

• From Schlubs to Sharks

  February 16, 2000

• Night+Day

  October 22, 1997

• Savage Love

  March 26, 1997

• Dish

  October 9, 1996

• Snakebitten: Sideshow Performer Sues Local Brewer, Claims He Swiped Her Image to Hawk 'Coney Island Albino Python' Beer

  A woman describing herself as a "well known side show performer" who has picked up a "favorable reputation as a 'snake charmer'" -- we're guessing charmers with "unfavorable" reputations don't last so long -- has sued the San Francisco proprietor of the Shmaltz Brewing Company. Stephanie Torres -- aka "Serpentina"-- claims that her 6-foot-tall, 140-pound, albino serpent-toting image has been swiped by Shmaltz' Jeremy Cowan -- the man behind the popular He'Brew label -- to hawk his "Coney Island

  May 27, 2009

• Expect Plenty of Flogging When David Chang Comes to Town, But It'll All Be of the Book Variety

  ​Nobody ever said New York chef David Chang didn't have huevos, and we're not talking the slow-poached kind that show up in the ramen at Noodle Bar. Chang's thoughts about San Francisco chefs may have raised a crap storm in certain quarters locally, but that isn't stopping the master of Momofuku from dropping down at SFO early next month -- after, that is, a mini slog through national media. Chang's Beard-worthy cookbook and memoir, Momofuku (Clarkson Potter, $40) drops next Tuesday, same

  October 23, 2009

• Haute Halloween Candy, Or How to Break Your Teeth and the Bank at the Same Time

  knipschildt.comLa Madeline au Truffe: Yours for a mere $250.​Most of us are more than happy with whatever sort of candy we can manage to score during Halloween. Luckily, there are some upscale options for those with champagne taste who won't settle for anything but the ludicrously pricey. Check out these tricked-out treats:1. La Madeline au Truffe: Connecticut chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt uses a whole French Perigord truffle (the mushroom kind) in the center of this 1.9 ounce dark chocolate t

  October 26, 2009

• Tired of N.Y. vs. S.F Throwdowns? Hear from a Genteel New Yorker Tomorrow at Omnivore

  North Point PressHe sees dead people.​William Grimes is coming to town, presumably not to educate us tofu-brained San Franciscans about what constitutes real food. Before he started writing about dead people, Grimes was, of course, a legendary reviewer of restaurants for the New York Times. His first book concerned cocktails, their histories and associated lore; his latest tome, Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York (North Point Press, $30), examines the Big Apple's dining culture,

  October 27, 2009

• No Justice

  October 28, 2009

• David Chang: S.F. Reaction to Fig-Gate 'Retardedly Stupid'

  timeoutnewyork/FlickrChang: A bad case of produce envy.​The day after publication of his book, the wonderful Momofuku (Clarkson Potter, $40), SFoodie spoke wiith New York chef David Chang. You know, the guy who stirred up a shit storm earlier this month with the comment that "fuckin' every restaurant in San Francisco is just serving figs on a plate." In the aftermath, the NorCal Asia Society canceled an event with Chang scheduled for early November, when the chef will be in town to promote

  October 28, 2009

• Halloween Clips: The Ten Scariest Music Videos of All Time

  1. Alice Cooper - "Welcome To My Nightmare"You can't have Halloween without Alice Cooper. From his decapitation-happy live shows to his self-mocking sense of humor, he's rock's king demon. (Sorry, Marilyn--we know how hard you try.) But was Cooper ever better than when accompanied by the Muppets? 2. Cannibal Corpse - "Death Walking Terror"Cannibal Corpse sometimes takes its gore-besotted schtick so far over the top that it becomes comical. We suspect that's why Jim Carrey put the band in the

  October 29, 2009

• Knives Out

  October 28, 2009

• Friday Night: Richard Strauss' Salomé at War Memorial Opera House

  Richard Strauss' SaloméWar Memorial Opera HouseFriday, Oct. 30, 2009Better than: Sunday schoolTerrence McCarthyGreer Grimsley (Jokanaan)​Of the six operas that comprise San Francisco Opera's fall 2009 season, Richard Strauss' Salomé is the outlier -- a production that, by design, represents something of a departure from the musical and aesthetic characteristics of the season's other offerings, and challenges the company to explore different artistic terrain. With a libretto drawn from an Osc

  November 2, 2009

• Also Playing

  November 4, 2009

• Drink of the Week: Egg Cream from Miller's East Coast Deli

  T. Palmer​If like us, you grew up here and are of a certain age, at some point in your life you've probably wondered what the heck an egg cream is . These days, you don't have to go all the way to New York to get a good answer to the question, only as far as Miller's East Coast Deli (1725 Polk at Washington).An egg cream typically contains no more than whole milk, seltzer water, and chocolate syrup, but the blend produces a sweet foamy head that disappears fairly fast. The ones at Miller's com

  November 6, 2009

• New York Times' YouTube Investigation: Bicyclists Sometimes Run Stop Signs

  ​The odd media war unfolding in San Francisco -- in which major dailies establish editions here while local periodicals fade away -- advanced in a new direction Friday, with a page A-19 story in the New York City edition of the New York Times titled "San Francisco's Cyclists Facing Backlash for Flouting Rules of the Road."The story didn't coincide with the headline. The purported San Francisco backlash consisted of one guy  on a bike who got a ticket for running a stop sign in Portola Val

  November 6, 2009

• Get a Taste of East Village Speakeasy PDT Tonight at Beretta

  vidiot/FlickrDeragon is cofounder of the New York bar PDT.​New York mixologist John Deragon from East Village speakeasy PDT is in the 415, guest bartending tonight at Beretta (1199 Valencia at 23rd St.). PDT, of course, popularized bacon-infused bourbon (an ingredient in its maple syrup-sweetened Old Fashioned).Deragon reportedly met Beretta barkeep Ryan Fitzgerald when Fitzgerald was apprenticing at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans two years ago. From 8 p.m. to midnight tonight, Der

  November 10, 2009

• Worms in the Apple

  November 11, 2009

• Weekend Chatter: Buraka Som Sistema Q&A

  ​Lisbon-based Buraka Som Sistema headlines Mezzanine Saturday night, bringing its mashup of vocal percussion with zombified, broken-legged dance contortions. The foursome who leapt into global view with 2008's Black Diamond is now making its second SF visit. The group will batter crowds with dissonant siren-thumps and crawling Portuguese slang, fitting within the same seismic frame as sometime-collaborator M.I.A. and African soukous giant Koffi Olomide. Buraka are today's leading practition

  November 12, 2009

• In the Game of Foursquare, S.F. Wins

  Since we've moved up to the Bay Area from Los Angeles we've noticed a strange phenomenon. Our new friends have an easier time finding each other and the places they've decided to congregate.Suspecting that perhaps this is because San Francisco checks in on the geo-locational social gaming App Foursquare more than any other city, SF Weekly contacted Foursquare founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai to get the scoop."SF is most active city right now, [with] London growing quickly" Dennis co

  November 16, 2009

• S.F. Green Business Program rewards polluter

  November 18, 2009

• New Orleans is breeding ground for Nicolas Cage's Bad Lieutenant

  November 18, 2009

• Sanctuary Sellout

  November 18, 2009

• Adam Chapman, "Diagram of Isolated Moments Forming a Memory"

  November 18, 2009

• Nickodemus and the Spy from Cairo

  November 18, 2009

• Last Night: Julian Casablancas at the Regency Ballroom

  ​Julian CasablancasTuesday, Nov. 17, 2009The Regency Ballroom(Not) better than: The Strokes, Little Joy, Albert Hammond, Jr.It has to be hard, breaking into the 2000s as the symbol of the hipsters overtaking the mainstream, only to fall down to the bottom of the hype heap a decade later. As the frontman for the Strokes, Julian Casablancas has spent much of the the past ten years being the voice of cool--giving a disaffected, slightly distorted, and occasionally humorous delivery of young, priv

  November 18, 2009

• Bay Links: Kids, Strikes, & Stormwater

  ​Is the school lottery-system one of the reasons S.F. has more pups than kids? [City Insider]Muni shelters go defunct before route and riders are left in the cold. [Akit's Complaint Department]Liveblogging the U.C. Berekeley strike. [Daily Cal]Photo: Define "anything." [We Built This City]Slapping a layer of New York on S.F. will solve all the city's problems! [Burrito Justice]On-street stormwater facilities coming to two locations in S.F. [Streetsblog]

  November 18, 2009

• Tropic of Kuchar

  November 18, 2009

• Flora Chef, Sweet Adeline Baker Collaborating on Pizza and Frozen Custard Concept

  Andrew B./YelpThe former Spud's in South Berkeley will offer N.Y.-style pizzas with Cali toppings.​Looks like South Berkeley is set to become Ground Zero for the next wave of Bay Area pizza frenzy. Hot on the heels of Emilia's (2995 Shattuck at Ashby) comes word of Addie's Pizza Pie, a collaboration between Thomas Schnetz (Dona Tomas, Flora, Tacubaya) and pastry chef Jennifer Millar, owner of Sweet Adeline Bakeshop (3350 Adeline at 63rd St., Berkeley). The location is 3290 Adeline (at Ashb

  November 20, 2009

• Smart People Like Memes Too: The Chive Turns One

  We did an unexpected thing last Saturday morning -- we surfed the Internet. And before you can say, "Isn't that what you do every morning Pinky?," we'll tell you that while our job has us running the content gamut from stripper clowns to breaking news about which former S.F. Senator isn't running for city supervisor, it's usually off our own url. While SF Weekly.com is that awesome, it's always good to spice things up. Many people blame the Internet for many things: the death of newspapers and

  November 23, 2009

• SF Weekly Letters

  November 25, 2009

• Screwed

  November 25, 2009

• Stateless: More vaudeville than hip-hop

  November 25, 2009

• Wes Anderson's comeback: Gen Y's anointed auteur returns

  November 25, 2009

• The Books

  November 25, 2009

• Soon-to-Drop McSweeney's Skews Foodie with Chang, Farr, Roadkill

  McSweeney'sChang stuffs something in his mouth besides his kitchen clog.​We're so excited about the upcoming star-studded 33rd issue of McSweeney's -- a.k.a. The San Francisco Panorama ($16), an esoteric, 320-page riff on the newspaper form -- mainly because roughly 5 percent of those pages will address food, with no shortage of topical local interest. L. E. Leone savors roadkill. Ryan Farr goes all Wolverine on a lamb carcass. New York-based Momofuku kingpin David Chang -- an unfortunate

  November 25, 2009