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Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows From the Last Week in S.F. Music

Pet Baby Goats, Eat Goat Cheese, and More at the Ferry Building's Fifth Annual Goat Festival

Unless you grew up with goats, there's a good chance you know little of them beyond that occasional creamy cheese you lick from your sandwich wrapper. Goatlessness is a sad condition of urban dwelling, but it doesn't have to be. Goats are wonderful beasts -- intelligent, playful, and picky eaters wh ... More >>

Drink 2013: Small Batch is the Second Coming of Local Wine

Testament: Show Preview

Internet-Addicted Kids Allegedly Drug Parents So They Could Log On to Computer

Two Northern California teens were taken to juvenile hall after they allegedly slipped sleeping pills into their parent's drinks, putting the adults in a deep slumber,long enough for the girls to get online. According to press reports, the 15-year-old girl and her 16-year-old friend offered to pic ... More >>

Feds Bust 11 Suspects Linked to Largest Meth Seizure in U.S. History

A San Francisco federal grand jury has indicted 11 people on suspicion of possessing and distributing large quantities of narcotics. And when police say "large," they're talking more than 570 pounds of crystal methamphetamine. Federal prosecutors announced the arrests today after cops seized the i ... More >>

DIY Drama

Camper Van Beethoven Would Like All the "Northern California Girls" to Come Home

Camper Van Beethoven has a message for all you wayward Northern Californians: Come the hell home! The band's upcoming album, La Costa Perdida (out Jan. 22), is named after the wild stretch of coast along Mendocino and Humboldt counties. Having spent their formulative years in Riverside, Santa Cruz, ... More >>

Marijuana Sweep: Feds Mostly Ignore "Emerald Triangle"

Another year, another fleet of helicopters hovering overhead and federal agents tramping through the publicly owned woods in search of illegal marijuana plots and the (Mexican) people who grow them.In 2011, there was Operation Full Court Press; in 2012, we had Operation Mountain Sweep. This year, be ... More >>

Mossmoss Picks Five New Tracks to Celebrate As You Like It's Second Anniversary

It's hard to believe it's only been two years since As You Like It first appeared in San Francisco. Today, it seems as though the family-like crew has a near-monopoly on underground techno in the city, with packed events almost every other weekend. A large part of this is due to the party's on-point ... More >>

Craftsman Brewing Comes North for a Brewmaster's Dinner

Most regions have their own cult brewers -- bearded, idiosyncratic wizards whose unique beers always seem to turn out right. In the Bay Area, Moonlight Brewing's Brian Hunt fits the bill. In Southern California, the honor arguably goes to Mark Jilg of Craftsman Brewing. The bad news is that Craftsm ... More >>

"Fat Bottom Girl" Cheese Makes the Dairy World Go Round

One great thing about Northern California: Whatever your foodie pleasure, there's always more of it out there than at first seems possible. We've lately discovered yet another great cheese out there in the hills: Fat Bottom Girl, spring cheese from Bleating Heart in Sonoma. Like so many pursuing th ... More >>

ICE Does Immigration Sweeps, Arrests Thousands of "Criminal Aliens"

​Immigration authorities have arrested more than 3,100 convicted illegal immigrants and fugitives, including 200 in Northern California, during a massive, high-profile sweep nationwide over the last week. Some 1,900 ICE officers and agents throughout the United States conducted the largest six-day ... More >>

Trends in Beer: The House Brew Comes to Bar Tartine, Public House, and More

​Remember those Virginia Slims ads where women frolicked beneath the proclamation, "You've Come a Long Way, Baby!"? That's pretty much how beer geeks feel these days. Once the sovereign domain of wine, the city's finest restaurants now carry fine craft beers, and many SF chefs and beverage progra ... More >>

The 10 Days of Beer Week

Hear This: Los Rakas' Raka Rich Wants You to 'Check Yo B*tch'

Panama-born, Oakland-raised Raka Rich is best known as one-half of the rap group Los Rakas (with cousin Raka Dun), but he's also a solo artist who is planning to drop a new EP sometime in 2012. Today we have a taste of that release with a new single called "Check Yo B*tch." With its gentle, R&B- rem ... More >>

Why San Francisco Birds Are So Fat

Scientist say birds in Northern California, including San Francisco, are getting bigger and fatter by the year. And since Global Warming tends to be the scapegoat for all our general state of deterioration, it made sense to place blame squarely on Climate Change. But after considering the science, ... More >>

Obama's New Marijuana Policies Also Target Alt-Weeklies and the Bill of Rights

Say, is that hemp? Kill it!​​In their unrelenting quest to kill legal medical marijuana dead, President Barack Obama and the United States Department of Justice appear content to incur collateral damage. Last week, property owners who rent to dispensaries were informed that the federal governmen ... More >>

Two Sisters Bar & Books Opens Friday and ACRE/SF Sells Coffee and Clothing

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Two very worldly sisters are channeling Krakow, Vienna, Paris, Brooklyn, and our own Northern California into Two Sisters Bar & Books. Grub Street reports, via Urban Daddy, the bar will open this Friday f ... More >>

Feds: Drug Cartels Are Here, and They're Taking Our Jobs

Gone the way of UAW​The Drug War is going the way of the "evildoers," according to a federal report released last week. Two years ago, foreign drug cartels were in 230 American cities. Today, the cartels -- from Mexico, East Asia, and, presumably, Canada -- have infiltrated more than 1,000 America ... More >>

Undeniable

9/11 Conspiracy Movie Festival Brings "Truthers" to Herbst Theatre

Or was it?​The details may vary, but the premise behind almost all the 9/11-conspiracy films this weekend is roughly the same: Government investigations such as the 9-11 Commission report are inadequate and may be covering up other details. Beyond that, theories vary, and the Northern California ... 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 >>

SF Weekly Letters

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

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

High-tech Thieves Jury Rigged Gas Pumps to Steal Customers' Identities

​A pair of MacGyver-esque identity thieves has pleaded guilty to implanting devices in gas pumps that stole customers' checking-account information, a scheme that state officials say brought in $90,000.The California Attorney General's office announced today that the men -- David Karapetyan and Zh ... More >>

High Stakes

Steel Yourself for Winter. Watch This Rain Video.

That's right, San Franciscans. December is here, the cold has set in, and the wet is beginning to arrive, nary to depart again until March or thereabouts. This isn't all bad: There will be green fields outside the city, and some pretty sweet wildflowers in the hills of Marin come spring. But in case ... More >>

Mushroom Cloud? Liz Taylor Film Flop

Bad Doctors' Ranks Swelling in Northern California, Report Finds

​A study commissioned by the Medical Board of California has made a bit of a splash, suggesting that the disciplinary process for misbehaving doctors hasn't been handled well by the office of Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate) Jerry Brown.As California Watch reports, the AG's office is ... More >>

Whisky, Pie, and Franken Berry: The Week in Food Bloggery

Benimoto/FlickrYou think you can bake like this?​Highlights from the blog and beyond:1. You have two days left in WhiskyWeek, another excuse to get drunk in the name of furthering your culinary education. Lou Bustamante offers a primer on whiskey/whisky (getting the spelling right is one of the ba ... More >>

San Francisco Weather Returns to San Francisco

Rain or shine, hot or chilly, San Franciscans will gripe...​Between a spate of unseasonably chilly temperatures and a few days of Vegas sans the rhinestone outfits, San Franciscans have handily proven that we can complain about the weather no matter what -- and that there's no pleasing us. So if w ... More >>

Ajisen Ramen Opens Tomorrow at Westfield Mall

Luis ChongThe first Northern California outpost of the Japanese chain boasts a huge menu.​As SFoodie previously reported, Japanese fast-food chain Ajisen Ramen is opening its first Northern California branch in the Westfield Mall. Located on the Concourse Level, flanked by Panda Express and R ... More >>

Will Landmark Health Care Bill Harm Fish?

​Eating fish is good for your health. Expanded medical coverage is good for public health. Yet expanding medical coverage harms the health of fish.Does this mean heath care harms people's health?Probably not. But Republicans are alleging that Rep. Nancy Pelosi's intense lobbying and favor-swapping ... More >>

SFoodie's 92: Brioche Bread Pudding from Tartine Bakery

J. BirdsallThrowback to a milkier time.​As a daily windup to the Weekly's Best of S.F. 2010 on May 19, we've teased out 92 of our favorite local dishes that taste like here. All the tasty details after the jump.

Misfit Medleys

On the Good Foot

Early Bird Special: Il Cane Rosso

J. BirdsallMarin Sun Farms beef sugo over creamy polenta.​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. If Manhattan ramen king David Chang taught us anything, it's this: Northern California's ingredient-centric cooking vernacular can seem like gibberish to outsiders. If you'd beg ... More >>

Cops: Gun Pulled in Roommates' Argument Over Heater

This could get ugly...​Earlier this week, a couple of climate scientists told SF Weekly that, yes, this is cold weather -- for Northern California. People in Rochester wouldn't even be wearing a coat right now. Well, don't tell that to residents of Bernal Heights. Police on Wednesday were alerted ... More >>

Baghdad by the Bay

No More Pencils No More Books, No More Teachers' Dirty Looks -- The State Is Broke and Colleges are Closed

http://fusilly.com/blog/Sad -- but not as sad as real life​ Those of us who grew up in Northern California never experienced the joy of a school "Snow Day" in which reading, writing, and arithmetic are abandoned in favor of the ecstasy of winter frolicking. Growing up here, I vividly recall the ti ... More >>

September Tasting and Preserves Swap Should Prove Just Peachy

pickyourown.org​ Gayle Okumura Sullivan of Dry Creek Peach and Produce in Healdsburg, one of the last peach farms in all of Northern California, will join Omnivore Books owner Celia Sack in hosting a special tasting of Dry Creek's heirloom yellow and white peaches. They'll also oversee  ... More >>

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