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  • Blogs

    September 28, 2012

    Swedish House Mafia Ticket Giveaway: The Top Five Funniest Entries We Received

    Starting yesterday, we here at All Shook Down held a contest for a free a pair of tickets to Swedish House Mafia's farewell S.F. show at Bill Graham Civic on Feb. 16. The rules were simple: Write us something funny and creative about why you should be the winner. Well, we got A LOT of entries -- and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2012

    Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom Gets Overwhelmed by Two Meetings

    It's not news that Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom has not a thing to do up there in Sacramento, a city that he himself has said is boring. But you know what is news: Newsom finally had something to do -- and didn't do it!On Monday, Newsom's morning included showing up to a meeting and casting a vo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    High Schoolers Bike Coast-to-Coast to Raise Money for Multiple Sclerosis Research

    Scott Swengel ​While most high school students are lazing on the beach or waiting tables at the local diner this summer, 17-year-old Cameron Swengel, from Yorktown, VA, decided to take on a more challenging project -- biking across the U.S. to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    TV Show Reveals Swan Oyster Depot's Secret Stew

    Chris MacArthur​Swan Oyster Depot has a secret: if you ask nicely, owner Tommy Sancimino might make you an oyster stew that TV host Ben Sargent called "one of the best stews I've ever had." SFoodie learned this because we've seen Tuesday's new episode of "Hook, Line and Dinner," which airs at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    John Waters Explains His Love for S.F. Muni, the Roxie Theater, and Die Antwoord

    John Waters​Among other things -- like making movies and stuff -- film director John Waters is known for possessing a sick affection for public transportation in San Francisco. The part-time S.F. resident is coming to town for a performance of his Christmas show tomorrow (Saturday) night, a benefi ... More >>

  • News

    November 17, 2010

    Ibogaine has helped addicts kick meth and heroin. Is it the trip that does the trick?

    John Waters​Among other things -- like making movies and stuff -- film director John Waters is known for possessing a sick affection for public transportation in San Francisco. The part-time S.F. resident is coming to town for a performance of his Christmas show tomorrow (Saturday) night, a benefi ... More >>

  • News

    February 24, 2010

    Dead Sea

    An unpublished study shows the surprisingly lethal effects of the Cosco Busan oil spill. Why are government scientists helping the ship's owner keep it a secret?

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    Politician Assures Us Her Twitter Silence Isn't Due to Hawaiian Sojourn

    Oh the things you'll find on a politician's Facebook page...​So far, nothing on Twitter has brought us more entertainment than the Freudian adventures of Assemblywoman Fiona Ma. Whether it's boasting about a colleague's experience shoveling manure, expounding on bat feces, or chronicling the explo ... More >>

  • Music

    April 1, 2009

    Magic Concept Ride

    Vetiver hits folk gold on Tight Knit.

  • Music

    September 5, 2007

    Drastic Elastic

    Devendra Banhart's latest bends and stretches, but doesn't break his spell

  • News

    July 18, 2007

    Pollution Absolution

    A company is dumping questionable materials into the ocean so that you can buy forgiveness in the form of carbon credits

  • News

    November 1, 2006

    Drawn Together

    Why the surging popularity of yaoi — graphic boy-on-boy comics — might be the source of the genre's downfall

  • News

    March 31, 2004

    Sprung

    A Manila-folder galleon, catered edamame at camp, and a Q&A with Dr. Beer: It must be spring

  • News

    May 21, 2003

    Hot Story

    Navy admits burning 600,000 gallons of radioactive fuel at S.F. shipyard

  • News

    July 31, 2002

    Fallout: The Past Is Present

    The Nuclear Witnesses

  • News

    February 27, 2002

    This is NOT a story about L.A. Lakers star Kobe Bryant

    Meet John Cox, a USF swingman who is a cousin and friend to Kobe -- and quite at home with his own game and his own life

  • News

    January 2, 2002

    Traveling Companions

    Gray whales are leading tourists, conservationists, and business operators on a rocky voyage toward economic and environmental salvation

  • News

    November 21, 2001

    The New Economy

    The road to Punta Abreojos is paved with hollow intentions

  • News

    November 7, 2001

    Conundrum

    At the same time hundreds of dead gray whales were washing up on beaches, their birthrate was plunging. Theories abound, but little hard data has been gathered to solve this environmental puzzle.

  • News

    July 11, 2001

    Resurrection

    After a 70-year hiatus and a confrontation with the world, the Makah tribe resumes its communion with the gray whale

  • News

    May 9, 2001

    Fallout

    Newly released documents indicate the Navy dumped far more nuclear waste than it's ever acknowledged in a major commercial fishery just 30 miles west of San Francisco. Why won't the government even study the Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Site?

  • News

    May 2, 2001

    Fallout

    How nuclear researchers handled -- and grossly mishandled -- the Cold War's most dangerous radioactive substances at a top-secret lab inside the Hunters Point Shipyard. The same shipyard the city wants to remake as San Francisco's newest neighborhood.

  • News

    April 25, 2001

    Russian Roulette

    The Western Pacific gray whale, once thought extinct, clings to life in a remote Siberian sea. Biologists fear their research is serving as cover for massive oil drilling that could wipe out this lost tribe once and for all.

  • News

    April 18, 2001

    Tales of the North Pacific

    What a 62-year-old man can teach shellshocked dot-commers as he sails from Osaka to San Francisco. Alone. Again.

  • News

    March 1, 2000

    Fins

    Just when you thought it was safe to flag down the waiter, a storm brews over shark fin soup.

  • News

    February 2, 2000

    Tragic Ending

    Toni Choate killed in Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash

  • Dining

    July 14, 1999

    The Man Who Came to Dinner

    Toni Choate killed in Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash

  • News

    December 16, 1998

    No Place Like Curb

    So many San Franciscans live in cars, vans, campers, and buses that the city wants to create a "vehicular community" where they could legally park. But if we build it, will the "houseless" come?

  • Music

    November 11, 1998

    He'll Be There

    Willie Hutch wrote one of the greatest songs ever, but he ain't done yet

  • News

    June 10, 1998

    36,000 Feet Under the Sea

    The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.

  • News

    June 11, 1997

    Shouldn't We Just Kill This Dog?

    Does San Francisco's pit-bull testing program put good dogs in good homes -- or put lethal land sharks back on the street?

  • News

    January 10, 1996

    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

  • Calendar

    December 6, 1995

    Night+Day

    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

  • Calendar

    August 16, 1995

    Night+Day

    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

  • News

    July 12, 1995

    Bolinas? Baloney!

    The effort of one small town to remain untouched by time has bred enmity and disaffection as surely as it has produced anything else

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