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Medical Marijuana Dispensary Owners Facing Criminal Charges for Operating a "Flower Shop"

Pretty flowers​The former owners of Wellness Solutions Group, a Pacifica medical cannabis dispensary ordered closed by city officials on Monday night, will face criminal charges for operating a business under false pretenses, police said Tuesday.The owners, Ruben Salvatierra of South City and Timo ... More >>

Coco-Zen Delivers Great Packaging, Very Good Truffles

​I get foodstuffs regularly with packaging ranging from non-existent to pretty boxes tied up in a bow, but the packaging for Coco-Zen's Truffles-To-Go made me wish I didn't have to taste the contents. The Pacifica company's truffles come in a stainless steel tiffin which just screams "gift." ... More >>

Bad Doggy: Pit Bull Charges at SFPD Officer, Shots Fired

maplegirlie/FlickrThis pit bull looks friendly enough, but the breed overall is having some rough news days.​Pit bull advocates will argue that the breed is unfairly mauled by the media, and yesterday's altercation between a pit and a cop in Bernal Heights is only giving the pups more negative pre ... More >>

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maplegirlie/FlickrThis pit bull looks friendly enough, but the breed overall is having some rough news days.​Pit bull advocates will argue that the breed is unfairly mauled by the media, and yesterday's altercation between a pit and a cop in Bernal Heights is only giving the pups more negative pre ... More >>

If the City Takes Your Dog, It Will Also Take Its Gonads

maplegirlie/FlickrThis pit bull looks friendly enough, but the breed overall is having some rough news days.​Pit bull advocates will argue that the breed is unfairly mauled by the media, and yesterday's altercation between a pit and a cop in Bernal Heights is only giving the pups more negative pre ... More >>

Sonoma Councilwoman Wants to Ban Pit Bulls -- and Other Aggressive Dogs

Sonoma vs. Pit bulls ​Taking a page out of San Francisco's playbook of citywide bans, Sonoma's City Council is considering outlawing pit bulls after last week's fatal attack of a Pacifica pregnant woman.City Councilwoman Joanne Sanders says she'll ask the full council to ban the pups and other vic ... More >>

James Dickson, Endangered Species Trafficker, Gets Six Months in Jail

opencage.info​Yep, you can find just about anything you want on Craigslist, whether it's a drunk clown to entertain you for the night or, sadly, bridesmaids to be in your wedding. However, one Bay Area man crossed a legal line when he tried to sell endangered species via the online classified Webs ... More >>

Grocery Chain Fresh & Easy Opens First Location in S.F.

opencage.info​Yep, you can find just about anything you want on Craigslist, whether it's a drunk clown to entertain you for the night or, sadly, bridesmaids to be in your wedding. However, one Bay Area man crossed a legal line when he tried to sell endangered species via the online classified Webs ... More >>

Bacon and Snowballs Roll Out, Venga Sets Up Shop, Four New Coffee Shops, and More

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Food Truck News: Who doesn't like bacon? Okay, I don't, but I'm a rarity, which is a good thing for Bacon Bacon Truck. Inside Scoop reports the porcine truck from former E&O general manager Jim Angelus is ... More >>

Previewing San Francisco's New Fresh & Easy Markets

Jonathan KauffmanFresh & Easy's prepared salads are attractively packaged.​Wednesday, June 22, is opening day for the Richmond District Fresh & Easy, a Britain-based grocery chain spreading across California with the speed of kudzu vines in Georgia. Owned by Tesco, Fresh & Easy opened ... More >>

San Francycle: Riding to Work Doesn't Make You an Athlete

​If you're like us, you spend an hour or so on your bike every day, from home to work and then back, then maybe to the supermarket, and occasionally over to a friend's house or up to Corona Heights to watch the sunset. Wouldn't it be neat to keep track of your rides so you know how far you've gone ... More >>

Earthquake! S.F. Shaken By 3.8 Temblor on Anniversary of Big One

View Larger Map No, those vibrations weren't everyone running out of the office simultaneously to hit up the food truck. The United States Geological Survey confirmed to SF Weekly that we were moments ago hit with a temblor. And, yes, today is the 105th anniversary of The Big One. The hard-working ... More >>

Tsunami Warning in San Francisco; Beaches Closed

A not-so-friendly wave​Update 4:36 p.m.: One person has been declared dead after a tsunami hit the shores of Northern California earlier today, causing millions of dollars in damages to boats and surrounding docks, according to media reports. Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in D ... More >>

Subject Yourself to Rob Schneider -- for a Good Cause

A not-so-friendly wave​Update 4:36 p.m.: One person has been declared dead after a tsunami hit the shores of Northern California earlier today, causing millions of dollars in damages to boats and surrounding docks, according to media reports. Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in D ... More >>

Rob Schneider Career Slump May Kill Bay Area Music Program

Watch this, or watch Pacifica's music program get eliminated​Since the late 1990s the well-known comedian Rob Schneider has given around $2 million to music programs in Pacifica, where he played trombone in the school band. Yet a recent and not-so-humorous career slump has made the popular actor a ... More >>

Sewage Deposits Lead to Beach Closures

​Long walks along the beach need not be romantic. As is all too often the case, heavy rainstorms result in overflowing sewers leading to foul detritus littering the bay. To put it bluntly, beaches in our vicinity are currently despoiled with what 17th-century London diarist Samuel Pepys would have ... More >>

Men, Allegedly Photographed Beating Women, Arrested

The camera in question wasn't quite that clunky...​A pair of men accused of beating and robbing women are in custody -- and photographs taken by the victims during the attack have been booked into evidence. In the wee hours of Saturday on the 3400 block of 20th Street in the Mission, a trio of twe ... More >>

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The camera in question wasn't quite that clunky...​A pair of men accused of beating and robbing women are in custody -- and photographs taken by the victims during the attack have been booked into evidence. In the wee hours of Saturday on the 3400 block of 20th Street in the Mission, a trio of twe ... More >>

KPFA Axes Its Morning Show, Drama Ensues

Time for more controversey at KPFA...​Any Berkeley journalist comes to dread two assignments: the school board and KPFA. It's difficult to cover any of the myriad twists and turns of KPFA and Pacifica Radio's salvos at one another without tumbling down the rabbit hole and tracing everything back t ... More >>

How to Piss Off Phillies Fans: With a Cheesesteak from Gorilla Barbeque

Alex HochmanSmoked brisket gives Gorilla's cheesesteaks rare flavor.​Tastykakes suck. Remind any Phillies fans of that fact and any Game Five elation could quickly turn to bitter rage. Want to really make them get all Phanatic on you? Head down to Pacifica's Gorilla Barbeque. For starters, the ... More >>

Shark Will Almost Certainly Not Eat You, Expert Assures

Callaghan Fritz-Cope/Pelagic Shark Research FoundationYou likely won't be attacked by a shark. But this seal...​Following Monday's bloody Pacifica shark incident -- in which locals gawked as a Great White tore a hapless sea lion to shreds -- a number of observers were shocked at how quickly surfer ... More >>

Shark Devours Sea Lion off Pacifica

Shaaaaaaaark!​ A battalion of witnesses watched a shark estimated at 18 feet long, eviscerate and devour a sea lion yesterday at Pacifica's Linda Mar Beach, a well-known haunt for surfers and boaters. The sighting of the possible Great White tearing a hapless mammal to shreds prompted police to po ... More >>

Judgement Day for Apartments Crumbling into the Sea

Going, going....​The owners of a Pacifica apartment block built precariously over the ocean -- and currently in the process of falling into the ocean -- must decide today their property's final resting place. Spoiler alert: they DO NOT want it to be the Pacific Ocean.

Bleeding Green

Forget about Sharp Park’s endangered frogs and snakes. The real problem with the golf course is its enormous cost to the city.

Is a Round of Golf at S.F.'s Harding Park Really Worth $170?

Worth $170?​Harding Park, the high-caliber municipal golf course that spreads along the shore of Lake Merced and hosted the 2009 President's Cup, is a hell of a nice place to play golf. But is it really $170 worth of nice?It's a question worth asking, after the San Francisco Examiner reported this ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10: Gastronomic Adventures, Free Comics, Electro-disco Noiseniks

Clipd Beaks​Were those glorious super-warm days of last weekend simply a tease? Are we doomed to a more traditional mid-season S.F. weekend of half-sunny, half-windy days? Well I hate to say it fellow park-dwellers, but if you don't like the weather in our oft-overcast city, perhaps you are in the ... More >>

The Thrashers: Local Fourth Graders Rock Past Curfew

​ One problem faces The Thrashers at the band's CD release party on Friday, Feb. 26, at Broadway Studios. "The show starts at 8 and we go on at 9:45," says keyboardist Brandon Lurie, "and that's past our bedtimes." "Not on Fridays," counters rhythm guitarist Charley Rutledge. Not many bands ha ... More >>

S.F. is special, even when it comes to raw sewage

​ One problem faces The Thrashers at the band's CD release party on Friday, Feb. 26, at Broadway Studios. "The show starts at 8 and we go on at 9:45," says keyboardist Brandon Lurie, "and that's past our bedtimes." "Not on Fridays," counters rhythm guitarist Charley Rutledge. Not many bands ha ... More >>

And the Happiest Place in America Is ... Sunnyvale?

Be well...​If there were a list compiled of how many lists a city is listed in -- well our city of San Francisco would be tops on that list. So I'm always reticent to write about some national rankings the City by the Bay finds itself on. That being said, we just stumbled across one that's interes ... More >>

S.F. Authority Says Pacifica Owes $2.3 Million For Pooping Up Beaches

​The city of Pacifica may be up shit creek if it doesn't stop shitting up its creeks. The city faces $2.3 million fines for what the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board is calling "illegal discharges" during storms in January of 2008. A letter from the Board to the city and wast ... More >>

Another 24 Hours: Craigslist Farm and Garden Classifieds

Irish Typepad/FlickrLooking for something like this? You might get more than you bargained for at Nature's Bounty.​SFoodie's weekly look at some urban essentials offered up on Craiglist. • Nature's Bounty, a family-owned, state-inspected farm facility in Vacaville -- aka Cow Town -- wants y ... More >>

86ing the Burrito, Paying Pacifica Prices, and Bargain House Wines: A Foodie Day Planner

​Wednesday, August 12, 2009 Let's do lunch: No, do NOT get the same damn burrito you always end up with. Go all Yucatecan, says SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody, with panuchos and cochinita pibil at Mi Lindo Yucatan (401 Valencia at 15th St.). Drink therapy: It's dark and pubby, w ... More >>

Great Highway 'Road Warrior' Runs Afoul of the Law

Forgive us for pointing this out on Bike to Work Day, but a car is a useful device. It is not, however, a debating tool -- and a man who was using it for that dubious purpose was arrested on Monday. The San Francisco Police Department received a report from a woman driving on Great Highway near Sloa ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Forgive us for pointing this out on Bike to Work Day, but a car is a useful device. It is not, however, a debating tool -- and a man who was using it for that dubious purpose was arrested on Monday. The San Francisco Police Department received a report from a woman driving on Great Highway near Sloa ... More >>

Gridiron of Dreams: S.F. Man Spends Huge Chunk of Life Savings on Minor League Football Team -- and He's the Running Back

Joe EskenaziQuarterback Dion Pickett, formerly of College of San Mateo, drops back to pass at a Bay Area Buccaneers practice in San Francisco's Hamilton SquareFrom a distance you could hear them laughing and shouting -- a bunch of kids playing football in the park. But with every step closer to Hami ... More >>

Half in the Bag in Half Moon Bay

It's worth the gas to get gassed Coastside.

Where To?

The book of the future will look like the book of the past

Best Fishing

The book of the future will look like the book of the past

Best Bowling Alley

Sea Bowl Entertainment Center

Wild Wild Life

Invading the privacy of birds

Chub-a-Dub-Dub

"Chubs are either chubby or husky, and the chub chasers are typically, though not always, average to thin."

Brain Birds

A thoughtful consideration of the smart and feathered friends at Mickaboo Cockatiel Rescue and Happy Birds

Best Bowling Alley

Yerba Buena Bowling Center

Sporting News

The wonderful world of sport, packaged to appeal to a city of blasé cafe intellectuals

Letters

The wonderful world of sport, packaged to appeal to a city of blasé cafe intellectuals

Night+Day

The wonderful world of sport, packaged to appeal to a city of blasé cafe intellectuals

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?