Pakistan

"Zero Dark Thirty:" The Long, Dark Night

Number 10: Boxing Room's Dirty Rice

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Boxing Room's chef, Justin Simoneaux, brings a California sensibility to traditional Cajun dishes -- fried oyster salad with arugula and fennel, gulf flounder with tasso and green garlic -- but for his dirty rice, h ... More >>

'Cast-Offs

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Boxing Room's chef, Justin Simoneaux, brings a California sensibility to traditional Cajun dishes -- fried oyster salad with arugula and fennel, gulf flounder with tasso and green garlic -- but for his dirty rice, h ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings November 9-15

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Boxing Room's chef, Justin Simoneaux, brings a California sensibility to traditional Cajun dishes -- fried oyster salad with arugula and fennel, gulf flounder with tasso and green garlic -- but for his dirty rice, h ... More >>

Saturday: Non-Stop Bhangra Celebrates Its Seven-Year Anniversary at Rickshaw Stop

Kahley EmersonNon-Stop Bhangra at Rickshaw Stop​ Non-Stop Bhangra Seven Year Anniversary Rickshaw Stop Oct. 15, 2011 Better than: Sweating it out at a Bikram yoga studio It all started in the 14th Century. Bored wheat farmers in Punjab (a region in Northern India and Pakistan) created a danc ... More >>

For the Straight Guy. Or Not.

Kahley EmersonNon-Stop Bhangra at Rickshaw Stop​ Non-Stop Bhangra Seven Year Anniversary Rickshaw Stop Oct. 15, 2011 Better than: Sweating it out at a Bikram yoga studio It all started in the 14th Century. Bored wheat farmers in Punjab (a region in Northern India and Pakistan) created a danc ... More >>

Exclusive: Osama Bin Laden's Porn Collection Revealed

​Who knew? It turns out that plotting the destruction of the Great Satan may not have been the only thing that brought joy to recently deceased terrorist Osama bin Laden. The news wires are exploding with the revelation that a trove of porn was discovered in the al-Qaeda leader's Pakistan compound ... More >>

No, Twitter Hasn't Replaced CNN

​It's become perfectly predictable: Every time there's a major news event, people spend several days talking about how Twitter and Facebook are replacing traditional news organizations -- the (sigh) "MSM." Even if the word "replacing" isn't used, that's often the implicationIn the present case -- ... More >>

Osama bin Laden vs. Michael Jackson: Whose Death Got More Twitter Chatter?

Left Image: PhilipRood.com"//Flickr | Right image: Kecko/Flickr​Like many people around the world, we learned about the death of Osama bin Laden not from a newspaper or TV, but from social networking sites, specifically Twitter. Standing in a long line for a movie, the news slowly rippled up and ... More >>

Sohaib Athar, IT Consultant, Tweets Osama Bin Laden's Assassination As It Happens

​Meet Sohaib Athar. Until very recently, he's quietly used Twitter to tell about his life as an IT consultant living in Pakistan under the name @ReallyVirtual. On early Sunday morning, however, he seemingly (and unknowingly) Tweeted the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, as it happened, in Abbo ... More >>

'Destructive' Pakistani Insects in Oakland Intercepted by Border Agents

​Heave a sigh of relief, Bay Area residents. The Khapra beetle, an invasive and "extremely destructive" arthropod, has been foiled -- for now -- in its evil designs upon the human race's grain silos by agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).In a news release today, CBP announced that ... More >>

Scandinavian Muslim in America

​Heave a sigh of relief, Bay Area residents. The Khapra beetle, an invasive and "extremely destructive" arthropod, has been foiled -- for now -- in its evil designs upon the human race's grain silos by agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).In a news release today, CBP announced that ... More >>

Moving Portrait of a Leader, Her Tumultuous Times

​Heave a sigh of relief, Bay Area residents. The Khapra beetle, an invasive and "extremely destructive" arthropod, has been foiled -- for now -- in its evil designs upon the human race's grain silos by agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).In a news release today, CBP announced that ... More >>

Friday Night: Roger Waters Turns The Wall Into A Rallying Cry at Oracle Arena

Christopher VictorioRoger Waters performed The Wall at Oracle Arena Friday night.​Roger Waters' 'The Wall' December 3, 2010@ Oracle Arena Better than: A hippie-dippy stoner protest. We don't need no education We don't need no thought control We sang the anthem as school kids. In bong-fuele ... More >>

Benefit Concert: Afrofunk and Pancakes for Pakistan!

James Brown lives on in the spirit of Sila Mutungi and the Afrofunk Experience​Now that we're done stuffing our faces with garlic fries and hot dogs for the World Series, it's time to start stuffing our faces for world peace -- or at least, world improvement. On November 19th and 20th, Club Dine I ... More >>

How to Ban Dumb Facebook Comments From Your Life

​Dear Anna, I've got several friends who are great in person, but terrible on Facebook. They leave long, unwitty comments that nobody wants clogging their inbox. Is there any way to gently nudge them towards good comment etiquette? Or, failing that, persuade them not to comment at all? I don ... More >>

Women's Music

​Dear Anna, I've got several friends who are great in person, but terrible on Facebook. They leave long, unwitty comments that nobody wants clogging their inbox. Is there any way to gently nudge them towards good comment etiquette? Or, failing that, persuade them not to comment at all? I don ... More >>

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Report Confirms: SF Weekly Found Bin Laden in October 2001

He's on the right...​For shoppers wishing to give America the gift of national security, consider sending your favorite Pentagon staffer an SF Weekly. No offense to Jane's Defence Weekly, but a Senate Foreign Relations Committee report released Monday suggests the publication you're now reading pr ... More >>

A guide to the best of this year's S.F. International Film Festival

He's on the right...​For shoppers wishing to give America the gift of national security, consider sending your favorite Pentagon staffer an SF Weekly. No offense to Jane's Defence Weekly, but a Senate Foreign Relations Committee report released Monday suggests the publication you're now reading pr ... More >>

Hark! A Wise Man

He's on the right...​For shoppers wishing to give America the gift of national security, consider sending your favorite Pentagon staffer an SF Weekly. No offense to Jane's Defence Weekly, but a Senate Foreign Relations Committee report released Monday suggests the publication you're now reading pr ... More >>

Guantánamo's Last Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

Survival of the Tastiest

Through a tumultuous history emerges a satisfying food.

Firewater: You Give Them $12, They'll Give You the World

Through a tumultuous history emerges a satisfying food.

Firewater chases the perfect album to the end of the world

Through a tumultuous history emerges a satisfying food.

Qawwality time with Fanna Fi Allah

Through a tumultuous history emerges a satisfying food.

BetterKnowanSFBlog: The Greatest Hits

Through a tumultuous history emerges a satisfying food.

San Francisco's Very Own Mrs. Pakistan World 2008

Through a tumultuous history emerges a satisfying food.

Pakistani Bloggers Speak Out on “Emergency Rule”: BetterKnowanSFBlog - Metroblogging

Through a tumultuous history emerges a satisfying food.

Bombay Calling

Through a tumultuous history emerges a satisfying food.

Welcome Back, Kaddo

The city's favorite Afghan restaurant reopens

Kim Jong-Il, Jesus, Watson and Crick, SF Rabbi Langer: the Snitch presents the "Top Ten Most Jaw-Dropping Bobbleheads"

The city's favorite Afghan restaurant reopens

Repertory Film Listings

The city's favorite Afghan restaurant reopens

To Hell and Back

Michael Winterbottom puts a face — and a hood — on the suffering at Guantanamo

Repertory Film Listings

Michael Winterbottom puts a face — and a hood — on the suffering at Guantanamo

Over a Barrel

The role of oil in U.S. policy: A new documentary goes behind the headlines

That's Entertainment

A rollicking Bollywood love story mixes progressive politics with its music

Communiqués From Kabul

Afghan art at the Crissy Field Center

Three Kids' Tales

Telling old stories new ways

I Feel Exposed

Filmmakers and freedom

Living Like a Refugee

Michael Winterbottom and Tony Grisoni deliver the tale of two boys lost In This World

Hear This

New Music: What it is, where to hear it, and why it's such a stupid name for a genre

In and Out of India

A meditation on memory and Indian culture, from Krishna dolls to bharathanatyam

Letters to the Editor for the week of 12-5-2001

We Never Got Around to Publishing: Get Me the Pentagon; They Don't Get Letters Like This at The New Yorker; Have a Problem No One Else Can Solve? Let SF Weekly Help.

Spice of Life

Al Hamra

Osama Was Here

To show the value of pundits in the Terror Era, our columnist tells the CIA where bin Laden's been, President Bush where to go

House Of Tudor

"Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

"Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"

House of Tudor

"Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

"Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"

The House of Tudor

"Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"