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Ross Mirkarimi: 156 Donors Contribute to "Legal Expense Fund"

Politicians receive some odd gifts. Not as odd as the stuff thrusted Queen Elizabeth's way -- but odd nevertheless. San Francisco public officials must report as a gift "Any source of income aggregating $500 or more invalue, or any source of gifts of $420 or more in value, provided to, received by ... More >>

S.F. Cat Lovers to Let Random People Pick Out Their Next Tattoo to Help Homeless Pets

When you refer to yourself as an animal lover, are you enough of one to let a complete stranger tattoo whatever they want on your body if it meant helping a dog or cat? Think about it. Two very brave SPCA employees, Laura Gretch and Daniel Quagliozzi, are going to let any moron with money design ... More >>

Puck Yeah: Taking the Ice with the S.F. Bulls

Love Apple Farms Offers Workshops for Kitchen and Garden -- and a Great Day Away

Love Apple Farms is a biodynamic farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains that has become our default brain image of an idyllic garden ever since we visited last year. Renowned fine restaurant Manresa in nearby Los Gatos is the lucky beneficiary of much of the focus of operations, serving its produce exclus ... More >>

R.I.P. Jeff "Leppard" Davis, Beloved Bay Area Metal Musician and Recording Engineer

By ALEE KARIM Heavy hearts weigh down the Bay Area music community this week as it reels from the tragic loss of Jeff Davis (known to his community and friends as Jef Leppard) in a fatal motorcycle accident last Sunday, June 10. At 6:41 p.m., Davis and his wife, Nikki, were struck by a grey Audi at ... More >>

Facebook Wants Narcissists to Pay to Make Sure Everyone Sees Their Brilliant Status Updates

Imagine this scene:Half-filled Starbucks, around 2 p.m. Man in plaid button-down sits at table, reading nytimes.com story about Michele Bachmann denouncing her Swiss citizenship. Man chuckles, then pulls up Facebook window.Man in plaid button-down: Excuse me.Facebook: Yeah, waddya want?Man in plaid ... More >>

Peter Thiel Is Nation's 4th Biggest Super PAC Funder

​The nonprofit investigative-reporting outfit ProPublica has published a handy guide to the country's top 10 super-PAC funders -- individuals with enough dough on hand to bankroll, to the tune of millions, independent political committees supporting presidential candidates. Such unfettered spendin ... More >>

PandoDaily: Just What We Needed, Another Tech-News Site

​Really? Seriously? Another site devoted to technology news? Yep, 'fraid so. This one, PandoDaily, will be written by, among others, some of the people who had previously made TechCrunch so awful: Sarah Lacy (who runs it), Michael Arrington, MG Siegler, and Paul Carr. These are people who believe ... More >>

Beloved Bay Area Hip-Hop Photographer D-Ray Needs Help Paying for Surgery

D-Ray Archer (right) and hip-hop star Drake.​D-Ray Archer needs no last name in the West Coast rap world; she's widely known as one of the few female photojournalists with a street stamp of approval up and down the state. Her deep love for the local Bay Area scene is apparent to anyone who tal ... More >>

The Stop Online Piracy Act: The Owner of San Francisco's Burning House Records Explains His Support

​You've probably heard some rumblings about the Stop Online Piracy Act recently. And in all likelihood -- especially if you watch major news channels like CNN -- it's probably all sounded pretty bad and pretty scary. Casey Shafer owns and runs Burning House Records -- an independent, San Francisco ... More >>

Occupy Oakland Arrests: Armor-Wearing "Real Life Superhero" Faces Resisting Arrest Charge

Superheroes or Villains?​Three of the Occupy Oakland protesters who were arrested after last week's General Strike turned chaotic were arraigned in Alameda Superior Court on Monday. Among them was a roughed up "real-life superhero" who had attended the march dressed as a ninja with homemade armor, ... More >>

News Website Down After Publishing Mugshots of Anonymous Hackers

Not so tough without the mask​Bay Area commuters, fresh off yet another BART protest and downtown San Francisco station shutdown last night, might be interested to see some of the faces behind the shadowy hacking group that has helped organize repeated demonstrations against the transit agency.The ... More >>

Eric Quezada, Former Supervisor Candidate, Seeks Alternative Cancer Treatment in Germany

Eric Quezada is fighting cancer overseas. ​Looking at Eric Quezada's career over the last couple years, you certainly wouldn't have guessed he'd been fighting cancer since 2004. The long-time Mission activist and executive director with Dolores Street Community Services ran a failed campaign for s ... More >>

Apple Sued by Pissed-Off Parents

There is no such thing as a free smurfberry​Parents across the country have banded together to sue Apple, claiming the Cupertino-based company has given kids carte blanche to rack up charges on mom and dad's credit cards by buying online games without authorization. Garen Meguerian, a Pennsylvania ... More >>

'Beat a Dodgers Day' Advertised on Craigslist

But not literallySome Giants fans are calling on San Francisco to find a Dodgers fan and beat them -- literally. Bryan Stow, a Giants fan, remains in critical condition in a Los Angeles hospital, after being savagely beaten outside the Dodger stadium as he left the opener game between the Dodgers an ... More >>

Tonight: Party at El Rio for Mission Fire Victims

​Emergency Benefit for Victims of Fire at Mission and Valencia Where: El Rio, 3158 Mission (at Precita), 282-3325 When: Tonight, Apr. 8, 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Cost: Donations accepted at the door The rundown: The fire that ripped through 3212 Mission (at 29th St.) Wednesday night did more than dev ... More >>

Today at Papalote: All-Day Benefit for Godfather of Hip-Hop Kool Herc

Joe ConzoKool Herc doesn't have health insurance, and needs to come up with a hefty deposit for surgery.​Kool Herc (born Clive Campbell) threw the first-ever hip-hop party in 1973, and has been critically celebrated as the godfather of the youth culture that later took over the world. So it's ... More >>

A Peek Into Tell Tale Preserve's October Society Bag

Tamara Palmer​As we've noted, in advance of his Maiden Lane bakery (due this fall), William Werner's Tell Tale Preserve Co. has set up a case of treats at Coffee Bar in Potrero Hill and launched a monthly offering of what it calls its Society bag. The preorder, prepay bags (actually burlap sa ... More >>

Singularity Summit Highlights: World Fails to End

Good guess, champ! ​Well, the world didn't end this weekend. Nobody really expected it to, anyway -- the Singularity Summit at the Hyatt Regency (about which we wrote in some detail last Friday) was less about invoking an immediate techno-cataclysm than it was about laying the groundwork for o ... More >>

Food Forward Documentary Seeks Funds for TV Pilot at Radius Benefit

Sure, you'd watch Lidia Bastianich pounding up pesto Trapanese in fuzzy-lense splendor Saturday mornings on KQED, but would you TiVo a series about the U.S. food system? That's the hope of folks trying to produce a TV series called Food Forward. A year ago, producer/director Greg Roden cobbled t ... More >>

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'Melrose Place' Actress, 49ers Linebacker Among Gavin Newsom's Top Donors

Actress Daphne Zuniga, seen here as 'Princess Vespa,' thinks Gavin Newsom is the best lieutenat governor candidate in the galaxy​As goes Daphne Zuniga goes the lieutenant governor's race -- or so Gavin Newsom would hope. We reported earlier today that San Francisco's mayor has both the internal po ... More >>

Cry for Yelp

The popular web site stands accused of acting like a ‘modern-day Mafia.’

Republican Meg Whitman's secret past as a porn-peddling CEO at eBay

Details on Buying an Organic Holiday Ham from Ryan Farr's 4505 Meats

​Turns out deserving charities won't be the only ones getting a taste of 4505 Meats ham this season. Star butcher Ryan Farr has more details about 4505's holiday ham offerings. Each one is 22 pounds, more or less, from Iowa organic hog farm Becker Lane. Each will undergo brining by 4505, and y ... More >>

Holiday Gift Idea: A Subscription to Meatpaper

Meatpaper​A subscription to San Francisco journal Meatpaper ($28 for four issues, published quarterly) would be both a thoughtful holiday gift as well as a creative way to educate a loved one on, say, the ethics of eating the flesh of seals or the superiority of lard in baking pies, all while givi ... More >>

Gavin Newsom: The Musical! Sing Along With Our Whimsical Mayor.

Sing along with our erstwhile mayor, Gavin Newsom, as he belts out the SF Weekly original tune, "If I Were a Nice Man," (to the tune of "If I Were a Rich Man" of Fiddler on the Roof fame. At last, the great Topol/Zero Mostel debate is over: Gavin is the greatest Tevye of them all!). We hear this tun ... More >>

Soul Food Farm Devastated by Last Week's Fire

Soul Food FarmThirty acres of pasture burned.​Fans of pasture-raised chicken and eggs from the North Bay's Soul Food Farm were no doubt saddened to learn about last Thursday's devastating fire. There were some great things in the works on the farm. As we noted last month, Soul Food was readyin ... More >>

Pie Truck Home Delivery is as Easy as You-Know-What

vegansaurus.com​Ordering in just got a little more decadent now that the Alameda-based Pie Truck, a newly licensed mobile vendor, recently debuted a weekly home delivery service to San Francisco. The current menu features 10-inch pies in blueberry crumble, apple, pecan, sweet potato, backyard lemo ... More >>

Friends of U.C. Student Lost in Malawi Plea for Funds to Continue Searching

Gabriel Buchmann, missing in Malawi​Family and friends of a Brazilian Fulbright scholar last seen on July 17 on Mount Mulanje in Malawi have hastily started an e-campaign to raise funds necessary to continue sending large search and rescue operations into the African mountains and forests. Gabriel ... More >>

Bizarre Craigslist Barter of the Week: He'll Design Your Logo for 15 Bucks Worth of Toilet Paper

He needs T.P. -- won't you PayPal him some dough?In these times of woe, we've heard plenty of sob stories. But we're not quite ready to believe this one: A Craigslist poster -- aptly describing himself as "shit broke" -- is offering to trade "logo design services or Web hosting for say six months?" ... More >>

Points For Variety: Newsom Reels In Big Donations From Plumbers, Maker of Spaceships

Ky MichaelsonCombine rockets and toilets and you get this ... and Gavin Newsom's big donors. Credit where credit is due: If there's one thing Gavin Newsom can do with elan, it's accept a check. Perhaps sometimes there's a little too much elan -- he recently returned a hefty donation from Russell Wei ... More >>

Faux-star reviews!

A negative review on Yelp is bad for business. That's why some merchants feel they must keep Yelpers happy at any cost.

Portland Post-Punkers in Serious Van Wreck Following S.F. Show

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Chicken John Gets Another Crack at Funds

Chicken John Resubmits Paperwork for Public Campaign Funds

City to Chicken John: 'Pay your own way, pal'

Van accident- Trainwreck riders show cancelled tomorrow

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The 40-Year-Old Solo Artists

Bob Mould and Paul Weller each have new records that prove they're as vital as ever -- without their old bands