Pleasanton

Fair or No Fair with Indulgent Aunt M (at the Alameda County Fair)

Art Boom In The Boonies

DethKlok Brutality at UC Berkeley Limited To Guitar Hero III

State Employees Just Wanna Dance, Dance, Dance!

Serious Bread: Vital Vittles Sourdough Rye

Fresh-ground flour gives this bread extra flavor.

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

Night Crawler

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

SF Weekly Letters

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

Sanctuary for Salvadoran Food

Give me your tired, your poor, but most definitely your pupusas.

My Body, My Self

Food issues and a bad self-image led our columnist to undergo weight-loss surgery. She's still a mess, but a better-looking one.

Strokes hair and suburban boozing

Food issues and a bad self-image led our columnist to undergo weight-loss surgery. She's still a mess, but a better-looking one.

Chaplin and Agee

Pleasanton author John Wranovics traces a Hollywood legend

July Fourth

Pleasanton author John Wranovics traces a Hollywood legend

Letters to the Editor

Week of January 12, 2005

The 5 and Whine

To appreciate L.A. properly, do you have to take Interstate 5 to get there? Maybe. Just maybe.

Controlling Castro

Don't you just love the new, gated, police-heavy Halloween party in the Castro? Quiz yourself and find out.

Festivals and Fairs

Don't you just love the new, gated, police-heavy Halloween party in the Castro? Quiz yourself and find out.

Not So Inviting

Why do people get so worked up about what's written on an envelope?

Haunted Happenings

Halloween Listings

Love-In

Free Bard in the park

Summer Events a Go Go!

What to do, all summer long

Halloween

What to do, all summer long

Make Sure There Aren't Any Squares at My Funeral

Punk hero Matty Luv passes on

Scare Tactics

Where and when to have a hopping Halloween

Letters to the Editor

Tire Iron vs. Baseball Bat; Trashing SUVs Is Rude? Well Then, We'll Stop Doing It.; Or We Could Just Deport Them to Fresno; Modesto, My Modesto; Say, People Are Still Saying "Meme"?

Welcome Home

How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs

Dog Bites

How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs

Dog Bites

Two! Four! Six! Eight! It&185;s Tavolino That We Hate!

R&R Rundown

Two! Four! Six! Eight! It&185;s Tavolino That We Hate!

Night Crawler

Two! Four! Six! Eight! It&185;s Tavolino That We Hate!

Night Crawler

Two! Four! Six! Eight! It&185;s Tavolino That We Hate!

Night+Day

Two! Four! Six! Eight! It&185;s Tavolino That We Hate!

Safeway Jumps on Locavore Bandwagon

Safeway was well ahead of the curve as far as the country-of-origin food labeling that went into effect on March 16. Recently, the company instituted new produce signage that both informs and entices the locavores among us.

Cheap Musical Thrills

Give your ears — and your wallet— a summer treat.

Unlike Pleasanton, San Francisco Keeps its Anti-Housing Laws Off the Books

When it comes to quelling housing development, there's the law and there's the law...​Pleasanton city fathers spent this week in conniption fits after a Superior Court judge ruled that the city can't cap its number of housing units at 29,000. Pleasanton now faces a choice of halting all commercial ... More >>

Q&A w/ Joyo Velarde of Quannum Projects

​Joyo Velarde is taking a break from being everybody's back-up singer. After incessant touring with Jurassic 5, the Living Legend Crew, Blackalicious, Michael Franti, Zion I, Ozomatli, and husband Lyrics Born, among many others, the classically-trained, Pleasanton-based, Quannum Projects vocalist ... More >>

Hunting Season for Liberals Proposed By Bay Area GOP Candidate Brad Goehring

Brad Goehring: It's liberal-hunting season! ​The would-be Republican challenger to Rep. Jerry McNerney in District-11 has been forced to cop to making a terrible "joke" after posting -- and removing -- a Facebook comment calling for "hunting" liberals. Brad Goehring -- an aptly named man, it would ... More >>

Media's 'Man on the Street' in Facebook 'Liberal Hunting' Piece Actually Story's Tipster

Screen capture | KTVUFar from being a 'Man on the Street,' Republican voter Jim Freeman was the originator of the Facebook 'liberal hunting' story​We reported earlier today on a Bay Area GOP Congressional candidate's bizarre Facebook post, in which he fantasized about issuing hunting permits f ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

Alameda PoliceSo, what's my story? ​Good news, readers! Since last week's winners took home surprise tickets to Oysterfest, you can still win THE CAR OF THE FUTURE! It's positively futuristic! Send us all the correct answers here; first one is the big winner. 1. Who is Richard Cochran? A. The form ... More >>

Cancakes, Sweetfingers, and Other Local Food Commercials We Love

Local television isn't as booming as it was years ago. One of the greatest casualties, Dr. Jang excepted, is the proliferation of awesome and awesomely strange commercials for Bay Area businesses. We thought we'd take a moment to honor a few past and present food commercials we love: 5. East Oa ... More >>

Christine Shreeve Hubbs, 'Hummer Mom,' Accused of Sex with Boys

Christine Shreeve Hubbs is accused of allowing boys to fire pellet guns out her car window -- among other crimes​Sex, Hummers, pellet guns -- just another day in the suburbs. In an truly jaw-dropping case, Christine Shreeve Hubbs, an attractive, 42-year-old Mormon mother of three and wife of a de ... More >>

Memorial Fund For Derek Allen, Cyclist Killed By Muni Bus, To Benefit Art Program

Derek Allen, just 22 years old​The friends and family of Derek Allen, the cyclist killed by a 44-O'Shaughnessy bus Oct. 7 are hoping something beneficial can come from the untimely death of 22-year-old. A memorial fund in Allen's name has been established to help fund the ceramics program at his a ... More >>

State Fund Heading Out of 'Dumb' San Francisco

You'll move to Vacaville, that's what you'll do...​This morning, the Chronicle broke a good one: The State Compensation Insurance Fund is moving 755 jobs out of San Francisco because it's too damn expensive here. Also, per the Chron, our city's workforce is "too dumb." That kind of sentiment is ce ... More >>

Safeway Reconsidering Whether to Allow Congress on Your Corner Events at Its Stores

Not In My Backyard​Safeway Inc. is reconsidering whether to continue allowing the Congress on Your Corner events to take place at the grocery stores across the nation after the tragic shooting in Arizona that left six people dead and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in serious condition.  ... More >>

Ernest Scherer III, Bay Area Gambler, Killed Parents to Get Inheritance, Jury Says

Ernest Scherer III​A jury today found Ernest Scherer III guilty of killing his parents, saying he murdered them so he could access his inheritance early and pay down mounting poker debts. In March 2008, Scherer was arrested on suspicion of murder after the bodies of Ernest Scherer Jr., 60, and Cha ... More >>

Summer Guide: Bay Area Summer Food Festivals

Ernest Scherer III​A jury today found Ernest Scherer III guilty of killing his parents, saying he murdered them so he could access his inheritance early and pay down mounting poker debts. In March 2008, Scherer was arrested on suspicion of murder after the bodies of Ernest Scherer Jr., 60, and Cha ... More >>

Judge Won't Prevent Cops from Arresting Gun Lovers Who Tote Assault Weapon Replicas

make no mistake ... this is legal in California ​Two Bay Area gun lovers lost a battle in court after a judge refused to interfere with cops' discretion when it comes to making firearms arrests.  The case started after Mark Haynie and Brendan Richards were arrested in 2009 and 2010 on suspici ... More >>

FBI to Announce Development in Case of Daniel Andreas San Diego, Vegan Bay Area Bomber

Doesn't like meat​Authorities say they have some big development in the unresolved case of Daniel Andreas San Diego, the vegan animal liberationist who is wanted for the 2003 bombings of a biotechnology firm and a nutrition and cosmetics company in the Bay Area. FBI officials told reporters that S ... More >>

Kids' Letters to Santa Demonstrate Everything Wrong with America Today

Explore The BruceLike prayer, but secular​This Sunday The Oakland Tribune ran a selection of kids' letters to Santa. Some clever editor or layout person made a point about things by placing the following two letters right on top of each other: Dear Santa, I'm so happy I am saying a hello to you. I ... More >>

Holiday in the Margins

Explore The BruceLike prayer, but secular​This Sunday The Oakland Tribune ran a selection of kids' letters to Santa. Some clever editor or layout person made a point about things by placing the following two letters right on top of each other: Dear Santa, I'm so happy I am saying a hello to you. I ... More >>