Quebec

"Mama": Less Scary Than a Call From Mom

Comprehensive Guide to the Best Poutine in San Francisco

As fall settles in on San Francisco, it brings changes at the farmers' market, restaurant menus, and the type of weather-related bitching done by city residents. With each successive fall, one food item seems to be rearing its greasy head on more and more menus: poutine. Every year, this Quebecois p ... More >>

Metallica Goes Indie (Sort of) with Launch of Blackened Records

After decades of affiliation with Warner Music Group, Bay Area metal giant Metallica is stepping out on its own. Today, the band takes ownership of all of its old masters, and launches its own label, Blackened Records, which will be the home of all future Metallica releases. "It's always been about ... More >>

On Trisha's Country Kitchen, Trisha Yearwood Can't Stop Proving How Damn Country She Is

Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, Trisha's Country Kitchen, a half-hour show of executives laughing at us, Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. on the Food Network. Trisha Yearwood is a two-time cookbook author with a new show on the Food Network about souther ... More >>

Hey, Critics of the Happy Meal Toy Ban: Banning Fast Food Advertising Does Work

​San Francisco came in for a heap of ridicule last year -- including some from this very paper -- when the Board of Supervisors passed a ban on selling fast-food meals containing toys. The sentiment intensified, of course, when McDonald's easily skirted the ban. Messages like ours have r ... More >>

"Barney's Version": Mordecai Richler gets a downgrade

​San Francisco came in for a heap of ridicule last year -- including some from this very paper -- when the Board of Supervisors passed a ban on selling fast-food meals containing toys. The sentiment intensified, of course, when McDonald's easily skirted the ban. Messages like ours have r ... More >>

"Mesrine": Rambling tale of a gangster-showman

​San Francisco came in for a heap of ridicule last year -- including some from this very paper -- when the Board of Supervisors passed a ban on selling fast-food meals containing toys. The sentiment intensified, of course, when McDonald's easily skirted the ban. Messages like ours have r ... More >>

JEFF the Brotherhood Think Our Burritos Are Weird

​Garage rock is not a fad. It's been percolating for over half a century, in one form or another, and shows no sign of letting up. JEFF the Brotherhood is the kind of band that explains why. Nashville brothers Jamin and Jake Orrall are out to extract as much fun as possible from a growling guitar, ... More >>

What To Do? Tuesday's Pick: The Aversions

​Nervous Tics, The Aversions, Complaints @ the Knockout Given their widely held rep as effete, soft-cheese-spreading existentialists, the world's French-speaking people don't get much credit in the rock 'n' roll world. What bands like Eastern Canada's Aversions prove, however, is that a French ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for December 10-16

​Nervous Tics, The Aversions, Complaints @ the Knockout Given their widely held rep as effete, soft-cheese-spreading existentialists, the world's French-speaking people don't get much credit in the rock 'n' roll world. What bands like Eastern Canada's Aversions prove, however, is that a French ... More >>

Quebec Mon Amour

​Nervous Tics, The Aversions, Complaints @ the Knockout Given their widely held rep as effete, soft-cheese-spreading existentialists, the world's French-speaking people don't get much credit in the rock 'n' roll world. What bands like Eastern Canada's Aversions prove, however, is that a French ... More >>

Without a Paddle

​Nervous Tics, The Aversions, Complaints @ the Knockout Given their widely held rep as effete, soft-cheese-spreading existentialists, the world's French-speaking people don't get much credit in the rock 'n' roll world. What bands like Eastern Canada's Aversions prove, however, is that a French ... More >>

Supermarket Sweep

Male fulfillment, and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion.

Yes Cancels Aug. 19 Shoreline Performance

Male fulfillment, and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion.

Dengue Fever Plays Independent in April

Male fulfillment, and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion.

DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist Bring The Hard Sell to SF in Feb., Kid Koala Opens

Male fulfillment, and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion.

Xiu Xiu To Release "New Women as Lovers Double LP" and 2008 Tour

Male fulfillment, and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion.

Beirut's Zach Condon: Young Success 'Fucked With a Lot of Things' -- Interview

Male fulfillment, and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion.

Wal-Mart 'R' Us

Does 'sustainability' mean meddling in workers' personal lives? San Francisco's Act Now Productions seems to think so.

Repertory Film Listings

Does 'sustainability' mean meddling in workers' personal lives? San Francisco's Act Now Productions seems to think so.

Ladies choice: Sister Carol and Team Dresch

Does 'sustainability' mean meddling in workers' personal lives? San Francisco's Act Now Productions seems to think so.

Repertory Film Listings

Does 'sustainability' mean meddling in workers' personal lives? San Francisco's Act Now Productions seems to think so.

A Thrilling Death

Angels watch over Corteo

Maple Leaf Boogie-Woogie

A cheat sheet of bands from the new Seattle -- that's right, Canada!

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Paralyzed by Politeness

Some Bay Area citizens take sensitivity to a silly extreme

Hypocritical Oaths

An island town will do anything to seduce Dr. Lewis

Out of the Passé

A Québécoise becomes a choreographer

Ween

Quebec

Reps Etc.

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Reps Etc.

Quebec

Varekai

The concept's high and thin, but Cirque du Soleil still puts on a fabulous show

Barnes Storming

Athens' Of Montreal gives its whimsical psychedelia a raucous jolt

House of Tudor

Bossa nova homage, rolling residences, guileless political discussion, and crop circles

O Canada

Unexpected Pleasure from a talented Canuck playwright

Reps Etc.

Film Reps List for 12-05-2001

Emma Goes to France

Amelie serves up a daring, moving take on Jane Austen's best-loved heroine.

Bless the Blockhead

How A Charlie Brown Christmas almost wasn't, then became a tradition

A HAL of an Idea

Dr. David Stork is trying to create a new computer that thinks like a human being. But he needs your help.

Two to Say Go

The woman who would bike the length of North and South America, and the man who's running around the world

House Of Tudor

American Heartbreak, Joe Buck, Polkacide,

Night + Day

American Heartbreak, Joe Buck, Polkacide,

Night + Day

American Heartbreak, Joe Buck, Polkacide,

Night+Day

American Heartbreak, Joe Buck, Polkacide,

Night+Day

American Heartbreak, Joe Buck, Polkacide,

The Choir Visible

American Heartbreak, Joe Buck, Polkacide,

Night+Day

American Heartbreak, Joe Buck, Polkacide,

Night+Day

American Heartbreak, Joe Buck, Polkacide,

Dish

American Heartbreak, Joe Buck, Polkacide,

Apocalypse Now

Skunk Anansie parties like it's 1999