Queens County

5 Reasons San Francisco Should Maybe Change Its Name to Honor All Sugar Daddies

Sugardaddie.com, a dating website that pairs flush businessmen with broke babes, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in a truly bizarre fashion -- by trying to get a town to rename itself after the site. At first, the company was only approaching towns that already had the word "sugar" in their ... More >>

Five Amazing Murals Honoring Departed Musicians

The Los Angeles mural that has served as a site for Elliot Smith fans to pay tribute to the much beloved singer-songwriter has just been given a revamp, by Punk Rock Marthas -- an art-minded group of charitable folk -- who felt the mural needed a pick-me-up in honor of the nine-year anniversary of S ... More >>

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Construction Site of New Condos Catches Fire

A construction site went up in flames early Saturday morning in the city's Hunters Point neighborhood in what appears to be a very suspicious fire.Press reports say the blaze started at 4 a.m. at West Point and Middle Point roads, and firefighters had the fire under control by 5:30 a.m. According to ... More >>

Blown Away

Alex Smith Leaves Gitane to Open Honor in Emeryville

​Is the mall--er, city of-- Emeryville on its way to becoming a new cocktail hub? With Prizefighter set to open later this month in the old Kitty's location, comes news that Alex Smith has left his position as bar manager of Gitane to open up a Honor, a new bar and grill. Set to open in the ... More >>

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Clapper Rail Bird, Thought Extinct in San Francisco, Found Nesting in Hunters Point

He's back! ​A mating pair of federally endangered San Francisco Bay clapper rail -- a once abundant species thought vanished from San Francisco -- have been discovered alongside some chicks in Heron's Head Park.The park is on a pier made of gravel that was dumped into the Bay to provide footing fo ... More >>

Meet the Bloggers: Jesse Hirsch

You read them here, now find out who the hell they are: We give you the diverse group of men and women who cover the local food and drink scene for you on SFoodie. Name: Jesse Hirsch Blogs about: Events and Happenings Richard Reyes​Having moved here from Queens, New York, last October, Jess ... More >>

Mobb Deep's Prodigy Has More to Say Online Than in Rhyme

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 >>

Rapper J Billion on Being a Bay Area Lakers Fan, Getting His Own Burrito at Papalote, and Running S.F. for a Day

JBillion​ Pairing San Francisco rhymer JBillion's high-strung, tactile rapping voice and beat-maker Rel's sophisticated, soulful production was a good idea. Together, the duo have just released the free download album MVMNT, which is headed up by the first single "Once In A Lifetime." The song ... More >>

Turns Out Songbirds Can't Fly: Joan Baez Falls Out of A Treehouse

Sleeping in trees is nice (yes, we've tried it!); falling out of them is not. Joan Baez discovered that songbirds can't fly earlier this week, when she fell 20 feet out of a treehouse at her Woodside (Peninsula) home, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

The Architect Speaks

S.F. State student who invoked Shield Law reveals murder scene photo in national contest

Through the Fire

Free Screening of 'Babette's Feast' at Charles Chocolates

​If you were destitute and lived a life of servitude before winning the lottery, you probably wouldn't spend your earnings on a huge meal for your employers. But so it goes in the 1987 film Babette's Feast, in which a lonely cook beats the ultimate gaming odds and uses her proceeds t ... More >>

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King of Queens

Chef Mark Sullivan Spruces Up Pacific Heights

The War On Gangs

With murders on the rise, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is cracking down on gangs using a legal tool critics say smacks of McCarthyism

SF Weekly and Pharoahe Monch Chop It Up About Rock the Bells, White People

Hometown Legend

Coming of age and stayin' alive on the mean streets of Astoria, Queens

There Goes the Neighborhood

L.A. gentrifiers pay tribute to a community under siege

Get Out of Jail Free

In the process of taking down the city's baddest gangsters, prosecutors and cops set some very scary people free.

Invasive Species

Film, Theory

The ivory tower of power

J-Zone

A Job Ain't Nuthin' But Work

Best Lumberyard

MacBeath Hardwood

Diseaseville

Asthma, cancer, and other illnesses occur at higher-than-average rates in Hunters Point. Many residents blame the nearby Navy shipyard, one of the most contaminated ex-military bases in the nation.

Roots Radical

Rocker-T wants to unite roots reggae's spirituality with dancehall's hedonistic swagger

Fallout: The Past Is Present

The Nuclear Witnesses

Massing Gas

San Francisco asks the Navy to investigate potentially dangerous methane concentrations at Hunters Point Shipyard

Strike Zone

Curve

Letters to the Editor

Power to the People; A Love/Hate Relationship

Gray Skies

If Gov. Davis has his way, California soon will have dozens of new power plants -- a lot of them in the wrong places, some of them unnecessary, and very, very few of them based on renewable energy

Shame and Courage

The Navy's unconscionable nuclear recklessness and dissembling at Hunters Point should draw the attention of Congress

Chlorine, Benzene, Vinyl Chloride, Trichloroethylene, Beryllium, Nickel, PCBs ...

Even if radioactivity were ignored, Hunters Point Shipyard would be one of the planet's most polluted properties

Fallout

How nuclear researchers handled -- and grossly mishandled -- the Cold War's most dangerous radioactive substances at a top-secret lab inside the Hunters Point Shipyard. The same shipyard the city wants to remake as San Francisco's newest neighborhood.

Hollis Mugley's Only Wish; Seeds Sold; Grey-Haired Smoochies With Rufus

Three Short Plays by Keith Josef Adkins

Best Children's Museum

Randall Museum

Lab Rats

UCSF's Stanley Prusiner is a Nobel laureate and superstar of medical research. But employees don't feel safe working for him.

Reviews

No Fishin'

The Coast Guard busts skippers for angling next to Hunters Point

Dirty Dealings at the Dock

San Francisco is planning to take title to the decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard before the military completes an environmental cleanup. The move could cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars -- or more.

The Redevelopment Sinkhole

Years of reckless borrowing have sent the city's Redevelopment Agency spiraling into debt. Mayor Brown's pet projects may flush it down the drain entirely.

Portrait of the Soul-Jacker

Police call Bernard Temple the meanest hit man ever to roam the gang-infested streets of Bayview-Hunters Point. Temple calls himself a soul-jacker -- someone who kills to steal the spiritual power of his victims.

Pet Sounds

Douglas Hollis combines audio with visual in his larger-than-life environmental sculptures

Shelter Skelter (Part I)

In 1984, four women living in city housing projects said they wanted to get out. Only one made it.

Shelter Skelter (Part II)

In 1984, four women living in city housing projects said they wanted to get out. Only one made it.