Subject: Redwood City

• Crossbows on the Green: Suburban Poaching in Redwood City

  October 16, 2007

• Spot That Shot: Can High-Tech System Alleviate City's Gun Woes?

  November 27, 2007

• The Lowbrow Art Sale: Cam De Leon, Basil Gogos & Ken Keirns

  April 8, 2008

• Dog Killer Pleads “No Contest”

  September 10, 2008

• Buckethead, YouTube Live! and Eddie Money: Your Weekend Hitlist

  By Melissa Baron The sun finally came back out and with Thanksgiving on the way it's best to enjoy this weekend before inevitable family drama ensues. Here's what's going on: Friday night Sunlandic dance explosion Of Montreal play the Regency Center Grand Ballroom. For those of you who haven't seen them before, expect dancing, sweating, bright colors and possible nudity. Tickets are $25. There's also an incredible show in Redwood City (if you can get there): Buckethead brings his bizarre b

  November 21, 2008

• Last Night: Live 105's Battle of the Opening Bands

  (Dizzy Balloon gets crafty with the merch setup)Live 105's Not So Silent Night Local Band Competition Finals with: Picture Atlantic, Please Do Not Fight, Go Kart Mozart, Music For Animals, and Dizzy BalloonMonday, Dec. 7, 2008Cafe du NordWords and images by Jennifer MaerzLast night, Live 105-supporting musicians bonded at Cafe du Nord over cups of free ice water and radio station schwag with one common goal in mind. They all wanted to open for the Killers, Death Cab For Cutie, Bloc Party, Franz

  December 8, 2008

• Videogame Sales are Through the Roof -- and Game Designers Are Getting Canned Left and Right

  Bang! Gotcha! Yer fired!As more and more Americans find themselves sitting at home in their tattered bathrobes at 3 p.m. on working days, videogame sales have gone through the roof. Last year, Americans spent $22 billion on games -- a 23 percent jump from the prior year. Now, here's the funny part: Many of the unemployed folks listlessly gaming through the day are themselves game designers. While the industry has recorded record sales, the men and women who design those games, quite a few of who

  February 3, 2009

• Night Crawler

  August 30, 1995

• Today is Square Root Day: Eat Square Roots

  CNET reports that today is Square Root Day since the month and day (number 3) are both the square root of the year (09). The holiday is credited to a Redwood City teacher named Ron Gordon, and, according to the story, "celebrants are expected to mark the occasion by cutting root vegetables into squares or preparing other foods in the shape of the square root symbol." Get chopping those veggies today, folks, because the next Square Root Day isn't until April 4, 2016. The one after that: May 5,

  March 3, 2009

• San Francisco Gallery Owner Claims Thieves Made Off with Quartet of Paintings Valued at $50K

  Gallery owner Michael Rosenthal says this and other paintings by Terry Hoff were stolen this morningMichael Rosenthal -- owner of the eponymous gallery on Valencia Street -- is perplexed as to why thieves ripped off four of his paintings in the wee hours this morning. Sometime between evening and 3 a.m. -- when he got a call from the San Francisco Police Department -- someone took a cro-bar to his metal door frame, lifting it off its hinges (and bypassing glass doors and windows). "Whoever got i

  March 20, 2009

• Letters

  April 3, 1996

• I'd Like to Thank the Ground Beef

  April 25, 2007

• The Asylum Trap

  Unscrupulous attorneys prey on immigrants seeking green cards with an expensive and fruitless legal scheme. Now 29 Mexicans have joined the disbarment case against one such lawyer.

  May 10, 2006

• Political Affairs

  When authors stand up for a cause, the unexpected happens

  January 25, 2006

• America's first true hard-rock god, and Canada's one true electronica nut case

  November 23, 2005

• Remote Controlled

  August 17, 2005

• Nights at the Races

  June 29, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  May 25, 2005

• What's a Coxswain?

  Preppies gather in Redwood City

  April 6, 2005

• Great Scott!

  Could you unknowingly be a Scott Peterson apologist? Let us help you find out.

  August 25, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  August 4, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, May 5, 2004

  May 5, 2004

• Nice Guys Finish First

  The Positive Coaching Alliance asks hard-bitten coaches to fill out workbooks and recite management jargon. It also has them saying things like, "I want to go back and relive my childhood and be coached like this."

  October 15, 2003

• Summer Events a Go Go!

  What to do, all summer long

  June 25, 2003

• Best Discount Shopping Tour

  May 15, 2002

• Sister Act

  May 8, 2002

• Bridgework

  April 24, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  October 10, 2001

• Pulp Friction

  How the Orange Peels turned sour grapes into freshly squeezed pop

  February 28, 2001

• Dog Bites

  October 11, 2000

• Pop Philosophy

  Rock Out S.F.; Bart Davenport; Santa Cruz Lo-Fi Indie Music Festival

  September 27, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  July 5, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  Free Taiwan; A Critical Examination of Cracker Morons and the Fall of the Roman Empire; Critical Mess; Death to the Deserving; Playing the Victim; Arrogant My Ass; Car Talk; A Parallel Universe; Released; Big Shoes; Both Sides Now

  June 7, 2000

• Riff Raff

  December 16, 1998

• Dog Bites

  October 28, 1998

• Dog Bites

  October 21, 1998

• Letters

  May 6, 1998

• That's Just the Sound of the Employment Rate Whizzing Past Your Ears

  The California Employment Development Department released their latest statistics pertaining to unemployment and industry today, and guess what? They are not awesome. California hit a record high of 11.2 percent unemployment in March, which is nearly five points higher than March of last year. San Francisco County's unemployment rate, at 9.0, was higher than both Marin County and San Mateo County.San Francisco, San Mateo, and Redwood City are lumped together in the report as a metropolitan area.

  April 17, 2009

• Mulch

  December 18, 1996

• Dish

  June 19, 1996

• Letters

  January 17, 1996

• Did You Get Stuck With Illegal Taxes When You Bought Your Unabomber Postage Stamps?

  The Smoking GunA few years ago, The Smoking Gun discovered that you could take advantage of custom stamp services and mail your letters affixed with postage depicting the young Unabomber or tyrannical dictators. Now a class action suit in San Francisco district court ponders something more -- are you being ripped off while ordering your Ted Kaczynski postage?  The suit, filed last week by New Yorker Karen Spector, alleges that Redwood City's Zazzle.com illegally bilked their customers out o

  May 11, 2009

• More Football Players -- Including Ex-Cal QB -- Sue EA Games Over Likenesses

  U.C. Berkeley Media RelationsAppropriate Troy Taylor's likeness at your own perilLast month we wrote about how a somewhat underachieving former Arizona State University and University of Nebraska quarterback named Sam Keller sued EA Games and the NCAA, alleging the videogame company is blatantly stealing players' likenesses and the body overseeing collegiate sports is enabling them. Last week two more somewhat underachieving quarterbacks filed suit against EA in New Jersey arguing much the same:

  June 25, 2009

• S.F. Unemployment Numbers: Every Time a Teacher Loses Their Job, a Bartender Is Born

  ​The leaves rustle gently in the wind, and deer raise their dewy muzzles expectantly to the sky. Birds twitter in anticipation. Hark! What's that sound?Shhh. It approaches.Here's this month's unemployment statistics from the state Employment Development Department! So, there's good news and bad news, as always. And by "good news" we mean bad news lite! The good news is that the unemployment numbers for San Francisco are holding steady. We were at 9.3 percent unemployment in June and, darn it i

  August 21, 2009

• Hello, Ladies: Fur Flies at Bay Area 'Cougar' Convention

  All Photos | Daniel C. Britt, used with permissionDrool Brittania: British cougars Rita Sangha (left), 39, and Bea Cameron, 45, take in a lecture on 'the positive aspects of dating younger men' while wordlessly offering younger men a thorough tutorial on the virtues of coupling with older women. ​Earlier this month we reported on the Bay Area laying claim to yet another innovation: The nation's first National Single Cougars Convention -- a night of gaiety for older women who love younger m

  August 31, 2009

• Hut, Hut, Suit: Yet Another Little-Known College Football Player Sues EA Sports for Allegedly Stealing His Image

  Computer NERDS appear to have won in the end, Ogre​ Every couple of months, it seems to happen. No, we're not talking about Oakland Raiders victories (though we bet that'll be an accurate assessment). Yet another obscure former college football player has graduated from football to the full court press, and filed a suit against videogame giant Electronic Arts for allegedly ripping off his likeness and the National Collegiate Athletic Association for making it all too easy to do so. We've writt

  September 11, 2009

• Vehicular Madness, Cop Swarm in Potrero Hill -- With Video

  For reasons yet undisclosed, a car somehow jumped the curb last night on Potrero Street between 23rd and 24th Street around 11 p.m. One neighbor who was returning home from work after the after the accident occurred said that it "looked like every cop in San Francisco was there." The footage above was captured by a nearby resident. Just how, exactly, the above scene came to pass -- and what became of the driver -- is not clear at this time. SF Weekly's calls to the San Francisco Police Dep

  October 8, 2009

• Huzzah: September's Unemployment Statistics are Here

  ​Stop the presses!!! Do not click 'save' on that blog entry!!! Drop everything you are doing RIGHT NOW (fact: The kids will still be at school, they don't die if you're late) and listen up. The Employment Development Department has issued September's unemployment statistics. When last we visited them, the San Francisco metro area's unemployment rate was hovering around the nine-point-sumthin' range, and IT STILL IS. In August, 9.6 percent of you San Francisco/Redwood City/San Mateo dwellers we

  October 16, 2009

• Philly Woman's Alleged Sex-For-World Series Tix Offer Recalls S.F. Incident Involving ... Bananas

  FacebookNormally it'll at least take NLCS tickets to earn a smooch like this, you lucky dog​Susan Finkelstein may soon have the most traversed Facebook page since the brief heyday of Ashley Alexandra Dupre. For those unfamiliar with the former, she's the 43-year-old, self-described "gorgeous tall buxom blonde" who insinuated on Craigslist she'd like tickets to root on her beloved Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series -- but didn't want to pay for them (not with money, at least). An underco

  October 30, 2009

• S.F. Green Business Program rewards polluter

  November 18, 2009