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Crossbows on the Green: Suburban Poaching in Redwood City

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

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 s ... More >>

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: ... More >>

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 sq ... More >>

Remote Controlled

Will a new generation of curbside sensors end our parking problems -- or help the government monitor our every move?

Nights at the Races

How to sail the bay for free this summer

What's a Coxswain?

Preppies gather in Redwood City

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, May 5, 2004

Summer Events a Go Go!

What to do, all summer long

Best Discount Shopping Tour

Savers

Sister Act

A local writer wins a contest to help lesbians jump-start their film careers

Pulp Friction

How the Orange Peels turned sour grapes into freshly squeezed pop

Riff Raff

How the Orange Peels turned sour grapes into freshly squeezed pop

Dog Bites

How the Orange Peels turned sour grapes into freshly squeezed pop

Dog Bites

How the Orange Peels turned sour grapes into freshly squeezed pop

Letters

How the Orange Peels turned sour grapes into freshly squeezed pop

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 F ... More >>

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 ne ... More >>

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 abo ... More >>

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 t ... More >>

Charity Auction Item Mocking Tiger Woods Sells for $125

Yours for $125!​Last week we wrote about an interesting opportunity to put schadenfreude to work for a good cause. A broken 9-Iron splayed across a framed photo of Tiger Woods mocking the golfer's exploding sex bomb woes went under the gavel at the KNBR charitable sports auction. What a combinat ... More >>

Anti-Spam Crusader Dan Balsam Takes Spammers To Court -- And Wins

Dan Balsam' s favorite Monty Python sketch, bar none...​Note to the world: Dan Balsam is tired of his wife receiving e-mail messages promising her a bigger penis. And he has no interest in getting larger breasts. How much does the San Francisco lawyer hate spam? Enough to initiate the DanHatesSpam ... More >>

Latest State Employment Numbers: Slightly More Abysmal than Before

​We know you've been sitting in the closest, in the dark, refusing food and ignoring the increasingly desperate pleas of friends and family to Please, just come out! Not until I get my next installment of the Employment Development Department's monthly labor statistics, you told yourself resolutel ... More >>

Media Dogpile For iPhonegate Warrant

GizmodoEveryone wants one of these ... and the warrant that ensued from this picture​High-tech and low-tech collided today in Redwood City, when tech journalists were forced to show up in person (gasp!) and shell out cash (double gasp!) to obtain the just-unsealed search warrant in the iPhonegate ... More >>

'Terrorist Explosions' Today in Bay Area. It's a Drill, People...

Hey, nothing to worry about...​Explosions will ripple through the Bay Area today -- but those averse to objects blowing up are urged to worry not. It's all part of the drill. Today is the Golden Guardian full-scale, port security exercise across the state -- and "The Ports of Oakland, Redwood City ... More >>

San Francisco Unemployment: Bad, Could Be Worse

​Ah, the monthly Labor Market Info from the California Employment Development Department. It's like an old friend, dependable and reliable. Actually, it's more like that friend you've had since college. And you don't really have anything in common with them anymore, but you feel really bad about c ... More >>

Ex-Frisee Owners Launch Southern Sandwich Co., a Mobile BBQ Eatery

Southern Sandwich Co.Owners Brett and Nathan Niebergall bought a used taco truck, then did most of the rehabbing themselves.​When brothers Brett and Nathan Niebergall shuttered Frisee back in December 2008, they posted a good-bye note on the door of the Castro restaurant promising they planned ... More >>

Southern Sandwich Eyes S.F. Debut

Tamara PalmerSmoked beef sausage and hush puppies.​Man, we're salivating just looking at that picture and remembering that smoked beef sausage and glossy toasted bun. Damn. We drove down to Redwood City to check out Southern Sandwich, the new truck from Nathan and Brett Niebergall. The brother ... More >>

Swindler Dresses As Clown On Kiddie Bike To Impersonate Immigration Official

Oh look! Two immigration officials! ​The evidence is in: To immigrants, there is little difference between an immigration authority and a clown on a kiddie bike. That was the disguise Frank Salvador Solorza used when impersonating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official and extorting ... More >>

Hawaii Six Five-0: Takahashi's Polynesia on the Peninsula

Tamara PalmerGuava chiffon cake from Redwood City's Cake Happy.​Tokutaro Takahashi started his eponymous San Mateo market in 1906, and there it still stands, operated by three generations of the Takahashi family. What it might lack in polish, it more than compensates for with the Bay Area's be ... More >>

A National Tour of 10 Strange Musical Sandwiches

​Music celebrities continue to be a fertile source of inspiration for sandwich makers across the nation. Behold some incredibly strange examples of a growing art form; call it an iTunes eatlist. The star: Lady Gaga The sandwich: Fried cod sticks, avocado, roll The location: Hapa Ramen, San F ... More >>

T.G.I. Frisco: San Francisco's Dearth of Chain Restaurants

Kevin Y./YelpOkay, so we do have an Olive Garden out near S.F. State.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Yesterday at LA Weekly's Squid Ink, SFoodie's sister food blog with the WTF name, editor Amy Scattergood passed along a list from Nation's Restaurant News of America's 15 favorite casual- ... More >>

Nearly 50,000 Gallons of Raw Sewage Flood Redwood City. Is That A Lot?

There's 50,000 gallons more where that came from, kid...​Stories about just shy of 50,000 gallons of raw sewage bubbling into half a dozen prim Redwood City homes and inundating the community's lagoon touched off a round of schadenfreude here in the city. There's just something that much funnier a ... More >>

State bill makes malicious sock puppets a crime

There's 50,000 gallons more where that came from, kid...​Stories about just shy of 50,000 gallons of raw sewage bubbling into half a dozen prim Redwood City homes and inundating the community's lagoon touched off a round of schadenfreude here in the city. There's just something that much funnier a ... More >>

Plane Crashes into Redwood City Lagoon Near Oracle; Woman Killed

A Beechcraft BE 65 like this one is currently submerged in a Redwood City lagoon, and at least one passenger is dead​At least one person is dead following a small plane's plunge into a Redwood Shores lagoon. This, by the way, is the very same lagoon inundated by 50,000 gallons of raw sewage last w ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

A Beechcraft BE 65 like this one is currently submerged in a Redwood City lagoon, and at least one passenger is dead​At least one person is dead following a small plane's plunge into a Redwood Shores lagoon. This, by the way, is the very same lagoon inundated by 50,000 gallons of raw sewage last w ... More >>

Giants World Series Trophy at City Hall (PICS)

Oh happy day! ​At San Francisco's City Hall, one eventually gets used to the sight of statuesque brides in frilly gowns and strappy sandals clomping through the metal detectors. But a fella with a two-foot-tall, traffic cone orange hat, a matching scarf and a gleeful Jack-O-Lantern smile? No, he's ... More >>

Giants' World Series Trophy in City Hall Tomorrow

You think he was there for the trophy or the supes meeting? ​The confluence of the current Board of Supervisors' final meeting and a two-day stopover by the Giants' World Series trophy portends for large crowds in City Hall over the next several days. Expect lots of wild clothing and boisterous sp ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

You think he was there for the trophy or the supes meeting? ​The confluence of the current Board of Supervisors' final meeting and a two-day stopover by the Giants' World Series trophy portends for large crowds in City Hall over the next several days. Expect lots of wild clothing and boisterous sp ... More >>

'Madden NFL' Creator Sues Electronic Arts, Says He Is Owed 'Tens of Millions'

​If you're a man under the age of 40, chances are you have considered suing Electronic Arts -- for the hours, days, and years of your life lost to the video-game company's addictive football franchise, Madden NFL. Well, game developer Robin Antonick has his own bone to pick. Antonick, who asserts ... More >>

John Abdon Johnson Gets 30 Days in Jail for Kicking His Dog

It hurts​A Redwood City man is being jailed after cops saw him beating his sweet little pup, Bucket. The San Jose Mercury News reports that police busted John Abdon Johnson, 56, kicking Bucket in the head and the ribs on May 13. When a cop tried to get him to stop, he told police he had the right ... More >>

Izak Jesus Garcia-Lopez, Baby Shot to Death, Update: Police Arrest Teenager

One arrested ​UPDATE: Police arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of shooting and killing a infant Sunday morning. They say the teenager was seeking revenge for being the target of a beating in May. However, police claim the shooting was a case of mistaken identity. According to media outlets, ... More >>

Alleged Con Artist Pearlasia Gamboa Explains Her Fake Island Nation (VIDEO)

People facing serious accusations of financial fraud aren't habitually chummy with the media. Redwood City resident Pearlasia Gamboa is an exception to this rule, as SF Weekly discovered when she paid a recent visit to our office. Gamboa, the subject of this week's cover story, has participated in v ... More >>

Shawna Kim Apour, Lizard-Stabbing Suspect, Deemed Incompetent for Trial

This is only a Speedy look alike​The San Carlos woman who was accused of stabbing her boyfriend's precious pet lizard, Speedy, to death will receive treatment rather than jail time. Media outlets are reporting that 37-year-old Shawna Kim Apour suffers from a developmental disability which makes he ... More >>

Adorable Cat Found Dead in Lagoon with Dumbbell Tied Around its Neck

What kind of monster would kill a cat?​The Peninsula Humane Society gave us a heartbreaking story about a 12-year-old cat that was found floating in the Redwood Shores lagoon yesterday with a weight tied around its neck. A city worker found the cat -- a black and white Tuxedo feline -- yesterday i ... More >>

Reward for Drowned Cat Increases to 8K

He looked kinda like this ​Last week, we told readers about the horrific tragedy where a 12-year-old cat was found floating in the lagoon with a five-pound weight tied to its neck. The Peninsula Humane Society is on the hunt for the cat killer -- and the community is helping, too.The Peninsula Hum ... More >>

Pearlasia Gamboa Named 'Notable Fraudster' by Nigerian Magazine

​Given the now-cliched form of e-mail fraud known as "The Nigerian Prince" -- someone claiming to be African royalty sends you a message out of the blue offering to entrust you with a fortune in exchange for some personal information, such as your bank account number -- it seems odd that a Nigeria ... More >>