Redwood City

Peninsula Dining Update: Off the Grid Migrates South, Dinosaurs Brings Banh Mi to Pacifica

Off the Grid is now on in Daly City, bringing the roving food truck market to the Serramonte Center for the summer each Tuesday night, 5-9 p.m. Expect a wide array of weekly-changing vendors, including The Chairman with steamed bao buns, Me So Hungry with burgers, and the Rip Whip with barbeque. Ser ... More >>

Peninsula Dining Update: Ike's and The Plant Cafe Move South, Filipino Chain Dining

Kenta Ramen is the latest entry into the intense pool of San Mateo area ramen shops. The new spot specializes in a spicy taro ramen with pork and tofu, but also offers 16 versions of ramen, udon, and soba. The mammoth menu covers many corners of Japanese cuisine. You can start with crispy chicken ka ... More >>

Peninsula Dining Update: New Coastal Restaurants, a Hofbrau, and Pizza in Palo Alto

Just in time for the summer beach season, a few new destinations have opened up along the coast. In Pacifica, the 140-seat Puerto 27 is now open inside the Pacifica Beach Hotel. The Peruvian-style cuisine comes courtesy of Jose Calvo-Perez, most recently of Pasion in San Francisco's Sunset District. ... More >>

Zazzle Bails on Bay to Breakers Race

If you missed it in the Chron this weekend, Zazzle, the Redwood City-based company that serves as a platform for crappy t-shirts and mugs online, abruptly dumped a city favorite -- Bay to Breakers. It couldn't be worse timing, especially for the city's nudists. Bay to Breakers is now one of the fe ... More >>

Spice Up Your Weekend at Redwood City's Salsa Festival

Redwood City's 5th Annual Salsa Festival Where: Downtown Redwood City (Courthouse Square) When: Sat., Sept 29, 12-8 p.m. Cost: Free Seeing as its motto is "Climate Best by Government Test," we humbly suggest that Redwood City add to that, "And We Also Host a Salsa Fest!" On Saturday, the city will ... More >>

Friday: Uber Delivers On-Demand Ice Cream

You might have previously used Uber, which bills itself as "San Francisco's only on-demand black car service," for a stylish ride home after a drunken night out, but the app-driven company is offering a much sweeter proposition from noon to 6 p.m. this Friday (July 13): On-demand ice cream. That da ... More >>

Free Speech: Activists Challenge Parks Code's Protest Rules

Is "i" the New "Mc"? The Rise of the iRestaurant

​Two weeks ago, the Weekly reviewed iSkewers, a now three-month-old restaurant serving skewers and dumplings in the Outer Sunset. iSkewers (2407 Judah) opened in the same month as iThai (720 Post) and iCreation (1139 Taraval), and there's also a new iDumpling in Redwood City. This week, a tea-and- ... More >>

Drink: Buying Wine: Finding Great Bottles and Advice in S.F.

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 >>

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

​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 her unfit to stand trial. She was ... 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 >>

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 >>

SF Weekly Letters

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 >>

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 >>

SF Weekly Letters

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 >>

State bill makes malicious sock puppets a crime

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

'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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

Crossbows on the Green: Suburban Poaching in Redwood City

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

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

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Letters