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Robert Shearer, former SF State Director, Busted for Alleged White-Collar Crime

The corruption saga surrounding Robert Shearer, the former SF State employee accused scamming the cash-strapped university out of millions, is finally coming to a head. After years of investigation, Shearer was arrested on April 18 in his Fremont home on suspicion of colluding with a hazardous was ... More >>

Voting With Your Feet: The Three Camps at War Over the City's Mobility

Lost in the Night: Matrixxman Does Disco at Milk Bar

Spilt Milk presents Matrixxman Saturday, March 23, 2013 Milk Bar Head to the Haight and walk down towards Stanyan. There, sandwiched between a Whole Foods and one of the city's diciest McDonalds, is Upper Haight's one and only real nightclub. Which is weird, if you think about it. After all, this i ... More >>

Farmers' Market Finds: Nut Butters and Psychedelic Kettle Corn at SFSU

Associated Students, Inc. Farmers' Market Where: Located on SFSU's campus (outside the humanities building) When: Thursdays from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. For years the smells of San Francisco State's farmers' markets have wafted through the open windows in the humanities building and distracted me from my se ... More >>

Study Shows Gay Parents Are No Different Than Straight Parents

A new study adds to the growing mountain of evidence that gays are no different than straight people when it comes to this whole parenting thing.Researchers at San Francisco State University interviewed 48 gay male couples who are raising children together in San Francisco and Salt Lake City. What t ... More >>

Dig Into Ancient Culture

Number 26: Soy Sauce Chicken from Happy Bakery & Deli

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​With the exception of a good egg, Western cooks seem to have lost the art of poaching. Sometime in the 1970s, restaurants supplanted their pike quenelles, suprèmes de volaille (chicken tenders), and poached salmon wit ... More >>

Writers and Riders

Occupy Your Education: S.F. Students to Walk Out of Class Tomorrow

​San Francisco students are planning to walk out of class tomorrow morning, but not because they don't want an education -- rather, they want a better education. And what better way to get the teacher's attention than to walk out of class? In this case, students across the nation are hoping to get ... More >>

One Writer's Quest to Find (People Having) Sex in the Library

I've seen my share of salacious flap copy, but a friend's promotion of the forthcoming novella she edited for Harper Collins, Lust in the Library, caught my attention: "Some like it hot, and some like it in the reference section." "Do they?" I wondered, "or is this truly fiction?" Lust in the Libr ... More >>

Supervisor Wiener Introduces Legislation to Let Food Trucks Park on Colleges

​In December 2010, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed new legislation revising the city's regulations for food trucks seeking to park on the street. The goal: helping San Francisco's street food scene grow and making it easier for food truck operators get up and running. In the pas ... More >>

SF State Contract Fraud: Investigation of Alleged Corruption Continues

Robert Shearer​In August, when we wrote about an investigation into potential contract corruption at San Francisco State that could potentially cost the cash-strapped university hundreds of thousands of dollars, the California State University police told us they were in the "final stages" of the ... More >>

A Charlie Brown Christmas Composer Vince Guaraldi's Heirs Suing for $2M in Unpaid Royalties

Given the time of year, you've probably seen -- and heard -- A Charlie Brown Christmas recently. The 1965 animated TV special's celebrated soundtrack was performed by noted San Francisco jazzman Vince Guaraldi's trio, and recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. But for the pianist and composer's c ... More >>

Global Warming Will Submerge Ocean Beach at Little Cost to San Francisco

CosmoPolitician via Flickr​First, the bad news: Ocean Beach will likely sink, thanks to global warming. But the good news is, it won't suck nearly as bad as it will for our neighbors down in Southern California.The reason for this is that our beach is kinda lame, according to a new study. Therefor ... More >>

Lawyer Suing San Francisco for Racial Discrimination May Need a Lawyer Himself

SF State's Hazardous Waste Cleanup Cost Millions More Than It Should Have

Steak, Pies, Raider Fans, and Burritos

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Steak and pie: The kitschy Palace Family Steak House (3047 Mission at Capp) we mentioned earlier, the one that has its own theme song, is set to open next week, according to Bernalwood. Meanwhile, Blackbo ... More >>

BBQ Joint Smokin' Warehouse Plans to Add a Truck

Luis Chong​Being trapped behind a window in a Bayview warehouse apparently is too confining for Smokin' Warehouse owner Bill Lee. We visited last week and discovered that he has ordered a smokin' truck. That is, a truck for selling barbecue, not one he found by the side of the road with the ho ... More >>

Drone-Metal Duo Barn Owl Talks Desert Motifs, Meditative Sounds, and Performing in Cathedrals

Barn Owl​ San Francisco's Barn Owl makes densely layered guitar music that is equal parts heavy and beautiful. Guitarists Jon Porras and Evan K. Caminiti arrived at their textured sound six years ago while students at SF State, munching vegan tofu burritos and taking in music by rock god Neil ... More >>

'Picasso Man' Nickname Passes From Terry Helbling to Mark Lugo

Mark Lugo has lost a lot -- but gains a nickname​Those wondering what alleged Union Square Picasso thief Mark Lugo was thinking when he purportedly walked out of the Weinstein Gallery with a $200,000 sketch now have an inkling: It went with his other filched Picasso. A raid on the Hoboken, N.J. wi ... More >>

July's Literary Events

San Francisco’s Blue Period

SFPD Tries to Fire Cop for Balking at Conducting Illegal Searches

Arthouse Movie Listings for May 4-10, 2011

Terry Helbling's Tenderloin Flat Full of $200K in Stolen Art

Tony Material? Play at SF State to Dramatize University Budget Cuts

In which the cheer coach makes off with the club's money and goes to Vegas.​Any playwright or screenwriter searching for their next big idea should consider the bizarre case of the San Francisco State cheerleading coach who embezzled the team's money to go to Las Vegas. We're thinking Kirsten Duns ... More >>

March's Literary Events

Erosion at Ocean Beach could send sewage into the sea

Photos from Grammy Career Day at SFSU with John Vanderslice, Lia Rose, and Student Musicians

Lia Rose, singer of Or, the Whale, John Vanderslice, and a student at the 'DIY Do's and Dont's' workshop.​The local chapter of the Recording Academy -- y'know the folks who give out Grammy awards -- did something pretty cool on Wednesday: They gathered a bunch of local artists and industry profess ... More >>

The Identity Card

Voting by race has made the city's political representation more Asian. It could be what puts 33-year-old Jane Kim on the board of supervisors.

Senate To Vote On DREAM Act Tuesday. Local Activists To Picket Feinstein's Office.

​You may recall our July cover feature on young undocumented immigrants waiting for the DREAM Act, a bill that would give illegal immigrants who go to college or serve in the military a path to citizenship. At the time the story came out, many advocates predicted that Democrats would lack the ball ... More >>

iPhone Theft Sting Ensnares Public Masturbator Instead

​On April 12, Officers Chris Oshita and Jaimie Hyun were almost certain they had a thief on their hands. As part of a sting operation meant to ensnare a serial iPhone thief, they had watched for a while as the suspect trailed a few female S.F. State students around the Park Merced area. He kept du ... More >>

Free Show! Tempo No Tempo and Grass Widow Tonight @ 6 p.m.

If you're up near SF State today around 6 p.m., check out the Depot for a free gig from three local bands. Tempo No Tempo and Grass Widow will school college kids and post grads on the finer points of post punk, while Grandma's Boyfriend proffers smart-ass indie pop. FYI: Tempo No Tempo's older vid ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: B. Bravo of Disco vs Dubstep, Lush Life

​You might know this week's Q&A star, B. Bravo, from one of a couple different guises. He busts out the sax for Bayonics, has worked as a DJ both over the airwaves and in clubs, and has recorded a couple solo releases--the latest of which is his Computa Love  EP. Bravo opens for Chromeo a ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

SFPD possibly detained and released fugitive who later killed cop

Anthony's Cookies Owner Smells Success on Valencia

Lucas: Keeping up with demandFrench macaroons may be killing on the dinner-party circuit, but at the sleepy end of Valencia, Anthony Lucas is baking squashed-looking drop cookies for stoners and church ladies. His shop has been open a little more than a month. Yesterday, as a line snaked through the ... More >>

Darfur Downtown: National Darfur Exhibit to Make Bay Area Debut Wednesday

Okay, deep breath. There are a string of community minded organizations in the following sentence, not to mention the repeated use of the proper names "Bay Area" and "Darfur." Here we go: The SF Bay Area Darfur Coalition is partnering with SF State, the Holocaust Center of Northern California, the J ... More >>

NARIP Presents Music and Advertising Seminar @ SFSU

NARIP.comJeff DanieMusic is only one part of the music business. The other part, of course, is business, and a big part of that business revolves around how artists are marketed. With that in mind, the National Association of Recording Industry Professionals, or NARIP for short, is offering a one-da ... More >>

Happy Hour Freebies: Schroeder's

Happy hour customers can help themselves from a rotating selection of appetizers.

O'Reilly Spits Some Truth About San Francisco

Bill O'Reilly just can't get enough of San Francisco. Having recently exposed the dark truth about our city's treacherous streets and parks, O'Reilly cannot stop laying down the cold, hard, factoids. Just when we thought it was safe to skip blissfully through Golden Gate Park, scooping daisies from ... More >>

Friday Night: Chuck Norris Party at Milk Bar

Friday: Bernadette Peters with the San Francisco Symphony

Four Steps to Success for Gavin Newsom

Theater Director Bob Woodruff: On the Power of Poverty, Chaos

SFWeekly Presents: Will Harper

Reps Etc.

Punch-Drunk Love

The Run For Cover Lovers walk the thin line between love and hate

Letters