Salt Lake City

Morrissey Has Canceled This Sunday's Show at Davies Symphony Hall, Of Course

We told you recently that the idea of Morrissey actually playing a scheduled tour date in San Francisco has become a joke. And we were right: The punchline, sadly, has just arrived. Morrissey has called off this Sunday's show at Davies Symphony Hall due to his ongoing struggle with Barrett's esoph ... More >>

San Franicsco Just Isn't Gay Enough for Oaklanders

We have yet to recover from the injury last year when we were told that the God-worshiping city of Salt Lake City, Utah was gayer than San Francisco. Now, the gay universe is adding insult to injury when it decided that Oakland, the place San Franciscans love to hate, is gayer than gay. Using thi ... More >>

Salvatore Cordileone, San Francisco's New Archbishop, Helped Create Prop. 8

The Vatican today named Salvatore Cordileone, one of the creators of California's notorious Proposition 8, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, a jurisdiction that spans from Hawaii to Salt Lake City, Utah. Cordileone, bishop of the Oakland Diocese since 2009, will replace ... More >>

Kaskade on the Rise of EDM, What He Really Does Onstage, and Missing San Francisco

After growing up in Chicago and passing through New York and Salt Lake City, Ryan Raddon -- better known to his thousands of fans as Kaskade -- came to San Francisco. It was here, among the city's flourishing early-2000s house scene, that Raddon came into his own as a DJ/producer of electronic dance ... 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 >>

Energy Bars, Now With Insects

Salt Lake City inventor Pat Crowley and San Francisco resident Dan O'Neill have co-founded Chapul, the country's first company to tout energy bars made from insects high in protein, iron, calcium and omega-3 fatty acids. Specifically, Chapul makes what it calls "the original cricket bar." Cricket f ... More >>

San Francisco Attempts to Recruit Even More Gays to the Castro

Obviously, San Francisco is still reeling from the disturbing fact that not only are we not the gayest city in the nation, but apparently Salt Lake City, Utah does a better job at catering to its homosexuals. That alone is enough reason for San Francisco to up the ante when it comes to making this c ... More >>

Window on a Nightmare

Gayest City in America Is ... in Utah?

SF Weekly readers might remember just how upset the gay community was when San Francisco was booted down the list of gayest cities in America last year. To add insult to injury, the Advocate has not only decided San Francisco is still not the gayest city, but that Salt Lake City -- home of the God-w ... More >>

The Avett Brothers on Working with Rick Rubin and Finding Solace in Home Depot

The Avett Brothers​ The Avett Brothers have been busy. Following the commercial success of their 2009 release, I And Love And You, the band has been touring nonstop through the U.S. and Europe, including a stop at the Grammys with fellow banjo aficionados Mumford & Sons and, oh yeah, Bob Dylan ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: Dad Says It Saved Two-Year-Old Son with Cancer

Cash Hyde​There are many ways to look at the story of two-year-old brain-tumor survivor Cash Michael Hyde, whose father, Michael, secretly slipped him medical marijuana oil in his feeding tube during chemotherapy last fall. You could assume that the plant is an effective drug. Chemotherapy left ... More >>

No Age Talks All Ages Venues, Substitute Teaching, and How To Be a Vegan on Tour

No Age is guitarist Randy Randall (left) and drummer Dean Allen Spunt​One pleasure of interviewing touring bands over the phone is getting to talk to them from random places. When we spoke to No Age's Randy Randall, he was standing outside a Flying J truck stop somewhere between Boise and Salt Lak ... More >>

Cocktober Surprise: An Indecent Urinal Proposal

It's okay! Andrew Miller is married! ​The Week In GayThe biggest news this week is the new term I learned: Cocktober!  Isn't that terrific?  How have I lived on this planet for multiple decades without ever referring to this month as Cocktober??It's adorable, I tell you. And you'll never ... More >>

Meg Whitman Plays Haplessness Card For Hiring Illegal Immigrant, Running Porn Empire

I have no idea how I ended up in this outfit...​Meg Whitman has responded to allegations that she kept an illegal immigrant maid for nine years by saying she was powerless and ignorant in the face of a complex and vexing issue. This wouldn't be the first time the aspiring governor of California en ... More >>

Q & A w/ Rogue Wave

​From their recent album release Permalight and a supporting tour to shooting music videos in the Salton Sea, the dudes of the Bay Area's very own Rogue Wave are pretty busy to say the least. As a solid staple on the indie music agenda, their fifth album doesn't cease to disappoint with familiar ... More >>

Kimpton's 'Cocktails for a Cure' Raises Cash for HIV Service Orgs

Do your karma a favor -- throw back a few.​Kimpton Restaurants is donating money for each "special" cocktail purchased this month. The Cocktails for a Cure fundraiser is to benefit HIV service organizations, and is part of an ongoing, 20-year commitment by the S.F.-based hospitality chain. I ... More >>

Shakedown 20: Remembering the Big Loma Prieta Quake. Today's Edition: Reporter's Shaky Hug at The 'Stick

​The moment was at hand. The honor guard was assembling. Our first World Series game was about to start. It was a nice fall evening, and we had good seats along the third base line. But something vital was missing: a hot dog and beer. Four of us had flown in from Salt Lake City, where we work ... More >>

The Las Vegas Locomotives? Sin City Football Franchise's Lame Name and Lamer Rationale Bode Poorly for Today's San Francisco Unveiling

When is a name a trainwreck? ​ As we reported last week, the San Francisco franchise in the nascent United Football League will today unveil its name, logo, and uniform design at a 10:30 press conference at AT&T Park. Yes, we'll be there with a camera. But our expectations have now been marked ... More >>

Guantánamo's Last Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

MP3 of the Day: Uzi & Ari

(Photo by by Serina Nielson) Strange when an indie record store in Salt Lake City lists among its most popular releases a relatively unknown band from San Francisco. But in the Jan. 22 issue of Rolling Stone's "local favorites" column, the Bay Area's own Uzi & Ari's Headworms was listed amo ... More >>

Last Night: Enon with The Blacks at Bottom of the Hill

Dengue Fever Plays Independent in April

Brother Ali's 'Truth Is Here' Tour Reaches SF in March

Xiu Xiu To Release "New Women as Lovers Double LP" and 2008 Tour

OM Announce US Tour Dates

BART Map Revamp: Getting Better or Worse? You Decide

Latter-Gay Saints

Carol Lynn Pearson's gay Mormon drama sets the static and the fluid in bold opposition. Unfortunately, the static wins out.

Cold War Kids Back for ColdWinterSF

AFI Spinoff Blaqk Audio Sells Out Popscene

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Tibetans Say, "Go A's!" to Protest 2008 Beijing Olympics

Van accident- Trainwreck riders show cancelled tomorrow

Cultural caches:Battling wits with Lady Sov's "nemesis"

Turkish Delight

Crossing the Bridge explores music where East meets West

Torino It Off

This horrible Winter Olympics game doesn't even medal.

Political Puppets

Napkins, chopsticks, and teapots bring a Japanese internment camp to life

The No-Sin Zone

Kaskade's Mormon faith doesn't prevent him from being one of the most in-demand house DJs around

Best Lumberyard

MacBeath Hardwood

Life, Cubed

A day of living by the roll of the dice expands the idea of chance encounter -- exponentially

The Poindexter Effect

Digging into the architect of Total Information Awareness unearths good news: Ordinary Americans value civil liberties

Two Heads Are Better Than One

An hour of dick tricks and other "genital gesticulations" with Puppetry of the Penis

The New Defenders

An explosion of federal funding has Bay Area researchers at the forefront of America's counter-terrorism program. Will the money make us safer - or just make science a military secret?

Misplaced Priorities 101

Amid a drastic budget crisis, why is the California State University system spending $400 million on computers? And where is the money coming from?

A Lion in Winter

S.F.'s Indiefest fashions a quality program out of Sundance's rejects

Dream Weaver

Sandman author Neil Gaiman finds magic in the damnedest place

Reel World

The Fairfield Wives

Dr. John Parkinson, a civic and religious leader in the perfectly suburban town of Fairfield, told women they needed pelvic exams. Long exams. Several times a week. For years. And they believed him.

Riff Raff

The Grid

City of Night

Homeless gay youths in San Francisco run an extraordinary risk of HIV infection, according to city statistics. On the street, safety is a matter of economics -- and hope.