Santa Barbara

Here's Your Chance to Love San Francisco While Still Hating Valentine's Day

If you can't be with the someone you love on Valentine's Day, then love the one you are with, as Stephen Stills would sing. And that'd be San Francisco. Who else do you spend all your money on? Now, it's time to declare your love for this city, even if you can't afford it. Thankfully, the S.F. Tr ... More >>

The Rain Has Arrived: Flights Delayed at SFO, Flooding Expected

The much-anticipated rainstorm has landed -- and not even the worst of it. Of course, those folks trapped in the air, trying to land at SFO might feel differently right about now. Airport officials are reporting major delays for arriving flights of up to three-and-a-half hours.In addition, 20 flight ... More >>

Gardens & Villa on Vegetable Farming, the Bansuri Flute, and Playing the Phono Del Sol Festival

Gardens & Villa singer Chris Lynch, 27, keyboardist Adam Rasmussen, 29, and drummer Levi Hayden, 28, met at Westmont College in Santa Barbara. After four years together in a post-punk "noise collage" band, the the three went their separate ways. Lynch hitchhiked to Vancouver in 2007, and after a sta ... More >>

Bay Area Man Accused of Ripping off Pearl Jam to the Tune of $380K

Bad news for better men: the Novato-based former financial manager for Pearl Jam is accused of stealing $380,000 from the Seattle grunge titans, according to the Chron. The man, 54-year-old Rickey Charles Goodrich, paid his own credit card bills, took vacations, and bought fancy wine on the band's ... More >>

Rick Santorum: Don't Know Much About History

It's a shame the "Shit X says" meme is dying out, because Rick Santorum is on a roll. In related news, the "Rick Roll" meme seems to be dying out, too. Shame, that. It was American philosopher George Santayana who famously noted that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." B ... More >>

San Francisco to Pasadena on Public Transit: SF Weekly Inspires Epic Bus Journey

Think of it as a guidebook...​In June, your humble narrator traveled from San Francisco to Los Angeles via public transportation. This journey, as explained in the ensuing cover story, was undertaken for the same reason George Mallory sought to climb Mount Everest: "Because it's there." Mallory's ... More >>

Men Beat Tourist While Calling Him "Faggot"

Castro attack ​Police are looking for a group of men who took a bat and beat a Santa Barbara tourist near San Francisco's Castro District over the weekend. According to Police Captain Denis O'Leary, the 52-year-old man, whose sexual orientation is unknown, was walking at Market and Sanchez streets ... More >>

Hey FDA: Pick On Big Food Producers, Not Little Ones

Genaro Molina/Los Angeles TimesDanielle Fetzer and Steven Pociunas, volunteers at Rawesome Foods in Venice, after the store was raided​After a year-long investigation, agents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration joined state and local authorities yesterday to bust owners of a small Venic ... More >>

San Francisco's Most Comfortable Barbecue

Nice seat​Depending upon where you are, the juxtaposition of couches and barbecues evoke different results. In Santa Barbara, for example, they have a tendency to barbecue their couches. Not so here in the city. And certainly not so over the Fourth of July weekend at Crissy Field, where passers-by ... More >>

In Transit: From S.F. to L.A. via Public Transportation

Becky Selengut Teaches How to Pick and Cook Good Fish

​ Becky Selengut, a cooking teacher and food writer based in Seattle, is coming to San Francisco this weekend to speak about and cook from her new book, Good Fish: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the Seafood Coast. On Saturday morning, she will be doing a cooking demo at the Ferry Plaza Farmers ... More >>

Few Deportable Inmates Are from San Francisco

Mexicans top the list, but the Soviets aren't so far behind. ​Yesterday, we told you about California being a national leader when it comes to the number of criminal aliens incarcerated in our state prisons. It turns out that very few of those criminal aliens hail from San Francisco. Criminal alie ... More >>

Boyle-ing Over

Nerf Herder: Show Preview

Hurrah! California Can Grow Coffee. Is It Worth the Effort?

Michael HutchingsCalifornia coffee, at a premium.​The LA Times food shocked me awake this morning with an article about Jay Ruskey, a farmer near Santa Barbara who was growing, and selling, organic coffee at local farmers' markets. Up until now, the only U.S. state to produce small amounts of coff ... More >>

'Secure Communities' Deporting Low-Level Criminals and Innocents, Opponents Say

Jaywalking? That'll get you deported, hombre​The majority of illegal immigrants deported by a controversial federal program known as Secure Communities are not the "high threat" criminal immigrants the Feds claimed the program would ensnare, according to statistics released today by civil rights o ... More >>

Booked

Punk rock cop writes novel about a punk rock cop.

Behind the Beat with Hotthobo

Patrick Miller​It's been seven years since DJ/producer Randy Ellis moved from Southern California to San Francisco. He had been DJing under the name Hotthobo for a while before relocating, but recently he has started getting his own productions off the ground. Like many DJs, he focused on making " ... More >>

Works by Manson Family pal Bobby BeauSoleil’s Orkustra compiled on double album

Where Does S.F. Department of Elections Get Those Wonderful Pictures For Voter Pamphlets? Would You Believe -- Flickr?

​Thousands upon thousands of San Franciscans were greeted by Voter Information Pamphlets in their mail boxes this week. And yet -- as always -- the dread of a pending election featuring confusing ballot measures, the oft-bizarre arguments expended for and against them, and a handful of unopposed c ... More >>

Turns Out San Francisco *Does* Participate in State's Sunken Boat Disposal Program. This Is Good, Because We'd Already Received, Spent the Money.

Courtesy of the Department of Boating and WaterwaysSome inconsiderate bastard left this boat to rot in the San Joaquin Delta​Last week we reported that the administrator of the California's Abandoned Watercraft Abatement Fund told us that San Francisco does not participate in the state program. Th ... More >>

Chronic City: Dispensary Ban -- Hey, Goleta, Nice Job Helping Patients!

The Goleta City Council has unanimously passed a "temporary" ban on medical marijuana dispensaries -- while still claiming the city is "voicing support" for medical marijuana patients.The Santa Barbara Independent reports that the council voted 5-0 in support of an ordinance banning dispensaries wit ... More >>

State Unemployment Numbers Are In: S.F. Situation Upgraded From 'Shitty' to 'Crappy'

James Duncan DavidsonA sign of the times...The State Employment Development Department today released its monthly accounting of where the state's employment handbasket is in its journey toward hell. And it's a good news-bad news situation akin to: "We've got fresh vegetables -- but we're serving the ... More >>

Five Signs that it's Spring in San Francisco

Spring has sprung, and unlike most of the country, San Francisco's weather isn't the best indicator of the fairest season's arrival. Instead, we have to look a little closer to find differences between now and a 70 degree day in January.1. It's Crazy Costume Season!The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgenc ... More >>

Follow the Bouncing Mayor: Gavin Basks in SoCal Crowds' Love ... Mostly

Paris is a city blessed with so much dog shit, you could be excused for pondering if the French import the stuff. So when Willie Brown -- in a column that was, otherwise, so self-congratulatory it was an honest challenge to get through it -- notes of gai Paris, "what an incredibly clean city. ... Sa ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Mr. E

One of the most respected DJs to grace the Bay Area, Miguel Escobedo has been manning the decks for over two decades. The resident DJ for San Francisco's Rock the Bells tour stop, he's one of the most sought out vinyl spinners when national artists are looking for local support. Coming up in the g ... More >>

Not All Black and White - "Bedrooms" Exhibit Opens 5/2

Monterey Bay Aquarium Sharks are Total Party Animals

Radiohead Coming To SF

City of SF Sued, Settles, Armenians Definitely Genocided: It's! ...

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

The Klaxons, Mad Caddies, Pistolera -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Wednesday July 11

Shock and Awe

Scott Howard offers superb white-tablecloth food on bare wood tables

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Brilliant Bites

Tacos by the sea and bocadillos downtown -- the new toys of upscale restaurateurs

Best Mexican

Oakland's divine Doña Tomás opens a nifty taqueria in Berkeley

Absinthe Friends

Luxurious provender before a performance -- or instead of one

House of Tudor

Astrology songs, pungent death metal, Philippine culture, and a Presidential roast

Angling

Looking for a good time in the Marina Triangle's bars

Letters to the Editor

Week of June 12, 2002

Mind Over Clatter

A Pulitzer surprise notwithstanding, Other Minds continues its noncommercial quest to make the world safe for weird music

Computer Dreaming

Figurine ditches its synth pop past for an electro present

The Whee Design

Call and Response updates the West Coast sound for the new millennium

Reel World

Side Dish

Slap Shots

Claws Celebre

Anthony's compensates for its tourist trappings with big helpings of crustaceans