South Korea

Hundreds Line Up for Another Band You've Never Heard Of

by Joseph Geha Hundreds of people, mostly young Asian women, are lining the sidewalks of Market Street, forming small clusters that weave along the uneven bricks starting in front of the Warfield, and ending at infinity. They are sitting on unfolded newspapers and chatting with friends, some sipp ... More >>

"Cloud Atlas": Centuries of Too Muchness

"The Other Dream Team": A Classic, Feel-Good Sports Doc

AT&T, Time Warner Cable Whine About Google Perks

Back through the foggy mists of time, in 1996, America's telecommunications giants agreed to deploy high-speed broadband Internet service in exchange for all the breaks they got from the Telecommunications Act that passed that year. They proceeded to basically ignore their promises. The United State ... More >>

The Great Food Truck Race Features Lame Truck Design, Tyler Florence's Neck Beard

Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, The Great Food Truck Race, a one-hour show that once saw a food truck drive past it, Sundays at 9 p.m. on the Food Network. Part of the fun of eating at a food truck is hanging around the trucks themselves, with t ... More >>

Delayed Reaction

Oikos University Shooting: Police, Students Explain Motive in Oakland Mass Murder

The Oakland community is still trying to understand exactly what motivated a local student to open fire at Oikos University yesterday morning, killing seven people and wounding many others. But Police Chief Howard Jordan offered up some insight at an early-morning press conference in Oakland where h ... More >>

Cindy Chang, Sunday School Teacher, Released After Three-Week Detention at Arizona Immigration Checkpoint

​Cindy Chang was driving from San Jose to Phoenix for a friend's wedding early this month when she was stopped at an immigration checkpoint in Eloy, Ariz. These structures are common this close to the border. Chang, a 26-year old Sunday school teacher who has lived in the Bay Area since her f ... More >>

Jillionaire on the Rise of Tropical Bass, Playing Outside Lands, and His Favorite Ice Cream in S.F.

Having grown up on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, DJ/producer Jillionaire made a name for himself by showcasing his Caribbean roots with soca beats and dancehall mixes. He began his career 16 years ago on Trinidad's reggae soundsystem Radioactive Nuclear as a host and music selector. After capt ... More >>

Ashley Lee of Jang Soo BBQ on Her Grandmother and Her Garden

Lara HataAshley Lee, manning the barbecue table.​Ashley Lee is the force behind -- and the face of -- the newly renovated Jang Soo BBQ, the subject of this week's full-length restaurant review. Within the space of a year, she renovated and renamed her first cafe, then took over Jang Soo with her f ... More >>

Treasure Fingers on Missing Live Bands, Getting Records Stolen, and Traveling the World

Fool's Gold's Ashley Jones, aka Treasure Fingers, makes music that makes you smile, jump, and regress to days of dancing wildly before you ever had need of any liquid courage. Although primarily known for layering catchy vocals over house and disco beats, he is also part of the drum 'n' bass group E ... More >>

Fall Arts: Eight Visual Art Exhibits You Must See This Season

The New Mythology Illustrated

Frozen Street Food Meal Hits Costco

Gary Soup​In his new "not a food blog" Geezericious, local pavement cuisine enthusiast/Chinese food blogger Gary Soup spots the mobile eating trend in play at a local Costco in the form of frozen Korean beef "street tacos." Soup jokes that Korean taco purveyors such as Seoul on Wheels and LA' ... More >>

America's Cup: Teams Introduced in San Francisco Today

Golf would be much easier ​Mayor Ed Lee joined Regatta officials today to introduce eight of the 13 teams that will compete in the prestigious America's Cup to be held in San Francisco in 2013. Regatta Director Iain Murray introduced representatives of teams from China, New Zealand, Italy, South K ... More >>

Eat Tons, Help Kids: Asian Latin Fusion Fest

​Hybrid Fusion Where: Intersection 5M, 925 Mission Street (at 5th St), 626-2787 When: Sat., June 11, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $50 The rundown: Intersection 5M's new art exhibition Chico & Chang explores the intersection between (what else?) Asian and Latin culture. This Saturday the art will gain a ... More >>

Street-Food Cooking Classes at La Cocina

jeffreymcmanus/FlickrLearn how to make the Magic happen.​Brian Kimball's Magic Curry Kart recently debuted a weekly lunch service with fellow carts Adobo Hobo and Sweet Constructions, and now Kimball has conceived of yet another way to continue the cooperation among small businesses while prom ... More >>

Off the Grid: 5M Launching at Minna and Fifth St.

Google MapsThe newest Off the Grid is part of the Intersection 5M project on the ground floor of the Chronicle building. Food trucks will park in the tunnel.​Organizer Matt Cohen got the green light yesterday from the city's street gods, aka the Interdepartmental Staff Committee on Traffic and ... More >>

This month's literary events

Changes In Proximity, Fees Likely for Emeryville Street-Food Vendors

carlos a./YelpThe Seoul on Wheels truck attracts a lunch crowd on Emeryville's Hollis Street.​The head of the task force looking at changes to Emeryville's mobile vending rules says she's confident street-food vendors and restaurant will be able to agree on a set of recommendations it can pres ... More >>

Off the Grid Launches in Haight and Civic Center Later This Week

Chris MacArthur/SF WeeklyThe first Off the Grid launched at Fort Mason Center in late June.​Brace yourself for San Francisco street food to expand big this week. Off the Grid organizer Matt Cohen is announcing this morning that two of the three weekly street-food events slated for city parks w ... More >>

Ten Things Other Than Ice Cream to Eat Today

Jonathan KauffmanThis $2 bag of cantaloupe with chile, lime, and salt saved my life yesterday.​1. Bun (cold rice noodles) with grilled pork and a lemon soda at PPQ (1816 Irving, 661-8869).2. Melon, pineapple, or cucumbers doused with chile, lime, and salt from the frutero cart at 21st and Mission. ... More >>

Off the Grid, a Roaming Mobile Food Party, Starts Next Friday

_e.t./FlickrPeko-Peko is one of the vendors lined up for the weekly street-food night market.​The culmination of nearly a year of work and negotiations with city officials and community organizations, mobile food consultant/activist Matt Cohen of SF Cart Project, in conjunction with La Cocina ... More >>

Hopping through Dogpatch, It's Outside In 5

odetogoodness.comOutside In 5 will feature the "provincial pie window" from Jaynelle St. Jean's Oakland-based PieTisserie.​Soul Cocina, SF Cart Project, and Hands-On Gourmet are getting ready for "Outside In 5." The indoor-outdoor event has been drawing increasingly bigger crowds, so this fift ... More >>

Last Call at Mission Burger

John BirdsallRIP, you hideous old thing.​Saturday's the last day for Mission Burger ― chef and burger maker Danny Bowien's leaving for South Korea to get married, while founder Anthony Myint looks ahead to Commonwealth. I'm sad, the city should be sad ― name the last original burger you h ... More >>

To Hyang: With traditional Korean, it's all about the sauce

Don't Sound Like a Tool: How to Pronounce Korean Dishes

​Don't Sound Like a Tool is SFoodie's series of audio pronunciation guides to sort-of-common-but-not-obvious words we keep encountering on wine lists and menus. No more shame, no more pointing, no more godawful imitations of a language you don't speak.Ordering off a Korean menu can pose quite ... More >>

Mission Burger's Closing for the Month of June. Then What?

John BirdsallIt couldn't hurt to eat your fill of Mission burgers this month.​Is Mission Burger closing? Mission Mission opened the throttle on the rumor machine when it floated a tantalizingly opaque post of burger lack at Duc Loi. The truth? Well, sure it's closing. MB fry cook Danny Bowien ... More >>

Jonathan Kauffman Takes on S.F.'s Korean Junk Food Explosion

J. KauffmanThe kimchi-pork hot dog from John's Snack and Deli.​It's happened. Thanks to vivid incarnations dished up via John's Snack and Deli, Seoul on Wheels, and Namu Street Food, Korean-fusion junk food has entered the popular vernacular in S.F., inspired by local tastes and the West Coast ... More >>

March Literary Events

New hotel brasserie Midi offers updated versions of French classics

Blue Monkey Used San Francisco as Springboard to World Tour

This is Wilbert, everyone. He's a a three-haired, yellow-bellied, stuffed monkey who started his world travels in San Francisco on May 4, 2008. Since then, he's hit up Paris, Jamaica, New York City, Toronto, Vegas, Tokyo, the Amazon, Rio De Janeiro, China, Greece, Oklahoma, ... More >>

Friday: RoboGames at Fort Mason

Your Guide to the San Francisco International Film Festival

Killer Robots Are Coming

Asian Imports

Last Voyage of the Relentless

Friends and family of a well-known fishing captain are convinced he and his deckhand were victims of a maritime hit-and-run near the Golden Gate

SFIFF Film Capsules

Send in the Clones

Infiltrator chooses a veeeeery witty headline for his story about pet cloning

Film Capsule Reviews

Funny Business

Week 2 of the 47th San Francisco International Film Festival

Unreality Show

The 9-11 Commission is a nutty distraction from the dangers we face

Ticket to Read

Must airport bookstores be so lousy?

Best Local Film Programmer

Joel Shepard

Movie Meals

A strategy for eating near the San Francisco International Film Festival

United Nations

Putting the world back together at the 45th annual S.F. International Film Festival

Capsule reviews

At All Costs; Close-Up; Eeny Meeny; The Jazzman From the Gulag; Mask of Desire; Handsome Arno; Nowhere to Hide; Our Song; Return of the Idiot; Seduced and Abandoned; This Years Love; Trixie; Voyages; Wisconsin Death Trip

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll. Korea.

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Im Kwon-Taek: Drawing Down the Moon