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Taste Samoa at South Pacific Island Restaurant

With its gated door and window, South Pacific Island Restaurant looks like it's closed, even when it's open. The area's only Samoan eatery is across the street and down the block from the Cow Palace, pretty much on the border between San Francisco and Daly City. Open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., the cash ... More >>

Changing Keys: Martuni's Piano Bar Thrives in a Karaoke World

With its gated door and window, South Pacific Island Restaurant looks like it's closed, even when it's open. The area's only Samoan eatery is across the street and down the block from the Cow Palace, pretty much on the border between San Francisco and Daly City. Open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., the cash ... More >>

Pearlasia Gamboa Named 'Notable Fraudster' by Nigerian Magazine

​Given the now-cliched form of e-mail fraud known as "The Nigerian Prince" -- someone claiming to be African royalty sends you a message out of the blue offering to entrust you with a fortune in exchange for some personal information, such as your bank account number -- it seems odd that a Nigeria ... More >>

Von Trapped

​Given the now-cliched form of e-mail fraud known as "The Nigerian Prince" -- someone claiming to be African royalty sends you a message out of the blue offering to entrust you with a fortune in exchange for some personal information, such as your bank account number -- it seems odd that a Nigeria ... More >>

Fantasy Island: The Strange Tale of Alleged Fraudster Pearlasia Gamboa

​Given the now-cliched form of e-mail fraud known as "The Nigerian Prince" -- someone claiming to be African royalty sends you a message out of the blue offering to entrust you with a fortune in exchange for some personal information, such as your bank account number -- it seems odd that a Nigeria ... More >>

Drink 2011: Cocktails, Let's Go Bowling

​Given the now-cliched form of e-mail fraud known as "The Nigerian Prince" -- someone claiming to be African royalty sends you a message out of the blue offering to entrust you with a fortune in exchange for some personal information, such as your bank account number -- it seems odd that a Nigeria ... More >>

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Hey Marseilles' Grandiose, Gorgeous Orchestral Pop

Hayley Young​ It begins with an intimate twinkle of piano and rises, fueled by orchestral strings, accordion and the occasional guitar-driven climax, to a sweeping perspective on big themes of movement and change. You could call Seattle septet Hey Marseilles' debut LP, To Travels and Trunks, grand ... More >>

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Society of Professional Journalists Reassures Us of the Robustness of Our Field By Honoring Three Men: Two Dead Guys and a 90-Year-Old

In order to re-inforce our point that this year's SPJ honorees heark from a different era, here's a Spencer Tracy referenceLast week, the Society of Professional Journalists -- whose membership is growing ever more, shall we say, selective every day now -- honored three men as "fellows," the highest ... More >>

Veteran Bay Area Journo David Weir Laid Off from New Media Site

Yikes.That was the collective reaction in the newsroom here at SF Weekly when we heard that David Weir, one of the deans of Bay Area journalism, had been laid off from the Web site Predictify. Weir's news-business credentials are sterling: His past gigs include investigative reporter at Rolling St ... More >>

Puttin’ on the Mitz

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Radiohead's In Rainbows Leads to Digital Pot of Gold

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He adored beatniks, trolled the streets of North Beach in a beret, and was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper, and now he packs a gun.

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