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Blogs
May 18, 2012
Cops Fight Clarity of Medical Marijuana Sales
Police in California have long expressed displeasure with the state's medical marijuana laws. And with good reason: Cops just might have the legal right to haul into court medical marijuana merchants who exchange cash for cannabis. But then again, they might not. Much police behavior depends on the ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2012
State Might Have More Women, Minorities Than White Men in 2013 Congressional Caucus
There's a decent chance that in 2013, white men will not rule California's congressional caucus for a change. Currently, 28 of California's 53 representatives are white men. Of the other 25, 19 are women, nine of whom are minorities, and six are minority men. Because of redistricting, handled by ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2012
Meet the California Lawmakers Who Are Enabling the Marijuana War
Losing efforts sometimes score wins. Medical marijuana scored such a moral victory late Wednesday, when 163 members of Congress voted in favor of not allowing federal dollars to be spent on busting pot growers, distributors, and dispensaries in states with medical cannabis laws.The brainchild o ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2012
California Congressmen Push Spending Cuts on Federal Marijuana Enforcement
Budget hawks incensed over San Francisco's supposedly profligate spending ought to spend a few minutes at Congress, observing the dollar requests submitted by federal departments.Take the $28.2 billion, 111,998-employee federal Department of Justice, for example. The country's 12,000 employees in Un ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2012
See The Tower of Pork and Other Delights at Chris Cosentino's Los Angeles Eatery PIGG
While Southern California's Umami Burger opened its first Bay Area location in San Francisco in 2011 and has signed a lease on a second spot in Oakland, it has also developed a new and broader concept called Umamicatessen, which debuted in downtown Los Angeles in March. The showpiece of the Umami Re ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2012
K&L Wines Shakes Things Up with Faultline Gin
In the Bay Area, we have more than our fair share of great spirits retailers and producers--a symbiotic relationship that keeps our personal bars stocked with delicious and unique local spirits. Two of the finest, K&L Wines and St. George Spirits, have joined forces to create a limited-run spirit wo ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2012
Gustavo Arellano on San Francisco Tamales, Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dogs, Taco Bell, Part 2
According to this week's cover story, written by Gustavo Arellano, San Francisco played a surprising and key role in the spread of Mexican food across America. The story is an excerpt from Arellano's new book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, which comes out this week. Arellano's book c ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2012
Gustavo Arellano Talks San Francisco Tamales and Burritos, Part 1
San Francisco has gotten used to thinking of itself as a remote outpost in the Mexican diaspora, since our lively but embattled Mexican American community is dwarfed by much larger ones in Los Angeles and the Southwest. But according to this week's cover story, written by Gustavo Arellano, San Franc ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2012
Stag Dining Group Speak: "What We've Done Has Taken Us by Surprise"
As Stag Dining Group, Emory al-Imam, Jordan Grosser, Matthew Homyak, Ted Fleury, and Anil Margsahayam have been putting on professionally clandestine dinners for 18 months now. Just before filing my review of their most recent event -- titled "Guns, Game, and Rose" -- I spoke to two of the stags, Ma ... More >>
Dining
April 4, 2012
Bill Banning Food Trucks from Parking Near Schools Is Withdrawn
As Stag Dining Group, Emory al-Imam, Jordan Grosser, Matthew Homyak, Ted Fleury, and Anil Margsahayam have been putting on professionally clandestine dinners for 18 months now. Just before filing my review of their most recent event -- titled "Guns, Game, and Rose" -- I spoke to two of the stags, Ma ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2012
California Bill Banning Food Trucks From Parking Near Schools Is Quashed
Assemblymember Bill Monning (D.-Monterey), who recently introduced a bill requiring food trucks to park no closer than 1,500 feet from any school during school hours, has just withdrawn the bill from the state legislature. AB-1678 raised an outcry around the state because of its potential ec ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2012
Labor Groups, Not Occupy, to Protest the 1 Percent
It's feels like it's been too long since San Francisco has had a rambunctious, traffic-blocking protest aimed at the 1 percent. But tomorrow you can expect all of this and more -- but you can't blame it on Occupy this time. Bay Area labor activists are planning to pack the streets of San Francisc ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2012
There's a National Kerfuffle About Restaurant Stars, and Why I Don't Care
If you hadn't heard, the LA Times, which recently hired Jonathan Gold away from our sister paper the LA Weekly, made the decision last week to drop assigning stars to restaurant reviews. "Star ratings are increasingly difficult to align with the reality of dining in Southern California," food edi ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
San Francisco's S3X Gallery Is a Welcome Newcomer in a Small Field
S3X Gallery says that it's San Francisco's first gallery dedicated to displaying only erotic art. While certain other venues in town might have something to say about that (Hello, Femina Potens. How you doing, Mark I. Chester Studio?), if the gallery's opening lineup and plans for the future are any ... More >>
Calendar
February 8, 2012
Newcomer
S3X Gallery says that it's San Francisco's first gallery dedicated to displaying only erotic art. While certain other venues in town might have something to say about that (Hello, Femina Potens. How you doing, Mark I. Chester Studio?), if the gallery's opening lineup and plans for the future are any ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
Porn Star Activist Jiz Lee Talks About When and How Sex Workers Can Give Consent
The ethics of consent is becoming a hot, vital topic of discussion in alternative sexuality communities. While talking about consent is something that never quite goes away, especially in BDSM communities, a lot of the dialogue doesn't stray much beyond making sure that everyone is over 18 and kn ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2012
Christopher Dutel, SoCal Man, Accused of Sexually Assaulting Tourist Near Fisherman's Wharf
Girl assaulted on her trip to the wharf(Update 2 p.m.): Sgt. Daryl Fong said 18-year-old Christopher Dutel, a Southern California man, was arrested and booked into San Francisco County Jail on multiple charges of sexual assault and false imprisonment. Police would not yet release the man's photo. ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2012
San Francisco's Top 10 Cupcake Spots
Tamara PalmerPart of the outdoor mural at Let's Cupcake.In a fickle landscape for food businesses, many cupcake shops have opened in recent years in San Francisco -- and, happily, they continue to stick around. While not every innovation regarding the dessert has worked out in practice (cupcake and ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2012
What Should Republicans Be Searched for Before Boarding a Plane?
Recently, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, a tea party Republican from Southern California, was arrested at an airport for trying to carry a concealed firearm on a plane. It got us thinking: What else should Republican lawmakers be searched for before they board your airplane? $317 million in funding fo ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2012
Live Review: X at Slim's, Friday Dec. 30
X at Slim's on Friday, Dec. 30 X Sean Wheeler and Zander Schloss The Black Tibetans Dec. 30th, 2011 Slim's Better than: Zander Schloss' acting in the cult film Repo Man. Among the many reunited punk bands on tour this year, X is an anomaly. The group still has all four of its original me ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2011
Live Review: The Pharcyde Offers Nostalgia By The Numbers at Yoshi's
Slimkid3 shows off his solo work during the Pharcyde's set at Yoshi's.The Pharcyde Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011 Yoshi's SF Better than: Letting life pass by. The early music of the Pharcyde offers an almost idyllic snapshot of the early-'90s hip-hop scene in Southern California. The group's care ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2011
Cafe Gratitude in Santa Cruz Looks to Stay, Dear Mom, and Good News for Chicken Lovers
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Update on Cafe Gratitude: Our own Luis Chong reports one Northern California location is not closing after all -- Santa Cruz. This cafe, which opened Aug. 15, is owned by the owners' son and stepson, Matt ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2011
Report: Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests Skyrocketing in California
Doubling UpIt's a fine time to be a criminal in California. Arrests in every category of crime are down -- way down: Arrests for rape, murder, and theft have all decreased by two-thirds since 1990, according to a study published last week by the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice. Every cri ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2011
U.S.S. Iowa Sails Out of Bay on "Last Mission" (Photos)
Gabor GardonyiAnchors aweigh...Just over an hour ago, the mighty U.S.S Iowa sailed beneath the Carquinez Bridge and past Mare Island, soon to leave the bay forever on the last voyage of the "last battleship." It's a somewhat poignant moment in a long and strange journey for the 887-foot onetime p ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2011
Obama's New Marijuana Policies Also Target Alt-Weeklies and the Bill of Rights
Say, is that hemp? Kill it!In their unrelenting quest to kill legal medical marijuana dead, President Barack Obama and the United States Department of Justice appear content to incur collateral damage. Last week, property owners who rent to dispensaries were informed that the federal governmen ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2011
The Great American Beer Festival: Bay Area Brewers and Chefs Bring the Brew
In 1982, the inaugural Great American Beer Festival showcased 47 beers from 24 breweries. The lucky 800 attendees had a fair shot at trying every beer in the room. Thirty years later, even the most hardened liver shudders in fear of how the festival has grown. With 466 breweries pouring 2,400 beers ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Global Warming Will Submerge Ocean Beach at Little Cost to San Francisco
CosmoPolitician via FlickrFirst, 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 >>
Blogs
September 1, 2011
Marijuana Advocates Unsure if New State Law Is Good or Bad
Who's he helping?brokencountry.comEarlier this summer, medical marijuana advocates sounded the legislative alarm over a bill penned by a Southern California assemblyman that gives local governments the right to ban medical cannabis dispensaries, as many a Bay Area burgh from Danville to Daly City ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2011
Who's the Biggest Tax Delinquent?
Same goes for sales tax...It's that time of year again when the Board of Equalization bares its teeth and shames the state's biggest sales tax delinquents. You know that extra bit of change you pay that makes a conveniently priced bottle of soda cost $1.08? Well, it's supposed to go to the govern ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2011
BAM Magazine Is Coming Back -- As a Website
BAM's July 7, 1978 issueRemember BAM? If you followed By Area music between, oh, 1976 and 1999, you probably read it all the time. And if you didn't, you'll get a chance to -- there's a revived version coming to the web in a couple of weeks. Some background: BAM was a free biweekly print mag ... More >>
Blogs
August 8, 2011
Evangelicals Speak Out in Favor of LGBT History Bill
Todd FerrellLast week, SF Weekly reported that antigay group Stop SB48 had started collecting signatures for a referendum to overturn the FAIR Education Act, the nation's first law requiring public schools to include LGBT history in the curriculum. We were contacted by The Evangelical Network, an ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2011
Hot Water Is Everything, A Food Insult, Lucky 11, and the Dog Days
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Yesterday we shared that the Hawaiian restaurant Hukilau was closed on Tuesday by the Department of Public Health for reported health hazards. Apparently the owners got to work sprucing the place up, and ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2011
The Blank Tapes on Loving S.F., Writing Too Many Songs, and Getting Busted in Colorado
Otherwise known as the Blank Tapes, Matt Adams is a bit of a music machine -- since 2003's Country Western Honky Tonk Saloon Blues, he has released over 100 songs and played almost all of the instruments on each one. Adams has toured the country, written music in a van -- well, sort of -- an ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2011
Angry Wife Cuts Husband's Penis Off and Runs It Through Garbage Disposal
Composting would have have been friendlierPerhaps this story is one more reason some of you (men) wouldn't miss Southern California. An angry and bitter wife from Orange County decided she couldn't wait for her pending divorce to go through she cut off her husband's penis and then tossed it into ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2011
Tobias Wolff Springs to Mike Krukow's Defense
Joseph SchellFamed author says broadcaster Mike Krukow need not grab some pine...Mike Krukow, you have an ally in Tobias Wolff. Let us explain. The other day, a reader named Rhonda Chaikin called to vent about the longtime Giants broadcaster and former pitcher. She seemed to be a Kruk fan, save f ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2011
Republicans Propose New State: Southern California
It's like Arizona and San Francisco in oneOne Southern California pol is sick and tired of the Democrats up in Sacramento -- tired of the "pillaging" of local governments and worse, the left-wing policies that dominate the blue state. That's why he's dusted off that tired proposal to let Southern ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2011
Five Things We Won't Miss About Southern California
When we read the news this morning that one California lawmaker is attempting to break the state in two (for the umpteenth time), we couldn't help but laugh ... and then dream.How great would it be if we didn't have SoCal conservatives weighing us down? At least we know gay marriage would be legal. ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2011
Umami Burger Is On The Way, Bottle Cap Set to Open, and All Seasons Cafe May Be Back
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. It's official: Southern California's Umami Burger has called dibs on a Union Street spot. Eater SF reports it will be taking over the former Jovino's space (2184 Union at Fillmore), and is slated to open ... More >>
Dining
June 29, 2011
Grocery Chain Fresh & Easy Opens First Location in S.F.
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. It's official: Southern California's Umami Burger has called dibs on a Union Street spot. Eater SF reports it will be taking over the former Jovino's space (2184 Union at Fillmore), and is slated to open ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2011
Cheese Shop Crime, Passion Cafe for Rent (Again), Maharani's Back, and Macaron News
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. What's with all the restaurant crime? Saturday it was a shooting outside Little Joe's, and today Eater SF recounts the latest robbery attempt at Mission Cheese. Via the shop's newsletter, Eater learned a ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2011
S.F.'s First Pizza Truck, an Artisan Soda Stand, and Pride Parade's Top Chef
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The mobile food report: Casey's Pizza, which started as makeshift stand, will get a set of wheels by the end of August. Eater SF reports that Casey Crynes' will be the first pizza truck on the S.F. scene ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2011
Magical Filipino Cookies, Thomas Keller Speaks
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media.Jonathan KauffmanHouse of Silvanas' cookies: pandan (top), ube, mango. 1. The Bay Area's other best cookie? On the way back from the Pacifica Fresh & Easy last week, I stopped ... More >>
Blogs
June 20, 2011
Previewing San Francisco's New Fresh & Easy Markets
Jonathan KauffmanFresh & Easy's prepared salads are attractively packaged.Wednesday, June 22, is opening day for the Richmond District Fresh & Easy, a Britain-based grocery chain spreading across California with the speed of kudzu vines in Georgia. Owned by Tesco, Fresh & Easy opened ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2011
'Parental Alienation Syndrome' Not Likely to Be Included in DSM-5
Richard Gardner, father of PASA scientific task force evaluating psychological conditions for formal inclusion in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will recommend that the controversial theory known as "Parental Alienation Syndrome" (PAS) or "Parental A ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2011
San Francisco Police Kill Suspected 'Gen X Bandit' Bank Robber
Gen X bandit wears plaid shirtsSan Francisco cops shot and killed a suspected bank robber last night after he allegedly tried to run them over with his car. Media outlets are reporting that the wanted criminal might have been the notorious 'Gen X' bandit, who is known to rob banks in his distinct ... More >>
Culture
May 18, 2011
Sandow Birk: "American Qur'an," and Al Farrow: "Reliquaries"
Gen X bandit wears plaid shirtsSan Francisco cops shot and killed a suspected bank robber last night after he allegedly tried to run them over with his car. Media outlets are reporting that the wanted criminal might have been the notorious 'Gen X' bandit, who is known to rob banks in his distinct ... More >>
Music
February 2, 2011
Social Distortion: Show Preview
Gen X bandit wears plaid shirtsSan Francisco cops shot and killed a suspected bank robber last night after he allegedly tried to run them over with his car. Media outlets are reporting that the wanted criminal might have been the notorious 'Gen X' bandit, who is known to rob banks in his distinct ... More >>
Film
May 19, 2010
(100) Days of Summer Movies
Gen X bandit wears plaid shirtsSan Francisco cops shot and killed a suspected bank robber last night after he allegedly tried to run them over with his car. Media outlets are reporting that the wanted criminal might have been the notorious 'Gen X' bandit, who is known to rob banks in his distinct ... More >>
Dining
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Bewiched
A top chef expands his brand, and we follow
Dining
November 9, 2005
Sin and Dumplings
Exploring the Richmond's riches during a tempting film series
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