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Outmigration: Only District 6 Retains Its Black Population

James Beard Awards Announce Semifinalists: Bay Area's Well Represented, Obviously

​The day has come for the James Beard Foundation to announce the semifinalists for the 2012 Restaurant Awards. As SFoodie has written before, the finals can resemble the Oscars in that they're often career awards rather than a measure of how the nominees are performing at this very moment. Tha ... More >>

Saturday: MC Hammer, En Vogue, and Other East Bay Artists Reminisce at KBLX Stone Soul II

KBLX Stone Soul II Oct. 1, 2011 Sleep Train Pavilion Better than: Listening to KBLX for nine hours MC Hammer, the Oakland bred '90s pop star and early Twitter adopter, took to tweeting on Saturday night after his performance at the KBLX Stone Soul II concert in Concord: Lol .. The worst sound cre ... More >>

Cocktail Week Events for Monday, Sept. 19

Marc Fiorito, GammaNine Photography​The bad news about Cocktail Week is that events are starting to sell out. The good news is twofold: tickets are still available for many, and more events are being added, so keep an eye out here for the latest. Tickets still available Bay Area Distillers P ... More >>

Can't Stop Texting While Driving? There's An App for That

If there were just an app to stop THIS.​There's hardly a more unnecessary death than being run over by a busy driver texting "Where u at?" to a friend.That's why a construction debris hauler in Concord has created an app that lets parents or employers disable their kid's and workers' ability to te ... More >>

Kreayshawn Producer DJ Two Stacks on the Making of "Gucci Gucci"

​ Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci" is 2011's most divisive rap song. It's seen the leader of the White Girl Mob subjected to a cascade of commentary about her lyrics, her image, and her place in hip-hop -- although DJ Two Stacks' contribution to the "Gucci Gucci" phenomenon has gone largely overlook ... More >>

Fewer Slices of Pie, Cupola Opens Under the Dome, and the TL Sees Pink

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Marie Callender's evokes images of pies rotating in a display case, country cottage decor, and portions that don't skimp on calories. And now, without warning, many of those pie display cases have gone da ... More >>

Roundup: The Best New Barbecue in the Bay

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Marie Callender's evokes images of pies rotating in a display case, country cottage decor, and portions that don't skimp on calories. And now, without warning, many of those pie display cases have gone da ... More >>

Interview with Slow Hand BBQ's Dan Frengs

Jonathan KauffmanSlow Hand's Texas-style barbecue ribs.​ I tasted Dan Frengs' extraordinary ribs at last month's New Taste Marketplace, but Frengs' Slow Hand BBQ stand also shows up outside Mission bars The Homestead and Dirty Thieves and, farther afield, the Concord, Walnut Creek, and Brentwood f ... More >>

BART Delays ... Again

Late for dinner​Update 6 p.m.: BART trains are running on time. Go home before there is another mechanical breakdown.Original Story 2:39 p.m.:BART trains are running late, and they are expected to be even later by the time you leave work. The transit agency is reporting 10-to-15-minute delays on a ... More >>

Three Artisanal Spirits We're Hoping Santa Brings

Annie JessemanSt. George's latest batch of single malt whisky is its best yet.​Cocktails and hot drinks rule the holiday season, but there's something just as festive, not to mention warming: a glass of a special brandy or whiskey. The Bay Area's expanding roster of artisanal spirits producers ... More >>

LeBron James Taking His Talents To North Beach

Neither LeBron nor Giselle will be here, sadly. ​LeBron James may be famously taking his talents to South Beach, but he's filming his soda commercial in North Beach. Joe DiMaggio Park -- named for a prickly athlete who didn't stab his hometown in the back via a callous, nationally televised debacl ... More >>

World Series Specials? Most Places Near the Ballpark Just Want to Survive

chuck l./YelpPublic House is the rare place offering World Series food specials ― some of them geared toward Rangers fans.​With AT&T Park in the national spotlight Wednesday for Game One of the World Series, you'd think South Beach restaurants would be busting out specials oozing with Fear t ... More >>

Forrest Day's Surprise Ending at All Shook Down, Morcheeba Reunited, Scorpions' Last Sting

Neon Indian onstage at Sunday's All Shook Down Music Festival​Most of the live performances at the first-ever All Shook Down Music Festival went off with nary a mishap. But hip-hop/funk/soul outfit Forrest Day was another story. At the band's second set of the day, exhausted frontman Forrest Day p ... More >>

Never Mind Those Pit Bull Maulings: 'Bun Bun,' 'Piglet' Need Good Homes

Leave Pit Bulls Alone!!!!!​Last week, a herd of pit bulls mauled a 2-year-old boy to death in Concord, and  an Oakland dog bit a girl's face over the weekend. They killed a 12-year-old boy in the Richmond District back in 2005, prompting a city law mandating all pits be spayed or neutered. Th ... More >>

The Week in Gay: Heterosexual Bloodbath

This week, let's check in on the heteros​The National Organization for Marriage is on a month-long, 23-city tour in the U.S. to promote heterosexual supremacy. During the tour, NOM is depicting itself as the victim of a campaign similar to the one they are engaged in to marginalize and defame LGBT ... More >>

SFPD: DNA Links Dead Man to Murder of San Franciscan Charles McAleer-Bonilla

Charles McAleer-Bonilla​The San Francisco Police Department is announcing that DNA evidence ties a suspected bank robber and kidnapper who recently died in a shootout with the Sacramento Sheriff's Department to the April stabbing death of San Franciscan Charles McAleer-Bonilla in Noe Valley.

Concord Man Has Nation's Best Stache

Not the winner​ Rich in cultural, technological and pharmaceutical history, the Bay Area is now justly famous for facial hair. A man from Concord -- that's in the East Bay, kids -- won first prize in the country's first-ever National Beard and Moustache Championships.

Gerald Anthony Ortega, Accused of Hanging Puppy, Back in Court Again

Not the actual dog, no...​The Antioch man accused of beating his girlfriend, breaking into her apartment, and hanging her Jack Russell terrier puppy to death with an electric cord was arraigned yesterday. He was given a May 13 date to next appear in court in Martinez for a "further arraignment," a ... More >>

Keeping Delicious: Waiting for God's Wrath to Strike at Humphry Slocombe

J. BirdsallKosher crash: Boccalone prosciutto ice cream with Manischewitz sorbet.​Yesterday ― Day Three of Hanukkah ― we found ourselves at Humphry Slocombe (2790 Harrison at 24th St.), facing perhaps the most perverse juxtaposition of frozen goodness this godless city has ever conceived: ... More >>

Porto Franco Records exports the Mission’s eclectic live music scene

J. BirdsallKosher crash: Boccalone prosciutto ice cream with Manischewitz sorbet.​Yesterday ― Day Three of Hanukkah ― we found ourselves at Humphry Slocombe (2790 Harrison at 24th St.), facing perhaps the most perverse juxtaposition of frozen goodness this godless city has ever conceived: ... More >>

November Book Events: Howard Junker, Joshua Clover, Lierre Keith, and William S. Burroughs

J. BirdsallKosher crash: Boccalone prosciutto ice cream with Manischewitz sorbet.​Yesterday ― Day Three of Hanukkah ― we found ourselves at Humphry Slocombe (2790 Harrison at 24th St.), facing perhaps the most perverse juxtaposition of frozen goodness this godless city has ever conceived: ... More >>

Bay Links: Fashion, Flyers and Fleeing Furniture

Fashionist​I love that Emma was in a mac'n'cheese contest. I love that she is wearing a gold pasta necklace to commemorate the experience. I love her red clogs. I love...Emma? [Fashionist]In other S.F. street fashion news: Oh. No. [SF Citizen]This is the way we wash our streets, wash our streets, ... More >>

Class Action Lawsuit Sticks It To Kaiser For Allegedly Double Charging on Co-Pays

A Contra Costa County woman has filed a class action lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente in federal court in San Francisco, claiming the health care provider double-charged her co-pay in a case that her attorney says could affect "hundreds, potentially thousands" of policyholders who've reco ... More >>

A Sighted Account of Dining in the Dark

Foundation Fighting Blindness' "Dining in the Dark" event at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco was a fundraiser for the organization's groundbreaking research in the field of degenerative eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and macular degeneration, which collectively affect over 10 m ... More >>

New Music : Ghostface follows SF Performance by checking into " Rehab"

Foundation Fighting Blindness' "Dining in the Dark" event at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco was a fundraiser for the organization's groundbreaking research in the field of degenerative eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and macular degeneration, which collectively affect over 10 m ... More >>

Naked Lunch

Foundation Fighting Blindness' "Dining in the Dark" event at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco was a fundraiser for the organization's groundbreaking research in the field of degenerative eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and macular degeneration, which collectively affect over 10 m ... More >>

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Music Highlights

Bands reunited, sock-stuffing legends, and chanteuses from Charo to Chaka? It could only mean summer sounds in the Bay Area!

Nights at the Races

How to sail the bay for free this summer

BeatBox

"We Funk" brings DJs Dusk and Miles up from L.A.; get down to the "Sounds of the Basement" with Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs

Music Highlights

From Mahler to Morrissey, the Bay Area has it all this summer.

Fula Himself

Writer takes a nice long walk

Urban Explorer

Some of the best things our critic consumed in a year of eating around a constantly evolving town

Summer Events a Go Go!

What to do, all summer long

Born Again

Don't know Jeffrodeeziack? Then you don't know jack about the new bars made from the old bars.

Top 10 reasons for making a Top 10 list

The forgotten Top 10: The best records of 2001 that you won't see on anyone else's list

House Of Tudor

Danny Cohen; Laughing Squid's Fifth Anniversary Celebration

Bliss Side of Paradise

Returning for a few careless hours to the elegant '20s of Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby

Here's the Pitch

Twenty Four

Side Dish

Raising Kane; Open Sesame; Preventing Pretension; Sayonara

Night & Day

Raising Kane; Open Sesame; Preventing Pretension; Sayonara

Demonstrating Exploitation

A Latino activist group has gained largely positive media coverage for organizing student walkouts to protest government social policies. But how admirable is it, really, to endanger young children for political purposes?

Walk on the Mild Side

One East Bay Christian rock purveyor's battle for integrity

What's Best -- Pistol or Pit Bull?

SF Weekly's consumer guide to smooth and speedy acquisition of effective self-defense

Recordings

SF Weekly's consumer guide to smooth and speedy acquisition of effective self-defense