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Bouncer Navigates Fans and Families at Lefty O'Doul's

Yelp Gets Even More Powerful By Posting S.F. Restaurant Health Ratings

The Internets are all abuzz this morning with news that Mayor Ed Lee announced today at the national conference of mayors in Washington D.C.: The health department is teaming up with Yelp to post restaurant health scores on the ratings website. Currently ratings appear on a select number of restaura ... More >>

The Needle and the Damage Done

Chia Obama Is Beating Chia Romney in the Polls

If you were freaked out by the ghoulish Mitt Romney Halloween mask that went on sale last month, check out the Romney Chia Pet. It's not cute. The San Francisco-based company, Joseph Enterprises Inc., came up with the idea to green this election with the political plants, which among other things, h ... More >>

Madge Gets Stupid: Five Dumb Things Madonna Has Said Lately

When Madonna goes dumb, it's like everything else she does in her life -- she goes for gold. Of course, we know that Madge has had a ton of inspiring, empowering and intelligent moments in the course of her career, too. And of course we know that nobody's perfect. But lately, the outspoken singer se ... More >>

Blame Uncertainty for Rising Unemployment, Study Says

"Uncertainty!" Scottinsh dramatist David Mallet wrote "Fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee." The human soul and the economy have that in common. By now, it's been ingrained in our consciousness by news stories and stump speeches: Uncertainty is holdin ... More >>

Local Democrats Ask Obama to Leave S.F. Marijuana Clubs Alone

San Francisco Democrats turned on one of their own as they issued a scathing rebuttal to President Barack Obama's explanation of his unpopular crackdown of medical marijuana clubs.The local Democratic Party passed a resolution yesterday, demanding that President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, ... More >>

Michelle Obama Loves San Francisco ... and Our Money

​Never mind the fact that none of us San Franciscans can afford to pay rent, the presidential candidates seem to think we've got money to spare. Just a short month after making a cameo in San Francisco, First Lady Michelle Obama is planning another trip to tour fair city, and not for the scenic be ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Dave Mustaine Confirms Idiocy Twice in One Week

​As you may have already heard, a couple of days ago, Megadeth's Dave Mustaine told musicradar.com that he was "hoping that whatever is in the White House next year is a Republican" (he knows politicians aren't robots right? Surely that should be a "whoever," not a "whatever"?) and gave his own ra ... More >>

Newsweek Retracts Pelosi Quote Slamming Obama, White House

​The days might have passed when U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi was the most powerful woman in Washington, but the San Francisco Democrat and House Minority Leader is still one of the capital's heaviest hitters. So many eyebrows shot up yesterday when Newsweek and the Daily Beast published a story in whic ... More >>

Media Jumps On 'Americans Can't Cook' Story

The only way to lure Don Draper into the kitchen was with an open bottle of whiskey​Sometimes the food media travels in mindless packs just like White House correspondents. Such is the case about a story trending today, that 28% of Americans over age 25 say they can't cook. The story comes fr ... More >>

The Franchise Episode Five Recap: The Agony of Defeat

jkorn//Flickr​The Franchise has been on a nice run lately, alternating Cliff's Notes of the team season with human-interest stories in the right balance. However, for all its successes, the producers have had a relatively easy time drumming up content. The Giants have been an absolutely stellar te ... More >>

Going Viral

Hillary Clinton Photoshopped out of Situation Room Picture in Hasidic Newspaper

So much for newspapers being the record of history. A mega-Orthodox Hasidic newspaper Der Tzitung in New York took the iconic Osama bin Laden raid Situation Room photo and edited the most powerful woman at the White House, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Oy vey.The photo was taken with President ... More >>

Is it Osama or Obama Bin Laden?

Fox News probably doesn't think there is a difference between Osama and Obama​Twitter was abuzz after Fox News made the Freudian slip yesterday when announcing that Obama, not Osama, bin Laden is dead. Sure, the names are off by only one letter, but that one letter spells the difference between th ... More >>

Mission Cheese Fires Up the Panini Maker, Schweet Boks Goes Soggy

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The Feast files an exclusive! sneak peek of Mission Cheese, opening tomorow at 736 Valencia (at 18th St.). The pitch: mac and cheese, fromage platters, pressed sandwiches, and cut cheeses from Sarah Dvora ... More >>

Kamala Harris Files Brief Supporting Federal Health Care Reform

This won't hurt a bit...​California Attorney General Kamala Harris has filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit seeking to aid the defense of President Barack Obama's landmark health care legislation.The so-called Affordable Care Act, perhaps Obama's most significant legisla ... More >>

Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana

Talking Points

The Week in Gay: Argentina! Clay Aiken! Toilet Water!

In Argentina, homosexuals can now tango and marry​This week Argentina's senate voted 33 to 27 in support of marriage equality and now it's legal down there. Frankly, I don't know a lot about Argentina. Apparently, it's winter there now. Isn't that fascinating?

Exclusive: Obama's Music Video Career Revealed

By now you've probably heard about the latest, most improbable, and quite possibly most awesome rumor about Barack Obama's past thus far: that he made a cameo appearance in the 1993 music video for Tag Team's "Whoomp! There It Is." Gawker's Adrian Chen made an admirable attempt to separate fact from ... More >>

Apple's Latest Hot Mess: Prominent iPad Users' Personal Info Exposed

A window to your soul​Think Facebook's got privacy problems? Just wait till you get a load of the latest scandal at Apple, which has apparently allowed some very prominent users of its iPad device -- think White House prominent -- to have their personal information exposed in an AT&T security ... More >>

Would U.S. Attorney's Departure Be Magic Bullet For Sanctuary City?

U.S. Attorney Joe Russoniello has worn out his welcome with sanctuary city proponents​By Evan HillNo matter how many aggrieved citizens and legal experts immigrant advocates trot before the public in support of Supervisor David Campos' new amendment to the city's sanctuary law, Mayor Gavin Newsom ... More >>

Bigger than Gandhi

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

What was the F'd up part of the bridge again?​This was a week for openings. The bridge opened, a sex club opened in one of the city's least sexy locales, and, speaking of openness and sexiness, an elephantine state Assemblyman was remarkably frank with his astoundingly filthy claims of sexual conq ... More >>

Michelle Obama Wants a Farmer's Market Near the White House, but the Proposal's No Slam Dunk

foodietots/FlickrWho could be against veggies? A still life from the Dupont FreshFarm Market.​First Lady Michelle Obama is trying to bring farm fresh food to her own 'hood near the White House. Washington D.C. residents and farmers' market fans are closely watching the First Lady -- she took o ... More >>

Chronic City: Aptly Named 'Joint Resolution' Succeeds; California Senate Urges Change in Federal Medical Marijuana Rules

​By a 23-15 vote, the California State Senate yesterday approved a "joint resolution" urging the federal government to stop Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) raids on medical marijuana patients and providers. The Sen. Mark Leno-authored resolution additionally calls for the nation to "create a compreh ... More >>

The Doggie Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite food blog items for Wednesday, May 20, 2009 What the f***?: Seriously, who knew GI Joe had such a potty mouth, or was such an aficionado of the pork chop sandwich? YouTube reveals the filthy truth here. Credit the find to a Tuesday tweet from Hot Food Porn. Poison pen: C'mon, organoph ... More >>

Meet the New LAFCo, Same as the Old LAFCo

The White House handover has put us in a contemplative mood here at SF Weekly. Time passes, the seasons change, and the wheel of fate turns. But some things are constant -- among them the intellectual rigidity of San Francisco's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo), a little-noticed board that ... More >>

Famed Chef Cooks Up Beats, Not Eats, at Ruby Skye

War On Sale

Sondheim Kills Me

Useless Resolve

The Board of Supes likes to tell the world what to do. The world could care less.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Drunk and Irate

Fight or flight on election night

The Story of M

When perverts navel-gaze

Bush It

Political theater dives in

Painting "Favorites"

These are a few, no doubt about it

Humane Society

Help tidy up global messes

Bush Comes to Shove

Like America's current leaders, Viggo and Hidalgo try to "enlighten" the Arabs with Western justice

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

The year in local film, plus the passing of a cinematic champion

Violent Femmes

Tenderhearted mutants kick significant keister in X-2: X-Men United

Karen Morley: Still Sexy After All These Blacklisted Years

The Albanian Candidate

Identity Crisis

American movies once enthralled the world with their exuberance and clarity. What happened in the 1990s?

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Blakk Power

San Francisco drag queen Joan Jett-Blakk aims for the presidency

Chatterbox