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World Series: After Too Damn Much Ado, Giants Crowned Kings

Today it took the San Francisco Giants two and a half hours to roll from the Embarcadero to City Hall. And you can't blame Muni. The orange-clad fanatics began filing into Civic Center Plaza as early as 5 p.m. last night. They were rained on. They subsisted on snack crackers and Slim Jims. These are ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Tony Bennett on Whitney Houston: "Legalize Drugs"

​If the marijuana legalization efforts currently underway in California receive some unexpected financial support from Hollywood over the next few months, drug war opponents may be able to thank Whitney Houston. And Tony Bennett.Mere hours after Houston was found dead in a Beverly Hilton hotel bat ... More >>

The Grammys: A Timeline of Madness and Misery

The 54th Annual Grammy Awards happened yesterday. Which we're sure you know already. If you missed it, however, you may have missed some of the weirdest details. So here, for your convenience, is a timeline of events. Get comfortable, 'cause this thing was a three-and-a-half-hour carnival of absurdi ... More >>

The 1,101 Trademarks of San Francisco

​Earlier this week, we reported on the San Francisco Giants' summer of discontent carrying over into a fiasco at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The team was barred from trademarking the script "San Francisco" logo featured on Giants jackets and an armada of other team memorabilia since 1993 ... More >>

Bridge School Benefit 2011 Lineup: Dave Matthews, Arcade Fire, Eddie Vedder, and More

Neil Young at the Bridge School Benefit. Photo by Christopher Victorio.​ The lineup for this year's Bridge School Benefit is out, and it's as solid as ever. No big reunions -- we got Buffalo Springfield last year, sigh -- but the acoustic shows Neil Young and his wife, Pegi, put on to benefit ... More >>

Merle Haggard vs. San Francisco: Five Songs in Which Country's Best Works Through His Issues With the Bay

The Hag will make you eat that gee-tar, hippies​Merle Haggard may contain multitudes, but he tends to feel just one of those multitudinous things at a time - and to feel it so hard and pure that he seems to have forgotten all the previous things he's felt that might not square with it. Perha ... More >>

Which Bar Has North Beach's Best Jukebox?

The juke at Tosca​The heyday of authentic jukeboxes is long over. With many bars installing those nasty touchscreen digital Internet boxes, the old school record-flipping kind of jukebox is a dying breed. And this is in the town that originated the concept of jukeboxes back in 1889. So what denote ... More >>

S.F. at SXSW: Six Bay Area Artists to See in Austin

Former Record Exec Steve Stoute Trashes the Grammys in Full-Page NYT Ad -- And He's Got a Point

Gaga at the Grammys​Steve Stoute, an industry executive famous in hip-hop circles for managing Nas and beefing with Diddy, isn't happy with the way the Grammys turned out last week. In fact, he's so mad that he took out a full page ad in the New York Times to air his grievances with the award show ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music

A Merry Crew of Jonathan Richman, Mark Eitzel, and Carletta Sue Kay sing for the Boozy at the Make-Out Room's Christmas Craptacular

Who better to Christmas-cheer you up than the ever-chipper Jonathan Richman?​Parker Gibbs' Christmas Craptacular w/ Jonathan Richman, Mark Eitzel, Marc and the Casuals, Carletta Sue Kay, Los Cenzontles, and othersDecember 22, 2010@ The Make-Out RoomBetter than: Face down in Burl Ives' swimming poo ... More >>

Texas Vs. San Francisco: the World Series of Music

The World Series is about much more than baseball. It's a clash of two cities, two regional cultures, two rabid groups of fans, two color schemes, two outlooks on drug policy, and much more. (We ain't even gonna go into politics.)Starting right now, we're also making the World Series about music. To ... More >>

"The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector" lives up to its title

You’ll Leave Your Heart

Ambience as Chill as the Drinks

Peaceful little bars offer sweet summer relaxation.

The Muni Death Spiral

Your transit system is terribly inefficient, extremely slow, and wildly expensive. Here’s how you can fix it.

Assessing Our Leaders' Turkey-Serving Skills

This turkey was brought to you by...​These days, if you're a San Francisco politician, mover-and-shaker, or athlete, grayish-brown is the suit color of choice. That way you can match your apparel to the inevitable gravy stains incurred in the season's cavalcade of powerful-serving-the-destitute tu ... More >>

TiVo Alert: Dysfunctional Family Re-Opens Fancy-Schmancy Restaurant

By Meredith Brody You may have noticed that there's precious little new stuff to watch during the holidays - a period which The New York Times describes as "a profound holiday slumber of repeats and musical specials." But we can't even find any musical specials, and are reduced to re-watching A Co ... More >>

Music for Swingers

The Giants' theme songs get us thinking outside the batter's box.

Drumming It Up

CD Review: Tony Bennett -- "Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album" remastered from '68

My Dinner with Dukie: All You Can Eat at the Granada Cafe

Swedish Indiepop Crooner Jens Lekman's World of Sound

LastNight: Morrissey at the Fillmore

The San Francisco 100: The Best 'Baghdad by the Bay' Songs, Ever

I Left My Heart Right Here

Shouting out the year's best Bay Area songs

Ready to Rumble

It's the 100-year anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. Are you a fan of all the hoopla? Take our quiz and see.

Recall Why You Stay by the Bay

Falling in love with your city all over again is easy if you try

Hung's Jury

William Hung is back, and here's what the artists whose songs he covered on his new CD have to say about it

Art Attack

Young hearts, be free today

Elvis Costello

North

Ian McCulloch

Slideling

Best Burger

Pier 23 Cafe

House of Tudor

Astrology songs, pungent death metal, Philippine culture, and a Presidential roast

On the Waterfront

Crab House

Dog Bites

L'Etat, C'est Moi. Or Whatever; A Spoonful -- or So -- of Sugar

The Show Goes On

Flying Saucer

Here's the Beef

Balboa Cafe; Bill's Place; Burger Joint; Mo's Grill; Original Joe's; Pier 23 Cafe; Polkers Gourmet Burgers

Riff Raff

The Gavin Seminar

Different Drummers

For over three decades, the San Francisco Taiko Dojo has offered a fresh approach to traditional Japanese percussion

House Of Tudor

Master Musicians of Jajouka, OtherStarPeople, "Musical Atrocities and Eccentrics, 1926-52," and New Music on the Mountain

Love, Japanese-Style

Take BART, Please

We make Henny Youngman answer hard questions about regional transit and his mother-in-law

Slap Shots

The Time Bandits

Oasis reminds us that our past is present