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Much Ado About the Planet

You Say "Dead End," We Say "Cul-de-Sac"

SFoodie's 2012 Farmers' Market Schedule and Map

View San Francisco Farmers Markets 2012 in a larger mapDespite concern over the possibility that we may soon have too many farmers markets, the San Francisco farmers' market scene remains as robust as ever. The last few years have seen a major proliferation of neighborhood markets, and even local ho ... More >>

Is This the Coachella 2012 Lineup?

Coachella 2012 is still more than four months away -- so naturally, it's time to start hyperventilating over rumored lineups for the first year the festival will stretch over two weekends. One "leaked" lineup appeared last week on StarzUncut, a celebrity gossip website with more than 58,000 Twitter ... More >>

Nitrite-Free Bacon Is Fake, But Lady Gaga's Flank-Steak Dress Was Real

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Is Nitrite-Free Bacon Really Healthier? The big controversy this week was sparked by Michael Ruhlman, author of Charcuterie, calling bullshit on nitrite-free bacon, found in every ... More >>

"Miral": Julian Schnabel's Newest Has Plenty of Style, Little Substance

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Is Nitrite-Free Bacon Really Healthier? The big controversy this week was sparked by Michael Ruhlman, author of Charcuterie, calling bullshit on nitrite-free bacon, found in every ... More >>

Sunday: Protest of Live Poultry Sales at Heart of the City Market

upc-online.orgA feathered victim at a local farmers market.​Local organization LGBT Compassion has been protesting the sale of live poultry ― carelessly stuffed in double bags ― at Civic Center's Heart of the City Market for more than a year. Since then, organizers say, some 700 complaints ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

upc-online.orgA feathered victim at a local farmers market.​Local organization LGBT Compassion has been protesting the sale of live poultry ― carelessly stuffed in double bags ― at Civic Center's Heart of the City Market for more than a year. Since then, organizers say, some 700 complaints ... More >>

Fresh Eats for the week of May 19-25, 2010

upc-online.orgA feathered victim at a local farmers market.​Local organization LGBT Compassion has been protesting the sale of live poultry ― carelessly stuffed in double bags ― at Civic Center's Heart of the City Market for more than a year. Since then, organizers say, some 700 complaints ... More >>

Bloody Weekend: Ilya Yurchenkov Gunned Down; Konstantin Tomashevsky Dies Mysteriously at BART

View Larger MapThis was a heartbreaking San Francisco weekend for two painfully young men entering the prime of life. On Saturday morning 18-year-old Ilya Yurchenkov died after a late-night Friday shooting at Geary and Lyon. A suspect is in custody; police spokesman Boaz Mariles told SF Weekly that ... More >>

Coming To America -- 100 New Citizens Sworn-In Downtown

Joe EskenaziCitizens-to-be take the oath​Considering the years of paperwork, legal wrangling, and leaping through hoops many of the would-be American citizens sitting this morning in San Francisco's Herbst Theater had suffered through, the government's last obstacle was hardly a chore: Two hours o ... More >>

The Yes Men Fix the World is a cheerful quest for social justice

Joe EskenaziCitizens-to-be take the oath​Considering the years of paperwork, legal wrangling, and leaping through hoops many of the would-be American citizens sitting this morning in San Francisco's Herbst Theater had suffered through, the government's last obstacle was hardly a chore: Two hours o ... More >>

Cross-country cyclist gets a rude welcome from S.F. bike thieves

Joe EskenaziCitizens-to-be take the oath​Considering the years of paperwork, legal wrangling, and leaping through hoops many of the would-be American citizens sitting this morning in San Francisco's Herbst Theater had suffered through, the government's last obstacle was hardly a chore: Two hours o ... More >>

Have you seen C.W. Nevius? Tenderloin kooks have

Joe EskenaziCitizens-to-be take the oath​Considering the years of paperwork, legal wrangling, and leaping through hoops many of the would-be American citizens sitting this morning in San Francisco's Herbst Theater had suffered through, the government's last obstacle was hardly a chore: Two hours o ... More >>

Deep Fried Not Bombs Part Two

San Francisco Food Not Bombs is holding its second "Deep Fried Not Bombs" event on April 15. There, the public will be free to express the axiom that everything is better when deep fried. But, before you pack your Twinkies and bacon, be advised that people should only bring vegan items to dump in t ... More >>

Photos: Week on the Street (Part 2)

San Francisco Food Not Bombs is holding its second "Deep Fried Not Bombs" event on April 15. There, the public will be free to express the axiom that everything is better when deep fried. But, before you pack your Twinkies and bacon, be advised that people should only bring vegan items to dump in t ... More >>

Buy Into It

San Francisco Food Not Bombs is holding its second "Deep Fried Not Bombs" event on April 15. There, the public will be free to express the axiom that everything is better when deep fried. But, before you pack your Twinkies and bacon, be advised that people should only bring vegan items to dump in t ... More >>

Dear God: If you can't stop Mark Morford, please teach him to use the internet

San Francisco Food Not Bombs is holding its second "Deep Fried Not Bombs" event on April 15. There, the public will be free to express the axiom that everything is better when deep fried. But, before you pack your Twinkies and bacon, be advised that people should only bring vegan items to dump in t ... More >>

Opportunity to Protest, Gawk at Richard Gere, Conveniently Combined

San Francisco Food Not Bombs is holding its second "Deep Fried Not Bombs" event on April 15. There, the public will be free to express the axiom that everything is better when deep fried. But, before you pack your Twinkies and bacon, be advised that people should only bring vegan items to dump in t ... More >>

German dreams and Gavin nightmares

San Francisco Food Not Bombs is holding its second "Deep Fried Not Bombs" event on April 15. There, the public will be free to express the axiom that everything is better when deep fried. But, before you pack your Twinkies and bacon, be advised that people should only bring vegan items to dump in t ... More >>

Dance of the Penguin

That whole talking animal genre? Let's be done with it.

Dir en grey

Withering to Death

Beginner's Mind

Tuttle's magical minimalism

Radio Radio

Contemplating the airwaves, the NBA, and what it means to be Welsh at Dylan's

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Contemplating the airwaves, the NBA, and what it means to be Welsh at Dylan's

Lost in Translation

All talk and little action, The Interpreter doesn't even make sense

House of Tudor

Outsider artists scream "Death to Electric Guitars!"; neo-burlesque's best step into Broad Daylight.

Urban Explorer

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

Soul Rebel

Steffen Franz is quite the optimist. First he took the "slack" out of dancehall, now he's crusading to help heal the wounds of a country.

Feed Your Head

The San Francisco International Arts Festival now rocks with world music

Bonobo

Dial M for Monkey

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Dial M for Monkey

Mini Meals

Where "good restaurant" and "small children" go together

Trash Gawk

Looking in on the bucolic fun at the Springtime Egg Sucking fest and the Sadie Hawkins Dance

A Smuggler's Tale

A Berkeley woman's efforts to deliver banned medicines and other goods to Iraq arouses federal ire

Not Your Mother's Peace Movement

Major anti-war groups change strategy, hoping to win over mainstream voters the Bush administration can't ignore

700 Years of 9/11

Never heard of the Battle of Malplaquet? Then you don't know your Sept. 11 history.

Hold On a Minute!

Ecologists are still trying to spin their phony save the whale campaign

Letters to the Editor

Cleaning Up the Countryside; Beyond the Fringe; Elvis, Healing From the Grave; Close Encounters

L.A. Confidential

Stars in bars, stars in cars, stars with plastic surgery scars.

The President's Dilemma

Stars in bars, stars in cars, stars with plastic surgery scars.

How I Learned to Love Hate Radio

KSFO Radio's anti-fans

Thai Breaker

KSFO Radio's anti-fans

Encore!

KSFO Radio's anti-fans

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll. Korea.

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Savage Love

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

One World, Under Gorby

Gorbachev Foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

The Last Tycoon

Walter Shorenstein's skyscrapers shaped San Francisco. His cash configured City Hall. Publicly, he's pristine. But there's more than meets the eye to the man behind the megaliths.

Cybertopia!

A Look at the Wondrous World of Tomorrow-- Today