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Death Cab for Cutie Announces Spring Dates Including the Fillmore 4/23

Last Night: Charge of the Light Brown Apple Moth at Town School for Boys

New Report Foresees a Short Road to Extinction for CA salmon

It’s Time to Panic. But Then What? By Peter Jamison I recently observed that San Francisco salmon fishermen, despite some relatively good news in an industry that of late has lumbered from one calamity to the next, are still pretty glum these days. That’s because a number of highly publicized ... More >>

Local Schools' Fortunes Plummeting in Tournament -- The Recycling Tournament. What Tournament Were You Thinking Of?

Not everything that goes in the trash can is trash. Ask someone who knows...Pulling into the home stretch of Recyclemania, the nationwide recycling competition for colleges and universities, our local institutions appear to be flagging a bit. Ranked 12th and 13th earlier this month, San Francisco St ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Not everything that goes in the trash can is trash. Ask someone who knows...Pulling into the home stretch of Recyclemania, the nationwide recycling competition for colleges and universities, our local institutions appear to be flagging a bit. Ranked 12th and 13th earlier this month, San Francisco St ... More >>

The Other 9/11

Not everything that goes in the trash can is trash. Ask someone who knows...Pulling into the home stretch of Recyclemania, the nationwide recycling competition for colleges and universities, our local institutions appear to be flagging a bit. Ranked 12th and 13th earlier this month, San Francisco St ... More >>

FlounderAde

Vitamin drink works for losers.

Supes Spread Manure

Their anti-Newsom campaigning is preventing more affordable housing

Sitting Pretty

Sadler takes a load off

Artbeat

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

SSRI-ay Cap'n

Depression is all around us, but here's some upcoming shows that won't bring you down

Role Play

Probing behind our postures

What You're Mission

A series of independent films by Latina and Latino auteurs

Big Dam Mess

The Environmental Defense Fund embarks on a national campaign to shame San Francisco into restoring the other great Yosemite valley, Hetch Hetchy. But is shame really a good political strategy?

Zoom Lens

To call the S.F. International Asian American Film Festival "diverse" is to understate it

The Enforcer

Cops on location, cowboys in oaters, and mountains of film events

Fright Flight

"We're going to the winner's circle or the hospital," declares one entrant

The Fix Is In

At least that's what Janet Campbell claimed about construction bids at UCSF, where she soon found herself out of a job

Return to Chinatown

You don't have to be a tourist to be entranced by a tour of old Chinatown's alleys

The New Defenders

An explosion of federal funding has Bay Area researchers at the forefront of America's counter-terrorism program. Will the money make us safer - or just make science a military secret?

Missed Interpretation

Deaf students wonder why officials at UC Berkeley and UC Davis won't hear their plea for equal access to education

Hear This

Saxophonist John Tchicai offers free jazz

Quannum Leap

Growing out of Oakland's Solesides label, the rappers and producers of Quannum Projects look to expand even further

Night & Day

Growing out of Oakland's Solesides label, the rappers and producers of Quannum Projects look to expand even further

Turkey Jerking

How poultry breeders have given new meaning to the phrase "bird lover"

Free Bee-Built Ice Cream Today at Häagen-Dazs

Bee pollination is an essential process in just about half of Häagen-Dazs' ice cream flavors, from the obvious (Vanilla Honey) to the less so (Raspberry and Pear). Today from 4 to 8 p.m., participating Häagen-Dazs locations (865 Market in the San Francisco Centre, 3251 20th Ave. in Stonestown Gall ... More >>

Lucky You! SFSU Corpse Flower Has Yet To Emit Its Signature Noxious Stench -- So Viewing Hours Have Been Extended!

U.S. Botanical GardenIt's a stinker -- and it's lateSan Francisco State greenhouse manager Martin Grantham reports that several hundred people have dropped by his muggy domain in the past several days -- but were sorely disappointed the place didn't stink like the fart depository. That's because, as ... More >>

Handful of Local, Familiar Names on United Football League Rosters

Aaaah! My eyes! They burn! ​It was Billy Crystal's Fernando Lamas character who made a catchphrase out of "It is better to look good than to feel good. (of course you remember this character! He's the "You look mah-velous" guy.). Along similar lines, former Mexican National Team goalkeeper Jorge C ... More >>

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

Aaaah! My eyes! They burn! ​It was Billy Crystal's Fernando Lamas character who made a catchphrase out of "It is better to look good than to feel good. (of course you remember this character! He's the "You look mah-velous" guy.). Along similar lines, former Mexican National Team goalkeeper Jorge C ... More >>

Sweet Beat: BonBonBar's Pumpkin Pie Bar

T. Palmer​After moving back to the Bay Area from Los Angeles, Nina Wanat relaunched her confections company BonBonBar in October. Wanat is a graduate of CIA's baking and pastry program in Napa, a course she switched to after attending law school at U.C. Davis and being tempted into the culinary wo ... More >>

This Week at the Prop. 8 Trial

What do you mean Prop. 8 is biased?​ ​ For those who want the short and sweet of the ongoing trial meant to determine whether Prop. 8 violates the right to equal protection under the Constitution of the United States, here's a handy summary of what went on this week -- ... More >>

Masterminds 2010 Finalists Named, Winners Announced Wed.

We received more than 100 submissions this year from local artists vying to be named a Mastermind (and, perhaps, get a $2,500 grant). The quality of the entries was truly inspiring. That's why we've named 12 finalists this year instead of the usual 10--read up on this 2010's picks below. You can s ... More >>

The environmental cost of keeping golf courses green

We received more than 100 submissions this year from local artists vying to be named a Mastermind (and, perhaps, get a $2,500 grant). The quality of the entries was truly inspiring. That's why we've named 12 finalists this year instead of the usual 10--read up on this 2010's picks below. You can s ... More >>

Bomb Squad Rushes to College Campus, Finds Red Bull

Not seen leaving the scene, incidentally...​In an episode that started out as a suspected act of terrorism and ended up as bizarre product placement, bomb squad members rushed to the U.C. Davis campus yesterday. After a person was spotted leaving a "suspicious package" near the entrance of a libra ... More >>

Republicans tastelessly milk cow-shooting controversy

Not seen leaving the scene, incidentally...​In an episode that started out as a suspected act of terrorism and ended up as bizarre product placement, bomb squad members rushed to the U.C. Davis campus yesterday. After a person was spotted leaving a "suspicious package" near the entrance of a libra ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Not seen leaving the scene, incidentally...​In an episode that started out as a suspected act of terrorism and ended up as bizarre product placement, bomb squad members rushed to the U.C. Davis campus yesterday. After a person was spotted leaving a "suspicious package" near the entrance of a libra ... More >>

Immigrants Not Taking Your Job, Study Claims

No excuses! ​People who hate immigrants often hang their rhetorical hat on the argument that immigrants are stealing jobs from and depressing wages for people born here. Yet a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco blows that theory apart.Immigr ... More >>

An Immigrant's Point of View

No excuses! ​People who hate immigrants often hang their rhetorical hat on the argument that immigrants are stealing jobs from and depressing wages for people born here. Yet a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco blows that theory apart.Immigr ... More >>

When Your Facebook Stalker Won't Take 'No' For an Answer

​Dear Anna,

I, like many others in my generation, am a bit of a Facebook junkie. I love the quizzes, the event invites, even the Farmville updates (I know, weird right?), but there is one thing I hate: boys that think 
Facebook is some weird stalker version of OkCupid.

There is this gu ... More >>

Calm Between the Storms

​Dear Anna,

I, like many others in my generation, am a bit of a Facebook junkie. I love the quizzes, the event invites, even the Farmville updates (I know, weird right?), but there is one thing I hate: boys that think 
Facebook is some weird stalker version of OkCupid.

There is this gu ... More >>

Fiona Ma Targets Domestic Violence Among Teens

Nothing glamorous about violence.​What we know about the 2009 gang rape of a Richmond High School student at prom is that it's not an isolated event. Domestic violence among teens is on the rise, and Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco) is attempting to draw attention to this disturbing trend. ... More >>

Blame McD's for Making Poor People Obese? Not So Fast

​There's an assumption in food-policy circles that obesity rates are high among the poor because they eat so much fast food. It's an assumption that led the LA City Council to ban the construction of new fast-food restaurants in low-income neighborhoods in 2008. But according to a new study from ... More >>

Former UC Davis Frat Boy Sues University over "Harshest Form of Hazing"

This doesn't look like ratfucking ​A former UC Davis student is suing the university, claiming school officials didn't put an end to over-the-top hazing in 2008 when he was pledging the all-Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi.According to the claim filed in Yolo County, Ryan Clifford was on a retre ... More >>

John Pike, Accused Pepper-Spraying UC Davis Cop, Targeted by Anonymous

The shadowy online "hacktivist" group known for encouraging the Occupy Wall Street Movement has published the personal contact information of Lt. John Pike, the UC Davis cop who was allegedly recorded pepper-spraying a group of unarmed UC Davis protesters last week. A video that claims to be the wor ... More >>

Pelosi Takes Shots at GOP, Lobbyists for Targeting Occupy Protesters in 'Message War'

Standing with Occupy​House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is rallying Democrats to defend the sundry Occupy movements that have sprung up across the country, appealing in a fundraising e-mail for money to help combat a "message war" against protesters orchestrated by GOP-connected lobbyists.Pelosi's ... More >>

UC Davis Chancellor: Police Defied Orders by Pepper-Spraying Occupy Protesters

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi is apparently sorry -- really, really sorry -- for the pepper-spraying of peaceful Occupy student protesters that set off a public-relations catastrophe last week. In an interview with the Sacramento Bee yesterday, Katehi said she had ordered campus police to interac ... More >>

UC Regents to Discuss Pepper Spraying Police Incident; Occupy Protesters Plan General Strike

99 percent of UC students can't afford tuition ​Protesters have big plans to demonstrate at four UC campuses across the state today when the UC Board of Regents holds a teleconference to discuss a new tuition plan, as well as the recent incident where a UC Davis cop callously doused protesters wit ... More >>

Occupy Oakland: Protesters Block Port of Oakland

Kate CongerAnd it's not even 8 a.m.!​Update (8:05 a.m.): It's started to rain, but that's not deterring this group. A handful of protesters carrying an Occupy UC Davis banner has walked further into the port. Original Story (7:06 a.m.): As expected, hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters have march ... More >>

Life-Size Pepper Spray Cop Cutout Lets You Be Lt. Pike

Kate Conger​At the Port of Oakland this morning, our intrepid photographer Kate Conger caught the next evolution of that as-seen-on-the-Internet pepper-spray cop meme. This cardboard cutout is a brilliant reversal. Instead of you 'shopping Lt. Pike of U.C. Davis into your photos, now you can ... More >>

What Caused the Hole in the Local Salmon Population?

University of California, DavisBaby Coho salmon: worth protecting.​In the latest episode of their new science podcast, Field Trip, local journalists Kara Platoni and Eric Simons set out to ask the question: Why exactly are all the fish in the ocean disappearing, and how do we measure how quickly ... More >>