University of California-Santa Cruz

Woman Says She Lied About Being Beaten and Raped at UC Santa Cruz

A 21-year-old woman who claimed she was the victim of a crime is now being investigated for possibly committing a crime. Police are telling reporters that the woman, whose name is not being released, admitted she lied about being raped while visiting the UC Santa Cruz campus on Feb. 17; the woman ... More >>

Franciscan Manzanita: See It Now!

This week, SF Weekly reported on the long-awaited designation of San Francisco's native Franciscan manzanita as a federally protected endangered species. This overdue pronouncement finally curtails a yearslong part-Kafka, part-Heller situation in which the very last Franciscan manzanita in the wild ... More >>

Top Chef Judge Krista Simmons on the S.F. Food Scene, and Her Path to the Judging Table

You never know where a passion for food will take you. For food writer Krista Simmons, it was the Top Chef judges table. It all started back in 2006, when Simmons was a junior at UC Santa Cruz. She took what she refers to as the "obligatory trip" to the Bonny Doon Winery Tasting Room, and was immed ... More >>

Harborside Health Center Patients Talk About Buying Marijuana on the Street (Video)

There isn't much agreement over who uses medical marijuana, and why. There's dispute over even the nomenclature: cannabis users refer to themselves as "patients," as do some state and local laws; some in law enforcement and in the August halls of government, officials dole out far less-accommodating ... More >>

Does Your Woman Have Bad PMS? Tell Her to Smoke Some Weed

Let's roll you a joint, madam​Recently, we wrote about a study which claimed that a majority of medical marijuana users in California are probably white men. Not included in the study was how many of those men were acquiring marijuana to placate their wife or girlfriend to cure the myriad of "wome ... More >>

Battlehooch on Visiting Abandoned Amusement Parks, Signing Names in Blood, and Getting Covered in Goo

Lydia White​Don't be fooled by its goofy demeanor and goofier name -- Battlehooch means business. Since signing a pact to form officially in 2007, the group has released an EP and two full-length LPs, toured the country, and even created a video series around its adventures. Band members have ... More >>

Most Medical Marijuana Patients Are White, Educated, and Employed, Study Says

Just your average stoner​A Californian with a job, an education, and every opportunity this society can afford him (minus perfect health).Meet your typical medical marijuana patient.A study conducted by a sociology professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz has some interesting revela ... More >>

Japanese Tsunami Debris: Will It Trash Our Beaches?

How many volunteers will this cleanup take?​There are so many alarming side effects to the Japanese nuclear leak -- tainted rainwater, polluted air samples, and let's not forget the possibility of radiation in your milk. But while we are so preoccupied with these immediate hazards, we have yet to ... More >>

Are Oysters Dying Out?

No more oysters? Zut alors!​Oysters can definitively be counted among Things San Franciscans Love. Whether opening our wallets for those tasty bivalves at the Ferry Building or taking a Zipcar up to Tomales Bay for a picnic of raw shellfish, we show our love for the oyster in countless ways.So it ... More >>

Alex Clemens Helps Establish Scholarship Fund For Arizona Shooting Victim Gabe Zimmerman

Gabe Zimmerman Remembered​It was only yesterday that Alex Clemens and Jonathan Klein went live with their scholarship fund in memory of Arizona shooting victim, Gabe Zimmerman, and already they have raised more than $4,000. The two San Francisco residents don't have any connection with Zimmerman o ... More >>

Sen. Tom Coburn, Who Is Not a Deadhead, Thinks the Grateful Dead Archive Is a Waste of Money

Tom Coburn, ungrateful non-head.​Earlier today, one senator from Oklahoma named Tom Coburn released a list of what his tight-fisted self considers the most wasteful federal spending of 2010.Number four on that list is a $615,000 grant given to UC Santa Cruz for a massive archive of Grateful Dead m ... More >>

Drag Racers -- Literally -- Busted By Park Rangers

You! Race over! ​Wednesday night's DFL Cross Dress Cyclocross event -- in which some 300 athletes, many of them in drag, mounted their cycles for a clandestine race -- broke up about 15 minutes before the finish when an San Francisco park ranger pulled up and began hollering for racers to get off ... More >>

Wines That Go Well With Bay Area Bands

​You can go to a restaurant and ask the server to offer wine pairings to accompany your fancy-pants menu choice. But imagine you're home and have just reached for the latest album from that hip new San Francisco band. You're all ready to crank up those sweet tunes, but what to drink to compliment ... More >>

Free Show! Tempo No Tempo and Grass Widow Tonight @ 6 p.m.

If you're up near SF State today around 6 p.m., check out the Depot for a free gig from three local bands. Tempo No Tempo and Grass Widow will school college kids and post grads on the finer points of post punk, while Grandma's Boyfriend proffers smart-ass indie pop. FYI: Tempo No Tempo's older vid ... More >>

Over the Weekend: SF Winter Fest w/ Battlehooch, Judgement Day and The Hot Moon

Judgement Day​Battlehooch, Judgement Day and The Hot Moon SF Winter Fest Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 Bottom of the Hill Better than: being force-fed sand while Metallica's "Load" blasts through headphones at full volume; Megadeth. Tell a friend, "Hey there's this band that plays metal with just a ce ... More >>

Another Thursday Option: Grow-A-Farmer Fundraiser at One Market

If floating your Thursday night away while eating wild food is just not your thing, consider shelling out 25 bones for a Grow-A-Farmer fundraiser that includes eats from One Market Restaurant, as well as Northern California farm inspired dishes. Event proceeds will go to the permanent housing projec ... More >>

In the Beginning

Sleepy Sun rises in the local psych scene

Toronto International Film Festival: Day 1

Grateful Day

Bob Weir's cutoffs not going to Grateful Dead archive

How to Make Student Loans Your Bitch- By Laser-Guided Awesome, The SF Weekly Utility Blog

It's the Food, Stupid

Michael Pollan's new book exposes how "nutritionism" has ruined our diets.

More Than Kitsch

New Emily Jane White video: Dagger

Use Both Hands

Take Your Fash Off

From Cormac McCarthy to Chan Marshall

Emily Jane White's evocative storytelling

Love Sex Death and Art

Flying Vs and fake cocaine at the U.S. Air Guitar Championships

Feelin' Their Thizzle

How the culture of Ecstasy has changed as the drug moved from raves to hip hop

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Theater Ensemble

Toward a Cyclocross Ethic

Why an outlaw bicycle race is a perfect metaphor for opposition to the Bush administration's greed-based Ownership Society

Continuum

The tactile pleasures of exposing, editing, and projecting celluloid

Requiem for a Dream

Here's your chance at subliminal stardom: An indie film about S.F.'s underground youth culture needs extras

Buck Wild

Estradasphere's epic new recording, Buck Fever

Pop Philosophy

Happiness is a warm guitar

Stone Deaf and Blind

In a city full of zealous preservationists, why can't we halt the desecration of a medieval monument?

Fun, Fun, Fun

As they prepare for their next album and U.S. tour, the Donnas prove they may be growing up but they remain the perfect antidote to Britney and Christina

Girls Still Wanna Have Fun

As they prepare for their next album and U.S. tour, the Donnas prove they may be growing up but they remain the perfect antidote to Britney and Christina.

Par Avion

"Postcards From Paris"

Hear This

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

Pedal to the Mettle

Will Europhiles wring the barf out of Bay Area cyclocross racing?

Nuthin' But a She Thing

Boxheads

Letters

Suspicious Minds

Slap Shots