Subject: Vallejo

• Nuclear Holocaust Short 34 Tons of Plutonium -- Russia, U.S. Deal

  November 20, 2007

• 2008 High School Battle of the Bands Semi-Finalists Announced

  May 8, 2008

• Power Breakfast: Joe's Special

  September 9, 2008

• SF Weekly Interview: E-40

  By Tamara Palmer It's now been more than 20 years since Earl Stevens (aka E-40) put his first independent record out on the streets of the Bay Area and set out on a mission to put his hometown of Vallejo on the international rap map and his colorful phraseology into the mouths of society at large, you smell me? On the eve of his 11th studio album Ball Street Journal, which will be released on Tuesday (and features guest stars like Snoop Dogg, Bun B, Game, Akon and T-Pain), we spoke with the

  November 21, 2008

• MP3 of the Day: E-40

  (Photo from E-40's MySpace page)E-40 is no stranger to clever puns, and the title of the Vallejo heavy's latest release, The Ball Street Journal, shows the rapper isn't slowing down the slang any time soon. The album,  featuring 40's signature rubber tongue alongside guests like Snoop Dogg, Bun B, Game, Akon and T-Pain, drops two years after the Ambassador of the Yay put this area on the map in a big way with My Ghetto Report Card. Check out the original (and remix) version of Ball Street'

  December 1, 2008

• Wanna Buy an Old S.F. Police Car and Scare the Bejeezus Out of Everyone? Here's How

  So, are you patrolling for psychos or are you the psycho?Anyone who's ever been jolted into throwing some perfectly good contraband into the gutter at the sight of an approaching Ford Crown Victoria  -- only to notice a couple of idiot teenagers with hoodies and baseball caps in the front seat -- has probably had one of the following thoughts: If I keep telling myself they're young, undercover Mod Squad cops, I'll feel better about this;This experience has soured me on American cars once an

  January 28, 2009

• SF Candy Emporium Source of New York Times' Quotation of the Day

  Relatively good news on the sweet treat front led to not only a front page story (entitled "When Economy Sours, a Tootsie Roll Can Still Soothe the Soul") on Tuesday, March 22's New York Times, but also yielded the Quotation of the Day, boxed at the top of page A3: "All is well in candy land," from Jamie Hallman, identified as the "owner of a candy store in San Francisco, on an increase in sales during the economic downturn."The store cited is Sweet Dish (2144 Chestnut) in the Marina. (It's

  March 24, 2009

• Samples

  April 17, 1996

• New Restaurants

  December 24, 2008

• New Restaurants

  December 17, 2008

• New Restaurants

  December 10, 2008

• New Restaurants

  December 3, 2008

• New Restaurants

  November 26, 2008

• New Restaurants

  November 19, 2008

• Julio Cesar Morales re-enacts the birth of California

  October 8, 2008

• Round and Round

  August 27, 2008

• Return of the Mac

  June 18, 2008

• Vallejo Rapper Soldier Hard Brings Home Iraq's Harsh Realities

  January 30, 2008

• The Year of Living Toxin-Free

  How to start 2008 in a state of detoxification

  January 16, 2008

• OG icon B-Legit reflects on pre-hyphy rap

  December 19, 2007

• USS Iowa, Any Takers?

  Will $250,000 hole in the water stay afloat or be scrapped for target practice?

  September 12, 2007

• Battleship Down

  The USS Iowa was once considered a lock as a San Francisco tourist attraction. So why is the historic warship rusting in Suisun Bay?

  January 10, 2007

• Zion-I get "Paid" again

  September 13, 2006

• Hawaiian I

  May 24, 2006

• My Name Is Earl

  E-40 blows up, and takes the rest of the Bay Area with him

  March 15, 2006

• Department of What the Fuck?

  Beef, it's what's for dinner: Hip hop feuds we'd like to see

  December 21, 2005

• Mac Mall and Mac Dre

  May 25, 2005

• Best Heart Attack-Inducing Stairs

  May 11, 2005

• Best Hip Hop Radio Show

  Ghetto Gumbo

  May 19, 2004

• Shops and Gifts

  November 19, 2003

• Seven Stops on a North Beach Pub Crawl

  May 15, 2002

• Five Best Comfort Foods

  May 15, 2002

• Outer Limits

  February 13, 2002

• Best Newsstand

  May 23, 2001

• Reel World

  September 20, 2000

• Best Power Walk

  May 17, 2000

• Best Route When Crossing the City on Foot

  May 17, 2000

• Letters

  February 9, 2000

• Finnegans Cake

  March 10, 1999

• Venice at the Beach

  September 16, 1998

• Recordings

  April 19, 1995

• Local Flavor: A Carb-and-Caffeine-Fueled Walk Across San Francisco

  sneedy via FlickrVictoria Pastry: Perfect for a brioche pit stopOne of the best ways to appreciate San Francisco is to cross it on foot, coast to coast, an ideal weekend activity. Of course an undertaking like this demands plenty of tasty vitamins and minerals, which are available in abundance no matter what trail you happen to take. Last week we took the northern route from the Embarcadero to the Cliff House via Pacific Heights and the Richmond, and decided to kick things off with wonderfully

  May 28, 2009

• Arrrrgh, Matey! Thar Be Photos of NorCal Pirate Fest Ahoy!

  Joe EskenaziShiver me timbers! It be Mendozer hisself!Arrrgh, me mateys! Rum, sodomy, and the lash! Insert some other pirate cliche here (pieces of eight, keel-haul, MENDOOOOOOO-ZER!). This weekend marked the Northern California Pirate Festival in Vallejo -- a fitting locale; the city has faced its share of economic privations.As with any theme fest, you could sum it up as a celebration of inappropriate cleavage, faux drunkenness, terrible English accents, fried food on sticks, and generous usag

  June 22, 2009

• Breaking News: State to Pay Out $335K Settlement for Carole Migden's Erratic Driving

  Boom! There goes another $335K.The state of California will pay out a $335,000 settlement in the matter of a former senator's case of DWM -- Driving While Migden. The San Franciscan's much-publicized 2007 highway incident left a 30-mile trail of terrified 911 callers and ended with the veteran politician slamming her state-issued hybrid SUV into the back of 31-year-old Vallejo resident Ellen Butawan's Honda. Late last month the state signed off on a $335,000 settlement with Butawan, accord

  July 6, 2009

• New Restaurants

  July 29, 2009

• New Restaurants

  August 12, 2009

• Garlic Oasis: A SFoodie Lunch Planner

  ​Thursday, September 3, 2009 We're not saying the greatest virtue of this place is its location in a food wasteland, but we can confidently say it's the finest Chinese restaurant on its block. SF Weekly critic Meredith Brody suggests the hot smoked ham with string beans and spicy garlic chicken at Henry's Hunan, 924 Sansome (at Vallejo), 956-7727.

  September 3, 2009

• Excavating Mortadella: A SFoodie Lunch Planner

  ​Friday, October 2, 2009 Yeah, we like the sandwiches at Boccalone Salumeria, too. But stopping there is like downloading a Scissor Sisters CD and thinking you're done, without ever tasting vintage Bowie or Sir Elton in the days when, you know, he was fun. Get schooled in the antecedents of the current panino explosion with SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody's pick of a salami piccante, mortadella, and provolone sandwich at Molinari's Delicatessen, 373 Columbus (at Vallejo), 421-2

  October 2, 2009

• What Bay Area Bridge Will Feature an Upended Big Rig Truck Today?

  What truck mayhem will hit a Bay Area bridge today?​The tried and true journalistic maxim is that it takes three instances to have a bona fide "trend." So, no, the Bay Area isn't experiencing a "trend" of big rig trucks flipping over on local bridges. But, you have to admit, the knee-jerk phrase of "You don't see that every day" lost some gravity when tractor trailer trucks went topsy turvy on two Bay Area bridges on two consecutive days. By now you may have heard of the Safeway truck that dum

  October 15, 2009

• Alleged Violent Cheapskate Chokes Taxi Driver, Leaves 10 Bucks on the Seat

  Not far from it...​A wee-hours drunk taxi fare got the sequence wrong late last week. You're supposed to pay the cabbie before you attempt to strangle him -- not after. The nightmare fare was picked up at Polk and Vallejo well past the bewitching hour and driven to his residence on the 100 block of Font. But at that point, he allegedly decided paying taxi drivers was not high on his priority list. The irate cabbie began driving his car toward Taraval Police Station, and the fare was not please

  November 2, 2009