Vallejo

Watch: DaVinci's "In My City" Is a Gorgeous Bit of Hometown Boosterism

Days after San Francisco's own DaVinci dropped a brand-new album for free -- the dense and delightful The MOEna Lisa -- here's a new video for the bumpin' track "In My City," which might be the best bit of Sucka Free City eye-candy we've seen all year. Shot in gorgeous black and white, the Tim Jieh ... More >>

Off the Grid Returns to Front & Vallejo

In its continuing quest to take over the world (not that we mind), Off the Grid has re-opened its lunchtime market near Levi's Plaza after a five-month hiatus. We stopped by the food truck gathering at Vallejo and Front to check out the scene and get some grub. There were five trucks in all, and aft ... More >>

Football Stabbing, Dramatic Shooting Kept Cops Busy Yesterday

It was an active weekend for San Francisco for cops and criminals. Police made a few significant arrests, starting with a stabbing near Candlestick Park where the 49ers were playing the New York Giants on Sunday. According to police. the incident started at about 1:35 p.m. when two men approached a ... More >>

Bay Area Rappers Remake 50 Cent's "How to Rob" With a Misogynist Twist

San Francisco-bred rapper Messy Marv and J-Diggs, president of Vallejo's embattled Thizz Entertainment, have just released "211 on a Industry Nigga," a remake of 50 Cent's 2002 debut single "How to Rob." Both call out specific rap and R&B stars -- many of the same names, in fact -- and detail how th ... More >>

Ammiano Bill to Allow Marijuana Businesses and Sales That Are Already Legal

Mr Fix-It​Call it an industry, call it a movement, call it a gigantic scam. Law enforcement and politicians can't agree what to call California's medical marijuana scene, except to say it exists in a legal gray area.And how. A dispensary operator in Vallejo was arrested last week -- twice -- becau ... More >>

President's Day Weekend: Another Carmaggedon?

Closed for business​What better way to celebrate the Great Emancipator than with hair-pulling traffic and even more of a clusterfuck than usual for Bay Area commuters? The westbound deck of the Bay Bridge heading into San Francisco will be closed at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, until 5 a.m. on Tues ... More >>

Recent Openers

Medical Marijuana Dispensary Owners Facing Criminal Charges for Operating a "Flower Shop"

Pretty flowers​The former owners of Wellness Solutions Group, a Pacifica medical cannabis dispensary ordered closed by city officials on Monday night, will face criminal charges for operating a business under false pretenses, police said Tuesday.The owners, Ruben Salvatierra of South City and Timo ... More >>

Summer Guide: Sports Bars That Aren't Terrible

It's Freshman 10 Time Again -- Start Choosing Your Favorite Up-And-Coming Local Rapper

​Ah, March. Music fiends flock to Austin. Men become obsessed with watching other men (who are still in college) flail wildly while trying to stuff an orange ball into a tiny hoop. And Bay Area rappers turn into glad-handing politicians, littering their Facebook pages and Twitter feeds with pleas, ... More >>

Translating Chinese New Year's Menus, Part 1: Lichee Garden

Oh, yes, it's that year.​Last year, SFoodie drove around the Sunset and Richmond, picking up New Year's banquet menus to post online. This year, we canvassed San Francisco's Chinatown, and once again asked the intrepid Ed Chui (Adobo Hobo) and his parents to help us translate. A series of technic ... More >>

L.A. Rhymeslinger Dom Kennedy on Why He's the Best Kennedy After Bobby

Ich bin ein accomplished rapper​Few rappers would have the audacity to rhyme over a Biggie beat, much less have the skill to do it well, but... well, Los Angeles mainstay Dom Kennedy is audacious and talented. To wit, he likes to refer to himself as the Best After Bobby -- download the mixtape of ... More >>

Giants World Series Trophy at City Hall (PICS)

Oh happy day! ​At San Francisco's City Hall, one eventually gets used to the sight of statuesque brides in frilly gowns and strappy sandals clomping through the metal detectors. But a fella with a two-foot-tall, traffic cone orange hat, a matching scarf and a gleeful Jack-O-Lantern smile? No, he's ... More >>

KMEL's Summer Jam breaks hot local artists

Efren Valdemoro, Murder Spree Suspect, Shot Dead By CHP in Supermarket

Hercules Police DepartmentEfren Valdemoro, the man at the center of a string of suspected murders​Efren Valdemoro, the 38-year-old man killed by CHP officers near the fish section of Richmond's 99 Ranch Market following a high-speed pursuit last night, is suspected in at least four other murders a ... More >>

In Print: Oneohtrix Point Never, Marlena Shaw, and KMEL's Summer Jam

Oneohtrix Point Never​Behind the "abrasive, frightening introduction" to Oneohtrix Point Never's new album, Returnal, lies another bewildering set of tracks from a Brooklyn electronic artist whose style straddles the line between noise and pop. As Reyan Ali writes in our print edition this week, O ... More >>

Watch Moe Green's Startingly Unflashy New Video, 'KIM'

And now, for a rap video with no gold chains, luxury automobiles, or booty: Moe Green's "KIM," which depicts the up-and-coming Vallejo rapper in everyday unglory: riding the bus, eating at Giant Burger, walking the streets, and hanging out at the corner liquor store. With lyrics about Green's sleep ... More >>

In Print This Week: Moe Green, Hypernova, Cults

Cults​So there's this 22-year-old rapper from Vallejo named Moe Green. He tweets every 10.5 seconds, rhymes about how he wants to be famous like the Rock -- yes, the pro wrestler -- and was recently named one of the Top 10 up-and-coming local rappers by the radio station KMEL. Our Dave MacFadden-E ... More >>

Humphry Slocombe Expanding, CAV Slims Down, More Tacos Due

​The biggest news of the day comes from Paolo L. of Inside Scoop, who discovers Humphry Slocombe is opening a bake shop and ice cream "parlour" at 300 20th St. (at Florida), home, eventually, of Flour Water's Central Kitchen spinoff.    Tamara PalmerHumphry''s deliciously inked Jake ... More >>

Man to Critical Mass: F@ck You!

All photos | Tami TwarogYou're No. 1, bike dude...​Whether Critical Mass is good or bad for cycling is a debatable topic. But not for this guy. Snapped by photographer Tami Twarog, this as-yet unidentified gentleman raised his middle finger skyward as the throngs of Critical Mass riders whizze ... More >>

Adios 37.5-Hour San Francisco Work Week, Hola 12 Furlough Days

​Mayor Gavin Newsom today announced a tentative deal with the city's public employee unions that would kill his controversial plan to lay off some 17,000 city workers and rehire them at 37.5-hour work weeks. (No news yet on whether Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, who read about Newsom's plan in the ... More >>

Luis Prieto, Just 21 Years Old, Killed in North Beach Hit-and-Run

View Larger Map The man killed by a car careening through North Beach after its driver and passenger allegedly fired off rounds near a strip club was identified by the city's Medical Examiner as 21-year-old San Franciscan Luis Prieto. Prieto was crossing the street at Vallejo and Columbus at around ... More >>

All That Shooting You Hear? Don't Worry About It.

​If you hear loud gunfire noises emanating from across the bay at around lunchtime, worry not. No one is shooting up a church and Vallejo is a long way off. What you may be hearing is a 21-gun salute -- it is President's Day -- by the Coast Guard on Alameda. If the shooting isn't coming from Alame ... More >>

Policeman, Struck By Car in North Beach, Released From Hospital

​A San Francisco police officer hit by a car last night in North Beach has been released from the hospital after suffering bruises and abrasions, and sent home, the SFPD told us moments ago.The name of the officer has not been released -- but, then again, noted police spokesman Sergeant Wilfred Wi ... More >>

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

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 ma ... More >>

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," ... More >>

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 ... More >>

New Restaurants

New Restaurants

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 ... More >>

Power Breakfast: Joe's Special

2008 High School Battle of the Bands Semi-Finalists Announced

The Year of Living Toxin-Free

How to start 2008 in a state of detoxification

Zion-I get "Paid" again

Hawaiian I

Not Spam-a-lot, just delicious, inexpensive, and comforting island fare

Department of What the Fuck?

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

Mac Mall and Mac Dre

Da U.S. Open

Shops and Gifts

Four Best Delis

Seven Stops on a North Beach Pub Crawl

Four Best Bakeries

Outer Limits

Discover the Alaskan Duck Fart and other charms of the Outer, Outer Sunset's dive bars

Reel World

Don't Look Back; Halloween

Dolce Far Niente

Absinthe; David's; Ella's; Garden Court; Liberty Cafe

Best Route When Crossing the City on Foot

Finnegans Cake