Venezuela

Local Venezuelans Hope Lots of Toilet Paper Will Wipe Away Problems in Their Homeland

You think it's irritating when you use the toilet and find out after the fact that there's no toilet paper? Try relieving yourself in Venezuela. The oil-rich and corrupt country of Venezuela has added a new problem to their shopping list of crises: no more toilet paper. To help out, local Venezu ... More >>

Pica Pica Brings Venezuelan Arepas And Other Staples to the Castro

Hugo Chavez is dead, but Venezuelan food lives on at Pica Pica Maize Kitchen, the second S.F. spot for Carácas cuisine. And it's far less polarizing than inflammatory anti-American rhetoric. In fact, it's delicious. If you can find it, that is. The nondescript Castro location is hidden in plain si ... More >>

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Ross Mirkarimi Finally Gets to Kiss His Wife

This morning, suspended San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi embraced his wife Eliana Lopez for the first time in nearly five months after a judge lifted a protective order that had barred the couple from communicating or seeing each other. The court instead issued a modified order, clarifying that ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Hearing: Eliana Lopez Talks About the Domestic Dispute With Her Husband

Eliana Lopez's testimony was like watching a live taping of Telemundo; there were laughs, cries, boo's, and applause as she testified, sometimes with a little sass, on her husband's behalf at City Hall last night. Lopez, a well-known Venezuelan soap opera star, smirked, smiled, rolled her eyes, and ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Hearing: Eliana Lopez Video Allowed, Judge Rules

The now-infamous Eliana Lopez video may be used as evidence in suspended-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's ethics hearing, Judge Garrett Wong ruled . The video, in which Lopez tearfully showed a bruise she said her husband gave her, could also eventually become public, as Wong did not tie any restrictions t ... More >>

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Ross Mirkarimi Hearing: Judge Grants Eliana Lopez More Time to Fight City Over Video

Update 2:32 pm: Judge Garrett Wong granted Eliana Lopez's attorney's motion for continuance today. This means she will have more time to prepare her argument that the court should not release to the city the video of Lopez describing an alleged domestic assault by her husband, suspended-Sheriff Ross ... More >>

Senior Oz on the New Afrolicious EP, Recording in an SF Apartment, and the Jimi Hendrix of Africa

The Afrolicious crew outside the Elbo Room ​ Thursday nights at the Elbo Room, conga and timbale drummers flash their sticks, DJs mix in wild world grooves, and dancers get delirious at Afrolicious, the weekly club event put on by Kansas City natives DJ Oz and his brother Joey Maguire. The fou ... More >>

Quince's Rum and Cheese Pairing Is Good for the Rum

Ben Narasin​Quince restaurant continues its series of cheese and spirit pairings this week with rum and artisan cheese ($36, available only in the bar and lounge). While Quince's first effort, Scotch and cheese, is a somewhat established coupling, rum and cheese is far more esoteric. That make ... More >>

Feds Close Deportation Case Against Same-Sex Spouse of Gay American

Henry Velandia, right, and his American spouse, Josh Vandiver​The immigration woes of same-sex couples has finally reached a tipping point: The Immigration Court in Newark, New Jersey, has closed the deportation case against the foreign spouse of a gay American this week. The couple's attorney, La ... More >>

Globetrotting DJ Maga Bo Recorded Goats in Sudan; Cleared the 'Floor in Zanzibar

Maga Bo​Most of us spend our days planted in a cubicle fantasizing about beaches, historic monuments, and maybe seeing a penguin in its natural habitat. That latest jealousy comes from a conversation with musician, producer, composer, sound engineer -- and non-desk-bound frequent traveler -- DJ Ma ... More >>

Holiday Hallacas at Pica Pica

John BirdsallPica Pica's hallaca, $9: a three-meat filling wrapped in masa, steamed in banana leaf. ​Friday, December 3, 2010 In the gray north, we grow up baking puffy reindeer cut-outs with our moms, but in Venezuela, mothers and grandmas construct hallacas, a taste of Christmas as ubiquito ... More >>

Arepas on the Run

A South American sandwich full of flavor, or just plain full.

Outside Lands Goes on Sale Today. Behold These Tasty Food and Music Pairings

Tamara PalmerPica Pica Maize Kitchen's cachapas: Goes great with Colombian rock.​While we're both a music and food writer by trade, we were sent to Outside Lands last year with a specific mission to eat, and it was refreshing to have so many truly good edible distractions that we barely cared ... More >>

Panda Express: Crashing Pablo Sandoval's Entertaining Gig on Giants TV Show

Joe EskenaziGiants slugger Pablo Sandoval and his new mohawk 'do​After taking in yesterday's taping of Inside the Clubhouse -- which really is taped in the San Francisco Giants' clubhouse -- I'm left with two sparkling memories: Team hitting coach Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens pointing at outfielder N ... More >>

Los Amigos Invisibles attempt ‘Commercial’ success

Teatro de Vecinos

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Juju

Columbian DJ/producer Juju has been behind the decks since 1992, when he got a taste for his future career by spinning dub, reggae, and dancehall (genres that still make their way into his sets). He then spent much of the early '90s focused on drum 'n' bass in San Francisco -- specifically with th ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for December 3-9

Cinema on Ice

Drinking in pint-sized secrets at Nap’s

Summer in the City

Repertory Film Listing

Golden Gate Skateparks and Venezuelan Wage-Fixing — It's SFGovernmentInAction!!!

Hugo Chavez "Shut Up" Ringtone: Spanish King Juan Carlos a Ringtone Hit

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

Check Nate

A friendly game of chess makes for arresting theater

Salsa goes electro with Los Amigos Invisibles

Vote Nihilist

Repertory Film Listings

All Together Now

Devendra Banhart's latest indicates his neo-folk movement may just be hitting its stride

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Reps Etc.

Hear This

Los Amigos Invisibles riff on racy themes with tongues firmly in someone else's cheek; Gratitude -- copycat emo act or earnest effort of a seasoned vet?

Chocolate U

It takes more than the sweet stuff to educate us on Café Cacao's charms

Reps Etc.

Quirky as Folk

Devendra Banhart's mystical trip

Funny Business

Week 2 of the 47th San Francisco International Film Festival

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Cinema Synergy

Combining moviegoing with appropriate meals increases our pleasure

House of Tudor

Nuclear subs, gothic hip hop, and a world-traveled septet's motley musical influences

Man of La Mantra

The psychedelic folk of wandering minstrel Devendra Banhart

The Wretchedness of Regulars

What to do when you've been dissed by your favorite restaurant

United Nations

Putting the world back together at the 45th annual S.F. International Film Festival

Land Without Bread

The S.F. International Film Festival will honor a venerated Argentine filmmaker all but unknown in the U.S.

Night+Day

Night Crawler

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

All Talk and No Action

A trio of solo performances shows the degree to which performers can hit -- or miss