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Where Have All the Stoners Gone?

Hey stoners, do you really want Sarah Palin as an ally?​It's hard to say exactly where the American marijuana movement is at present. For every Alabama, where a Republican state legislator will sponsor a medical marijuana bill to legalize medical cannabis, there's an Arizona or a Montana, where la ... More >>

Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock Gives tUnE-yArDs' "Gangsta" the Boom-Bap Treatment

​ So Beastie Boys mastermind Ad-Rock put his own spin on the excellent "Gangsta" by Oakland's own tUnE-yArDs. In case you missed the band's big-deal set this weekend at Outside Lands, the original version of "Gangsta" already gets crowds moving heartily. For the remix, Ad-Rock pairs vocal samp ... More >>

Summer Guide: The Best Obscure Tourist Attractions

​ So Beastie Boys mastermind Ad-Rock put his own spin on the excellent "Gangsta" by Oakland's own tUnE-yArDs. In case you missed the band's big-deal set this weekend at Outside Lands, the original version of "Gangsta" already gets crowds moving heartily. For the remix, Ad-Rock pairs vocal samp ... More >>

Farmers Markets May Be More Affordable, an Old Knife Sharpener

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Are Farmers Markets More Affordable? The venerable Barry Estabrook reports the results of a Vermont study that compared the prices of conventional and organic produce at farmers m ... More >>

Kamala Harris Files Brief Supporting Federal Health Care Reform

This won't hurt a bit...​California Attorney General Kamala Harris has filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit seeking to aid the defense of President Barack Obama's landmark health care legislation.The so-called Affordable Care Act, perhaps Obama's most significant legisla ... More >>

Clean Cheese, Ginger Ale, and the Mighty Subway

Madame Fromage/FlickrSally Jackson's amazing cheese, now lost to the world after an FDA crackdown.​A new daily column: Notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other miscellanea dredged up from the food media.1. Cheese makers under attack? San Francisco diners haven't felt the i ... More >>

Obama's Stance On DOMA Could Benefit Binational Gay Couples

​Political calculations are aflutter in response to the Obama administration's claim that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, the law that limits marriage between a man and a woman. Here's one more: What does this mean for gay immigrants who are married?As we explored in a 2010 ... More >>

Josey Baker, Itinerant Baker, and His Community-Supported Bread

Jonathan KauffmanJosey Baker's ginger-rosemary bread, baked in the Pizzaiolo ovens.​ A weekly survey of bread in San Francisco ― the baked and the fried, the artisan and the novelty.Josey Baker's Yummy Bread Source: joseybakerbread.blogspot.comPrice: $5Toast-appropriateness: 5/10

Tonight: Victory Cheeses at 18 Reasons

elkit/Flickr​Good Food Awards Cheese Tasting Where: 18 Reasons, 593 Guerrero (at 18th St.) When: Tonight, Jan. 25, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $15 for 18 Reasons members/ $20 for everyone else The rundown: Shed a tear for the lactose intolerant. At a drop-in event tonight at 18 Reasons, all the final c ... More >>

California Economy Among Nation's Worst, Study Claims

Our new state seal ... or piggy?​The bad news for California: A recently released study named the Golden State's "economic outlook" to be the fifth-worst in the nation. The good news: There's always Illinois, New Jersey, Vermont and New York. Sucks to be them! Taking stock of California and surmis ... More >>

Woman Named Skye Sues Ben & Jerry's Over 'All Natural' Claim

You lying bastards...​A wholesome food warrior named Skye is suing Ben & Jerry's for claiming its ice cream is "All Natural" on the label, when in fact -- horror of horrors -- ingredient No. 36 is alkalized cocoa. We feel tricked by those Vermont cows who subtly imparted in their placid, bovin ... More >>

Orgy of Artisanal Cheesemaking in Berkeley Tomorrow

​A cheese tasting, a panel discussion, and book signing are all going down at The Pasta Shop on Fourth Street (1786 Fourth St. at Hearst, Berkeley) tomorrow. Cheese artisans from Bellwether Farms, Cellars of Jasper Hill, Cowgirl Creamery, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, and Vermont Creamery will ... More >>

Trek to the Sunset's Outerlands for inventive New American fare

​A cheese tasting, a panel discussion, and book signing are all going down at The Pasta Shop on Fourth Street (1786 Fourth St. at Hearst, Berkeley) tomorrow. Cheese artisans from Bellwether Farms, Cellars of Jasper Hill, Cowgirl Creamery, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, and Vermont Creamery will ... More >>

Early Bird Special: Outerlands

M. BrodySexy, right?​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. When this year's food obit is filed (something tells us we'll be the ones writing it), expect some ponderous post-mort on 2009 having been the Year of the Sandwich. Foams and 12-course degustations may seems as qua ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

¿Dónde está el jefe?​ Normally, a story about Gavin Newsom going to Mexico and "leaking" would be pretty vile. And, depending on your feelings about the mayor, both of these developments could be interpreted as very problematic ... but not in that way.In any event, it's Friday -- you made it. B ... More >>

Local Flavor: Outerlands' Soups and Sandwiches Cut Through the Summer Fog

Meredith Brody The Outer Sunset cafe offers relief from summer's chill. Though you can see the Pacific from Outerlands' corner, and the interior is lovingly assembled from driftwood, there's a bit of Vermont lurking about the place. The rustic Outer Sunset café -- which opened in February -- ... More >>

Neko Case, fan-eater

Meredith Brody The Outer Sunset cafe offers relief from summer's chill. Though you can see the Pacific from Outerlands' corner, and the interior is lovingly assembled from driftwood, there's a bit of Vermont lurking about the place. The rustic Outer Sunset café -- which opened in February -- ... More >>

Zion-I Tour Hits SF on Friday

EKAphotographyZumbi of Zion-I Local heroes Zion-I are currently completing a West Coast swing in support of their hot new release, The Takeover. How nice of them to stop through Slim's on Friday before continuing on to points East, including Chicago, Michigan, Vermont, New York, and Ontario. Their ... More >>

Death

For the Whole World to See (Drag City)

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

The young and the accomplished: Nico Muhly

By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

Xiu Xiu To Release "New Women as Lovers Double LP" and 2008 Tour

By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

Legend Has It

That old 'last man on Earth' setup? It really works.

Back from the Land

That old 'last man on Earth' setup? It really works.

Play Right

That old 'last man on Earth' setup? It really works.

The Golden Road

Pioneering freak-folkers Matt Valentine and Erika Elder

Picky, Picky

For those who live for the leftovers, the best roast-turkey sandwich

Going Postal

Like it or not, the Zip Code Rapists are back

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on April 6, 2005

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Imperfect Unions

A new documentary sells gay marriage as the only answer to discrimination

Dirty Pretty Things

Midnight Movies gets eerie

Your Right to Party

A queer road map to Pride events.

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped,

the Folksmen turn it

way down from 11

Hungry for Dance

Two choreographers create "nondance" dances in The Stomach Never Lies

Spinning Into Butter

An exploration of racism at its volcanic core

I See Dull People!

Michelle Pfeiffer stars in What Lies Beneath

Best Corkscrew Drive

Vermont Avenue at 20th Street

Home for the Holidays

Schroeder's

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Schroeder's

House of Tudor

Schroeder's

Night + Day

Schroeder's

Back Home

Schroeder's

Splendor in the Court

How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

Night Crawler

How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

Savage Love

How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

Dish

How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

Night+Day

How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.