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Study Shows SFer's Budgeting Skills Extend Beyond Cheap Beer and Burritos

Turns out, all that thrift shopping you've done has paid off -- quite literally. A new study released today says that San Francisco ranks no. 4 among the nation's best budgeters. In layman's (aka poor man's) terms, it means we know how to live it up in under $20. And why wouldn't we be financiall ... More >>

Believe or Not, Walmart Workers Say They Love Their Job

Michigan residents aren't the only people who don't like unions. Apparently, Walmart worker don't either. Some Walmart workers have created their own group, called Associates Who Love Walmart, to proclaim their love of the discount superstore. They say their aim is to combat union-backed groups li ... More >>

Oakland Walmart Protest Against Animal Cruelty

Protestors gathered today outside the Oakland Walmart on Edgewater Drive, voicing their opposition to what they say is cruelty to animals.The group, Mercy for Animals, is calling on Walmart to require its suppliers to phase out the too small crates, citing new footage filmed at Christensen ... More >>

How Bay Area Corporations Resemble Their (Human) Neighbors

Occupy Our Food Supply ... Today

Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Bank of America, Occupy San Francisco -- now occupy your diet, too. Today is Occupy Our Food Supply Day, a nationwide series of actions and articles hoping to raise awareness about how corporate interests have taken over the world's food supply. As Anna Moore Lappé and ... More >>

In Print: Exploring Bhi Bhiman's Funny, Compassionate Folk Songs

Bhi Bhiman​Bhi Bhiman: It might surprise anyone who's heard his booming tenor of a voice, but San Francisco singer-songwriter Bhi Bhiman didn't always want to be a musician. His first chosen profession? Comedian. Which goes some way toward explaining the sharp humor in his lyrics. "I tried to ... More >>

Toby Keith and Kenny Chesney: Bullshit & Transcendence in This Week's Top Country Singles

Thing Toby Keith has never said: "Nah, man, that might be a little much."​On occasion, All Shook Down gives a listen to the music that is to real America what brine is to a cucumber. This is one of those occasions. Toby Keith, "Made in America" Chart Position: No. 5 Verdict: Fantastic, but ... More >>

Michelle Obama Makes a Deal with Walgreens

Michelle Obama proves that the White House is not in a food desert.​ According to the Obama Foodorama blog, Michelle Obama announced at a press conference yesterday that Walgreens, Walmart, and SuperValue, as well as several regional grocers, have agreed to open 1,500 stores in regions designated ... More >>

Drake's Barrel House: Barrel-Aged Beer Tasting Oasis

Photos by Jason Henry​Barrel-aged beer has proven to be more than a passing fad, but tap versions of these wood-aged beers can be elusive or destructive to your wallet. Enter Drake's Barrel House, a one-stop shop for your oaky fix. This beery oasis is hiding in plain sight behind a San Leand ... More >>

Bouncer Holds Forth at the Wal-Mart of S.F. Breweries

Becky Selengut Teaches How to Pick and Cook Good Fish

​ Becky Selengut, a cooking teacher and food writer based in Seattle, is coming to San Francisco this weekend to speak about and cook from her new book, Good Fish: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the Seafood Coast. On Saturday morning, she will be doing a cooking demo at the Ferry Plaza Farmers ... More >>

List: What Threats Should San Franciscans Be Frightened Of?

Demand Media: Why SFGate's Real Estate Section Reads Like a Grade School Book Report

Matt SmithNow them's some gooood readin'​Direct your browser to SFGate.com's "Home Guide" section for the rare experience  of news articles written as if for morons so ignorant they've never read an actual newspaper.According to the lead sentence in a article about house prices, "Real estate ... More >>

America, Still the Land of White People's Food

Roadsidepictures/Flickr​Our favorite morsel from the Web. Publishers Weekly's Lynn Andriani marvels that the multiculti tenor of cookbook publishing today is so at odds with America's political realities. Andriani: In 2010, "immigration" became a hot-button issue in American politics with the ... More >>

Next in San Francisco: A Country Music Festival?

With a beard and no Stetson, Zac Brown looks like a country artist that SF could get behind.​It's not going to be gay country, or dyke country, or sex worker country, or street food country, or transexual country, or any other offbeat, San Francisco-styled take on country music.The West Coast Coun ... More >>

SF Weekly Names Winners of Masterminds Arts Grants

Hanna Quevedo​Thanks to Project One for hosting a great party and all the artists who helped make a terrific show last night. We wish we could have given out grants to everyone, but we only had enough money to give out three. Hanna Quevedo​Without further ado, here are the artists who took ... More >>

Curry Up Later: Indian Taco Truck's Brisbane Debut Rained Out

MarkyYo/FlickrMaybe next week?​Yesterday, we mentioned that Indian taco truck Curry Up Now had announced plans to roll up for lunch Wednesdays in the Brisbane parking lot of Walmart.com, starting today. But it looks like that's going to have to wait at least another week, weather permitting. Curry ... More >>

Why Local Troops Needn't Worry About Wal-Mart's Bootleg Girl Scout Cookies

Should Mission panaderias panic over Girl Scouts Dulce de Leche cookies?​If you've been surfing the Internet today, you've quite possibly read something about Wal-Mart's new, suspiciously Girl Scout-like cookies. You may have even wondered how a giant corporation could prey on little girls like th ... More >>

Green Day to Wal-Mart: Fuck Censorship

  Moral Crusaders? Green DayLooks like everyone who called Green Day sell-outs owes the band an apology. After releasing 21st Century Breakdown, their most ambitious album ever, the band followed up by doing the most punk thing they've ever done: refuse to sell a clean ve ... More >>

Why the 'Black Friday Story' Is the Enemy of Real News

By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

Grand jury report says no accounting for bad follow-through

On Comics: Not So Fast, Memin

Packard Jennings Giddy, Anarchic at the Catharine Clark Gallery

Hate Hurts America, If By 'Hate' You Mean Michael Savage

Wal-Mart 'R' Us

Does 'sustainability' mean meddling in workers' personal lives? San Francisco's Act Now Productions seems to think so.

Shell Game

Over the Hedge wants you to feel bad about what it's selling, which is everything

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

Supersore

The sins of Wal-Mart get the documentary treatment

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 15

Game On

Can they show penetration? Dog Bites visits the Game Developers Conference to find out.

We're Sold

Tomfoolery and entertainment in the sanitized supermarket lanes

Molto Bene

A heaping helping of Italian films

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, August 4, 2004

Turning the Tables

Paul Oakenfold is not a celebrity-DJ hack. Or if he is, maybe that's not so bad.

Censorship for Dummies

John Wiley & Sons New Jersey, 2004

New Found Glory

Catalyst (Drive-Thru)

Longtime Companions

Exhibit gives props to pigeons

Blue Christmas

Celebrate the season at sea

Chronicles of the Working Class

The book Nickel and Dimed is a first-rate journalistic look at minimum-wage life. The play it inspired is just journalism.

Reps Etc.

Letters to the Editor

Week of April 18, 2001

The Whole Truth

The rise and fall of a dot-com

Reel World

Independent View promo; Store Wars

Hear This

Etienne de Rocher

Savage Love

Savage Love

Riff Raff

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World