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Our Lady of the Kittens

Face Time: Local Man's Whiskers Named World's Best

Lost By a Whisker

Taste of Chaos Tour Promises Whole Day of Musical Shittiness

Man Survives Jump from Golden Gate Bridge

Saturday Night: L.A. Guns, Flamingo Gunfight, Hellicious and Rubberside Down at Betty's Rock Bar

2008 High School Battle of the Bands Semi-Finalists Announced

Santacon 2008, Ski Team: The Party, The Cure, Skot Olsen and Too $hort: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Weekend wrap-up by Janine KahnSunday was nasty and rainy, but that didn't keep photographer Jen Cash home in Walnut Creek. Click here for her photo set from 111 Minna, which had been converted into a retro winter wonderland with snow on the floor and attendees in 80's neon ski garb for "Ski Team: Th ... More >>

Global Pantry: Turkish Red Pepper Paste

This mildly spicy pepper paste is a great addition to scrambled eggs.

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This mildly spicy pepper paste is a great addition to scrambled eggs.

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Small Plates, Big Array

In the restaurant-happy Presidio, you'll find global cuisine and an impressive wine selection

Our critics weigh in on local theater

In the restaurant-happy Presidio, you'll find global cuisine and an impressive wine selection

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

DeLessio Is More

Finding summer in the city at a delicious off-the-radar bakery

Horse Plié

The splendor of Le Carrousel du Roi, an exacting re-enactment of a 17th-century equestrian ballet, and the squalor of the crowd

Top 10 reasons for making a Top 10 list

The forgotten Top 10: The best records of 2001 that you won't see on anyone else's list

Pop Philosophy

The difference between "naff" and "wack"

What's Green and Black and Blue All Over?

Maybe Nader voters should be slapped around a bit; their leftist purity will likely bring us four very squalid years

Beat the Schlock

Artists who mock suburban banality may have new seated duck to shoot -- North Beach

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Artists who mock suburban banality may have new seated duck to shoot -- North Beach

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Artists who mock suburban banality may have new seated duck to shoot -- North Beach

Mad Cow: S.F. Judge Rules City Not Liable For Belligerent Bovine

'The City asserts that there is no constitutional right to be free from a cow attack...'

New Club Opens Friday in SOMA: Liquid

Liquid's Walnut Creek club, from the venue's MySpace photo galleryWalnut Creek literally comes to the 11th St. stretch in SOMA when a new club called Liquid opens on Friday night at 314 11th St. (the old Fat City space). Judging from the venue's MySpace page, this will be the San Francisco branch of ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Liquid's Walnut Creek club, from the venue's MySpace photo galleryWalnut Creek literally comes to the 11th St. stretch in SOMA when a new club called Liquid opens on Friday night at 314 11th St. (the old Fat City space). Judging from the venue's MySpace page, this will be the San Francisco branch of ... More >>

Peruvian Woman Files Suit In S.F. District Court, Alleges Human Trafficking and Forced Labor

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Meanwhile, in Walnut Creek...  Peruvian citizen Zoraida Pena Canal filed suit in federal district court this week, alleging she was trafficked into two years of forced labor as a nanny, cook, and household servant by a Peruvian-born U.S. citizen a ... More >>

S.F. Bay Guardian Tells Those Conservative Suburban Twits How To Vote

Well, Edna, if the Guardian says they're for Garamendi, I reckon we should be, too​The Bay Guardian loves to complain about a certain Chronicle columnist from Walnut Creek criticizing San Francisco policies. The Guardian essentially contends that suburbanites cannot be expected to understand t ... More >>

Boxer, Feinstein to Call for Permanent Moratorium on Offshore Oil Drilling

Good riddance? ​California Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein -- along with their counterparts from both Oregon and Washington -- will tomorrow officially introduce legislation calling for a permanent ban on oil drilling off the West Coast, Boxer's office has told SF Weekly. The call for a m ... More >>

Farmers' Market Favorite Vesta Flatbread Looking for Restaurant Space

Tamara PalmerVesta's beef short rib sandwich ($8.50).​Vesta Flatbread launched at the top of the year, serving its house-made flatbread sandwiches and other fare at three Bay Area farmers' markets: Thursdays at San Rafael Civic Center, Saturdays at Oakland's Grand Lake, and Sundays in Walnut C ... More >>

Pro-Johannes Mehserle Rally Still On For Today

Johannes Mehserle's fan club will rally in Walnut Creek today​Despite legions of Bay Area residents' simultaneously thinking "this will end poorly," the mysterious organizers of today's pro-Johannes Mehserle rally in Walnut Creek are still moving full speed ahead. Demonstrators are scheduled to ra ... More >>

Baylinks: German Tourist, Treasure Island, Picketing

brandsoftheworld.comNow we really know what that "W" stands for...​Blame may fall on teen party organizers for German tourist's death [SF Citizen]Someone puts the green in Walgreens [SFist]Treasure Island development plan may be too crowded for God [SF Gate]

Flea Spray Kills Pets, Suit Alleges

Please don't kill me​Pet owners allege that Bio Spot and Spot On tick and flea repellent sent their cats and dogs into seizures -- and,in some cases, killed them -- in a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco. In some instances, the owners euthanized their pets after they suf ... More >>

Home of Chicken and Waffles Heads East, Pizza Nostra Goes to Someone Else

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Paolo L. at Inside Scoop learns that Derreck Johnson has signed the lease on a second location for Home of Chicken and Waffles, which started off intending to be a Roscoe's franchise but has f ... More >>

Will BART Spend Big Bucks To Change Station's Name?

Take us to the 'Centre'! Tally-ho!​BART's board of directors is scheduled today to vote on whether the name of one of its stations should be made longer, more complicated -- and more expensive. At the behest of both municipal and corporate interests, BART may today opt to change the name of Pleasa ... More >>

Monica Christine McCarrick Killed Children With Samurai Sword, Cops Say

Fairfield PoliceMonica Christine McCarrick ​Just when you think allegations a young mother killed her three-year-old twin daughters and then set the building on fire couldn't get worse -- it did. Christine McGarrick, 28, of Fairfield is now suspected of slaying Lily and Tori Ball with a samurai sw ... More >>

Le Cheval Oakland Hobbled, Citizen Cake Fillmore (Finally) Opens

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Eater SF's Carolyn A. reports that Oakland's popular Le Cheval closed on Friday after being evicted. The owner is maintaining his Berkeley and Walnut Creek branches, and his son is opening up ... More >>

Greet E-40 and Get Schwag at a Barbecue in Walnut Creek This Saturday

Try to ignore the "prand" typo​We don't really see the point in trying to be clever about this: Here's your chance to go to a barbecue with E-40. This Saturday, April 23, at True East in Walnut Creek, Earl Fortywater is joining forces with True and Undrcrwn to fà ... More >>

E40 on How to Attain Rap Success: "Fuck 'Em"

​Behold the Vallejo-grown genius of E40, whom you may encounter at a barbecue in Walnut Creek (seriously) this Saturday: "Fuck 'em," he thumps here, apparently sharing a key to his success. Fuck who? You'll have to listen to find out, but it's worth noting that the lyrical athlete known as Earl Fo ... More >>

Antismoking Bill May Mean the End of Hookah Houses

​Behold the Vallejo-grown genius of E40, whom you may encounter at a barbecue in Walnut Creek (seriously) this Saturday: "Fuck 'em," he thumps here, apparently sharing a key to his success. Fuck who? You'll have to listen to find out, but it's worth noting that the lyrical athlete known as Earl Fo ... More >>

Fewer Slices of Pie, Cupola Opens Under the Dome, and the TL Sees Pink

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Marie Callender's evokes images of pies rotating in a display case, country cottage decor, and portions that don't skimp on calories. And now, without warning, many of those pie display cases have gone da ... More >>

Bouncer Breakfasts in Sin at the Pork Store Cafe

​From this week's Bouncer column: ... So anyway, I'm at a barbecue at my cousin's house, and every circle of people I introduce myself to is talking about how Jesus is working in their lives. A big guy is holding barbecue tongs in one hand and a Snapple in the other and talking about sin, whi ... More >>

Bouncer Encounters a Jokester at the Page

​From this week's Bouncer column: ... So anyway, I'm at a barbecue at my cousin's house, and every circle of people I introduce myself to is talking about how Jesus is working in their lives. A big guy is holding barbecue tongs in one hand and a Snapple in the other and talking about sin, whi ... More >>

Reviving the Lost Art of the Bar Joke at the Page

​From this week's Bouncer column: I have spent a fair amount of time talking about bars in this town that seem to have an eerie presence, as if they were built on an Indian burial mound or something. You walk into one and immediately want to turn around and walk out, despite their friendly en ... More >>

Muppet Bar Set To Open, La Boulange's Expansion, and Two Drunk Brunches

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Grub Street has the deets on a couple of new bars. First, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, yes, named after the Muppet band, is scheduled to soft open tomorrow (2323 Mission at 19th St.). From the Bulli ... More >>

Saturday: Mister Loveless Gets the "Nineties Children" Grinning at Bottom of the Hill

Mister Loveless at Bottom of the Hill on Saturday.​ Mister Loveless Saturday, July 24 @ Bottom of the Hill Better than: Getting your ass kicked around in any other setting. It's quite possible that every Mister Loveless review written has contained the same two words: "Joy Division." It's a ... More >>

Local Band This Time Next Year Needs Your Help Tracking Down Their Stolen Gear

This Time Next Year​Normally, we'd consider Walnut Creek a safe-enough place. But the East Bay suburb wasn't very good to a trailer holding the gear of hometown pop-punk outfit This Time Next Year -- the band's poor trailer was stolen the other night, right on the city's usually placid, oak-li ... More >>

Tainted Saint: Mother Teresa Defended Pedophile Priest

This Time Next Year​Normally, we'd consider Walnut Creek a safe-enough place. But the East Bay suburb wasn't very good to a trailer holding the gear of hometown pop-punk outfit This Time Next Year -- the band's poor trailer was stolen the other night, right on the city's usually placid, oak-li ... More >>