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Walnut Creek

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2012

    Chick-fil-A Opening Gives Disappointed Republicans Something to Celebrate

    What better place for beleaguered Mitt Romney fans and other gay-hating folks to wallow in their post-election sorrows than a brand spankin' new Chick-fil-A? Dozens of chicken lovers (or gay marriage haters) gathered outside the new Walnut Creek chicken restaurant yesterday to celebrate the opening ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2012

    Chick-fil-A Creeps Closer to S.F. With New Walnut Creek Restaurant

    Dozens of people camped out overnight to celebrate the opening of Walnut Creek's new Chick-fil-A, reports SF Weekly's news blog The Snitch. Apparently, the first 100 people to claim a wristband and keep their place in line overnight received coupons for 52 free meals. The fast food chain inspired pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    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 >>

  • News

    January 11, 2012

    Tainted Saint: Mother Teresa Defended Pedophile Priest

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    June 29, 2011

    Bouncer Encounters a Jokester at the Page

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    May 25, 2011

    Antismoking Bill May Mean the End of Hookah Houses

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    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]

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    July 15, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    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...'

  • Calendar

    March 25, 2009

    Our Lady of the Kittens

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

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Global Pantry: Turkish Red Pepper Paste

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

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2008

    2008 High School Battle of the Bands Semi-Finalists Announced

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2008

    Man Survives Jump from Golden Gate Bridge

    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 >>

  • Culture

    February 13, 2008

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2008

    Taste of Chaos Tour Promises Whole Day of Musical Shittiness

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2007

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

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Calendar

    August 8, 2007

    Franc D'Ambrosio's Hollywood

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    February 21, 2007

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Dining

    January 31, 2007

    Small Plates, Big Array

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

  • Culture

    October 5, 2005

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

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

  • Culture

    September 14, 2005

    Encore

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    September 7, 2005

    Encore

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Dining

    July 13, 2005

    DeLessio Is More

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

  • News

    June 12, 2002

    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

  • Music

    December 26, 2001

    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

  • News

    October 28, 1998

    Beat the Schlock

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

  • News

    September 10, 1997

    Dog Bites

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

  • News

    April 2, 1997

    Letters

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

  • Music

    April 24, 1996

    Samples

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

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