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Killing Joke Starts a Frenzy at the Fillmore, 5/3/13

Killing Joke Friday, May 3, 2013 The Fillmore Better than: Seeing New Order, the Cure, or any other British post-punk contemporaries of Killing Joke still in operation. In terms of sheer breadth of influence, few bands from the post-punk era can approach the reach of Killing Joke. The brooding, a ... More >>

Chick-fil-A: Anti-Gay Marriage Chain Set to Open More Bay Area Restaurants

Chick-fil-A, the fast-food chain that San Franciscans reamed last month, has given the gay marriage movement a few more potential Bay Area locations to stage future kiss-ins. According to media outlets, the Atlanta-based chain bought property in Novato in Marin County this past month with the hopes ... More >>

SF Archdiocese Calls SF Weekly Mother Teresa Story a 'Dark Day for Journalism'

Photo courtesy Tyrone CefaluMother Teresa, pictured with Donald McGuire​We've been getting quite a range of reaction to yesterday's cover story on Mother Teresa's links to convicted pedophile priest Donald McGuire. Documents obtained by SF Weekly indicate that the "Saint of Calcutta" might have ur ... More >>

Super Duper Burger's Got Big Plans

​With three locations already -- SoMa, Marina, and Castro -- and one expected early next year in Mill Valley, Super Duper is set to burger-fy the Bay Area. We sat down with owner Adriano Paganini to talk about his next moves, possible future locations, and whether or not the menu will be expan ... More >>

Apple Closes Stores, Puts iPhone 5 Rumor Mill in Motion

Guess we'll have to go buy a PC then​The temporary shutdown of several Apple stores has people wondering whether there's a connection to the highly anticipated iPhone event to be held at Apple headquarters in Cupertino on next Tuesday.Considering that a number of stores have closed and reopened p ... More >>

Interview with Slow Hand BBQ's Dan Frengs

Jonathan KauffmanSlow Hand's Texas-style barbecue ribs.​ I tasted Dan Frengs' extraordinary ribs at last month's New Taste Marketplace, but Frengs' Slow Hand BBQ stand also shows up outside Mission bars The Homestead and Dirty Thieves and, farther afield, the Concord, Walnut Creek, and Brentwood f ... More >>

Woodchipper Accident Leaves Man Dead

​In an instance of a  macabre nightmare occurring in real life, a Concord man was yesterday killed in a woodchipper accident. Antonio Barajas, 33, was loading tree debris into the chipper, when a rope became caught in the machine, entangled him, and dragged him into to chipper. Barajas was ap ... More >>

San Bruno Fire: What Does PG&E Rupture Portend For 'The Big One'?

Smi23leIs this going to be our fate, writ large, when The Big One hits? ​Turns out, what you don't know can hurt you. It can even kill you. We don't give much thought to the network of aging PG&E piplelines running beneath our feet,and powering the flames beneath our pots and pans. But a ruptu ... 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 >>

Flavor Brigade: Philly Italian Water Ices and Frozen Custard in Oakland

Tamara PalmerSour apple water ice.​Flavor Brigade's Braedon Galloway was stunned to see a non-neighborhood customer waltz in last week, even more so when we told him we'd come to Oakland's Dimond District specifically to see his frozen dessert shop. Open since January, Flavor Brigade has flown ... More >>

Altoids Stout and Chipotle Mead: A Report from the National Homebrewers Conference

Homebrewers AssociationEvery year, beer hobbyists from all over show up to geek out.​MINNEAPOLIS ―Once a year, brewmasters take a back seat to those who brew in the trenches (read: kitchens or garages). At the National Homebrewers Conference (NHC), organized by the American Homebrewers Assoc ... More >>

Bay Area Beard Luminary Jack Passion to Host National Facial Hair Championships

Jack Passion in recent years; his beard has grown bigger, though no redder​Jack Passion is, quite simply, the John C. Holmes of beards. The Walnut Creek native's facial hair resembles a rhododendron bush. He's the only person we know who could smuggle a bottle of champagne into a ballpark in his b ... More >>

The 2010 S.F. Michelin Guide Dropped Today -- If You Care

Today saw the official release of Michelin's San Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country Restaurants Guide 2010, the fourth edition of the local star search. Michelin director Jean-Luc Naret told SFoodie 10 inspectors did the field work for this year's Nor Cal guide -- the same inspectors who do table res ... More >>

Bay Links: Sex Appeal, Mattress Money & Mad EMTs

Heather Thomas​Is SFGate picking on Heather Thomas? (You know! Heather Thomas! From the Fall Guy! Anyway.) She seems to think so. [Politics Blog]Is a Walnut Creek public school using teen's sex appeal to raise money? [SFist]Late-night bicycle burrito delivery? Goodbye, waistline. [Mission Mission] ... More >>

Ambition Goes All Wilt-y: S.F. Restaurant Closures in August

ipodgirl/FlickrEighty-sixed.​There were some major folderoos in the dog days. Pres a Vi, the ambitious small-plates-and-wine-bar spot that occupied major footage in George Lucas' big, bland Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio, closed, leaving its much smaller progenitor, Va de Vi, th ... More >>

DVR Alert: 'Man v. Food' Host Devours San Francisco (Kind of)

photomato/Flickr Watch Adam Richman stuff himself here. It may not have foodies buzzing the way Anthony Bourdain's visit last spring did, but fellow Travel Channel glutton Adam Richman visits San Francisco tonight to overeat on Man v. Food. Richman feasts on gut-bomb sandwiches at Yelpers' f ... More >>

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