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Huey Lewis and the News, CalArtsSF, San Francisco Free Folk Festival, Rolling Stones -- Night and Day, Sunday 6/17

North Beach Walking Tour Leader Alessandro Baccari on SF - "I don’t want anybody to walk the streets in fear"

The Weekend Hitlist: 6/6 - 6/8

SF Weekly's Seven-Day Dish

San Francisco Overrun With Drunken, Smoking, Half-Naked Santas Again

Words and Photos By Ashley Harrell (Click here for a full Santacon 2008 slideshow.) Saturday was a pretty average day -- if a little cold -- until the chanting started. Listening through an open window in my North Beach apartment, I couldn't quite make out the words. So I head ... More >>

Serious Bread: Liguria Bakery

Liguria Bakery has thrived for almost 90 years by doing one thing well: focaccia.

Abbondanza

Joey & Eddie's brings the Bronx, and old-fashioned Italian-American cooking, to North Beach.

Unwelcome Visitor

Tom McCarthy's preachy liberal guilt dwarfs any good intentions.

Summer of Love

Tom McCarthy's preachy liberal guilt dwarfs any good intentions.

Play Right

Making theater happen

Best Place to Learn Tai Chi

Making theater happen

Best Place to Learn a Romance Language

Making theater happen

A Star Isn't Born. Still.

Dog Bites takes a second shot at Beach Blanket Babylon and paid health insurance

A Delectable Discovery

Our sudden infatuation with a new Brazilian-Italian place in North Beach

Last Crawl

In which three Doggie Diner Dog Heads lead Silke Tudor cross-country, to a place that is not San Francisco but, even so, feels like home

Down Under

A demonstration that'll make you squirm

Cheesed Off

A demonstration that'll make you squirm

S.F.'s Big Adventure

A group of playmates comes together to have a Happy Paul Reubens Day

I Think I See a Pic-a-nic Basket

Even the average bear knows S.F. has the world's best parks for summer picnicking. Let us show you where to buy first-class, outdoor-friendly food and drink.

Summer Fling

Fun in the sun -- with any luck

Best Tourist-Free Place to Take a Tourist for Lunch

Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store Cafe

Go Nuts

You don't have to be crazy to play the Go Game, but it might improve your chances of winning

Dumb for a Day

When you worship St. Stupid, anything is impossible. And verse vice-a.

S.F. Mush

Whom to root for at the 7th annual Urban Iditarod? Raiders of the Lost Bark, perhaps...

Night Crawler

Bless Me Father, For I Have Driven

Night & Day

Bless Me Father, For I Have Driven

Blowing Their Horn

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

Night & Day

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

Night + Day

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

Night + Day

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

Night + Day

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

Stage

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

Night+Day

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

Night+Day

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

Night+Day

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

Ionic Breeze

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

We Got the Beats

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

Don’t You Forget About Me

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

Weekly Ink: A Rose By Any Other Name

​Spotted: Strolling in Washington Square ParkVital Statistics: Thom McClusky, retired, lives right by the Transamerica Pyramid.When: May 6 1978, the night before my niece's wedding.What: It's hard to tell now, but if you look at this half, it's a crescent moon. There's the eye, the nose the mouth ... More >>

North Beach's Plastic Pizza Spinning Master

Sunny weather brought the regulars flocking to Washington Square Park in North Beach: hippies strumming guitars, transients smoking bud, young people sunbathing with their noses buried in books. Then we spotted this guy from a distance. It took us a second to realize what we were witnessing: The d ... More >>

Meet the Plastic Pizza Spinning Master of North Beach

Sunny weather brought the regulars flocking to Washington Square Park in North Beach yesterday afternoon: hippies strumming guitars, transients smoking bud, young people sunbathing with their noses buried in books. Then we spotted this guy from a distance. It took us a second to realize what we we ... More >>

Kauffman's Five: This Week in Bloggery

Five favorite bits from the blogs and beyond:T. Palmer​1. A couple years ago, a friend and I drove several hundred miles out of our way to stop in Pie Town, New Mexico, for apple and green chile pie. Now all I have to do is walk to Chile Pies. Something about the blog buzz around the new restauran ... More >>

SF Outdoor Movie Schedule Announced For 2010

The Big Lebowski finale​Are you ready for another summer of movie picnics--that beloved fresh air theater where you Bring Your Own Beer, Food, and Wind-Thwarting Layers? Film Night in the Park, one of a couple hosts of outdoor films in Bay Area, just announced its 2010 schedule. Its San Franc ... More >>

Updated Outdoor Summer Movie Schedule

Summer dreams ripped at the seams, but oh, those summer nights​It should be mandatory that nights like last couple in SF be spent outside. Soon enough we're gonna be blasted with fog and wind. Let's just hope summer lasts through the outdoor movie season, though, because there's some real classics ... More >>

Bill O'Reilly Blathers On About San Francisco -- to Jeff Adachi

​FOX bloviator Bill O'Reilly seems to have the same attitude toward San Francisco that 20th-century Germans had toward France: Loves the place, but just can't stand all the damn people who live there. So it was interesting to watch O'Reilly going on about San Francisco this weekend, claiming to ad ... More >>

Lost Job, Lost Car, and $175 Ticket Spur Man's City Hall Diatribe

I'm not going to take it anymore​Rarely does a letter to City Call carry the tone of justified righteousness displayed in a screed penned by of out-of-work database engineer Paul Nisbett. But rarely has San Francisco seemed to so effectively apply its apparent kick-em-when-they're down policy than ... More >>

Film Showtimes for the week of September 8-14, 2010

I'm not going to take it anymore​Rarely does a letter to City Call carry the tone of justified righteousness displayed in a screed penned by of out-of-work database engineer Paul Nisbett. But rarely has San Francisco seemed to so effectively apply its apparent kick-em-when-they're down policy than ... More >>

Fecal Face, 'Amélie,' Power to the Peaceful, Pineapple Princess, Fillmore Art Walk, and More

Pineapple Princess plays Saturday at the Hemlock ​Whether you're into 1960s Southeast Asian pop, free concerts in the park, or flying dancers, San Francisco has got you covered this weekend. Here's our list of 10 things to do for considerably less than a parking ticket: 10 Years of Fecal Face ... More >>

Park Tavern: Casual Dining for the Wealthy

Pineapple Princess plays Saturday at the Hemlock ​Whether you're into 1960s Southeast Asian pop, free concerts in the park, or flying dancers, San Francisco has got you covered this weekend. Here's our list of 10 things to do for considerably less than a parking ticket: 10 Years of Fecal Face ... More >>