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Willy Wonka

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Dumb Food Show Easter Unwrapped Is as Adorable as a Baby with a Peep Stuck to Her Head

    Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going with food TV. This week, Easter Unwrapped, an hour show that never hurt anybody, April 7 on the Cooking Channel It would be a crime to critically review Unwrapped, to lay any sort of smothering blanket upon this innocent show, which films fac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    No Tickets? Nine Ways You Can Still Get Into Burning Man 2012

    Whatever else history might say of the Burning Man Ticket Fiasco of 2012, it offers the community that puts on the festival one more brute lesson in market economics. For attendees at the longtime countercultural arts festival held annually in the desert near Reno, news that four-fifths of the ticke ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 23, 2011

    Calmly Manic

    Whatever else history might say of the Burning Man Ticket Fiasco of 2012, it offers the community that puts on the festival one more brute lesson in market economics. For attendees at the longtime countercultural arts festival held annually in the desert near Reno, news that four-fifths of the ticke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Sutton Cellars Hosts Weekend Event with Best Name, Jug Sunday

    Lou BustamanteCarl Sutton.​ Jug Sundays at Sutton Cellars Where: Sutton Cellars, 601 22nd St. (at Illinois) When: Sun., June 12, 2-5 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: It's that time again: Jug Sunday. This Sunday, Sutton Cellars will be out during Sunday Streets in the Bayview to hook you up wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Evolution's Nuts: Darwin Deez Drops Rap Mixtape, Plays Hemlock on Friday

    Fell in love with this fish who got caught in my mesh / Yo, she burned my scene up like David Koresh​ Maybe my bullshit detector has plutonium batteries, but I'm not so sure I trust Darwin Deez. I've read a lot about how he's the new hotness, a genius of musical invention, number ten on the NME' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Ghosts On Tape Comes Out Creepy

    myspace.com/ghostsontapesf​"Tropical plants and girls with the daisy dukes on." "The future and the dirty south." "Brain sandwich." These are a few of the phrases used by Ryan Merry, the DJ behind Ghosts On Tape, to describe the sounds he makes with floppy discs and turntables. Ghosts On Tape ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Baylinks: Golden Tickets, Target, & Online Degrees

    ​Get your online degree from University of Phoenix UC Berkeley [The Daily Clog]Willy Wonka comes down from his sugar high and picks up a pie [Grub Street San Francisco]Disgruntled hotel workers march in Union Square [NBC Bay Area] 

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    City Unsure Which San Franciscans Would Get Google Wi-Fi Coverage

    We want it ... but we don't know where to put it ​As noted yesterday, San Francisco publicized its full application to enter the Google fiber network sweepstakes, which has taken on something of a Willy Wonka Golden Ticket feel -- but with delicious Wi-Fi fiber instead of chocolate.  San Fran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Sunday's Mini Cupcake Clash Was a Swirl of Costumes and Buttercream

    Tamara PalmerSweetiecups' "La Vie en Brie"​We thought we were way over cupcakes, but as we told a friend, "If cupcakes were always as good as the ones we had at the SF Food Wars Mini Cupcake Clash, we'd be happy!" (Or words to that effect.) Sunday was a perfect day for cupcaking in the deligh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    Greenhouse That Introduced Public To Incredibly Stinky Plant Now Offers Bite of Incredibly Tasty One

    'Miracle Fruit'​Our green-thumbed readers may remember the July saga of San Francisco State's corpse flower. The exotic Indonesian plant crossed up experts from every local university by stubbornly refusing to bloom. But, when it did, it sure lived up to its title. Visitors to the SFSU greenhouse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    10 Things to Do This Weekend for Under $10

    MochipetOur hand picked list of events worth your spare time, for the price of your spare change. Zombie Beach Party (Friday)In San Francisco, Zombies never say die. When they're not "killing" people during flash mobs, they're going to the beach--indoors, of course, because the real sun would damage ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    Chocolate and Chalk: Together at Last

    In a few weeks, they'll be eating chalk and drawing with chocolate in the Gourmet Ghetto. Wait! Scratch that, reverse it, as Willy Wonka would say. The annual Chocolate & Chalk Art Festival in Berkeley combines a sidewalk chalk-drawing contest with a wild tasting menu created by area establi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 14, 2009

    30 Century Man

    In a few weeks, they'll be eating chalk and drawing with chocolate in the Gourmet Ghetto. Wait! Scratch that, reverse it, as Willy Wonka would say. The annual Chocolate & Chalk Art Festival in Berkeley combines a sidewalk chalk-drawing contest with a wild tasting menu created by area establi ... More >>

  • Film

    July 9, 2008

    Going Down

    Brendan Fraser falls into a deep, deep hole at the Center of the Earth.

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2008

    Saturday: The de Young Goes Psychedelic for Chihuly

    Brendan Fraser falls into a deep, deep hole at the Center of the Earth.

  • Calendar

    March 12, 2008

    A World of Pure Imagination

    Brendan Fraser falls into a deep, deep hole at the Center of the Earth.

  • News

    January 2, 2008

    My Body, My Self

    Food issues and a bad self-image led our columnist to undergo weight-loss surgery. She's still a mess, but a better-looking one.

  • Music

    December 5, 2007

    Beat Box

    Food issues and a bad self-image led our columnist to undergo weight-loss surgery. She's still a mess, but a better-looking one.

  • Music

    October 17, 2007

    The Go! Team

    Proof of Youth (Sub Pop)

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2007

    The Best Art Prints on the Web: Creep Machine's Josh Curates His Top 5 of the Week

    Proof of Youth (Sub Pop)

  • Home Entertainment

    February 7, 2007

    Mustache Ride

    In the latest WarioWare, you can pick your friend's nose

  • News

    May 24, 2006

    Chuck and the Chocolate Factory

    In the latest WarioWare, you can pick your friend's nose

  • Film

    March 1, 2006

    Get Down With Dave

    Chappelle returns with a raucous Block Party

  • Home Entertainment

    November 9, 2005

    Blessed Are the Buttmunches

    Chappelle returns with a raucous Block Party

  • News

    October 12, 2005

    Reeferzilla Meets NIMBY-Ra

    And unfortunately it's not science fiction. It's San Francisco politics, and the winner used some interesting jujitsu.

  • Film

    August 10, 2005

    Working Blue. And Brown.

    Inside the dirtiest joke ever told is a nugget of unadulterated joy

  • Music

    July 27, 2005

    Arrrr, Matey

    The Buccaneer offers good time pirate fun, and a lesson in rejection

  • Film

    July 20, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    The Buccaneer offers good time pirate fun, and a lesson in rejection

  • Film

    July 20, 2005

    Bad News

    One more awful remake strikes out

  • Film

    July 13, 2005

    Chocolate Kisses

    Thanks to Depp and Burton, Willy Wonka just got weirder

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best Hot Chocolate

    Thanks to Depp and Burton, Willy Wonka just got weirder

  • Music

    November 3, 2004

    Bouncer

    Drunks and bagpipes at Lefty O'Doul's are no match for "Tim," the best piano player ever

  • Music

    June 16, 2004

    Sonny's Days

    In which we meet a donkey, some crows, and Sonny Smith, who is not a folk singer

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Playground

    Julius Kahn Playground

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2004

    In Memoriam

    A dance for the dead

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2004

    Creep Week

    Seven nights of frightening films

  • Holiday

    November 19, 2003

    Shops and Gifts

    Seven nights of frightening films

  • News

    September 3, 2003

    Bean Scene

    In which we tour the Jelly Belly factory and gag on the Harry Potter flavors

  • News

    March 27, 2002

    The Slime of Their Lives

    At a messy party for the fetishists known as "sploshers," love is a many-splattered thing

  • Music

    February 20, 2002

    Fantasy Land

    Blectum From Blechdom's fractured electronic universe comes back together -- with a little help from the Olsen twins

  • News

    October 17, 2001

    SF Music Awards 2001

    An exotic adventure into the mysterious world of sound!

  • Dining

    August 8, 2001

    It's Not the Cheese

    Luzern

  • Calendar

    April 21, 1999

    Night Crawler

    Luzern

  • Calendar

    May 27, 1998

    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

    Luzern

  • Dining

    May 15, 1996

    Cocoa Nuts

    At Alfred Schilling, there's no escape from chocolate

  • Music

    January 3, 1996

    The Book of Lists

    SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

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