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  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    Quick Fix Opens, Citizen Cake Shutters, and a Bank's New Coffee Shop

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. We're starting on the other side of the bay today. The Berkeley vegan and vegetarian Thai restaurant Green Papaya, is readying to close up for a remodel on Jan. 1. When they reopen their doors, the menu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Wannabe Mayors Descend on S.F. This Weekend

    Seeking the Latino vote.​While everyone else is kicking back this weekend, the many, many aspiring mayors of San Francisco will spend their free time aggressively campaigning. On the exhausting list are a slew of events aimed to court voters of all types -- parents, mission hipsters, and dog lover ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Tsunami Relief: Here Is How to Help

    Help!​Images of the earthquake that devastated eastern Japan on Friday still haunt us; the death toll is rising by the day, and threats of a nuclear meltdown lingers.  Naturally, San Franciscans are flooding organizations with phone calls, curious about where and how they can help victims in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    George Gervin, Artis Gilmore in Bayview Today

    The Iceman cometh ... to San Francisco​A pair of former National Basketball Association stars who may or may not have graced the posters your high school history teacher plastered around his room are headed to San Francisco today for a series of free clinics. George Gervin and Artis Gilmore will b ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2009

    Owner of the Warfield pushes billboard ballot measure

    The Iceman cometh ... to San Francisco​A pair of former National Basketball Association stars who may or may not have graced the posters your high school history teacher plastered around his room are headed to San Francisco today for a series of free clinics. George Gervin and Artis Gilmore will b ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 24, 2009

    Fun Times from Uncle Sugar

    Fifteen fabulous ways to stimulate the local economy.

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    Muni Manners Mavens to Dabble in Charity

    Sneaker Sympathies Run DeepUsed athletic sneakers are one of those things that start to take on new luster in an economic downturn. (For many San Franciscans, hand-me-down footwear is hardly synonymous with, say, the early 1990s.) Allowing that demand for old shoes is out there, we're still surprise ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    Rec & Park Workers Terrified Over Looming Layoffs Amid New Hirings of $100K Managers -- and Ready to Rally

    The Recreation and Parks Department has found another way to get folks out of the pool: Cut jobs and cut hoursYou have to feel for Jared Blumenfeld. Taking over the city's Recreation and Parks Department -- especially on an interim basis -- is like being handed a feather duster and being asked to ti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    Steam Bath: Downtown S.F. Denizens Duck Boiling Water as Workers Pump Pipes

    Boiling water, steam, and Scientology. Just another morning downtown. Downtown shoppers, commuters, and the ubiquitous statuesque blonde Scientology pamphleteers enjoyed the odors of a YMCA steam room and hopped over puddles of near-boiling water as steam workers pumped out flooded pipes today. A pa ... More >>

  • News

    January 14, 2009

    Work It Out

    Who needs money if you have your health?

  • News

    August 27, 2008

    Going for Gold

    Academy of Art’s new sports program is about spirit, marketing — and the chance to break even more rules.

  • News

    August 6, 2008

    SF Weekly Letters

    Academy of Art’s new sports program is about spirit, marketing — and the chance to break even more rules.

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2008

    Wednesday Photos: Parade of Sail

    Academy of Art’s new sports program is about spirit, marketing — and the chance to break even more rules.

  • Music

    July 23, 2008

    Blood, Sweat, and Tutus

    Tear your knee, wrench your back, pirouette, and bow: dancing at the San Francisco Ballet.

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2008

    Photos: Week on the Street (Part 2)

    Tear your knee, wrench your back, pirouette, and bow: dancing at the San Francisco Ballet.

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2008

    Bay to Breakers, Tree Show IV, Oyster Fest and The Dirtbombs - Your Monday Morning Hangover

    Tear your knee, wrench your back, pirouette, and bow: dancing at the San Francisco Ballet.

  • Calendar

    December 19, 2007

    It Takes a Village Person

    Tear your knee, wrench your back, pirouette, and bow: dancing at the San Francisco Ballet.

  • Music

    December 12, 2007

    Hesher battles, Anti-Feminism, and Village People singalongs: gifts that keep on giving

    Tear your knee, wrench your back, pirouette, and bow: dancing at the San Francisco Ballet.

  • News

    July 11, 2007

    Girl/Boy Interrupted

    A new treatment for transgender kids puts puberty on hold so that they won't develop into their biological sex

  • News

    December 20, 2006

    They Put Up a Parking Lot

    Chris Daly made his rep getting arrested at a garage protest that somehow ended up creating a coffee kiosk

  • News

    June 28, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, June 28, 2006

  • Calendar

    October 26, 2005

    Haunted Happenings

    Week of Wednesday, June 28, 2006

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2005

    Gyms/Exercise Clubs

    Week of Wednesday, June 28, 2006

  • News

    November 10, 2004

    Infiltrator: I was an Abortion Protestor!

    Outside a Planned Parenthood clinic with Unborn Jesus and the Grim Reaper

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2004

    Scary Affairs

    A frightening array of the scariest parties on S.F.'s biggest holiday

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2004

    Striking a Balance

    A frightening array of the scariest parties on S.F.'s biggest holiday

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2004

    Gyms/Exercise Clubs

    A frightening array of the scariest parties on S.F.'s biggest holiday

  • News

    November 19, 2003

    Derailing the Jaye Train

    Why Matt Gonzalez should stick with his progressive roots, and ignore pressure to act "responsibly"

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2003

    Haunted Happenings

    Where to scare

  • Calendar

    October 22, 2003

    Haunted Happenings

    Halloween Listings

  • News

    July 2, 2003

    Playing Pool

    S.F. has great swimming pools, but political insanity makes them all but useless to families and kids

  • Film

    March 5, 2003

    Reps Etc.

    S.F. has great swimming pools, but political insanity makes them all but useless to families and kids

  • Holiday

    January 22, 2003

    Resuscitate Your Resolve

    S.F. has great swimming pools, but political insanity makes them all but useless to families and kids

  • News

    November 13, 2002

    Return to Chinatown

    You don't have to be a tourist to be entranced by a tour of old Chinatown's alleys

  • News

    November 6, 2002

    Malled

    Our correspondent tries to keep from being trampled by the seniors who walk, very early in the morning, at Serramonte Center

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Sports & Recreation Readers' Poll

    Our correspondent tries to keep from being trampled by the seniors who walk, very early in the morning, at Serramonte Center

  • News

    January 23, 2002

    Horse Senseless

    City closes Golden Gate Park stables for long-needed rehab; only-in-S.F. protest has privileged horse-owners refusing to move mounts

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    On the Homeless Front

    Providing comprehensive services for street people is morally uplifting -- and, as shown in New York, good policy

  • News

    August 15, 2001

    Boys' Band

    Pansy Division's all-gay punk was a shocking first. Will fans let the group escape its pioneering role and just make music?

  • News

    June 28, 2000

    Matt Smith

    In a Galaxy Far Too Close to Home

  • News

    June 21, 2000

    The Regular Guys

    They follow sports, wear flannel shirts, smoke, drink, belch, and make crude jokes. Oh, one other thing. They're gay.

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 17, 2000

    Best Exercise for the Electronically Addicted

    The Netpulse Exercise Bike

  • Music

    March 22, 2000

    House Of Tudor

    "Wild Wild Winter," "Japan Nite," "Dead Celebrity Bowling"

  • Dining

    June 16, 1999

    The Man Who Came to Dinner

    "Wild Wild Winter," "Japan Nite," "Dead Celebrity Bowling"

  • Music

    February 3, 1999

    Chasing History

    For 40 years, Arhoolie Records' Chris Strachwitz has worked to make unknown roots music (almost) famous

  • Calendar

    December 9, 1998

    Savage Love

    For 40 years, Arhoolie Records' Chris Strachwitz has worked to make unknown roots music (almost) famous

  • News

    October 16, 1996

    Japantown Asks "Y"

    The YWCA's financial straits reveal layers of a neighborhood's history

  • Culture

    February 28, 1996

    Blank Verse

    Not About Heroes lacks enough tension to counter its idealism

  • Music

    August 30, 1995

    Night Crawler

    Not About Heroes lacks enough tension to counter its idealism

  • Calendar

    May 31, 1995

    Night+Day

    Not About Heroes lacks enough tension to counter its idealism

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