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Will the new Hetch Hetchy plan wring San Francisco dry?

Some question conservation targets in water-system upgrade By Peter Jamison The $4.4 billion plan to upgrade the Bay Area’s aging water system — a vast public-works edifice that delivers water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and surrounding cities — r ... More >>

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Some question conservation targets in water-system upgrade By Peter Jamison The $4.4 billion plan to upgrade the Bay Area’s aging water system — a vast public-works edifice that delivers water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and surrounding cities — r ... More >>

Night+Day

Some question conservation targets in water-system upgrade By Peter Jamison The $4.4 billion plan to upgrade the Bay Area’s aging water system — a vast public-works edifice that delivers water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and surrounding cities — r ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Some question conservation targets in water-system upgrade By Peter Jamison The $4.4 billion plan to upgrade the Bay Area’s aging water system — a vast public-works edifice that delivers water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and surrounding cities — r ... More >>

To the Limit

Some question conservation targets in water-system upgrade By Peter Jamison The $4.4 billion plan to upgrade the Bay Area’s aging water system — a vast public-works edifice that delivers water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and surrounding cities — r ... More >>

Nonconformity Still Reigns!

The top eccentrics of San Francisco, and that's saying something.

Hanging Around

The top eccentrics of San Francisco, and that's saying something.

Band of Brothers

Presenting the 27-year career of Stone Vengeance, the most ass-kickin' metal band ever to come out of Bayview-Hunters Point

Drawn and Quartered

A few designs for the California quarter that better capture the nature of our splendid state

Your Year to See the World

How to travel well in 2005 without bankrupting yourself

Free the Forests

Arbor Day art show

Reality Check

Everyone can find something to like at Sydney's Home

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

Big Dam Mess

The Environmental Defense Fund embarks on a national campaign to shame San Francisco into restoring the other great Yosemite valley, Hetch Hetchy. But is shame really a good political strategy?

Spies in the House of Love

Leave your Manolo Blahniks at home for the "Sex in the City Tour"

Feast of the Senses

The films may have been silent, but the food spoke volumes

Voicing It Over

Screen hecklers gone wild

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Screen hecklers gone wild

Best Bowling for People With Bad Backs

HyperBowl

Best Bike Ride

Marin Headlands Loop

Chef's Choice

Women think Auberge du Soleil's cook is a pretty tasty morsel

Five Best Places to Celebrate the Sunset

Women think Auberge du Soleil's cook is a pretty tasty morsel

Digging Deep

Millennium has folks lining up to bury the past

Night & Day

Millennium has folks lining up to bury the past

Street Smarts

Millennium has folks lining up to bury the past

Night+Day

Millennium has folks lining up to bury the past

Night+Day

Millennium has folks lining up to bury the past

Unspun

Millennium has folks lining up to bury the past

Night+Day

Millennium has folks lining up to bury the past

Critical Ass: SF's World Naked Bike Ride 2009

On Saturday at noon, Justin Herman Plaza was sun-drenched and buzzing with the activity of particularly open-minded crowd, and passersby were beginning to take notice. "What the hell are all these people doing half-naked and shit?" one man cried.He was obviously not familiar with the way t ... More >>

Fixing Hetch Hetchy Dam costs $1 billion more than it should

On Saturday at noon, Justin Herman Plaza was sun-drenched and buzzing with the activity of particularly open-minded crowd, and passersby were beginning to take notice. "What the hell are all these people doing half-naked and shit?" one man cried.He was obviously not familiar with the way t ... More >>

Today's Lesson: Drive Too Fast on Bay Bridge S-Curve, and You Can Die

Some day, our bridge will come​There may yet be mitigating factors regarding this morning's fatal plunge by a speeding truck driver off the Bay Bridge's ungainly new S-Curve to Yerba Buena Island 200 feet below. But it seems that the takeaway is a message so simple that state authorities and the m ... More >>

This Week: Black Cuisine 2010, Bayview's 30th Annual Soul Food Cook-Off

​Now in its 44th year, the Pillsbury Bake-Off may be more venerable than Bayview's 30-year-old Soul Food Cook-Off, but we know which contest we'd rather judge. This Friday and Saturday, Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services brings together cooks and musicians for Black Cuisine 2010, a ... More >>

Move to Ban Smoking in State Parks Gains Steam. Guns in National Parks? That's Fine.

This may soon be illegal in State Parks. It's still kosher in National Parks, though -- as are firearms. ​ Smoking in the park? Perish the thought. A smoking gun in the park? Well ... that all depends on the park. Yesterday, the state Assembly passed a bill enacting a broad smoking ban in the sta ... More >>

Baylinks: Aliens, Bomb Threats, & Molly Ringwald

​Good Vibrations aligns itself with organization that champions clitorises and space aliens. [SFAppeal]What would Wednesday be without a bomb threat? [SFist]Molly Ringwald spotted at Delfina. No word on if she did the lipstick trick. [Mission Mission]A look at an overlooked body of water in S.F., ... More >>

Seriously?? Two More Vehicles Torched Last Night

nhtroopers.orgTwice last night​When fans jump onto the fields of play during baseball games, television crews typically point their cameras towards the sky, scoreboard or something anything else. This is done to discourage future knuckleheads -- who realize they won't get any media attention -- fr ... More >>

Barbara Boxer Helps Score $36.8 Million for California Counties. S.F. Gets a Piddling $5,668.

Hey, thanks a lot!​Sen. Barbara Boxer, in a tight re-election contest against Republican Carly Fiorina, has helped largely poor and rural California counties to a vat federal funds. Boxer has lent a hand in hastening this year's installment of government payments showered upon counties to com ... More >>

Hunters Point Project's Contentious Bridge Not a Done Deal Yet

I know, how about we build a freeway bridge over your park?​It's not over until it's over: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has allowed Lennar to go ahead with a Hunters Point housing development proposal that includes a 41-foot wide bridge bridge over Yosemite Slough. But that doesn't mean ... More >>

BASE Jumper Won't Stop Illegal Leaps Despite Yosemite Tasing

I know, how about we build a freeway bridge over your park?​It's not over until it's over: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has allowed Lennar to go ahead with a Hunters Point housing development proposal that includes a 41-foot wide bridge bridge over Yosemite Slough. But that doesn't mean ... More >>

Men Walking Across United States Pass Through San Francisco

Will these four men become as famous as Forrest?​Four magicians have set out to walk nearly 3,000 miles across the United States -- from San Francisco to New York City. And their reasoning is not much different from Forrest Gump's: Because they felt like it.SF Weekly spoke to the crew via phone on ... More >>

Yosemite Buffalo Soldiers' History Should Be Part of School Curriculum, Jackie Speier Says

Buffalo Soldiers remembered​Too bad Mark Matthews, the last surviving Buffalo Soldier who died six years ago at age 111, isn't around to mark this historic moment.Congresswoman Jackie Speier is pushing through a bill that would --for the first time ever --give the nation's all black cavalry a prom ... More >>

Seniors to S.F.: Stop Killing Us!

Would you want your grandmother crossing that street?​San Francisco senior citizens are tired of being killed crossing streets -- and understandably so. That's why on Wednesday they plan to do something about it. They're inviting the public to watch them attempt to cross a dangerous intersection o ... More >>

Possible Norovirus Outbreak at Camp Mather

Norovirus in the house ​San Francisco officials are scrambling to disinfect a local camp where they suspect kids have been in contact with the nasty Norovirus. According to the Examiner, three campers and some employees reported having symptoms of the gastrointestinal virus, which include vomiting ... More >>

S.F. Rising: Spot Bagel Plays with Seeds, Chiles, and Corn

Jonathan KauffmanSpot Bagels: double onion, plain, cinnamon raisin, and the Frieda.​ Red boxes with clear plastic doors began appearing in local markets like Bi-Rite and Good Life a few weeks ago, labeled with the name of the Bay Area's newest bakery, Spot Bagel. Tantalizingly empty at first, the ... More >>

SF's Drinking Water May Be Unsafe for Those with HIV/AIDS

Jonathan KauffmanSpot Bagels: double onion, plain, cinnamon raisin, and the Frieda.​ Red boxes with clear plastic doors began appearing in local markets like Bi-Rite and Good Life a few weeks ago, labeled with the name of the Bay Area's newest bakery, Spot Bagel. Tantalizingly empty at first, the ... More >>

Francisco Carrillo-Beltran, Mexican National, Accused of Smuggling Meth Through Airport

Great for massages, not so great for drug smuggling​Border Patrol agents seized about 11 pounds of methamphetamine from Francisco Carillo-Beltran's luggage as he traveled through the Fresno/Yosemite International Airport on Sept. 11. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested 42-year-old Carr ... More >>

Top 5 Places to Escape Christmas

Whether you're Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Shinto, Shaman, anti-consumerist, or Mr. Grinch, you could be one of the millions who don't leave cookies out for an old fat man who illegally enters your home via fireplace-shimmying. And that's okay! Because here in America, we're known for ... More >>

This Land is Our Land

Whether you're Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Shinto, Shaman, anti-consumerist, or Mr. Grinch, you could be one of the millions who don't leave cookies out for an old fat man who illegally enters your home via fireplace-shimmying. And that's okay! Because here in America, we're known for ... More >>