Last week saw the somewhat bizarre introduction of dueling legislation r...]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/news/scott-wiener-david-chiu-8-washington/ http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/news/good-samaritan-mental-illness/ Splash! A man just jumped off the Lefty O'Doul Bridge. It was the kind of sunny April afternoon that brought nine-to-fivers along the waterfront beside AT&T Park for lunch, and they all saw it. Casey Shafer certainly saw it. "Holy shit, is this happening?" he thought to himself. He was eating sou...]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/news/good-samaritan-mental-illness/ http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/restaurants/bouncer-seeks-absolution-locanda/ So, like, Locanda is apparently a restaurant. I didn't realize that until I crossed the threshold. Food & Wine listed it as a "must" on Valencia for its cocktails and bar snacks, so naturally I made a mental note to head straight there and actually arrived about two years later. The bar pa...]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/restaurants/bouncer-seeks-absolution-locanda/ http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/music/janelle-monae-show-preview/ There are few rising R&B stars as stylishly ambitious — and consistently satisfying — as Janelle Monae. Her 2010 album The ArchAndroid explored a futuristic mélange of hip-hop, R&B, soul, and rock — but even its heady conceptualizing couldn't keep hits like ...]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/music/janelle-monae-show-preview/ http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/music/boris-show-preview/ Formed in the early '90s, when guitarist Wata, bassist/guitarist Takeshi, and drummer Atsuo met while attending a Tokyo art school, the Japanese experimentalists in Boris have traveled a bewildering path from their early roots as drone/doom merchants. Early efforts Absolute Ego and ...]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/music/boris-show-preview/ http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/restaurants/wine-kitchen-divisadero-small-plates-gentrification/ Divisadero is under construction. At least that's how it feels walking the stretch between Fell and Geary — on every block there's at least one storefront boarded up with plywood or a land parcel set aside for condo development. All this construction, of course, has brought a flurry of new ...]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/restaurants/wine-kitchen-divisadero-small-plates-gentrification/ http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/restaurants/pacific-puffs-sweet-side-food-trucks/ Before we started logging a serious number of hours and calories exploring food trucks, a friend asked what our favorite food truck was. "Oh, the cupcake truck," we replied, and he asked again, annoyed, implying that cupcakes were not a valid food truck cuisine.

It made us think of the di...]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/restaurants/pacific-puffs-sweet-side-food-trucks/ http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/restaurants/raise-pint-session-beer-month-drakes-brewing-co/ Don't get us wrong, we love big, bold, "extreme" beers as much as the next beer geek. That being said, sometimes we just want to have a few beers with friends on a sunny afternoon without losing the ability to walk or speak English. For the last couple years, the pendulum has been swinging back i...]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/restaurants/raise-pint-session-beer-month-drakes-brewing-co/ http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/music/dillinger-escape-plan-show-preview/ The video for the Dillinger Escape Plan's "When I Lost My Bet" doubles as a nifty intro to the Morris Plains, N.J.-based outfit. The most disconcerting thing about Mitch Massie's gory fever dream of a clip, which promotes a track off the band's new record One of Us Is the Killer, is...]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/music/dillinger-escape-plan-show-preview/ http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/film/something-in-the-air-film-review/ World-cinema mainstay Olivier Assayas' inviting new film is about young French people and the lived legacy of May '68. Interestingly, these are kids who came of age not precisely at that moment but a few years later, and not right in Paris but a few miles away. So their version of student-worker ...]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/film/something-in-the-air-film-review/ http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/film/sun-don-t-shine-film-review/ The foundation for Amy Seimetz's directorial debut, which she also wrote, produced, and co-edited, is boilerplate film noir: There's a dude (Kentucker Audley), a dame (Kate Lyn Sheil), and deepening trouble between them. She's in a difficult spot, and he, just trying to help, manages inevitably t...]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-05-15/film/sun-don-t-shine-film-review/