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Let It Bleed

Prosecutors' reluctance to charge murder suspects in S.F. leaves alleged killers on the street, flush with bravado

By Martin Kuz

Published: January 18, 2006

Etched into the sidewalks bordering Banneker Homes are terse farewells to dead young men. "RIP Mack." "Smokey RIP." "RIP Joe." Scrawled in grayish concrete, the words evoke engravings on...

Matt Smith

Unintended Evictions

An attempted solution to rental evictions may actually force more people out of rent-controlled apartments in an already tight San Francisco housing market

By Matt Smith

Published: January 18, 2006

The law of unintended consequences is more than a popular turn of phrase. It's a fundament of economics describing a situation in which government policies reverberate into unplanned, inadvertent...

The Apologist

A Perch With a View

The controversy regarding the famous Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill may be drawing to a close, but the question remains: Does anyone still care?

By Matt Palmquist

Published: January 18, 2006

Over the past few years, people the world over have been introduced to the story of the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: the group of redheaded conures native to South America that use the leafy...

Dog Bites

Subpoenaed -- Again

But he couldn't dodge a determined process server

Ron Russell, Nate Cavalieri

Published: January 18, 2006

Former San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada's visit to the city last week created the kind of media stir that the powerful Roman Catholic prelate may have preferred to skip. And he did,...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Published: January 18, 2006

Perversion of Justice Altweeklies to the rescue: The press has been the driving force in bringing to light the extent and the desperateness of the problem of sexual abuse of minors by...

Music

Roly-Poly Cat Heads

Join local legends the Cat Heads, the (ex) Cat Heads, and It Thing for a trip down memory lane

By Mike Rowell

Published: January 18, 2006

Back in the '80s, San Francisco had a vibrant local indie-rock scene, with live bands playing clubs from Haight Street's Nightbreak and I-Beam to Club Foot and Firehouse 7 in the Mission. Some of...

Music

Department of What the Fuck?

What does the ghost of INXS's Michael Hutchence think of his band's reunion?

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: January 18, 2006

Armed with only a case of Budweiser, some spliffs, a few Air Wick candles for "ambience," and a passing knowledge of contacting the spirit world gleaned from Ghost and Witchboard , myself and...

Music

Q&Atcha;

Talking shop with frontman Colin Meloy, of the newly signed major-label hopefuls the Decemberists

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: January 18, 2006

With the outta-left-field success of the Arcade Fire seemingly proving there's a large, cash-carrying audience out there hungry for lush, quirky, theatrical chamber-pop, you can imagine the...

Music

Mixtape Shmixtape

In which we review Yay Area mixtapes of the day

By Tamara Palmer

Published: January 18, 2006

The Bay Area mixtape trade got its feet wet last year, and 2006 is already shaping up to be a serious pool party. We can expect full-length album previews, new artists' introductions, and...

Reviewed

Darondo

Let My People Go

By Ross Viator

Published: January 18, 2006

After years of languishing in relative obscurity on many a record fiend's Holy Grail list, this compilation of six songs previously released as small-run 45s (along with three recent demo reel...

Reviewed

Jenny Scheinman

12 Songs

By Sam Prestianni

Published: January 18, 2006

It's debatable how much veteran jazz guitarist Bill Frisell has influenced Brooklyn-based violinist Jenny Scheinman via their collaborations of the past few years. But there is one certainty: If...

Reviewed

Eric McFadden Trio

Joy of Suffering

By Dave Pehling

Published: January 18, 2006

Six-string axe slingers lauded for their digital dexterity are usually: a) crappy singers, and b) inept tunesmiths. Though local guitar wizard Eric McFadden has an unquestionable pedigree -- for...

OK Then

Presenting Group Hug 2006 , a free mix-CD offered as consolation for everything wrong in the world

By Garrett Kamps

Published: January 18, 2006

So here we are, well into January, and I'm sure the last thing you'd like to read is a reflective article about the ups and downs of 2005. Well, guess what: This isn't that. Because already there's...

Hear This

Anthrax and Willie Nelson in the same week? How will fans of both decide?

By Chris Dahlen, Rossiter Drake

Published: January 18, 2006

Remember when we had that anthrax scare after 9/11, and the band Anthrax made the news because its members were weighing whether they should change their name, and everyone said, "Wow, Anthrax...

BeatBox

My, what big beats you have: Slick Rick, the Mad Professor, and the DJ who brought us "Me So Horny."

By Tamara Palmer

Published: January 18, 2006

The men of 2 Live Crew were undeniable pioneers in Dirty South hip hop, but the group has West Coast roots, too. Before moving to Miami and joining forces with future freedom-of-speech...

Eat

Dependable Pleasures

Or, Paradise Regained -- at least as far as lobsters are concerned

By Meredith Brody

Published: January 18, 2006

The realization came to me with a jolt. I'd forgotten to mention one of the best things I'd eaten at Scott Howard in my review, something we had all liked so much we'd requested seconds of it both...

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: January 18, 2006

To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats @ sfweekly.com . Bar Tartine: 561 Valencia (at 17th St.), 487-1600. Mission . American, Mediterranean, wine bar. Belden Taverna: 52 Belden (at...

Film

Origin of Innocence

The New World boldly reclaims the Pocahontas tale from Disney

By Luke Y. Thompson

Published: January 18, 2006

America -- and by extension Hollywood -- has an obsession with innocence and the loss thereof. Every generation has that Moment When Everything Changed, from Pearl Harbor to JFK's assassination to...

Film

Suspended Sentence

After Innocence probes life after a wrongful conviction

By Melissa Levine

Published: January 18, 2006

As scientific advances have made forensic DNA matching a reality, a new field has emerged in criminal justice: exoneration. In cases where relevant biological evidence has been preserved, innocent...

Film

Who's Laughing?

Albert Brooks looks for comedy and comes up empty

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: January 18, 2006

Albert Brooks, the once-funny comic-turned-filmmaker, plays a once-funny comic-turned-filmmaker named Albert Brooks in Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World , which he also wrote and directed....