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The Fix Isn't In

Gavin Newsom has a plan to clean up the Bayview in five years. If only his programs were working as well as his PR machine.

By Ryan Blitstein

Published: August 2, 2006

A flock of aides in suits and sunglasses follows Mayor Gavin Newsom, who strides up Griffith Street toward the wood-chipped landscape outside the Alice Griffith Opportunity Center, part of the...

News

Useless Resolve

The Board of Supes likes to tell the world what to do. The world could care less.

By Martin Kuz

Published: August 2, 2006

Since last November, the Board of Supervisors has agitated for George Bush's impeachment, federal lawmakers to end the Iraq war, and Bill O'Reilly's firing. Each time, the media frothed. Each time,...

Sucka Free City

The Cutting Edge

By Tamara Palmer

Published: August 2, 2006

One of the first objects you notice when sitting in Marc Halperin's office is the large cleaver mounted on the wall. Halperin, the principal and culinary director at the Center for Culinary...

Sucka Free City

Stick 'Em Up

By Eliza Strickland

Published: August 2, 2006

If you haven't noticed the lampposts along Mission Street, look again, for they are things of beauty. They're tall, red, and ornamented with several curlicues. They are, apparently, the pride and...

Sucka Free City

Hopelessly Devoted

By Karen Zuercher

Published: August 2, 2006

We all have dirty little secrets. Here's one of mine: I know every word to every song on Xanadu by Olivia Newton-John. You might think it wouldn't be easy being an Olivia fan in San Francisco,...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Published: August 2, 2006

Botany, Beatniks, and Bloviating Talk loudly and carry a big schtick: After hearing about Ron Russell's article ["Inside the Savage Nation ," July 19] from Michael Savage himself on his...

Music

California Sunshine

The golden state of Skygreen Leopards' cosmic roots-pop

By Justin F. Farrar

Published: August 2, 2006

A sun-soaked San Francisco afternoon is a dreamy, almost spiritual affair, even without psychedelics and a chilled bottle of white wine. But here we are, Glenn Donaldson and I, passing a clear...

Music

Cracked-Up Egos

Carl Barat settles a score with Dirty Pretty Things

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: August 2, 2006

Pete Doherty's continuing "success" is one of the most depressing rock 'n' roll spectacles of the past decade (a steep list to top). The former frontman for U.K. darlings the Libertines is little...

Music

Misc. Reviews

Blue Cheer: What that ticket stub'll get ya

By Ben Blackwell

Published: August 2, 2006

Having recently seen Blue Cheer perform in Detroit, here's some advice (and a couple warnings) I'll throw the way of those considering checking out the seminal San Francisco rockers. For what's...

Music

Talkin’ Trash

The latest mind-boggle from Paper Rad

By Grant Brissey

Published: August 2, 2006

Sources increasingly credit Paper Rad — a name loosely associated with art output ranging from DVDs to cottage-sized gallery installations (including one currently on display at Yerba Buena...

Reviewed

Flesh Wounds

Fleshies Scrape the Walls

By Dave Pehling

Published: August 2, 2006

East Bay stalwarts Fleshies have never shied away from thumbing a collective nose at the conventions of punk rock, so the frequently irreverent tone of the group's third full-length comes as no...

Reviewed

Grandaddy

Just Like the Fambly Cat

By Garrett Kamps

Published: August 2, 2006

For a band that obsesses so much about the inexorable march of technology, Modesto's Grandaddy sure has managed to arrest any evolution of its aesthetic since perfecting the formula on 2000's The...

Reviewed

Mew

Mew and the Glass Handed Kites

By Eric Davidson

Published: August 2, 2006

The fourth release from Danish alt-pop stars Mew seems ripe for success in an American market currently embracing Coldplay/Keane epics and its indie flipside of slacker lullabies by the Shins and...

Reviewed

Plaid & Bob Jaroc

Greedy Baby

By Tamara Palmer

Published: August 2, 2006

50 Cent isn't the only artist with enough clout to offer a video for every song on an album. After four studio full-lengths (five, if you count the Peel Sessions) and countless compilations,...

Reviewed

Golden Smog

Another Fine Day

By Nate Cavalieri

Published: August 2, 2006

Somewhere around the fourth song of Another Fine Day, Golden Smog finally appears, for the first time ever, as a real band. For years the collective — moonlighting members of the Jayhawks,...

Bouncer

Part II of Radio Bar

By Katy St. Clair

Published: August 2, 2006

When last we spoke, I had posited the question as to whether or not a perfect evening out had to meet the same criteria as a good work of fiction. Using the Seven (Six) Basic Plots as a guide...

Hear This

Hear ThisScientific methods, stoner rock, and Scandinavians

By Eric Davidson, Michael Alan Goldberg, Jennifer Maerz

Published: August 2, 2006

Seattle art-rock trio the Dead Science draws a lot of comparisons to bleak postpunk melodramatists Xiu Xiu — mainly due to the gripping, affected falsetto wanly delivered by singer-guitarist...

BeatBox

Ice ice baby!

Published: August 2, 2006

Known throughout the '90s as primarily a club jock, Orlando's DJ Icey now hosts the Saturday-night mix show "Automatic Static" on Sirius Satellite Radio. This is in addition to keeping a busy...

Eat

FiDi After Hours

A few oases in the Financial District's evening desert

By Robert Lauriston

Published: August 2, 2006

San Francisco's justly famous as one of the best cities in the world for dining out, but one neighborhood's not doing its fair share to sustain that reputation: the Financial District. Hundreds of...

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: August 2, 2006

To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats @ sfweekly.com . Ate: 995 North Point (at Polk), 409-6915. Russian Hill . Mediterranean fusion. Bistro 1689: 1689 Church (at 29th St.),...