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The Daly Show

Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed

By Ron Russell

Published: August 29, 2007

Beneath the glare of the midday sun, about 150 people have gathered for a ribbon-cutting at the city's newest affordable housing project — sandwiched between a freeway and a rail yard in...

News

The Muni Paradox

A new ballot measure could change this absurd concept: less management for more money

By Benjamin Wachs

Published: August 29, 2007

If the devil is in the details, Satan's a frustrated Muni rider. A review of a huge amount of transit data comparing San Francisco and other cities suggests that our public transportation...

Sucka Free City

Burning Man Diary

The account of a man with furry pants and a Subaru adorned with lactating breasts

By Nathaniel Eaton

Published: August 29, 2007

For all you folks not headed out to Burning Man this year, we thought we'd show you a taste of what you're missing. Here are some excerpts from a journal found by a volunteer cleaning up after...

Sucka Free City

Chicken Man

Somebody out there thinks joke mayoral candidate Chicken John Rinaldi ain't funny

By Joe Eskenazi

Published: August 29, 2007

Chicken John Rinaldi is a man of many words. But he uses just one to answer if he's going to ditch the city in the midst of his mayoral campaign and head to Burning Man: "Yeah." So, for a dozen...

Letters

Week of August 29 - September 4, 2007

Published: August 29, 2007

Hyper Extension Twilight rezoning: As mayor, Art Agnos made strong appointments to the Landmarks Board. We can also thank him for championing the removal of the Embarcadero Freeway, which...

Music

Nothing in Common

To right-wingers, all rap is the same. It's not.

By Sam Chennault

Published: August 29, 2007

In his continuing crusade against hip hop, FOX News polemicist Bill O'Reilly recently went on the attack against N.Y.C. rapper Nas. He tagged the Queensbridge MC a "gangster rapper," and claimed...

Music

We Want Candy

Beyoncé and Ciara battle it out for your entertainment dollar

By Tamara Palmer

Published: August 29, 2007

Bay Area R&B fans have some tasty decision-making on the calendar come Aug. 31. That evening, Beyoncé will perform at Oakland's Oracle Arena, while Ciara will headline the KMEL...

Music

It Happened in Monterey

New label reissues long-lost jazz-fest classics

By Mark Keresman

Published: August 29, 2007

In 1958, jazz promoter Jimmy Lyons worked with legendary San Francisco music writer Ralph J. Gleason to organize a jazz festival, the first of its kind on the West Coast. Gleason and Lyons (not to...

Let's Get Killed

Jack Kerouac's writing still influential for rock icons 50 years after On the Road

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: August 29, 2007

We're ears- and eyeballs-deep in Summer of Love 40th anniversaries in San Francisco, but September marks another local birthday of import, one that's also pretty pivotal in the music world. We're...

Reviewed

Blaqk Audio

CexCells (Interscope)

By Jonah Bayer

Published: August 29, 2007

It's no secret that AFI's Davey Havok and Jade Puget have an affinity for electronic music, as evidenced by Puget's programming credits on the last two AFI discs. With CexCells the duo takes its...

Reviewed

Zap Mama

Supermoon (Heads Up)

By Sam Prestianni

Published: August 29, 2007

In the nearly two decades since Congo-born and Belgium-raised Marie Daulne founded Zap Mama, her vision of one-world music has evolved from esoteric extreme to exotic mainstream. Her sixth...

Reviewed

The Eat

It's Not the Eat, It's the Humidity (Alternative Tentacles)

By Eric Davidson

Published: August 29, 2007

One would think all the humidity, sweat, and hick violence of non-tourist-approved Florida would've produced a number of classic-era punk bands, but nay. There were a few obscure ones, however,...

Reviewed

The Frames

The Cost (Anti/Epitaph)

By John Vettese

Published: August 29, 2007

If time is kind to the Frames, the current swooning over singer Glen Hansard's appearance in indie flick Once will die down without overshadowing The Cost , the Irish rock band's sixth and...

Reviewed

T.I.

T.I. vs. T.I.P. (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)

By Jesse Ducker

Published: August 29, 2007

T.I. was one of 2006's few success stories. His fourth album, King , went platinum, and it was considered the hip-hop hit of last year. So the rapper decided to strike while the iron was hot, and...

Hear This

Hear This

Angelina Jolie's ex, Mr. Billy Bob Thornton, shifts from the big screen to Slim's stage

By Grant Brissey, Dave Pehling, Tony Ware, Mark Keresman

Published: August 29, 2007

It wasn't until Chromatics ringleader Adam Miller split with the band's other founding members that he began mastering a different form of popular music. He kept the name for himself, and...

BeatBox

Beat Box

S.F. gives a big ol' "Funk You" to Burning Man

By Tony Ware, Tamara Palmer, J. Poet

Published: August 29, 2007

You can either use or abuse what you're given, and since San Francisco's thing is foggy maritime moodiness, it's no surprise that an industry has arisen to cane the microclimate into submission....

Bouncer

A vampire bartender sucks the life outta the Ambassador

By Katy St. Clair

Published: August 29, 2007

I have always prided myself on the fact that I can handle difficult people. I have friends with qualities other people would find distasteful — they're egotists, depressives, cheapskates,...

Eat

Lunchtime in Havana

Paladar brings to S.F. the real flavors of Cuba

By Robert Lauriston

Published: August 29, 2007

For some reason, real Cuban food has always been a tough sell in San Francisco. The occasional place that gets it right somehow never lasts long — the owners switch to a more popular...

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: August 29, 2007

To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats@sfweekly.com . Bossa Nova: 139 Eighth St. (at Minna), 558-8004. SOMA . Brazilian. Custom Burger/Lounge: 121 Seventh St. (at Natoma), 252-2634....

Film

Test My Balls of Fury

Answer all correctly and win a Def Leppard album

By Nathan Lee

Published: August 29, 2007

1. Balls of Fury is a movie about: a. A former table tennis prodigy (Dan Fogler as Randy Daytona) enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate the underground ping-pong tournament of a legendary...