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Matt Smith

Leno's Hemp Screen

Just say "no" to more hemp. Focus on the weak dollar and apocalypse tomorrow!

By Matt Smith

Published: September 12, 2007

In 2000, between the March launch of Vividence.com at a poshed-up Exploratorium and the November bankruptcy of Pets.com , it was possible most weeks to attend serious-minded presentations and...

Sucka Free City

Muni Chief's "Quiet Time"

Nat Ford to staff: Don't talk to me!

By John Geluardi

Published: September 12, 2007

In the 18 months since Nathaniel "Nat" Ford took over the top spot at the Metropolitan Transportation Agency, he has earned a reputation for behaving a bit like a rock star, or perhaps a Hollywood...

Feature

Gimme Indie Rock!

Local promoters take a big risk to give S.F. a music fest that will restore the city's cool cred

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: September 12, 2007

Kevin Arnold and Jordan Kurland stroll into 500 Club, a Mission dive bar, on a recent August weekday. The pair lean against the counter, weighing their options. "I should order a martini," says...

Sidebar

Treasure Island Booty

A Guide to Getting Shipwrecked This Weekend

Published: September 12, 2007

Treasure Island Music Festival runs Saturday, Sept. 15 and Sunday, Sept. 16 from 11:30 a.m. until the last band leaves the stage around 10 p.m. The event boasts two stages ("Bridge" and "Tunnel")...

Sucka Free City

Hospital's Hindsight: 20/20

Hospital removes man's cancerous prostate. Two months later, doctors say he didn't have cancer after all

By John Geluardi

Published: September 12, 2007

In March, Touradj Ebrahimi underwent a biopsy of his prostate at San Francisco General Hospital. Some time after the procedure, his physician, Dr. Maurice Garcia, called Ebrahimi to notify him...

Sucka Free City

USS Iowa, Any Takers?

Will $250,000 hole in the water stay afloat or be scrapped for target practice?

By Ron Russell

Published: September 12, 2007

The competition to land the USS Iowa — the World War II battleship that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors famously rejected as a tourist attraction in 2005 — is now a one-horse...

Letters

Kudos on the Newsom Comic

Letters for Week of September 12-18, 2007

Published: September 12, 2007

Progressively Worse Cancel the Daly Show?: With a friend like Chris Daly, progressives certainly do not need enemies ["The Daly Show," Aug. 29]. He has done more damage to the progressive...

Bouncer

A Rye Wit

Bouncer obsesses over obsessions at Rye on Geary St.

By Katy St. Clair

Published: September 12, 2007

Autism is getting tons of attention these days. That's partly because so many children are being diagnosed with it, but also because it's just a really fascinating disorder. People who have it are...

Music

The Donnas' Bitchin' Party

SF's ladies lose the major label and regain the rock

By Dan Strachota

Published: September 12, 2007

The rumor going around is that, after recording two albums for Atlantic Records, the Donnas were dropped from the label. The reality is far different. "We had an option to leave," says...

Reviewed

High on Fire

Death Is This Communion (Relapse)

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: September 12, 2007

Already regarded as one of modern metal's most face-meltingly fantastic bands, High on Fire further solidifies its reputation with Death is This Communion , the Oakland trio's fourth, most...

Music

Animal Collective's Panoramic Kingdom

A casting call of the wild

By Tony Ware

Published: September 12, 2007

Sir David Attenborough, the British naturalist celebrated for his BBC Life series, has captured many compelling images of existence. Giant starfish, for example, vacuum up brittle stars by the...

Reviewed

Kanye West

Graduation (Island Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella)

By Ben Westhoff

Published: September 12, 2007

Kanye is the most exciting man in rap music because he puts out quality, popular albums. Forget the artless 50 Cent, and forget Akon — Kanye tries much, much harder. Graduation , which has...

Music

The New Pornographers' Feel Good Rush

Pleasure-centered pop singles

By Jonah Flicker

Published: September 12, 2007

A.C. Newman, the New Pornographers' driving force and principal songwriter, has a bone to pick with music critics who lump the band into the "power-pop" genre. "I'm not really sure what power-pop...

Reviewed

No Age

Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat)

By Andy Beta

Published: September 12, 2007

Somewhere on No Age's "Loosen This Job," in the thatch of Randy Randall's guitar noise and the spiny drum clicks of Dean Spunt, one can just make out Randall's yelp of "Why are there so many...

Hear This

The Bravery Far from Bold

By John Vettese, Tony Ware, Mike Rowell, Eric Davidson, Sam Mickens

Published: September 12, 2007

With FutureSex/LoveSounds, Justin Timberlake gained an unlikely spot as the present king of R&B, a position that he seems likely to hold for some time. The former Mickey Mouser's cultural...

Reviewed

Various Artists

Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 (Rhino)

By Frances Reade

Published: September 12, 2007

The iconically maudlin tune "Get Together" provides both the title of this comp and its bookending tracks. The first instance of the song is Dino Valenti's sweetly naive 1963 original, and the...

Reviewed

Kinski

Down Below It's Chaos (Sub Pop)

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: September 12, 2007

Kinski is a wet dream for space-rock and psych-garage aficionados. When it comes to its namesake, the primarily instrumental Seattle quartet is about 75 percent Klaus and 25 percent Nastassja....

BeatBox

MC Lyte brings the club bangers

By Tamara Palmer

Published: September 12, 2007

Brooklyn's MC Lyte (Lana Moorer) is probably the only major female rap star to never be embroiled in a scandal. Even without the scuffles, though, she's better known as a hip-hop personality...

Eat

Mexico DF Dominates

The wonderful food trumps everything else at Mexico DF

By Meredith Brody

Published: September 12, 2007

This is a list of the things I'm not nuts about at my new favorite restaurant: the noise level, with contributions from both the buzzing patrons and the insistent canned music; the décor,...

Fresh Eats

Fresh Eats

Published: September 12, 2007

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats . Bossa Nova: 139 Eighth St. (at Minna), 558-8004. SOMA . Brazilian. Breezy's: 409 Gough (between...