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Cesar Chavez Area Stabbings and Shootings Contribute to Failed Fanatics Sports Bar and Grill: The Derf Butler Story

By John Geluardi

Published: November 7, 2007

Cesar Chavez Street dead-ends near San Francisco's eastern waterfront in a bleak industrial area of nondescript warehouses, workshops, and small office buildings. During the day, there is little...

Matt Smith

Gavin Newsom Can Help Cure Global Warming's Effects ... with High-Rises

By Matt Smith

Published: November 7, 2007

It's now well established that leadership on the issue of global warming is a ticket to political stardom. Lest you doubt that, consider the irresistibility of a fantasy presidential ticket shared...

Sucka Free City

The Angry Moped Gangs of San Francisco

What happens when one SF Weekly reporter dares to penetrate the inner circles of post-track-bike hipsters

By Lauren Smiley

Published: November 7, 2007

First the Hells Angels blazed down Bay Area highways on their hogs. In the '80s and '90s, hipsters revived vintage scooters until the yuppies bought in. Then the cool but unkempt crowd turned to...

Sucka Free City

BART to Change Its Maps

By Joe Eskenazi

Published: November 7, 2007

Admit it: When a tourist family with more baggage than the Spanish conquistadors lugs its way onto a BART train and proceeds to loudly lament the difficulty of the route map, you've felt a smug...

Letters

Armenian Genocide Resolution Blog Posting at SFWeekly.com Draws Armenian Ire

Published: November 7, 2007

Turkish Dismay Blind hatred all around: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' recent adoption of a resolution calling on [U.S. House] Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi to continue her support for...

Reviewed

Bettye LaVette

The Scene of the Crime (Anti-)

By Jewly Hight

Published: November 7, 2007

The follow-up to LaVette's potent 2005 LP I've Got My Own Hell to Raise stays true to its title, as The Scene of the Crime is the sound of a survivor's sure-footed stand. Here LaVette returns...

Music

Swedish Indiepop Crooner Jens Lekman's World of Sound

By Dan Strachota

Published: November 7, 2007

Remember how everyone went crazy in 2001 for that Avalanches record Since I Left You ? Critics, listeners, and Madonna loved the lush strings, whimsical samples, and good-time vibes of that...

Reviewed

Vanessa Carlton

Heroes & Thieves (The INC/Universal)

By Jonah Flicker

Published: November 7, 2007

Irv Gotti, the mastermind behind the infectiously nettlesome Ja Rule and Ashanti, now counts piano-playing chanteuse Vanessa Carlton as part of his talent stable. But judging from the saccharine...

Music

Brooklyn Noise Addicts Black Dice Blow Your Mortal Coil

By Michael D. Ayers

Published: November 7, 2007

The popularity of individual-track downloads on iTunes has demonstrated the renewed strength of the "single" with music fans in recent years. The digital market boom provides easy access to that...

Reviewed

Little Brother

Getback (ABB)

By Ben Westhoff

Published: November 7, 2007

"I came back from New York, nigga lost his deal/Felt sick to the stomach, almost lost his meal," raps Phonte on Getback 's first track, "Sirens." He's referring to his duo Little Brother's exit...

Music

Oakland Metal Titans Saviours Are the Real Deal

By Katy St. Clair

Published: November 7, 2007

Few music diehards go to as many pains to define genre minutiae as metalheads. For example, within the thin line dividing black metal and death metal exist "crossovers," bands that dig both...

Reviewed

Celebration

The Modern Tribe (4AD)

By Andy Beta

Published: November 7, 2007

The kaleidoscopic cover of Celebration's The Modern Tribe features an image of a chorus line straight out of the notebook of Hollywood choreographer and director Busby Berkeley. While the music...

Let's Get Killed

Citay Houses Ezra Feinberg's Little Kingdom of Chamber Metal

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: November 7, 2007

Ezra Feinberg of San Francisco's Citay (say it like, say, Steve Perry would sing the word "city" — cit-aay ) makes music that's been appropriately tagged "chamber metal." This breed of...

Reviewed

Herbie Hancock

River: The Joni Letters (Verve)

By Ezra Gale

Published: November 7, 2007

Noted jazz pianist records pop icon tribute, endures cries of 'sellout' from the jazz community, laughs all the way to the bank. You'd be forgiven for assuming Herbie Hancock's new River: The...

Bouncer

Bouncer's Crush Busses Ex Right in Front of Her -- Sooo Messed Up

By Katy St. Clair

Published: November 7, 2007

This week's Bouncer will be a book report of sorts, because what I have considered to be my bible throughout adulthood is getting me through a rough patch right now, and hopefully it will also...

Hear This

Legendary Oddballs Ween Paint the Town Brown

By Mark Keresman, John Garmon, Dave Pehling, Michael Alan Goldberg, Lily Moayeri, Ben Westhoff

Published: November 7, 2007

A case could be made for San Francisco's American Music Club being a truly American counterpart to Britain's Joy Division. Although they're sonically different, the two groups share common...

BeatBox

Mocean Worker, KALX Matthew Africa, Pam the Funkstress, Ghettodisco

By John Graham, Tamara Palmer, Evan James

Published: November 7, 2007

Adam Dorn — a.k.a. Mocean Worker — started as a DJ who drizzled brassy samples atop digital drum 'n' bass sequences. But this son of a jazz producer has recently given synths the...

Eat

Bernal Heights' Tinderbox Inflames the Palate

By Meredith Brody

Published: November 7, 2007

A tinderbox, the dictionary tells us, is a box for holding tinder (gee, thanks), but also "a person or thing that is highly excitable, explosive, inflammable." Tinderbox, a snug and chic new...

Fresh Eats

New Restaurants

Published: November 7, 2007

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats . 1300 on Fillmore: 1300 Fillmore (at Eddy), 771-7100, www.1300fillmore.com . Fillmore....

Film

Dull Roar

The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama

By Ella Taylor

Published: November 7, 2007

Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers, Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs may be the gabbiest movie ever made about American foreign policy — and it wasn't even written by...