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Free Parking for Sale

Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

By Ashley Harrell

Published: April 2, 2008

It's not exactly official. It's just two square logs tucked between the pavement and the Caltrain depot, flanked on either end by rusted fencing and graffiti-coated windows. But the people who...

Matt Smith

Nursing Home Lobbyist Quits After He Predicts SEIU Powerplay

By Matt Smith

Published: April 2, 2008

On Wednesday, March 19, at 8:52 p.m., Scott Carlson, executive director of California Alliance to Advance Nursing Home Care, was apparently in an optimistic mood. Carlson is a former executive...

Sucka Free City

S.F. Taxicab Commission Spends $100K to Keep Cabbie Away from Staff

By John Geluardi

Published: April 2, 2008

Over the past 15 months, administrators for San Francisco's Taxicab Commission have made longtime cabbie Jacob Brettholz public enemy number one. He has had his cab permit revoked for life, and...

Letters

SF Weekly Letters

Published: April 2, 2008

AIMCO Aims Low Divide and construct: As usual, the same old game is being played [" Building Racism " by Lauren Smiley, March 26]. Set the poor, disadvantaged, and darker races against...

Sucka Free City

SF's Most Maddening Final Four

Published: April 2, 2008

SF's Most Maddening Final Four The results are in: SF Weekly readers have cast their votes and narrowed the field in the contest to become San Francisco's Most Maddening person or entity....

Reviewed

Rupa and the April Fishes

eXtraOrdinary rendition (Cumbancha)

By Dan Strachota

Published: April 2, 2008

Gypsy music has become all the rage of late, what with Beirut, Gogol Bordello, and DeVotchKa bringing their Roma-inspired sounds to the masses. Locally, the closest thing we have to Gypsy tunage...

Music

Autechre Crafts, Then Shreds, IDM Clichés

By John Graham

Published: April 2, 2008

It's probably the worst acronym in music history. IDM. I ntelligent D ance M usic. The words come out in a pompous snort, sneering down at anything that deigns to be merely "dance music," the...

Reviewed

Moby

Last Night (Mute)

By Lily Moayeri

Published: April 2, 2008

Moby's latest release is a return to the dancefloor that birthed him. This is especially true of the tracks that smack of his early-'90s compositions — "Everyday It's 1989" and "The Stars"...

Music

How to Tell Your Hippies from Your Heshers from the Black Keys

By Ezra Gale

Published: April 2, 2008

Those dang kids have mucked everything up. It used to be easy to separate the hippie bands from the hard rockers, the indie-alternative darlings from the classic dinosaurs, the exploratory jazz...

Music

The Grouch Personifies the Hip-Hop Hustle

By Jesse Ducker

Published: April 2, 2008

There are no free rides for hip-hop heroes who achieve worldwide acclaim. The Grouch, founding member of the internationally known Living Legends crew, can attest that even when you sell records,...

Let's Get Killed

Caught on KUSF: Wildildilfe's Helter-Skelter Mood Mash

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: April 2, 2008

Call me old-fashioned, but one of my favorite ways of discovering music is still through the radio. It reminds me of being a kid, staying up late waiting for some catchy new song to come on...

Bouncer

Ghostbusting at the Queen Anne Hotel Pt. 2: Haunted by Onions

By Katy St. Clair

Published: April 2, 2008

When last I left off, I was about to enter a haunted room in the Queen Anne Hotel (see last week's Bouncer for part one of this column) after drinking at the Hotel Majestic. I went there with...

Hear This

Surf Rock Safari: The Cuban Cowboys

By Danielle Sills, Doug Wallen, Ezra Gale, Ernest Barteldes

Published: April 2, 2008

The six-piece Syracuse-based Ra Ra Riot formed in 2006, but a lot has happened since then. The band released a self-titled EP and blew away festivalgoers at South by Southwest and CMJ last year....

BeatBox

Germany's Digitalism Crafts Dissonant Audiovisual Tapestries

By Tamara Palmer

Published: April 2, 2008

In just three short years, Hamburg's Digitalism (Jens Moelle and Ismail Tüfekçi) has managed to stand out from the pack not only for its music, but also for its visual presentation...

Eat

Refined on Fillmore

Creating new memories with French soul.

By Meredith Brody

Published: April 2, 2008

Renaming Lower Fillmore the Fillmore Jazz Preservation District is a classic example of shutting the barn doors long after the cows have fled and the farmer has torn down the barn. The nightclubs...

Fresh Eats

New Restaurants

Published: April 2, 2008

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats . Bar888: 888 Howard (at Fifth St., in the Intercontinental Hotel), 616-6566. SOMA . Grappa and...

Film

Fourth and Inches

George Clooney's ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet.

By Scott Foundas

Published: April 2, 2008

When Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline "The Last Movie Star" — note, not even a question mark at the end — you didn't have to read the...

Film

Worth the Gamble

Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

By Jim Ridley

Published: April 2, 2008

For pure cinema, nothing rivals a high-stakes, full-tilt poker game — unless it's somebody landing on Ventnor Avenue with two houses, or sending an opponent to the backgammon bar with double...

Film

Some Country for Old Men

Seniors Scorsese and the Stones are together again.

By Camille Dodero

Published: April 2, 2008

Mick Jagger's most essential physical feature, according to Martin Scorsese, is his bellystache. On the poster for Shine a Light, the big-shot director's Rolling Stones concert film, Sir Mick is...

FilmCap

Poisoned by Polonium

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: April 2, 2008

Andrei Nekrasov's documentary indictment of the Putin regime is inelegantly structured, flops when it goes "gonzo," and gets uncomfortably indulgent, but it does have morbid credibility to spare....