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Unfair Lawsuit Act

SF Weekly moves to dismiss the Guardian's lawsuit, which is light on witnesses and evidence

By Will Harper

Published: July 4, 2007

After New Times Media bought SF Weekly in 1995, Mike Lacey came to town to talk to the staff. Lacey, the co-founder of New Times, a chain of alternative newsweeklies across the country, was known...

News

Unfair Lawsuit Act

SF Weekly moves to dismiss the Guardian's lawsuit, which is light on witnesses and evidence

By Will Harper

Published: July 4, 2007

After New Times Media bought the SF Weekly in 1995, Mike Lacey came to town to talk to the staff. Lacey, the co-founder of New Times, a chain of alternative newsweeklies across the country, was...

Matt Smith

Mother Nature or Nurture?

The question of whether to begin saving creatures and habitats from climate change

By Matt Smith

Published: July 4, 2007

Russ Bradley spends summers on the craggy guano-strewn paradise at the far western edge of San Francisco's city limits, poking about in a rain slicker and a hard hat worn to protect against...

Sucka Free City

Our Mayor, Da Playa

By Mary Spicuzza

Published: July 4, 2007

Have Gavin Newsom and his girl's girl called it quits? We could barely believe our eyes when we opened the July 2 edition of Star magazine and saw a photograph of our mayor grinning out from its...

Sucka Free City

Scared Healthy

By Tiffany Martini

Published: July 4, 2007

Jail may not be the ideal place to detox and purify our trans fat-riddled bodies (just ask Paris Hilton, apparently force-fed bologna during her agonizingly brief stay), but even though you may be...

Sucka Free City

Protest Masters

By Frances Reade

Published: July 4, 2007

New College of California's Masters of Activism and Social Change program seeks "to nurture the development of thoughtful, self-reflective activists and facilitators of social transformation"; that...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Published: July 4, 2007

Going Green DREAM on: The interesting and informative article "Army of Uno" [June 20], written by Mary Spicuzza, discusses the ways in which the U.S. military promises U.S. citizenship to...

Music

All the Sweet Stuff

The hilarious homofabulous-ness of Gravy Train!!!!

By Dan Strachota

Published: July 4, 2007

It's hard not to mention kitsch when discussing Gravy Train!!!! This is, after all, the band that posed on a green vinyl couch for an album cover, with one member wearing a fuzzy teddy and another...

Lets Get Killed

Let's Get Killed

View From the Judges's Nest at Air Guitar Battle

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: July 4, 2007

Who knew that playing invisible instruments could turn some adults so ornery? That was my question as I sat in the judges' nest at the Independent with Fecalface.com's John Trippe and the Onion...

Music

Black Hole Son

Chris Cornell gets a little help from his friends

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: July 4, 2007

Not since Sir Laurence Olivier slummed his way through Clash of the Titans has such pure talent been so egregiously wasted. We're talking about you, Chris Cornell — smoldering-eyed rock god,...

Music

Radioactive Clout

Local genre-tweakers Mushroom meld with jazz giant Eddie Gale

By Andy Beta

Published: July 4, 2007

The Bay Area rollers in Mushroom have synched up with some impressive outsider iconoclasts over their decade-long ride. Starting from their first 12-inch, the band has embraced and updated...

Music

Ryan Adams by Rossiter Drake

By Rossiter Drake

Published: July 4, 2007

With the release of Easy Tiger , critics are eager to celebrate the return of Ryan Adams, alt-country savior. The truth, though, is that aside from self-indulgent missteps — Demolition ,...

Music

Mark Ronson by Michael D. Ayers

By Michael D. Ayers

Published: July 4, 2007

Best known for his production work with Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson's résumé also includes DJ stints at celebrity events. Versions has too much in common with the...

Music

The Death of a Party by Mike Munz

By Mike Munz

Published: July 4, 2007

Two years after its debut EP release, Oakland art-rock act the Death of a Party returns with its first full-length, The Rise and Fall of Scarlet City . Unfortunately, this former party band has...

Bouncer

Bouncer

Salvia and psychonauts at Eagles Drift In

Published: July 4, 2007

Before you set foot in Eagles Drift In, you have to reconcile yourself with the name. What does it mean? You'd expect the sign to read "Eagles Drift Inn," for one thing. At least then you would...

Hear This

SunnO))), Band of Horses, the Court and Spark, Hugh Cornwell

By Andy Beta, J. Poet, John Vettese

Published: July 4, 2007

SunnO))) is more than merely a collection of skilled purveyors of bilious drop-D drone. Forged by monk-clad metalheads Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson, the group's live shows are designed to...

BeatBox

Scribble Jam, Zeph & Azeem, Steve Lawler

By Tamara Palmer

Published: July 4, 2007

"Scribble Jam" fosters healthy competition in underground hip hop. Its best-known participant, Eminem (in 1997), reportedly got his ass kicked in the MC battle. When this nationwide event stops...

Eat

It's Maya Pleasure

This Yucatecan kitchen has a magic touch

By Robert Lauriston

Published: July 4, 2007

While walking briskly down a squalid stretch of 16th Street, I catch the sprightly sign: "Mayan Cuisine with a Modern Touch." Oh, dear — not another pan-Latin fusion place? The contemporary...

Eat

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: July 4, 2007

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats . A Bon Port: 476 Castro (at 18th), 558-0893, www.abonportsf.com . Castro . French-Belgian cafe....

Film

Auto-Chaotic

As giant robots transform all around us (!), it's good to know Michael Bay won't ever change

By Nathan Lee

Published: July 4, 2007

Transformers twiddles its big, fat, stupid robotic thumbs for the better part of two hours before jabbing them into your eye socket and finger-fucking your brain in the last 20 minutes. Yes! It's...