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San Francisco Bay Area

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2013

    Chipotle Testing Out Tofu

    Chipotle is testing out tofu in their menus. The Tex-Mex chain recently announced that they're trying out a new item called Sofritas in seven San Francisco Bay Area restaurants beginning Feb. 12. "It's seared and browned and braised like a sofrito," Chipotle communications director Chris Arnold told ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2013

    Testament's Chuck Billy on the Time He Performed a Scalping

    Chuck Billy is the six-foot-four singer of veteran thrash metal band Testament, who play House of Blues tomorrow night. You do not want to piss him off; he once laid down some serious vigilante justice, and he's no stranger to hanging with felons. (More on that in the interview below.) See also: Te ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2013

    Schmoozing 101 or Making Your Crippling Social Anxiety Work For You

    Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2012

    Which White Entertainers Have a "Hood Pass" to Say the N-Word?

    The late aughts saw a debate in the hip-hop community about the use of the n-word, sparked in part by Nas' plan to name his 2008 album Nigger (he ended up calling it Untitled), as well as Russell Simmons' call for industry self-censorship of the word. In 2007 the city of Detroit even hosted a "symbo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2012

    Clyde Carson Finally Has a Big Hit with "Slow Down"

    Last December, Bay Area rapper Clyde Carson recorded "Slow Down." Within a couple months, a DJ named J-12 had invented a dance specifically for the song, inspiring dozens of kids to upload their own versions to YouTube. A year later, it's inescapable, with Power 106 playing it every hour on the hour ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2012

    Los Rakas: Rappers From Panama, Proudly Hood

    Oakland hip-hop duo Los Rakas spent the early years of their lives in Panama City, Panama before settling in the Bay Area and immersing themselves in hip-hop culture. Joining forces in 2006, Raka Rich and Raka Dun coined the term "PanaBay" to describe their music, a mix of the Latin rhythms of Pan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2012

    L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade: A Recap of the 2012 Event

    L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade Stand is arguably the premier charity auction/food and wine event raising money -- a lot of money -- for pediatric cancer research. Hosted by Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne (Lucques, A.O.C., Tavern) and David Lentz (The Hungry Cat), it was held for the third year in a row ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2012

    Bomb Scare at 94.7 the Wave Empties Headquarters of KNX, KFWB and the SEC

    Updated at bottom. Originally posted at 10:30am. Confused commuters were listening to San Francisco Bay Area traffic and weather this morning because of a bomb scare at the headquarters of KNX 1070 Newsradio. The station has been broadcasting the stream of their sister station, San Francsico's KCBS, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2012

    Gas at $5.51 a Gallon in Los Angeles? Prepare for More Increases as a Result of Refinery Fire

    Updated at the bottom: And it gets worse as another refinery in the Bay Area goes up in smoke. First posted at 2:40 p.m. If this heat wave has you down, just wait until your next gas station visit. A fire at a Chevron refinery near San Francisco last Monday knocked out a portion of one of Califor ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 9, 2012

    Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu

    Updated at the bottom: And it gets worse as another refinery in the Bay Area goes up in smoke. First posted at 2:40 p.m. If this heat wave has you down, just wait until your next gas station visit. A fire at a Chevron refinery near San Francisco last Monday knocked out a portion of one of Califor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2012

    California Bullet Train to Nowhere Gets $6 Billion Via State Lawmakers

    California's bullet train dreams have had a nightmare of a year, including lagging public support and a need for billions in a bad economy. But supporters eked out a dreamy victory today: The state Senate approved an $8 billion package to fund the first leg of the train (from nowhere to nowhere):

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2012

    MAP: Los Angeles Is Bigger Than These Eight Major U.S. Cities Combined

    Whenever out-of-towners complain about how hard it is to get anywhere in Los Angeles, we try to tell them: It's no more difficult than trying to traverse the entire Bay Area in a single shot. Because this city is HUGE. Like, half the size of Rhode Island. And because of that, we've got a whole serie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2012

    Google's Los Angeles Map Gets 3D, 'Flyover' Imagery For Smartphones: VIDEO

    Google just unveiled 3D maps that let you virtually fly over Los Angeles and Long Beach. The cool visuals, however, aren't available for iPhone and iPad users yet; they're only good for Google's own Android system for now. According to the company, L.A. and Long Beach are among 15 American cities ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2012

    10 Raver Deaths in 5 Years: Ecstasy Often Blamed

    A Canadian doctor who wants to legalize ecstasy says the drug is safe and that it's only the adulterated version of MDMA you find on the street that can kill you. But doctors at Los Angeles emergency rooms have told us that pure ecstasy can kill, including causing vital oxygen deprivation to organs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2012

    California Bullet Train Would Die if Voters Had Their Way

    LA Weekly has been expressing doubts about California's proposed $100-billion-plus bullet train for a few years now. Although we some criticism for it, it looks like a majority of you are starting to have the same second thoughts. In fact, some of the highest resistance to the high-speed rail proje ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Q & A With Jeremy Fox: Paper or Plastik, Pre-Fabs, His New L.A. Restaurant Life Post-Ubuntu

    The last place you'd probably expect to find a chef with a Michelin star under his belt would be West L.A.'s Paper or Plastik, a neighborhood café that has been a favorite of locals for years but was never known as a place to host nationally-acclaimed chefs. But that's exactly where former Ubuntu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Comedian Moshe Kasher's Memoir Kasher In The Rye: 'I Was Violent. I Was Sexist. I Was a Pig.'

    To say Moshe Kasher had a tumultuous upbringing would be an understatement at best. The 32-year-old comedian and author now appears regularly on E!'s Chelsea Lately and his clean-cut look, slicked back hair with thick black glasses, appears to dispel the notion of any momentous regrets. But Kasher I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Food Newspaper Stories

    You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Marijuana Initiatives in California Flaming Out

    In 2010, when we came oh so close to passing a California marijuana initiative that would have legalized it, medical or not, cannabis supporters were elated, confident and maybe even cocky. Prop. 19 was essentially a one-man band, the brainchild of an Oakland dispensary magnate. Just wait until 201 ... More >>

  • News

    November 24, 2011

    $100 Billion Bullet Train

    Democrats fray as cost skyrockets, feds bail, and Amtrak starts to look good

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Lisa Mezzacappa Does Not Make Dinner Party Music

    Myles Boisen​Upright bassist Lisa Mezzacappa has been building a steady reputation in northern California for the last decade. Her nimble basslines and arresting compositions have brought her beyond the Bay Area, where she lives, including a rare tour through Los Angeles. Her band the Bait & S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Southwest 737 Makes Emergency Landing at LAX After Similar Aircraft Blew its Roof

    SouthwestA Southwest Airlines 737.​Turns out we know how Southwest Airlines keeps it ticket prices so low: Old, beater airplanes. We kid. But seriously, problems continued to dog the discounter over the weekend after a Southwest flight from Oakland to San Diego had to make an emergency landin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Blame Alaska: Rare California 'Arctic Blast' Comes From the North

    Stop getting your snow all up in our happy place, Palin​We knew California wasn't to blame for this dreadful, borderline-blasphemous cold spell! As usual, we have the northerners to thank for our unhappiness: This crazy-cold polar storm is whistling like an ambush of icicles straight down from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Los Angeles Battles Bay Area for Right to Host USS Iowa Battleship

    Will the USS Iowa rest in the City of Angels?​The age-old battle between L.A. and "the Bay" might be getting a little more tense this year as the two metropolitan areas duke it out over the retired battleship USS Iowa, a.k.a. "the Big Stick." The Historic Ships Memorial at Pacific Square in t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    Lawmaker Fiona Ma, Who Wants To Ban Raves At Publicly Owned Venues, To Go Raving Herself

    Her raver name is Assembly Speaker Pro Tempor-E.​Fiona Ma, the San Francisco assemblywoman who wants to ban raves at publicly owned venues in California, is going raving. That's according to our sister publication SF Weekly, which reported last week that the Democrat, who would outlaw the par ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Ravers Take To Facebook To Protest Proposed Law That Would Ban Raves On Public Land In California

    Ravers at Electric Daisy Carnival, held at the publicly owned Coliseum.​Updated after the jump with responses from the lawmaker herself. First posted at 8:38 a.m. Ravers got on their feet this week to "protect your right to dance" after a state lawmaker proposed a ban on raves at public venue ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

    --Portland, OR: Restaurateur discovers 1809 Italian cookbook. --Anchorage: Local pigs' popularity leads to pork drought. --Duluth: Chocolate-covered sausage. --Las Vegas: Chefs offer suggestions on treats for Santa. --Middleton, WI: Restaurant to hold Seinfeld-inspired Festivus fundraiser --San Fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Auto-Tune Justifier Wallpaper Gives in to Jay-Z, Sells His Auto-Tune on Craigslist

    ​When Jay-Z released his "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" last summer, Bay Area based electro-funk upstart Wallpaper responded by remixing the song and slathering copious amounts of the titular effect on Jay's voice. Now Wallpaper, a.k.a. Eric Frederic,--a vocal advocate for the pitch-fixing rec ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    December 2, 2010

    Take a Dip

    Fresh-carved Turkey sandwich not easy to find, even right after thanksgiving

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Ask Mr. Gold: Take a Dip, Or Finding a Post-Thanksgiving Turkey Sandwich

    Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I recently moved back to L.A. from the Bay Area to pursue some kind of storytelling job. And what I want to know is where I can find a hot freshly carved turkey sandwich. San Francisco has some amazing restaurants, but the thing that I se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Does 29 Percent Of L.A.'s Smog Come From East Asia? Bay Area Study: Dust Storms Carry Pollution Over Pacific

    Uncyclopedia CommonsChina makes L.A. look like a butterfly sanctuary​To think -- all that time we were faulting the scummy smog layer constantly smothering Los Angeles on our own bad habits. Turns out it's been China all along! That is, if L.A.'s Pacific positioning makes it anything like San ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    Hollywood Backs Harris as Cooley Pulls Away

    Why ugly and grumpy Steve is beating smart and beautiful Kamala

  • Eat+Drink

    August 19, 2010

    Tats and Prawns

    Xino by the bay

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    First Bite: Tats and Prawns, Xino by the Bay

    Christie BishopJonagold apple, minus first bite​The top-level Dining Deck of the new Santa Monica Place mall seems almost custom-designed to make native Angelenos grumpy. The redesign scooped out all that was pleasant about the old mall, one of Frank Gehry's breakthrough projects, with all the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    L.A. Called Nation's Most Bohemian City

    ​Writer Richard Florida over the weekend posted at the Atlantic about the North America's most bohemian cities. Pointing to this study (PDF), he notes the Los Angeles is number one. Huh? We slack as hard as the next city. But we're more bohemian than San Francisco? Seattle? Toronto? Guess so. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Unionize It, Say California Medical Marijuana Workers

    ​Medical marijuana workers affiliated with a pot-business school Oaksterdam University, which has a Los Angeles outpost, and employees at several other Bay Area-based cannabis businesses have voted to join the UFCW Local 5. It appears to be a first for California's medical marijuana industry. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    MP3 Exclusive: Pollyn Covers 'Tom's Diner,' Plays Spaceland with Freddie Gibbs

    Pollyn on Pollyn​We're a little biased, but we've got to give it up to LA Weekly contributor Jeff Weiss. On Saturday night, Spaceland will play host to the second Passion of the Weiss event, and like the first, it's a hugely diverse night full of great music. This time around, former Weekly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    San Francisco Airport Takes Racially Tinged Swipe At LAX

    An image from SFO's video.​A video marketing the advantages of flying into San Francisco International Airport from Australia and New Zealand seems to take a racially charged swipe at Los Angeles International Airport, which is the only other direct California destination from those nations. ( ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    February 26, 2010

    Locals Only

    Changing the System From Within

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    SF Edition: INCHES reviews Lazer Sword, Tempo No Tempo, Themselves, Young Prisms (MP3)

    In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Reefer Gladness: Pot Spot Touts Tax Benefits

    Today in Los Angeles and elsewhere, the Marijuana Policy Project rolls out a new TV ad aimed at persuading state legislators to legalize pot in order to reap the rewards of windfall sales taxes that would presumably accrue from above-board marijuana sales. The 30-second spot features what MPP calls ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    March 13, 2008

    Getty Curator Glenn Phillips on the "California Video" Show

    Playing with the camera

  • Eat+Drink

    June 14, 2007

    Beyond Kebabs

    Where to find Afghan haute cuisine

  • Stage

    March 23, 2006

    Town Without Pity

    A Deep South in the East Bay

  • Eat+Drink

    January 12, 2006

    Ask Mr. Gold

    A Deep South in the East Bay

  • Stage

    May 19, 2005

    The Scum Always Rises

    Bertolt Brecht returns to Los Angeles

  • News

    June 12, 2003

    A New Deck

    Recall talk forces Gray to make nice with Indian casinos

  • News

    December 12, 2002

    Death and Life

    A TV reporter’s encounters at a murder scene

  • News

    November 4, 1999

    Heavy Breathing

    Air police are failing to inspect the fancy vapor-recovery nozzles at your local gas station

  • Stage

    June 25, 1998

    The Prisoner of El Centro Avenue

    The rise and stall of playwright Justin Tanner

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