The SFWeekly Week in Pictures 9.14-9.21
By David Downs
Click on the illustration to begin a slideshow of the week in pictures
We had a great week on the SFWeekly.com -- stiletto stabbers struck at Slide, we met the man behind Athletic's Nation, sea otters proved more important that Eleanor Roosevelt.
On the culture front: we talk to Arcade Fire, took pics of High on Fire, and look back at the Treasure Island Music Festival. Check it out. Free tickets and other easter eggs nestled throughout SFWeekly.com. Thanks, David Downs Web Editor, SF Weekly.com
News:
-- Stiletto Stabbers Still At Large After Violence at San Francisco Club Slide
-- Newsom Honors Cult With Its Own Day
-- Newsom’s Resign-O-Rama: Sixteen Reasons it Could Become a Fiasco
-- Athletics Nation: BetterKnowanSFBlog
-- Sea Otters More Important than Roosevelt: SFGovernmentInAction 9.17-21
-- Top Republican Strategist: Great Move, Gav!
-- Boost in Muni Cops Patrolling
Culture:
-- Jay-Z Gets Gangster With Help From Ridley Scott
-- Looking Back at Treasure Island: Best of Pics
-- The Back Tattoos of Treasure Island: Photos
-- Arcade Fire Request Deerhoof Audience Prior to Shoreline Date with LCD Soundsystem
-- MF DOOM Fucks SF, Again!?: WTF Went Down, Bay Area?
-- High On Fire Pictures: Metal Thunder at Amoeba Records
-- Goonies, Kat Von D, Edwin Ushiro: The Best Art Prints on the Web
-- Warhawk, warhawk, and some warhawk: GamerStatus
-- Devendra Banhart at the MOMA
Every day, Chef John from Food Wishes tries to fix our crappy diet with badass recipes. Today, muthufuckin lentils, baby! Woo-hoo, yeah! -d2
You can't stop the Hock!
By Chef John from Food Wishes Video Recipes
This was a viewer request from a while ago for an easy lentil soup recipe. The key ingredient for my version is the smoked, and amazingly delicious, “ham hock.” For those of you not familiar with this piece of pork, here’s what Wikipedia had to say (It’s Friday and I was feeling too lazy to actually explain what a hock was myself).From Wikipedia: “A ham "hock" is the end of a smoked ham where the foot was attached to the hog's leg. It is the portion of the leg that is neither part of the ham proper nor...
Oh the terrible irony. The California Department of Public Health has issued a warning that the 56,000 free lunchboxes they handed out to school kids, promoting them to "Eat Fruits and Vegetables and Be Active," may contain dangerous levels of lead. The lunchboxes were handed out at health fairs and other presumably lead-free events.
On second thought kids, fuck eating fruits and vegetables, just stay away from public health programs.
Now parents whose kids have been using the lunchboxes are being urged to get their kids tested for lead poisoning, which can, you know, damage your brain. It's so good to know that the Department of Public Health is watching out for the kids, isn't it?
Oh, and no surprise here: the lunchboxes were made in China, which has been under intense pressure to clean up its exports ever since toy giant Mattel recalled more than 21 million Chinese-made toys this summer due to concerns about lead.
Lunchbox picture from the California Department Of Public Health
-- Brian Bernbaum
Huge restaurant news. The 2008 Zagat survey results are out, and guess what? Nothing has changed. The top seven restaurants in the Bay Area remain on top, in the exact same order as last year: Gary Danko, Boulevard, Slanted Door, French Laundry, Michael Mina, Aqua and Delfina.
The real story is the shitty service. According to Zagat results, which come from survey responders, Bay Area restaurant service scores a unbelievably low 18 out of 30. Get it together, waiters -- you're making all the hardworking cooks look bad.
Michael Bauer broaches the topic in a recent blog post about the annoying habit of waiters taking plates away before everyone is done eating. He blames it on a lack of training for front-of-the-house staff, but c'mon, we've waited tables, we know the score: waiters are just rushing to get off work so they can go home, hit that bong and count all that sweet, sweet tax-free cash.
Our Lady of Zagat pic by Benzadrine on Flickr
-- Brian Bernbaum
Zap Mama
Supermoon
(Heads Up)
By Ernest Barteldes
Multicultural music is what you get with Congolese-born, Belgium-raised singer Marie Daulne, best-known as the founder and frontwoman of the eclectic band Zap Mama. The music that the all-female-based band cranks out draws from various influences without sticking to a single genre. They've been that way for years, and their latest album, Supermoon, carries this tradition even further. For instance, on "Toma Taboo," she borrows elements from Brazilian '70s funk and other global sounds, emerging with a tune that thumps in uniquely Zap Mama fashion. On "Hey Brotha," she incorporates reggae and electronic grooves into a playful ditty on the nature of friendship. For the album's title track, the band gets funky, blending folk-rock and soul elements into a song with a catchy beat that gets the listener moving immediately. It's no wonder she incorporates this into her live sets as well. For a disc with so much musical exploration, some duds are likely to surface. "Affection," which has Daulne's multilayered vocals set over a percussive track, fails to excite; the same goes for "Go Boy," which suffers from a lack of focus in a jazz-meets-Africana arrangement, though it features fine work by guest pianist Leon Pendarvis. The weak moments don't mar the experience as a whole, though. Just a spin of the mellow "Where Are You?" is worth a download at least, and the intriguingly complex "Moonray" will keep you coming back for more.
