We somehow missed this, or more like didn't care, but Charles Barkley has now become Public Enemy #1 here in the Bay Area. This is because during the NBA Playoffs, Barkley has said a number of bad, bad things about the area. Among other things, he's said this about the Bay Area: "It's the dumping ground of people who can't afford to live in L.A." And this: "You know, we should take the show on the road. For the next game, we should go to hell - I mean, go to Golden State." And then there's this: "I would rather stay on Alcatraz than San Francisco or Oakland.'' He also talked trash about Sausalito . Sausalito! ...

If you were wondering where your yummy, delicious breakfast treats were at Starbucks this morning the answer is that Starbucks is no longer serving them. Now that trans fats have become Public Enemy #1 in the battle against obesity and heart disease, Starbucks has decided to fight the good fight and stop selling them. Starting today, any sort of muffin, doughnut or what have you that has trans fat will no longer be served. ...

Breaking the law, breaking the law We -ist folks love us some crime, and no misdemeanor is too petty for a post on any of our sites. This week, join us for a rogues' gallery of miscreants major, minor, and alleged. Gothamist gets us started with "Law & Order", muppet style. Oh, you know what isn't a crime? Taking pictures on the MTA. So, why are cops stopping photographers? In other Gotham crime, a......

This week, you'll find some sex and some government, but no Clinton, alas....

The Prairie War raging in baseball between the Statheads and the Seamheads leaped into the world of football over the weekend as the Chron's Ira Miller and Ray Ratto tag-teamed the SF Weekly over it’s cover suck up on the Niners' Billy Beane Wannabe, Paraag Marathe. Marathe is the Niners' Director of Football Operations and would be Public Enemy #1 to Niner fans if it weren't for the fact John York got that well-deserved assignment years ago. ...

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We're on a lighter posting schedule today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. -- we hope you have the day off to spend at a number of Bay Area celebrations scheduled for today. (If you don't get the day off, spend all day playing Public Enemy really, really loud). In San Francisco, the MLK parade will begin at 11:30 at the Fourth and King Street when the "Freedom Train" pulls into the Caltrain station, and goes up Third Street, down Market, and ends at Civic Center Plaza. Starting at 12:30, Representative Barbara Lee will speak, and local American Idol finalist LaToya London will perform. Dr. King advocated racial justice, most famously in his I Have A Dream speech in 1963, and was assassinated in Memphis in 1968. Keep the dream alive. ...

Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, again with the weekly column! Ayyyeeeeeesh! Once again back is the incredible, the rhyme animal, the untypeable E, public enemy number one. This week the Essefficist returns with a question from the inimitable Windy C, political junky, one-time music empress, vicious card shark, and fashionista extraordinaire: Question for the Essefficist -- now that we've got the big blue bins from Sunset Scavenger, I want to know how do they sort out the......

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Travel down memory lane to those days of yore when rap music could seriously be considered the "black CNN" and wearing a huge clock as a necklace was a fashion statement. Chuck D takes a break from "Air America" and Flava Flav takes a break from filming "Surreal Life 3" as they and the rest of the mighty Public Enemy brings tha noize for a show on September 3 at the Fillmore. If this event is as any good as one EssEffist saw way back in the day, it should be quite a show indeed (Humpty Hump of the Digital Underground stood right in front of us!). It's hard to remember what it was like back then through our misty-colored "I Love the 80's" eyes, but there was a time when PE was the mightiest musical force that roamed the earth--a barrage of noise, beats, and incendiary lyrics that still pisses people off today. PE was the logical inheritor of the Clash's title as "The Only Band that Matters," and considering the times we live in, we need them now more than ever. Lemme Hear you Say Fight the Power....