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2012 Stories by Tamara Palmer

• David Miles Jr. Benefit: Show Preview

  published February 22, 2012

  David Miles Jr. has been San Francisco's most ardent advocate for roller skating in three decades, leading the city's Midnight Rollers... More >>

• Mardi Gras in S.F.: Free Concert, a Fat Tuesday Parade, and the Mardi Gras Ball at Mezzanine

  published Feb 17, 2012

  Next Tuesday, Feb. 21, is Fat Tuesday -- the true Mardi Gras, if you're feeling tres Francais -- and San Francisco will be marking the big day with events to get people up and on their feet. Most will... More >>

• Chestnut Bakery's Cookie for Indecisive Eaters

  published Feb 16, 2012

  The focus at Chestnut Bakery in Cow Hollow is largely on breakfast pastries, breads, and cakes (including cute mini ones decorated with polka dots). When it comes to cookies, though, the limited selec... More >>

• House Music and Awkward San Francisco Jokes: AM/TM's "Who's Afraid of Monty Luker"

  published Feb 15, 2012

  Recording together as AM/TM, S.F. house producers Anthony Mansfield and Tal M. Klein reference a funky bunch that includes Bob Villa, Ecstasy, Maury Povich, Lower Haight staples like Rosamunde Sausage... More >>

• Paul Simon Will Headline This Year's Black and White Ball

  published Feb 14, 2012

  Paul Simon is the marquee name leading the 2012 Black and White Ball at Davies Symphony Hall on June 2. Whether he'll perform career-spanning hits, selections from his recent Songwriter album, or both... More >>

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  A Nutritious Cookie That Is Actually Awesome

  published Feb 10, 2012

  The "health" corner of the cookie market is dominated by offerings that make better paperweights than desserts. Your voracious Cook E. Monster has wasted unconscionable amounts of pocket change findin... More >>

• Local Rap Video Roundup: Too $hort Clowns around with Wallpaper. and More

  published Feb 10, 2012

  Too $hort is firing off a battery of new videos to support his forthcoming No Trespassing album. The first, "Money On The Floor" (with E-40) revisits a familiar booty-shaking theme (albeit with stunni... More >>

• The Interrupters and More Free Films Screening at Oakland City Hall This Month

  published Feb 10, 2012

  Oakland City Hall's Black History Film Series continues tonight with The Interrupters, a 2011 documentary about a few brave individuals' hardcore efforts to curb inner city violence. Though it was sho... More >>

• Mighty Plans Benefit for David Miles, San Francisco's Godfather of Roller Skating

  published Feb 07, 2012

  David Miles, Jr. has been San Francisco's leading ambassador of roller skating for more than 30 years. Nicknamed the Godfather of Skating, the founder of the California Outdoor Rollerskating Associati... More >>

• Fresh Eats: Ramona Bar: Double Dutch Sweets Out-Snickers Mars

  published February 8, 2012

  Buoyed by the lessons from a free class on starting a business at San Francisco's Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, and a loan from Youth... More >>

• An Intergenerational Cookie of Success

  published Feb 02, 2012

  Edna's Success of Mountain View bakes from recipes that have been in the family for three generations, all the way back from when company muse Edna Hickman baked for her own Montana eatery. (With its ... More >>

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  Oakland Candymaker Double Dutch Sweets Out-Satisfies Snickers

  published Feb 02, 2012

  Buoyed by the lessons learned in a free class on starting a business at San Francisco's Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center and a loan from Youth Business America, Shiyuan Deng started Double Dutch S... More >>

• The Mexican Museum Breaks New Ground in 2013

  published Feb 01, 2012

  Next year will be groundbreaking for the Mexican Museum in more ways than one. In 2013, construction begins on a new 40,000-square-foot facility on the ground floor of 706 Mission, a residential buil... More >>

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  Dmitri SFC: Circuit-Bending the Limits of House Music

  published Feb 01, 2012

  A few years back, Dmitri SFC's studio had been robbed, his girlfriend of seven years had left him, and he was depressed. "I needed more gear to make music again for my own sanity," says the DJ, produ... More >>

• SF Sketchfest: Kevin Smith Regales With Tales of "Rectal Adventures" and Care for the Dying

  published Jan 31, 2012

  What's typically billed as a light, stream-of-consciousness rap between two old friends and colleagues strewn with pop culture references took a surprisingly strange focus Sunday night that made us ... More >>

• Fillmore Bakeshop's Macarons Might Break Your Face

  published Jan 27, 2012

  The dainty image of the macaron is destroyed by the colorful takes on the French cookie at Fillmore Bakeshop, run by the daughter-father duo of Elena Basegio-Carpenter and Doug Basegio. Larger and he... More >>

• The Art of Macworld

  published Jan 27, 2012

  Rick Alonzo's live painting of Steve Jobs was one of the only tributes that we saw at yesterday's opening day of Macworld | iWorld, just a hint of the global creativity that the late thinker helped to... More >>

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  Silent Dancing and $68,000 Sound Systems: The Music of Macworld

  published Jan 27, 2012

  There were more curious wallflowers than hula-hooping dancers yesterday as the wireless headphones-assisted dance party Silent Frisco took over the second floor of the Macworld conference. (It continu... More >>

• Soul Cocina Returns to La Victoria for One Night

  published Jan 26, 2012

  Until moving to Chicago last year, chef Roger Feely of Soul Cocina enlivened San Francisco palates with his world-wise cooking and helped to unite a community of small-scale food carts, eaters, and mu... More >>

• Andy Warhol's Polaroids Capture the Famous, Infamous, and Obscure

  published Jan 26, 2012

  Forty rare Polaroid photographs from Andy Warhol will be on display starting Friday (Jan. 27) at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Taken between 1970 and 1987 on an Big Shot camera... More >>

• SF Sketchfest: Cast Reunion (and Radio Play) for Cult Comedy Wet Hot American Summer

  published Jan 24, 2012

  In 2001's Wet Hot American Summer -- a raucous send-up of 1980s summer-camp movies -- the counselors vow to meet up 10 years later in 1991, when they'll all be in their late 20s, to see how they've fa... More >>

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  Meet Mikado, San Francisco's Most Gigantic Wafer Cookie

  published Jan 19, 2012

  The Mikado wafer is the most bizarre-looking cookie at Cinderella Russian Bakery & Cafe, a Richmond District staple since 1953. It stands out from the fruit hamantaschen, powdered sugar-dusted hon... More >>

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  San Francisco's Top 10 Cupcake Spots

  published Jan 17, 2012

  In a fickle landscape for food businesses, many cupcake shops have opened in recent years in San Francisco -- and, happily, they continue to stick around. While not every innovation regarding the des... More >>

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  Saturday: Devo Invokes Sid Vicious and Incites a Mosh Pit at the Fillmore

  published Jan 17, 2012

  Devo Jan. 14, 2012 The Fillmore Better than: Bands that try to cash in on '80s nostalgia without keeping up their chops. Watching concerts from bands that were popular in the '80s can be really depr... More >>

• Watch: S.F.'s LoveRance and 50 Cent Smack Invisible Booties in 'Up!'

  published Jan 13, 2012

  The most played local song on KMEL in the past year is "Up," an ode to licking and sticking girls by San Francisco's LoveRance that is consistent with a growing national trend of rappers declaring tha... More >>