Alameda

Jello Shots, Cut-Off T-Shirts, and Rushing the Stage: What Happens When 89 Cougars Go To a Def Leppard Concert in Concord

By ELIZABETH GARONE Full disclosure. Growing up in the '80s, I was not a big Def Leppard fan and never even considered going to one of their concerts. But two-and-a-half decades later came the irresistible bait: the ticket plus a pre-party at a gorgeous Alameda home with alcohol and catered food ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Drink: Wild Spirits: Small-Batch Bay Area Distillers Take Big Risks

Chef Battle with an Italian Spin

Battle of the Chefs When: March 19, 6:30 p.m. Where: The San Francisco Italian Athletic Club (1630 Stockton at Union) Cost: $60 The Rundown: Three chefs will take to the kitchen to chop, stir, and cook their way towards victory. The twist to this chef battle hinges on geographic regions of Italy ... More >>

Non-Gross Raw Food Classes, Vegan Deep-Dish in Alameda, and Vegan Bodybuilders!

​• Vegan bodybuilders featured in the New York Times. They're huge and scary and fairly-awesome. Proof that you can get yoked without the yolks. HA! Also, where's my article? I'm proof that you can get hella chubs and adorable without animal protein. WHERE'S MY PARADE, HUH? Oh well, at least I'v ... More >>

Julie's Coffee & Tea Garden in Alameda is a Reason to Cross Two Bridges

​Although Alameda is almost literally smack dab in the middle of the San Francisco Bay Area, it's always been somewhat of a culinary wasteland*. However, lately there's a sea of promising restaurants opening, and some of the old classics are kicking it up a notch. One is Julie's Coffee and Tea ... More >>

Delicious Charity Bakesales, Ellen & Portia To Open Veg Eatery, and Vegan Halloween! Spooky!

​• It's Halloween on Monday! Which is a whack day for Halloween but I have no control over that, so take it up with God if you're so upset. Since the most holy day of the year for children and slutras is upon us, that means you should stock up on non-shitty candies at Rock Candy Snack Shop, bust ... More >>

The Cost of a Funeral

Albert Law​Huge red ladder trucks from Alameda were parked along the Embarcadero this morning, and it wasn't difficult to figure out why. It's traditional that firefighters come from miles away to parade their apparatus at funerals. It's also traditional for them to park in front of churches a ... More >>

You Know You Love it: 7 Best Chain Restaurants in S.F. Bay Area

We love fancy food as much as the next San Francisco asshole, but there are times when we just wants an enormous plate of mediocre slop. Every now and then we need to walk into a place that looks the same in S.F. as it does in Des Moines, and we need to order 52 plates of mozzarella sticks and a sma ... More >>

San Francycle: Did David Chiu Drive on Bike to Work Day?

​Wasn't Bike to Work day fabulous this year? We certainly saw a lot more cyclists out than usual, and we hope to see them out again on the remaining 364 days until next year. Let's do a quick roundup of the best of the bikes. According to the Chron, the mayor and "almost every member of the Bo ... More >>

Marvin Kent Hockabout's Ashes May Have Been Found -- Finally

The green backpak is still missing ​SF Weekly readers might recall the  incident last month when an Alameda man's ashes were stolen from a church as his family prepared for his memorial service. Now Hockabout, 74, can rest in peace -- finally. Media outlets are reporting that his family may h ... More >>

No. 21: Blacksmith Cellars' Chenin Blanc

Lou BustamanteBlacksmith Cellars' chenin blanc: Drink local.​SFoodie's countdown of our 92 favorite things to eat and drink in San Francisco, 2011 edition.Even with the success of Dashe Cellars in industrial Oakland and Sutton Cellars in Dogpatch, it's challenging to hear the words "urban winery" ... More >>

Some of Stolen Man's Ashes Found in Oakland

Now he can truly rest in peace​It's hard to find that silver lining when it comes to the death of a loved one. But one Alameda widow couldn't be happier about holding her deceased husband's ashes. The family of  74-year-old Marvin Kent Hockabout got his ashes back Tuesday after they were stol ... More >>

Man's Ashes Stolen From Church

Losing your loved one is hard enough...but losing their ashes, too?​Police are truly baffled by a weekend incident where a the ashes of a woman's deceased husband were stolen out of the church as the family planned his memorial service. The family was gathered at Christ Episcopal Church in Alameda ... More >>

Chocolate Meets Beer in Richmond

Chocolate and Beer Festival​Second Annual Chocolate and Beer Festival Where: Craneway Pavilion, 1414 Harbour Way, Richmond, 510-735-1133 When: Sat., Feb. 19, 2-6 p.m. Cost: $28 (includes parking, entry, four chocolate tickets, and two beer tickets) The rundown: This sweet spot in SF Beer ... More >>

'Security Guard' Suspected of Bank Robberies in San Francisco, Alameda

​Apparently, he isn't the worst security guard since the Rolling Stones ingeniously opted to hire the Hell's Angels to work Altamont. He's just a crook. It turns out a man who dresses like a security guard is providing anything but at banks in both Alameda and San Francisco. Alameda police say the ... More >>

The Death of Tiki Tom, the Eggs of Radius and the Front Porch

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.The Chronicle follows on the heels of the local TV stations in reporting that a large fire destroyed Tiki Tom's (300 29th Ave., Oakland), located near the bridge between Oakland and ... More >>

Another Classic Bakery Shuts Off the Ovens, Macellato the Sandwich Appears

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.This is a dark week for bakeries. First Patisserie Delanghe closes, and now Paolo L. of Inside Scoop brings word that the 134-year-old Boniere Bakery in Alameda closed after the landlord jack ... More >>

SF Cocktail Week Wraps Up Tonight with Chartreuse-Fueled Karaoke

Lou BustamanteFriday's Happy Hour at Epic Roasthouse featured Camber Lay mixing it up.​Cocktail Week festivities continued full force over the weekend, made better only by the perfect weather. Friday night's Epic Happy Hour provided an ideal venue for enjoying the sun, bay view, bite-sized bur ... More >>

Baylinks: Salmonella, American Apparel, Modern Times Bookstore

hyzercreek.comAre the days of the hipster numbered?​Wi-Fi might take the edge off earthquake disasters [SF Gate]Salmonella scare hits the Bay Area; how to figure out if you have a bad egg [SF Appeal]Evidence of a possible shipwreck floats by Golden Gate Bridge [SF Examiner]

Skool's Star Rises, Luna Taqueria's Dims, Charles Phan Demonstrates His Savvy

​A summary of the past 72 hours of rumor, innuendo, and straight-up facts about San Francisco restaurant openings and closings. Carolyn A. at Eater SF is the first out of the gate to report that Skool (1725 Alameda, at De Haro, 255-8800, www.skoolsf.com) has opened for lunch today from a group of ... More >>

All That Shooting You Hear? Don't Worry About It.

​If you hear loud gunfire noises emanating from across the bay at around lunchtime, worry not. No one is shooting up a church and Vallejo is a long way off. What you may be hearing is a 21-gun salute -- it is President's Day -- by the Coast Guard on Alameda. If the shooting isn't coming from Alame ... More >>

Dutch Crunch: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

J. BirdsallFully accessorized.​Weds., Feb. 10, 2010 Amsterdam's falafel stands proved the spark for Gail Lillian's peripatetic truck, which splits its time between Emeryville and Potrero Flats. Liba's übercrunchy falafel are mostly textural, craggy, brown-crusted bits not much bigger than exp ... More >>

Sohberts, a New Cafe in SOMA, Blends Art and Industrial Design

J. Birdsall​Coffee might be the least impressive thing about Sohberts, a new café in lobbing distance of AT&T Park. Open exactly one week, the soaring coffee place is part gallery, part hang-out hub. Mostly, though, it's a place that seems designed for just sitting back and admiring the space ... More >>

Local Heroes

Pie Truck Home Delivery is as Easy as You-Know-What

vegansaurus.com​Ordering in just got a little more decadent now that the Alameda-based Pie Truck, a newly licensed mobile vendor, recently debuted a weekly home delivery service to San Francisco. The current menu features 10-inch pies in blueberry crumble, apple, pecan, sweet potato, backyard lemo ... More >>

Vendor Update for Eat Real Street Food Fest

​Sampling the Bay Area's burgeoning street-food scene can be delicious but exhausting --combing the Mission, trawling the farmers' markets, tracking down peripatetic vendors via Twitter. Next month's Eat Real Festival will assemble a carefully curated collection of 40 trucks and carts from bot ... More >>

Takin' It to the Streets: The Week in SFoodie

Kevin.The.Great/FlickrVeritcal eating: All street food, all the time. We caught a whiff of Bike Basket Pies, a taste of fiercely homey Pennsylavania-style gobs, and, at last week's Maker Faire geekapalooza, copped a preview of Ritual Roasters' iced coffee bike. And not to be a big old buzzkill or an ... More >>

Drunk Tricyclists, Cardboard Tube Battles, Fillmore Jazz and Rob Riggle: Your Monday Morning Hangover

St. George Spirits/Hangar One Distillery Summer Open House

You'll Die Laughing

SFWeekly's 7-Day Dish

Demo Sale

The party's leaders are putting their lack of ethics on display once again

Air Guitar Regional Championships Tonight!

Dropping the F-Bomb

Women make and take the noise

Anchors Away

Sail around the bay

Beginning, Middle, Dance

Three weeks of mythic storytelling through body movement

Best Shark Diving

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Bouncer

How to respond to a highly expensive, utterly dead night at the Levende Lounge? Go back!

Good Times

Reliving the decade we never had

Switched On

Boats brighten the bay

Eating at the Flea

There are bargains in comestibles as well as collectibles to be had at these Sunday markets

Reps Etc.

Everybody Get Footloose

Dancers run amok in S.F.

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Sandy Land

Castle competition

Global Village

Making the rounds of Fisherman's Wharf bars, you'll meet people from the Philippines, Bulgaria, or even Alameda

Best Big Easy Contact

Zydeco/Cajun Dance