By Meredith BrodyIt's that time of the year again, the time we make lists of the best movies, books, meals of the past twelve months - even though, in this Annus pretty much Horribilis, to quote Queen Elizabeth for pretty much the first time in my life, you might not be so much in the mood for looking back and taking stock (awful word, it occurs to me in this context).But it's a journalistic imperative, and I enjoy reading lists of any and all kinds (what are menus, after all, but a type of list
A paradise with no shortage of trouble.One of the more renowned institutions of Bay Area journalism is to be found slightly more than hour's drive north of San Francisco, in the coastal cow town of Point Reyes Station. It's there that The Point Reyes Light has for decades brought the roughly 14,000 residents of West Marin's sprawling ranchlands their news. In 1979, under former Editor and Publisher David Mitchell, the weekly was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service for its i
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Freak Out: Devendra BanhartGreen Day isn't the only top-shelf artist doing a mini-tour of multiple Bay Area locales; freak-folk avatar Devendra Banhart--who has reportedly been holed up in Bolinas recording his new album--pops into the Independent on Tuesday and Yoshi's on Thursday, presumably to preview selections from the new record. Tuesday's show is already sold out, though, and we're betting tix for Thursday's intimate performance (which went on sale today at 10
A course that explains how to celebrate and dispose of a dead loved one at home seems creepy. And then interesting. And then as natural as death itself.
Jennifer SauerChef Jeremy FoxThe James Beard Awards (popularly known as the Oscars of the
food world) will be awarded Monday, May 4. This year all five chefs nominated
for the category of Best Chef: Pacific - an area that covers California and
Hawaii -- come from the Bay Area: Jeremy Fox of Ubuntu in Napa, Douglas Keane
of Cyrus in Healdsburg, Loretta Keller of Coco500 in San Francisco, David
Kinch of Manresa in Los Gatos, and Daniel Patterson of Coi in San Francisco.
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Peko-Peko's kakuni, made with pork from Marin Sun FarmsEven in this town, many of us know Japanese food as monster maki, fast-food ramen, and greasy tonkatsu cutlets. Sylvan Brackett wants to change that. The former assistant to Alice Waters is making bento boxes combining authentic Japanese technique and Slow Food sourcing. Make that Sylvan Mishima Brackett. The 33-year-old wants you to know he has a Japanese mom, grew up in a Japanese-style house, and spent two years cooking in Japan.
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Cobalt123/FlickrGruesome thought, isn't it?It's that delicious moment when San Francisco summer starts for real. Who can think about Thanksgiving, with its scramble for pies, its making-nice-with-your-brother-the-Christian, its turkey, for chrissake.
But this is the very moment to start thinking turkey, or else risk wrestling a frozen ball of industrial quick-grow flesh Thanksgiving morning (no, you can't thaw it in the microwave).
It so happens Marin Sun Farms and BN Ranch are offerin
Lauren Dukoff​Devendra Banhart was holed up in the bohemian beach town of Bolinas for the summer, making his next record with Paul Butler of Band Of Bees (now just called The Bees).They took up residence in a private home and set to work on What Will We Be, an album that includes producer Noah Georgeson, Greg Rogove of Priestbird, Luckey Remington of the Pleased, and Rodrigo Amarante of Little Joy. The upcoming release is said to be a mellow affair, dotted with references to R&B, Latin mus
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