Bolinas

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Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Bay Citizen, Built on Barely Paid Labor, Runs Story Glorifying Unpaid Labor

Pick that damn arugula , intern!​The Bay Citizen, the nonprofit news organization launched with much fanfare May 26 by local investment banker Warren Hellman, has earned ample flack for its offer to pay $25 per story to local bloggers.But we learned today from the online newspaper that some employ ... More >>

Local Warming: Climate change comes to S.F.

Pick that damn arugula , intern!​The Bay Citizen, the nonprofit news organization launched with much fanfare May 26 by local investment banker Warren Hellman, has earned ample flack for its offer to pay $25 per story to local bloggers.But we learned today from the online newspaper that some employ ... More >>

New Devendra Record, Made in Bolinas, Out Soonish

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 Geo ... More >>

Don't Kill Us for Saying, But Now's the Time to Order Your Thanksgiving Turkey

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 thin ... More >>

Good Times Roll

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 thin ... More >>

If you go:

Cross the Golden Gate Bridge, exit Highway 1/Shoreline Highway, and head north. Don't forget to pack a book.

A literary road trip up the Mendonoma coast

Cross the Golden Gate Bridge, exit Highway 1/Shoreline Highway, and head north. Don't forget to pack a book.

Former Alice Waters Assistant Turning His Hand to Bento Boxes with a Drop-Dead Sensibility

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 techniq ... More >>

Bay Area Chefs Up For Beard Awards: A Remarkably Collegial Bunch

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 i ... More >>

Devendra Banhart Plays Yoshi's, the Independent this Week

ChrisBuck.com 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  o ... More >>

The Outsider In Crowd

ChrisBuck.com 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  o ... More >>

Ceasefire Talks Collapse in Point Reyes Press War

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 ... More >>

Top Ten Food Trends Time

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 looki ... More >>

Summer's Mini-Festivals/Road Trips

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 looki ... More >>

Hiya's Blahg -- Penelope Houston, Make-Out Room, Ian Fays, The Pale Green Girl, Jeffrey Manson, QNA Royale and Marijuana Mafia

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 looki ... More >>

It Will Keep Shining

After years of self-sacrifice, legendary newspaper editor Dave Mitchell sells his beloved Point Reyes Light

Urban Surfer, Urban One

Damn good surfing, 20 minutes from home. Or less.

Bohemian Rhapsody

If Brightblack weren't a trio of big, lovable hippies, it'd probably be huge by now

Festivals and Fairs

If Brightblack weren't a trio of big, lovable hippies, it'd probably be huge by now

Holiday Guide

If Brightblack weren't a trio of big, lovable hippies, it'd probably be huge by now

Magic Markings

Accident and surprise in the work of Arthur Okamura

"Savage Eye"

Accident and surprise in the work of Arthur Okamura

If You Knew Sushi

The freshest and most unusual fish is the draw at the eccentric Midori Mushi

From Smog to Fog

Our new critic returns to the city that nourished her

A Tomb of One's Own

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.

Not Your Mother's Peace Movement

Major anti-war groups change strategy, hoping to win over mainstream voters the Bush administration can't ignore

Letters to the Editor

More on Maher; Striking Back; Assertive. Opinionated. We Bet You're an Aries.; Editor's Note

Home Is Where You Hang

Virgil Shaw and Yuji Oniki inject new life into the singer/songwriter genre by writing about places they've been

Projective Verse

The poetry of Robert Creeley

Riff Raff

The poetry of Robert Creeley

Retouching Evil

Using detailed instructions from Orson Welles, film editor and sound designer Walter Murch has remade "the best B-movie ever" -- Welles' Touch of Evil

Night Crawler

Using detailed instructions from Orson Welles, film editor and sound designer Walter Murch has remade "the best B-movie ever" -- Welles' Touch of Evil

Esprit de Court

How Susie Tompkins Buell built, wrecked, and sued San Francisco's legendary Esprit de Corp. clothing company, and why she still gets to sit next to President Clinton

Night+Day

How Susie Tompkins Buell built, wrecked, and sued San Francisco's legendary Esprit de Corp. clothing company, and why she still gets to sit next to President Clinton

The Envelope Please ...

How Susie Tompkins Buell built, wrecked, and sued San Francisco's legendary Esprit de Corp. clothing company, and why she still gets to sit next to President Clinton

Dish

How Susie Tompkins Buell built, wrecked, and sued San Francisco's legendary Esprit de Corp. clothing company, and why she still gets to sit next to President Clinton

Letters

How Susie Tompkins Buell built, wrecked, and sued San Francisco's legendary Esprit de Corp. clothing company, and why she still gets to sit next to President Clinton

Aisle Seat

How Susie Tompkins Buell built, wrecked, and sued San Francisco's legendary Esprit de Corp. clothing company, and why she still gets to sit next to President Clinton

Letters

How Susie Tompkins Buell built, wrecked, and sued San Francisco's legendary Esprit de Corp. clothing company, and why she still gets to sit next to President Clinton

Bolinas? Baloney!

The effort of one small town to remain untouched by time has bred enmity and disaffection as surely as it has produced anything else

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

All Talk and No Action

A trio of solo performances shows the degree to which performers can hit -- or miss