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Fatted Calf Has Last-Minute Meat (That's Better Than It Sounds)

All through December, SFoodie is bringing you local gift ideas for the food obsessives in your life. Even after two years of business in San Francisco, Fatted Calf Charcuterie (which began in Napa) still flies under the radar of some of the city's meat lovers. Like its counterparts at Boccalone and ... More >>

Bouncer Finds the Dark Side of Mission Bowling Club

Pink Slime Seems Impossible to Avoid

​Pink slime -- aka "lean finely textured beef," meat salvaged off the carcass through a process of heat, centrifuging, and ammonia-gassing -- is the bugaboo of the day, as impossible to avoid in the media as it apparently is in hamburgers. It's a story that hits most of the sustainable food moveme ... More >>

Zum: An Oakland Avant-Rock Label That Isn't Going to Give Up

Many local labels are offering obscure reissues and innovative new releases on all conceivable formats. Label Sampler is a new column that will profile a different Bay Area record company each week. Name: Zum Record Company Headquarters: Oakland Owner: George Chen Founded: 1997 Creation story: ... More >>

SoMa Food-Truck Pod Breaks Ground This Week

​Carlos Muela may come from a San Francisco restaurant family, but he didn't foresee owning another restaurant in his future. He was more interested in street food. "I'd been to Portland and saw the street-food pods there, and noticed there was nothing like that here. There's Off the Grid, but tho ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Cameron Hughes' Lot 300 Cabernet Sauvignon Is a Delicious Bargain

Cameron Hughes' Lot 300: A $28 Cab That Retailed for North of $100

There's no schadenfreude required in benefiting from the miscalculations of others, or the changing realities of the market, including the wine market. As wine brands and production in California, and worldwide, have exploded, the amount of excess wine at all levels has boomed, too. San Francisco-ba ... More >>

Alexandra Pelosi Talks to SF Weekly About Her New Film Citizen U.S.A

Taylor FriedmanThe other Pelosi's take on immigration​Documentarian Alexandra Pelosi -- yes, that Pelosi -- has doled out heaps of patriotism in her latest film and companion book, Citizen U.S.A.: A 50 State Road Trip. So much so, we imagine former naysayers will go out to buy American flags for t ... More >>

Frozen Street Food Meal Hits Costco

Gary Soup​In his new "not a food blog" Geezericious, local pavement cuisine enthusiast/Chinese food blogger Gary Soup spots the mobile eating trend in play at a local Costco in the form of frozen Korean beef "street tacos." Soup jokes that Korean taco purveyors such as Seoul on Wheels and LA' ... More >>

Safeway Sues Over San Francisco Tobacco Ban

Butt out, Safeway says.​Safeway Inc. has sued San Francisco over a law banning tobacco sales in stores containing pharmacies, claiming that the law gives an unfair advantage to markets that don't sell prescription drugs.The lawsuit calls the tobacco ban "arbitrary and capricious," and "a denial of ... More >>

Out with the Kids: Brunch at Maverick

Alex HochmanMaverick's fried-to-order doughnuts are something both kids and parents can agree on.​The birth of our first daughter 10 years ago meant the death of brunch as we knew it. The thrill of brunch had been predicated on talking about the fun of the night before while eating something t ... More >>

Dumpling Kitchen, a New Contender in the Soup Dumpling Contest

Jonathan KauffmanDumpling Kitchen's xiaolongbao (10 for $6).​You might think the contest the title of this post refers to is about the quality of the xiaolongbao, or Shanghai-style soup dumpling, but the contest is really which foodista can convince rivals that he or she has eaten the best XLB. No ... More >>

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It's Carnaval Weekend. Don't Settle for Meat on a Stick

barbcollishaw/FlickrWhat to avoid: Generic festival booths.​This weekend is Carnaval, the vibrant, skin-baring, two-day dance festival celebrating Latin American and Caribbean traditions. It rolls down a seven-block stretch of Harrison, between 16th and 22nd Streets. trythinking/FlickrLook f ... More >>

Victoria Pastry's Pignoli by the Pound

​Oh, the joys of bulk food: The torrents of brown rice that gush out of the dispensers at Whole Foods. The deep sense of righteousness that comes from hefting a scoop out of a tank of rolled oats and pouring the whole grains into a recycled brown paper sack. The 24-packs of Cheetos from Costco, wh ... More >>

Where Does S.F. Department of Elections Get Those Wonderful Pictures For Voter Pamphlets? Would You Believe -- Flickr?

​Thousands upon thousands of San Franciscans were greeted by Voter Information Pamphlets in their mail boxes this week. And yet -- as always -- the dread of a pending election featuring confusing ballot measures, the oft-bizarre arguments expended for and against them, and a handful of unopposed c ... More >>

Newsom's Cigarette Fee Shows Bad Side of Government -- and Media That Cover It

As we wrote on this page earlier discussing Mayor Gavin Newsom's proposed 33-cents a pack "fee" on cigarettes, "it is possible to be on the side of the angels yet still be disingenuous." So we do not shed a tear for the smoker who feels entitled to complain here -- as the pith-helmeted explorer used ... More >>

IRS Goes After Examiner Owner

The Gay Divorcees

Gay marriage is new. Gay divorce isn't.

The House of Punk-Cakes

Donkey Punch

From Radiohead to the Stooges and Merzbow: The wide world of boxed sets

Stranger in a Strange Land

Kemble Scott's debut novel, SoMa, chronicles the city's seedier side

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

I'll Have the Chicken

After reflecting on the excesses of the past year, we turn to low-cal takeout

Abandoning Control

Three excellent East Bay meals result from the suggestions of others

Free the Forests

Arbor Day art show

Letters to the Editor

Week of April 9, 2003

High Quality

If the city starts growing and selling its own dope, will it be any, uh, good?

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.

Pop Philosophy

I went to Burning Man and all I got was this new lease on life

Don't Let Them Turn Out the Lights

It's time for consumers to take back California

Dog Bites

You Hate Me! You Really Hate Me!; Harry Potter and the Imaginary Suitcase of Cash; Lite Reading

Side Dish

Red Rover, Red Rover; Wine Country Grows in the City; Wick, Wick, Whack; Every Positive Has a Negative

Home for the Holidays

Schroeder's

Night Crawler

Buttheads

A longtime cigar nut examines the sudden crass commercialism of his favorite vice