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Bouncer Seeks Absolution at Locanda

Truck Stop Cafe Tonight Features One of Most Popular Death Row Meals: Fried Chicken

Jake Godby of Humphry Slocombe has been doing Truck Stop Cafe for a while, a semi-monthly pop-up at Mission gay bar Truck where he serves the "Last Meal Blue-Plate Specials" -- the final request of death row prisoners. Tonight the spotlight's on the Lonely Hearts Killer Martha Beck, whose last meal ... More >>

5 Edibles for a Blissed-Out Dolores Park Picnic

As every longtime San Franciscan knows, the pattern of warm weather that occurs in early fall, known as Indian summer, is the perfect time of year for picnics in the city. This weekend promises 2012's first real taste of autumnal awesome, and for scores of city dwellers, Saturday's projected 80-degr ... More >>

Skrillex Pal Dillon Francis Thinks Doritos Tacos Are "Greatest Thing Ever Created," Hasn't Had Real S.F. Mexican Food

Dillion Francis is setting his lofty stall out to become the DJ world's most renowned taco activist. Signed to Skrillex's OWSLA label, Francis recently embraced his love of a certain brand of taco by launching the Free Taco (DJ Awareness) movement. So far, this high political endeavor has seen him g ... More >>

Sandwich Innovation: S.F. Chefs Create Single-Plate Artistry

After 75 Years, Tapatio Tequila Finally Arrives

Talk about late bloomers. Tapatio* Tequila ($33/one liter bottle, 40% alcohol by volume), a new spirit hitting shelves in the US, is a 75-year old brand that is popular in Mexico for having a balance of flavor, quality, and value. Produced at La Alteña (NOM 1139) in the highlands of Jalisco with 1 ... More >>

How Taco Bell, Now 50, Changed America

​You may pledge allegiance to your favorite lonchera and swear that you'd never eat Taco Bell's new Doritos Locos Taco, but if your grandparents weren't born in Guerrero or Sinaloa, your love for la comida auténtica is due, in part, to Glen Bell Jr. That's what Gustavo Arellano, au ... More >>

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

Finding the Yay Area: Local Artists Pull a Few Surprises at South by Southwest

The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012

The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Saturday 3/17/2012

So, we come to it: the end of all things. Four days of madness, Doritos, Skrillex and finally, St. Patrick's Day. Before we bid SXSW 2012 farewell, allow us to share our favorite moments from SXSW day four. Later, we'll let you know which shows weren't so hot. Find our favorites below, and if there ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Friday 3/16/2012

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the chaos, Village Voice Media's roving music editors have selected t ... 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 >>

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 >>

Best Practices for Getting Out of Berkeley Bowl Alive

​Berkeley Bowl. You hear its siren song, beckoning you, telling of a grocery store built from your dreams. Aisles packed with fair-trade cocoa, bulk bins overflowing with every type of spelt pretzel, and a produce section that'll make you slap your mama. It truly is a paradise, but as Sartre so fa ... More >>

Oh, Those Sassy Junk Food Pairings

The challenge of pairing with Hostess Snoballs: Spatlese riesling or junmai sake?​Earlier this week, Food & Wine magazine's Ray Isle put up a blog post making wine pairing recommendations for junk food. Now, Champagne with potato chips SFoodie has heard of, but we've never been asked, nor woul ... More >>

Vegan Doritos (!!!), Bakesales Galore, and Fish Use Tools!

​ Scott Gardner/National GeographicA blackspot tuskfish prepares to use a rock to get to its dinner​• National Geographic has a series of pictures of a fish using tools because fish are so much smarter than people want to think they are so they can feel fine eating them. Well, they're a ... More >>

Apps Food Trucks Love, Coffee's Strange New Bug-Fighting Properties

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Food Truck Technology. Mashable has a post up about apps that food trucks and popups are using. The programs, most of which work on smart phones of tablets, range from the popular ... More >>

Mobb Deep's Prodigy Has More to Say Online Than in Rhyme

This One's Going Straight to the Bottom

'Madden NFL' Creator Sues Electronic Arts, Says He Is Owed 'Tens of Millions'

​If you're a man under the age of 40, chances are you have considered suing Electronic Arts -- for the hours, days, and years of your life lost to the video-game company's addictive football franchise, Madden NFL. Well, game developer Robin Antonick has his own bone to pick. Antonick, who asserts ... More >>

The Power of Oprah, the Stupidity of 'Meat Week,' and ― Eww ― Vulva Cake!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • So, Oprah's Tuesday episode was dedicated to veganism ― and meat-eating issues in general ― and it's pretty much the only thing vegans could talk about all week. I mean, she IS the big O and so yeah, celebr ... More >>

Getting to the Bottom of Taco Bell's 'Taco Meat'

John BirdsallTaco Bell's Beefy 5-Layer Burrito ($1.39), a sort of paste-within-a-paste.​Taco Bell's getting sued by a California woman pissed that the fast-food chain's beef products contain so little actual meat, they're guilty of false advertising. The L.A. Times explains: The class-action s ... More >>

Best Practices for Being Authentically Slow Food

​But is it local?​Important: Slow food doesn't mean eating Snooki (or anyone else who is "slow" mentally). Besides, that shit is definitely NOT organic. Slow Food is an eating movement that counteracts fast food and fast life, and connects us with the Earth and its Magical Bounty. Basic ... More >>

ILLEGAL from Terry Greene Sterling

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone

On the Road ― to Eat Stuff and Think About It

Chow.comWebber and Anderson.​Our favorite morsel from the Web. Like millions of Americans this weekend, Chow hounds Lessley Anderson and Roxanne Webber are on the road, but not on some pack-the-car-with-Doritos-and-bed-pillows excursion to the lake. No, the Chow.com editorial team is in searc ... More >>

Is Kim Severson Blowing Smoke About the Rise of Stoner Cuisine?

Peter DaSilva/New York TimesThe Ritz-Carlton's Ron Siegel serves quail eggs fumigated with cedar smoke ― from a bong.​When cozy, all-consuming, pipe-induced hunger pangs ripple forth, tokers both midnight and morning favor foods with lively texture, voluminous flavors, and, more often than n ... More >>

Korea Attacks! Korean junk food has established a tasty foothold

House-Made Kimchi from Rhea's Deli Perfect for DIY Korean

Made by the Korean grandmother you wish you had.​Kimchi burgers, kimchi quesadillas, and kimchi fried rice only sound surreal to people who haven't tried them. Speaking as a man with three different types of kimchi in his refrigerator, kimchi works better as a universal condiment than ketchup or s ... More >>

Local Researchers Discover Use for PE Classes

You'll be thanking me for this when you're grown up, kid...​A purpose for elementary school PE classes beyond dodgeball-related trauma and providing employment to sadistic instructors who unironically wear tracksuits was announced this month by researchers at U.C. San Francisco and U.C. Berkeley. ... More >>

SOMA Samba

Take a trip down to Rio for a taste of Carnaval.

"Hunter Gatherer": Jason Villegas at Receiver Gallery

Economic Recession = More Fat People?

Volunteers Wanted: Photograph Your Local Bodega

S.F. Signs of the Apocalypse: Probably Our First of the Year!

The Guitar Has Been Drinking

Home Cooking For Losers: Alice Greenfingers And Cooking Mama

Home Cooking For Losers: Alice Greenfingers And Cooking Mama

What We Talk About When We Talk About Spin

Wine Brats

They're young! They're rich! They'll drink anything!

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Recordings

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World