Emeryville

Beau Rasmussen, East Bay Man, Goes Missing After Bay to Breakers Race

Friends and family of 27-year-old Beau Rasmussen continued their search this morning for the Emeryville man who disappeared on Sunday after running the Bay to Breakers race. His friends tell KTVU that they suspect he might have gone for a swim at Ocean Beach after the race since they found his clo ... More >>

"Melting Away": Camille Seaman Documents a Changing World

Nick's Pizza Starts Tossing Pies in Oakland Today

Nick's Pizza: Made in Oakland opens today in Chef Nick Yapor-Cox's hometown. Yapor-Cox dubbed his sourdough and seasonally inspired pies "Oakland Style" to describe the local and sustainable ingredients that distinguish his pizzas. Yapor-Cox says it was the Meyer lemons and a longing for real sour ... More >>

Stag Dining Group: An Above-Ground Series of Clandestine Dinners

Black Friday: Occupiers Join Indigenous People to Protest Mall on Burial Grounds

​The Occupy movement is all about raising consciousness of the dark colonial underpinnings of Thanksgiving. Yesterday morning, Occupiers were up before dawn to broadcast the Indigenous People Sunrise Ceremony on Alcatraz Island at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland -- to remember that the real Thanksgiv ... More >>

Gay Pets? S.F. Dog Owners Debate Animals' Orientations

Bites on Broadway: Friday Food Pod Launches June 10 at Oakland Tech

Oakland Technical High SchoolMobile vendors (many of them part of a new collective) plan to set up Friday nights in front of Oakland Tech in Temescal.​Oakland was a haven for food trucks long before Korean short ribs met the tortilla. And though ― outside Fruitvale ― the city's mobile vend ... More >>

Objections to Doc's of the Bay Just the Start of Pushback Against Food Trucks

John BirdsallDoc's of the Bay rolled up for lunch in Emeryville Tuesday. Will it get the chance to do the same in S.F.?​Last week, Haighteration blog's Andrew Dudley opened the window onto a brewing battle mounted by some Divis neighbors to keep startup burger truck Doc's of the Bay from obtai ... More >>

S.F. Rising: Greenlee's Cinnamon Bread vs. Semifreddi's

Jonathan KauffmanSemifreddi's cinnamon bread, $3.79 at Good Life in Bernal Heights.​ A weekly survey of bread in San Francisco ― the baked and the fried, the artisan and the novelty.Packaged cinnamon bread isn't exactly the type of thing you'd expect to see in most natural-foods stores, but two ... More >>

Critical Anti-Mass: Law-Abiding SFBikeParty Launches Despite Cold Snap

Bring warm gloves.​It's chilly outside, but it isn't cold enough to stop San Francisco Bike Party from launching a new monthly ride known as the law-abiding, hard-partying alternative to Critical Mass."Bring it on," said Amandeep Jawa, part of a self-described co-op of cyclists behind tonight's r ... More >>

Coco Délice Chocolate Classes Divulge All. Sort Of

cocodelice.comCoco Délice's Dennis Kearney.​Candy-making Coco Délice owner Dennis Kearney now teaches a confectionery course, a nearly three-hour class covering tempering and molding chocolates as well as making and flavoring ganache fillings. Students will leave with a ganache recipe that c ... More >>

T.G.I. Frisco: San Francisco's Dearth of Chain Restaurants

Kevin Y./YelpOkay, so we do have an Olive Garden out near S.F. State.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Yesterday at LA Weekly's Squid Ink, SFoodie's sister food blog with the WTF name, editor Amy Scattergood passed along a list from Nation's Restaurant News of America's 15 favorite casual- ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Matt Cohen says starting a food truck isn't easy

How Much Does San Francisco Charge Food Trucks? We Asked SF Cart Project's Matt Cohen

Chris MacArthur/SF WeeklyHapa SF's William Pilz at a recent Off the Grid street-food event.​ We at SFoodie like to talk up how it's the summer of food trucks, and in this week's review, I surveyed seven of the newcomers. Common wisdom about food trucks is that they offer budding restaurateurs a ch ... More >>

Jon's Street Eats Seeks Investors for Oakland Restaurant

Tamara PalmerJon Kosorek wants to put down roots.​Jon Kosorek launched Jon's Street Eats last summer, hoping to get enough exposure with the food cart that he could eventually find investors for a restaurant. Now that he has a few Oakland brick-and-mortar spots in mind, and one in particular t ... More >>

Chairman Bao is Already Controversial, But is it Worth Fighting Over?

Tamara PalmerBaked bao with Chinese spiced duck confit and mango salad.​Chairman Bao launched just yesterday and is already embroiled in controversy, but that didn't stop us from crossing the (invisible) picket line today as it parked for its second day of operation in front of Economy Restaur ... More >>

Argentine Asador Primo's Parilla Fires Up Grill in Emeryville

Primo's ParillaNice grill: Javier Sandes and his mobile barbecue.​Emeryville added another mobile food vendor to its growing fleet today with the rollout of Argentine grill Primo's Parilla. Argentina-born Javier Sandes grills what his press release calls "free-range chicken and grass fed tri-t ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A w/ DJ D Sharp (Lyrics Born, Lauryn Hill, Quannum)

​DJ D Sharp can hang with the big names--spinning at Dwayne Wade's birthday party, or as part of Kanye West's and Lauryn Hill's performances. But when he's not keeping the celebs happy at home or touring the world, he also holds down residencies on both sides of the Bay four nights a week, and tha ... More >>

Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ The Genie

​SF native The Genie spent three years in the subways of Montreal creating his "scratch guitar" style before bringing it back to SF to perfect it. Working with nothing but a couple of loop pedals, a guitar, and occasionally an iPod, Genie makes a hybrid of original music and covers. He produces l ... More >>

Hot Meal: Liba Falafel Truck

The falafel sandwich: A handheld mezze platter.​Today marked the San Francisco debut for Liba, Gail Lillian's taco truck turned falafel wagon, splashed with tendril-y design elements and an electric honeydew-green color scheme. Its location: a strip-like lot skirting an old loading dock at 155 ... More >>

City's Mourned Korean Taco Truck is Back, Sort Of

A pre-exile Yoon and her truck in 2007.​The good news? Korean taco truck Seoul on Wheels plans to start doing business again early next week. The sucky news for San Franciscans? It'll be dishing out its rice bowls and kimchi fried rice in Emeryville. But take heart -- Seoul on Wheels owner Jul ... More >>

Wine & Beer Events, April 3-11

Saturday's all about the East Bay.

2nd Annual East Bay Wine Trail, April 4

A one-day, 15-mile tour of almost all the East Bay's wineries.

Scarily Good Local Halloween Confections

Local label loses artist in van accident

iPhoney iDol?

SF Weekly iTeam investigates: Atheist best-sellers and Steve Jobsism

Bewiched

A top chef expands his brand, and we follow

Finders, Tweakers!

Presenting the Love Week Scavenger Hunt: because ravers aren't already stimulated enough

Onward, Christian Lawyers

Why lawsuits filed by anti-abortion activists may be a blessing in disguise for the California stem cell institute

Tiki Tired

The new edition of Trader Vic's misses the boat

American Dreams

The world's oldest event dedicated to Native American cinema

Jackpot

How four tiny Indian tribes, with help from powerful gambling interests, are trying to transform the Bay Area into a slot machine Mecca

BeatBox

Buck 65 is not a rapper, or is he? MCs Azeem and Nac One pull a double CD-release.

Slides Rule

At a gathering of the Oughtred Society, the reckoning may be dead or logarithmic, but the conversation is always right on the mark

sex, lies, & videotape

Veering off into madness with first-time moviemakers David Owen and Paul Stephen

My Favorite Year

It's easy to be positive about the upcoming year in local film

Boom Bip

Seed to Sum (Lex)

Letters to the Editor

Week of April 10, 2002

Rethinking Techno

Emeryville's Emanate Records wants to be known -- but not necessarily famous -- for producing intelligent electronic dance music

The Man Who Came to Dinner

House of Tudor

Give Me Moa!

The House of Tudor

Letters

Slap Shots

1997 Film Fest Calendar

SF Weekly Picks

Samples

Reel World