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Ethiopia

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    James Freeman, Blue Bottle Coffee Founder, Just Wrote the Book on Coffee

    Any good San Franciscan knows how to muse over a cup of coffee. We can't help but remembering fondly the coffee drinkers at Four Barrel who continued sipping obliviously as two burglars used this hipster hotspot as an attempted escape route last November. I've sat in many a coffee shop, eavesdr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    CopperWire: How Jam Sessions in Ethiopia Became a Hip-Hop Space Opera

    CopperWire is a new hip-hop trio featuring S.F. R&B singer and prodigy Meklit Hadero, rapper Gabriel Teodros, and producer-rapper Burntface (government name: Ellias Fullmore). The group comes with its own mythology: Its debut album, Earthbound, tells the story of three renegades in the year 2089 who ... More >>

  • Film

    April 4, 2012

    Arthouse Movie Listings April 4-10, 2012

    CopperWire is a new hip-hop trio featuring S.F. R&B singer and prodigy Meklit Hadero, rapper Gabriel Teodros, and producer-rapper Burntface (government name: Ellias Fullmore). The group comes with its own mythology: Its debut album, Earthbound, tells the story of three renegades in the year 2089 who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Radio Africa & Kitchen: Chef Pops Up in Bayview with a Family-Style Restaurant

    ​ Chef Eskender Aseged made his name hosting pop-ups for the past seven years. Now he's using that expertise to launch his own family-style restaurant in Bayview next week. Aseged's new restaurant, Radio Africa & Kitchen, started in Aseged's home after he moved to San Francisco from Ethiopia ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 8, 2012

    Masterminds 2012: Honoring 10 Extraordinary Bay Area artists

    ​ Chef Eskender Aseged made his name hosting pop-ups for the past seven years. Now he's using that expertise to launch his own family-style restaurant in Bayview next week. Aseged's new restaurant, Radio Africa & Kitchen, started in Aseged's home after he moved to San Francisco from Ethiopia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Illy's Espressamente Cafe Opens Downtown

    Johnny O./YelpThe new downtown Illy Espressamente. ​International coffee powerhouse Illy is stretching its espresso-tinged fingers in to the heavily populated world of San Francisco cafes with Espressamente Illy, a high-end cafe now open at 123 Battery. It is Illy's ninth Esspressamente to ope ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    AfroUrbanites Throw Second "Modern Ethiopian" Pop-Up in Berkeley

    ​"The food we cook at home is a lot different from our parents' Ethiopian food," says Faiza Farah, who has begun organizing AfroUrbanites pop-up dinners with Tsedey Seisu. "We stay true to a lot of the techniques and the slow cooking, but we fool around with ingredients. A lot of our stuff is very ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 15, 2011

    African-Amazing

    ​"The food we cook at home is a lot different from our parents' Ethiopian food," says Faiza Farah, who has begun organizing AfroUrbanites pop-up dinners with Tsedey Seisu. "We stay true to a lot of the techniques and the slow cooking, but we fool around with ingredients. A lot of our stuff is very ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Out with the Kids: Hands-On at Assab

    Alex HochmanThis is the neatest your dinner will look all night.​As parents, we're constantly begging our children to be more hands on. We get all exultant over the Zeum or the Exploratorium because they're hands on museums. We peer over our iPhone screens to yell at the kids to turn off the t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    Help S.F. Singer Meklit Hadero Bring Her Music to Ethiopia Next Month

    Meklit Hadero​ Ethiopian born, S.F.-based jazz singer Meklit Hadero is planning a big trip to Ethiopia next month to perform for the people of her native country. It's her second such visit, after Hadero designed a similar journey in 2009. Hadero will perform for free in two places in Ethiopia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Q&A with Bicycle Coffee Co.'s Brad Butler and Brandon McKee

    Alex HochmanCousins on bikes: Bicycle Coffee's Brad Butler, left, and Brandon McKee.​In June 2009, Bicycle Coffee Co. began delivering freshly roasted organic, fair trade, single-origin Arabica beans to stores and cafes via bicycle. Bicycle Coffee sets up at the Grand Lake farmers' market on S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Soul-Funk Outfit The Budos Band Wants To Harsh Your Mellows, Hippies

    Lotsa people, lotsa attitude.​You've got to love New Yorkers for their blatant honesty. Speaking to Jared Tankel, baritone saxophone player in 10-piece Staten Island global-funk group The Budos Band, he makes it clear to aspiring rappers that his instrumental band is not interested in collaboratin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Globetrotting DJ Maga Bo Recorded Goats in Sudan; Cleared the 'Floor in Zanzibar

    Maga Bo​Most of us spend our days planted in a cubicle fantasizing about beaches, historic monuments, and maybe seeing a penguin in its natural habitat. That latest jealousy comes from a conversation with musician, producer, composer, sound engineer -- and non-desk-bound frequent traveler -- DJ Ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Hurrah! California Can Grow Coffee. Is It Worth the Effort?

    Michael HutchingsCalifornia coffee, at a premium.​The LA Times food shocked me awake this morning with an article about Jay Ruskey, a farmer near Santa Barbara who was growing, and selling, organic coffee at local farmers' markets. Up until now, the only U.S. state to produce small amounts of coff ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Afternoon Coffee at Ma*Velous

    Yes, you sip it like tea.​ I first heard of the idea of a distinction between morning coffee and afternoon coffee a few years ago, when a barista at a Seattle coffee shop was describing the shop's array of beans on offer. The cafe's Central American and Indonesian beans, he told me, were straightf ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 1, 2010

    Fall Arts: A designer and a diva give flavor to "Aida"

    Yes, you sip it like tea.​ I first heard of the idea of a distinction between morning coffee and afternoon coffee a few years ago, when a barista at a Seattle coffee shop was describing the shop's array of beans on offer. The cafe's Central American and Indonesian beans, he told me, were straightf ... More >>

  • Dining

    July 21, 2010

    Fresh Eats: SFoodie recommends fried chicken, tortas, and pre-Prohibition beer

    Yes, you sip it like tea.​ I first heard of the idea of a distinction between morning coffee and afternoon coffee a few years ago, when a barista at a Seattle coffee shop was describing the shop's array of beans on offer. The cafe's Central American and Indonesian beans, he told me, were straightf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    In Which SFoodie Unwittingly Sounds Like a Tool

    Correct no more: It's Sidam-A.​Thanks to a series of comments appearing under our latest "Don't Sound Like a Tool" audio guide, SFoodie learned of a subtle shift in the spelling of an Ethiopian coffee-growing region that has much larger political undertones. We've been happily drinking Sidamo coff ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Don't Sound Like a Tool: How to Pronounce Coffee Regions

    ​Don't Sound Like a Tool is SFoodie's series of audio pronunciation guides to sort-of-common-but-not-obvious words we keep encountering on wine lists and menus. No more shame, no more pointing, no more godawful imitations of a language you don't speak.Five years ago, when buying coffee all you ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2010

    Who Are You? Who Who?

    ​Don't Sound Like a Tool is SFoodie's series of audio pronunciation guides to sort-of-common-but-not-obvious words we keep encountering on wine lists and menus. No more shame, no more pointing, no more godawful imitations of a language you don't speak.Five years ago, when buying coffee all you ... More >>

  • Music

    May 19, 2010

    M.I.A.'s diluted politics

    ​Don't Sound Like a Tool is SFoodie's series of audio pronunciation guides to sort-of-common-but-not-obvious words we keep encountering on wine lists and menus. No more shame, no more pointing, no more godawful imitations of a language you don't speak.Five years ago, when buying coffee all you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    M.I.A.'s Shock Tactics Dilute Her Politics

    Image Courtesy of: Grant Gilliland​ M.I.A. thrives on misinterpretation. Her debut album, Arular, was named after her Tamil Tiger dad and released in the midst of the War on Terror with a lead track taunting, "I've got the bombs to make you blow." Her antagonistic resolve arrived at a time when ... More >>

  • Music

    May 12, 2010

    Meklit Hadero takes on the world

    Image Courtesy of: Grant Gilliland​ M.I.A. thrives on misinterpretation. Her debut album, Arular, was named after her Tamil Tiger dad and released in the midst of the War on Terror with a lead track taunting, "I've got the bombs to make you blow." Her antagonistic resolve arrived at a time when ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Warm Up With Sheba's Authentic Ethiopian Spice

    T. PalmerKitfo and tibs wat: Two Ethiopian takes on beef.​Ever read a piece of food writing that made you so hungry you had to experience that same food as soon as possible? That happened when we read our friend Carolyn Alburger's thoughtful profile of Netsanet Alemayehu, chef/proprietor of Sheba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    Daly's Oddyssey: Fairfield-to-S.F. Commute Would Be the Schlep of All Schleps

    Over the river and through the woods, to City Hall we go... Whatever downside Supervisor Chris Daly is facing due to his family's move to Fairfield, he's always got this going for him: Like any proper suburbanite, he can now keep a refrigerator full of beer and meat in his garage and shake his ... More >>

  • Music

    February 4, 2009

    Nefasha Ayer’s nation of aural immigrants

    Over the river and through the woods, to City Hall we go... Whatever downside Supervisor Chris Daly is facing due to his family's move to Fairfield, he's always got this going for him: Like any proper suburbanite, he can now keep a refrigerator full of beer and meat in his garage and shake his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2008

    Nomadic Dining: Radio Africa & Kitchen

    Notes by Tamara Palmer, Photos by Tim Pratt Radio Africa & Kitchen is a self-proclaimed "nomadic restaurant" from Chef Eskender Aseged hosted by Coffee Bar in Potrero Hill on Thursday and Friday nights. Aseged is self-taught and credits a combination of growing up in Ethiopia, traveling extensive ... More >>

  • Dining

    August 13, 2008

    Secret Places

    A few modest ethnic eateries that are worth checking out.

  • Music

    May 30, 2007

    Regional Rhyme Scheme

    MassLine Media takes Seattle's hip-hop hopes on the road

  • Film

    March 21, 2007

    Forget Gun Control

    Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously.

  • Culture

    December 27, 2006

    Also Showing

    Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously.

  • Culture

    October 25, 2006

    Also Showing

    Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously.

  • News

    August 2, 2006

    Useless Resolve

    The Board of Supes likes to tell the world what to do. The world could care less.

  • News

    September 21, 2005

    What's Really Wrong With the Lower Fillmore?

    Could it be the activists who claim they're trying to rebuild it?

  • Film

    June 9, 2004

    Reps Etc.

    Could it be the activists who claim they're trying to rebuild it?

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Eritrean Food

    New Eritrea Restaurant

  • Music

    December 13, 2000

    Various Artists

    Ethiopiques Volumes 1-8 (Buda Musique)

  • Dining

    September 6, 2000

    Real San Francisco

    Hyde Street Bistro

  • News

    May 10, 2000

    Postscript

    Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

  • Dining

    December 1, 1999

    Champion of Breakfasts

    Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

  • Calendar

    July 14, 1999

    Night Crawler

    Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

  • Dining

    February 24, 1999

    The Man Who Came to Dinner

    Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

  • Dining

    September 9, 1998

    Eye of the Tigre

    Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

  • Dining

    May 13, 1998

    They Call Me Mister T'ibs

    Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

  • Dining

    March 11, 1998

    Senegalese Surprise

    Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

  • Music

    August 6, 1997

    Night Crawler

    Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

  • Dining

    July 9, 1997

    Out of Africa

    Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

  • Music

    June 11, 1997

    Riff Raff

    Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

  • Music

    August 30, 1995

    Punk Mother

    Patti Smith returns to the literary limelight

  • Music

    June 7, 1995

    Recordings

    Patti Smith returns to the literary limelight

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