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Haven't Started Christmas Shopping? 21 Last-Minute Gift Ideas

If you haven't begun searching for presents for your friends and loved ones yet, we're not going to judge you exactly, but man, you better get on it this weekend. Luckily, you have us to help. All December SFoodie has been coming up with ideas for local, food-related presents and hostess gifts that ... More >>

This Holiday Season, Give The Gift of Dim Sum Earrings

The crafty site Etsy is a great place to go when you're looking for a creative present for your food-obsessed friend who has it all. A search for "San Francisco food" or "Bay Area food" turns up a lot of one-of-a-kind finds. Case in point: These paper and wood earrings ($28) by Chantal deFelice dep ... More >>

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Weekend Parties: DJ Harvey, Legowelt, Floating Points, and More

Last weekend it was Outside Lands; this weekend it's Identity Festival. And while Identity isn't exactly in the city per se, it's apparently close enough to rub off some of its festive vibe on the city's nightlife: we've got nine-piece disco bands, an old school DJ on a classic soundsystem, a big na ... More >>

Top 5 Reasons Good Eggs Should Be Your New Go To

After a launch party at the Mission Community Market last Thursday, GoodEggs has gone live. It's an online food marketplace that allows local farmers and foodmakers to sell directly to people in their area -- people are already comparing it to Etsy -- and though what's live now is technically just a ... More >>

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The Copyright Standoff: Technology Pits Bad Rules vs. No Rules

Souley Vegan Frozen Meals, Meat-Eating Environmentalists, & Etsy on Foie Gras

​• PCRM has some whack attack billboard up equating cheese with big luscious thighs and it almost makes this vegan pick up a hunk of gouda and go to town. JOKE I WILL NEVER EAT ABUSED ANIMAL MUCUS but really, knock it the fuck off, PCRM. This campaign makes vegans look like the human-hating idio ... More >>

Bama Glama, The Terrible Food Network Show to Hatewatch at 4 a.m.

Bama Glama: One part cupcakes, one part "Break Stuff"​Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Bama Glama, a half-hour show not about food, Fridays at 4 a.m. (yes!) on the Food Network. With Bama Glama, the Food Network pivots from food-ce ... More >>

Nine Bay Area Artisans Who Make Etsy Worthwhile

Etsy is one-stop shopping at its weirdest. If your wish list includes trolls made out of Play-Doh, shabby-chic furniture, beads, caramel corn, custom-sewn underwear, vegan lip balm, and a wedding dress, Etsy has you covered. The website allows anyone to upload their handiwork and offer it for sale, ... More >>

The Church of Start Shopping

Slip Into a Sculpture

Newark's Vegetarian Mayor, Delicious Eggplant Bacon, and Leslie Hall is Vegan!? Hell Yes!

​• Just read this piece about Cory Booker and tell me that you don't want to rip his clothes off and then shake his hand because this man is AWESOME and ADORABLE. As Meave says, he gets it. He totally does! Love him like I love cake! • Another day, another meat recall. This time, 377,000 of ... More >>

Better Living Through Handwriting

Can Twitter Land You In Court?

​I saw recently in the news that Courtney Love is being sued for tweeting. Could that happen to me, even if I don't have a lot of followers? If so, how can I avoid that?~Avoiding a TwasuitWell first, for those not intimately tracking Courtney Love's every electronic move like I am, let me provide ... More >>

Pizza Man Ambushed

etsy.comFive jacked pizzas...​Being the pizza man ain't a picnic. The hours are long, the wages are short, and your only cinematic role model is Bill Maher. Also -- it's dangerous. We wrote about an instance in which a 60-year-old deliveryman was beaten up and relieved of his pizza earlier this mo ... More >>

The City of Ham Francisco

Drywell​Spotted via the Twitter feed of No Salad as a Meal: This poster, designed by local artist Drywell and available on Etsy, conveniently divides up our local neighborhoods into zones of delectable pig meat. Feel free to refer to the Marina from here on out as the Fatback. Follow us on T ... More >>

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Photo: A Tom Waits Portrait Made from Coffee and Cigarettes

Now, here's some literal art we can get behind. Artist Mike Oncley fashioned this portrait of weirdo/werewolf/musician Tom Waits out of coffee and cigarettes, the very name of a film in which Waits himself played a role. Not only is it a cool idea -- the piece itself is quite striking. Oncley is sel ... More >>

Gypsy Jazz, Masked Punks, Crafts and Beers, Doom Metal, Grease, and Free World Music

Angélique Kidjo plays for free this Sunday as part of the Stern Grove Festival​This weekend, you can join in a group Grease sing-along, witness a masked punk legend in action, celebrate the art of craft, check in with the world-music scene and ride a seven-person bicycle -- all for less than two ... More >>

Foodzie Test Kitchen Puts Our Chile Crunch Dependency on Ice

FoodzieEZ Gaspacho Granita with Chile Colonial's Chile Crunch.​We bumped into Chile Colonial's Chile Crunch at the Fancy Food Show earlier this year, where it was one of the most memorable local products we found. We've barely stopped eating it since. At the show, Chile Colonial proprietor Sus ... More >>

Putting the Pot Back in Chicken Pot Pie

​ Etsy peddler Jtnee writes that they "have this compulsion to make small statues that you can hold in the palm of your hand" and it's a good thing they do, because the urge results in truly strange and hilarious things like this ceramic Chicken Pot Pie. The pot, of course, is not the expected kin ... More >>

Bacon Your Spirits Bright: Holiday Cards That Put the Hog Back in Christmas

A quick perusal of the Internet will show that, with a lot of time, ingenuity, and bacon, you can make anything. Could be something delicious (like Who's Your Daddy bacon potato chips), or something that probably shouldn't be made out of bacon at all. Like a gun. Or a lampshade. Or this Christmas tr ... More >>

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Etsy Hosts a Free Drinkfest (and Craft Fair) Next Week, the Handmade Ho-Down

HawkGerber Ink/FlickrLetterpress coaster offered up on Etsy.​Online craftmatic emporium Etsy is presenting its first-ever craft fair and drinkfest - the Handmade Ho-Down -- next Thursday, Dec. 3, 6 p.m.-midnight, at 1015 Folsom (1015 Folsom at Seventh St.). The 21-and-up event is definitely no ... More >>

French Fries Are About to Join the City's Growing Menu of Street-Food Offerings

thatguysfries/TwitterFries should hit S.F. streets starting next weekend.​A couple of 22-year-olds with a memory of street-food fries in Amsterdam are planning to bring something similar to San Francisco. Despite having met in stand-up comedy class at U.C. Santa Cruz, Christoper Hermelin and A ... More >>

Demystifying Dills: 'Yes We Can' Event at La Cocina Takes the Fear Out of Canning

Meredith BrodyLost art: Freshly jarred dills in the La Cocina kitchen.Turning boxes of cucumbers and onions fresh from the farmers' market into 500 jars of pickles would be daunting if faced alone. But when a dozen or so would-be canners got together yesterday at La Cocina (2848 Folsom at 25th St.) ... More >>