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Chef Battle with an Italian Spin

Battle of the Chefs When: March 19, 6:30 p.m. Where: The San Francisco Italian Athletic Club (1630 Stockton at Union) Cost: $60 The Rundown: Three chefs will take to the kitchen to chop, stir, and cook their way towards victory. The twist to this chef battle hinges on geographic regions of Italy ... More >>

Cafe Prague Pre-Valentine Block Party

What: Pre-Valentine Block Party Where: Cafe Prague When: Fri., February 10, 4-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Cafe Prague loves throwing a beer and wieners holiday block party, and this time, it's got a St. Valentine's spin. Because what goes better with romantic love than discounted sausages? S ... More >>

Graveyard: Show Preview

What: Pre-Valentine Block Party Where: Cafe Prague When: Fri., February 10, 4-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Cafe Prague loves throwing a beer and wieners holiday block party, and this time, it's got a St. Valentine's spin. Because what goes better with romantic love than discounted sausages? S ... More >>

Maayan Nidam: Show Preview

What: Pre-Valentine Block Party Where: Cafe Prague When: Fri., February 10, 4-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Cafe Prague loves throwing a beer and wieners holiday block party, and this time, it's got a St. Valentine's spin. Because what goes better with romantic love than discounted sausages? S ... More >>

Rocky's Frybread in the Mission on Friday. Plus, Ping Pong!

​What: Berlin-style ping pong Christmas Eve party! Where: Project One When: Friday, Dec. 23, 9 p.m to 2 a.m. Cost: $5 The rundown: According to Mission Mission, this is the last American Tripps party this year, and you'd be an idiot to miss it. An idiot! Plus, see that part on the flyer about ... More >>

Norway's Butter Crisis Is Actually Hilarious, Thanks to This Video

Apparently American comedians are getting lots of material out of Norway's butter products crisis, because a lack of butter is something Americans find hilarious. You can't turn on Comedy Central and not see Dane Cook cutting Norway a new one about their lack of pussycat cakes. Well, Norway's not g ... More >>

The Trappist Brings Belgian Holidays to Oakland

​Did you know that in Belgium, people leave mugs of rich holiday ale for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve? Actually, we made that up. But it surely sounds plausible. Enjoying "Kerstbier" seems to be an annual national pastime, culminating in a world-renowned festival that boasts upwards of 150 w ... More >>

This Friday: Liège Waffles, Made to Order

​What: Liège Waffle Party! Where: Duboce Park Cafe When: Fri., December 16, 2-6 p.m. Cost: $5.50 The rundown: Liège waffles, named after the place of origination, a town in Eastern Belgium, are a richer, denser, and sweeter than the average waffle. Invented by the chef of an 18th centur ... More >>

Cafe Prague's Holiday Block Party is the Wurst

Yelp/Nice L.The party block.​What: Cafe Prague's Wurst Holiday Block Party Where: Cafe Prague When: Fri., December 16, 4-8 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: All the party people who are willing to head into the Financial District at 4 p.m. on a Friday afternoon will be rewarded with discounte ... More >>

Plaid on Its New Album, the Persistent Influence of Detroit Techno, and How to Not Repeat Yourself Musically After 20 Years

Plaid: Never a duo to get caught in a box.​ British electronic duo Plaid, made up of Ed Handley and Andy Turner, has been navigating the digital obliques of melodically askew, syncopated beats since 1991. This Friday, it will bring the music of its new album, Scintilli -- Plaid's first non-sou ... More >>

Architecture In Helsinki Moves Deep into Electro-Pop at the Fillmore

Architecture in Helsinki played the Fillmore last night. ​ Architecture In Helsinki Dom The Sandwitches Nov. 3, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: George Michael's stylist in the '80s. When the members of Architecture in Helsinki situated themselves behind three keyboards and only one acoustic d ... More >>

Deconstructing Adele's Sanity-Preserving Video for "Someone Like You"

It's humiliating to be imparted a thuddingly obvious life lesson by an individual 14 years your junior. They've circumvented the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. In the new video for her massive hit "Someone Like You" (at 7.9 million YouTube views and counting), English soul singer Adele t ... More >>

Morrissey Defends Oslo-KFC Comparison, World Gives Him the Finger

via Flickr​List of things you don't want to say onstage: "Hello, New York!" when you're in Boston; "How about them Dodgers?" when you're in San Francisco; and "The tragedy is Norway was way less serious than the way fast food chains operate every day" when you're pretty much anywhere. Alas, ... More >>

Scotch and Cheese? Try It at Quince

​We've had a lot of cheese and a lot of Scotch, but we've never thought to try them together. That's because we lack the imagination of Quince general manager Katrina Parlato, who is running a bar special this week: a Scotch and cheese pairing flight.It's not cheap, at $36. But these are not cheap ... More >>

Beauty Turned Inside Out

​We've had a lot of cheese and a lot of Scotch, but we've never thought to try them together. That's because we lack the imagination of Quince general manager Katrina Parlato, who is running a bar special this week: a Scotch and cheese pairing flight.It's not cheap, at $36. But these are not cheap ... More >>

Enjoy Belgian Waffles Two Ways at Bloem 'n Sugar

Luis ChongBloem's Very Berry Belgian waffle ​The WaffleMania truck popularized the dense and chewy Liege waffles, which are great. But sometimes SFoodie craves the other Belgian waffles, the light and crispy rectangles from Brussels -- they've got deep pockets that no Eggo can match. So we wer ... More >>

Bouncer: Hearing the End of the World at O'Neill's Irish Pub

Luis ChongBloem's Very Berry Belgian waffle ​The WaffleMania truck popularized the dense and chewy Liege waffles, which are great. But sometimes SFoodie craves the other Belgian waffles, the light and crispy rectangles from Brussels -- they've got deep pockets that no Eggo can match. So we wer ... More >>

Glen Park Mother Duped, Wires $2,800 to Spain to Help 'Son'

So much love under one roof​A woman's motherhood was truly tested this week when she was duped into sending cash across the globe, thinking her son was in trouble.  A San Francisco woman living in Glen Park received a call from a man who said he was in Spain. The man told the woman that autho ... More >>

Seemen's Kal Spelletich Takes Fire-Shooting Robot Art to Prague

Spelletich with one of his terrifying, fascinating artworks.​America may not have an equivalent to Vaclav Havel, the world-renowned literary artist who led a nation to freedom. But we do have Kal Spelletich, director of the art group The Seemen. He's a leading figure in the global machine art move ... More >>

Saturday Report: Where to Go on Day 2 of Beer Week

bittermelon/FlickrSo many beers, so few hours.​Saturday, Feb. 12 ​It's Day Two. The gloves are off, and the beer beckons. If you're not venturing to Hayward for the 11th Annual Double IPA Festival, local options abound. Ease into your weekend Saturday with an afternoon happy hour of exc ... More >>

Eat More Hearts for Valentine's Day at Avedano's

​I wasn't the only person who consumed hearts in honor of/protest over Valentine's Day. Avedano's Meats, the sustainability-minded butcher shop in Bernal Heights, is making hearts the focus of its first event open to the public. The Lonely Hearts dinners take place in the butcher shop's private di ... More >>

In the Good Old Days

​I wasn't the only person who consumed hearts in honor of/protest over Valentine's Day. Avedano's Meats, the sustainability-minded butcher shop in Bernal Heights, is making hearts the focus of its first event open to the public. The Lonely Hearts dinners take place in the butcher shop's private di ... More >>

Film director Sofia Coppola's journey to "Somewhere"

​I wasn't the only person who consumed hearts in honor of/protest over Valentine's Day. Avedano's Meats, the sustainability-minded butcher shop in Bernal Heights, is making hearts the focus of its first event open to the public. The Lonely Hearts dinners take place in the butcher shop's private di ... More >>

Audiovisual Hallucination

​I wasn't the only person who consumed hearts in honor of/protest over Valentine's Day. Avedano's Meats, the sustainability-minded butcher shop in Bernal Heights, is making hearts the focus of its first event open to the public. The Lonely Hearts dinners take place in the butcher shop's private di ... More >>

Tricky the Wanderer

Tricky won't stay put — musically or physically

A Reminder: You Will Not Be Seeing Einstürzende Neubauten in S.F. This Weekend

Perhaps you would be wary of issuing visas to these youngsters as well​Bad news for fans of the sound of collapsing new buildings: West Berlin experimental noise stalwart Einstürzende Neubauten (which is German for "collapsing new buildings") has had to cancel its 30th anniversary tour of th ... More >>

San Francycle: How SF's Impending Bikeshare Will Work

​Bikesharing: crazy, right? The expense, the hills, the repairs, the theft -- it seems like it would never, in a million years, work. Except it does, in plenty of cities from Montreal to Budapest to Washington, D.C. And it's getting a little embarrassing that San Francisco isn't one of them. ... More >>

Tour de Fat: Beer-Soaked Bikefest Rolls Saturday

Brian Yaeger"Remember, this is a bicycle festival with beer, not the other way around." Sure.​What do a 6-foot-tall carrot, Sasquatch, and a gang of nuns on bicycles have in common? Tour de Fat, New Belgium Brewing's annual lovefest for all things bicycle (and yeah, some beer). The Tour pedals ... More >>

The xx takes a victory-lap tour of the U.S.

Brian Yaeger"Remember, this is a bicycle festival with beer, not the other way around." Sure.​What do a 6-foot-tall carrot, Sasquatch, and a gang of nuns on bicycles have in common? Tour de Fat, New Belgium Brewing's annual lovefest for all things bicycle (and yeah, some beer). The Tour pedals ... More >>

S.F. Rising: Three Challot for a Friday

Jonathan KauffmanMoscow and Tbilisi's challah (non-Kosher).​A weekly survey of bread in San Francisco ― the baked and the fried, the artisan and the novelty.Challah #1 Source: Moscow and Tbilisi Bakery, 5540 Geary (at 20th Ave.) 668-6959.Price: $4 for a large, $0.85 for a smallKosher? No Toast- ... More >>

Jug Shop Lines Up Two Sweet Little Sour Beer Tastings

Brett L./FlickrThe sour beer sessions run Aug. 20 and 27.​Unless you've been living in a lagering cave in the Czech Republic (or the Midwest), or just traveled here from the turn of this century, sour beers are all the rage. Just ask the Paper of Record. In case you couldn't make Stone Brewery ... More >>

Week in Gay: Carrie Prejean to Wed 'Jesus in Cleats'

Her prince has come!​On Thursday, members of the LGBT media were invited to participate in some kind of weird press conference at the White House. Was it a show of good faith (this is a first for queer journalists) or just another attempt to appear attentive? An administration official named Melod ... More >>

Prop. 8 Cast Goes to Court ... And Gets Celebrity Doppelgangers

​When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cameras would not be permitted to film Perry v. Schwarzenegger,  directors John Ireland and John Ainsworth, along with a band of volunteer actors, decided to reenact the entire Prop. 8 trial and post the results to Youtube. Until today, the actors relie ... More >>

Nattily Dressed Masturbator Lurks in Park

Apparel like this was just the start of it...​A man with a notable sense of fashion -- and a notable lack of apparel in the one place society demands you cover -- was reported terrorizing passers-by in Crocker Amazon Park. At a shade before 9 a.m. on Tuesday, a woman spotted a man in the following ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Zion I, Pep Love, and Dublin at the Independent

​Zion I, Pep Love, Dublin Friday, April 2, 2010 The Independent Better Than: Your last house party. Friday night, Zion I performed its second show in a row, joined by fellow natives Pep Love of Hieroglyphics and Dublin of Jazz Mafia fame. This evening was a showcase of Bay Area love, ... More >>

Dutch Crunch: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

J. BirdsallFully accessorized.​Weds., Feb. 10, 2010 Amsterdam's falafel stands proved the spark for Gail Lillian's peripatetic truck, which splits its time between Emeryville and Potrero Flats. Liba's übercrunchy falafel are mostly textural, craggy, brown-crusted bits not much bigger than exp ... More >>

Local Frequency: Bay Area Artist Q&A w/ General Elektriks

​Hervé "RV" Salters is best known locally as the keyboardist from Honeycut and a frequent collaborator with fellow Quannum Projects mates Blackalicious. A few years ago, while on downtime from Honeycut, Salters decided to record his first solo effort, Cliquety Kliqk, under the moniker General El ... More >>

Cops Recover Evidence at Fight Scene -- Victim's Fingertip

​Police gathering evidence Tuesday morning at the scene of a domestic squabble got the finger. And that's a good thing. A pair of officers from Ingleside Station were called to General Hospital, where a victim of an alleged aggravated assault told them an imbroglio between he and his roommate culm ... More >>

Mission Artist Sendoff

​Police gathering evidence Tuesday morning at the scene of a domestic squabble got the finger. And that's a good thing. A pair of officers from Ingleside Station were called to General Hospital, where a victim of an alleged aggravated assault told them an imbroglio between he and his roommate culm ... More >>

Large and In Charge

​Police gathering evidence Tuesday morning at the scene of a domestic squabble got the finger. And that's a good thing. A pair of officers from Ingleside Station were called to General Hospital, where a victim of an alleged aggravated assault told them an imbroglio between he and his roommate culm ... More >>

Love Hurts

​Police gathering evidence Tuesday morning at the scene of a domestic squabble got the finger. And that's a good thing. A pair of officers from Ingleside Station were called to General Hospital, where a victim of an alleged aggravated assault told them an imbroglio between he and his roommate culm ... More >>

The Outer Limits

​Police gathering evidence Tuesday morning at the scene of a domestic squabble got the finger. And that's a good thing. A pair of officers from Ingleside Station were called to General Hospital, where a victim of an alleged aggravated assault told them an imbroglio between he and his roommate culm ... More >>

Wolfgang’s Slideshow

​Police gathering evidence Tuesday morning at the scene of a domestic squabble got the finger. And that's a good thing. A pair of officers from Ingleside Station were called to General Hospital, where a victim of an alleged aggravated assault told them an imbroglio between he and his roommate culm ... More >>

Ich Bin Ein Californian

​Police gathering evidence Tuesday morning at the scene of a domestic squabble got the finger. And that's a good thing. A pair of officers from Ingleside Station were called to General Hospital, where a victim of an alleged aggravated assault told them an imbroglio between he and his roommate culm ... More >>

Mad As A Wet Haine

​Police gathering evidence Tuesday morning at the scene of a domestic squabble got the finger. And that's a good thing. A pair of officers from Ingleside Station were called to General Hospital, where a victim of an alleged aggravated assault told them an imbroglio between he and his roommate culm ... More >>

High Time in Low Country

Belgian food and an epic beer list work in tandem.

The Mother of Tears

Belgian food and an epic beer list work in tandem.

The Great Beyond

Belgian food and an epic beer list work in tandem.

They Really Are the World

Belgian food and an epic beer list work in tandem.