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Lyrics Born Chows Down on Check, Please!

Rapper Lyrics Born is one of the amateur restaurant reviewers on the latest episode of KQED's Check, Please! The station's food blog Bay Area Bites reports that Lyrics Born (aka Tom Shimura) and two other local residents discuss Chinese spot Hunan Home's Restaurant, the locally sourced food at Radiu ... More >>

Where To Celebrate Session Beer Month in the Bay Area

Don't get us wrong, we love big, bold, "extreme" beers as much as the next beer geek. That being said, sometimes you just want to have a few beers with friends on a sunny afternoon without losing the ability to walk or speak English. For the last couple years, the pendulum has been swinging back in ... More >>

U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag Can't Deal With Marijuana Protesters, Ditches Public Event

Medical marijuana is not making U.S Attorney Melinda Haag's life easy. Among Bay Area cannabis advocates, she's become a loathed figure, scorned and mocked -- and for all we know, burned -- in unflattering effigy. All of this due to her role in the Justice Department's crackdown on state-legal medic ... More >>

Human Traffickers Won't Get to Pocket Profits Made off Slavery Under New Bill

Two state bills passed through the state Legislature today that force convicted criminals to give up any profits they make from trafficking minors into California. The trafficking cash would be funneled into helping the emotionally traumatized victims, Attorney General Kamala Harris said.Senator Mar ... More >>

Awesome Kid Raises $30K From Lemonade Stand, Uses Money to Fight Human Trafficking

While you all have been lazily basking in the sun this summer, this 8-year-old girl has been working her tail off to change the world, one lemon at a time. In the Northern California city of Fairfax, Vivienne Harr has spent the last 57 days of her summer vacation turning lemons into lemonade -- lite ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: Feds Show Little Interest in San Jose, Where Dispensaries Are Illegal

Aside from strikes at the medical marijuana industry's most vocal, visible, and influential leaders, little rhyme or reason has accompanied the federal Justice Department's crackdown on California cannabis.U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag offered no comment or explanation as her office shut down roughly o ... More >>

S.F. Pit Bulls: Protecting Yourself and the Controversial Breed

Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Stay Open Despite Federal Deadline

On the day the federal government wished HopeNet to close, the operators of San Francisco's oldest licensed and taxpaying medical marijuana dispensary prepared accordingly: They grilled hot dogs."We made about 220," said Catherine Smith, whose Ninth Street medical cannabis dispensary is one of the n ... More >>

Drink: Session Beers: When the Best Drink Isn't the Most Extreme

Feds Quietly Shut Down Marin Pot Club

Another one bites the dust ​The state's oldest pot club closed over the weekend under pressure from President Barack Obama's Administration, media outlets are reporting. U.S. Attorney for Northern California Melinda Haag had sent letters to the Marin Alliance For Medical Marijuana, ordering the c ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: Feds Move to Forfeit Marin Pot Club's Property

​The choice offered by the Justice Department was clear: Select California medical cannabis dispensaries needed to close up shop or have their properties seized and operators thrown in prison.This was the ultimatum issued in September by United States Attorney for Northern California Melinda Haag ... More >>

Marin Alliance For Medical Marijuana Dodges Federal Threat -- for Now

Praise Legalists​Second SF Dispensary Closes Under Federal PressureAn eviction notice was never so welcome.Last Wednesday, California's oldest storefront medical marijuana collective, Fairfax-based Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana, received an eviction notice from its landlord -- which means t ... More >>

Feds Try to Handcuff Bay Area Dispensaries

The Girl Scouts' New Locavore Badge: What You Have to Do to Earn It

The Girl Scouts' Locavore badge.​Last week, NPR reported that the Girl Scouts of the USA had just revised its badges for the first time in 20 years. The update included introducing a new "Locavore" badge for senior scouts ages 14-16. But what do the scouts have to do to earn it? A fair amount of ... More >>

Obama's Medical Marijuana Crackdown: Two S.F. Pot Clubs to Close

And Divinity Tree, and Green Door Sacramento, and maybe Medithrive​Lombard Street is in the city's oft-posh Marina District, but that stretch of US-101 that leads from the Golden Gate Bridge down through Van Ness Avenue includes seedy motels as well as high-end boutiques. It might have also contai ... More >>

Ranger Noir: S.F. Park Patrol Run as Money-Making Machine

Nicholas Springer, Accused Peeping Tom, Gets Plea Deal

Now it is your turn to be seen ​Nicholas Springer, the 26-year-old man accused of placing a video camera in his Crocs and recording up women's skirts, got off with a rather sweet plea deal. According to media outlets Springer showed up to court yesterday and plead guilty to charges of loitering. T ... More >>

'Pervert' Accused of Filming up Women's Skirts at Marin Farmers' Market

What's with all the holes?​Summertime means warm weather, nice days at the beach, and women in dresses. A Marin County man is in jail today after he allegedly used his sandal to film up women's skirts and dresses at a farmers' market in Fairfax.New outlets are reporting that 26-year-old Nicholas S ... More >>

Brevity Is the Soul of It

Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana

New Year's Eve Guide 2011

All Six DeLano's to Shutter, Le Truc Se Gare Près de AT&T Park

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Grub Street scooped SFoodie in its own neighborhood followed SFoodie in reporting that Le Truc, which is un autobus that serves food, is going to be parking at 470 Brannan from 11 a.m. to 3 p. ... 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 >>

Marin Pot Club: Kids Welcome!

​Lynnette Shaw, the Fairfax pot saleswoman famed for leading a fight 10 years ago to recall Marin County's district attorney for enforcing laws relating to marijuana, is now crusading to overturn a town restriction keeping kids out of her store, the Contra Costa Times reports.Speaking before the F ... More >>

Vegan Eats: Kabocha Squash and Greens Empanadas from Seitan Family

T. Palmer​If your mind is as twisted as SFoodie's is, Fairfax's Seitan Family sounds slightly sinister -- at least until you remind yourself that there's nothing devilish about the wheat gluten product from which it takes its name. Anyway, these Seitanists produce a line of vegan empanadas worth t ... More >>

Natural Sweets for the Sweet: Cookbook Event at Red Hill Books, Just in Time for Valentine's Day

Chef Mani Niall, who's done everything culinary from being Michael Jackson's private chef (really) to operating his own eponymous bakery on Fairfax in Los Angeles, will be discussing his new cookbook, Sweet! From Agave Nectar to Turbinado, Home Baking With Every Kind of Natural Sweetener, on Februar ... More >>

Snacktion: Lydia's Organics' Tropical Mango Bar

Name: Tropical Mango Bar Brand: Lydia's Organics Origin: Fairfax Found at: Other Avenues (3930 Judah) Cost: $2.59 Ingredients: Bananas, coconut, mango, pineapple and love Calories per serving: 110 Why I bought it: It's raw, vegan and organic and free of sugar, gluten and oil. I wonder ... More >>

Baggage

The city's politicos made the enviros happy by banning plastic bags, but left us with more pollution and cost

Yesterday: World Veg Festival

We're Totally Not Board

Reps Etc.

Pent Up

Knowing drama -- in the biblical sense

Bamboo Nation

Hawaiian-print shirts, flaming cocktails -- who can resist the Tiki Bar Crawl?

St. Patrick's Day Listings

St. Patrick's Day Listings

San Francisco

House of Tudor

The ever-expanding aural universe between Ralph Carney's ears, and a sugary LiftOff! Spacecapades farewell

Brew-haha

"Mmm, beer"

The Pain of the Disco Ninja

Even with ankles so weakened by injury that doctors are all but useless, Tuan Vu relentlessly pushes himself toward the complex stylistic perfection that will earn him the world singles championship -- of footbag

House of Tudor

A rap-war documentary, the old new wave, and Gypsy-fied French noir

Letters to the Editor

Week of July 17, 2002

All in the Name

On Sutter Street, a tour of bars with funny names, unusual locations, and strange colors

Smoke and Smearers

Potheads distort the record -- and endanger the justice system -- as they try to recall the Marin DA

Character Crazy

Singer/songwriter Sonny Smith has a lot to say about the odd twists of life -- and an interesting way to say it

Rights of Passage

With gates and fences, private property owners are increasingly cutting off traditional paths to public lands. State law offers some recourse, but not much.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Letters

Letters

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?