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Yesterday: World Veg Festival

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 >>

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

Bolinas? Baloney!

The effort of one small town to remain untouched by time has bred enmity and disaffection as surely as it has produced anything else

Baggage

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

We're Totally Not Board

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

Sign of the Cult-Buster

Anti-cult crusader Ford Greene and the town of San Anselmo are staging a nasty public fight over Greene's strident anti-Bush political signs. But is that an old religious enemy we see behind the curtain?

Reps Etc.

Anti-cult crusader Ford Greene and the town of San Anselmo are staging a nasty public fight over Greene's strident anti-Bush political signs. But is that an old religious enemy we see behind the curtain?

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

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

St. Patrick's Day Listings

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

Holiday Guide

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

San Francisco

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

House of Tudor

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

Brew-haha

"Mmm, beer"

Ecstasy Is an Art Car

Philo Northrup and his wacky automotive tribe take a road trip to places in California you can't even imagine

Girl, Interrupted

Alanna Krause believes that much of her hellish childhood could have been avoided. Now she's suing her father, her therapist, and her lawyer in an effort to prove it. How did it come to this?

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

Might See TV

Joel Engardio picks his way through the political minefield around ITVS, the San Francisco group that Congress created to put the edge back in PBS

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

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

Letters

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

Letters

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

C.R.U.S.H. (Part II)

Five months ago, two black homicide detectives got fed up with the police department's inaction on black-on-black murders. Thus was born the Crime Response Unit To Stop Homicide (CRUSH): Six cops with the grit and guile to tackle the toughest cases in t

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

New Year's Eve Guide 2011

​ ​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 >>

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

​ ​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 >>

Brevity Is the Soul of It

​ ​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 >>

'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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Feds Try to Handcuff Bay Area Dispensaries

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 >>

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 >>

Medical Marijuana: Landlord Evicts Pot Club at Behest of Feds

tokeofthetown.comMAMM's Lynette Shaw​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 f ... More >>

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 >>