Yesterday I mentioned that Wooden Shjips recorded two covers of holiday songs ("O Tannenbaum" and "Auld Lang Syne") on one cassingle and were selling these hotcakes to raise money for charity. Well looks like the cassetes are now all sold out, so the band is being good enough to release the songs for free download on their Web site. Don't expect Frank Sinatra's croon on these tunes -- they're more capturing the essence of the holidays. Like you started to listen to Christmas music, took a big bo
jimz68 via FlickrThe Buena Vista's Ramos Fizz: Frothy morning goodnessThe Ramos fizz has been the cognoscenti's brunching tipple of choice ever since that fateful day in 1888 when Henry Ramos invented the thing in New Orleans. This sweet, creamy nectar of the gods is not only the perfect infarctionary accent to eggs Benedict, French toast, and other Sunday morning indulgences, its stomach-lining cream, protein-rich egg white, and subliminal hair of the dog will banish any hangover. (Boozer extra
bpfastball/FlickrFeel the swingin' swagger.Saturday was not only a typically crisp San Francisco midsummer's eve, it was birthday night, that special time of year when we wander the streets and alleys of North Beach in search of fun, frolic, and alcoholic stimulation. This year's celebration took advantage of modern technology for the first time: Tweeting was employed to guide followers from bar to bar, a breakthrough of, as it turned out, no significance whatsoever. Here's a pub-by-pub b