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  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Eight Summer Food Festivals Worth the Schlep

    Did you miss San Francisco's Oyster Fest last month? Fear not. There are plenty of larger food festivals to satiate you -- if you're willing to travel. We've put together a roundup of some of the best. Maine Lobster Festival (July 29-August 2)Made famous by David Foster Wallace's essay Consider ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2007

    Fremont's Paki-Indian Naz 8 Theater Proves There's No Place Like Om

    Did you miss San Francisco's Oyster Fest last month? Fear not. There are plenty of larger food festivals to satiate you -- if you're willing to travel. We've put together a roundup of some of the best. Maine Lobster Festival (July 29-August 2)Made famous by David Foster Wallace's essay Consider ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2008

    Alleged S.F. Road Warrior Omeed Popal to Face 35 Felony Counts

    Did you miss San Francisco's Oyster Fest last month? Fear not. There are plenty of larger food festivals to satiate you -- if you're willing to travel. We've put together a roundup of some of the best. Maine Lobster Festival (July 29-August 2)Made famous by David Foster Wallace's essay Consider ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    Hot Documents: Here are the Receipts for Chinese Bureaucrats Who Enjoyed San Francisco 'Homosexual Show'

    "All reactionaries are paper tigers ... and those who leave documents on the train about going to San Francisco sex shows are just plain dumb." A cadre of Chinese officials who blew through around $94,000 of the Glorious Taxpayers' money on a recent junket to the United States are in hot water after ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Teamsters Head Uses Toilet, Death Analogies to Express Why New Chronicle Presses Must Be Unionized

    "New plant opening up in Fremont -- looks like I'm out of work." In this, the San Francisco Chronicle's 144th birthday week, the paper has giddily promised its readers "144 days of extra surprises, leading up to the biggest of them all -- new presses." You won't read about it in the Chron, but not e ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2009

    Transit Spotting

    A transportation activist points to inefficient and costly projects like the Central Subway.

  • News

    November 26, 2008

    Buy Line

    In these desperate times, the Chronicle considers desperate measures.

  • Dining

    November 19, 2008

    Survival of the Tastiest

    Through a tumultuous history emerges a satisfying food.

  • Dining

    May 21, 2008

    Brick & Fish

    The third one is charming in a nautical sort of way.

  • News

    November 21, 2007
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    January 3, 2007

    A Very Good Year

    We look back on the big news stories of 2006 and ask the tough question: Are you an apologist for the year that was?

  • News

    November 22, 2006

    Sports Flight

    The 49ers and the A's are on the move. Is their flight to the 'burbs a seismic shift in the Bay Area sports scene?

  • Culture

    October 25, 2006

    Win Some, Lose Some

    City Lights hosted the announcement of the National Book Awards finalists this month. But do book awards even matter?

  • News

    September 21, 2005

    Pig Government

    The politics of pork has real victims. Just look at New Orleans, or commuters on the Bay Bridge.

  • News

    August 17, 2005

    Suffer the Little Muslims

    A look at the appalling discrimination against Middle Eastern students countenanced by Bay Area public schools

  • Dining

    July 20, 2005

    Girls Gone Wild

    Girls just want to eat spicy food and see movies together

  • Film

    June 15, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    Girls just want to eat spicy food and see movies together

  • Calendar

    March 30, 2005

    The Paminator

    DJ "I rule the school"

  • News

    March 30, 2005

    Marty Anderson is Okay

    A story about the music we make out of the things we carry

  • Dining

    August 4, 2004

    Feast of the Senses

    The films may have been silent, but the food spoke volumes

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004
  • Calendar

    April 21, 2004

    Dance Dance Revolution

    Whole lotta shakin' goin' on

  • Dining

    June 25, 2003

    The Church of Trillin

    Our critic, an early convert, attends a revival meeting and genuflects at the altar of Shalimar

  • News

    January 29, 2003

    In and Out of India

    A meditation on memory and Indian culture, from Krishna dolls to bharathanatyam

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002
  • News

    April 12, 2000

    Dog Bites

    Taking the Fun Out of Fort Funston; A Tale of Two Cities (and One Swedish Furniture Emporium); Spin the Bottle?

  • News

    February 9, 2000

    Dog Bites

    Can't Find My Way Home, Nancy Drew in The Case of the Screaming Stadium!, Last Week for Golden Handshake Reader Poll!

  • News

    October 27, 1999

    Jamba Liar

    One of California's best Cajun chefs goes on the lam after a Bay Area con game is busted

  • News

    October 29, 1997

    Megan's Law Goes to Class

    Schools plan to tell parents where sex offenders live; is it caution or hysteria?

  • Calendar

    August 20, 1997

    Slap Shots

    Schools plan to tell parents where sex offenders live; is it caution or hysteria?

  • News

    September 11, 1996

    N-E-G-L-E-C-T

    Schools plan to tell parents where sex offenders live; is it caution or hysteria?

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    Chronicle's Rapid Weight Loss: New Paper Is Inch Thinner Than Old

    Yes, today's new Chronicle is more than an inch thinner than its prior incarnation Of all the many complaints leveled against the San Francisco Chronicle, "It's too darn wrinkly" never came up with us. And still, there was the Chron proudly announcing the dawn of its "wrinkle-free era" today with pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    'Huzzah!' No More -- Renaissance Faire Abruptly Nixes August Golden Gate Park Event, Blames City Parks and Rec Department for Inducing Organizational Black Death

    Mr. Tudor is not amused...Less than a month before Renaissance Faire organizers hoped to transform Golden Gate Park from a haven of drunken debauchery into a haven of period-piece drunken debauchery, an e-mail today from Renaissance Productions today announced that the Aug. 1-2 event has been nixed. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Drink Therapy: Cheap Drinks and Sticky Fingers at Town Hall

    J. BirdsallRibs should be an essential part of your strategy for happiness tonight.​Today kicks off more than just the slightly hungover-around-the-edges start to the weekend. It's also the first day of Town Hall's patio happy hour. You know, just like the lunchtime outdoor barbecues the resta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Chronicle Execs Say Their Paper Now Profitable -- At Least What's Left of It

    ​Last year, Hearst Corp. had no problem bandying about the Chronicle's purported $1 million a week losses when it suited their aims of playing super-duper union hardball, successfully liquidating much of the staff, and switching to non-union printers.   Now, however, more than half a doz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    Family Offers $500 For Return of Filched S.F. Lego Landmarks

    Courtesy Benz FamilyMark Benz' masterful recreation of Ghirardelli Square and other city landmarks were stolen out of his truck last week​Leaving your heart in San Francisco is bad enough -- but when someone out-and-out steals large portions of the city, things have gotten progressively worse. Cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Database Reveals Who's Earning $12.2 Billion in Bay Area Public Employee Salaries

    ​A database of more than 200,000 Bay Area public employees charts just who's earning $12.2 billion in public salaries. (It's a big database, so it takes a while to load up).  Coming tops on the Bay Area News Group-compiled cavalcade of information: Nancy Farber, chief administrator of Washing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Cancakes, Sweetfingers, and Other Local Food Commercials We Love

    Local television isn't as booming as it was years ago. One of the greatest casualties, Dr. Jang excepted, is the proliferation of awesome and awesomely strange commercials for Bay Area businesses. We thought we'd take a moment to honor a few past and present food commercials we love: 5. East Oa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Busy Day on BART Tracks: Parolee Chase, Passenger Trapped Beneath Train

    ​Passengers in BART trains spent an ungodly amount of time stuck going nowhere today, but it could always be worse. You could be stuck beneath the train, which was the case at Embarcadero not long ago. Major delays are in effect, and the condition of the rider is not currently known.

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Daevonn Hartley, Apparent Embarcadero BART Suicide Attempt, Dies of His Wounds

    ​The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office identified the person who yesterday wandered onto the BART tracks at Embarcadero in an apparent suicide attempt. Sadly, the attempt was successful -- Daevonn Hartley, a 16-year-old male Fremont resident, died of his wounds at 7 p.m. last night at San Fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    New Rule For Casual Carpoolers: Pony Up a Buck

    ​At the corner of Howard and Fremont this morning -- the first day of the $2.50 Bay Bridge carpool toll -- the casual carpoolers disembarked out of virtual strangers' vehicles just the same as they did yesterday and every other morning in past decades. Yet some were a dollar poorer.

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    BART Delays Lead to Frustrating Morning Commute

    ​A pair of mishaps led to BART commuters this morning having plenty of extra time to get to know their fellow passengers. A mechanical failure that took a train out of service at West Oakland station exacerbated an earlier delay near Fremont when the high-voltage third-rail was exposed on the trac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Fremont Diner's Nashville Hot Chicken Is Totally Worth the Food Miles

    Alex HochmanThat's not some bottled hot sauce tossed with Fremont Diner's hot chicken.​Chewing our first bite of Fremont Diner's Nashville Hot Chicken ($10.50), we were already mentally calculating how long it would take to drive back to Sonoma the next day to get our fix. Three pieces of Fult ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    JapaCurry Truck Proposes Three New Locations Downtown

    Sonya T./YelpJapaCurry's lunchtime line at Mission and New Montgomery.​After last week's encounter with an angry restaurant owner, Jay Hamada didn't park his JapaCurry truck on Second Street on Monday and Tuesday. Instead, Hamada submitted three new locations yesterday to Alfreddie Steward, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Dear Parents, Please Do Not Turn Your Children Into the Shaggs

    The Shaggs in 1968.​The opening torrent of notes in Ornette Coleman's "Kaleidoscope" reminds me of the ubiquitous television closet gag. You know, when some unsuspecting soul opens a closet door and is buried under an avalanche of junk (executed rather brilliantly in this episode of Elmo's World). ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    50 Fremont Brings Farm-Fresh Produce to Mondays

    View San Francisco Farmers Markets 2011 in a larger map Hey, remember when we said that if you wanted a farmers' market on Monday or Friday, you were SOL? Well, as of today, that's no longer true. A brand-spankin'-new market has bloomed in a public plaza at 50 Fremont in the Financial District. Its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Update: Cyclist Hit Near the Embarcadero Made an Illegal Turn

    Cyclist killed​Update 2 p.m.: Lieutenant Troy Dangerfield told us that the 25-year-old Asian woman is still in critical condition after being hit by a food delivery truck this morning. He said the cyclist made an illegal left hand turn in front of the truck when she was hit. The woman, who was not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Nancy Ho, Cyclist Hit in SOMA Yesterday, Dies

    Cyclist dies​The cyclist who was hit by a truck yesterday morning as she rode along Mission and Fremont streets died last night. Medical authorities identified the victim as 25-year-old Nancy Ho, a San Francisco resident. Ho was hit yesterday at about 8:04 a.m. when she made an illegal left-hand t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2011

    Gordon Ramsay Is on His Way, and So Is Ice Cream Bar and Latest Philz Coffee

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Arguably the angriest chef in the kitchen, Gordon Ramsay, is heading to the Bay Area for an episode of Kitchen Nightmares. His team is looking for diners to grab a seat in Fremont at the steak and seafoo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    La Oaxaqueña's Return, Gordon Ramsay Will Yell at More People, and Drinks at the W Hotel

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Back from the brink: While it looked as though La Oaxaqueña's brick-and-mortar was a goner, Eater SF shares it's readying for a comeback. Closed since August, the Mexican restaurant says it'll be back so ... More >>

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