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Boozy Events for WhiskyWeek and Fleet Week

Since this week is the perfect storm of events and happenings, we're making sure you don't miss a sip. Here is our guide to all the booziest and best events that this crazy, everything-happening-at-once week has to offer. See Also: - Off The Pier Celebrates Fleet Weekend With Street Food - The Best ... More >>

Get Hired at Thursday's Good Food Jobs Fair

What: Good Food Jobs Fair When: September 13th, 8am-12pm and 4pm-7pm Where: Food Craft Institute, Jack London Square, 65 Webster St, Oakland. Cost: Free The rundown: Feel like you have the passion and drive to make a difference in the world of food? Then print up a crisp new resume and bring it to t ... More >>

BOSF 2012: How to Be a Stand-Up Comic

Driver Allegedly Filmed in Hit-and-Run Accident Arrested

The driver who allegedly ran two cyclists off the road in Berkeley last week was was arrested at the Jack London Inn in Oakland on Friday afternoon. According to press reports, Michael Patrick Medaglia, 43, was arrested after OPD found his black Acura Integra involved in the accident in Oakland's Gl ... More >>

Free Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Cone Today (Try the Greek Yogurt)

 What: Three words: free cone day. Where: Local Ben & Jerry's Scoop ShopsWhen: Tuesday April 3, noon to 8:00 p.m.Cost: Once you get to the front of line-- if you get to the front of the line-- the cone is free.The Rundown: Ben & Jerry's will be handing out free ice cream to all tho ... More >>

"The Grey": Too Much Mysticism, Not Enough Action

Drink Oakland Wine at the Urban Wine Xperience

Michelle Locke/Palate PressUrban Legend Cellars is one of more than 20 wineries that make wine in Oakland​East Bay Vintners' Alliance 6th Annual Urban Wine Xperience Where: Jack London Pavilion, 1 Broadway, Oakland When: Saturday, Aug. 6, 2-5 p.m. Cost: $40 A lot of wine is consumed in San Fr ... More >>

Marijuana Prohibition Turns 100 Today. What Is There to Celebrate?

Celebrate the birth of prohibition -- get high!​Alcohol prohibition did little to stop Americans from guzzling booze, though it helped make gangsters rich, cops and courts busy, and encouraged foreign imports of "medicinal whiskey" (sound familiar?)That experiment was short-lived -- ratified in ... More >>

Friday's Pick: Cannons & Clouds, Winfred E. Eye, and By Sunlight

​Cannons & CloudsWinfred E. EyeBy SunlightBottom of the Hill10 p.m., $10Sometimes it's good to hit the ground running, and sometimes that just means you're about to bite off more than you can chew. Cannons & Clouds founders Zachary Blizzard and Joshua Kane realized the latter after doing t ... More >>

Cold, San Francisco? Probably Because You Have No Insulation.

No insulation in Mr. Freeze's lair either​To folks living in actual cold-weather communities, San Franciscans' complaints about our recent chilly spell have something of a Marie Antoinette-level naivete. Face it, San Francisco: The coldest day out-of-doors here isn't that cold. Period. That being ... More >>

Jeremy Fox Abandons Plum, Bumzy's Opens

​​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Breaking news from Paolo L. at the Inside Scoop: Jeremy Fox (you know, the chef from Ubuntu) has abandoned his plans to be the opening chef for Plum, the new Oakland restaurant from Daniel ... More >>

Off the Grid, Urban Wine Experience, Street-Food Birthday: Your Weekend Planner

John BirdsallFriday: Happy Dumpling cheers up Fort Mason Center.​Can you believe it's almost August? Before summer advances into downed foliage and the sun starts setting before the end of happy hour, there's no better weekend to head out and enjoy yourself. Fri., July 30: • Feeling a littl ... More >>

Morning, noon, and night, Ironside wants to be the SOMA spot

Pisco Punch, a Butt-Kicking Sip of S.F. History

Kenn Wilson/FlickrThe version at Pisco Latin Lounge: From the Monkey Block to your lips.​The mind can touch on all sorts of topics when allowed to wander unimpeded. So it was that as we reflected on Chinatown's annual Double 10 celebration commemorating the overthrow of the Xing Dynasty on Oct ... More >>

Hot Meal: Bocanova

M. BrodyBeef tenderloin crudo with searing rocoto chiles.​Hotly anticipated Bocanova teased visitors to Eat Real by turning them away from its pre-opening meals. The pan-Latin eatery opened for real on September 1. At lunch on a muggy afternoon just 10 days in, we chose the lofty dining room ... More >>

Eat Real Fest, Day Three: Long Lines and Separation Anxiety

M. Brody The sign from SweetFace Bakery said it all.SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody risked sunburn and serious bloating at the three-day Eat Real Festival in Oakland this weekend. This is her third and final report. On the last day of Eat Real, the Oakland festival celebrating str ... More >>

Eat Real Fest, Day Two: Cupcakes, Adios to Eeyore, and Butchery

M. Brody The Good to Go market at Jack London Square.SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody risked sunburn and serious bloating at the three-day Eat Real Festival in Oakland this weekend. Behold the second of Brody's three reports on the street-food orgy. Saturday was hot again, but not ... More >>

Bocanova Fires Up the Stoves This Weekend

J. Birdsall​Eat Real isn't the only thing rolling out in Jack London this weekend. MarketBar chef Rick Hackett's much-anticipated pan-American resto Bocanova holds its soft opening tonight for friends and family, mere feet from Eat Real's stage. What's on for tonght's select few? Burnt carrot and ... More >>

Calorie-Packed French, A Classy Happy, and Budget Jockishness: A Foodie Day Planner

​Thursday, July 30, 2009 Let's do lunch: Know what happens when you mix too much yoga with a low-fat diet? You look all stringy. Beef up a little, says SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody, starting with the Croque Monsieur and a side of fries at South Park Café (108 South Park at Jack Lond ... More >>

Summer Reading That Won't Make You Stupid: Sonoma Farm Diary That Thinks Globally

In Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking in California (UC Press, $24.95), Sonoma State professor Jonah Raskin writes about more than just day-to-day operations at family-run, organic Oak Hill Farm alongside Mexican immigrants, an Irish mechanic, and a French beekeeper. Raskin also des ... More >>

Yoshi’s steps up its game with free-jazz fest

Right in the Kisser

December Book Events

Arrrrrrgh, Mendozer! It Be Yer Special Day!

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

July Fourth

Best Bed-and-Breakfast

DVD Gift Box

Stark Raving Rad

Best Place to Walk Your Dog

Buena Vista Park

So Flogging Good

Give to me your leather

Show Time!

AfroSolo's back in town

Tales of the City

Shaking up the local book scene at Litquake and Green Apple Books' 35th birthday party

Strangest Little Bar

Heinold's First and Last Chance

Thrill of a Lifetime

The life of Will "The Thrill" Viharo -- the Bay Area's undisputed B-movie lounge king -- would make a good B-movie of its own

Reel World

Bay Area filmmakers at Sundance

Tall Tales

Our bar-hopping critic takes a walk on the Wild Side West, and to other Bernal Heights hangouts

Pop Philosophy

New East Bay Music Venues

Silence Is Golden

Night Crawler

But Not Out of Mind

The Lying Game

The Dude's Big Score

Out of Africa

Peking Soap Opera

Reel World

Riff Raff

Behind the Scenes