Eytan EltermanDeputy Consul General Ishmael Khaldi casts his ballotWhile most San Franciscans' experiences with voting take place in local firehouses or school auditoriums, our international residents don't exactly line up outside a family's flag-festooned garage. I watched Financial District cafes do a brisk business in 2007 on the morning a large line of chatting French nationals -- lots of scarves -- cast their ballots for le prochain président. Yesterday's San Francisco election to determin
San Francisco is the world capital of the art of hypocritical, Earth-friendly rhetoric. Official support for bicycle commuters could lessen the cognitive dissonance.
ScanwichesPrettier than the rose window at Chartres. Tastier, too.Since 2008, John Chonko's blog Scanwiches has been making us laugh. His beautiful scans of sandwich cross-sections against black backgrounds sometimes look like edible cathedral windows, but in his singular, unwavering focus -- just sandwiches, run through a scanner, with no commentary aside from brief captions -- we've always sensed a mild, straight-faced rebellion in the face of office drudgery. We can imagine ourselves,