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Blue Bottle Unleashes Bottled Iced Coffee

​It's a big year for high-grade iced coffee. Portland's big-and-getting-bigger Stumptown unleashed bottled "stubbies" of cold-brewed goodness in May. La Colombe followed suit in August with iced coffee encased in elegant containers, and Grady's large bottles of New Orleans Cold Brew showed up seem ... More >>

San Francisco's Top Five Coffee Shops

Photos by W. Blake Gray​Coffee is such a personal thing. If I like cappuccino, you like drip coffee black, and Bill Cosby likes a triple-tall nonfat extra-hot no-foam latte (apparently true), we're not going to agree on what the best coffee shop is. But I'm the guy with the pen keyboard soapb ... More >>

Best Practices for Drinking Coffee in San Francisco

​ Yelp/Dan W.​ In the '80s coffee was funny ― Maxwell House, Yuban, Chock Full o'Nuts. They thought we were idiots. Perhaps we were: Only the best of us rejected the aluminum-tin allure of General Foods International Coffee. "It tastes like a candy cane dipped in Bosco!" gushed one com ... More >>

Afternoon Coffee at Ma*Velous

Yes, you sip it like tea.​ I first heard of the idea of a distinction between morning coffee and afternoon coffee a few years ago, when a barista at a Seattle coffee shop was describing the shop's array of beans on offer. The cafe's Central American and Indonesian beans, he told me, were straightf ... More >>

An Open Letter from Blue Bottle to the Dolores Park Community

Blue Bottle Coffee Co.Rendering of Blue Bottle's proposed coffee trailer and its site in Dolores Park.​Organizers of tonight's community meeting at Dolores Park Church to discuss Rec and Park's vendor plans for Dolores Park are finalizing the final agenda. And while representatives of would-be ... More >>

Fall Arts: Master painters, iconic photographers, and real geniuses

Blue Bottle Coffee Co.Rendering of Blue Bottle's proposed coffee trailer and its site in Dolores Park.​Organizers of tonight's community meeting at Dolores Park Church to discuss Rec and Park's vendor plans for Dolores Park are finalizing the final agenda. And while representatives of would-be ... More >>

San Francisco Ballet Dancer Beats Down Mugger in BART Brawl

That's not stage makeup on Ben 'Pupi' Stewart's face...​Mugger wants ballet dancer's iPhone. Gets bloody face instead.Ben 'Pupi' Stewart, a 5-foot-7, 140-pound dancer with the San Francisco Ballet, was about to become the next victim of an iPhone theft on BART. Instead, Pupi gave the dude a ballet ... More >>

Roll Play: Kyoto Sushi's Sunset

Kyoto Sushi (1233 Van Ness at Sutter) is easy to miss, located as it is amidst the bustle of a busy traffic corridor. But a creative sushi menu is worth slowing down for. Take the Sunset ($11.95), a California roll topped with partially baked salmon, parmesan cheese, and garlic sa ... More >>

Yoshi Wada’s heav(enl)y drones

Kyoto Sushi (1233 Van Ness at Sutter) is easy to miss, located as it is amidst the bustle of a busy traffic corridor. But a creative sushi menu is worth slowing down for. Take the Sunset ($11.95), a California roll topped with partially baked salmon, parmesan cheese, and garlic sa ... More >>

Waxing Brazilian

Kyoto Sushi (1233 Van Ness at Sutter) is easy to miss, located as it is amidst the bustle of a busy traffic corridor. But a creative sushi menu is worth slowing down for. Take the Sunset ($11.95), a California roll topped with partially baked salmon, parmesan cheese, and garlic sa ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Kyoto Sushi (1233 Van Ness at Sutter) is easy to miss, located as it is amidst the bustle of a busy traffic corridor. But a creative sushi menu is worth slowing down for. Take the Sunset ($11.95), a California roll topped with partially baked salmon, parmesan cheese, and garlic sa ... More >>

Salad Daze: Kyoto Sushi's Yasai

Kyoto Sushi (1233 Van Ness at Sutter) is easy to miss, located as it is amidst the bustle of a busy traffic corridor. But a creative sushi menu is worth slowing down for. Take the Sunset ($11.95), a California roll topped with partially baked salmon, parmesan cheese, and garlic sa ... More >>

Platinum Ambition

Art-rockers Blonde Redhead take up new cinematic space

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Art-rockers Blonde Redhead take up new cinematic space

Repertory Film Listings

Art-rockers Blonde Redhead take up new cinematic space

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Art-rockers Blonde Redhead take up new cinematic space

Hear This

John Legend and De La Soul party on till the brink of dawn. Prog-psych rockers Datetenryu bring the noise from Japan

Lost? Found.

Video for voyeurs

SHOPS

Video for voyeurs

Collect Calling

Since selling his world-famous film archive to the Library of Congress, Rick Prelinger's been busy saving 40,000 magazines, newspapers, and government documents from history's dustbin. He wants you to take a look.

Gift Wrapped

The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage, a coffee-table book from Mistress Midori

Bow and Arrow, Mind and Body

In the ancient martial art of Kyudo, archers hunt only for truth

The Bridge and Tunnel Crowd

In the ancient martial art of Kyudo, archers hunt only for truth

Night & Day

In the ancient martial art of Kyudo, archers hunt only for truth

A Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Primer

In the ancient martial art of Kyudo, archers hunt only for truth

Dharma Bummed

As it approaches its centennial, the San Francisco-based Buddhist Churches of America finds itself weakened by Japanese-American assimilation, spiritual decline, and a nasty sexual harassment suit