Subject: Marin County

• Foggy Bridge Wine Cruise: Marin County Meets Fantasy Island

  September 26, 2007

• Foggy Bridge Wine Cruise: Marin County Meets Fantasy Island

  September 26, 2007

• Marin Sewer Pipes Serve SF Bay a Shit Sunday with Dead Birds on Top

  February 13, 2008

• Sweetwater Construction Update '09

  Thom and Becky Steere of Marin County's Sweetwater Saloon music venue have sent along an update about their ongoing construction hurdles. Like many people who've dreamed of building a new place or expanding a current structure have discovered, it's not the expected hassles but the unforeseen ones that generate the most gray hairs: in the Sweetwater case, things like new FEMA regulations and the cursed economic downturn have taken their toll alongside usual suspects like seismic upgrade expenses.

  January 20, 2009

• The Week in SFoodie: Meat, Cheese, Tea, Coffee, Toast and Coconuts

  A few highlights of the week in SFoodie, in case you missed 'em:Tea and passion were brewed up strong at a tea tasting led by Samovar Zen Valley (297 Page) owner Jesse Jacobs Wednesday night. The tea lounge's official launch is Saturday. With the opening of new gastropub the Tipsy Pig (2231 Chestnut), braving the Marina just got a little bit easierWe went day trippin' to the Marin County oasis of Point Reyes, and uncovered the best meat and cheese along the wayThe Outer Sunset got some shine w

  March 6, 2009

• Attorney, Ex Client, Alleged Serial Con Man, art consultant, among San Francisco Defendants in Palm Springs Fraud Case

  Kaushal NiroulaAttorney David Replogle and three other San Francisco defendants face charges linked to the fraudulent sale of a Palm Springs home whose elderly owner disappeared December 4, police say. Bail is set at $5 million.Prior to the Palm Springs charges filed earlier this month, Replogle's purported accomplices had separately been charged in a three year string of unrelated frauds and other crimes, with alleged victims often plucked from the Castro District bar scene. Suspects include no

  March 10, 2009

• An Honest Drunk: Inebriated S.F. Driver Waves Off Sobriety Test, Admits He's Plastered

  Ya got me, officer...In a scene ripped straight from the Kris Kristofferson/Johnny Cash ditty "Sunday Morning Coming Down" (Well I woke up Sunday morning/ With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt/ And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad/ So I had one more for dessert), cops from San Francisco's Taraval Station encountered a soused -- but honest -- gent Sunday morning: 03/29/09 8:47 am 1300 block of 25th AvenueOfficers ... responded on a report of a man slumped over the steering wheel of

  March 31, 2009

• Marin Republicans love them some Sarah Palin

  October 8, 2008

• Indiewood North

  September 24, 2008

• For Whom the Bridge Tolls

  Politicians want pork to pay for Golden Gate increases, but the money should be paid by drivers instead.

  May 14, 2008

• Can't We All Just Roll Along?

  There is a way bike riders and car drivers can more safely coexist, and help the environment.

  May 7, 2008

• Down in the Valley

  October 10, 2007

• Bambi Must Die

  The efficient killing of invasive deer is being fought by concerned animal activists in Marin. But who's looking out for S.F. venison connoisseurs?

  March 21, 2007

• July Fourth

  June 29, 2005

• Legal Pirouette

  Marin County DA Ed Berberian switches his office's position, agreeing to Catholic Church demands to withhold sex-abuse documents from the press

  February 23, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, February 9, 2005

  February 9, 2005

• Zipped Up

  S.F. Archbishop William Levada doesn't want the public to know about decades of alleged sexual misconduct by his clerics. But why are district attorneys in San Mateo, Marin, and San Francisco helping him keep secrets?

  January 19, 2005

• Ouch, My Third Eye Hurts!

  December 8, 2004

• The City That Would Be King

  To maintain its natural position atop the local political food chain, San Francisco must be benevolent, as well as strong

  September 29, 2004

• Festivals and Fairs

  June 23, 2004

• Cinemaniacs

  April 7, 2004

• Goodbye, Mr. Chips

  The year in local film, plus the passing of a cinematic champion

  December 31, 2003

• Summer Events a Go Go!

  What to do, all summer long

  June 25, 2003

• Earthquake vs. Fire

  Disasters duke it out on the soccer field

  May 28, 2003

• San Quentin Blues

  The prison guards' union angrily ripped the rug from under the governor in February

  April 2, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  January 15, 2003

• DJ Shadow

  The Private Press (MCA)

  June 5, 2002

• Thrown for a Loop

  Local indie rock group 20 Minute Loop attempts to find the middle ground between darkness and light

  October 17, 2001

• Q: What's the Opposite of a Miracle?

  A: What the state does to the families of people who die while poor

  March 14, 2001

• Smoke and Smearers

  Potheads distort the record -- and endanger the justice system -- as they try to recall the Marin DA

  February 14, 2001

• KRONic Complaints

  February 7, 2001

• Breaking the Cycle

  Marin County has a program to protect bicyclists. In S.F., we keep killing them.

  December 13, 2000

• Odor! Odor in the Court

  October 18, 2000

• Worst of the Lot

  Bay Area nursing home regulation lags behind state

  January 26, 2000

• Reel World

  Another Day in Paradise, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Band of Outsiders

  January 5, 2000

• Rights of Passage

  September 15, 1999

• Diagnosis: Eviction

  June 9, 1999

• Dog Bites

  November 11, 1998

• Riff Raff

  September 9, 1998

• That's Just the Sound of the Employment Rate Whizzing Past Your Ears

  The California Employment Development Department released their latest statistics pertaining to unemployment and industry today, and guess what? They are not awesome. California hit a record high of 11.2 percent unemployment in March, which is nearly five points higher than March of last year. San Francisco County's unemployment rate, at 9.0, was higher than both Marin County and San Mateo County.San Francisco, San Mateo, and Redwood City are lumped together in the report as a metropolitan area.

  April 17, 2009

• The House of Tudor

  July 2, 1997

• Night+Day

  July 3, 1996

• REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

  January 24, 1996

• Night+Day

  June 28, 1995

• S.F. Unemployment Numbers: Every Time a Teacher Loses Their Job, a Bartender Is Born

  ​The leaves rustle gently in the wind, and deer raise their dewy muzzles expectantly to the sky. Birds twitter in anticipation. Hark! What's that sound?Shhh. It approaches.Here's this month's unemployment statistics from the state Employment Development Department! So, there's good news and bad news, as always. And by "good news" we mean bad news lite! The good news is that the unemployment numbers for San Francisco are holding steady. We were at 9.3 percent unemployment in June and, darn it i

  August 21, 2009

• forageSF is Offering a Twist on the CSA: Subscription Boxes of Locally Foraged Foods

  Gene Lee/forageSFPhilosophically potent: A forage box.​About a year ago, ambling through an exceptional meal at La Ciccia, we could not help but overhear a wine-soaked windbag over at the next table brag to his dining companions about his superior eating habits. "Why, I eat as my ancestors did," the man said proudly, throwing his voice theatrically around the small packed restaurant. "I've done the research!" His companions nodded generously, and he'd leaned back in his chair, folding his

  September 10, 2009

• Investigative Report: Marin County Water System Vulnerable to Al-Qaeda Attack

  Does everyone want to live in Marin?​ The Center For Investigative Reporting, the Berkeley nonprofit that recently formed a team of sleuths to take up where downsized California newspapermen and women left off, came out slugging earlier this month. It published a scintillating piece demonstrating Marin County has failed to protect its water treatment system from terrorist attack.The report, authored by longtime San Francisco investigative ace G.W. Schultz, indicated that Marin County used fede

  September 15, 2009

• Politics are crippling state-funded services to the disabled

  October 28, 2009

• New York Times' YouTube Investigation: Bicyclists Sometimes Run Stop Signs

  ​The odd media war unfolding in San Francisco -- in which major dailies establish editions here while local periodicals fade away -- advanced in a new direction Friday, with a page A-19 story in the New York City edition of the New York Times titled "San Francisco's Cyclists Facing Backlash for Flouting Rules of the Road."The story didn't coincide with the headline. The purported San Francisco backlash consisted of one guy  on a bike who got a ticket for running a stop sign in Portola Val

  November 6, 2009

• Sunday's Wild Foods Feast in Marin: Tasting the Swamp in the Land of Beemers

  Alligator bites: A fitting background for hot sauce.​On Sunday, we braved the well-appointed wilds of Marin County to devour a Savory Thymes-sponsored feast of game and foraged delicacies to benefit Swamp Cabbage, a documentary-in-process by Hayley Downs and Julie Kahn. The irony in the occasion -- patrons and gourmands gathering at a mansion high in the hills of the country's fifth wealthiest county to celebrate a movie about isolated "cracker" communities populating rural Florida's rap

  November 17, 2009