Marin County

Vote for the World's Ugliest Dog

It doesn't take a pure cat person to know that some dogs are too ugly for words. Instead of attempting to beautify dogs who aren't so easy on the eyes, their owners have decided to reward them for their crooked tongues, rat's nest fur, and general icky appearance. This week is the annual World's U ... More >>

San Francisco Kids Are Pretty Damn Healthy, Study Says

Despite all the things you hear about kids getting more fat than exercise in their day, San Francisco parents need not worry about their kids getting sucked into the truffle shuffle. A new study says San Francisco County is the second healthiest places in the country for children, trailing behind ... More >>

Marin County Asking Residents Nicely To Stop Drinking Soda This Summer

Here's a thing that'll go over well with the kids: The Marin County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution making June, July, and August "Soda Free Summer" months. While the measure doesn't outright ban sugary carbonated beverages, it does encourage Marin residents to adopt "soda free policies" a ... More >>

Shuck and Jive: Drakes Bay Oyster Company Forces a Redefinition of Environmentalism

Mount Tam Jam Books Galactic, Cake, and Others to Benefit Marin State Parks

There hasn't been a rock concert on top of Mount Tamalpais in decades. But there will be this year, when the first-ever Mount Tam Jam brings Galactic, Cake, Taj Mahal, and others to play a benefit show for the Marin County peak on its very own slopes. The concert comes at at difficult time for the C ... More >>

Farm to Cupcake, Bill Gates, and Salmonella is a'Brewing in Your Backyard

​ Don't you love when bazillionaires get behind a cause you like? Me too! So I'm pretty stoked that Bill Gates is all about changing factory farming. He's even promoting Hampton Creek Foods and their plant-based egg substitute. Here's a little background, these dudes seem pretty pro-animal: See ... More >>

Warning: Don't Eat the Shellfish From Marin County

Hey pescatarians, take note. The California Department of Public Health is warning hungry people not to eat harvested mussels, clams, or whole scallops that come from Marin County where dangerous levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins have been detected in this region. Specifically, the to ... More >>

Don't Eat Recreationally Harvested Mussels in Marin Right Now

If you're regularly in the practice of harvesting and cooking your own mussels from the waters of Marin county ... stop doing it for now. (Also, can we join you next time?) The California Department of Public Health issued a statement this morning warning consumers not to eat recreationally harvest ... More >>

Bay Area Residents Really Don't Want Their Guns Anymore

It's not too hard to believe that some cash-strapped gun toters would turn over their firearms in exchange for some money. What is hard to believe is that any of them would hand over those very expensive items to the cops for free. Marin County reports that police stations have been flooded with f ... More >>

Marin "Fairy" Busted for Halloween Heist of Accused Marijuana Dealer

A Marin County woman donning a fairy costume was booked into jail after she allegedly attacked and robbed an accused Novato marijuana dealer on Halloween. According to news reports, 21-year-old Molly Ann Blumberg was with two other women on Oct. 31 when they went to 46-year-old David Murray Randolph ... More >>

Cooks With Books Dinner Series Celebrates Reading and Eating

Several times a month, Book Passage, an independent bookseller with locations in San Francisco and Corte Madera, hosts a dinner series called Cooks with Books where a cookbook author gets to direct the preparation of a meal from their book at a restaurant in the city or in Marin County. The author i ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Newtree Debuts Sustainable Chocolate Cafe and Shop in SOMA

With a sales outpost in Marin County, the Belgian chocolate company Newtree has maintained a quiet presence in the Bay Area for years. Now, Newtree has announced a big and new local presence with its first flagship location, a retail shop and cafe in San Francisco. The space is designed with recycle ... More >>

#OpCannabis: Anonymous Pushing Marijuana For 4/20

Not every innocuous schoolboy joke becomes a worldwide cultural phenomenon, but this one -- 4/20, 4-20, four twenty -- has had legs since it began 41 years ago at San Rafael High in Marin County.This year, the universal code for marijuana use is being co-opted by everyone's favorite "hacktivist" col ... More >>

San Franciscans Might Be Healthier if They Drank Even More Alcohol

You would think that a city that restricts residents from overindulging on calorie-packed Happy Meals and nicotine would rank high on the charts of obnoxiously healthy. But alas, Marin -- a county filled with binge drinkers and crappy public transit  -- outdid us on this front. Don't worry, S.F ... More >>

The Oxy King of Marin County: Profile of a Prolific Dealer

The Old Gray Mare: At 75, the Bay Bridge Remains Hardworking and Overlooked

SF Pops Finally Brings Its Gourmet Popsicles to SF

Rebecca Rouas​Rebecca Rouas finally brought SF Pops, her Marin County gourmet popsicle stand, to San Francisco on Wednesday. Unfortunately, Rouas said it's her last day selling popsicles at markets this year because of impending cold weather, not that we're likely to notice the difference. Ro ... More >>

Fried Chicken at Rebel and Off the Grid Goes North

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Chef pop-up: We've been following where Evan and Sarah Rich have appeared around the city, and now Inside Scoop shares their Rebel pop-up menu: fried chicken. If not a fan of the fried, than this may be ... More >>

James Hetfield to Marin Hikers: "Don't Tread on Me (Or My Property)!"

Metallica singer James Hetfield​Exit light, enter night, if you will -- but don't go entering into James Hetfield's sprawling Marin County property. The Metallica singer and rhythm guitarist erected a metal fence on his ranch that blocked off a popular trail connecting two nature preserves. S ... More >>

Cyclists Need Air Horns, Not Bells, to Clear Crowds on Golden Gate Bridge

Move over, Large Marge​Cyclists commuting between San Francisco and Marin County face another three months of frustration as crews complete seismic work that's closed the bike path on the west edge of the Golden Gate Bridge. Rather than speed to their destinations, cyclists must now inch through p ... More >>

Are Oysters Dying Out?

No more oysters? Zut alors!​Oysters can definitively be counted among Things San Franciscans Love. Whether opening our wallets for those tasty bivalves at the Ferry Building or taking a Zipcar up to Tomales Bay for a picnic of raw shellfish, we show our love for the oyster in countless ways.So it ... More >>

Death Row Rebuild Bidding Under Way

He may soon be enjoying spacious new digs. Or maybe not. ​It's a miracle that the grueling and litigious process required to redevelop one's property in Marin County hasn't led to enraged neighbors landing on death row. Fittingly, the process to redevelop death row appears to be no easier. The sta ... More >>

Green Energy Fetches a High Price -- and Many Customers -- in Marin County

The future of Bay Area energy?​As both San Francisco and Marin County struggle to get "community choice aggregation" green-energy plans up and running, one of the big questions on observers' minds is whether electricity consumers will pay more for power from renewable sources such as wind and ... More >>

More Customers Than Expected Stay with Marin Public Power Program

​Fewer ratepayers than expected are dropping out of a new public-power program in Marin County, a development that could prove a harbinger for a similar initiative in San Francisco.

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 occa ... More >>

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 Fl ... More >>

Politics are crippling state-funded services to the disabled

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Indiewood North

For Whom the Bridge Tolls

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

Can't We All Just Roll Along?

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

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

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?

July Fourth

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

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, 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?

Earthquake vs. Fire

Disasters duke it out on the soccer field

San Quentin Blues

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

DJ Shadow

The Private Press (MCA)

Smoke and Smearers

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

KRONic Complaints

A media chain buys a local television station. Employees worry. Oh, the horror.

Breaking the Cycle

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

Odor! Odor in the Court

It wasn't impossible to find justice in Michael Dufficy's Marin County courtroom. But it was easier if you had been to one of his parties.

Diagnosis: Eviction

An out-of-state company mismanaged its Mill Valley nursing home, then closed it down, casting dozens of elderly patients to the winds. Within months, 10 of them were dead.

Riff Raff

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