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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 >>

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 Francisc ... More >>

Indiewood North

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 Francisc ... More >>

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.

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

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?

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?

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

Cinemaniacs

Celebrate the Rafael in high style

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

Letters to the Editor

Week of January 15, 2003

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.

Worst of the Lot

Bay Area nursing home regulation lags behind state

Reel World

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

Rights of Passage

With gates and fences, private property owners are increasingly cutting off traditional paths to public lands. State law offers some recourse, but not much.

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.

Dog Bites

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

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.

Night+Day

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.

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

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.

Night+Day

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.

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 >>

Politics are crippling state-funded services to the disabled

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Latest State Employment Numbers: Slightly More Abysmal than Before

​We know you've been sitting in the closest, in the dark, refusing food and ignoring the increasingly desperate pleas of friends and family to Please, just come out! Not until I get my next installment of the Employment Development Department's monthly labor statistics, you told yourself resolutel ... More >>

Marin Pot Club: Kids Welcome!

​Lynnette Shaw, the Fairfax pot saleswoman famed for leading a fight 10 years ago to recall Marin County's district attorney for enforcing laws relating to marijuana, is now crusading to overturn a town restriction keeping kids out of her store, the Contra Costa Times reports.Speaking before the F ... 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.

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 >>

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 >>

Pomplamoose Turns Its Talents on for Hyundai Commercials

​Marin County duo Pomplamoose is famous for its offbeat video covers of big-time pop songs, which rake in revenue on YouTube. Now it appears as though Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn have found another way to bring home the bacon: car ads. They remade "Up On the Housetop" and "Jingle Bells" in their si ... 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 >>

Public Power Program Likely to Cover Fewer Customers at Outset

​Community Choice Aggregation Could be Offered to Just One-Tenth of CityWe've reported in the past on the intractable problems -- both in design and execution -- of CleanPowerSF, San Francisco's ambitious plan to shift the city to a more eco-friendly power supply. The program, as initially conceiv ... More >>

BOSF 2011: Gravel and Gold Sells Beautiful, Beguiling Bric-a-Brac

​Community Choice Aggregation Could be Offered to Just One-Tenth of CityWe've reported in the past on the intractable problems -- both in design and execution -- of CleanPowerSF, San Francisco's ambitious plan to shift the city to a more eco-friendly power supply. The program, as initially conceiv ... 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 >>

Awesome Secret Underground Bunker in Marin Headlands Gets Sealed Up

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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

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 >>