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Marin County

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    #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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    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 >>

  • News

    January 18, 2012

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

    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 >>

  • News

    November 30, 2011

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    July 13, 2011

    Awesome Secret Underground Bunker in Marin Headlands Gets Sealed Up

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Culture

    May 18, 2011

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    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.

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 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 occa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 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 Fl ... More >>

  • News

    October 28, 2009

    Politics are crippling state-funded services to the disabled

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 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 Francisc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 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 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2008

    Indiewood North

    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 >>

  • News

    May 14, 2008

    For Whom the Bridge Tolls

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

  • News

    May 7, 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.

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2008

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

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

  • News

    March 21, 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?

  • Calendar

    June 29, 2005

    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?

  • News

    February 23, 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

  • News

    February 9, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, February 9, 2005

  • News

    January 19, 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?

  • News

    September 29, 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

  • Calendar

    May 28, 2003

    Earthquake vs. Fire

    Disasters duke it out on the soccer field

  • News

    April 2, 2003

    San Quentin Blues

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

  • News

    January 15, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of January 15, 2003

  • Music

    June 5, 2002

    DJ Shadow

    The Private Press (MCA)

  • News

    February 14, 2001

    Smoke and Smearers

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

  • News

    February 7, 2001

    KRONic Complaints

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

  • News

    December 13, 2000

    Breaking the Cycle

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

  • News

    October 18, 2000

    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.

  • News

    January 26, 2000

    Worst of the Lot

    Bay Area nursing home regulation lags behind state

  • Film

    January 5, 2000

    Reel World

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

  • News

    June 9, 1999

    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.

  • News

    November 11, 1998

    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.

  • Music

    September 9, 1998

    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.

  • Calendar

    July 3, 1996

    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.

  • Calendar

    January 24, 1996

    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.

  • Calendar

    June 28, 1995

    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.

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