Monterey Bay Aquarium

Not Lying with the Fishes: TwoXSea's Fresh-Caught Seafood Takes on S.F.

Ross Mirkarimi Loses Fight to Lift Restraining Order, More Texts from His Wife Revealed

​Mirkarimi's wife told neighbor about potential child neglect episode in which son was left in the car and not being fed. Mirkarimi has gone to three counseling sessions. A Superior Court judge refused to lift a restraining order Thursday preventing Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi from seeing his wife, Eli ... More >>

Analysis: Damning Text Messages Emerge in Ross Mirkarimi Spouse Abuse Case

​One of the major missing pieces in the domestic-violence case against newly elected Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi emerged during his arraignment on three misdemeanor counts yesterday: Text messages and e-mails, allegedly sent by his wife, that prosecutors say demonstrate her concerns that Mirkarimi was ... More >>

Mee Mee's Cow Ears and Coin Cookies, the Horror of Bycatch

​ Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. Mee Mee Bakery's macaroons.​1. Mee Mee's sweets. Rice Plate Journal, my block-by-block survey of Chinatown restaurants, is finally hitting the dense restaurant zone of Powell an ... More >>

Go Fish: S.F.'s Coastal Foraging King Shows How to Fish (and Eat) Locally

​ Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. Mee Mee Bakery's macaroons.​1. Mee Mee's sweets. Rice Plate Journal, my block-by-block survey of Chinatown restaurants, is finally hitting the dense restaurant zone of Powell an ... More >>

Saturday's Green Festival: Crunchy. The Food: Less So

Elaine N./YelpA Donna's tamale.​Green Festival Where: Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 Eighth St. (at Brannan), 487-3293 When: Sat., Apr. 9, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sun., Apr. 10, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $10 in advance, $15 at the door The rundown: Hey San Francisco, it's time to walk your talk. Sure ... More >>

Sushirrito and Tataki South Remake Japanese Cuisine for American Appetites

Elaine N./YelpA Donna's tamale.​Green Festival Where: Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 Eighth St. (at Brannan), 487-3293 When: Sat., Apr. 9, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sun., Apr. 10, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $10 in advance, $15 at the door The rundown: Hey San Francisco, it's time to walk your talk. Sure ... More >>

Even in San Francisco, Seafood Sustainability Is Suspect

Sardines are an anytime food.​ Today, San Francisco magazine published an amazing investigative piece by Erik Vance. Vance doesn't just accept local chefs' commitment to sourcing what they call "sustainable seafood" ― he checks up on their claims. There is a booming demand for sustainably caught ... More >>

Gas Mask Removed from Cow at Aquarium's Controversial Global Warming Exhibit

Humans in gas masks just aren't the same​A cow in a gas mask is a memorable image. That's probably why it was deployed, to great effect, in a recent exhibit on climate change at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. While this is the sort of thing that would doubtless please André Breton, dairy farmers -- n ... More >>

Can Tech Tools Help Us Eat Better? Find Out at Free Ferry Building Event

​Wikia and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is at the helm of an all-day free food and tech event at the Ferry Building this Sunday. It'll seek to ask whether things like food blogs, websites, and smartphone apps can influence healthy food choices, with a panel discussion that includes Chow's Jan ... More >>

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seahorse or SeaWHORES?

Single and ready to mingle.​Sex sells. Everything. Cars. Cosmetics. Hamburgers. Seahorses. Ads touting a new seahorse exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium started cropping up some time ago (the exhibit opened on April 6 and will run until 2012.) But it wasn't until a friend who was traveling on BA ... More >>

Waterbar Prix-Fixe to Serve Up Wild Arctic Char

nilsrinaldi/Flickr Yeah, it's as pristine as that.Even if you keep your Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch wallet guide handy, it can be hard to avoid making the kind of seafood choices that'll someday result in the oceans becoming a lukewarm slurry of algae. Is farmed fish always bad? Shoul ... More >>

What Do 'Local' and 'Sustainable' Really Mean? Find Out Tomorrow at Acme Chophouse

meatpaper/FlickrA panel of sustainable foodies breaks it down tomorrow at Acme.Don't be so smug. You might think you know the difference between local and sustainable, but think again -- there's always room for debate about these ever-evolving hot-button concepts. Not sure if there's such a thing ... More >>

The Doggie Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs for Thursday, May 21, 2009 Washington State University crossed Michael Pollan's anti-big-ag screed The Omnivore's Dilemma off its freshman required reading list, and it's not entirely clear why. The uni says it's all about money (or lack thereof), while just ... More >>

Watch Alton Brown Feed the Fishies in Monterey Bay

Brown: Worth the schlep?Many of the events taking place this Friday and Saturday for the Monterey Bay Aquarium's eighth-annual Cooking for Solutions are already sold out, including Friday's members-only VIP opening reception with TV chef/food scientist Alton Brown. If money ain't a thang, a few of S ... More >>

Monterey Bay Aquarium Sharks are Total Party Animals

Brown: Worth the schlep?Many of the events taking place this Friday and Saturday for the Monterey Bay Aquarium's eighth-annual Cooking for Solutions are already sold out, including Friday's members-only VIP opening reception with TV chef/food scientist Alton Brown. If money ain't a thang, a few of S ... More >>

Let's Get Sustainable: Cooking for Solutions 2008 Is Coming

Brown: Worth the schlep?Many of the events taking place this Friday and Saturday for the Monterey Bay Aquarium's eighth-annual Cooking for Solutions are already sold out, including Friday's members-only VIP opening reception with TV chef/food scientist Alton Brown. If money ain't a thang, a few of S ... More >>

All-in or Nothing

Rene Medina’s Colma casino brought life to a city of cemeteries. It also brought federal agents looking for corruption.

First Proposition, Then Conception

Take the initiative on the sticky question of parental notification

Say It Loud

Korean-Americans find their voice

Adventures in Wonder-land

A transporting search for the creator of the Museum of Lost Wonder

Money, Art, and Lawyers

Razing of long-standing Berkeley Shellfish sculpture creates potential legal dispute

Night + Day

Razing of long-standing Berkeley Shellfish sculpture creates potential legal dispute

Bus to Nowhere

Why San Francisco's Byzantine school desegregation program systematically fails the children it was designed to help