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Our Ultimate Mash-Up Mother's Day Meal in San Francisco

Like Valentine's Day and Easter before it, Mother's Day can be a particularly annoying holiday for us food blogger worker bees. The endless pap of press releases touting how kind the restaurant industry wants to pretend to be on the holiday -- free roses for the moms! Free champagne tipples for that ... More >>

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Facebook Being Blamed in East Coast Porn Fiasco

​Some teens on the East Coast were horrified to discover their innocent Facebook photos had been plastered all over a sleazy porn site. According to media reports, 17 girls from Bay Path Technical Vocational Regional High School in Charlton, Mass., were victims of this Facebook/porn fiasco, but sc ... More >>

Tequila Bowl: Royal Exchange Bartenders Face-Off

​What: Superbowl Cocktail Competition to Benefit Project Open HandWhere: The Royal ExchangeWhen: Tuesday, Jan. 31, 5:30 p.m.Cost: $5 ($10 at the door)The rundown: The best drink deal in the city might be tonight at the Royal Exchange. For $5, you're getting four cocktails, you're representing your ... More >>

DJ Theory on the Success of Moombahton, Its Burgeoning Subgenres, and the INTL Party

With the explosion of moombahton on the electronic music scene in the past two years, DJ Theory made a name for himself within the genre through appearances on the Moombahsoul series, original moombah-inspired remixes of Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg, and by starting one of the first local moombahton p ... More >>

Mission: Battleship Puts the 'Eat' in Fleet Week

Where: S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, Pier 45, Embarcadero (at Taylor) When: Thurs., Oct. 6th, 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. Cost: $30 online; 21 and over. Food and drink not included in entry price. The rundown: Fleet Week docks in San Francisco and kicking the party off like a bottle of champagne on a new ship is Mis ... More >>

Where Have All the Stoners Gone?

Hey stoners, do you really want Sarah Palin as an ally?​It's hard to say exactly where the American marijuana movement is at present. For every Alabama, where a Republican state legislator will sponsor a medical marijuana bill to legalize medical cannabis, there's an Arizona or a Montana, where la ... More >>

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Bacon and Snowballs Roll Out, Venga Sets Up Shop, Four New Coffee Shops, and More

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Food Truck News: Who doesn't like bacon? Okay, I don't, but I'm a rarity, which is a good thing for Bacon Bacon Truck. Inside Scoop reports the porcine truck from former E&O general manager Jim Angelus is ... More >>

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Bottle Cap Takes From Blue Plate, the Muppet Show Inspires, and Of Course, More Crepes

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. A couple chef updates. From Grub Street via Tablehopper, we've got the status of Bottle Cap, the restaurant slated to open in three weeks in the former Washington Square Bar & Grill space. Matt Sullivan, ... More >>

Let Him Prey: High-Ranking Jesuits Helped Keep Pedophile Priest Hidden

Happy Birthday to Jonathan Richman, Who Turns 60 Today

Because he'd wish you a happy birthday.​ We're all fortunate to share an existence with Jonathan Richman, the songwriter/savant/funny guy best known for that song about being in love with Massachusetts and being in love with rock 'n' roll and being in the car with the radio on. "Roadrunner," ... More >>

Our Cornucopia Runneth Over

There is plenty new at two of San Francisco's best takeout places

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town.

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Town and Out

One exceptional meal is overshadowed by two subsequent setbacks

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