Subject: New York

• Sorry Bloggers - The Internet is BAD for Kids' Brains

  October 31, 2008

• Bush and Confessions agree: Go shopping! (Wait, don't.)

  February 11, 2009

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  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  January 30, 2008

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  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  January 23, 2008

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  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  January 16, 2008

• White Hot

  January 9, 2008

• The Tao of Twosomes

  Matt & Kim's band romance

  January 10, 2007

• Beat Back

  An extraordinary collection of San Francisco avant-garde art is hanging in a Norwegian school. Why not here?

  March 22, 2006

• The World on a String

  As the San Francisco Conservatory of Music moves to fancy new digs, its students struggle with a shrinking professional marketplace.

  April 20, 2005

• Outsiders In

  Is it still street art if it's on the wall of a museum?

  August 18, 2004

• What Is Normal?

  Charles Gatewood is the pervert next door

  April 28, 2004

• A Question of Risk

  Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

  January 28, 2004

• Through the Cracks

  There are some benefits of big-city gentrification. Jesse Malin's brilliant new record is one of them.

  August 27, 2003

• The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

  Antipop Consortium brings wee-hour surrealism to hip hop.

  December 5, 2001

• From Schlubs to Sharks

  February 16, 2000

• Night+Day

  October 22, 1997

• Savage Love

  March 26, 1997

• Dish

  October 9, 1996

• Snakebitten: Sideshow Performer Sues Local Brewer, Claims He Swiped Her Image to Hawk 'Coney Island Albino Python' Beer

  A woman describing herself as a "well known side show performer" who has picked up a "favorable reputation as a 'snake charmer'" -- we're guessing charmers with "unfavorable" reputations don't last so long -- has sued the San Francisco proprietor of the Shmaltz Brewing Company. Stephanie Torres -- aka "Serpentina"-- claims that her 6-foot-tall, 140-pound, albino serpent-toting image has been swiped by Shmaltz' Jeremy Cowan -- the man behind the popular He'Brew label -- to hawk his "Coney Island

  May 27, 2009

• Sorry, Chris: Chefs vs. City = Massive Fail

  Food NetworkChris (left), we love you, bro, but tell us there isn't going to be a Season Two.​We bow to no one in our love for chef Chris Cosentino. Incanto is on the short list of S.F. restaurants that (a) we unfailingly recommend to others, and (b) gladly spend our own money at. We're still dreaming about a perfect Cucina Povera meal there earlier this year, with an add-on of calves' brains cooked with Douglas fir fronds and pine oil. Pure genius. And we can never enter the Ferry Buildin

  October 8, 2009

• Il Cane Rosso's Lauren Kiino: The SFoodie Interview

  Kiino, working the Cane Rosso lunch line.​We confess: We have no clue what the hell environmental geologists do. But if studying to be one means you walk away with an acute understanding of stuff like terroir, and how foods grow, then it was the perfect education for Lauren Kiino. The 37-year-old chef is partner with Daniel Patterson in Cane Rosso in the Ferry Building and Bracina, slated to launch this winter in Jack London Square. Along with Patterson -- a kind of mentor -- Kiino is beco

  October 12, 2009

• Music Awards Program Guide

  October 14, 2009

• Music Awards: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

  October 14, 2009

• A Place to Bury Strangers

  October 14, 2009

• Spanish Harlem Orchestra

  October 14, 2009

• Music Awards intro

  October 14, 2009

• Music Awards: Crown City Rockers

  October 14, 2009

• Music Awards: Lazer Sword

  October 14, 2009

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  October 14, 2009

• Lethem Drops Chronic

  October 14, 2009

• Top Chef's Ash Fulk Got Kicked to the Curb. He's Not Bitter -- Except About Padma

  Fulk: He won't be inviting Padma over for snacks.​In case you were glued to Glee last night, you missed Ash Fulk getting bounced from Top Chef. Fulk might be the nicest contestant ever. "I was outcooked," he said this morning by phone. And he wouldn't diss anybody on the show -- except for Padma. More on that later. Born and bred in Pleasant Hill in the East Bay, Fulk worked as a prep cook at LMNO in Oakland (now defunct), did catering for the California Shakespeare Festival in Orinda, th

  October 15, 2009

• L.A. Police Chief William Bratton Endorsing Kamala Harris for Attorney General

  She's book smart all right...​ Here's the deal: This is a big get for Kamla Harris, the ambitious San Francisco district attorney looking to climb the political ladder. For one thing, Bill Bratton -- former New York chief and outgoing LAPD bossman -- is as big a name as there is in law enforcement. For another, she needs all the help she can get with SoCal voters, who have no idea who she is. Hey L.A., here's a Twitter-ready bio on Harris: She opposes the death penalty, her department's d

  October 15, 2009

• Few Show For California Redwoods' Football Opener -- But Fans Still Manage to Have Fun (Legally and Illegally)

  Jim HerdThere is grandeur in this view of life...​Text by Joe Eskenazi. Gorgeous photos by Jim Herd. In the many months between when we first reported the inception of the San Francisco-based United Football League up to the moment we wandered into a largely abandoned AT&T Park for the Saturday night home debut of the California Redwoods, we never did figure out the league's "mission statement." The UFL, it reads, "was developed to fulfill the unmet needs of football fans in major markets

  October 19, 2009

• NorCal Asia Society Eighty-Sixes David Chang After New York Chef's Diss of S.F. Restaurants

  NYC Wine & Food FestivalBlame it on the ah-ah-ah-alcohol.​A spokesman for the Asia Society confirmed that the organization canceled an event with New York superchef David Chang for Nov. 9, after Chang made disparaging remarks about chefs in San Francisco. "Regrettably, it's true," said Robert Bullock, program director for the Northern California chapter of the Asia Society. Chang -- chef/owner of the Momofuku family of Manhattan restaurants, including Ko and Noodle Bar -- made the remarks

  October 19, 2009

• The 2010 S.F. Michelin Guide Dropped Today -- If You Care

  Today saw the official release of Michelin's San Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country Restaurants Guide 2010, the fourth edition of the local star search. Michelin director Jean-Luc Naret told SFoodie 10 inspectors did the field work for this year's Nor Cal guide -- the same inspectors who do table research for the New York guide, to make sure the famous star rating achieves a kind of bi-coastal consistency. For those who care, Michelin ratings always raise eyebrows, if only slightly. eprouveze/F

  October 20, 2009

• Daniel Johnston teams up for power pop greatness

  October 21, 2009

• Grub Street Truth-Squads Chang: New York Chefs Use Hella Figs

  DDanzigFoie gras torchon with duck prosciutto and Black Mission figs at Gary Danko.​Bitter knows no bounds. Following the fallout over N.Y. chef David Chang's remark that "fuckin' every restaurant in San Francisco is just serving figs on a plate," Grub Street's Adam Martin activated his iPhone's calculator and got busy running the percentages. Hi conclusion? "Figs appear on more plates in New York than they do in San Francisco." Read the raw data here. Of course, as a Grub Street reader po

  October 21, 2009

• Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: The Worker (of Fiction)

  Rick Symonds​This week we chat with The Worker, a member of the Fiction crew who's always on the lookout for the dark, the strange, and the flat out mutant strains of techno and disco. The dude has one hand on the turntables, and the other inside the local music industry, working at esteemed international label Six Degrees, among other gigs.The Worker lives up to his name in S.F., swinging with the Extra Action Marching Band during DJ sets, digging up new underground techno gems for recommenda

  October 23, 2009

• 10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

  Dick JawsThe Mummies do double duty on Saturday night​Kowloon Walled City CD Release @ Annie's (Fri.) San Francisco sludgemasters Kowloon Walled City express sonic aggression with oppressive riffage. The rhythm section alone sounds massive enough to pave city streets, steamrolling by with elephantine thrusts of distorted bass and beats that drop like anvils. This heavy load is spiked by sharp outbursts of raging vocals, frontman Scott Evans channeling a weighty Am Rep angst in his hoarse yells

  October 23, 2009

• Expect Plenty of Flogging When David Chang Comes to Town, But It'll All Be of the Book Variety

  ​Nobody ever said New York chef David Chang didn't have huevos, and we're not talking the slow-poached kind that show up in the ramen at Noodle Bar. Chang's thoughts about San Francisco chefs may have raised a crap storm in certain quarters locally, but that isn't stopping the master of Momofuku from dropping down at SFO early next month -- after, that is, a mini slog through national media. Chang's Beard-worthy cookbook and memoir, Momofuku (Clarkson Potter, $40) drops next Tuesday, same

  October 23, 2009

• Haute Halloween Candy, Or How to Break Your Teeth and the Bank at the Same Time

  knipschildt.comLa Madeline au Truffe: Yours for a mere $250.​Most of us are more than happy with whatever sort of candy we can manage to score during Halloween. Luckily, there are some upscale options for those with champagne taste who won't settle for anything but the ludicrously pricey. Check out these tricked-out treats:1. La Madeline au Truffe: Connecticut chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt uses a whole French Perigord truffle (the mushroom kind) in the center of this 1.9 ounce dark chocolate t

  October 26, 2009

• Tired of N.Y. vs. S.F Throwdowns? Hear from a Genteel New Yorker Tomorrow at Omnivore

  North Point PressHe sees dead people.​William Grimes is coming to town, presumably not to educate us tofu-brained San Franciscans about what constitutes real food. Before he started writing about dead people, Grimes was, of course, a legendary reviewer of restaurants for the New York Times. His first book concerned cocktails, their histories and associated lore; his latest tome, Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York (North Point Press, $30), examines the Big Apple's dining culture,

  October 27, 2009

• No Justice

  October 28, 2009

• David Chang: S.F. Reaction to Fig-Gate 'Retardedly Stupid'

  timeoutnewyork/FlickrChang: A bad case of produce envy.​The day after publication of his book, the wonderful Momofuku (Clarkson Potter, $40), SFoodie spoke wiith New York chef David Chang. You know, the guy who stirred up a shit storm earlier this month with the comment that "fuckin' every restaurant in San Francisco is just serving figs on a plate." In the aftermath, the NorCal Asia Society canceled an event with Chang scheduled for early November, when the chef will be in town to promote

  October 28, 2009

• Halloween Clips: The Ten Scariest Music Videos of All Time

  1. Alice Cooper - "Welcome To My Nightmare"You can't have Halloween without Alice Cooper. From his decapitation-happy live shows to his self-mocking sense of humor, he's rock's king demon. (Sorry, Marilyn--we know how hard you try.) But was Cooper ever better than when accompanied by the Muppets? 2. Cannibal Corpse - "Death Walking Terror"Cannibal Corpse sometimes takes its gore-besotted schtick so far over the top that it becomes comical. We suspect that's why Jim Carrey put the band in the

  October 29, 2009

• Knives Out

  October 28, 2009

• Friday Night: Richard Strauss' Salomé at War Memorial Opera House

  Richard Strauss' SaloméWar Memorial Opera HouseFriday, Oct. 30, 2009Better than: Sunday schoolTerrence McCarthyGreer Grimsley (Jokanaan)​Of the six operas that comprise San Francisco Opera's fall 2009 season, Richard Strauss' Salomé is the outlier -- a production that, by design, represents something of a departure from the musical and aesthetic characteristics of the season's other offerings, and challenges the company to explore different artistic terrain. With a libretto drawn from an Osc

  November 2, 2009

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  November 4, 2009

• Drink of the Week: Egg Cream from Miller's East Coast Deli

  T. Palmer​If like us, you grew up here and are of a certain age, at some point in your life you've probably wondered what the heck an egg cream is . These days, you don't have to go all the way to New York to get a good answer to the question, only as far as Miller's East Coast Deli (1725 Polk at Washington).An egg cream typically contains no more than whole milk, seltzer water, and chocolate syrup, but the blend produces a sweet foamy head that disappears fairly fast. The ones at Miller's com

  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 Flouting Rules of the Road."The story didn't coincide with the headline. The purported San Francisco backlash consisted of one guy  on a bike who got a ticket for running a stop sign in Portola Val

  November 6, 2009