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April 2, 2012
ICE Does Immigration Sweeps, Arrests Thousands of "Criminal Aliens"
Immigration authorities have arrested more than 3,100 convicted illegal immigrants and fugitives, including 200 in Northern California, during a massive, high-profile sweep nationwide over the last week. Some 1,900 ICE officers and agents throughout the United States conducted the largest six-day ... More >>
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March 28, 2012
Trends in Beer: The House Brew Comes to Bar Tartine, Public House, and More
Remember those Virginia Slims ads where women frolicked beneath the proclamation, "You've Come a Long Way, Baby!"? That's pretty much how beer geeks feel these days. Once the sovereign domain of wine, the city's finest restaurants now carry fine craft beers, and many SF chefs and beverage progra ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
The 10 Days of Beer Week
Remember those Virginia Slims ads where women frolicked beneath the proclamation, "You've Come a Long Way, Baby!"? That's pretty much how beer geeks feel these days. Once the sovereign domain of wine, the city's finest restaurants now carry fine craft beers, and many SF chefs and beverage progra ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Meet Heather Meader-McCausland, Whose Alaskan Photos Make SFO Less Depressing
Heather Meader-McCausland grew up in rural Alaska, 100 miles above the Arctic Circle, and in Sonoma County, Calif. She was born to Elaine and Fred Meader, the filmmakers who produced the Alaskan documentary "Year of the Caribou," so nobody was surprised when she picked up a camera. Her photo exhibit ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2012
Cafe Gratitude Is Not Going Anywhere and A Sushi Robot at U-Sushi
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Cafe Gratitude won't be closing all of their Northern California locations after all. The "series of aggressive lawsuits" they attributed to the cause of their impending closures, announced via Facebook i ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2011
Hear This: Los Rakas' Raka Rich Wants You to 'Check Yo B*tch'
Panama-born, Oakland-raised Raka Rich is best known as one-half of the rap group Los Rakas (with cousin Raka Dun), but he's also a solo artist who is planning to drop a new EP sometime in 2012. Today we have a taste of that release with a new single called "Check Yo B*tch." With its gentle, R&B- rem ... More >>
Blogs
November 14, 2011
Why San Francisco Birds Are So Fat
Scientist say birds in Northern California, including San Francisco, are getting bigger and fatter by the year. And since Global Warming tends to be the scapegoat for all our general state of deterioration, it made sense to place blame squarely on Climate Change. But after considering the science, ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2011
The Girl Scouts' New Locavore Badge: What You Have to Do to Earn It
The Girl Scouts' Locavore badge.Last week, NPR reported that the Girl Scouts of the USA had just revised its badges for the first time in 20 years. The update included introducing a new "Locavore" badge for senior scouts ages 14-16. But what do the scouts have to do to earn it? A fair amount of ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2011
Obama's New Marijuana Policies Also Target Alt-Weeklies and the Bill of Rights
Say, is that hemp? Kill it!In their unrelenting quest to kill legal medical marijuana dead, President Barack Obama and the United States Department of Justice appear content to incur collateral damage. Last week, property owners who rent to dispensaries were informed that the federal governmen ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2011
Two Sisters Bar & Books Opens Friday and ACRE/SF Sells Coffee and Clothing
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Two very worldly sisters are channeling Krakow, Vienna, Paris, Brooklyn, and our own Northern California into Two Sisters Bar & Books. Grub Street reports, via Urban Daddy, the bar will open this Friday f ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2011
Feds: Drug Cartels Are Here, and They're Taking Our Jobs
Gone the way of UAWThe Drug War is going the way of the "evildoers," according to a federal report released last week. Two years ago, foreign drug cartels were in 230 American cities. Today, the cartels -- from Mexico, East Asia, and, presumably, Canada -- have infiltrated more than 1,000 America ... More >>
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September 14, 2011
Undeniable
Gone the way of UAWThe Drug War is going the way of the "evildoers," according to a federal report released last week. Two years ago, foreign drug cartels were in 230 American cities. Today, the cartels -- from Mexico, East Asia, and, presumably, Canada -- have infiltrated more than 1,000 America ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2011
9/11 Conspiracy Movie Festival Brings "Truthers" to Herbst Theatre
Or was it?The details may vary, but the premise behind almost all the 9/11-conspiracy films this weekend is roughly the same: Government investigations such as the 9-11 Commission report are inadequate and may be covering up other details. Beyond that, theories vary, and the Northern California ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2011
Slow Money Entrepreneur Showcase Brings Money Down to the Soil
beyondtheplate.netBrentwood's Frog Hollow Farm.Most people are familiar with Slow Food, the organization founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986 to encourage a return to traditional foodways and reconnect with the sources where our food comes from. So what if we took the same mentality and applied i ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
SF Weekly Letters
beyondtheplate.netBrentwood's Frog Hollow Farm.Most people are familiar with Slow Food, the organization founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986 to encourage a return to traditional foodways and reconnect with the sources where our food comes from. So what if we took the same mentality and applied i ... More >>
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April 20, 2011
What Fish You Can Buy, and When, in San Francisco
beyondtheplate.netBrentwood's Frog Hollow Farm.Most people are familiar with Slow Food, the organization founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986 to encourage a return to traditional foodways and reconnect with the sources where our food comes from. So what if we took the same mentality and applied i ... More >>
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April 20, 2011
Go Fish: S.F.'s Coastal Foraging King Shows How to Fish (and Eat) Locally
beyondtheplate.netBrentwood's Frog Hollow Farm.Most people are familiar with Slow Food, the organization founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986 to encourage a return to traditional foodways and reconnect with the sources where our food comes from. So what if we took the same mentality and applied i ... More >>
Dining
March 9, 2011
Drink 2011: Brewers Join Forces -- Beer Ensues
beyondtheplate.netBrentwood's Frog Hollow Farm.Most people are familiar with Slow Food, the organization founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986 to encourage a return to traditional foodways and reconnect with the sources where our food comes from. So what if we took the same mentality and applied i ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2011
Cupcakes for Choice, Drinks for Dogs, and Gumbo for Mardi Gras!
SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Pissed about Congress-approved federal funding cuts for Planned Parenthood? I am because it's total bullshit. In response, we're doing some culinary activism in the form of a delicious bake sale at this Sunday' ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
New Questions Raised About State's Imported Lethal Injection Drugs
Newly released documents raise questions about the quality of drugs imported from abroad by state corrections officials to carry out lethal injections, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.The documents, obtained by the ACLU through Freedom of Information Act (FO ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
High-tech Thieves Jury Rigged Gas Pumps to Steal Customers' Identities
A pair of MacGyver-esque identity thieves has pleaded guilty to implanting devices in gas pumps that stole customers' checking-account information, a scheme that state officials say brought in $90,000.The California Attorney General's office announced today that the men -- David Karapetyan and Zh ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
High Stakes
A pair of MacGyver-esque identity thieves has pleaded guilty to implanting devices in gas pumps that stole customers' checking-account information, a scheme that state officials say brought in $90,000.The California Attorney General's office announced today that the men -- David Karapetyan and Zh ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2010
Steel Yourself for Winter. Watch This Rain Video.
That's right, San Franciscans. December is here, the cold has set in, and the wet is beginning to arrive, nary to depart again until March or thereabouts. This isn't all bad: There will be green fields outside the city, and some pretty sweet wildflowers in the hills of Marin come spring. But in case ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
Mushroom Cloud? Liz Taylor Film Flop
That's right, San Franciscans. December is here, the cold has set in, and the wet is beginning to arrive, nary to depart again until March or thereabouts. This isn't all bad: There will be green fields outside the city, and some pretty sweet wildflowers in the hills of Marin come spring. But in case ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2010
We Win! L.A. Has More High Earthquake Risk Hospitals Than S.F.
The SoCal sickly are fare more likely to die in collapsing hospitals than San FranciscansRed-staters may fantasize about San Franciscans perishing in The Big One. But a recent California Watch report identifying which hospital buildings have the highest known risk of collapse suggests we get to f ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2010
Bad Doctors' Ranks Swelling in Northern California, Report Finds
A study commissioned by the Medical Board of California has made a bit of a splash, suggesting that the disciplinary process for misbehaving doctors hasn't been handled well by the office of Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate) Jerry Brown.As California Watch reports, the AG's office is ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2010
Whisky, Pie, and Franken Berry: The Week in Food Bloggery
Benimoto/FlickrYou think you can bake like this?Highlights from the blog and beyond:1. You have two days left in WhiskyWeek, another excuse to get drunk in the name of furthering your culinary education. Lou Bustamante offers a primer on whiskey/whisky (getting the spelling right is one of the ba ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2010
Chips Ahoy, Cocktails Down the Hatch: This Week in Food Bloggery
J. BirdsallBehold: The majestic chocolate chip cookie.1. You know how some people get a reputation for liking owls, and suddenly they're receiving owl earrings for Christmas, owl thank-you cards after dinner parties, and owl pencils? Well, John Birdsall put the word out that he was tasting chocol ... More >>
Blogs
September 15, 2010
Great American Beer Festival Takes Over Denver, with Plenty of Bay Area Contenders
Brian YaegerS.F. beer geek Jason Henry volunteering at the Cascade Brewing booth at last year's GABF.Thursday marks the beginning of the three-day, mind-blowing, liver-busting, gut-expanding extravaganza known as the Great American Beer Festival, now in its 29th year. Sponsored by the Brewers ... More >>
Blogs
August 27, 2010
San Francisco Weather Returns to San Francisco
Rain or shine, hot or chilly, San Franciscans will gripe...Between a spate of unseasonably chilly temperatures and a few days of Vegas sans the rhinestone outfits, San Franciscans have handily proven that we can complain about the weather no matter what -- and that there's no pleasing us. So if w ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2010
Ajisen Ramen Opens Tomorrow at Westfield Mall
Luis ChongThe first Northern California outpost of the Japanese chain boasts a huge menu.As SFoodie previously reported, Japanese fast-food chain Ajisen Ramen is opening its first Northern California branch in the Westfield Mall. Located on the Concourse Level, flanked by Panda Express and R ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2010
Will Landmark Health Care Bill Harm Fish?
Eating fish is good for your health. Expanded medical coverage is good for public health. Yet expanding medical coverage harms the health of fish.Does this mean heath care harms people's health?Probably not. But Republicans are alleging that Rep. Nancy Pelosi's intense lobbying and favor-swapping ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2010
SFoodie's 92: Brioche Bread Pudding from Tartine Bakery
J. BirdsallThrowback to a milkier time.As a daily windup to the Weekly's Best of S.F. 2010 on May 19, we've teased out 92 of our favorite local dishes that taste like here. All the tasty details after the jump.
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February 10, 2010
Misfit Medleys
J. BirdsallThrowback to a milkier time.As a daily windup to the Weekly's Best of S.F. 2010 on May 19, we've teased out 92 of our favorite local dishes that taste like here. All the tasty details after the jump.
Blogs
January 22, 2010
Bay Area Beasts: Pterodactyls, Mystery Cats, and Sea Serpents
From Charles Gould's Mythical Monsters, via archive.orgThis month saw two stories of mysterious monsters crop up in rapid succession. In Britain, the inhabitants of Buckshaw Village fear a creature that looks like a cross between a boar, a dog and large cat that upends trash bins and devours deer ... More >>
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January 13, 2010
On the Good Foot
From Charles Gould's Mythical Monsters, via archive.orgThis month saw two stories of mysterious monsters crop up in rapid succession. In Britain, the inhabitants of Buckshaw Village fear a creature that looks like a cross between a boar, a dog and large cat that upends trash bins and devours deer ... More >>
Dining
December 16, 2009
Il Cane Rosso: Proof that locally sourced eating hasn't gone too far
From Charles Gould's Mythical Monsters, via archive.orgThis month saw two stories of mysterious monsters crop up in rapid succession. In Britain, the inhabitants of Buckshaw Village fear a creature that looks like a cross between a boar, a dog and large cat that upends trash bins and devours deer ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2009
Early Bird Special: Il Cane Rosso
J. BirdsallMarin Sun Farms beef sugo over creamy polenta.An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. If Manhattan ramen king David Chang taught us anything, it's this: Northern California's ingredient-centric cooking vernacular can seem like gibberish to outsiders. If you'd beg ... More >>
Blogs
December 11, 2009
Cops: Gun Pulled in Roommates' Argument Over Heater
This could get ugly...Earlier this week, a couple of climate scientists told SF Weekly that, yes, this is cold weather -- for Northern California. People in Rochester wouldn't even be wearing a coat right now. Well, don't tell that to residents of Bernal Heights. Police on Wednesday were alerted ... More >>
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September 30, 2009
Baghdad by the Bay
This could get ugly...Earlier this week, a couple of climate scientists told SF Weekly that, yes, this is cold weather -- for Northern California. People in Rochester wouldn't even be wearing a coat right now. Well, don't tell that to residents of Bernal Heights. Police on Wednesday were alerted ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2009
No More Pencils No More Books, No More Teachers' Dirty Looks -- The State Is Broke and Colleges are Closed
http://fusilly.com/blog/Sad -- but not as sad as real life Those of us who grew up in Northern California never experienced the joy of a school "Snow Day" in which reading, writing, and arithmetic are abandoned in favor of the ecstasy of winter frolicking. Growing up here, I vividly recall the ti ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2009
September Tasting and Preserves Swap Should Prove Just Peachy
pickyourown.org Gayle Okumura Sullivan of Dry Creek Peach and Produce in Healdsburg, one of the last peach farms in all of Northern California, will join Omnivore Books owner Celia Sack in hosting a special tasting of Dry Creek's heirloom yellow and white peaches. They'll also oversee ... More >>
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April 15, 2009
Tamales Bay
pickyourown.org Gayle Okumura Sullivan of Dry Creek Peach and Produce in Healdsburg, one of the last peach farms in all of Northern California, will join Omnivore Books owner Celia Sack in hosting a special tasting of Dry Creek's heirloom yellow and white peaches. They'll also oversee ... More >>
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April 8, 2009
For the Fans
pickyourown.org Gayle Okumura Sullivan of Dry Creek Peach and Produce in Healdsburg, one of the last peach farms in all of Northern California, will join Omnivore Books owner Celia Sack in hosting a special tasting of Dry Creek's heirloom yellow and white peaches. They'll also oversee ... More >>
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January 14, 2009
Next!
pickyourown.org Gayle Okumura Sullivan of Dry Creek Peach and Produce in Healdsburg, one of the last peach farms in all of Northern California, will join Omnivore Books owner Celia Sack in hosting a special tasting of Dry Creek's heirloom yellow and white peaches. They'll also oversee ... More >>
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September 24, 2008
Just Add Water
pickyourown.org Gayle Okumura Sullivan of Dry Creek Peach and Produce in Healdsburg, one of the last peach farms in all of Northern California, will join Omnivore Books owner Celia Sack in hosting a special tasting of Dry Creek's heirloom yellow and white peaches. They'll also oversee ... More >>
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April 9, 2008
Drumming It Up
pickyourown.org Gayle Okumura Sullivan of Dry Creek Peach and Produce in Healdsburg, one of the last peach farms in all of Northern California, will join Omnivore Books owner Celia Sack in hosting a special tasting of Dry Creek's heirloom yellow and white peaches. They'll also oversee ... More >>
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October 3, 2007
Sandy Land
pickyourown.org Gayle Okumura Sullivan of Dry Creek Peach and Produce in Healdsburg, one of the last peach farms in all of Northern California, will join Omnivore Books owner Celia Sack in hosting a special tasting of Dry Creek's heirloom yellow and white peaches. They'll also oversee ... More >>
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August 1, 2007
Help Is On The Way XIII
pickyourown.org Gayle Okumura Sullivan of Dry Creek Peach and Produce in Healdsburg, one of the last peach farms in all of Northern California, will join Omnivore Books owner Celia Sack in hosting a special tasting of Dry Creek's heirloom yellow and white peaches. They'll also oversee ... More >>
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June 22, 2005
Weird Science
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