Subject: Novato

• My 12-Year-Old Nephew Could Write a Better Restaurant Review Than That

  By Meredith Brody I love eating out with the kiddies. I have six godchildren, aged between early 20s and three, and I must admit I have a weakness for the one who is the best eater. At the age of 9, Chester was so appreciative of a multi-course tasting menu we were enjoying at Redwood Park, George Morrone's old restaurant in the base of the Transamerica Pyramid, that Morrone presented him with a signed menu reading "To Chester - I think someday you will have my job." Chester asked me "Should

  November 21, 2008

• Bay Area Bites from the Fancy Food Show: CJ's Bitz

  There are many chocolate-pretzel combinations on the market, but CJ's Stix of Novato takes it to the next level with the addition of chunks of perfectly salted toffee. CJ's Bitz, the bite-sized version of the Stix, are dangerous. Case in point: This writer has consumed nearly a whole box of the peanut-butter-filled version during the composition of this post. Find them at the Rincon Market (98 Howard), Gifted Basket (236 8th St.), Farm Fresh to You (1 Ferry Bldg.), Blue Fog Market (2567 Gough

  January 23, 2009

• Fire Trek

  June 21, 1995

• Letters

  September 6, 1995

• Slap Shots

  September 13, 1995

• After 146-Year Absence, 'Living Human Products' Back on U.S. Market

  Library of CongressFor sale once more?In 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring illegal the sale, purchase, or ownership of living human products, known then as people.In 2009, Barack Obama signed an order lifting restrictions on federal funding of stem cell research,  a move that preceded by three weeks the apparent reversal of a key element of Lincoln's proclamation -- namely, the sale of merchandise that is homo sapien. On March 23, a joint ventu

  March 31, 2009

• Room with a View — and Heat

  A well-known S.F. chef amps up the menu at Sutro's at the Cliff House.

  March 4, 2009

• The Ice Caps Are Melting

  May 14, 2008

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of 3-21-2007

  March 21, 2007

• For Sale, Not Cheap

  December 27, 2006

• Technology Disassembled

  A columnist defends himself, blames his bosses, and steps deeper into the ethical morass of accepting gifts

  April 5, 2006

• The Free Press

  When do gifts to journalists turn into a conflict of interest? When a New York Times writer gets his computer repaired.

  March 15, 2006

• The Free Press

  When do gifts to journalists turn into a conflict of interest? When a New York Times writer gets his computer repaired.

  March 8, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, November 23, 2005

  November 23, 2005

• Reflections of La Russa

  A baseball man talks shop

  July 6, 2005

• Festivals and Fairs

  June 23, 2004

• Where Were Pat and Vanna When the Lights Went Out?

  The S.F. taping of Wheel of Fortune goes momentarily dark; Spanganga fades permanently to black

  April 28, 2004

• Magic Markings

  Accident and surprise in the work of Arthur Okamura

  November 12, 2003

• Night Riders

  Fairyland pulls an all-nighter

  July 9, 2003

• Brain Storms

  A City Hall plan to downgrade S.F.'s only long-term-care facility for the severely mentally ill has critics up in arms

  April 23, 2003

• More At 11:00

  An Exclusive Look at Secret Plans for Revolutionary Change in San Francisco Television News

  February 5, 2003

• Burning Mad

  July 31, 2002

• Three Best Ways to Dance Away a Beautiful Sunday

  May 15, 2002

• Letters to the Editor for 1-9-2002

  Pipe Dream; Abetting Bush; Bot Shots; Harpooned; Correction

  January 9, 2002

• A Test of Faith

  A controversial San Francisco study is spending taxpayers' money to see if Christian clergy, Indian medicine men, and Tibetan lamas can heal patients with AIDS and brain tumors

  January 9, 2002

• Massing Gas

  San Francisco asks the Navy to investigate potentially dangerous methane concentrations at Hunters Point Shipyard

  January 2, 2002

• Cleaning House

  To work against terrorism, new money-laundering laws will have to be enforced in the world headquarters of cash-washing: the U.S. of A.

  October 10, 2001

• Dog Bites

  The Law of Unintended Consequences; Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining; From the Record Shelf

  September 5, 2001

• Labor of Love

  For 10 years, Mike Levy led the local band the Sneetches. It took half that time to put out his first solo album.

  January 31, 2001

• Pop Philosophy

  What Bush's choices for inauguration music say about the next four years

  January 24, 2001

• Save the Bats

  The woman who takes injured bats into her home, and the doctor who treats them

  November 8, 2000

• Night Crawler

  Battle Royale

  June 14, 2000

• The Great White Nope?

  Paul Nave, a polite, well-spoken product of upscale Marin County, has climbed out of boxing obscurity to fight for a world title. He's a polished fighter, but he's probably going to get his ass kicked.

  March 18, 1998

• Dog Bites

  February 25, 1998

• Sutter's Giant Sucking Sound

  Sutter Health, which owns one of California's largest hospital empires, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity. Critics wonder why Sutter dispenses so little charity, and vacuums so much profit, from the hospitals it acquires.

  January 21, 1998

• Night+Day

  August 20, 1997

• Under His Skin

  Dermatologist Michael Franzblau goes national with claims that a Marin newspaper ran an anti-Semitic column about him

  April 30, 1997

• Letters

  January 24, 1996

• Letters

  December 13, 1995

• An Early Peek at Eat Real Fest Oakland's Street-Food Vendor List

  Organizers of the Oakland edition of the Eat Real Street Food Fest in August have been announcing the event's growing vendor list one by one on Twitter. Instead of tracking down these peripatetic purveyors on their erratically scheduled street rounds, Eat Real is gathering up a carefully curated group for this one-time-only feeding frenzy. And to save you from scrolling through Eat Real's Twitter feed, here's the lineup so far: Seafood chowder from Half Moon Bay's Sam's Chowder Van Salvadora

  June 26, 2009

• New Bottled Iced Teas from Peet's: Rrefreshment Without the Weirdness

  Alfred Peet's tea legacy lives on -- in the fridge. Peet was originally from Holland, and grew up in the coffee and tea trade before opening his first store in Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto in 1966, long before there was such a thing. Now, just in time for S.F.'s fog-shrouded summer, Peet's bottled iced teas have hit the market. The drinks come in 15-ounce bottles, with flavors that include Snow Leopard, Little Dragon, Jade Green, and Moroccan Mint. Exotic, no? The unsweetened Summer House Citrus

  July 8, 2009

• Five Must-Eat Treats at the Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival

  ​The 14th Annual Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival, September 12-13 at Ghirardelli Square (900 North Point at Polk), finds more chocolate-themed food vendors than ever before. Careful: If you don't pace yourself, the sugar rush will overtake you before you get to taste the cream of the crop.A $20 ticket buys 15 tastings. Cut to the chase with these five recommended stops first; everything else is just icing on the (chocolate) cake.1. Pacific Puffs' Chocolate Cream Puff: This new C

  August 25, 2009

• Richard Thalheimer, Founder of Sharper Image, Talks for the First Time About His Ouster

  October 24, 2007

• Puffy Pancake Skewers: Your New Favorite Portable Breakfast

  T. PalmerPuffy pancake skewers, where have you been all our lives?​Guillermo Lara, chef and co-owner of Novato-based catering company LaVier Cuisine, has created the breakfast you didn't know you desperately needed in your life. His puffy mini pancakes ($4), stuffed with strawberries and baked up like little brioche balls, are skewered with smoked sausage, dusted with powdered sugar, drizzled with maple syrup and plated with watermelon slices, the latter of which make surprisingly excellent sy

  November 23, 2009