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Novato

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2008

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    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 pe ... More >>

  • News

    June 21, 1995

    Fire Trek

    Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

  • News

    September 6, 1995

    Letters

    Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

  • Calendar

    September 13, 1995

    Slap Shots

    Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    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,& ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 4, 2009

    Room with a View — and Heat

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

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2008

    The Ice Caps Are Melting

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

  • News

    March 21, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of 3-21-2007

  • News

    December 27, 2006

    For Sale, Not Cheap

    Week of 3-21-2007

  • News

    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.

  • News

    March 8, 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.

  • News

    November 23, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, November 23, 2005

  • Calendar

    July 6, 2005

    Reflections of La Russa

    A baseball man talks shop

  • Summer Guide

    June 23, 2004

    Festivals and Fairs

    A baseball man talks shop

  • News

    April 28, 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

  • Culture

    November 12, 2003

    Magic Markings

    Accident and surprise in the work of Arthur Okamura

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2003

    Night Riders

    Fairyland pulls an all-nighter

  • News

    February 5, 2003

    More At 11:00

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

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Three Best Ways to Dance Away a Beautiful Sunday

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

  • News

    January 9, 2002

    Letters to the Editor for 1-9-2002

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

  • News

    January 2, 2002

    Massing Gas

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

  • News

    September 5, 2001

    Dog Bites

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

  • Music

    January 31, 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.

  • Music

    January 24, 2001

    Pop Philosophy

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

  • News

    November 8, 2000

    Save the Bats

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

  • News

    June 14, 2000

    Night Crawler

    Battle Royale

  • News

    March 18, 1998

    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.

  • News

    February 25, 1998

    Dog Bites

    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.

  • Calendar

    August 20, 1997

    Night+Day

    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.

  • News

    January 24, 1996

    Letters

    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.

  • News

    December 13, 1995

    Letters

    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.

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    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 gro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 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 th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Monkey Business: Simian Sighted in Marin -- But S.F. Monkeys Tend to Stay in Zoo

    Not seen in these parts...​The news that multiple witnesses have spotted what appears to be a monkey tooling around Novato takes the wind out of San Francisco's sails. Nothing is supposed to happen in Novato -- that's why people move to Novato. We're the place that ought to have wild animals galli ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2009

    Local Warming: Climate change comes to S.F.

    Not seen in these parts...​The news that multiple witnesses have spotted what appears to be a monkey tooling around Novato takes the wind out of San Francisco's sails. Nothing is supposed to happen in Novato -- that's why people move to Novato. We're the place that ought to have wild animals galli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    Our Local Beer Experts Blind-Tasted Stouts. Guess Who Won?

    B. YaegerThe lineup ranged from Anglo to Cali.​For this month's blind beer-tasting, we gave in to the dark side. Stouts originated in England in the mid-18th century, and might have fizzled out had it not been for the Irish. Deriving its name from particularly strong or "stout" porter, stout i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    S.F.'s Iconic Anchor Brewery Sold to Marin Investment Company

    Jesse Friedman/Beer & NoshFritz Maytag revived the Anchor Brewing Co., keeping operations in S.F.​Noah Galuten of our sister blog in L.A. is among a handful of sources reporting this afternoon that local craft beer pioneer Anchor Brewing Co. has been sold to The Griffin Group, a Novato-based i ... More >>

  • News

    May 5, 2010

    Crime-lab fiasco led to alleged drug dealers being freed

    Jesse Friedman/Beer & NoshFritz Maytag revived the Anchor Brewing Co., keeping operations in S.F.​Noah Galuten of our sister blog in L.A. is among a handful of sources reporting this afternoon that local craft beer pioneer Anchor Brewing Co. has been sold to The Griffin Group, a Novato-based i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Rescued Hens Up For Adoption in Marin

    ​This morning, 70 rescued hens arrived at the Marin County Humane Society in Novato. They came from an animal sanctuary in Vacaville, where an egg farmer had dropped them off with plastic bands cutting into their legs. The farmer had placed the bands on the chickens when they were young, not think ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Thinking About Keeping Backyard Chickens? Rescued Birds Might Be a Good Place to Start

    ​This morning, 70 rescued hens arrived at the Marin County Humane Society in Novato. They came from an animal sanctuary in Vacaville, where a Northern California egg farmer had dropped them off with plastic bands cutting into their legs.The farmer placed the bands on the chickens when they were yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Marin Brewing Co.'s Arne Johnson

    Arne Jonson's been brewmaster at Marin Brewing Co. for 15 years.​Brendan Moylan founded Marin Brewing Co. in 1989 and has since launched Moylan's in Novato. Fifteen years ago, Arne Johnson became the brewmaster at Moylan's Larkspur original, where the always-sunny patio is a favorite ferry des ... More >>

  • News

    February 23, 2011

    SF Weekly Letters

    Arne Jonson's been brewmaster at Marin Brewing Co. for 15 years.​Brendan Moylan founded Marin Brewing Co. in 1989 and has since launched Moylan's in Novato. Fifteen years ago, Arne Johnson became the brewmaster at Moylan's Larkspur original, where the always-sunny patio is a favorite ferry des ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    More New York Love for Mission Chinese Food, Food Trucks Selling Junk to Students

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. The NYT looooooves Mission Chinese Food. Mark Bittman at the New York Times writes a lovely rave of Mission Chinese Food. The piece came on top of an "Edible Selvy" feature on MCF ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Paul Nave, "Marin County Assasin," Can't Outlast Boxer Half His Age

    Dan O'NeillPaul Nave got in his shots, but couldn't outpunch Father Time​It turns out there is a grandfather clause in boxing. As in, boxers who are grandfathers seldom win. Paul "The Marin County Assassin" Nave, proud grandpa and celebrant of his 51st birthday tomorrow, stepped into the ring Frid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    The Delicate Glory of Rustic Bakery's Almond & Cacao Nib Sticks

    Rustic BakeryAlmond & Cacao Sticks.​Despite practicing for a lifetime, your young Cook E. Monster can still be quite the amateur reporter when it comes to not watching how the cookie can crumble. No sooner did we get this week's precious loot home that we discovered most of it had already been ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    The Nuns' Jennifer Miro: An Appreciation By Jack Boulware

    Jennifer 'Miro' Anderson, 1957-2011.​ By JACK BOULWARE [Editor's note: Jack Boulware is the co-author, with Silke Tudor, of Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day.] If we're talking the birth of B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Hodo Soy Beanery Ships Products to Costco Today

    Is Hodo's mind-blowing yuba next?​Today, Hodo Soy Beanery sent the first shipment of their stellar tofu to Bay Area Costcos. We wonder, is this the first company that's in the Ferry Building that will also be at Costco? Will we see a continued trend of local gourmet foods available by the discount ... More >>

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