Subject: Oprah Winfrey

• Why is Jello Biafra San Francisco's Sacred Cow?

  May 25, 2007

• Starbucks Art in SF

  August 8, 2007

• Cosmic Icons: Once You Go Bonbon, You Never Go Back

  January 31, 2008

• Chris Rock! What Are You Doing on America's Next Top Model?

  February 21, 2008

• Telluride Film Festival: Day One (8/29)

  September 3, 2008

• TiVo Alert: Oprah and the Omnivore's Dilemma

  October 13, 2008

• Everything's Better With Bacon

  November 10, 2008

• Who Made the First Obama Joke?

  This guy. Yep, San Francisco's very own comedian, writer, director, and frequent maker of race jokes, W. Kamau Bell. Or at least that's what researchers at Comedy Central concluded today after extensive archival probing. The jab in question took place on Premium Blend in 2005, when W. Kamau Bell talked about how Obama would never be president, because his name is too black. (Hey, nobody ever said the first joke had to be funny). Click here for the video containing Bell's

  December 10, 2008

• Damn you, Oprah! And Double Damn You, Suze Orman!

  On the fourth day of Oprah's first-of-2009, Best Life Week, her guest was ass-kicking "internationally acclaimed personal finance expert" Suze Orman (as per her own website, complete with ass-kicking, irritating bombastic intro fanfare). Orman was flacking her new book, Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan (note: you can download it for free until next Thursday, January 15). And in the midst of her usual quite basic advice - pay off your credit card debt, pay off the card with the highest interest

  January 13, 2009

• Barack Obama Sworn-In as President -- Of LEGOLAND!

  This is, as Mom would say, "Cute with two u's." Cuute, that is. Legoland California in Carlsbad this week will feature a Lego version of the Obama inauguration. That's right, a Lego Barack, Michelle, Malia, and Sasha Obama, Joe Biden, John Roberts, the Rev. Rick Warren, Oprah, and even George Bush and Dick Cheney. Maybe when they're done with this exhibit they can allow park visitors to construct their fantasies of Bush and Cheney being dragged through the streets like Mussolini. Oprah could dri

  January 14, 2009

• The Obamas' Valentine's Dinner

  tablefifty-two.comThe dining room at Table Fifty-Two, where the Obamas had their V-Day meal.Personally, we'd never go out to eat on Valentine's Day -- and this year it was a double whammy, since February 14th fell on a Saturday. But some people are fearless, it seems (thank God, because getting restaurant reservations on Valentine's Day will be the least of their problems, we're sure). I guess what's good enough for Oprah is good enough for the First Couple. And we like the idea of starting al

  February 18, 2009

• Let's Take Some E!

  June 3, 2009

• The Doggie Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. They had to get it off their chests: It sucks being a Hooters girl, and not just because you're expected to pose with a dweeb in a Ruck Fules! tee. MenuPages reveals the lawsuit eight former tank-top-wearin' servers have brought against four local Hooters eateries (who knew there were that many?) for alleged exploitation. Be appalled. Be very appalled. Say it ain't so: Kurt Michael Friese goes all Orwellian gloomy, ticking off recent example

  May 29, 2009

• Estimated 12,000 to 25,000 Hoarders Cost City More Than $6 Mil, Says Task Force

  When I attended my first estate sale two months ago, and the living room looked like this (see pic to the left), it confused me. Was it customary for the people holding estate sales to throw everything out in the open so buyers could see it all? The answer was no. If anything, those running the estate sale had tried to clean things up a bit. And it had taken them six days to whip the living room into this not-quite presentable condition. The problem, I soon foun

  March 24, 2009

• The Franz

  August 6, 2008

• Men Will Be Boys

  With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay, & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that.

  July 23, 2008

• The Tennis Ball Diaries

  March 26, 2008

• Taking Cues from Oprah: Making a Man List at the Beach Chalet

  January 30, 2008

• My Tunes: Juanita More!

  Drag queen, She-J, and nightlife entertainer

  December 5, 2007

• The Year of Playing Dangerously

  January 3, 2007

• Confessions of a Horndog

  April 5, 2006

• Tofu for What Ails You

  Tasteful design and designed tastes rule at the vegan Medicine Eatstation

  January 25, 2006

• Baby Love

  November 23, 2005

• A Very Long Run

  November 16, 2005

• Mad Doodling

  October 26, 2005

• New releases available this week

  September 21, 2005

• Air Supply

  March 30, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  January 5, 2005

• Bouncer

  September 29, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, February 18, 2004

  February 18, 2004

• House of Pain

  It's Kingsley versus Connelly in a heart-wrenching battle of wills

  December 24, 2003

• As Seen On

  We like books and we like TV, so why don't we like book TV?

  May 28, 2003

• Why Was the Dot-Com Boom So Bad, Again?

  The new New Economy: Making "spirit rocks" in a dank basement and attending "Manifesting Money the Psychic Way"

  September 25, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of August 21, 2002

  August 21, 2002

• House of Tudor

  Saucy sexagenarians, kooky King Kong, global grooves, and apocryphal atheism

  August 14, 2002

• Best Beds

  May 15, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  November 7, 2001

• Checkout

  September 26, 2001

• Riff Raff

  Audra, Oprah -- Oprah, Audra, Strange Bedfellows, Free Ink

  November 10, 1999

• By the Book

  October 14, 1998

• REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

  June 25, 1997

• Unspun

  September 18, 1996

• Free KFC, Courtesy of Oprah!

  Oh hell, free food is free food. We're not big fans of the Colonel. In truth, neither was the Colonel, once his patented recipe and method were bastardized by the fast-food conglomerate that jettisoned his name in favor of initials. (If you want to taste what Original Recipe was like back in the day, Casa Orinda [20 Bryant Way, Orinda, 925-254-2981] bought the equipment and the recipe and still kicks it old school.) If we're paying, we shell out for Popeyes. But when Oprah offer

  May 6, 2009

• Free Iced Coffee Today at Coffee Bean

  Those in search of a slightly more civilized freebie than the lines reported at KFCs around the country thanks to Oprah might saunter over to their nearest Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (773 Market at 4th St.; 2201 Fillmore at Sacramento; Four Embarcadero Center) between 4 and 8 p.m. today. Sure, there will probably also be some sort of wait since the company is offering a free 12 oz. iced coffee during those hours, but it's likely to move more swiftly than that of the Colonel's. The promotion is me

  May 7, 2009

• Raw and Sweet: 'Vegan Diva' Ani Phyo Presides Over CandyBar Dessert Soirée Tomorrow

  No cow was milked in the making of this bookWe get a mental picture of some petulant, preachy tofu eater when we hear the words "vegan diva," but that's just what LA author and cooking teacher Ani Phyo calls herself. She'll be at CandyBar tomorrow night, flogging her book Ani's Raw Food Desserts, at an event billed an Urban Dessert Soirée. For $40, you can scarf from a spread of CandyBar desserts, as well as a tasting of Phyo's raw-food sweets (think date-sweetened pecan cookies, and something

  May 20, 2009

• Burned by Oprah Stunt, KFC Searches for Down-to-Earth Spokesperson

  Guess who might get axed?After its grilled-chicken promo with Oprah got burned, KFC has decided to try out a new recipe: direct outreach to fans. In a campaign that launched yesterday, the fast-food chicken maker is searching for what it called the new face of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Sorry, Colonel: Your beaming, slightly irascible visage might just be scrapped for that of a real, live person. From now till July 7, you can upload a video of yourself to a KFC MySpace page. Describe why you're th

  June 10, 2009

• The Great American Food and Music Fest: The Good, The Bad, and The Hungry

  Marisol Segal If you actually got food, there was reason to celebrate.(View our full slideshow of the event)We won't sugarcoat it: Saturday's Great American Food and Music Fest was riddled with major problems, from the almost immediate failure of a cashless wristband debit system for purchases to hours of impenetrable lines for food during much of the day. While it would be unfair to call it a universally bad experience, it was an event that roused a huge chorus of disgruntled voices, ran

  June 15, 2009

• Spanglish Probably Won't Cut It

  May 21, 2008

• What Intersex Local Hida Viloria Didn't Tell Oprah: How Hermaph-tivists Pander To Homophobes

  October 3, 2007

• Moping at the Moon

  November 18, 2009