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The 84th Academy Awards: a Timeline

​ People plan parties around this stuff, so we assume you probably watched too. But just in case you didn't, here's a timeline of the 84th Academy Awards ceremony. They make it this long just to mess with us all, in case you didn't know...

Tea Party Princess: Victoria Jackson and the Rabid Right

​ People plan parties around this stuff, so we assume you probably watched too. But just in case you didn't, here's a timeline of the 84th Academy Awards ceremony. They make it this long just to mess with us all, in case you didn't know...

Lisa Ling Looking for Bay Area Swingers -- Just Not Freaky Ones

​Here's a good chance for Bay Area swingers to satiate America's legion of voyeurs. The producers of Our America With Lisa Ling on Oprah's new TV network, OWN, are coming to town, looking for some swingers to shock and awe America's less sexually adventurous viewers.A producer wrote to the local s ... More >>

Humphry Slocombe Turns Three With a 'Brr-Lesque' Party

​At three-years-old, Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream has been a consummate overachiever. When we first set foot in the place in its initial week of operation in December 2008, we knew it was something special. But we didn't know they'd soon woo Martha, Oprah, and all those other food ladies who don't ... More >>

Thao and Mirah Hold a Cheery, Slightly Teary Group Therapy Session at Great American Music Hall

Thao and Mirah at Great American Music Hall last night.​ Thao Mirah BOBBY Led to Sea May 2, 2007 @ Great American Music Hall Better than: Group therapy, Advil Severe Cold & Sinus. As it turns out, one thing that happens when two singer-songwriters with feverishly dedicated cult followings j ... More >>

Tenderloin Temptation: Gluten-Free Blue Corn Waffles at Little Bird Coffeehouse

Laura BeckWaffle Time in Waffle Town.​Our latest obsession with waffles has reached a fever pitch. We're up all hours, roaming unsavory streets in search of our next fix. If that didn't sound right, it's because it's not. Thankfully, our early morning cravings recently landed us at Little Bird ... More >>

Oprah Winfrey-Approved: The Five Best Moscow Mules in San Francisco

​On Wednesday, May 25, Oprah will no longer be seen in her 4 p.m. time slot. Our afternoon bestie for 25 years will exist no more, fled for her own cable network. Her 30-day countdown and goodbyes from famous friends has seen us shedding a few tears. The best thing to dry those tears? Booze! S ... More >>

OWNing It: We're Addicted to Oprah

OWNCast of "Addicted to Food," a reality series that debuted last night on Oprah's TV network.​Is Oprah your God? Have you made the move to her new home? OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, has kept us all waiting for the original programming it promised. And though Kidnapped by the Kids may not b ... More >>

Martha Stewart Thinks Beef Is Gross, Silk Thinks You Should Lay Off the Cow Teet

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Vegansaurus' Megan Rascal went to the live taping of Martha Stewart's vegan show. She sat front row like the baller she is, and watched Twitter cofounder, Biz Stone, and rich-bitch vegan (mean this in best way ... More >>

The Power of Oprah, the Stupidity of 'Meat Week,' and ― Eww ― Vulva Cake!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • So, Oprah's Tuesday episode was dedicated to veganism ― and meat-eating issues in general ― and it's pretty much the only thing vegans could talk about all week. I mean, she IS the big O and so yeah, celebr ... More >>

Funny Pic: Meet 50 Winfrey, a Mutant Cross Between Oprah and 50 Cent

Meet the mutant, 50 Winfrey​Now this is just wrong -- but it's so, so right. Here are four reasons why:1. This is a great photoshop job, duh. Love that they kept Fitty's 'stache.2. Back in '06, if you're old enough to remember, 50 Cent beefed with Oprah, telling Elle magazine:She started out with ... More >>

Non-Turkey Turkey Day, Mad Men's Pussycat, Shark Fin Creepiness

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • For 28 days concluding in November 2010, an HSUS investigator worked inside a Cal-Maine factory egg farm in Texas, and documented a bunch of scary-ass abuses. The vast majority of eggs that Americans eat come f ... More >>

Spencer on the Go Dishes to Oprah

thecorkdork.wordpress.com​Chez Spencer's food truck Spencer on the Go will be appearing on The Oprah Show on Nov. 24. No word on whether chef/owner Laurent Katgely will be dishing escargot or relationship advice, but we're betting on the former. Set those DVRs, and in the meantime, catch the ... More >>

Top Chef: Just Desserts, Week 8: Mary Poppins Kicks Ass on Oprah

Don't mess with Mary.​Last night's Top Chef: Just Desserts wasn't all flowers and tea parties, though it appeared to be. The Quickfire Challenge was to create an edible bouquet, with guest judge Shinmin Li of shuttered I Dream of Cake in North Beach. Zac offered a warning: "She's very pretty b ... More >>

George Lopez Hosting Kamala Harris Cocktail Soiree -- You Can Still Make It!

We laughed. We cried...​For Attorney General candidate Kamala Harris, it's either up, up, up, or down, down, down. She spent much of this summer suffering the slings and arrows of her spectacular mishandling of the city's crime lab drug scandal. After attempting to nail Republican rival Steve Cool ... More >>

District Attorney Kamala Harris Makes Oprah's 2010 'O Power List'

Big guns are backing Kamala Harris​District Attorney Kamala Harris is nothing if not resilient in her campaign to be elected California's next attorney general. Just when she's getting slammed in the press for hypocritically holding on to a convicted felon's campaign donations, Harris' campaign re ... More >>

Shop at Barney's

Big guns are backing Kamala Harris​District Attorney Kamala Harris is nothing if not resilient in her campaign to be elected California's next attorney general. Just when she's getting slammed in the press for hypocritically holding on to a convicted felon's campaign donations, Harris' campaign re ... More >>

Finally, a Rock Video Game Where You Play A Real Guitar

Those of you who find it weird that so many people are so into pretending to play a very fake-looking, plastic guitar will soon have a video game of your (OK, our) own. Power Gig: Rise of the Six String, which comes out this October, uses a real musical instrument (yeah, with like, strings and stu ... More >>

DVR Alert: Michael Pollan Chats Up Food on Oprah

PBS PressRoomTomorrow, on a very special Oprah...​Tomorrow at 4 p.m., in a food-themed episode of her show, Oprah Winfrey will host Michael Pollan, the Berkeley-based swami of sustainability, along with actress and vegan-ista Alicia Silverstone and Chipotle Mexican Grill founder Steve Ells. Th ... More >>

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 loca ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 res ... More >>

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 a ... More >>

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 ... More >>

TiVo Alert: Oprah and the Omnivore's Dilemma

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 ... More >>

Telluride Film Festival: Day One (8/29)

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 ... More >>

The Franz

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 ... More >>

Spanglish Probably Won't Cut It

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 ... More >>

The Tennis Ball Diaries

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 ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

Confessions of a Horndog

Caveh Zahedi comes clean in I Am a Sex Addict

Tofu for What Ails You

Tasteful design and designed tastes rule at the vegan Medicine Eatstation

Baby Love

Is it cool to breast-feed in public? Only if you have a kid.

A Very Long Run

Is it cool to breast-feed in public? Only if you have a kid.

New releases available this week

Is it cool to breast-feed in public? Only if you have a kid.

Air Supply

Bouncer gets high the old-fashioned (and kind of stupid) way: oxygen

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Bouncer gets high the old-fashioned (and kind of stupid) way: oxygen

House of Pain

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

As Seen On

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

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"

Best Beds

The Four Seasons Mattress

Riff Raff

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By the Book

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