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San Francisco's "Miraculous Mary," Ashley Wyrick, Featured on Anderson Debut Week

Google Ashley Wyrick​Behold the power of the first name. Oprah, Ellen, make room for Anderson. Anderson Cooper, host of Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, kicked off his daytime talk show career this week. His clout landed him a high-profile, full-hour interview on Monday on his New York set with Amy Wi ... More >>

Engaging Gotham

Google Ashley Wyrick​Behold the power of the first name. Oprah, Ellen, make room for Anderson. Anderson Cooper, host of Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, kicked off his daytime talk show career this week. His clout landed him a high-profile, full-hour interview on Monday on his New York set with Amy Wi ... More >>

Ubuntu's Aaron London: Cooking Like Meat Doesn't Matter

UbuntuJames Beard Rising Star Chef finalist Aaron London.​When Ubuntu opened in 2007, there was great fanfare across the land. Jeremy Fox was the undisputed king of vegetables, and the restaurant topped pretty much every Best Of list. Critics (literally?) crapped their pants over its amazingne ... More >>

Photographer Engages Gotham

UbuntuJames Beard Rising Star Chef finalist Aaron London.​When Ubuntu opened in 2007, there was great fanfare across the land. Jeremy Fox was the undisputed king of vegetables, and the restaurant topped pretty much every Best Of list. Critics (literally?) crapped their pants over its amazingne ... More >>

Ladies' Food, No-Meat Mondays, Favorite Central American Restaurants

Jamesbeard.orgDominique Crenn.​1. The myth of the humble lady chef. The Toronto Globe & Mail has a feature today on a perennial question: Why aren't there more female chefs in high-end cuisine? As the article points out, the question is even more puzzling now that half of cooking-school stud ... More >>

Dog Day Afternoon

Jamesbeard.orgDominique Crenn.​1. The myth of the humble lady chef. The Toronto Globe & Mail has a feature today on a perennial question: Why aren't there more female chefs in high-end cuisine? As the article points out, the question is even more puzzling now that half of cooking-school stud ... More >>

Power Plants

Jamesbeard.orgDominique Crenn.​1. The myth of the humble lady chef. The Toronto Globe & Mail has a feature today on a perennial question: Why aren't there more female chefs in high-end cuisine? As the article points out, the question is even more puzzling now that half of cooking-school stud ... More >>

Art Review: Greg Gossel: "Sleepwalking" at White Walls

Jamesbeard.orgDominique Crenn.​1. The myth of the humble lady chef. The Toronto Globe & Mail has a feature today on a perennial question: Why aren't there more female chefs in high-end cuisine? As the article points out, the question is even more puzzling now that half of cooking-school stud ... More >>

The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

Jamesbeard.orgDominique Crenn.​1. The myth of the humble lady chef. The Toronto Globe & Mail has a feature today on a perennial question: Why aren't there more female chefs in high-end cuisine? As the article points out, the question is even more puzzling now that half of cooking-school stud ... More >>

Whitewash: Disney's The Princess and the Frog can't seem to escape the ghetto

Jamesbeard.orgDominique Crenn.​1. The myth of the humble lady chef. The Toronto Globe & Mail has a feature today on a perennial question: Why aren't there more female chefs in high-end cuisine? As the article points out, the question is even more puzzling now that half of cooking-school stud ... More >>

Moping at the Moon

Too much angst, not enough saga in the wholesome Twilight 2.

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 purchase ... More >>

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: ... More >>

Let's Take Some E!

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: ... More >>

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. I ... More >>

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, wh ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

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, wh ... More >>

Everything's Better With Bacon

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, wh ... More >>

Men Will Be Boys

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

Night Day: Calendar Picks for 5/27

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

The Story of a Cracker: The Great Matzah Famine of 2008 is Latest S.F. Unleavened Shenanigan

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

My Tunes: Juanita More!

Drag queen, She-J, and nightlife entertainer

Hida Viloria Tells Us What She Really Thinks

Drag queen, She-J, and nightlife entertainer

Starbucks Art in SF

Drag queen, She-J, and nightlife entertainer

Girl/Boy Interrupted

A new treatment for transgender kids puts puberty on hold so that they won't develop into their biological sex

Why is Jello Biafra San Francisco's Sacred Cow?

A new treatment for transgender kids puts puberty on hold so that they won't develop into their biological sex

The Year of Playing Dangerously

Suzan-Lori Parks is either crazy or brilliant. Perhaps both.

The Condescension Club

It doesnt matter what you read, as long as you do

Ready to Rumble

It's the 100-year anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. Are you a fan of all the hoopla? Take our quiz and see.

Oh Grow Up

Failure is McConaughey's perfect movie, and a pretty good one for us

Cock Party?

Question for Jordan Knight: Was the Block those New Kids were on located in the Castro?

The Edge of Treason

Bridget Jones is betrayed by a dumb, dull sequel

Bouncer

New music venue the Rickshaw Stop is a welcome addition. Its "Funtime Talk Show" is not.

Nasty Girl

In this Little Black Book you'll find a lot of mean people

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, February 18, 2004

False Recovery

An unflinching look at recollected abuse could use some skepticism

Letters to the Editor

Week of August 21, 2002

House of Tudor

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

Pop Philosophy

Everything tastes better with Gravy (Train); the plot to get rid of Dave Emory

Letters to the Editor

Paintings in Black and White; A Night to Remember; The Hall of Records; The End Is Near; Bush Whacking; Correction

Checkout

Safeway does something good with books but is too paranoid to take credit

Night Crawler

Safeway does something good with books but is too paranoid to take credit

Racket

Safeway does something good with books but is too paranoid to take credit

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Safeway does something good with books but is too paranoid to take credit

Savage Love

Safeway does something good with books but is too paranoid to take credit

Unspun

Safeway does something good with books but is too paranoid to take credit

C.R.U.S.H. (Part II)

Five months ago, two black homicide detectives got fed up with the police department's inaction on black-on-black murders. Thus was born the Crime Response Unit To Stop Homicide (CRUSH): Six cops with the grit and guile to tackle the toughest cases in t

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Five months ago, two black homicide detectives got fed up with the police department's inaction on black-on-black murders. Thus was born the Crime Response Unit To Stop Homicide (CRUSH): Six cops with the grit and guile to tackle the toughest cases in t