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Drink of the Week: The Viceroy at Cantina

Few spirits that have the potential to incite the kind of heated debate that pisco, the South American unaged grape based brandy, is capable of. Should you ever have the misfortune of asking a Chilean and a Peruvian about the origins of pisco, you would quickly find yourself with no answer and in th ... More >>

Miss Kittin on 20 Years of Traveling the World and Her Support for Gay Marriage in France

Since 1994, French DJ, producer, and vocalist Miss Kittin has been one of the more dynamic figures in dance music, producing hit albums with long-time musical partner The Hacker and various collaborations with Felix Da Housecat, like electroclash anthem "Silver Screen (Shower Scene)." This coming s ... More >>

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Encanto Pisco Stars Tonight at Bar Adagio's Free Cocktail College

​Where: Bar Adagio, 550 Geary (at Taylor), 775-5000 When: Thurs., Sept. 8, 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Cost: Free! but you must RSVP: baradagio@jdvhospitality.com The rundown: Bar Adagio's Cocktail College, the popular series held on the second Thursday of each month, happens tonight spotlighting loca ... More >>

Daniel Patterson on Copenhagen's MAD Foodcamp: International Glamor, Hyperlocal Foods

Daniel Patterson.​Daniel Patterson, chef-owner of Coi, is freshly back from last week's MAD Foodcamp in Copenhagen, at which he presented a history of beets. The two-day symposium was organized by René Redzepi, chef of Noma, which has been celebrated for its intricate experimentation of nati ... More >>

Seasunz on Hip-Hop Activism, Spirituality, and Speaking Klingon

​Ashel Eldridge has made the rounds. Otherwise known as Seasunz, Eldridge has emerged as a social and environmental activist, working with groups like Amazon Watch and Project Pink and partnering with Will.i.am to open a youth center in Oakland. And, lest we forget, he also makes music. In ju ... More >>

Sanguchon, a Peruvian Sandwich Truck, Debuts at Off the Grid

Jonathan KauffmanSanguchon's pan con chicharron, $8.​ Though SFoodie learned of the existence of Sanguchon, a Peruvian sandwich truck, in January, it took a few months for chef Carlos Altamirano (Mochica, Piqueo's, La Costanera) to get the truck up and running. But last night, Altamirano and his c ... More >>

Bubbly and Bivalves: Charity on the Half Shell

Sarah KermenskyGallic charmer from CleanFish.​At the end of Bike to Work Day yesterday, SFoodie donned our best biking formalwear and pedaled to Aquarium of the Bay for the Bubbly and Bivalves charity event. A diverse crowd (translation: well-off people of many ages and hairstyles) streamed th ... More >>

Triumvirate Rum: Customer Appreciation You Can Sip

Martin Cate(L to R) Smuggler's Cove owner Martin Cate and Masters John Boatwright, Mark Holt, and Ron Roumas​You don't typically expect drinking to offer more rewards than a good time or occasional claim of longevity, but Smuggler's Cove, the neo-tiki bar in Hayes Valley, offers graduates of Rumbu ... More >>

DREAM Act Debacle: Lowell High School Grad Set For Deportation

Melissa Lee works the cameras​Congress failed again last month to corral the needed votes to put the DREAM Act back on the table -- and the fallout looks something like this: Eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Lee was on a successful trajectory; she had graduated from Lowell High School - the city's mos ... More >>

Outerlands Benefit Serves Up a Taste of Global Food Chronicler Eric Wolfinger

Eric Wolfinger/Open Kitchen blogChilean longaniza ― touched by the hand of Eric Wolfinger.​Us, we pitch in at dinner parties if the host asks, slicing bread, tossing a salad, even fixing a sauce when it curdles. Eric Wolfinger? He spent six years cooking with strangers in their homes around ... More >>

Doctor Gets 11 Years for 'Inappropriate and Unprofessional' Vaginal Exams on Latinas

​A San Francisco doctor who catered to Spanish-speaking patients has been sentenced to almost 11 years in prison for sexually assaulting women in his care with unnecessary "pelvic examinations."Jose Rosas, a general practitioner from Peru, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years and eight months in ... More >>

Pretenders, Protesters Show Up For Trans-Pacific Trade Talks

www.animalliberationfront.comChrissie Hynde ain't pretendin​Foreign trade deals don't need China and Japan in order to be successful, merely relevant. And they certainly don't need to be globe-busting in order to draw demonstrators: several events are planned today as the Trans-Pacific Partnership ... More >>

Our 10 Favorite Meaty Dishes in San Francisco

Jonathan KauffmanThe Alembic's pork belly with quince paste.​We grew up in a family where meat in some form was the biggest slab of whatever appeared on the nightly dinner plate. Pork chops breaded and fried to a challenging state of stiffness, Swiss steak, sauerbraten in a sauce all grainy-sw ... More >>

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Congee With Pork and Preserved Egg at Hing Lung

T. PalmerCongee goes with doughnuts like white on rice.​As a daily windup to the Weekly's Best of S.F. 2010 on May 19, we've teased out 92 of our favorite local dishes that taste like here. All the tasty details after the jump.

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S.F. State Grad Alleges Rape In Peru; Peruvian Media Circus Ensues

Cara Cameron modeling at a photoshoot​A recent San Francisco State graduate and part-time model, 24-year-old Cara Cameron, alleges that she was raped while traveling in Peru earlier this month. She has now returned to the Bay Area while her case weaves its way through the Peruvian courts.Cameron h ... More >>

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We'll admit there's more than a little schadenfreude going on in this list of the best onstage gaffes of 2009. But why else would Al Gore have invented YouTube if not to feed our obsessive need to see celebrities get taken down a peg? Here with, our favorite of the year's music-related missteps, cau ... More >>

Actress Best Known For Role as False Accuser Gets False Photo In Obit

That's not Mayella Ewell, Your Honor. ​If asked to choose a picture of actress Collin Wilcox-Paxton out of a lineup, most of you could not. But you wouldn't mistake her for Gregory Peck. Or would you? The actress, best known for her role as Mayella Ewell, the horrid, white trash fabulist whose bog ... More >>

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