Subject: Petaluma

• SFWeekly's Noon (or so) Unusual News Roundup -- Sex, AIDS, Gunfire, and Why Barry Bonds Matters

  July 2, 2007

• Running in Place

  July 12, 1995

• Pig Out: Pigs and Pinot Festival in Healdsburg, March 20 to 21

  Looks like SFoodies will find lots to choose from in Sonoma the weekend of March 20, between the Artisanal Cheese Festival that we wrote about in Petaluma, and Charlie Palmer's Fourth Annual Celebration of Pigs and Pinot, a series of dining and educational events hosted by Palmer at the Hotel Healdsburg. (Proceeds will benefit Share Our Strength and the Healdsburg School.)Friday night from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m., at Taste of Pigs and Pinot, you can sample over 50 Pinot Noirs from Sonoma County, accom

  March 7, 2009

• Sez Who?

  May 22, 1996

• City of Burgers, Berkeley Edition: Flame

  Flame Gourmet Burgers 2985 College (at Ashby), Berkeley; 510-666-8500. The East Bay has many contenders to burger immortality: Barney's, Café Rouge, Christopher's, Wood Tavern. But comparisons are tricky, since each operates in burger genres whose differences range from slight to whopping. There's gourmet, fast-food, and the most popular, a kind of hybrid. Elmwood District burger joint Flame has gourmet aspirations, but a recent visit revealed it to be squarely in the hybrid camp: Whatever poi

  June 1, 2009

• Ex-Chez Panisse Cook Breaks Down Butchery Essentials in June Classes

  fLeMmA via FlickrGo ahead -- try this at homeNot that long ago, a guy might take a class to learn how to make fettucine. These days, knowing how to take down a hog is considered essential housekeeping, but it's not something you can pick up by surfing Epicurious. "Butchery is something you can't teach yourself, the way you can teach yourself to make stock," said Tamar Adler, a former cook at Chez Panisse and director of the CSA-like meat-share program BAMCSA. Adler is teaming up with Secret Eati

  May 29, 2009

• December Book Events

  December 3, 2008

• Nothing But the Best

  Uva Enoteca brings quite a bit of dolce vita to the Lower Haight.

  October 15, 2008

• SF Weekly Letters

  August 13, 2008

• SF Weekly Letters

  December 19, 2007

• Squeezing Beasts

  August 22, 2007

• Baby, Te Amo

  Adorable new Italian cafe and wine bar in the Mission already draws many fans

  July 11, 2007

• Sweet Dreams

  In difficult times, a bite of cake, a sip of creamy hot chocolate, or a forkful of pie can elevate your mood

  June 20, 2007

• The Velvet Teen

  July 26, 2006

• Reign in blood and BBQ at Slayer in San Jose

  July 26, 2006

• Alt-Pride

  Let's go to a fair on parade day! It seemed like a good idea.

  June 28, 2006

• Northern California Dreamin'

  The Phoenix theater is the best clubhouse a local music scene could ever have

  August 24, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  June 15, 2005

• Image Consciousness

  Michael Garlington -- an enormously talented art photographer with a penchant for the macabre -- has a drunken, wild-man persona. Or is that a canny self-promoter we see behind the curtain?

  June 8, 2005

• Hyooj in '05

  Behold! A handful of bands to keep an eye on in the coming year

  January 19, 2005

• Reps Etc.

  September 1, 2004

• Paradise Found

  July 14, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, July 7, 2004

  July 7, 2004

• The Best of the Wurst

  June 16, 2004

• Frightening Times

  Good thing our country's not like that

  January 28, 2004

• Summer Events a Go Go!

  What to do, all summer long

  June 25, 2003

• Earthquake vs. Fire

  Disasters duke it out on the soccer field

  May 28, 2003

• Best Bread

  May 14, 2003

• Best Free Alcohol and Drug Rehab

  May 14, 2003

• Stick to the Suds

  Eldos Grill & Brewery

  August 28, 2002

• Festivals/Fairs

  June 19, 2002

• Best New Locally Produced Documentary

  Scouts' Honor by Tom Shepard

  May 23, 2001

• Hear This

  May 9, 2001

• Letters

  Letters from September 20, 2000

  September 20, 2000

• A Boy Scout No More

  Since he was 12, Steven Cozza has led a crusade against the Scouts' anti-gay policies. What will happen now that he's grown up to discover sports and girls?

  September 20, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  July 5, 2000

• Night Crawler

  Battle Royale

  June 14, 2000

• Starlet O'Hara

  April 26, 2000

• The Man Who Came to Dinner

  November 10, 1999

• Bound to Glory

  March 17, 1999

• Riff Raff

  November 4, 1998

• Seismic Punt

  November 6, 1996

• N-E-G-L-E-C-T

  September 11, 1996

• Mark Your Calendar: CUESA Moveable Feast Fundraiser Set for Aziza in July

  chez pim via FlickrSyhabout: Prix-fixe collaboratorPeople line up for Jesse Kuhn's Little Gem lettuces at the Ferry Plaza farmers' market on Saturdays and at the Marin farmers' market in San Rafael on Sundays. At his 10-acre Petaluma farm, Marin Roots, he also grows baby vegetables -- carrots, beets, turnips -- along with onions, tomatoes, and squash. The sought-after fruits of Kuhn's labor will be the stars in the third of four Moveable Feast dinners, this one slated for Aziza in the Richmond

  May 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 group for this one-time-only feeding frenzy. And to save you from scrolling through Eat Real's Twitter feed, here's the lineup so far: Seafood chowder from Half Moon Bay's Sam's Chowder Van Salvadora

  June 26, 2009

• Drink a Toast to American Genius with These Killer Local Brewskis

  WhatKnot/FlickrBeer goes with the Fourth of July like hot buttered rum at Christmas or a sazerac on Bourbon Street. All those thick burgers, molten enchiladas, smoky platters of barbecue, and big slabs of pepperoni pizza cry out for a tall, cool beaker of suds in all its thirst-quenching glory. The Bay Area is packed with brewpubs where you can toast Dr. Seuss, Jackson Pollock, Miles Davis, César Chavez, Jonas Salk, Ava Gardner, and other all-American worthies with a stein of beer and a bowl

  July 1, 2009

• Another Thursday Option: Grow-A-Farmer Fundraiser at One Market

  If floating your Thursday night away while eating wild food is just not your thing, consider shelling out 25 bones for a Grow-A-Farmer fundraiser that includes eats from One Market Restaurant, as well as Northern California farm inspired dishes. Event proceeds will go to the permanent housing project for UC Farm & Garden apprentices at UC Santa Cruz. The fundraiser runs from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. and will be held at the penthouse at One Market (One Market Penthouse, 1 Market Street). It's a ch

  July 14, 2009

• Another 24 Hours: Craigslist Farm and Garden Classifieds

  CraigslistTerrorize the squash-phobic in your life.​SFoodie's weekly look at some urban essentials offered up on Craiglist. • Five little ducks went out one day, over the hill and far away. Mother Duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack," but only four little ducks came back. Why? Because you bought one for $5. • If you regularly cook for squash-phobic youngsters (or oldsters), now's your chance to seriously terrify them. Go to Petaluma (is there anything up there besides farms and T

  October 15, 2009

• Cali Cheeses Rack Up Awards, But the Real Winners Might Be Ones You've Never Heard Of

  Gordonzola.netGordon Edgar, Rainbow's cheesemonger: New California artisans are making magic.​A half dozen California cow's milk cheeses snagged more than a dozen awards at the 2009 World Cheese Awards earlier this month in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. The annual event is a slugfest of more than 2,000 entries and dozens of countries. California winners included Le Petit Dejeuner from Marin French Cheese in Petaluma, Bellwether Farms' Carmody, and smoked mozzarella from West Berkeley's Belfior

  October 22, 2009

• Wednesday's Tuscan Dinner at Chez Panisse One of 33 Celebrating Slow Food Book

  Welcome BooksAlice is all over it, big time.​Zagat Guides and Slow Food have organized 33 nationwide dinners -- collectively called A Slow Taste of Tuscany -- happening Wednesday to celebrate the publication of Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town (Welcome Books, $50) by Douglas Gayeton. The Petaluma author plans to be present at the book signing and Slow dinner at Chez Panisse Café (1517 Shattuck at Walnut), the only one in the Bay Area. Look for a menu inspired by the book. Participation by th

  November 16, 2009