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Petaluma

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    New York Times to Sell Press Democrat, 15 Other Papers

    ​Another Bay Area newspaper shake up is imminent. The New York Times Company announced this week that it's selling The Press Democrat, the Bay Area's fifth largest newspaper. Romenesko shared the news yesterday, explaining that the Santa Rosa newspaper as well as 15 other regional papers, includin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Comprehensive Guide to CSAs in San Francisco: Meat, Eggs, Dairy, Etc.

    A CSA meat package from Marin Sun Farms​Many people tend to think of CSAs only for fruits and vegetables, but in the Bay Area we're also blessed with a variety of meatier options. We've done the work of finding the farmers; now all you have to do is place your order and start up the grill. In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Quince's Rum and Cheese Pairing Is Good for the Rum

    Ben Narasin​Quince restaurant continues its series of cheese and spirit pairings this week with rum and artisan cheese ($36, available only in the bar and lounge). While Quince's first effort, Scotch and cheese, is a somewhat established coupling, rum and cheese is far more esoteric. That make ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Slow Money Entrepreneur Showcase Brings Money Down to the Soil

    beyondtheplate.netBrentwood's Frog Hollow Farm.​Most people are familiar with Slow Food, the organization founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986 to encourage a return to traditional foodways and reconnect with the sources where our food comes from. So what if we took the same mentality and applied i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Five Happiness' Tea-Smoked Duck

    Jonathan KauffmanA half-order of tea-smoked duck from Five Happiness, $11.75.​ When no less a culinary icon than Cecilia Chiang tells you that Five Happiness -- a 38-year-old restaurant in the Inner Richmond you've passed thousands of times -- makes a great Peking duck, you listen. But when you st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Drinking the Long View: Aged Beers at Lagunitas Brewing Co.

    Alastair BlandHittin' the library: Aged beers at Lagunitas Brewing Co. in Petaluma.​When the Righteous Brothers told us that time can do so much, they might as well have been singing about beer. Some brewers recoil at the mere suggestion of putting away their hard-brewed work for a long stretc ... More >>

  • Music

    March 9, 2011

    Rocky's Swag: Roach Gigz Rides His Cocky Charm Toward Rap's Big Ring

    Alastair BlandHittin' the library: Aged beers at Lagunitas Brewing Co. in Petaluma.​When the Righteous Brothers told us that time can do so much, they might as well have been singing about beer. Some brewers recoil at the mere suggestion of putting away their hard-brewed work for a long stretc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Mark Growden's New Traditionalism, and What Green Day's Mike Dirnt Does On His Days Off

    ​Local jazzman-turned-folkie Mark Growden: There are many ways to interpret and preserve the traditions of musical Americana. One is treat it like a museum piece, with pious reverence -- thereby sucking the fun clean out of it. Another is to revamp it, keep its mannerisms, but supercharge it, muck ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 10, 2010

    Stick a Folk in It

    ​Local jazzman-turned-folkie Mark Growden: There are many ways to interpret and preserve the traditions of musical Americana. One is treat it like a museum piece, with pious reverence -- thereby sucking the fun clean out of it. Another is to revamp it, keep its mannerisms, but supercharge it, muck ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Shut Up About Changing the Food System. Unless You're Actually Going to Do Something

    Gary E./YelpPremade sushi in the Whole Foods case in SOMA.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Honest Meat blogger Rebecca Thistlewaite showed up today on Grist to kick your ass ― the you who pays lip service to the idea of changing the food system, shops at a farmers' market once or twice ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    The B³ Burger

    John BirdsallBurger ($10), with fried Petaluma egg ($1) and Manchego cheese ($3).​Friday, August 20, 2010 ameer n./Yelp​This is a damn good burger. Kevin Ahajanian, fitted with the Keller halo from time spent at Bouchon, has stacked up something with the bones of Cali quintessential. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Liqueur de Violettes, a Rockin' Tipple from Tempus Fugit

    Tamara Palmer​Now, we're far from a spirits expert, but we did know that Tempus Fugit is a rock star in that world. We learned this via an interview last year with the incomparable Marilyn Manson, in which he informed us that Mansinthe, his very own brand of absinthe, was a collaboration with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Gran Classico: An Ancient Liqueur Comes Back

    Campari's hand-crafted cuz.​Maybe it's just us looking at the world through drunk-colored glasses, but it's never been a better time to have a drink. As the national interest in cocktails and the standard of quality in bars increase, it's created a market that allows for the revival of and ac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Bay Citizen, Built on Barely Paid Labor, Runs Story Glorifying Unpaid Labor

    Pick that damn arugula , intern!​The Bay Citizen, the nonprofit news organization launched with much fanfare May 26 by local investment banker Warren Hellman, has earned ample flack for its offer to pay $25 per story to local bloggers.But we learned today from the online newspaper that some employ ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 7, 2010

    The Other White Milk

    Pick that damn arugula , intern!​The Bay Citizen, the nonprofit news organization launched with much fanfare May 26 by local investment banker Warren Hellman, has earned ample flack for its offer to pay $25 per story to local bloggers.But we learned today from the online newspaper that some employ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Outstanding in the Field Announces 2010 Dates

    Cheryl Bower/FlickrStart saving up.​Outstanding in the Field stages al fresco dinners at organic farms around the country, touring from site to site in a 57-year-old bus that probably runs on spring onion fumes and goat cheese whey. Now in its 11th year, Jim Denevan's operation has been across ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Local Pot Club Supplier Made Purported $200K a Year

    Role models?​For readers thinking of a career change, here's toke for thought: If you become a supplier to local pot clubs, you can apparently make around $200,000 per year.According to a federal forfeiture complaint for more than $800,000 cash belonging to alleged pot club supplier Avery Badenhop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Drink of the Week: Lonjevitea's Gravenstein Apple Kombucha

    T. Palmer​Might we actually be living in the epicenter of great kombucha? Add Petaluma's Lonjevitea to a growing list of local companies offering a worthwhile twist on the probiotic tea. Brewed with yerba mate rather than the usual black tea, it still packs a powerful and stimulating kick, but wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    SF Beer Week: Thursday's Prix-Fixe Madness

    ​From now through the end of SF Beer Week, we're providing daily quarterbacking for the frothiest events. Skol, dudes. Jesse Friedman/Beer & Nosh​We're over the Beer Week hump ― time to let the real gluttony begin. Behold the prix-fixe beer dinner: Thursday has eight on the schedule, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Cheese Doodles

    Gordon EdgarCreepy faces adorn wheels of Chällerhocker, a Swiss cow's milk cheese.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Antonia Richmond tackles home cheese making for The Bold Italic. I've been hooked on the stuff since childhood--beginning with my first taste (of a cellophane-wrapped Kraft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 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 yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 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 projec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 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. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 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 gro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2009

    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 Healds ... More >>

  • Dining

    October 15, 2008

    Nothing But the Best

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

  • News

    August 13, 2008

    SF Weekly Letters

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

  • Calendar

    August 22, 2007

    Squeezing Beasts

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

  • Dining

    July 11, 2007

    Baby, Te Amo

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

  • Music

    July 26, 2006

    The Velvet Teen

    Cum Laude

  • Music

    July 26, 2006

    Reign in blood and BBQ at Slayer in San Jose

    Cum Laude

  • News

    June 28, 2006

    Alt-Pride

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

  • Music

    August 24, 2005

    Northern California Dreamin'

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

  • News

    June 8, 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?

  • Music

    July 14, 2004

    Paradise Found

    Two years ago, the Velvet Teen took the road less traveled, and -- as Elysium proves -- that has made all the difference

  • News

    July 7, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, July 7, 2004

  • Calendar

    May 28, 2003

    Earthquake vs. Fire

    Disasters duke it out on the soccer field

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Bread

    Della Fattoria

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Free Alcohol and Drug Rehab

    St. Anthony Foundation

  • Dining

    August 28, 2002

    Stick to the Suds

    Eldos Grill & Brewery

  • Summer Guide

    June 19, 2002

    Festivals/Fairs

    Eldos Grill & Brewery

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best New Locally Produced Documentary

    Scouts' Honor by Tom Shepard

  • Music

    May 9, 2001

    Hear This

    Old-school punks return for a Victims Family reunion

  • News

    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?

  • News

    July 5, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Small-Town California Über Alles; Brighter Lights, Bigger City; Cease and Desist This!; Off on a Tangent

  • News

    June 14, 2000

    Night Crawler

    Battle Royale

  • Music

    March 17, 1999

    Bound to Glory

    On the road to possible stardom, Train tries to preserve its sanity and keep the bean counters happy

  • News

    September 11, 1996

    N-E-G-L-E-C-T

    On the road to possible stardom, Train tries to preserve its sanity and keep the bean counters happy

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