Petaluma

Underbelly Laughs: With Two S.F. Companies, You Can Never Be Sure that the Fellatio Isn't Real

Food Truck Bite of the Week: Plenty of Bling Without the Grillz at Casey's

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: Casey's Pizza The Cuisine: Old New York-style pizza Specialty Items: Pizza Worth the Wait in Line? At peak lunch time, a total 10 minutes from the end of the line to food i ... More >>

Comprehensive Guide to the Best Poutine in San Francisco

As fall settles in on San Francisco, it brings changes at the farmers' market, restaurant menus, and the type of weather-related bitching done by city residents. With each successive fall, one food item seems to be rearing its greasy head on more and more menus: poutine. Every year, this Quebecois p ... More >>

Matt Cain to Host Pizza Party for Petaluma Little League World Series Champs

Most Bay Area youngsters only dream of rubbing elbows with Giants' perfect game maestro Matt Cain. And now the starting pitcher is about to make some kids' hopes come true. On Sunday, Matt Cain and Patxi's Pizza will treat the Petaluma Little League World Series champs to a celebratory pizza party. ... More >>

Mugly Is Crowned World's Ugliest Pooch

Last week, we introduced you to Mugly, the British pup vying to win the title of ugliest pup on the planet. And that he did. Judges confirmed on Friday that Mugly, an 8-year-old Chinese Crested, is anything but easy on the eyes. He beat out 28 other fugly pups at the Marin-Sonoma County Fair in Peta ... More >>

British Woman Hopes Her Fugly Pup Will Win Bay Area's Ugly Dog Contest

As far as we're concerned, all dogs are adorable. But then there's Mugly, a Chinese crescent whose uninviting appearance definitely caught our eye. According to ABC, he arrived with his owner, Bev Nicholson, to the Bay Area on Monday, hoping to outshine all the other unattractive canines at the Worl ... More >>

R.I.P. Tim Mooney, Drummer for Sun Kil Moon and American Music Club

Tim Mooney, a drummer and producer who played with noted S.F. bands American Music Club and Sun Kil Moon, died Thursday, June 13, according to his family. He was 53. Mooney played in Bay Area punk bands Sleepers, Toiling Midgets, and Negative Trend before joining S.F.'s American Music Club in the e ... More >>

Town's End Brunch: Sweet Beginnings by the Bay

Town's End Restaurant & Bakery, as its name suggests, is tucked into a corner just off the Embarcadero steps away from the San Francisco Bay. It makes for good people watching, as the city's lively inhabitants pour into AT&T Park, cars zoom over the Bay Bridge and you play tourist for a day, ... More >>

Feds Conduct Major Sweep of Violent Bay Area Street Gang, Three Shot

Federal authorities arrested dozens of local gang members today during a regional raid of two Peninsula-based street gangs, the 500 Block and the C Street Gang. As reported earlier this morning, three Homeland Security Agents were injured after being shot while making arrests in Petaluma related to ... More >>

Driver Crashes While "Fooling Around " with Girlfriend

.... And they will probably still blame the bad driving on the woman​Here's an unfortunate incident of being forced to kiss and tell.California Highway Patrol officers were called to the scene of a car accident on Highway 101 in the North Bay at about 11:45 p.m. Friday where a male driver crashed ... More >>

Comprehensive Guide to CSAs in San Francisco: Fruits and Vegetables

Contents of a weekly share from Shooting Star CSA​The number of CSAs -- Community Supported Agriculture groups -- available to San Francisco residents has really grown in the last few years. From farm-fresh produce to grass-fed beef and sustainably caught seafood, there are just so many choice ... More >>

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 >>

More Local Cheese Recommendations

Jonathan KauffmanValley Ford's Estero Gold.​ This week, as I was tasting local cheeses for today's SFoodie's 92 segment, I called a number of pros to ask them about cheeses they thought I should know about. Three ― Jens at Say Cheese, Ellen at 24th Street Cheese Company, and the amazing Laura We ... More >>

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 >>

The Frustrators Fire Up

With Green Day on pause, Mike Dirnt's other band hits the punk dive circuit.

The Bay Area's Best Vegan Dishes of 2010

YelpVegan taquitos at Flacos in Berkeley.​If 2009 was the year of snout-to-tail dining, 2010 was the year Mondays trended meatless, nut milks challenged dairy's dominance, and even midgrade restaurants thought beyond the perfunctory veggie pasta option. SFoodie vegan contributor Laura Beck spe ... More >>

Humpday Hookup: SFoodie's Top Five Best Bites

John BirdsallB³'s burger ($10), with fried Petaluma egg ($1) and Manchego cheese ($3).​Wednesday, September 1, 2010 This morning, we present five memorable things we've tasted over the past three weeks, our "Eat This" honor roll of recent finds, arrayed in no particular order: 1. Burger at ... More >>

Saturday's Giants Brewfest Was a Clusterf#%k. Here's Our Advice for Next Year

Brian YaegerWe don't mind rubbing elbows. It was the rubbing of everything else that got to us.​Saturday's Giants Brewfest was only a success if you consider that the event sold out. But packed N-Judah cars more than three hours before game time was an early indicator that there would be more ... More >>

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 >>

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 a ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Funemployment: Jobless young San Franciscans are welcoming the worst recession of their lives with open arms. Too bad the party can't last forever.

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 tea ... More >>

Last Night: Tea Tasting at Samovar Zen Valley

Janine KahnSamovar's third SF location is built into a Hayes Valley Victorian. Samovar Zen Valley Tea TastingPage at Laguna StreetsMarch 4, 2009Better Than: Brewing a generic, borderline metallic-tasting tea bag in your cold, lonely apartment.The Samovar Tea Lounge's Hayes Valley edition has been up ... More >>

December Book Events

SF Weekly Letters

Baby, Te Amo

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

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

Sweet Dreams

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

De-Lousing the Mars Volta

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Hyooj in '05

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

Reps Etc.

The Best of the Wurst

Satisfying meals on a bun at an old favorite and a new one

Frightening Times

Good thing our country's not like that

Summer Events a Go Go!

What to do, all summer long

Letters to the Editor

Week of April 9, 2003

Festivals/Fairs

Letters

Letters from September 20, 2000

Letters to the Editor

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

Night Crawler

Battle Royale

Starlet O'Hara

The Peter J. Owens Gala: Where does Winona Ryder, this year's honoree, fit?

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Science-fiction writers

Riff Raff

From Bang to Net

How Arno Penzias, who won the Nobel Prize for confirming the universe started with a Big Bang, turned his back on pure science and became an investment banker for Silicon Valley

The Great White Nope?

Paul Nave, a polite, well-spoken product of upscale Marin County, has climbed out of boxing obscurity to fight for a world title. He's a polished fighter, but he's probably going to get his ass kicked.

Seismic Punt

UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care

Sez Who?

Home(less) alone in Larry Hankin's Emmett Sez:

Running in Place

All Grown Up trades the insights of its predecessor for warmed-over stories about love and parenthood

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?