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Cheeses, Grubs, and Halloween Candies: This Week in Food Bloggery

Jeremy Brooks/SF Weekly's Flickr pool​ Highlights from the blog this week: 1. Ben Narasin writes about the sheep's milk cheeses produced by Barinaga Ranch. The Marin-based cheesemaker lets her ewes graze outdoors all year, and only makes cheeses from the milk they produce in spring and summer. W ... More >>

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Classy Des Jardins and Butter-Bomb Desserts: This Week in Food Bloggery

Jeffrey-Anthony/SF Weekly Flickr pool​ Highlights from the blog this week: 1. Peter Jamison talked to Iso Rabins about the Health Department's shut-down of the Underground Market, which may be permanent. But the market attracted New York Times coverage! And thousands of people! Uh... 2. Carina O ... More >>

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Food Costs, Diet Drinking, and Buying the Right Fish

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media.1. Pain at the Cart. At the New York Times, Kim Severson surveys the rising costs of food -- beef up 12%, tomatoes up 11%, milk up 7% -- and then puts it in in perspective: Globally, ... More >>

Babka Lust, Library Tips, and the Fawaffle: This Week in Food Bloggery

Sardines: Tasty, plentiful, and local.​Highlights from the blog this week: 1. In this week's Weekly cover story, "Go Fish," Peter Jamison argues that the answer to the question "How can I make sure my seafood is sustainably sourced?" is to eat local. He provides a list of local fish and shellfish ... More >>

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Sacramento Bee: Harris Fibs on Conviction Rate

​Attorney General candidate and San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris' new TV ad boasting of high conviction rates "does not tell the whole story," the Sacramento Bee reports this morning.No kidding.SF Weekly's Peter Jamison reported May 5 on "an alarming decline in felony trial conviction ... More >>

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SF Weekly Cover Story Lands in Food Writing Anthology

ForageSFRabins, subject of our anthology-worthy feature story.​Local forage guru Iso Rabins is up for more exposure than he got at Eat Real in Oakland last Saturday, where he was hawking sea beans for three bucks a box. "Out of the Wild," a March cover story about Rabins by SF Weekly staff wri ... More >>

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SF Strip Club In the News Again

JennaHaze.com If you read Peter Jamison's post in the Snitch yesterday about the troubles with Heaven Mini Theater or today's related story in the Chron, it's clear the city is actually doing something about one of it's so-called "problem clubs." Finally. While the Snitch scooped the Chron by ... More >>

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Pictures At A Demonstration: Today's Prop. 8 Events, In Photos

Peter Jamison Peter JamisonNow you know what people did with all their Prop. 8 paraphernalia -- both "Yes" and "No" placards. They saved it for today. Click on the jump for more photos of today's Civic Center demonstrations following the ruling.

MTA Budget Showdown Leads To ... Wait For It ... A COMPROMISE!

Jim HerdThat sound you heard earlier today was every City Hall journalist in San Francisco slapping his palm on the table when the Board of Supervisors vote over the controversial Muni budget was continued. And continued again. And more time went by. And now ... after several hours of behind-the-sce ... More >>

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AT&T Park Bustling Early on Opening Day

Peter JamisonParking Lot of DreamsThe above photo was snapped at 8:18 a.m. this morning -- the San Francisco Giants' opening day. As you can see, the parking lots behind AT&T Park were filling up early. While the workaday world was still reading the newspaper (!) over its cereal or crowding int ... More >>

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Bay Area Tibetans Protest Chinese Rule on 50th Anniversary of Failed Uprising

Peter JamisonStill nationless after all these years Explaining their nationality puts Richmond residents Tenzin Youdon and Tenzin Wangchuk in an awkward position. Their ethnicity isn't in doubt: Both are proud Tibetans, descendants of refugees who fled the vise grip of the Chinese government half a ... More >>

Gay Mormons, Black Pentecostals, Jedi Drag Queens, Oh My! Demonstrators Descend on State Supreme Court for Prop. 8 Hearings

Peter JamisonMinister Chauncey Killens thinks gay marriage should be illegal."I don't know any white gay man who sat on the back of the bus." So spoke Chauncey Killens, a black Pentecostal minister from Salinas, as he stood on San Francisco's Civic Center mall yesterday. Like hundreds around him, ... More >>

S.F. Planner: To Stop Poverty Pimping, TL Residents Must Fight the Law

Peter JamisonChristine Haw of the San Francisco Planning DepartmentA San Francisco Planning Department official delivered a less-than-inspiring message last night at a meeting of Tenderloin residents worried that their neighborhood is being overrun with social-service providers: Deal with it. Under ... More >>

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Say What? Why California Has No Corruption

By Peter Jamison As a member of a profession that relies on scandal in the upper echelons of representative government to justify its existence, it was with some chagrin that I noticed the recent rankings of states by level of corruption published in USA Today and the New York Times. (Such comparis ... More >>

SFPD Report Urges More Tasers, Fewer Dog Bites

By Peter Jamison The San Francisco Police Commission and the Board of Supervisors' Public Safety Committee are getting together tonight at 6 p.m. in city hall to chew over the findings of an organizational assessment of the city's police department. The analysis, performed by the Police Exec ... More >>

Photos: Where the Dark Art of Custom Corsets Lives On

By Peter Jamison This woman wants to sell you a corset. Autumn Adamme, pictured above, is the owner of Dark Garden, a corset shop on Linden Street in Hayes Valley. These days, corsetry of the kind practiced at Dark Garden is a lost art. In fact, Daphne Merkin, writing in T Magazine, the glossy ... More >>

Bicycle Blitz Brings 'Sexual Healing' to SOMA

By Peter Jamison An interesting scene awaited anybody who happened to be passing by 8th and Howard in SOMA last night after dark: Bright lights, lots of bicycles, and a speaker system blaring Max-A-Million's reggae remix of "Sexual Healing." I know what you're thinking, and yes, the mood was unusua ... More >>

Why the 'Black Friday Story' Is the Enemy of Real News

By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky repo ... More >>

Will Gay Marriage Have to Wait for Democracy to Catch Up?

History's Answer: Yes By Peter Jamison Since Californians voted to enshrine discrimination against gay couples in their state constitution on Nov. 4, the varied strains of lamentation from San Francisco's chattering classes have risen to a choral swell. The success of Proposition 8, which banned s ... More >>