New Year's Eve is a holiday when everyone seems willing to get gouged: event prices rocket to high heaven while the Devil steals your wallet through a hole in the floor. But some of us prefer fiscal responsibility to go with our twelfth-month tippling (everything in moderation, folks!) and thus we seek out NYE events that won't blast a hole in our bank accounts. Perhaps even -- could it be? -- free New Year's Eve events. Yes! Unlike Bigfoot or an easy solution to the Middle East crisis, such th
Via: Babette C. on YelpLoving Cup is a soda fountain for the new millennium, a bright, clean-lined Polk Gulch storefront specializing not in malted milks and hot fudge sundaes but the more healthful pleasures of smoothies, frozen yogurt and...rice pudding. Rice pudding rich in comfort but not calories. Rice pudding that's lustier and creamier than the glop of childhood memory. Rice pudding flavored with mango, peanut butter, Key limes, English toffee, Madagascar vanilla; rice pudding, in short,
Homeless gay youths in San Francisco run an extraordinary risk of HIV infection, according to city statistics. On the street, safety is a matter of economics -- and hope.
Jen SiskaAicha's kefta tagine (right).An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review.
Little Aicha (1303 Polk at Bush) showed up in Polk Gulch last June, in the space where De Afghanan Kabob House once ruled. SF Weekly restaurant critic showed up, too, working her way through a series of Moroccan dishes at the modest mom 'n' pop that busts out small (an medium-size) dishes, with prices to match. Vegetables shiny with olive oil. Cinnamon-y chicken baked in the phyllo-like pastry
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