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Seven Tasty Food Carts (and Trucks) From Across the Country

We've got the Sexy Soup Cart, Creme Brulee Man and Amuse Buchee, but the growing food cart phenomenon isn't limited to San Francisco. That's right -- food carts and trucks throughout the nation are serving up deliciousness far beyond the usual pretzels and dogs. We've corralled seven of our favo ... More >>

A New Queer Smorgasbord

We've got the Sexy Soup Cart, Creme Brulee Man and Amuse Buchee, but the growing food cart phenomenon isn't limited to San Francisco. That's right -- food carts and trucks throughout the nation are serving up deliciousness far beyond the usual pretzels and dogs. We've corralled seven of our favo ... More >>

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Church

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What To Do? Tuesday's Pick: Church

​Church @ Hemlock Tavern An air of mystery hangs over Portland, Ore., quartet Church, and not simply because of its vague name. The band's debut album, Song Force Crystal, is all over the place, and yet remarkably understated. Moods and textures come and go, but there's none of the erratic showin ... More >>

Clean Pickin’

​Church @ Hemlock Tavern An air of mystery hangs over Portland, Ore., quartet Church, and not simply because of its vague name. The band's debut album, Song Force Crystal, is all over the place, and yet remarkably understated. Moods and textures come and go, but there's none of the erratic showin ... More >>

What To Do? Wednesday's Pick: Builders and the Butchers

​Builders and the Butchers @ Bottom of the Hill The specter of the South may loom large in the songs of the Builders and the Butchers, as do God and the Devil, but the five-piece has its origins much further north. Based in Portland, Ore., each member is a transplant from Alaska. But that doesn't ... More >>

If Portland Has an Urban Wild Foods Database, Why Don't We?

Urban EdiblesSay you had a hankering for loquats: You'd know exactly where to score.​We long for a user-friendly online database to conveniently catalogue everything we like ― pick-up basketball runs, fishing holes, and soda fountains, to list a few ― and we're pleased to learn that, incre ... More >>

Pierced Arrows

Urban EdiblesSay you had a hankering for loquats: You'd know exactly where to score.​We long for a user-friendly online database to conveniently catalogue everything we like ― pick-up basketball runs, fishing holes, and soda fountains, to list a few ― and we're pleased to learn that, incre ... More >>

Behind the Beat with Low Limit of Lazer Sword

Lazer Sword's Low Limit (left) and Lando Kal​Bryant Rutledge has come a long way. He moved to San Francisco from his hometown of Portland, OR, took a position at electronic music rag XLR8R (where, I should note, I also contribute), and began work on his music career as a multi-talented DJ and prod ... More >>

What To Do? Pierced Arrows at Bottom of the Hill

​Pierced Arrows @ Bottom of the Hill "New kids on the block have taken my place/Walking on my grave," Fred Cole screeched in his last band with his wife, Toody, the mildly legendary garage-rockers Dead Moon. He has a right to those lyrics -- he turns 62 in August. In the Portland, Ore., native's ... More >>

Cochon 555 is Rolling into San Francisco. With Luck, No Punches Will Fly

wanderkeil/FlickrGet ready for the thunderous, rollin' pig-pulling ― and hopefully brawl-free ― review.​Cochon 555 is coming to San Francisco ― you know, that thunderous, rollin' pig-pulling review boasting five lauded chefs, five hapless swine, and five exemplary wine crafters. On June ... More >>

The Prids Are All Right

wanderkeil/FlickrGet ready for the thunderous, rollin' pig-pulling ― and hopefully brawl-free ― review.​Cochon 555 is coming to San Francisco ― you know, that thunderous, rollin' pig-pulling review boasting five lauded chefs, five hapless swine, and five exemplary wine crafters. On June ... More >>

10 Things: Good Bands, Gay Pride, Free Market and The Life and Death of an Italian Cat

Portland's The Caps, performing at Summer Solstice Spectacle on Saturday​On this fine Pride weekend, let's step back and take a moment to appreciate all the superb events our foggy town has to offer without high costs or shitty attitudes. Where else in the world can you find citywide Michael Jacks ... More >>

It’s So Bright! It’s So Vivid!

Portland's The Caps, performing at Summer Solstice Spectacle on Saturday​On this fine Pride weekend, let's step back and take a moment to appreciate all the superb events our foggy town has to offer without high costs or shitty attitudes. Where else in the world can you find citywide Michael Jacks ... More >>

Food Carting in Portland, Part 2: Downtown

Tamara PalmerThe Dump Truck's bacon cheeseburger dumpling.​Downtown Portland has several areas, including parking lots called pods, dedicated to street food. We decided to check out the scene on S.W. Alder between 9th and 10th Streets, where a few relatively new carts are parked alongside some ... More >>

Mayor Newsom Paints a Bike Lane

​We don't exactly frequent the mayor's self-congratulatory press conferences. But when we heard he'd actually be painting part of a bike lane around the corner from our offices today at 1 p.m., we put down the amyl nitrate and headed out.The requisite media circus had congregated on the corner of ... More >>

Red Fang: Show Preview

​We don't exactly frequent the mayor's self-congratulatory press conferences. But when we heard he'd actually be painting part of a bike lane around the corner from our offices today at 1 p.m., we put down the amyl nitrate and headed out.The requisite media circus had congregated on the corner of ... More >>

Canada's PS I Love You Spread the Love Stateside on First Tour

Vanessa Heins​San Francisco, meet PS I Love You. They're new here, and they're psyched to meet you. The Kingston, Ontario duo of Paul Saulnier and Benjamin Nelson are a few dates into their first U.S. tour, weathering the ups and downs of the road and bringing their clamorous caterwaul to the ador ... More >>

Will S.F. Ever Get a Beer Truck Like Portland's?

Brian YaegerBrew truck Beervana launched this weekend at Portland's new D-Street Noshery food-cart pod.​Former SFoodie beer contributor Brian Yaeger recently moved to Portland, where he's combating instant-onset S.A.D. with ― you guessed it ― beer. Portland's pods ― those clusters of f ... More >>

Getting a Taste of PDX During SFBW

NorthwestBeerGuide/FlickrOut-of-towner: Deschutes' The Dissident.​Bridgetown, aka Beervana, aka Portland has much to brag about when it comes to beer culture, but it doesn't yet have a Portland Beer Week (with stress on the "yet"). So some of Oregon's savvier breweries put some flowers in thei ... More >>

Pink Martini: Show Preview

NorthwestBeerGuide/FlickrOut-of-towner: Deschutes' The Dissident.​Bridgetown, aka Beervana, aka Portland has much to brag about when it comes to beer culture, but it doesn't yet have a Portland Beer Week (with stress on the "yet"). So some of Oregon's savvier breweries put some flowers in thei ... More >>

Will the Bay Area's Street Food Scene Ever Rival Portland's? No.

The Courtyard/FlickrMost of Portland's food carts group together in "pods."​As I wrote several weeks ago, despite San Francisco city officials' attempts to help the city's food truck scene grow, the conflicts between brick-and-mortar restaurants downtown and food trucks applying for street-parking ... More >>