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The 20 Most Significant Food Inventions in History

Science may not be the first thing you think about when it comes to the development of culinary culture over time, but The Royal Society of the UK has put out a list of the top 20 most significant inventions for food and drink in history. You'd immediately think the plow would be way up there, but t ... More >>

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Science may not be the first thing you think about when it comes to the development of culinary culture over time, but The Royal Society of the UK has put out a list of the top 20 most significant inventions for food and drink in history. You'd immediately think the plow would be way up there, but t ... More >>

"Killer Joe": Matthew McConaughey Is a Lurid Pleasure

Science may not be the first thing you think about when it comes to the development of culinary culture over time, but The Royal Society of the UK has put out a list of the top 20 most significant inventions for food and drink in history. You'd immediately think the plow would be way up there, but t ... More >>

"Killer Joe": William Friedkin Tells Us What's Wrong with Hollywood

Science may not be the first thing you think about when it comes to the development of culinary culture over time, but The Royal Society of the UK has put out a list of the top 20 most significant inventions for food and drink in history. You'd immediately think the plow would be way up there, but t ... More >>

Ifs, Ands, and Butts

Science may not be the first thing you think about when it comes to the development of culinary culture over time, but The Royal Society of the UK has put out a list of the top 20 most significant inventions for food and drink in history. You'd immediately think the plow would be way up there, but t ... More >>

The Best of Times

Science may not be the first thing you think about when it comes to the development of culinary culture over time, but The Royal Society of the UK has put out a list of the top 20 most significant inventions for food and drink in history. You'd immediately think the plow would be way up there, but t ... More >>

Boxcar Digs Up Harsh Reality of Shepard's Haunting Buried Child

Jeff Garret is probably too old to play Tilden, the most fragile character in Buried Child, now at the Boxcar Playhouse under the direction of Rebecca Longworth. Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning script calls for an actor who looks to be in his late 40s. But Garret and Scott Phillips, who plays T ... More >>

Taking a Closer Look at Kamala Harris' Role in the Mortgage Settlement

​Attorney General Kamala Harris was quick to trumpet her role in securing a nationwide mortgage settlement last week with a handful of major banks, citing her decision to walk away from talks with the banks and the federal government in the fall as a bargaining coup that landed more money for Cali ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

​Attorney General Kamala Harris was quick to trumpet her role in securing a nationwide mortgage settlement last week with a handful of major banks, citing her decision to walk away from talks with the banks and the federal government in the fall as a bargaining coup that landed more money for Cali ... More >>

Sad But True: How the Black Album Both Made and Ruined Metallica

​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and Lots of Talking Can't Make It to Metallica's 30th Anniversary Concerts? Celebrate at These Shows Instead Popular music is fixated with jumping-off points, springbo ... More >>

Paul Zindel's Masterpiece Still Burns With Truth

There are only a few moments in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds when Tillie, a long-suffering victim of both the garden-variety cruelties of her high school and the more sickening ones of her family, actually gets to speak. In most cases, to make that happen the lights have t ... More >>

Jonathan Gold, Francis Lam, Robb Walsh Speak at This Year's Street Food Conference

​SFoodie has been previewing this Saturday's Street Food Festival, but public gluttony is only the splashy half of the event. On Sunday, Aug. 21, and Monday, Aug. 22, La Cocina has also organized a National Street Food Conference, which is bringing many names from the local food scene, as well as ... More >>

Illegal Immigrant Student Interned At California State Capitol

The new "coming out." ​Coming out of the closet as gay is so circa 1999. Now it's all about coming out as an illegal immigrant. Everyone is doing it: Fresno State University student body president Pedro Ramirez came out as illegal last year. Last month, former Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Offers Tipping Tips (Hint: 20 Percent)

​The LA Weekly's Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, Jonathan Gold, has come out with a list of 10 rules for tipping -- basically 10 reasons why diners need to stop pretending they're rewarding a waiter for the quality of his or her service and just tip a flat percentage. For instance: 2.Yes, I know yo ... More >>

Zoe Keating and Redshift on How Technology Is Changing So-Called Classical Music

Eric SungNew music ensemble REDSHIFT​Classical music is dying, woe, woe. We've heard the dirge so many times, but nobody seems to know exactly where all the classically trained, tux-adorned musicians are going. They aren't completely extinct yet. Instead of dying out, it seems that this endangered ... More >>

Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer-Winning Reporter Who Came Out As Illegal Immigrant, Worked For the Chron

Vargas was a Chron editorial assistant before he was famous​A Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter at The Washington Post came out in a story in the New York Times Magazine published online Wednesday as an undocumented immigrant. Jose Antonio Vargas is a Filipino national who climbed this countr ... More >>

San Francisco International Film Festival: What to See

Vargas was a Chron editorial assistant before he was famous​A Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter at The Washington Post came out in a story in the New York Times Magazine published online Wednesday as an undocumented immigrant. Jose Antonio Vargas is a Filipino national who climbed this countr ... More >>

"Clybourne Park" and "Next to Normal": Grief Hits Home

Vargas was a Chron editorial assistant before he was famous​A Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter at The Washington Post came out in a story in the New York Times Magazine published online Wednesday as an undocumented immigrant. Jose Antonio Vargas is a Filipino national who climbed this countr ... More >>

Mayor Ed Lee, Willie Brown, and Rose Pak Have a Laugh at Dinner

For San Francisco's new political triumvirate, the party never stops. On Jan. 6, Rose Pak and Willie Brown gleefully boasted to The Bay Citizen, that they'd orchestrated Ed Lee's selection as San Francisco's interim mayor. "As you know, I live serving my city. Would this be the next way?" ... More >>

"Rabbit Hole": A couple grieves tastefully

For San Francisco's new political triumvirate, the party never stops. On Jan. 6, Rose Pak and Willie Brown gleefully boasted to The Bay Citizen, that they'd orchestrated Ed Lee's selection as San Francisco's interim mayor. "As you know, I live serving my city. Would this be the next way?" ... More >>

Tim Lincecum Has a Coffee Table Book?

Deanne FitzmauriceTime Lincecum loves him some videogames​It might come as a surprise to folks that Giants ace Tim "The Freak" Lincecum is the subject of a coffee table book. It's much less surprising than, say, Lincecum's off-season pot bust. But perhaps equally as surprising as the revelation th ... More >>

Gary Snyder argues for "The Etiquette of Freedom"

Deanne FitzmauriceTime Lincecum loves him some videogames​It might come as a surprise to folks that Giants ace Tim "The Freak" Lincecum is the subject of a coffee table book. It's much less surprising than, say, Lincecum's off-season pot bust. But perhaps equally as surprising as the revelation th ... More >>

FAIR-y Tales

Deanne FitzmauriceTime Lincecum loves him some videogames​It might come as a surprise to folks that Giants ace Tim "The Freak" Lincecum is the subject of a coffee table book. It's much less surprising than, say, Lincecum's off-season pot bust. But perhaps equally as surprising as the revelation th ... More >>