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Rhode Island

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2012

    Fake News About Google Purchase Bounced Around Internet Echo Chamber

    It was early Monday morning when people first started thinking that Google purchased ICOA Inc., a WiFi hotspot company based in Rhode Island. A headline on PRWeb, which businesses us to post press releases, read: "ICOA Inc. Acquired by Google for $400 Million." It's unclear who broke the story firs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2012

    Class Alert! Master Vanilla Tasting, Cooking Fundamentals, and Mead Making

    Pantry Tasting -- Vanilla Beans Where: Smitten Ice Cream, 432 Octavia (at Fell), 863-1518 When: Sat., Oct. 20, 8 p.m. Cost: $25 (purchase via Eventbrite) The rundown: This small class (25 people) presented by Slow Food San Francisco features a guided tasting of vanilla beans via Smitten's liquid n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Steep Brew: A Whole Foods Beer Bar

    ​When asked, "what would improve your grocery shopping experience?", we typically reply, "16 taps of fresh craft beer with a local focus." Evidently, Whole Foods Potrero was listening. Friday brings the opening of Steep Brew, a destination beer bar tucked beneath the grocery store at 17th St. and ... More >>

  • Music

    February 15, 2012

    AraabMuzik: Show Preview

    ​When asked, "what would improve your grocery shopping experience?", we typically reply, "16 taps of fresh craft beer with a local focus." Evidently, Whole Foods Potrero was listening. Friday brings the opening of Steep Brew, a destination beer bar tucked beneath the grocery store at 17th St. and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    MasterChef is Looking for Cooks to Yell At

    Leslie Kelly/ seriouseats.com​When: Saturday, Dec. 10, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Where: Le Cordon Bleu, 350 Rhode Island (at 16th St.) The rundown: If you've ever wanted yelp, "Yes Chef!" as Gordon Ramsey stares you down while holding a plate of overcooked scallops -- now's your chance. MasterChef, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    San Francisco Landed America's Cup ... And Now We See Why

    Sailing To A Sweeter Deal​The Examiner unravels some details of the "sweet" America's Cup deal that helped San Francisco land the sailing regatta. After much back-and-forth, San Francisco scaled back on its bid, essentially saving city taxpayers scores of millions of dollars. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Santa Beats Yacht Club Robbery Rap

    We knew you didn't exist ​Readers may recall an eye-catching story we had earlier about jolly old St. Nick himself knocking over the East Providence Yacht Club in Rhode Island. This, we postulated, was reason enough to award the America's Cup to San Francisco and not Newport. Kris Kringle may tell ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Santa Claus Robs Yacht Club

    Be good for goodness sake...​With the yachtsmen of Rhode Island poised to steal the America's Cup from San Francisco, someone else is stealing from Rhode Island's yachtsmen -- Santa Claus. A gunman knocked over the bar at the East Providence Yacht Club yesterday. That gunman, incidentally, was des ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    America's Cup: Newport, Larry Ellison Have Been in Contact

    Hello, Larry! ​During yesterday's committee hearing regarding the hosting of the America's Cup regatta, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi warned his colleagues that former race site Newport, R.I. is clamoring to sail off with San Francisco's prize following any "glitch or defect in our process." This, it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    'Lightning Bolt Kills TV Giraffe' Not What It Sounds Like

    ​BBC News is no stranger to confusing headlines ("Turkey scarf mars anniversary" comes to mind), but this one caught our attention for reasons beyond the usual funny abbreviations and crash blossoms: "Lightning Bolt Kills TV Giraffe." Could it be true? Well, no, not the way you're thinking.

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Zynga Faces Class-Action Lawsuit over Alleged Privacy Breach

    Life on the farm is never dull for long​No matter what they do, some companies seem chronically incapable of playing peacefully in the sandbox of American capitalism with others. San Francisco-based game developer Zynga -- the wildly successful firm behind such popular Facebook applications as&nbs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Whole Foods Hosting Multi-Culti Bistro Benefit for SF Street Food Fest

    Jun BelenAzalina Eusope of Azalaina's Malaysian.​Whole Foods is fund-raising for the SF Street Food Festival next week with a street-centric dinner prepared by three incubating businesses at La Cocina, organizer of the fest. The meal leaps across continents, in a triple-course matchup that p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Rescued Hens Up For Adoption in Marin

    ​This morning, 70 rescued hens arrived at the Marin County Humane Society in Novato. They came from an animal sanctuary in Vacaville, where an egg farmer had dropped them off with plastic bands cutting into their legs. The farmer had placed the bands on the chickens when they were young, not think ... More >>

  • Music

    May 5, 2010

    Clubs preview: Javelin

    ​This morning, 70 rescued hens arrived at the Marin County Humane Society in Novato. They came from an animal sanctuary in Vacaville, where an egg farmer had dropped them off with plastic bands cutting into their legs. The farmer had placed the bands on the chickens when they were young, not think ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Whole Foods Now Offering Kombucha on Tap in S.F.

    vegnewspresspass.blogspot.comWhole Foods rolled out kombucha on tap here at the 2009 Outside Lands festival.​Don't hurl expensive half-green Mexican cherry tomatoes at us because we stopped by the Whole Foods in Potrero Hill to buy some grass-fed steak and salad fixings. As we approached caut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    What To Do? Wednesday: Javelin and Lucky Dragons

    ​Javelin and Lucky Dragons @ the Knockout Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford are big on recycling. As Javelin, the Rhode Island cousins make jumpy electronic pop that mines old sounds for new ones. Limited to 500 copies, their debut 12-inch on Thrill Jockey features unique art screen-printed by ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2009

    But Is It Art?

    ​Javelin and Lucky Dragons @ the Knockout Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford are big on recycling. As Javelin, the Rhode Island cousins make jumpy electronic pop that mines old sounds for new ones. Limited to 500 copies, their debut 12-inch on Thrill Jockey features unique art screen-printed by ... More >>

  • Film

    September 23, 2009

    Masterful documentary Crude details the toxic battle between big oil and natives in Ecuador

    ​Javelin and Lucky Dragons @ the Knockout Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford are big on recycling. As Javelin, the Rhode Island cousins make jumpy electronic pop that mines old sounds for new ones. Limited to 500 copies, their debut 12-inch on Thrill Jockey features unique art screen-printed by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2009

    Newsom Baby Arrives: It's a ... State!

    Mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, popped out a 20.5 inch long, 7 pound 12 ounce baby girl today at 12:39 p.m.The baby, whose name was apparently being kept secret under threat of retribution, is Montana Tessa Newsom, named for the state in which the couple got married. (What i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    Slow Food's Potrero Hill Potluck a Crunchy Alternative to Civic Center

    Common Vision/FlickrA community planting at the permaculture garden on Potrero.​Okay, so maybe you're thinking Slow Food's big Labor Day potluck in Civic Center sounds too urban. Well, a small-scale, altogether crunchier Eat-In is going down the same day on Petrero Hill. Up to 70 attendees are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Hand Off That Funky Fry Oil at Various S.F. Drop Points

    Daniel Greene/FlickrYou could make someone's '83 Volvo very happy with this.​You can now repurpose used cooking oil in the greenest of ways, even if you haven't converted your own car to drive on biofuels. If you live in San Francisco, you can now get rid of that dodgy fry oil left from cookin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    SOMA Taco Stand Hoping for Late June Opening

    And it'll never get a flat tire.The owner of an under-construction taco stand in SOMA told SFoodie he's hoping to launch a soft opening on Monday, June 22. Arturo Aguilar described Publico Urban Taqueria (in the Trader Joe's shopping complex, 555 Ninth St. at Brannan) as a taco truck without an engi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    Leno Says He'll Have Measure on Ballot to Kill 2/3 Threshold for State Budget Votes By 2010

    Sen. Mark LenoMark Leno just told SF Weekly he's slept two hours out of the past 48 and he may or may not be hallucinating. He's tired, he's angry, and he's about to cash in some of his political connections and kick start a fund-raising drive to ensure it never happens again. The San Francisco Stat ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2008

    Wine Elites?

    Sen. Mark LenoMark Leno just told SF Weekly he's slept two hours out of the past 48 and he may or may not be hallucinating. He's tired, he's angry, and he's about to cash in some of his political connections and kick start a fund-raising drive to ensure it never happens again. The San Francisco Stat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2008

    Carême 350: The Best, Most Complicated Deal of the Summer

    Sen. Mark LenoMark Leno just told SF Weekly he's slept two hours out of the past 48 and he may or may not be hallucinating. He's tired, he's angry, and he's about to cash in some of his political connections and kick start a fund-raising drive to ensure it never happens again. The San Francisco Stat ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 25, 2008

    A Colorful Character

    Sen. Mark LenoMark Leno just told SF Weekly he's slept two hours out of the past 48 and he may or may not be hallucinating. He's tired, he's angry, and he's about to cash in some of his political connections and kick start a fund-raising drive to ensure it never happens again. The San Francisco Stat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2007

    Last Night: Sage Francis

    Sen. Mark LenoMark Leno just told SF Weekly he's slept two hours out of the past 48 and he may or may not be hallucinating. He's tired, he's angry, and he's about to cash in some of his political connections and kick start a fund-raising drive to ensure it never happens again. The San Francisco Stat ... More >>

  • Music

    June 20, 2007

    Nevada City: a gold mine once again with folkster Alela Diane

    Sen. Mark LenoMark Leno just told SF Weekly he's slept two hours out of the past 48 and he may or may not be hallucinating. He's tired, he's angry, and he's about to cash in some of his political connections and kick start a fund-raising drive to ensure it never happens again. The San Francisco Stat ... More >>

  • Music

    November 1, 2006

    Prismatic melody munching with Kevin Blechdom

    Sen. Mark LenoMark Leno just told SF Weekly he's slept two hours out of the past 48 and he may or may not be hallucinating. He's tired, he's angry, and he's about to cash in some of his political connections and kick start a fund-raising drive to ensure it never happens again. The San Francisco Stat ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 24, 2006

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

    Sen. Mark LenoMark Leno just told SF Weekly he's slept two hours out of the past 48 and he may or may not be hallucinating. He's tired, he's angry, and he's about to cash in some of his political connections and kick start a fund-raising drive to ensure it never happens again. The San Francisco Stat ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 17, 2006

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

    Sen. Mark LenoMark Leno just told SF Weekly he's slept two hours out of the past 48 and he may or may not be hallucinating. He's tired, he's angry, and he's about to cash in some of his political connections and kick start a fund-raising drive to ensure it never happens again. The San Francisco Stat ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 10, 2006

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

    Sen. Mark LenoMark Leno just told SF Weekly he's slept two hours out of the past 48 and he may or may not be hallucinating. He's tired, he's angry, and he's about to cash in some of his political connections and kick start a fund-raising drive to ensure it never happens again. The San Francisco Stat ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 3, 2006

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

    Sen. Mark LenoMark Leno just told SF Weekly he's slept two hours out of the past 48 and he may or may not be hallucinating. He's tired, he's angry, and he's about to cash in some of his political connections and kick start a fund-raising drive to ensure it never happens again. The San Francisco Stat ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 26, 2006

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

    Sen. Mark LenoMark Leno just told SF Weekly he's slept two hours out of the past 48 and he may or may not be hallucinating. He's tired, he's angry, and he's about to cash in some of his political connections and kick start a fund-raising drive to ensure it never happens again. The San Francisco Stat ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 19, 2006

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

    Sen. Mark LenoMark Leno just told SF Weekly he's slept two hours out of the past 48 and he may or may not be hallucinating. He's tired, he's angry, and he's about to cash in some of his political connections and kick start a fund-raising drive to ensure it never happens again. The San Francisco Stat ... More >>

  • Music

    March 8, 2006

    Burning Down the House

    The Spinto Band sparks a buzz brush-fire

  • Film

    November 23, 2005

    All Yours

    Yours, Mine & Ours lowers the bar for miserable remakes

  • Calendar

    March 31, 2004

    Fiery Lizards

    Play on wheels is a real hot tomato

  • Calendar

    October 1, 2003

    One-Man Band

    N'Scintillating

  • Dining

    June 4, 2003

    Soup Kitchen

    Survivors of the dot-com bust live on Irma's Absolutely Famous Tortilla Soup

  • News

    February 19, 2003

    Laugh, or We Kill the Lobster

    Ben Westhoff gets inside the odd mix of cerebral and naughty humor that's taken S.F. comedy troupe Killing My Lobster to the edge of national fame

  • Music

    August 7, 2002

    House of Tudor

    Outsider art, techno puppets, and Body Manipulations

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Best Way to Get Dizzy Downtown (Nonalcoholic Category)

    Yerba Buena Gardens Carousel

  • Film

    June 21, 2000

    Good Cop, Bad Cop

    Jim Carrey stars in Me, Myself & Irene

  • Dining

    May 3, 2000

    Side Dish

    Eating Winona; Doon Town; Pictionary; Fore; Star-ing

  • News

    April 26, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Published April 26, 2000

  • Film

    September 1, 1999

    Hard Times

    Outside Providence

  • Music

    September 3, 1997

    The House of Tudor

    Outside Providence

  • Music

    May 15, 1996

    Recordings

    Outside Providence

  • Music

    July 26, 1995

    Sticky Fingers

    The Six Finger Satellite swindle

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