Rhode Island

S.F. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone Trashes on Rhode Island for Letting Gays Marry

San Francisco's favorite inebriate, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, spent his weekend trashing Rhode Island for legalizing gay marriage. Remember, this is the same guy who said gay marriage was as possible as male breastfeeding, which by the way, is possible. Clearly, he's confused. According t ... More >>

Nate Silver's Forecast Is Very Optimistic About Same-Sex Marriage

Nate Silver is less than a god but more than a man. After November's presidential election, the bossman at the New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog became best known for correctly predicting the electoral outcomes of all 50 states. His forecast models became legendary. Of course, he had previousl ... More >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

'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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

But Is It Art?

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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

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