Sacramento

Lunchtime Boozing: Tax Relief Special At Palio D'Asti

If You Wanna Fly, You Gotta Buy: An Evening With Marco Caprai

Mastroberardino In The House: Acquerello Tasting Dinner

Report: Migden Screams at Her Staff

Thee Oh Sees Share Their Intelligence

MP3 of the Day: Mayyors

The Face That Launched A Thousand Quips: Tom Ammiano Bids Adieu to His Constituency

Finally, a reason to visit Sacramento By Joe Eskenazi After eight years of racking up some of the world’s best off-color, gay-themed double-entendres – and, incidentally, governing San Francisco – Supervisor Tom Ammiano tossed a few last one-liners to his adoring public before opting to lea ... More >>

Two Gallants, Trash Talk Perform in Benefit for Oscar Grant's Family

The community support for the friends and family of BART shooting victim Oscar Grant has spread to the music community. First Too $hort spoke at an Oakland protest on Jan. 14, and now representatives from the indie and metal world are getting involved. Sacramento hardcore faves Trash Talk will take ... More >>

Double-Bagged: Sagging Economy Drives Politicos Away From Plastic Bag Fees Toward Simplistic Bans -- Or, More Likely, Nothing

Joe EskenaziIt's not often that we'll deign to cover the affairs of the Santa Clara County Recycling & Waste Reduction Commission, but today's the day. In a few hours, the commission will discuss whether to move forward on a bold and environmentally sound plan to impose a 25-cent fee on all bags ... More >>

Against All Odds

Fundamentalists want to ban same-sex marriage. All across California, people are mad as hell. So how come nobody's doing anything about it?

Chachi Jones' robotic daydreams

Fundamentalists want to ban same-sex marriage. All across California, people are mad as hell. So how come nobody's doing anything about it?

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Best Hidden Restaurant (tie)

Week of Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Best Prix Fixe

Week of Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Best Italian

Week of Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Best Scrolling View

Week of Wednesday, November 23, 2005

The Empire Strikes Back

The Sacramento art scene -- yes, there is one -- heads to S.F.

Klondike & York

The Holy Book LP

The Frenchmen

Sorry We Ruined Your Party

Critical Masturbation

The long-running pro-bike protest known as Critical Mass is a form of ritual self-abuse that hurts the cause of city cycling

SHOPS

The long-running pro-bike protest known as Critical Mass is a form of ritual self-abuse that hurts the cause of city cycling

Blowing Smoke

WARNING: Gov. Davis' plan to use tobacco lawsuit money to fill a budget gap is dangerous to our financial health

Best Bike Trail

American River Trail, Old Town Sacramento

Dog Bites

Lawmaker for a Day; Yes, It's All About You

Dim Bulbs

Greedy out-of-state profiteers make easy targets, but the real villains of California's energy debacle are the ones under the state capitol dome.

Political Economy

How a Willie Brown real estate venture snagged tens of millions of dollars in government subsidies and opened the way for Democratic heavyweight Angelo Tsakopoulo to make even more money

Brotherly Love

How a Willie Brown real estate venture snagged tens of millions of dollars in government subsidies and opened the way for Democratic heavyweight Angelo Tsakopoulo to make even more money

Is This Any Way to Run A Railroad?

Union Pacific's tenacious fight to gut safety laws passed when a derailment sterilized 40 miles of the upper Sacramento River

Unspun

Union Pacific's tenacious fight to gut safety laws passed when a derailment sterilized 40 miles of the upper Sacramento River

Free Iced Coffee Today at Coffee Bean

Those in search of a slightly more civilized freebie than the lines reported at KFCs around the country thanks to Oprah might saunter over to their nearest Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (773 Market at 4th St.; 2201 Fillmore at Sacramento; Four Embarcadero Center) between 4 and 8 p.m. today. Sure, there ... More >>

Hot Meal: Lunch at Wexler's

Smoked chicken wings: A tad gnawy.Despite the buzz it's sparked, brand-new Wexler's (568 Sacramento at Montgomery) strikes you as tiny and a little prim, tucked away in a gray block of Sacramento along a concrete canyon in the Financial District. Even the dining room has a touch of the austere, desp ... More >>

Cheap Wines That Don't Suck: 2008 Famega Vinho Verde

The solstice says it's summer, but the fog hovering over the bay hasn't yet made up its mind. The sun will eventually peek out, and when it does you'll want the right wine: perky, light, clean, and cheap. Vinho Verde, a Portuguese white that literally means "green wine," fits the bill. Famega make ... More >>

Chronic City: Here's Progress -- S.F. Firefighters Rescue Marijuana Grow-Op

Save the medical marijuana, fire teddy! ​ Sometimes the biggest signs of epochal change in society are those that are casually mentioned, five paragraphs down in a story. Such was the case with Sunday's four-alarm warehouse fire in Bayview, where fire crews remained yesterday monitoring for flare- ... More >>

O.G. Italian, Pac Heights-Style: A SFoodie Lunch Planner

​Monday, October 26, 2009 What the hell is a "vivande"? It was an Italian takeaway food shop in the Middle Ages, long before restaurants existed. Carlo Middione's Fillmore Street food shop has been around almost since the Dark Ages -- well, since 1981, which is plenty dark for us. Get an O.G. ... More >>

So You Say You Want a Constitution. But Are You Ready to Double Down?

We here at The Snitch have followed the long-running murmurs about a future state constitutional convention with interest. After all, in a state as saturated with moneyed interests and crippled by partisan hackery as California, just what rough beast might be born from a thorough redesign of our met ... More >>

Legislators, Lawyers Winning Fight to Render Red Light Cameras Useless

Bill would make it easier to get away with this​Red light-runners are winning a battle to render camera evidence less incriminating in court, the Sacramento Bee's Dan Walters reports.Sen. Joe Simitian, who represents Palo Alto and San Jose commuters under the watch of the dozens of cameras mo ... More >>

Zero Zero Does Lunch, Schweet Boks Keeps Its Lid Shut

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Eater SF reports that the Emeryville Trader Vic's (9 Anchor Drive), which closed in late April to remodel, is set to reopen on Sept. 23. Its 632 Facebook friends will be overjoyed. Per I ... More >>

Workers' comp covers retired cops who get cancer

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Eater SF reports that the Emeryville Trader Vic's (9 Anchor Drive), which closed in late April to remodel, is set to reopen on Sept. 23. Its 632 Facebook friends will be overjoyed. Per I ... More >>

The First Cut Is the Deepest

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Eater SF reports that the Emeryville Trader Vic's (9 Anchor Drive), which closed in late April to remodel, is set to reopen on Sept. 23. Its 632 Facebook friends will be overjoyed. Per I ... More >>

Sacramento Metalheads Tesla's Studio Burns in Three-Alarm Blaze

Ross HalfinTesla​Flames tore through a Sacramento apartment building last night, damaging a studio where the metal band Tesla recorded.Soundproofing in the recording studio, which was behind the apartment building, made it harder for crews to reach the attic, where the the three-alarm blaze had sp ... More >>

High-tech Thieves Jury Rigged Gas Pumps to Steal Customers' Identities

​A pair of MacGyver-esque identity thieves has pleaded guilty to implanting devices in gas pumps that stole customers' checking-account information, a scheme that state officials say brought in $90,000.The California Attorney General's office announced today that the men -- David Karapetyan and Zh ... More >>

State Audit Questions Qualifications of Family Court Personnel

​The California State Auditor released a report today questioning the qualifications of experts who make child-custody recommendations for the family courts in Marin and Sacramento counties.The report, which you can read in full here, found that neither county's family court system could produce a ... More >>

Fiona Ma Refuses to Use State-Subsidized Cars Amid Looming Budget Crisis

Giving, not getting, free rides​Not every executive feels entitled to perks in the face of a financial fiasco. Assemblywoman Fiona Ma is one of a handful of lawmakers in Sacramento who refuses to use taxpayer dollars to get to and from work. Ma has decided not to use state leased vehicles, one of ... More >>

The Cheese Factor's High at Sacramento's Squeeze Inn

Alex HochmanThe Squeeze Inn's crisp-skirted Squeeze with Cheese, $6.25. ​Located at the tail end of a nondescript, mostly vacant Sacramento strip mall about 20 feet from the tracks, The Squeeze Inn hardly seems like a destination. But at 4 p.m. on a recent weekday, the place was full and a lin ... More >>

Will 'Coordinated Healthcare' Save San Francisco Millions?

Tommy, first let's collect some 'metadata'​When multimillion dollar businesses adopt language and sales strategies befitting used car dealers -- or worse, Crazy Eddie -- consumers would be wise to clutch tightly to their wallets. Well, tomorrow the city and a bevy of its health providers will anno ... More >>

Chris Brown Japan Tsunami = Most Stupidest TV News Story We Could Possibly Imagine

Ummm:​Is local TV news in Sacramento really this bad?

Wayfare Tavern's Deviled Eggs Are Hella Good

Carina OstDeviled Jidori eggs with bottarga, $9.​In case you've been ignoring the beautiful weather, your calendar, or that asparagus at brunch, let SFoodie save you the embarrassment: It's spring! It's the season of crucifixions and rebirth, of ying and yang, of the white and the yolk. And ... More >>

Shady Ladies and End of Days: Tuesday Is for Tipplers

Between the cold, soggy spring weather and this weekend's Rapture (aka End of Days), a few drinks on a Tuesday night should be all the comfort you really need. Warm up your insides at either of these events, while making your last few days on Earth count. Anyway, use the excuse to.Caroline on Cra ... More >>

Remaking Borscht, Snacking on Goat Cheese Curds

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Borscht belt comedy. The Wall Street Journal just ran what must be my favorite food story of the week: The Gold family, whose 79-year-old company in upstate New York was once a ma ... More >>

Do Not Pity the Turkey. Fear the Turkey.

They will hunt you, too.​Humans may eat millions of turkeys at Thanksgiving, but don't think that the turkeys aren't fighting back. If YouTube is to be believed, the turkey resistance is growing. They are chasing down terrified reporters in Sacramento and attacking our infrastructure (we ... More >>