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San Rafael

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Marin Kids Force Crayola to Make Its Mark on the Environment

    The kids over at Sun Valley School in San Rafael are lamenting the fact that the Crayola markers they use to draw, write, and color, are pretty ... pretty polluting. And because the students are sick of seeing so much wasted plastic, they started a petition on Change.org asking the company to give c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    #OpCannabis: Anonymous Pushing Marijuana For 4/20

    Not every innocuous schoolboy joke becomes a worldwide cultural phenomenon, but this one -- 4/20, 4-20, four twenty -- has had legs since it began 41 years ago at San Rafael High in Marin County.This year, the universal code for marijuana use is being co-opted by everyone's favorite "hacktivist" col ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Coast Guard Ends Search for Missing Sailors at Farallon Islands

    After 24 hours of scouring the waters, the Coast Guard announced last night that it was suspending its search for the four sailors who went missing in a boating accident over the weekend, and would not resume the search today. Authorities explained to the press their reason for ending the search, sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    Funny Photo: The Best Two-Sentence Review of Metallica and Lou Reed's Lulu Ever

    Happy Place​ Okay, so we don't think Metallica and Lou Reed's Lulu is as bad as many people do. But the San Rafael-recorded album has still inspired some fantastic shit-talking. The above review, which comes to us via Happy Place, is about as short, curt, and funny a description of the nearly ... More >>

  • Music

    September 14, 2011

    Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

    Happy Place​ Okay, so we don't think Metallica and Lou Reed's Lulu is as bad as many people do. But the San Rafael-recorded album has still inspired some fantastic shit-talking. The above review, which comes to us via Happy Place, is about as short, curt, and funny a description of the nearly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    $2,500 Reward Offered To Nab Swan's Killer

    ​San Rafael's In Defense of Animals -- which we last touched base with when they offered a reward to catch whomever decapitated goats in San Jose -- has once again made it both fun and profitable to bust animal abusers. The group pledged $2,500 toward the arrest and conviction of whomever killed M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Brrrrrr: Serial Streaker Kip Burr on Ice in Marin County Jail

    Kip Burr has known happier, nakeder times...​San Rafael's Kip Allen Burr's last name is pronounced "brrr." This would seem the perfect name for his chosen avocation of baring it all in public, outside, at night, in the winter, spring, and summertime.As of Friday, Burr was in the Marin County Jail ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    I Am Cinematic: Cafe Gratitude-Centric Documentary Might Be Preachy, But Inspirational

    Frank Ferrante, a 54-year-old Brooklyn transplant, looks like the last person who would wander into a Cafe Gratitude and stay there without the use of handcuffs, but the documentary May I Be Frank shows how the perceptively preachy vegan mini-chain helped him achieve a healthier body and outlook o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Hey Vegans: Thanksgiving Dinner's Free at Cafe Gratitude Again

    flirianders/FlickrThere's no excuse for rawists to spend the holiday alone in front of the dehydrator.​Can you say, "I feel grateful?" or perhaps "I feel bountiful?" Café Gratitude sooo wants you to. Keeping with a well established annual tradition, four out of five Café Gratitude locations ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Fiorello's Caramel Balsamic Ice Cream Inspires A Certain Frantic Obsessiveness

    It's like that.​Maybe the rambling, effusive message we left on the San Rafael-based company's answering machine at 11 p.m. had a different effect than the one we intended. What else were we to do? We had questions to ask. A friend had brought over a stunningly good pint of caramel balsamic ic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Cougars Ahoy! Women On the Prowl For Younger Men are Headed to San Francisco.

    Daniel C. BrittDrool Brittania: British cougars Rita Sangha (left), 39, and Bea Cameron, 45, make nice to the camera during August's "National Cougar Convention" ​Do people complain to Rich Gosse about the use of the term "cougar" -- previously applied to a 1970s-era muscle car and, of course, a b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Stripmall Architecture Plays Café Du Nord Thursday

    ​ Hey shoegazers! Yeah, you. Up here. That's it. Do you have a hankering for trance-inducing, dreamy indietronica? Does the mention of a band somewhere in-between Sigur Ros and the Cocteau Twins make those little hairs on the back of your neck tingle? If so, you owe it to yourself to check for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    The Whole Pop-Up Thing Popping Up in San Rafael Next Week

    leslie b./YelpTheresa & Johnny's: Going MSF-style edgy.​Next week, Marin dwellers will be able to sample a take on the Mission Street Food concept amid the leafy comfort of the 'burbs. An MSF-style pop-up called Night Kitchen will unfold in San Rafael next Wednesday, August 19, starting at 6 p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Three Twins Brings Organic Ice Cream (and Green Practices) to Lower Haight

    Green is more than an idea at Three TwinsAfter opening his first shop in San Rafael in 2005 and another in Napa two years later, organic ice cream purveyor Neal Gottlieb finally has a presence in the city. On Friday, the lucky third outlet of Three Twins ice cream opened on Fillmore in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Mark Your Calendar: CUESA Moveable Feast Fundraiser Set for Aziza in July

    chez pim via FlickrSyhabout: Prix-fixe collaboratorPeople line up for Jesse Kuhn's Little Gem lettuces at the Ferry Plaza farmers' market on Saturdays and at the Marin farmers' market in San Rafael on Sundays. At his 10-acre Petaluma farm, Marin Roots, he also grows baby vegetables -- carrots, beets ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    Vegan Eats: The Roman Bar's Chocolate-Dipped Honey-Peach Apricot Fruit Bar

    San Rafael's Roman Bar (so named for its owner, Roman Starno) has a sweet, vegan treat with its chocolate-dipped fruit bars that were originally inspired by an experiment with chocolate and Fig Newtons in Starno's kitchen almost 20 years ago. A whole wheat pastry/cookie concoction liberally enrobe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    CSA Adventures, Box 1

    My CSA box saved me over 30% compared with what the same items would have cost at the farmers market this week.

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2009

    Snacktion: Vegan Monster Raspberry Brownie

    Name: Vegan Monster Raspberry BrownieBrand: Monster Muffins & SuchOrigin: Oakland (office)/San Rafael (P.O. Box)Found at: Rainbow Grocery (1745 Folsom)Cost: $2.75Ingredients: Rice flour, milled plums, unsweetened cocoa, raspberries, cinnamon, fruit juices, spicesCalories per serving: Not listedW ... More >>

  • News

    October 8, 2008

    Marin Republicans love them some Sarah Palin

    Name: Vegan Monster Raspberry BrownieBrand: Monster Muffins & SuchOrigin: Oakland (office)/San Rafael (P.O. Box)Found at: Rainbow Grocery (1745 Folsom)Cost: $2.75Ingredients: Rice flour, milled plums, unsweetened cocoa, raspberries, cinnamon, fruit juices, spicesCalories per serving: Not listedW ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2008

    Caribbean Cuisine: San Rafael's Sol Food

    Name: Vegan Monster Raspberry BrownieBrand: Monster Muffins & SuchOrigin: Oakland (office)/San Rafael (P.O. Box)Found at: Rainbow Grocery (1745 Folsom)Cost: $2.75Ingredients: Rice flour, milled plums, unsweetened cocoa, raspberries, cinnamon, fruit juices, spicesCalories per serving: Not listedW ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2008

    Robber Knocks Over Two Marin Banks with Just His Hand

    Name: Vegan Monster Raspberry BrownieBrand: Monster Muffins & SuchOrigin: Oakland (office)/San Rafael (P.O. Box)Found at: Rainbow Grocery (1745 Folsom)Cost: $2.75Ingredients: Rice flour, milled plums, unsweetened cocoa, raspberries, cinnamon, fruit juices, spicesCalories per serving: Not listedW ... More >>

  • Film

    October 3, 2007

    Repertory Film Listing

    Name: Vegan Monster Raspberry BrownieBrand: Monster Muffins & SuchOrigin: Oakland (office)/San Rafael (P.O. Box)Found at: Rainbow Grocery (1745 Folsom)Cost: $2.75Ingredients: Rice flour, milled plums, unsweetened cocoa, raspberries, cinnamon, fruit juices, spicesCalories per serving: Not listedW ... More >>

  • Film

    September 26, 2007

    Repertory Film Listing

    Name: Vegan Monster Raspberry BrownieBrand: Monster Muffins & SuchOrigin: Oakland (office)/San Rafael (P.O. Box)Found at: Rainbow Grocery (1745 Folsom)Cost: $2.75Ingredients: Rice flour, milled plums, unsweetened cocoa, raspberries, cinnamon, fruit juices, spicesCalories per serving: Not listedW ... More >>

  • Culture

    August 22, 2007

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Film

    July 25, 2007

    Repertory Film Listings

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Film

    November 8, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • News

    May 3, 2006

    A Pigeon Noir

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Film

    November 9, 2005

    Repertory Film Listings

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Film

    November 2, 2005

    Repertory Theaters

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Calendar

    June 29, 2005

    July Fourth

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2005

    Water World

    Kayaking for a cause

  • Film

    November 3, 2004

    Reps Etc.

    Kayaking for a cause

  • Film

    October 27, 2004

    Reps Etc.

    Kayaking for a cause

  • Film

    September 29, 2004

    Reps Etc.

    Kayaking for a cause

  • Calendar

    June 23, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Kayaking for a cause

  • Film

    May 19, 2004

    Reps Etc.

    Kayaking for a cause

  • Calendar

    April 7, 2004

    Cinemaniacs

    Celebrate the Rafael in high style

  • Calendar

    January 7, 2004

    All Wet

    This film fest sings a salty love chantey

  • Film

    November 12, 2003

    Reps Etc.

    This film fest sings a salty love chantey

  • Film

    October 29, 2003

    Reps Etc.

    This film fest sings a salty love chantey

  • Film

    October 22, 2003

    Reps Etc.

    This film fest sings a salty love chantey

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Idea for a New Business

    Batting Cages in San Francisco

  • Film

    May 15, 2002

    Reps Etc.

    Film Events at Smaller Venues

  • Film

    January 23, 2002

    Reps List

    Film Reps List for 1-23-2002

  • News

    October 13, 1999

    Dog Bites

    Paranoid Android

  • Calendar

    November 6, 1996

    Mulch

    Paranoid Android

  • News

    October 2, 1996

    Letters

    Paranoid Android

  • News

    October 11, 1995

    Candy From Babies

    The hard- and soft-peddling of Youth in Action

  • Culture

    August 16, 1995

    Sweet and Sour

    42nd St. Moon scores with America's Sweetheart; Marin Shakespeare stumbles on Richard III

  • News

    March 1, 1995

    Rear Window

    42nd St. Moon scores with America's Sweetheart; Marin Shakespeare stumbles on Richard III

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