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Snickers

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Ocho's Organic Candy Bars Upgrade Your Childhood Favorites

    Plebeian as they may be, there's a reason Reese's, Snickers, Mounds, and 3 Musketeers are ubiquitous. They're pretty good. But we're all foodies here, so we assume there's always a better -- artisan or organic -- version of anything that everyday palates prefer. With the new Ocho line of candy bars ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Good Bean Bars Go Nuts without Nuts

    ​We see a variety of plays on "power" bars seeking to supplant Clif and others, but it hasn't been sine Kind hit the scene that any have sought to change the format entirely. Good Bean takes the Kind concept one step further, by replacing the nuts with ... wait for it ... beans. The named didn't ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 8, 2012

    Fresh Eats: Ramona Bar: Double Dutch Sweets Out-Snickers Mars

    ​We see a variety of plays on "power" bars seeking to supplant Clif and others, but it hasn't been sine Kind hit the scene that any have sought to change the format entirely. Good Bean takes the Kind concept one step further, by replacing the nuts with ... wait for it ... beans. The named didn't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Oakland Candymaker Double Dutch Sweets Out-Satisfies Snickers

    ​Buoyed by the lessons learned in a free class on starting a business at San Francisco's Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center and a loan from Youth Business America, Shiyuan Deng started Double Dutch Sweets in Oakland last summer. A mini-Mars mogul in the making, Deng has created the Ramona Bar, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    Bouncer Seeks Shithole Glory -- And Finds it at the Lucky Spot

    From this week's Bouncer column: ​And so it was on the first day of 2012 that I found myself inside a bar that had called to me on many occasions. Yet until now my soul had not been ready to heed the clarion. I speak of course of Vieni Vieni Lucky Spot -- and a more gay and frolicsome establi ... More >>

  • Music

    January 11, 2012

    Seeking and Finding Shithole Glory at the Lucky Spot

    From this week's Bouncer column: ​And so it was on the first day of 2012 that I found myself inside a bar that had called to me on many occasions. Yet until now my soul had not been ready to heed the clarion. I speak of course of Vieni Vieni Lucky Spot -- and a more gay and frolicsome establi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Cheeses, Grubs, and Halloween Candies: This Week in Food Bloggery

    Jeremy Brooks/SF Weekly's Flickr pool​ Highlights from the blog this week: 1. Ben Narasin writes about the sheep's milk cheeses produced by Barinaga Ranch. The Marin-based cheesemaker lets her ewes graze outdoors all year, and only makes cheeses from the milk they produce in spring and summer. W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    You Know You Love it: 7 Best Chain Restaurants in S.F. Bay Area

    We love fancy food as much as the next San Francisco asshole, but there are times when we just wants an enormous plate of mediocre slop. Every now and then we need to walk into a place that looks the same in S.F. as it does in Des Moines, and we need to order 52 plates of mozzarella sticks and a sma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Tonight: Make (and Eat) Corn Dogs for Free!

    ​Vegan Hacker: Corn Dogs Where: Noisebridge, 2169 Mission When: Tuesday, May 31, 7 p.m. Cost: Free, but you might want to bring some veggie dogs and your favorite corn dog condiments. The rundown: Vegan nerds, unite! Vegan Hacker continues their series of taking foods previously thought u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    How the World's Best Restaurants Awards Got Famous, How Scotch Became Classy

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. World's Best Restaurants. I've skimmed over most of the press involving the San Pellegrino-sponsored annual "World's 50 Best Restaurants" awards, which were announced a few days ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Man Did Not Threaten to Piss on Neighbor, Jury Finds

    ​A resident of San Francisco's Kean Motel was acquitted yesterday on charges that he forced his way into a neighbor's room, ate his Snickers bar, sprayed him with air freshener, and threatened to urinate on him.Prosecutors said Willie Smith, 42, pushed his way into the room of a 73-year-old neighb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    Theresa Sparks' Campaign Manager: That Shit's Not Mine!

    That's a Snickers bar. We guarantee it. ​District 6 Supervisorial candidate Theresa Sparks may only have declared her official intention to run yesterday, but she's been publicly deliberating her run for quite some time. In fact, her unofficial -- but soon to be paid and official -- campaign manag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    At the Jersey Shore, Everybody Has a Nickname. Even San Francisco Politicians

    Yes, San Francisco's politics suffers from bouts of dysfunction. But let's face it: The exploits of the boys and girls at City Hall can't hold a candle to the high drama on display in MTV's new blockbuster reality series, Jersey Shore. The show features an eight-count of self-styled "guidos" and "gu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

    ​Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. Gotta hand it to him: Sure, we're only halfway through September, but we're ready to cede Eater's Paolo the award for best score of the month. The catch in question: a tweet by former NY Times resto critic Frank Bruni (in town to flog his used-to-be-a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    SF Candy Emporium Source of New York Times' Quotation of the Day

    Relatively good news on the sweet treat front led to not only a front page story (entitled "When Economy Sours, a Tootsie Roll Can Still Soothe the Soul") on Tuesday, March 22's New York Times, but also yielded the Quotation of the Day, boxed at the top of page A3: "All is well in candy land," ... More >>

  • Music

    January 21, 2009

    Comfort drinking at Buca di Beppo

    Relatively good news on the sweet treat front led to not only a front page story (entitled "When Economy Sours, a Tootsie Roll Can Still Soothe the Soul") on Tuesday, March 22's New York Times, but also yielded the Quotation of the Day, boxed at the top of page A3: "All is well in candy land," ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2008

    Snickers Charged: Become A Real Chocoholic

    Relatively good news on the sweet treat front led to not only a front page story (entitled "When Economy Sours, a Tootsie Roll Can Still Soothe the Soul") on Tuesday, March 22's New York Times, but also yielded the Quotation of the Day, boxed at the top of page A3: "All is well in candy land," ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 4, 2007

    Fair or No Fair with Indulgent Aunt M (at the Alameda County Fair)

    Relatively good news on the sweet treat front led to not only a front page story (entitled "When Economy Sours, a Tootsie Roll Can Still Soothe the Soul") on Tuesday, March 22's New York Times, but also yielded the Quotation of the Day, boxed at the top of page A3: "All is well in candy land," ... More >>

  • News

    July 4, 2007

    Scared Healthy

    Relatively good news on the sweet treat front led to not only a front page story (entitled "When Economy Sours, a Tootsie Roll Can Still Soothe the Soul") on Tuesday, March 22's New York Times, but also yielded the Quotation of the Day, boxed at the top of page A3: "All is well in candy land," ... More >>

  • News

    May 23, 2007

    Just Say No

    Conventional wisdom says psychiatric drugs save lives, but for some San Franciscans the pills are a prescription for disaster

  • Film

    April 5, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

    Conventional wisdom says psychiatric drugs save lives, but for some San Franciscans the pills are a prescription for disaster

  • Music

    February 8, 2006

    Cardinal Sin

    DJ Kevvy Kev hosts the longest-running hip hop radio show in the world on Stanford's KZSU -- sans recognition

  • Summer Guide

    June 29, 2005

    Hipster San Diego

    It's not all surf and silicone in America's Finest City

  • Calendar

    February 23, 2005

    Sketching It Out

    Poetry and its friends

  • Calendar

    December 29, 2004

    Stop Making Sense

    Donnie Darko's exquisite muddle

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Candy Store

    Z Cioccolato

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Cheesecake

    Il Caffe Emporio Rulli

  • Dining

    December 17, 2003

    Hankies Out

    We can't help getting all choked up over the Snickers pie at Crossroads Cafe

  • News

    February 7, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from February 7, 2001

  • Calendar

    January 24, 2001

    Bad Girls Finish First

    The Goddess Perlman and O.

  • Dining

    October 11, 2000

    Say Cheesecake

    The Cheesecake Factory

  • Dining

    September 13, 1995

    Dish

    The Cheesecake Factory

  • News

    August 16, 1995

    Money for Nothing

    If you're good at pushing a shopping cart - really good - and establish a lucrative route, you too can make minimum wage by heisting bottles, cans, and newspapers from the blue recycling bins. And incur the wrath of the cops in the process.

  • Dining

    August 9, 1995

    Dish

    If you're good at pushing a shopping cart - really good - and establish a lucrative route, you too can make minimum wage by heisting bottles, cans, and newspapers from the blue recycling bins. And incur the wrath of the cops in the process.

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