By Meredith Brody
How does this menu sound to you: tomato basil soup, market pasta salad, salad du jour, organic spinach salad, Philly cheesesteaks, roasted local veggie melts, organic baked French fries, steamed organic broccoli, organic pears? Or this one: zucchini bread, French dip au jus, roasted veggie melts, steamed broccoli, cinnamon orange slices?
It looks to me like one from a new Bay Area café, attractive to locavores both vegetarian and carnivorous. Good idea!
But it turns out
For those who grew up in the Bay Area, Ross McGowan has been like the caretaker at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining: He is the morning interviewer. He has always been the morning interviewer. He will always be the morning interviewer. Until Oct. 2, of course. Then he's retired. And in a sign of the times in the media world, he won't be replaced. His a.m. interviewing duties will fall upon Morning on 2's existing staff. "Well, you know, I don't think you can replace a guy like Ross," Channel 2 G
And then there were none...Back in August, a group of more than 100 unruly sea lions swarmed the Hyde Street Pier, claimed it for themselves, and seriously pissed off nearby boat owners, fishermen, swimmers, and especially Port of San Francisco wharfinger Hedley Prince. (Here's our cover story documenting the adorable infestation).
Part of Prince's job involves maintaining the Hyde Street Pier. So when it's covered in smelly, sharp-toothed, 800-pound wild animals, that's
