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Here Are Best Worst Craigslist Bike Ads This Week

Any cyclist who knows bikes and knows Craigslist has come across -- way too often -- those sketchy shops shilling in the "by owner" section and the obviously stolen bike ads. Then there's the clueless goofballs. Craigslist is that one Bay Area location that's intimidating, stupid, and hilarious all ... More >>

American Bao Bar: Pop-Up Combines Asian and Southern Cuisines

American Bao Bar Extends Pilot Series at Nombe and Southpaw Through June

Blair Warsham, a white boy originally from Atlanta who has French training and been cooking underground in San Francisco via his "guerilla dining" company graffEats, channels his passion for Asian cooking with American Bao Bar. He began the pilot series of this new project, which has aspirations to ... More >>

Eddie Huang's Awesome New Video Series Takes on the Bay Area

Chef Eddie Huang is known for his irreverent Twitter and blog posts and willingness to engage with food writers and other chefs to slice through the pretension in the food world, and now he has his own series on VICE. Fresh Off The Boat With Eddie Huang follows the chef as he uncovers "the cultural ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings October 10-16, 2012

Sushi or Dim Sum? Ice House's Fan Tuan Is Kind of Both

This week's review of i-Skewers put SFoodie in a dumpling frame of mind -- specifically, a Shanghai-style sheng jian bao frame of mind -- and in our zig-zagging travels around the Avenues, looking for the puffy, pan-fried pork dumplings, we ended up at Ice House on Noriega and 20th Ave. In addi ... More >>

Q&A With Slanted Door's Chucky Dugo, part 2: Saying No to Fusion and Yes to Klondike Bars

Alanna HaleChucky Dugo, Slanted Door's head pastry chef, clearly receiving inspiration from the heavens.​Chucky Dugo, pastry chef for Charles Phan's restaurants -- including Slanted Door, Out the Door, and Wo Hing General Store -- started his career in San Francisco, but talked his way into ru ... More >>

Ramen Parlor Adds to San Mateo's Ramen Empire

Luis ChongPork broth ramen with lobster oil.​While the city's ramen culture is just beginning to flourish, San Mateo's ramen scene is leaping ahead with a modern variant of ramen. One-month old Ramen Parlor is the latest ramen venture from chef-owner Kazunori Kobayashi, whose San Mateo ramen ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings September 14-20

Fall Arts: What Fall Movies to Seek Out

Google Thumbs Nose at Antitrust Regulators

​You can't say Google doesn't have balls. Despite increasingly heavy antitrust scrutiny by the federal government, the Internet behemoth is charging ahead with a deal that brings all kinds of potential for cornering a market. It will pay $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility, a leading maker of hand ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Snow Ice in Sunset, Tortas for Two

Ed Lee Is Back From Taiwan, Chiu Acting Mayor Starting This Afternoon

Act 1, Scene 5​The political hullabaloo that's monopolized City Hall over the last week is finally dissipating. After a week that included tense debate, bitter accusations and bizarre threats that further crystalized San Francisco's political dysfunction, the city can only hope for a bre ... More >>

Dumpling Kitchen, a New Contender in the Soup Dumpling Contest

Jonathan KauffmanDumpling Kitchen's xiaolongbao (10 for $6).​You might think the contest the title of this post refers to is about the quality of the xiaolongbao, or Shanghai-style soup dumpling, but the contest is really which foodista can convince rivals that he or she has eaten the best XLB. No ... More >>

S.F. Rising: Custard Toast from Fancy Wheat Field Bakery

Jonathan KauffmanThe custard's IN the bread.​S.F. Rising is a weekly survey of bread in San Francisco ― the baked and the fried, the artisan and the novelty.Custard Toast Source: Fancy Wheat Field Bakery, 2668 San Bruno (at Bacon), 330-9982.Price: $3.75 Toast-appropriateness: 7/10.

Sohberts Switches to the Clever Dripper, Four Barrel Joins In

Clever, not Clover.​ Sometimes we at SFoodie wonder why Sohberts, the Third Wave coffee shop across from the ballpark, and a regular stop en route to the office, isn't packed every hour of the day. (Well, actually, we suspect that it's because the owner believes in quasi-invisible signage.) The ca ... More >>

Enjoy Vegetarian: Soy-on-soy action

Seen In San Francisco: Soccer Head!

Joe EskenaziGOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL ... What the hell? ​Clamber onto the Muni train after a night at the bars and see this guy and, for a moment, you'll wonder what it is they slipped in your drink. But then you'll be reassured (and still drunk) because you read SF Weekly. And you know that's ... More >>

S.F. Squad Snags Silver at Asian Culinary Battle in Taipei

SF Asian Chefs AssociationTeam USA (in red) reacts to winning Silver.​In its third appearance at the Taipei World Culinary Contest, Team USA brought home Silver. The squad was composed of five chefs from S.F., all members of the San Francisco Asian Chefs Association: Philippe Striffeler of Hot ... More >>

Local Team Going Wok-to-Wok with Asian Chefs in Cook-Off

Asian Chefs AssociationThe bronze-winning 2007 San Francisco team in Taipei.​The Taipei World Culinary Contest has again asked the San Francisco Asian Chefs Association to represent the U.S.A. in a grueling three-day culinary competition. From August 20 to August 23, the home team will go up a ... More >>

RollerSoccer -- An Exciting New Way To Self-Inflict Tragic Groin Injuries -- To Be Demonstrated in Mission

In December of 1995, Zack Phillips was skating down a San Francisco street when a ball rolled into his path. He nonchalantly kicked it back to the soccer players and was struck with an idea that would change the world. Or at least Zack Phillips' world. Well, somewhere between the two. Phillips -- a ... More >>

San Francisco Is Struggling -- Do We Need a Tougher Logo?

It'd be hard to fix San Francisco's myriad problems. How 'bout we just spiff up this old flag? Look, these are not heady days for the city. Perturbed San Franciscans are following our gallivanting mayor around the state to heckle him -- because it's the only time locals can get close enough to ask a ... More >>

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

All Grown Up

Your Guide to the San Francisco International Film Festival

Tapioca Takedown

The ball-filled beverage wars in the Sunset may have brought down Ed Jew.

Repertory Film Listings

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Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos

The misunderstood adventures of the Bishop of Hip Hop

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Reps Etc.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Filth and the Fury

The Hemlock gets down and dirty

Eye Caramba!

The Pang brothers want to feed your horror hunger, but some of their smorgasbord's stale

Film Capsule Reviews

The Searchers

Feeling dubious about Reese Witherspoon, and other insights from film historian David Thomson

Presumed Local

This year's superb S.F. International Asian American Film Festival focuses on homegrown, U.S. films

Reel World

Woody Allen ponders a career move after making his new film

French Fly

Isa

Shrewed Dealings

The Taming of the Shrew

Comrades of the People's Republic

While traveling in China, our writer explores that country's increasing sexual freedom

Zoom Lens

Dog Bites

Go, Bugs!

The S.F. International Film Fest, Week 2

Night+Day

Chinese Peaches

The Chinese New Year brings firecrackers, the parade down Kearny, and the Miss Chinatown USA Pageant

Blowing Smoke, Breathing Fire (Part II)

The Fang family rides tabloid journalism and hardball politics to the winner's circle

All That Glitters

Eliza's elegance is often undercut by lackluster food and perfunctory service

Last Tango on Haight

Cha Cha Cha welcomes one and all with spicy tapas and kitschy decor