Subject: The White House

• Scott McClellan Tells Us Who To Blame

  June 24, 2008

• Famed Chef Cooks Up Beats, Not Eats, at Ruby Skye

  June 26, 2008

• Slow Food Rocks Interview: White House Organic Farm Project

  August 31, 2008

• Slow Food Nation Presents Civil Eats

  October 29, 2008

• Fiona Ma for President?

  Now that Barack Obama has crossed the non-WASP-in-the-White House threshold, which other minority groups might get to produce a president? Mark Oppenheimer explores the question on Slate.com.. Bemusingly, Slate.com readers quickly called Oppenheimer out on his own racial insensitivity because he hadn’t included Hispanics or Asians in his first take of the piece. A revision was in order, and San Francisco Assemblywoman Fiona Ma made a list that includes Mitt Romney [first Mormon,] Al Fran

  November 13, 2008

• Playing With Food

  Last night, as the tryptophan was kicking in, we played Foodie Fight, a Trivial Pursuit-like game published by S.F.'s Chronicle Books. It was unexpectedly difficult overall, and we complained about that a lot, but there would always be an easy question or two just when we were about to get too frustrated.Though I was soundly defeated, I'm excited to now know that tea is only grown on one plantation in the country, that Thomas Jefferson was the first president to hire a French chef for the White

  November 28, 2008

• Meet the New LAFCo, Same as the Old LAFCo

  The White House handover has put us in a contemplative mood here at SF Weekly. Time passes, the seasons change, and the wheel of fate turns. But some things are constant -- among them the intellectual rigidity of San Francisco's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo), a little-noticed board that has an outsize influence on city energy policy. San Francisco was abuzz yesterday with the announcement of appointments to Board of Supervisors committees. Missing from the coverage was the new const

  January 22, 2009

• Get a Job: White House Report Details Employment Boosts in Each Congressional District. Check Out Yours Here.

  Every morning about this time/ she get me out of my bed/ a-crying get a job. After breakfast, everyday, she throws the want ads right my way/ And never fails to say, Get a job Sha na na na, sha na na na na -- The Silhouettes, "Get a Job." It may not do the mind well to note that the members of the Silhouettes, the group that sang the aforementioned ode to the value of hard work, were systematically bilked by shady music labor practices and often had to hold down menial jobs to make ends m

  February 20, 2009

• Slap Shots

  July 26, 1995

• The Obama Diet: The First Foodie Family

  Via: Obama-Biden Transition ProjectThe Obama FamilyAlice Waters, who has been trying for years to get Presidents from Clinton to Obama to get on board with her vision of fresh, local, seasonal, organic food for all (read her letters to Clinton and Obama here), should be happy: it seems like her efforts are finally bearing fruit. (Pun intended.)It turns out that, although Clinton did not sow an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn, as Alice requested, ex-White House chef (for Cli

  February 27, 2009

• Blakk Power

  January 3, 1996

• History as predicted by Inauguration Day's #1 hits

  January 14, 2009

• Class of 2000 Standouts

  October 29, 2008

• Great Scott!

  June 11, 2008

• War On Sale

  March 19, 2008

• It’s Better With Jell-O

  April 15, 2009

• Sondheim Kills Me

  June 27, 2007

• Useless Resolve

  The Board of Supes likes to tell the world what to do. The world could care less.

  August 2, 2006

• Not Too Nice

  Of lunchtime invitations, flip-flop flaps, and shortened first names

  August 3, 2005

• Dog Bites

  Making a meal out of journalistic and political news, spell-checking the Guardian, and wrapping up the Castro race skirmish.

  July 20, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  November 3, 2004

• Drunk and Irate

  Fight or flight on election night

  October 27, 2004

• The Story of M

  When perverts navel-gaze

  October 13, 2004

• Bush It

  Political theater dives in

  October 6, 2004

• Painting "Favorites"

  These are a few, no doubt about it

  August 18, 2004

• Zoom Lens

  The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival continues its "can't we all get along" ethos

  July 21, 2004

• Humane Society

  Help tidy up global messes

  June 16, 2004

• Bush Comes to Shove

  Like America's current leaders, Viggo and Hidalgo try to "enlighten" the Arabs with Western justice

  March 3, 2004

• Goodbye, Mr. Chips

  The year in local film, plus the passing of a cinematic champion

  December 31, 2003

• The 400 Blows

  A movie about teenage name-calling -- using the raw words the kids

  October 15, 2003

• Violent Femmes

  Tenderhearted mutants kick significant keister in X-2: X-Men United

  April 30, 2003

• Versifying

  Good poetry, bad poetry, and something in between

  February 26, 2003

• Pop Philosophy

  Great pop songs; pop dance clubs; song of the week

  November 22, 2000

• Pop Philosophy

  Political Song Contest

  November 1, 2000

• Karen Morley: Still Sexy After All These Blacklisted Years

  April 21, 1999

• REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

  May 13, 1998

• The Albanian Candidate

  December 31, 1997

• Identity Crisis

  American movies once enthralled the world with their exuberance and clarity. What happened in the 1990s?

  September 24, 1997

• REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

  September 3, 1997

• Unspun

  December 18, 1996

• REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

  August 7, 1996

• Chatterbox

  December 6, 1995

• The Absolutely True, Somewhat Spurious and Totally Impossible

  CONSPIRACIES BY THE BAY!!!

  April 12, 1995

• Chronic City: An End To The War On Drugs -- Impossible Dream? Political Ploy? Or Inevitable?

  Gil KerlikowskeNew White House Drug Czar and former Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske didn't wait long before making big waves as the top drug enforcement officer in the country.  In his first public appearance since being confirmed on May 7, Kerlikowske, in a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, said he wants to end the "War On Drugs" and said he favors policies that emphasize making treatment available to drug users rather than putting them behind bars. Kerlikowske spoke with u

  May 14, 2009

• The Doggie Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  Our favorite food blog items for Wednesday, May 20, 2009 What the f***?: Seriously, who knew GI Joe had such a potty mouth, or was such an aficionado of the pork chop sandwich? YouTube reveals the filthy truth here. Credit the find to a Tuesday tweet from Hot Food Porn. Poison pen: C'mon, organophosphate lovers, let Michelle Obama know about the pernicious influence in the LACK of pesticides on the organic White House veggie garden! Grist's Tom Philpott reveals the letter-writing campaign by t

  May 20, 2009

• Chronic City: Aptly Named 'Joint Resolution' Succeeds; California Senate Urges Change in Federal Medical Marijuana Rules

  ​By a 23-15 vote, the California State Senate yesterday approved a "joint resolution" urging the federal government to stop Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) raids on medical marijuana patients and providers. The Sen. Mark Leno-authored resolution additionally calls for the nation to "create a comprehensive federal medical marijuana policy that ensures safe and legal access to any patient that would benefit from it."Marijuana advocates say recent enforcement activity, including DEA arrests followi

  August 25, 2009

• Michelle Obama Wants a Farmer's Market Near the White House, but the Proposal's No Slam Dunk

  foodietots/FlickrWho could be against veggies? A still life from the Dupont FreshFarm Market.​First Lady Michelle Obama is trying to bring farm fresh food to her own 'hood near the White House. Washington D.C. residents and farmers' market fans are closely watching the First Lady -- she took out a request this week to periodically close a section of Vermont Street to set up a farmers' market. The street is within walking distance of the White House, and is thick with commuters on weekdays.

  September 9, 2009

• It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

  What was the F'd up part of the bridge again?​This was a week for openings. The bridge opened, a sex club opened in one of the city's least sexy locales, and, speaking of openness and sexiness, an elephantine state Assemblyman was remarkably frank with his astoundingly filthy claims of sexual conquests of women who had pending government business before his legislative boards. Phew! It's time for a weekend. But first, a news quiz. 1. Xiyu Li is: A. The crewman who died after falling off a San

  September 11, 2009

• Bigger than Gandhi

  October 21, 2009

• 2012: The end is near

  November 11, 2009