Subject: Washington, DC

• Eight Summer Food Festivals Worth the Schlep

  Did you miss San Francisco's Oyster Fest last month? Fear not. There are plenty of larger food festivals to satiate you -- if you're willing to travel. We've put together a roundup of some of the best. Maine Lobster Festival (July 29-August 2)Made famous by David Foster Wallace's essay Consider the Lobster, this festival in Rockland features over 20,000 pounds of crustaceans for the taking, along with steamed and fried clams, fried Maine shrimp, shrimp cocktail, and steamed mussels. The mass

  June 2, 2009

• Net Radio Royalty EXTRA -- UPDATES: David Byrne, Cover feature

  June 27, 2007

• Cold War Kids Back for ColdWinterSF

  August 21, 2007

• Xiu Xiu To Release "New Women as Lovers Double LP" and 2008 Tour

  January 18, 2008

• Growing a Greener, More Hydro SF

  February 14, 2008

• No Dickensian Christmas in SF as Harlots, Peaceniks, Go to Washington

  Traditional Christmas in San Francisco is a colorful Charles Dickens pageant of ragtag peaceniks and harlots on Market. Street, in the Tenderloin, and in the Mission. Most years, they recreate the mood of a Victorian-London slum by begging passersby for alms in exchange for political pamphlets or sexual favors.Not this year, however.Dec. 2008 promises a most un-Dickensian Christmas season as the city's peaceniks and harlots travel to Washington D.C. for holiday protest demonstrations.As we 

  December 19, 2008

• The Nobody's Business Diner

  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

  January 7, 2009

• Samples

  April 19, 1995

• Rock the Bells Announces Lineup

  EKAphotography Not to be outdone by the massive, monumental Outside Lands lineup, hip-hop's annual extravaganza Rock the Bells has announced its lineup as well: Nas & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley,The Roots, Common, Big Boi, KRS-One, House of Pain featuring La Coka Nostra, Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek), Tech N9ne, K'Naan, RZA, Raekwon, Sage Francis, MOP, Slaughterhouse, Eyedea & Abilities, Necro, Slum Village, Evidence & Alchemist, Chali 2na, Psycho Realm, Mystic Journeyman

  April 14, 2009

• Capitol MC

  January 28, 2009

• Thievery Corporation

  Radio Retaliation (ESL)

  December 31, 2008

• Do A Little Dance

  July 30, 2008

• Talk to Me, Twin Peaks, No End in Sight: DVDish

  October 31, 2007

• And That's Big

  September 26, 2007

• Walls

  In this uneven production, two conflicts play out on a set that replicates the Vietnam memorial

  November 8, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, August 9, 2006

  August 9, 2006

• DeLessio Is More

  Finding summer in the city at a delicious off-the-radar bakery

  July 13, 2005

• Copping a 'Tude

  It's hard to take a place called Café Gratitude seriously, but the food is seriously good

  June 1, 2005

• Red Road Trip

  Go ahead and protest the inauguration. But if you really want the Democrats to win next time, shouldn't you start to learn how the red half lives?

  November 24, 2004

• Linear Thinking

  Pen and pencil are the tools of the trade at this group show

  July 21, 2004

• The Complete History of America (Abridged)

  What started off as a modest joke is now an extended -- and lame -- gag

  July 7, 2004

• Best Offal

  Incanto Restaurant & Wine Bar

  May 19, 2004

• BeatBox

  Rome's Nicola Conte unveils his latest jazz/electronica fusions; "Echoes of Rio" soothes your conscience and your booty

  April 7, 2004

• Dead Meadow

  Shivering King and Others

  August 20, 2003

• Class Action

  A peek at the future of higher political education

  February 5, 2003

• Not Your Mother's Peace Movement

  Major anti-war groups change strategy, hoping to win over mainstream voters the Bush administration can't ignore

  November 6, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  Battle Royal; Something to Crow About; Big Bad Bell

  November 28, 2001

• The Word Police

  Is it OK to use the word "picnic" in polite company?

  July 25, 2001

• Loose Threads

  The Names Project's national foundation and its famous AIDS quilt are moving out of town this week, leaving behind a slightly tattered local chapter

  March 28, 2001

• Class Struggle

  New school superintendent Arlene Ackerman has fostered educational excellence -- and ignited political firestorms. Her first major initiative? A significant shift in funding, from wealthier to poorer schools, being planned behind closed doors.

  January 10, 2001

• Revenge of the Wimp

  Why Miami's Democratic mayor abandoned Al Gore and cost him all the votes he needed to be president

  November 15, 2000

• Trans Am

  Red Line (Thrill Jockey)

  September 27, 2000

• Best Paperless Office

  Mayor Willie Brown's Office

  May 17, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from April 19, 2000

  April 19, 2000

• South to the Future

  Conservatives Help Fund Anti-WTO Rally

  April 12, 2000

• No March Madness

  The fervor isn't building for another gay rally on Washington

  March 22, 2000

• Riff Raff

  Pop (Do We Not Like That?)

  November 24, 1999

• Hear This

  March 10, 1999

• Reel World

  December 30, 1998

• Night + Day

  April 22, 1998

• Night + Day

  February 18, 1998

• Welcome to San Francisco, Capital of Anti-Muslim Hate Speech

  And you thought JROTC was badIs San Francisco, political-correctness capital of the known world, secretly a bastion of anti-Muslim hate speech? That's the impression you'd get these days from reading the publicity broadsides from the Washington, D.C.-based American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which has been highlighting hate, hate and more hate emanating from the Bay Area towards Muslims and those of Arab descent.The group's offensive began earlier this month, with a short opinion piece

  April 30, 2009

• Seven Tasty Food Carts (and Trucks) From Across the Country

  We've got the Sexy Soup Cart, Creme Brulee Man and Amuse Buchee, but the growing food cart phenomenon isn't limited to San Francisco. That's right -- food carts and trucks throughout the nation are serving up deliciousness far beyond the usual pretzels and dogs. We've corralled seven of our favorites.The Flavour Spot (Portland, Ore.)Have a hankering for breakfast food at 2 p.m.? Look no further than the Flavour Spot waffle carts, located at the corner of N. Lombard and at N. Mississippi and

  June 12, 2009

• List of Congressional Reps Insisting on 'Robust Public Option' for Health Care Leaked; Some Bay Area Names Absent

  A list of more than 50 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus was leaked to a Daily Kos contributing editor yesterday. It contained the "Whip List" of representatives who had succinctly offered their promise to only vote for a health care proposal that contains "a robust public option." Glancing up and down the list of names, most of the Bay Area's members of the Progressive Caucus were accounted for -- but not all of them. Starkly absent were Pete Stark (D-Fremont) and George Miller (D

  July 16, 2009

• Muni Tax Shelter Deal Could Lead to More S.F. Rail Carnage

  Jim HerdDid promised millions froma shady tax shelter deal blur Muni's judgment?​A month before investigators began to sift through train wreckage to determine the cause of last week's Muni light rail crash, officials examining deadly transit accident in Washington D.C. discovered a defect that could eventually lead to problems with San Francisco trains. According to Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and other outlets, Washington transit officials failed to replace worn-out rail cars be

  July 28, 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

• Leaving San Francisco -- at 52 Times the Speed of Sound

  Perhaps you've seen this before -- but it was a new thrill to us. A pair of gents with a time-lapse camera that snapped photos every 10 seconds have distilled their cross-country automobile journey down to the above four-and-a-half minute haul from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. In case you're wondering, this is the quickest anyone has left San Francisco since Gavin Newsom heard there were some folks in Bakersfield with an abiding interest in health care and photogenic mayors. If you're also

  September 14, 2009

• Friday's Weekly Beast Menu at One Market Was All About the Duroc Pig

  M. LaddOink-oink: Maple-pecan crêpes with caramelized bacon ice cream.​One Market Restaurant (One Market at the Embarcadero) started an intriguing meaty menu option earlier this month called The Weekly Beast. The prix fixe meals -- the restaurant calls them Head to Hoof dinners -- drop Fridays and Saturdays, side by side with chef Mark Dommen's regular menu. First week up, the beast was goat. Last weekend, it was all about pork -- specifically, Duroc pig from Beeler Pork in Iowa (Duroc i

  October 13, 2009

• No Justice

  October 28, 2009

• Chronic City: Academic Study Shows Marijuana Arrests Have No Impact On Usage Rates

  ​The most extensive study yet undertaken on U.S. marijuana arrests and penalties, released today, finds no relationship between marijuana arrest and use rates. The report further finds that current penalty structures act as a price support mechanism that boosts the illegal market.Assembled by Jon Gettman, adjunct assistant professor in criminal justice at Shenandoah University in Winchesta, Va., the new report claims:• Marijuana arrests have almost doubled since 1991 -- but levels of marijua

  November 5, 2009