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"Mr Popper's Penguins": Jim Carrey Mugs Endlessly in Dull Kids' Romp

No More Grasshoppers at La Oaxaqueña

La Chiquita/FlickrChapulines, or grasshoppers, in Mexico.​ KGO TV reported yesterday that the San Francisco Department of Health has banned La Oaxaqueña Bakery & Restaurant (2128 Mission St.), one of the only Oaxacan restaurants in the city, from selling chapulines, or dried grasshoppers. Wh ... More >>

Invaders, Reconsidered

La Chiquita/FlickrChapulines, or grasshoppers, in Mexico.​ KGO TV reported yesterday that the San Francisco Department of Health has banned La Oaxaqueña Bakery & Restaurant (2128 Mission St.), one of the only Oaxacan restaurants in the city, from selling chapulines, or dried grasshoppers. Wh ... More >>

California Academy's $1.9 Million in Stimulus Funds for Ant Study Angers Republicans

$1.9 million to study lil' old me? ​Scientist says he's putting people to work -- and compiling vital environmental dataEarlier this month, Republican Senators Tom Coburn (whom you haven't heard of) and John McCain (whom you have) fired off a 74-page compendium of what they claim are the most wast ... More >>

Hayes Valley Farm Beekeeper Mourns Slaughtered Colonies, Plots Next Steps

Hayes Valley FarmJust a few of the hundreds of thousands of bees killed Monday night.​ It's a macabre, senseless story: Hayes Valley Farm, the year-old urban garden on the site of the old I-80 off-ramp, reported on its blog yesterday that someone had broken into the gardens on Monday night or Tues ... More >>

Seen in S.F.: White Tiger Prowls the Mission

Back off, Roy!​Open letter to the person who abandoned a perfectly good white tiger on York and 20th Street last night:Dear Sir or Madam:Have you no decency? What kind of person can't appreciate a perfectly good replica of a white tiger with realistic plastic tongue and fangs? Do you have too many ... More >>

Monkey Business: Simian Sighted in Marin -- But S.F. Monkeys Tend to Stay in Zoo

Not seen in these parts...​The news that multiple witnesses have spotted what appears to be a monkey tooling around Novato takes the wind out of San Francisco's sails. Nothing is supposed to happen in Novato -- that's why people move to Novato. We're the place that ought to have wild animals galli ... More >>

Too Cute to Shoot?

The adoring public may have a problem with what San Francisco has in store for its troublesome invaders, the sea lions.

Shuck and Swallow with Us Tomorrow at Ghirardelli Square

Robert LauristonGet ready to gulp. Seriously.​People like oysters. And they like dolphins. They're not totally unrelated: Both are cold, wet, and both, though we've never tasted a dolphin (not knowingly, anyway), allegedly damn tasty. Tomorrow, McCormick & Kuleto's (Ghirardelli Square, 900 Nor ... More >>

Dolphins: They're Just Like Us

Robert LauristonGet ready to gulp. Seriously.​People like oysters. And they like dolphins. They're not totally unrelated: Both are cold, wet, and both, though we've never tasted a dolphin (not knowingly, anyway), allegedly damn tasty. Tomorrow, McCormick & Kuleto's (Ghirardelli Square, 900 Nor ... More >>

Shot Animals

Robert LauristonGet ready to gulp. Seriously.​People like oysters. And they like dolphins. They're not totally unrelated: Both are cold, wet, and both, though we've never tasted a dolphin (not knowingly, anyway), allegedly damn tasty. Tomorrow, McCormick & Kuleto's (Ghirardelli Square, 900 Nor ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Supes to Investigate Crucial Wooden Decks, Celebrate Sea Otters, and Look like They're Reading Reports

Robert LauristonGet ready to gulp. Seriously.​People like oysters. And they like dolphins. They're not totally unrelated: Both are cold, wet, and both, though we've never tasted a dolphin (not knowingly, anyway), allegedly damn tasty. Tomorrow, McCormick & Kuleto's (Ghirardelli Square, 900 Nor ... More >>

Safe Surfin' at Stinson

Robert LauristonGet ready to gulp. Seriously.​People like oysters. And they like dolphins. They're not totally unrelated: Both are cold, wet, and both, though we've never tasted a dolphin (not knowingly, anyway), allegedly damn tasty. Tomorrow, McCormick & Kuleto's (Ghirardelli Square, 900 Nor ... More >>

Whale Watchers

We offer tips for returning lost whales to the ocean the next time they get lost in the delta

The Lion King

It's a visual feast -- with appalling songs by Tim Rice and Elton John

Up in the Air, Mr. Birdman

Telegraph Hill is home to a flock of wild parrots -- and one wild parrot guy

Shameless Display

S.F. goes artsy-fartsy

Mexican Magic

A show full of dream states, animal spirits, and fantastical realism

Best Place to Take a Kid for a Meal

Rainforest Café

Best (and Definitely Most Eccentric) Barkeep

Bobby Cobby

Brain Birds

A thoughtful consideration of the smart and feathered friends at Mickaboo Cockatiel Rescue and Happy Birds

Beetle Mania

The intense joy of mounting a worthy bug in proper fashion

In the Night Kitchen

Night Monkey

Cottontales

A week of hare-raising adventures with the rabbit people and the bunny lady

Hunting With Hawks

The trials and satisfaction of falconry in 21st-century America

Songs of Science

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

Conundrum

At the same time hundreds of dead gray whales were washing up on beaches, their birthrate was plunging. Theories abound, but little hard data has been gathered to solve this environmental puzzle.

Letters to the Editor

Troubled Waters; HOT Topic; Clarification

Best Merry-Go-Round

Children's Playground

Dying Breeds

Siberian Eskimos on the edge of the Earth and the brink of starvation saved their lives and their culture by reviving the lost tradition of whale hunting. Now they worry the gray whales are poisoned.

Devil Fish

Fierce prey. Spiritual brother. Ecological bellwether. The majestic gray whale inspires awe, conflict, and troubling environmental questions from the icy seas of Russia to the warm lagoons of Baja.

The Battle for Walpert Ridge

A lawsuit over a proposed Hayward country club promises to be more than just another environmentalists-vs.-developers fight

What's Come Around

'Tis the season for Cosmic Justice for Japanese whale eaters, and many, many S.F. politicos

Fins

Just when you thought it was safe to flag down the waiter, a storm brews over shark fin soup.

Animal Magnetism

Seal Lion 10th Anniversary

Night Crawler

To the Farallones

Night Crawler

To the Farallones

Industry: Pheasant Fad

To the Farallones

Laissez Ferret

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Night Crawler

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Zoom Lens

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Snake Eyes

A scientist wonders what the inscrutable snake has to teach us

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

A scientist wonders what the inscrutable snake has to teach us

Savage Love

A scientist wonders what the inscrutable snake has to teach us

Slap Shots

A scientist wonders what the inscrutable snake has to teach us

Tusk Love

An elephant's birth raises questions about breeding practices

Bombs Away

The Pigeon Lady of Noe Valley has neighbors diving for cover

Letters

The Pigeon Lady of Noe Valley has neighbors diving for cover

Whirly Birds

The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?