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SF Beer Week: Friday Event Roundup

If you're anything like us, you're thinking "TGISFBWF!" Thank God it's SF Beer Week Friday! It's time to start planning your grand finale. If you haven't already, you'll need to feign illness and ditch out on work. Just say that your liver is acting up (it's about to be). For today's romp, we've sel ... More >>

SF Beer Week: Wednesday Event Roundup

It's SF Beer Week humpday! We understand if you're feeling a bit run down. A steady diet of beer can do that. Take it easy today with three events that offer unique, rare beers and don't require a BART ride away from the city. See also: Strong Beer Month -- Your Beer Week Training Regimen SF Beer ... More >>

Enjoy Comparative Beer and Cheese Tasting at 'From Ales to Fromage' Event

At some point in your life, you may have cracked open whatever beer was in the fridge, unwrapped a Kraft single, and went to town. Don't worry; we aren't the types to judge. But allow us to recommend an event that goes far beyond macro lager and chemically enhanced "cheese products" -- 'From Ales T ... More >>

The San Franciscan's Guide to St. Louis

Tomorrow, the San Francisco Giants play in St. Louis for game three of the NLCS. Roaming bands of Giants Nation will surely join them at Busch Stadium. Of course, San Franciscans leaving the safety of our peninsular nook to visit The Lou this week may initially find themselves in a deep state of d ... More >>

Franciscan Manzanita: See It Now!

This week, SF Weekly reported on the long-awaited designation of San Francisco's native Franciscan manzanita as a federally protected endangered species. This overdue pronouncement finally curtails a yearslong part-Kafka, part-Heller situation in which the very last Franciscan manzanita in the wild ... More >>

Melky Cabrera Suspended: The Sorrow and the Pity

After eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted by a grand jury for fixing the 1919 World Series, the Chicago Herald and Examiner reported that "one little urchin" latched onto Shoeless Joe Jackson's sleeve and asked him "It ain't true, is it?" History will always remember this quest ... More >>

Chuck Prophet's S.F. Album Gets the Facts Wrong, But the Feelings Right

The Feelings Are True

Chuck Prophet's album about S.F. may have gotten a few facts wrong, but it gets everything else right

Planning for SF Beer Week Day 6: Gypsies and Nostalgia

​SF Beer Week is officially half way over. By this point, you've become something of a gypsy yourself: a beer nomad who wanders between tastings and beer dinners, you haven't changed your clothes, shaved or showered in five days. You've come to resemble Jack Sparrow, but with less eyeliner and, so ... More >>

Chuck Prophet Takes Fans and Famous Guests on a Musical Bus Tour of San Francisco

Chuck Prophet and Guests Feb. 7, 2012 The Catacombs Better than: Going broke at any nearby Mission District restaurant. To commemorate yesterday's release of his new album, Temple Beautiful, S.F. singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet and Yep Roc Records treated about 40 fans to a guided bus tour of San ... More >>

Super Bowl Bar Viewing Spots Where You Might Actually Eat Well

​Super Bowl Sunday also doubles as National Corn Chip Day, National Cheap Beer Day, and National Sloppy Joe Day. But if you, or your partner, aren't an expert in Super Bowl Day cooking, head to a bar instead. These bars will give you guaranteed viewing of Super Bowl 2012, and perhaps food slightly ... More >>

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Bouncer Awaits the End of the World in -- Where Else? -- an Irish Pub

​From this week's Bouncer column:This is the point where I mention that I am in a bar, and that the bar is also reminding me of the decline of Rome. The bar this week is O'Neill's Irish Pub, on Third Street, right around the corner from the entrance to AT&T park. It is a bar indeed in decline, ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

S.F. Dishes Up Giants Ice Cream Tributes

Alex HochmanMitchell's worker CJ Serrano displays the Baseball Nut sundae.​Not to be outdone by local bartenders, San Francisco ice cream makers have also gotten into the Giants spirit. Mitchell's Ice Cream opened in 1953, one year before the Giants last won the World Series and five years bef ... More >>

The San Francisco Giants Tortured Quiz

Tim Lincecum is ready for the postseason. Are you? ​Yesterday, the San Francisco Chronicle ran an enjoyable quiz meant to separate the bandwagoners from the fans who cannot unsee what they have seen. We had fun. But we thought we'd come up with our own "Are You a Gamer?" quiz. To wit: 1. Which of ... More >>

American Idol Tryouts in S.F.: Too Bad You're Not Like Carrie Underwood

Contestants waiting to try out for American Idol in San Franicsco earlier this week​More than 8,000 singers flocked to AT&T Park yesterday with enough ambition and dedication to wait up to nine hours in order to give a 30-second audition for American Idol. To manage their excitement, contestan ... More >>

Mijita's Chilaquiles

John BirdsallChilaquiles with refried beans ($6.75) and scrambled egg ($1.50).​Friday, August 6, 2010 Maybe, like egg salad or doughnuts, chilaquiles are never really bad. What makes them good: attention to texture, plus, as a starting point, a tortilla base that strives for more than the gre ... More >>

Let Them Eat Nachos: Giants Hosting First-Ever Bastille Day at AT&T Park

​AT&T Park and the Giants are being careful not to isolate any group on the planet. Ballpark nights honoring singles, Jews, LGBTers, Girl Scouts, Deadheads, and German beer fans all seem to affirm that yes, baseball really cares. And while it's unknown how many local baseball fans are either F ... More >>

George Gervin, Artis Gilmore in Bayview Today

The Iceman cometh ... to San Francisco​A pair of former National Basketball Association stars who may or may not have graced the posters your high school history teacher plastered around his room are headed to San Francisco today for a series of free clinics. George Gervin and Artis Gilmore will b ... More >>

Traci Des Jardins Lines Up Epic Talent for Taste of the Nation Benefit

JardiniereTraci Des Jardins.​Traci Des Jardins is San Francisco's honorary chair of Share Our Strength, a nonprofit with the motto "no kid hungry," and she's pulled together an impressive selection of culinary talents for Thursday's Taste of the Nation benefit. More than 40 chefs and restauran ... More >>

Awesome Range of Beers at Public House Leads the League

Brian YaegerCertified cicerone Eric Cripe assembled the epic beer list.​If the Giants keep winning, AT&T Park should be packed for the home stand that starts next Friday. This season, no longer will fans need to shell out big bucks for mediocre food inside the park when there's Traci Des Jardi ... More >>

Traci Des Jardins' Ballpark Eateries Public House and Mijita in Stealth-Open Mode

J. BirdsallMijita started serving food this morning. Public House launches its kitchen at 4.​Well, well, well. Just hours after last night's launch party for media and industry wrapped, the dual Traci Des Jardins ballpark eateries Public House and Mijita are officially in soft-open mode ― li ... More >>

These are the Shoes to Wear When Your Husband's Won the Daytona 500

Christy Futrell  was at AT&T Park's Willie Mays Plaza yesterday afternoon as her husband,  NASCAR Daytona 500 champ Jamie McMurray, was awarded an honorary Giants home jersey: No. 1, fittingly enough. She was wearing an unimpressive WAG ensemble - -LV, big rock, big shades. But then we ... More >>

Acme Chophouse To Be Split to Make Way for Two New Casual Restaurants

More than the Acme sign is getting split.​Even before the remains of Acme Chophouse are, well, ashes, much less gone cold, comes word of what'll take its place. Turns out the sprawling Acme space (24 Willie Mays Plaza at AT&T Park) will be chopped into two unequal parts to house separate eater ... More >>

Progress: Internet News Delivery Accelerates -- From Speed of Snail to Speed of Sanchez

News travels fast ... as fast as Freddy​The other day, we wrote about how our "Google alert" shot us an article reporting that San Francisco had adopted mandatory composting -- a mere five weeks after it happened. Considering the article ran in a Chico paper, and tabulating that the information ha ... More >>

Ever Wonder Why AT&T Park's Lights Are On at 1 a.m.? Blame Kenny Chesney.

And if the lights are still on six hours later, you can blame a country musicianThe longest nine-inning game in National League history took place right here at San Francisco's AT&T Park back in 2001; the Los Angeles Dodgers outscored the hometown boys, 11-10, in a heart-breaking, ass-crack-numb ... More >>

Tease Your Food-Obsessed Brain at Sunday's Edible Pursuit Trivia Contest

Yamanize via FlickrWho invented the Popsicle? Test your food IQ on SundayTest your food-trivia mettle Sunday at Edible San Francisco's third installment of Edible Pursuit, a food-themed trivia game the magazine is hosting at Acme Chophouse, with emcee Marcia Gagliardi of Tablehopper. A little-known ... More >>

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