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Anti-Social Investment Watch: Ratings Agency Downgrades Half Moon Bay 'Vampire Bonds' To 'Robin Hood Bonds'

This economic metaphor comes equipped with a band of merry menLast Week we urged anti-social investors -- the opposite of do-gooder "social investors" who shun tobacco, blood diamonds, and the like -- to load up on a pending "vampire bond" coming out of Half Moon Bay, 30 miles southwest of San Franc ... More >>

Chef Mark Sullivan Spruces Up Pacific Heights

This economic metaphor comes equipped with a band of merry menLast Week we urged anti-social investors -- the opposite of do-gooder "social investors" who shun tobacco, blood diamonds, and the like -- to load up on a pending "vampire bond" coming out of Half Moon Bay, 30 miles southwest of San Franc ... More >>

Year of the Blockhead

We're dumbing down and it's the new media's fault

California Sunshine

The golden state of Skygreen Leopards' cosmic roots-pop

Fast Times at Marin Catholic High

A case that the Archdiocese of San Francisco apparently doesn't want you to know about

Gyms/Exercise Clubs

A case that the Archdiocese of San Francisco apparently doesn't want you to know about

All-In

A brash Iranian-American wins $1.4 million at poker -- and knows his lucky streak has just started

Gyms/Exercise Clubs

A brash Iranian-American wins $1.4 million at poker -- and knows his lucky streak has just started

The Russian Card Game

A peek inside a new form of Russian organized crime and an ingenious method of turning credit card mailings into large amounts of cash

Antojitos Antics

Calvin Trillin and assorted other out-of-town tipsters inspire a round of tacos

Manhattan

On Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending, Téa Leoni's ass, and The Hulk's S.F. schedule

Letters to the Editor

Week of February 6, 2002

Letters to the Editor

Letters from October 25, 2000

Making Up Their Minds

S.F.'s Other Minds Festival continues to blur the boundaries of modern composition

Laissez Ferret

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Night + Day

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Plate Tectonics

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Fish Story

Red Herring Editor Tony Perkins is a self-described maverick, a stylish fast-talker with a knack for making friends and influencing people in the high-tech world. Not bad traits for a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, but are they what it takes to publish a "m

New Kid on the Dock

Butterfield's makes a splash with good fresh oysters and grilled fish at calm prices

Anti-Social Investment Watch: Half Moon Bay Mulls Issue of 'Vampire Bonds'

So-called social investing -- where soft-edged sharpies stay out of tobacco, blood diamonds, and the like -- has come under fire for producing substandard returns. Such critiques of do-well-by-doing-good investment-picking carry the implicit moral that one might do better by doing bad. Into the the ... More >>

Just When You Thought Peninsula Had Hatched Weirdo of its Own, it Turns Out Accused Nude Doorbell Ditcher Is a San Franciscan

'Candygram!' ​Like many San Franciscans last month, I couldn't help but notice the odd story emanating from the bucolic bedroom communities of Woodside and Portola Valley. On July 16, a giant, basketball player-sized man accused of nude doorbell ditching led sheriff's deputies on a dangerous, dest ... More >>

The Frogs

'Candygram!' ​Like many San Franciscans last month, I couldn't help but notice the odd story emanating from the bucolic bedroom communities of Woodside and Portola Valley. On July 16, a giant, basketball player-sized man accused of nude doorbell ditching led sheriff's deputies on a dangerous, dest ... More >>

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

The Worst First Pitches of All Time

Karen Peterson served as a schoolteacher in nearby Woodside for many a year. Her name did not become known nationally. Prior to Saturday's San Francisco Giants game, she threw what may be the worst ceremonial first pitch in the history of humanity. And now you know who she is. Welcome to the Interne ... More >>

Cafe des Amis reinvents some French culinary classics

Karen Peterson served as a schoolteacher in nearby Woodside for many a year. Her name did not become known nationally. Prior to Saturday's San Francisco Giants game, she threw what may be the worst ceremonial first pitch in the history of humanity. And now you know who she is. Welcome to the Interne ... More >>

Turns Out Songbirds Can't Fly: Joan Baez Falls Out of A Treehouse

Sleeping in trees is nice (yes, we've tried it!); falling out of them is not. Joan Baez discovered that songbirds can't fly earlier this week, when she fell 20 feet out of a treehouse at her Woodside (Peninsula) home, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

How to fund your project with online tools in 2011

Sleeping in trees is nice (yes, we've tried it!); falling out of them is not. Joan Baez discovered that songbirds can't fly earlier this week, when she fell 20 feet out of a treehouse at her Woodside (Peninsula) home, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

Q&A with Katie Sullivan Morford of Mom's Kitchen Handbook

Joe MorfordKid nutrition blogger Katie Sullivan Morford.​Registered dietitian Katie Sullivan Morford is a food and nutrition writer with more than 20 years of professional writing experience. She's been published in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Cooking Light, Bon AppĂ©tit, Sel ... More >>

Nojo: Hayes Valley Izakaya Blends California and Japan

Joe MorfordKid nutrition blogger Katie Sullivan Morford.​Registered dietitian Katie Sullivan Morford is a food and nutrition writer with more than 20 years of professional writing experience. She's been published in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Cooking Light, Bon AppĂ©tit, Sel ... More >>

Two Pig Places, Cafe des Amis' Latest Change, and More

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Oddly enough S.F. is welcoming two pig-named restaurants to the scene. Grub Street reports Castro's Nirvana is set to close, and will be replaced by The Dancing Pigs (544 Castro at 18th St.), no word yet o ... More >>

San Francisco One of the Few California Towns with Room for Prisoners

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Oddly enough S.F. is welcoming two pig-named restaurants to the scene. Grub Street reports Castro's Nirvana is set to close, and will be replaced by The Dancing Pigs (544 Castro at 18th St.), no word yet o ... More >>