By Noah W. Bailey
Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.
Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic Furr smells more like the Kinks than Neil Young. [Editor's note: That's why we put it on our indie-rock list.] We likewise discarded Shearwater's near-masterpiece Rook, despite the
Fox SearchlightZooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in (500) Days of Summer.In a multi-city promotion for the new film (500) Days of Summer, Fox Searchlight has arranged for free street eats to be given out to the first 500 people to arrive at two different San Francisco locations this Sunday, June 21.Go to Dolores Park at 1 p.m., where the Crème Brûlée Cart
will fire up 500 delightful desserts for free. Mr. Brûlée reported to
SFoodie that he's been slaving away in his kitchen in order
De La Paz Coffee Co./FlickrThe lure of free tacos brought 'em out to El Tonayense yesterday.El Tonayense truck owner Esquivel Santana told SFoodie that Sunday's taco giveaway stunt brought out a wave of free-food junkies. The truck, which parks at Harrison and 22nd St., was part of a multi-city promo for Fox Searchlight flick (500) Days of Summer, a sensitive-slash-cute-slash-chuckly Zooey Deschanel vehicle about thwarted love. Cart vendor Crème Brulee Man was also also slated to take part in t
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