Derrick Schneider has an excellent food-focused blog called "Obsession With Food." He also wrote for SFist regularly for quite a long time, most notably his still-popular SFist in the Kitchen series. So of course we were very pleased to see that he wrote an article appearing in the Wine Section of today's Chron. He writes all about "fruit wine," or wine made with fruit other than grapes....

The rumblings from a week ago have been confirmed: Josh Wolf, on his blog, has declared his intent to run for mayor. ...

So a bunch of bloggers had a few drinks last night, or as someone on the Wall and SF Junto put it "some lame meeting of whiney bloggers at a hipster bar” when Alex and Maggie of the strangely peculiar blog, The Mayor and the Hair, came by and asked if one of them was Dean of Gavin Sucks. It was. And so, they dumped their alcohol on poor Dean, who had to spend the rest of the night wearing a wine and beer soaked shirt....

Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic is a culinary school graduate that writes about food and television. What's not to love? She's best known for her scathing, funny, and exhaustive coverage of several shows over at Television Without Pity, where she uses the nom du plum of Keckler--we'll be the first to admit (as we have before): her coverage of Top Chef is second to none. She's also a regular at where we first met her), and has her very own food-centric bloggie, The Grub Report. Check out our recent discussion for details on an a cup of salsa's epic journey, a bit on being a cheese archivist, the ressurection of our favorite word from Top Chef Season Two ("craveable"), and some insight into the challenges in writing loads and loads about television at the very popular TWOP. ...

We come back from Second Fake Question Time and.... WHERE'S GAVINWATCH???? Emails to the anonymous blogger/videohounds' gmail account were bouncing, their YouTubes clips were gone, and their website had crashed. What th---? It wasn't like Blogger was down, and even if it were, why would that affect the gmail and the YouTubes? Mysterious, we thought. Then we went out for dinner with some friends. Well, in the time between that and now when we're......

Photo courtesy of I'm Mad and I Eat. In the WTF category, some of the blogs we tried reading and wrangling were not available. The message we received: Blogger and Blog*Spot are unavailable. Blogger and Blog*Spot are unavailable right now. We apologize for this interruption in service. On to fluffier, happier times. In the (Peninsula) ring, we have Beard Papa versus Satura, courtesy of Food Notebook. Areas to critique: price and perceived value, size,......

t's looking like Spocko the Blogger's little stunt he pulled on KSFO is working. Both Bank of America and MasterCard pulled either all of their advertising or some of their advertising from KSFO. Others are expected to follow suit. ...

-Buffy the robbery slayer. -The Chron delves into the story of Spocko the Blogger....

Now that Netroots have slowed down on the Tauscher hating, they've moved onto another subject to which their ire is drawn, KSFO. One of the diarists on Daily Kos is telling the story of poor Spocko the Blogger. Spocko had a thing about KSFO for whatever reason and decided to record bits and pieces of various shows with the hopes of capturing of something truly appallingly in bad taste and full of invective. Our guess is that he probably spent a good ten minutes or so before he had enough damning evidence. With recorded bits and pieces of the shows. Spocko the Blogger turned some of the quotes into mp3s and sent them to various sponsors of KSFO shows as well as their corporate overlords. The obvious reason, of course, is to show those holding the purse strings just what they are spending money on....

Who knows how it happened, but somehow, SF's most iconic eccentric (followed by the twins and Frank Chu) has risen from beyond the grave to call out to his populace for assistance. Like everyone else of consequence these days, Emperor Norton -- the real estate baron who went a bit screwy in the 1850s and declared himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico -- has a blog, and what's more, he's......

Tonight: The Canvas Gallery is hosting "Ask a Scientist," with Nancy Garland, a Technology Development Master at the U.S. Department of Energy, discussing Alternative Energy: A Cleaner Future for Cars. Tuesday: The best thing about bubbles is how they warp concepts like "There's no such thing as a free lunch." Hitachi Data Systems is hosting Lunch 2.0 in Santa Clara -- eat free, play foosball, and if you're so inclined, check out any of ten......

We've held out this long, and we're only gonna make this jokes once, but this summer, watch out for... Drinks on a plane! (We'll now run across the street and demand of the priest an appropriately harsh prescription for penance.) But don't worry, technology and, to a lesser extent, the Bush and Blair administrations, are here to protect you. With biometric terrorist detectors, other tech that's been around for generations, and the latest in arbitrary......

OK, it was the Fourth of July yesterday, so while we normally don't post a lot of political blogs here, we'll make an exception this week, to honor the ideals this country was founded on. Our fireworks plan has varied wildly over the years, veering from a "Try and see 'em all" approach, which involved riding our motorcycle into the Berkeley Hills, "Try and see 'em at all" approach, which meant trying to find......

Bay Blogger alum The Legal Reader's got quite a claim to fame now -- he helped capture Darren Mack, that guy in Reno who stabbed his wife, shot the family court judge that ruled against him, and then fled to Mexico. Dang, the Blotter does nothing. So an innocuous post of the Reader's from 2004, about George Bush's bad federal judicial nominees, somehow turned into one of the top places for people to post comments......

There's lots of politics out there this week, gentle readers, but we'll leave it to others to cover the big stories. We here at Blog Central are all about the next wave, the fringes of politics where wonk meets snark. For example, we've followed Tony (whoops -- guess we subconsciously think he's hella cool, and we promise that's the only time we'll use the word "hella." OK, we can't promise that.)Thomas Hawk's insistence on his......

We haven't really posted a lot on Shuna the past couple weeks, since confessing our blog crush on her. There are lots of Bay Area food blogs (close to 100 that we know about, and that's not counting the restaurant review blogs) and we like to spread the love. However, we're going to link to her a lot this week, and we don't feel bad about it at all. First off, we are in awe......

As longtime fans of New York real-estate blog Curbed, we still cringe when we recall the night we drunkenly nagged creator Lockhart Steele "When will we get a San Francisco Curbed? Why don't you love us? Waaaaaah!" We blacked out shortly thereafter, but we're pretty sure Steele just looked at us disgustedly and walked away. Despite what an ass we were to Lock, partner in Curb Joshua Albertson and he went ahead and launched......

It's all about good causes here at SFist. And while we're not sure if they really qualifies as a good cause, it's certainly a funny one. Matt Stewart is planning a wedding, and what really makes a for a rockin' reception is a good band. Being the superfan that he is, he thinks that he's offering a primo opportunity for fabulous publicity to one of the most enigmatic musicians of our time -- Axl......

Cartoonist, comix artist, whatevs Julia Wertz of Fartparty.org added us as a contact out of the blue, and with a URL like that, one has to follow up. We took an hour and read everything she'd posted online. Funny stuff that's all her, but also archetypical of San Francisco. Biking, smoking pot, eating cookies, drinking beer, dealing with idiots and hanging out with your friends and family -- that's what it's all about, no?......

This week in Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates A Blogger. Alas, District 6 aficionados, Jordanna Thigpen will not be running for Daly's seat either. Instead, she's running for the DCCCCCCCCCCCCC (sorry, we always forget how many Cs that has) instead. Thanks for playing, Jordanna! So who else is up? Well, according to the Sentinel, the following people have announced their intent to run in District 6: Nadia Cabezas, Matthew Drake, Rodney Hauge, Manuel Jimenez, Bobby Jordan, Andrew Rucker, and William Stewart. Of these candidates, the Wall noted that one has a blog! He's the one whose name is a hyperlink! Guess who we're profiling next! Welcome, Manuel Jimenez! He's a former bike messenger, a former Marine, and an attorney for the State Bar of California. Watch out, Chris, looks like he also has a cute son! Jimenez is running as the "Quality of Life Supervisor," as outlined in his policy papers. You know we've got a short attention span, so we're skimming here, but it looks like be nicer to the SFPD and move Board of Supes meetings to 5 p.m. Any position on impeaching Bush, Mr. Jimenez? Also, Jimenez provides links to a children's book he's penned ("Timo's Tough Trek To School"), some supportive comments from his mom ("I'm thrilled you're running for office!"), his drawings, and excerpts from his novel. You can also check out his campaign blog (where he comes out against Daly's homicide task force plan) and his personal blog too. Wow, that's a lot of websites. We see a Bay Blogger Thursday profile in your future, Mr. Jimenez! Picture of Manuel Jimenez from his websites...

So many moons ago, we wrote a post about Other Magazine. We were still young, unknown punks on this here locally scribbler scene. Nearly a year and a half later, we're still young punks at least (though we'll just be punks before long), mostly by virtue of being accepted by actual literary luminaries like Charlie Anders and Annalee Newitz. Granted, they're not hard to find, with Charlie MCing Writers With Drinks at the Makeout......

Because it's still Thursday in Hawaii. The last cover feature by Ann Harrison in the Bay Guardian was the kind of thing you save for a long bus ride to or from the Avenues. Ann had been covering the story of the medical marijuana movement in California for years, and in her investigation into the cycle production and eradication in the Emerald Triangle did the kind of work only a journalist with a serious......

Well, the cat's out of the bag about the new blog from Gawker Media. We've known for a while, but have been pretty good about keeping mum about it due to this SFist's work with Fleshbot. As PJ Corkery revealed Wednesday, it's going to be called Valleywag, and it's going to be helmed by the affable Nick Douglas, who's moving on from his post as editor at Blogebrity. Last night Spot-On's Chris Nolan held......

Dan Gillmor bows out of Bayosphere in Businessweek -- reactions from JD Lasica, Jonas Luster and Thomas Hawk. Blogger Tom Foremski says he's doing just fine, claiming to be more popular with PR folks than the Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg. Hey, at least no one has had to resort to astroblogging (astroturfing + blogging, natch). John Paczkowski is afraid, very afraid about rumors that boo.com is back. "Best Headline in a While" award......

Om Malik IM'd us today to let us know that in our very own backyard, Marin, we have a regular contributor to the New York Times -- and that she's started a blog. Michelle Slatalla, whom Om says "typically writes about online shopping," can now be found at Michellepedia, where she posts "Stuff I Didn't Have Room to Say." Exactly the kind of thing the New York Times could be doing online to increase......

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! Did you know that America's "first black Millionaire" was Yerba Buena resident Alexander Leidesdorff? Eric Meyerson got a chance to see Nobel Laureate Jimmy Carter at a recent book signing. And the wheels of the criminal justice system continue to squeak, with this harrowing tale of dealing with the Fremont courts. We'll take a trip around the blogosphere for a minute. Jon "PJ" Swenson at the Sharkspage does......

One of the ways bloggers can leverage their collective influence is through a good, old-fashioned pile on. We don't have to necessarily break the story, but if a critical mass of bloggers start addressing it simultaneously, the s**tstorm will finally hit the mainstream. Just ask Dan Rather. The worldwide blogosphere was shocked -- shocked -- at the implications of a recent Chicago Sun-Times article. Turns out that armed with someone's phone number and a......

Ah, nothing like controversy to get the week off to a good start. Susie Bright isn't particularly happy after lending JT her support early on (scroll down for more from Susie in the comments). And Edward Champion reminds us that JT isn't the only one lacking a firm grasp on the line between fact and fiction, with James Frey under the microscope. Municide publishes a response to their own flight of fancy, purportedly from......

Well, it's awards season around the Blogosphere. You've got your Food Blog Awards, Bloggies, your Webbys -- heck, it's the first week in January and SFist has already won one. So when we saw that the Most Valuable Network was holding a poll to crown a best writer for 2005, we figured it would be a good chance to put in a plug for our favorite MVN blogger, Dave Isaacs of The City. Besides......

This week's blogger doesn't just work online, though it's an important part of her creative process. In fact, the blog serves as a creative tool for developing her stories. judy b., a local author and journalist, debuted a number of stories from her book, "Stories for Airports," on her blog. She's currently working on a novel, The Toy Box, and posting a new chapter every Friday. It's a rare opportunity to peel back the......