Today Gavin Newsom announced that "a series of public hearings on the fatal Christmas Day tiger attack" that resulted in the killing of 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. will start as soon as this Friday. After these hearings, the Recreation and Parks Department Commission will "make a set of recommendations to improve the agreement that allows a nonprofit to run the public zoo." Or something like that. Although it's an attempt to appease the mayor......

After years of not doing it, our apartment complex is finally going to set up recycling. We've lived in our apartment for about five years now and the fact that we didn't recycle made us riddled with guilt. We've been so programmed to recycle that we tried to do it when we went home and stayed with relatives who didn't have any. We'd leave cans or bottles around in hope s they'd somehow get recycled. Now, finally, we can be environmental guilt free. ...

In case you don't think there's anything crafty about baking a batch of cupcakes, we've got the pictures to prove you wrong. And we've had so much sugar today, we doubt you would really want to argue with us. Maybe it was the decadent cakes and sweets we saw inMarie Antoinette, our hero Amy Sedaris's cupcake obsession, the new book Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, cupcake blogs, or our own local cupcakeries, but we've been itching to make cupcakes for months now. Lucky for us we have a good friend who happens to be a pastry chef (not that you need a pastry chef in your life to make cupcakes, we're just less baking savvy then most). Sure, part of crafting is the satisfaction of planning, playing, and making something permanent with your hands. But baking is as much an art as any craft out there. And there's something just as satisfying in mixing, measuring, baking and then eating your creation. Cupcakes are the perfect palate for some edible artistry. ...

Time when newspapers only meant two things to dogs – either they were laid out flat in the kitchen or rolled up in the palm of someone’s hand. Neither use was particularly attractive. But now dogs in the Bay Area have two, count ‘em, two monthly newspapers catering to their needs. The Woofer Times claims to produce 40,000 free papers per month distributed at over 650 locations in the Bay Area. Fetch the Paper is......

This past Wednesday we were treated to part one of the two-part Top Chef finale, which takes place in Las Vegas. While much of our interest in the show had to do with its local, er, location, we're far too invested to back out just because the final is on a bigger, gaudier stage. ...

Hey, folks, welcome back to another recap of the "slow food movement" of reality TV shows, Bravo's Top Chef. It's deliciously vibrant, diverse, and, most especially cool, local! Again, we're recapping last week's episode in hopes that y'all will check out the new episode tonight -- after all, if it gets decent ratings, it might get another season. Wouldn't it be swell to have a long-running series in our fair seven-by-seven?...

Boulevard has been a SF favorite for many years. It has long reigned over the Zagat list of best restaurants in San Francisco, and its popularity never seems to diminish. Our last meal there left us with the impression of bee's nest bustling with a seemingly chaotic activity, which somehow delivered highly structured and tasty dishes. It is not a surprise that such a successful restaurant spawned a cookbook, aptly named Boulevard, following the......

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order... Do you know how many eating establishments there are in San Francisco that begin with the letter Q? The answer is not many. You could probably count them all on three fingers. Our first thought, and choice, was to try out the renowned Michael Tusk-owned restaurant, Quince, in Pacific Heights. Rumour has it he offers a wonderful chef's table and as......

In what has to be the most delicious way to help those who lost their lives, loved ones and communities in the Tsunami disaster, a group of foodie bloggers from around the world have donated their formidable talents in recipe writing and wine pairing to put together "A Menu for Hope." Derrick over at Obsession With Food was where we first found the menu. He contributed a recipe for Khari Poori with Mint Chutney,......