-- Tastes of the City: Help raise money for the George Mark Children's House in San Leandro by attending this culinary bash. Young and "philanthropic-minded" guys and gals meet and mingle while binge eating on food and wine from such places as Andalu, Jack Falstaff, and more. Goes from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Forum at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; $60. (!) -- Mathematicians, Madame Blavatsky Overdrive, and Odd Nosdam:......

We went to the PlumpJack Cookbook signing party at Jack Falstaff last night. And none other than the mayor was sitting at the table, pen in hand, waiting for us to bring our copy of book. And he deserves all the kudos, as it’s hard to sign with a bleeding sharpie on glossy paper when you are left handed. We are getting carpal tunnel just thinking about it. No smudge, and his sleeves remained pure white. ...

It's the last weekend before.... the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The Final Push. --Bar crawl with Chris Daly and the League of Pissed Off Voters tonight, on a party bus. Show up at 9 p.m. outside Daly HQ on 16th and Mission to decorate the bus (!!!), and the group leaves around 9:30 for a tour of the best drinking holes in District 6. There'll be some leaflet distribution, a fair......

Two weeks of tech bingeing gives folks time to reflect. Slashdot picks Make Magazine as the best coverage from Macworld. We choose the best rumor -- that Team Jobs didn't announce some products because of "supply issues." Hell, even Levi's announced a product -- iPod compatible jeans. MuniWireless finds a great blog from author Craig Settles about questions to ask regarding TechConnect's Request for Proposals. Om Malik tips us to SixApart's affiliate program, whereby......

Beautiful pictures from Bay Area restaurants. How many do you recognize, how many of them were new in 2005 and which one of them, sadly, closed down recently? We were going to award the Best New Restaurant award of 2005, to Jack Falstaff which opened exactly a year ago, and which we reviewed here on SFist after our third visit. Although by no means does JF offer a perfect restaurant experience, we found it......

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. Sfist has a little crush on James Ormsby. No less than three times in seven months, we have been drawn back to his swanky Gavin-endorsed restaurant in SoMa, Jack Falstaff. We are not even quite sure what the allure of Jack Falstaff is. We'll call it the 'James Ormsby Je ne sais quoi factor'. The attraction is certainly not the look......

Back to our usual format, guys. We're still working on a pie chart of the weeklies, though! Last week's this week, The Guardian. Yipes, a cover of people flipping you off! Hello, community standards and decency board? Angry letter from Markos of the Daily Kos. Public power's "close relative," community-choice aggregation. We have no idea what that sentence means. Follow up on Is Badlands Bad (now called And Castro For All). Paul Reidinger goes to Jack Falstaff. Cover article: blurbmania about the SF Int'l Film Fest movies. Mary Timony: she's not all about unicorns anymore! The SF Weekly! Dog Bites tries out for Beach Blanket Babylon again. Cover article: challenges facing the SF Conservatory of Music. This Tuesday, Trannyfest is throwing its annual faux king contest (drag queens dress up like drag kings -- genius!). Blurbmania about the SF Int'l Film Fest movies. Meredith Brody goes to Jack Falstaff. And Mary Timony: not all about unicorns anymore! The East Bay Express, the Metro, and -- hey, does anyone want to go to Jack Falstaff with us?...