Remember the Jamba Juice hepatitis A scare? And remember how we said there were gymnasts competing in a national meet in San Jose a few weeks ago? Well -- you guessed it -- it turns out the gymnasts might have been exposed to the virus. The hepatitis A carrier made smoothies for the gymnasts during the meet and in the trade shows outside. She claims she used good hygiene and food safety practices throughout (wearing......

Uh oh! Did you stop by the Jamba Juice on Lincoln Avenue in Willow Glen in San Jose any time during the first two weeks of August? An employee may have given you hepatitis A. Turns out one of the food handlers didn't realize she was sick and she might have given it to you if she didn't wash her hands properly. If you were at the JJ from August 9-16, get a shot. If......

-- Paranoia, feeding faux stories, and NYT's Laura Albert (AKA Miss Leroy) article. Depressing is right, Rita. [CultureBlog] -- Newsom defends Halloween shutdown. [BAR] -- San Francisco's other (but not nearly as stellar!) Matty. [BeyondChron] -- Pssst. We heard a rumor that the Bay Bridge will close during Labor Day Weekend. Pass it around. [511] -- Mandy Moore at the Fillmore. Eeeeeeeeee! [SF Weekly] -- SFBG's political art of the week. (Yay, Kool-Aid guy!)......

You know that crazy idea Jake McGoldrick had for instituting tolls in downtown San Francisco as a way of easing congestion? And you know how it was quickly dismissed as yet another string of things that makes San Francisco what it is-- completely nutty? Well, New York's Mayor Mike Bloomberg just came up with the same proposal to ease congestion in New York. ...

Yikes -- that's not the kind of boost we wanted in our Jamba Juice! Our local healthy smoothie company recently discovered that one of its supplier's strawberries were possibly contaminated with the listeria bacteria. Only about 50 cases went out, and they all shipped to southern California, Arizona, and Nevada from November 25-Dec. 1 -- that's less than 3% of all the smoothies made in that region. (They go through over 1666 cases of strawberries......

We know the rest of you will be just as shocked as we are to hear of other elections going on besides the District 6 race (except for you, commenter poormojo!). Well, David Kiddoo, the write-in candidate for District 2 (Pac Heights, the Marina) running against incumbent Michela Alioto-Pier, has graciously agreed to submit to an SFist interview and tell us what they're worrying about up there north of Market. Thanks, David! Who are you,......

Before we get started this week, we have to break from a completely reporter, "these are the blogs that were" voice to the voice of an actual food blogger. Someone with very exciting, very bad for you, very guilty pleasure type news. The type that can get you into drunken, one-in-the-morning type trouble. "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle" type trouble. When we first moved to the Bay Area In 'N Out burger joints......

Last night we took a long bus ride out to Fort Mason to check out the final rounds of the Robot Fighting League's Combots National Championship. SFist Chuck reminded us to make it out, and SFist Emily had so much fun last year, we decided it was a must-cover event. Besides, they had nachos and Pabst Blue Ribbon on hand. Our first reaction was that we hadn't seen so many kids in one place......