Pecan Bourbon Sorbet at Scream Sorbet Scream Sorbet recently opened a store front in Oakland’s Temescal district and we’re very happy campers as they are complete magicians with dairy-free treats. The Pecan Bourbon is made with just pecans, sugar, Bulleit bourbon, and some sea salt, so the complexity they achieve is kinda insane. It tastes like the boozy holidays, a nice alternative to getting shit-faced at a holiday dinner and setting your entire family on fire. Happy Holidays! more ›

Is this for real, or one of those ridiculous made-uppy New-York-Times-imagined-it problems? Apparently, the times reported a month ago that in SF, there are some low-income students who would rather starve than accept government-subsidized food. And now, at last, the SF Schools Blog offers a loooooong rebuttal with loads of context. Here's the gist: yeah, it's a problem, it's a problem everywhere, but we already knew about it and we're trying solve it. (The solution: switch to a debit-card system that makes method-of-payment less obvious. Cost to taxpayers: $1 million, though it'll allegedy "pay for itself.") more ›