What's the gastronomic buzz, you ask? Well, we'll tell you: Sightglass Coffee Bar & Roastery opens in SOMA, A16 launches Beer Month, Locanda has something called a "bar program" as well as the best summer cocktail, kid-unfriendly restaurants you need to know about. more ›

• School buses to run on waste grease from local restaurants. [SF Sentinel]
• 2007, as Chrissy from Newport Harbor: the Real OC might say, is "o-v-e, but the 'r' is not there yet." Totes, dude. Totes. [SFoodie, SFBG, CHOW, Gridskipper, Yelp]
• "Subprime" is your word of the year, or so says the Gate. [SF Gate]
• Tiger stuff. (An aside: Big-Cat Expert is perhaps the best job title in the world, ever.) [Examiner, SFBG]
• New Jersey bans sexual predators from the Internets. How very boring of them. [ValleyWag]
• A Sunday win by the Oakland Raiders could, like, make them be really super special. Or something like that. [Oakland Tribune]
• Best breakout performance: Mint Plaza. And more over at Curbed SF Awards 2007. [Curbed] more ›

Photos of our new public plaza more ›

Berrylicious illustration from The Oakland Tribune. more ›