• Best meals of the year. [Eater]
• Chronicle admits defeat? [SFGate]
• There's more to Sonoma than wine? Technology, says Nathan Halverson. [The Daily Geek]
• Depression foreshadowing, anyone? [AP]
• Cut your hair, hippie. For free. [Mission Mission]
• Bristol Palin poops out a boy. [KGO]
• An aside: Simon Perez, you're too hot to have a goatee. Shave it. Please.

Fried pickle at Benders image: jessmccabe