SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Humphry Slocombe's Brilliant, Harrowing Response To Foie Gras Activists Oh, this is rich. Ever since foie gras was banned (or "banned") in the state of California on July 1, a smattering of animal rights activists, it seems, have since harassed Mission District
Arts & Entertainment 1975 B.A.R. Pride Cover Features Elephant, Gays The fine folks at the Bay Area Reporter posted a cover shot from their 1975 Gay Pride issue. Do you think we'll have elephants in this year's Pride parade? Find out on Sunday,
Arts & Entertainment Love Your Corner Store Cat? Share Photos With Us, Please! Cats who call liquor stores or corner stores in the Bay Area home have a special place in our hearts, and rightfully so. They look cute lounging on dusty boxes of Vienna Sausages
Arts & Entertainment Look At These Adorable Coyote Puppies In Golden Gate Park Right This Instant Fellow lovers of all things local and adorable (that should be all of you): please stop what you're doing right this very second and take a look at these impossibly cute coyote pups,
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Dogfest, Sunday Streets & More! Dogfest: Duboce Park will be full of lovable pooches on Saturday for the 5th annual Dogfest, benefiting SFUSD McKinley Elementary School. The fest, which will feature Daniel Handler as the emcee, and celebrity
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Tiny Kitten Afraid of Vacuum Here's an extra-brief, cute-overloaded palate cleanser for you featuring one tiny kitten and twelve seconds of unabashed adorableness. [via BuzzFeed]
SF News Santa Cruz Animal Shelter Looking For Traveling Kitty's Owner We realize we're a little late to this delightful story, which was making the rounds late last week, but we hope it brightens your Monday nonetheless. The folks down at the Santa Cruz
SF News Gray Whale Gets Lost, Hangs Out With Calf Near Crissy Field A mother whale and her calf, headed back North to Alaska after spending what we can only imagine was a lovely winter in Baja, got lost in the San Francisco Bay this week.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Hummingbird Snoring Please observe this darling little Peruvian hummingbird, called an Amethyst-throated Sunangel (Heliangelus amethysticollis), and listen to it snore. Ahhh. For more fun from the same videographer, please see this darling baby swallow-tailed nightjar.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 2/28: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks MUSIC: Surprisingly, there are still tickets left as of this posting to see the adorable Stephen Malkmus, and the his band, The Jicks at Slim's tonight, as part of Noise Pop. Their latest
SF News Finally, A Literal Reason Why Sacramento Stinks If you've visited Sacramento recently only to take a deep whiff and wonder, "Damn, they've got some skunk weed up here," you would be half right. See, hordes of horny skunks have come
Arts & Entertainment 14 Pictures Of Dogs And Cats That Need A Home Right Now These guys sure are lonely. They could really use a home and family (likes yours!) to call their own. Maybe you would like a little love in your life too, yes? Well, why
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: 'Dove as Angel' Perhaps your weekend's been a bit hectic and you need some calming visuals. Look no further than these awe-inspiring high-speed videos of animals in flight shot by a group of Dutch photographers as
SF News Tiny Dog Kills Baby Bison Terrible news from Golden Gate Park this afternoon: one of the seven new baby bison who arrived at the paddock early last month has died "after sustaining injuries from an incident with a
SF News Squirrel Monkey Stolen From SF Zoo The San Francisco is asking for the public's help to retrieve a reportedly stolen squirrel monkey. "This morning zoo staff discovered a 17-year-old male squirrel monkey, 'Banana-Sam,' was missing from an exhibit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Benu's Faux Shark-Fin Soup Fools Gastronomes Like a top-drawer Folger's Crystals switcheroo, Benu executive chef Corey Lee, the former chef de cuisine at The French Laundry, developed a fake shark-fin soup that's fooling even the most rabid fans of
Arts & Entertainment Scene From SF Zoo Snow Day Featuring Adorable Polar Bear One of the universe's depressing cruelties (besides genocide, rape, hunger, et al.) is that one can neither nuzzle with nor scratch the belly of a giant bear. Because said giant bear will probably
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Animals Rights Group Wants To Give Foie Gras-Hungry Anthony Bourdain Liver Exam Looking to draw attention to (cruel yet succulent) foie gras production and consumption, which will (technically) be banned in California come 2012, animal rights group Animal Legal Defense Fund stirred up a bit
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Mounts a Bison in Facebook HQ As part of his personal challenge to eat only the animals he kills, noted nouveau riche person Mark Zuckerberg has been eating a lot of bison burgers, apparently. Thanks to that newly enlightened
SF News Golden Gate Park Bison Welcome New Calves Out in Golden Gate Park Diane Feinstein's thinning herd of bison got some new additions this week. According to NBC, seven new buffalo calves arrived at the bison paddock in the western part
