SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Winemakers Pushing Booze On Unsuspecting Chinese Middle Class Over in China, the Wine Institute, an association of California wineries, is using the Golden State's effortlessly cool image to sell mid-range wine abroad. As the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports, the Wine
SF News Sen. Leland Yee Calls Out UC Chancellor Katehi For Shadiness Fresh off placing a distant fifth on the mayoral campaign trail, Leland Yee is back to business as usual up in Sacramento. Unsatisfied with UC President Mark Yudof's plan to assemble 10 UC
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nob Hill's Cala Foods Closing December 3rd Back in June, news broke that Nob Hill's loved/hated/occasionally pigeon-inhabited neighborhood grocer Cala Foods would be disappearing to make way for a Trader Joe's. At the time, the neighborhood was positively
SF News Berkeley Has Bay Area's Largest Wealth Gap, Say Numbers With all the 99% vs. 1% talk flying around these days, it is important to keep a local perspective on these kinds of things. For today's perspective, the Bay Citizen offers: "In the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fourth Wave Coffee Roaster Foils Thugs' Valencia Street Getaway A brawl outside of a Valencia street liquor store Saturday afternoon ended inside of Four Barrel Coffee after one employee — coffee roaster working in the back room — denied two thugs an easy exit
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Cyclists Get Their Own Lane Back Cyclists forced to share the slow-plodding eastern sidewalk of the Golden Gate Bridge with gaggles of tourists and other slow-moving foot traffic over the past five months, finally got their old speedway back
SF News Monday Morning Roundup American Airlines flight attendants joined in at Occupy SF last Friday. They were, reportedly "clean-cut" and "exceedingly courteous." [TheSnitch] Holiday gift ideas from the Asian Art Museum so you can shower your own
SF News Apparent Suicide Sunday Afternoon at 24th Street BART Around 3:20 p.m. Sunday afternoon BART closed the 24th Street Mission Station after a man reportedly laid down on the tracks in front of an SFO-bound train. Trains continued to run,
Arts & Entertainment Occupy Oakland Hosts Gay Porn Movie Shoot This one's bound to catch the attention of the anti-Occupy sect: Porn company Dirty Boy Video, which (we're guessing) specializes in videos of boys who are dirty, used a tent in the middle
SF News UC Davis Police Brutally Pepper Spray Student Protesters [Video] Yesterday afternoon on the campus of UC Davis, 10 students were arrested in a particularly aggressive confrontation between an Occupy protest group and UC Davis police. After some protesters refused to remove their
SF News This Week in Willie Brown: Post-Election Wrap-Up, Occupy SF Stole his Halloween Candy After Willie's anointed candidate was properly secured in his seat in Room 200, Willie Brown wasted no time calling for retribution from rival campaigns. While downplaying his involvement with Ed Lee's election on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed North Beach Pizza Chef Opening Second North Beach Italian Eatery Tony Gemignani, the pizza genius behind Tony's Pizza Napoletana in North Beach which was recently called "America's best pizzeria" by USA Today, is opening up a second North Beach joint, opening in early
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Season 2011: Thanksgiving Crab Dip in Danger as Fisherman Continue to Strike Brief updates from Fisherman's Wharf today, where the ongoing pricing dispute between crab fisherman and the seafood processors threatens to damage crustacean-based Thanksgiving dishes. One local fish market owner told SFoodie today that
Arts & Entertainment Santacon 2011 Will Get Way More Naked Santacon, the yearly gathering of drunk people in Santa Claus costumes, will feature a lot less red velvet and a whole lot more pasty white this year. An offshoot of the main Santacon
SF News Local News Report Investigates the East Bay Hyena Colony Today in delightful local TV news reports, CBS5 has the hard-hitting report of a secret compound hidden in the East Bay hills that is home to the world's only captive Hyena colony. Created
SF News Development Company Ready to Turn the Chronicle Building in to Something Useful At Fifth and Mission, the development company behind the 5M project that has helped the Chronicle lease out the unused square footage of their offices is ready to move to the next phase
SF News All Quiet at Occupy SF Last Night After getting all worked up over an impending raid on the camp, Occupy SF still stands as of this morning. Despite yesterday's eviction notice from the DPW, Mayor Lee has yet to give
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional Examining how we view popular athletes (like Brian Wilson) in the era of YouTube. [Grantland] Cal and Stanford meet for the Big Game tomorrow. And that Andrew Luck is looking pretty sharp to
SF News Day Around the Bay Brace yourselves, al signs point to an imminent Occupy SF raid. [BCN/Appeal] Espressamente Illy, the new cafe from the classic-cute Italian coffee giant, hits the Financial District. [EaterSF] Farina in the Mission
Arts & Entertainment Bernal Heights Bikini Jogger Fascinates a Neighborhood Up in idyllic Bernal Heights, a scantily clad fitness fanatic has captured the attention of an entire neighborhood: She is the Bernal Bikini Jogger and she is the closest San Francisco comes to
SF News Prepare Yourselves for More Flashmobs Yesterday, AdBusters, the Vancouver-based anti-consumerism organization credited with starting the push to occupy public spaces around the country, sent out the latest of it's "Tactical Briefing" emails to supporters of the movement. After
SF News Yelp Finally Going Public, Files for IPO Yelp, the locally based creative outlet for many a bored foodie, is finally going public. After turning down a $500 million buyout from Google last year, the local reviews site has filed for
SF News Mayor Lee, DPW Lay Out New Rules for Occupy Campers As we know, Mayor Lee took a tour of Justin Herman Plaza to prep for a sit-down meeting with representatives from the Occupy movement yesterday. His verdict on the camp? With around 200
SF News Occupy Cal Cleared Out, Two Arrested In another early morning sweep by officers in riot gear, UCPD cleared out some 20 tents from the Occupy Cal camp on Sproul Plaza. Charitably, cops who surrounded the camp around 3:30
