SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Strange Brews You may already be familiar with Peet's Coffee's seasonal quencher, the "Jasmine Lime Cooler." Seasonal because its secret ingredient is none other than Odwalla's Summertime Lime drink. But, you know, it's hard to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Consistency Hardly a Hobgoblin: Juan's Place We recently revisited our old haunt, a popular destination in our college days, when the gooey cheesy Mexican fare, warm greasy chips, and pitchers of fruity wine margaritas (they don't have a hard-liquor
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: Holy New Whole Foods! What would Batman and Robin think? With its chic industrial/gothic design, the new “market hall” style Whole Foods that opened recently near Lake Merritt in Oakland certainly could be used for a
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Cheaper: Going Green and Saving Green However, when we found out that a coupon book specifically for East Bay eco-minded businesses, organic food, restaurants, sustainable living services, and entertainment was on its way to our little forgotten corner of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Praise of Mediocrity: East Bay Eats at Flavors of India In the Grand Lake district, we now have a Flavors of India restaurant, second outpost -- the first opened in Rockridge in 2006. It's not great Indian food. We'll be the first to
Arts & Entertainment Cover Your Butt Let us just say that we HATE the bra-and-underwear sections at most major department stores. The fluorescent lighting, the indifferent sales staff with their cheesy tape measures and prodding fingers, the racks and
Arts & Entertainment Friends Don't Let Friends Glide Recklessly If you or someone you know is pregnant, you may already know that to glide or not to glide is one of the many baby-preparation decisions a mom-to-be will have to make. While
Arts & Entertainment Shopping, Napa-Style And then, one morning, we were on said street, a smidge early, waiting for Cody's Books to open, and Napa Style's doors were already flung wide. So we wandered in. Casually. And we
Arts & Entertainment Is It Music or Just "Human Behavior"? Oh Björk! You quixotic Icelandic vixen, you. You dancer on the tongue-tip of the art vanguard. You lucky multi-million-dollar musician. Unlike mere mortals who don't have the clout or funds to access such
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: The Vegan Macrobiotic Experience (We were only successfully completely vegan and macrobiotic -- or "macroneurotic" according to our friends -- for two weeks, but our affection for whole grains and veggies-in-season persisted.) Over time, changes and renovations
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's Not Easy, Being Vegan But, some days, maybe we want a nice plate of veggies, prepared by people who only eat veggies and therefore understand that more options exist than just steamed. People who might even try
Arts & Entertainment Bi-Coastal Banana Bag & Bodice Snags 3 New York Innovative Theater Award Nominations Rising Fallen was cited by NYIT for Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Production of a Play, and playwright Jason Craig was nominated for Outstanding Original Full Length Script. We are embarrassed to admit that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: You Should Know About Dan Carbone Why? Because the stuffed-animal slinging, falsetto-singing, universe-weaving, Dada-referencing, Bay Area playwright and theater artist (and good friend and muse of seminal filmmaker George Kuchar) is all that -- and he's just been nominated
Arts & Entertainment We Came, We Saw, It Kicked Our A** We passed the LONG LINE of people waiting to pick up their Will Call tickets and grabbed our press passes from a separate window (lucky us) to enter what is probably the nearest
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vive Le Bon Anniversaire! 4:30 p.m.: Catch the last matinée showing of at the U.A. Theater on Shattuck. (This theater has the tastiest popcorn we've tried lately, by the way. Not too salty. No
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Organic Mani-Pedis In The East Bay? So, you San Francisco folks have it made. With places like Polished Lounge and Le Crème Spa, you can go get a "natural" manicure and pedicure in a big puffy chair with lots
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Eats: Can't Stop Eating Those Free-Range Burgers Another stop on our East Bay tour of the best burgers made from "naturally-raised" meat: Luka's Taproom & Lounge. Just look at the picture. Need we say more? Note the little cup of
Arts & Entertainment The Genius Of Mike Daisey We have some bad news for you. Unless you see all four of Mike Daisey's "Great Men of Genius" monologues (and see them IN ORDER), you might miss the point. While none of
Arts & Entertainment Fill Your Belly at Full House Café To tell you the truth, we were hesitant to share this restaurant review with you, because we were worried that you would swarm our favorite neighborhood breakfast place and extend our wait for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: The Seaman’s Soup Kitchen Okay, it's really NOT a soup kitchen, but if you have a boat docked in Oakland’s Embarcadero Cove Marina (down the highway from Jack London Square and across from Alameda's Coast Guard
Arts & Entertainment All We Meant To Do Was Get A Burger You may know by now that we prefer our meat grass-fed, pedigreed, pasture raised, and without ooky hormones, antibiotics or other additives. So when we had a craving for a burger the other
Arts & Entertainment At Least Go Buy Us A T-Shirt Remember those days? My parents went to blah-blah-blah and all I got was this stupid... Well, if you go to Oakland's Bulldog Coffee Shop today from 6-7:30pm, not only will you get
Arts & Entertainment Living Legend Lets Loose At Laurel Lounge No, not the Laurel Heights familiar to San Franciscans, with its chain stores and baby strollers, but Oakland's Laurel District, home to personable purveyors of down-home cooking, musical instruments and lessons, locally-penned books,
Arts & Entertainment A Little Bite of This or That? <i>¡Qué Bueno!</i> Small plates are certainly très chic these days (even if our propensity for mixing foreign phrases is not), but usually, the price tag is not quite as nice of a fit. Not that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yolk on Our Face First, a clarification. The egg yolks in the center of the moon cakes that prompted your concern, and presumably the concerns of many others (statistically, for every letter written to a congressperson, the
