SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ahead of Easter, a California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Peeps, Skittles (or a Certain Chemical Dye In Them) Everyone's favorite nanny state is back at it making international headlines, as there's a bill before the California legislature that would ban products containing Red No. 3, a.k.a erythrosine, which is used in making everything from marshmallow Peeps to cocktail cherries.
SF News Berkeley Could Ban the Sale of Gas-Powered Cars by 2027 Much like the United Kingdom — which, in a bid for zero-emissions, hopes to outlaw the purchase of gas-powered cars by 2030 — Berkeley could ax the selling of cars powered by gasoline, diesel, and natural gas as soon as 2027.
SF News Is It Finally Time To Cancel Bay To Breakers? The Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub thinks that might be a good idea, at least for a couple of years. In the wake of yesterday's vomit-laced, booze-tinged Bay to Breakers fete, Hartlaub (smartly) suggests, among
SF News S.F. Pet Store Bans Google Glass And now, your daily Google Glass post: a pet store in the Fillmore has officially banned Google Glass. And they want you to know all about it. The Animal House posted this sign
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Bartenders Angry Over New Glove Law While the thought of forcing the mixologist community to wear prostate-exam gloves gives one a hardy chuckle rimmed with a touch of bitter schadenfreude, California's AB 1252 has gone too far. At least
SF News Did You Know Incandescent Light Bulbs Are Disappearing In 2014? If you were totally unaware of the fact that incandescent light bulbs are becoming illegal in the U.S. as of January 1, you're not alone. A recent survey showed that only 4
SF News S.F. Considers Banning Butterflies A city commission is mulling a new law that would ban letting butterflies free that might cause harm to wild butterflies. Just to be clear, it's a ban on the release of commercially
SF News The NRA Is Now Suing S.F. Over City's Gun Magazine Ban The National Rifle Association is officially not gonna take it anymore when it comes to San Francisco's tyrannical anti-gun agenda. Now, they've taken it upon themselves to sue the city of San Francisco,
SF News Just in Time For 4th Of July, Bottles & Kegs Banned At Fort Mason This is why we can't have nice things kegs. A year after Fourth of July festivities left Fort Mason's Great Meadow littered with empty 12-packs, glass bottles, and all manner of summer holiday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shark Fin Ban Goes Into Full Effect, Chinatown Fights Back The state ban on the possession or sale of shark fins took full effect on July 1, and Chinatown restaurants are none too happy about it. The law, which began to take effect
SF News BREAKING: DOMA Declared Unconstitutional By SCOTUS [Update] DOMA declared unconstitutional by SCOTUS in a 5-4 ruling. The court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act "is unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by
SF News San Francisco Orders First Parklet Removal Sure, people were using the parklet outside Martin Macks gastropub on Haight Street. But not the right kind of people, darling. The Department of Public Works issued the order last week for one
SF News Boy Scouts Vote To Allow Gay Youths, But No Gay Leaders With 60% in favor, the Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to allow openly gay youth in the Scouts. The 22-year-old ban was based on a quote from the organization's oath, which
SF News Boy Scouts To Lift Ban On Gay Members, Continue To Bar Gay Adults On Friday, officials of the Boy Scouts of America proposed a resolution that would allow openly-gay youth members of the organization with the statement that “no youth may be denied membership in the
SF News SFist Year in Review: Things S.F. Banned in 2012 Boy, 2012 was quite a year, wasn't it? After gaining national notoriety for banning Happy Meals (and by proxy: happiness in general) in 2011, the city really stepped up its nanny-state game in
SF News Video: Fox News Host Says S.F. Nudists Were 'Probably Gang Banged' During Childhood During yesterday's live broadcast of The Five, political commentator, USA Today columnist and Fox News co-host Bob Beckel suggested San Francisco's nudists and nude activists prefer their au naturale lifestyle due to childhood
SF News NSFW: Photos Of Protesters Getting Naked After Nudity Ban Passes [Updated] Here we go, folks. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote today on a citywide ban on public nudity, a story that has captured national news media because nudity, public or otherwise,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Damns Boil-in-Bag Cuisine How dare he. We don't know what the hell is wrong with Michael Bauer, but the noted SF Chronicle food critic done tears it with this piece damning boiling-in-bag cooking (or, "sous vide"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foie Gras Goes Underground At Presidio Social Club It seems that the Presidio Trust weren't as jubilant as some with Presidio Social Club's controversial decision to keep foie gras on the menu after the July 1st ban went into effect. Since
Arts & Entertainment Astute Shark Fin Mural Inspired By 'Me and My Shark Fin' Video, Shark Art Tour As Mission Mission pointed out last week, this oddly elegant yet telling shark-fin mural, which depicts a dead shark strewn next to its freshly sliced-off fin, was inspired by Kool Kid Kreyola's "Me
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink PETA Releases Statement Regarding Federal Ruling On Delicious, Succulent Foie Gras Charcuterie-haters PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) released a statement today regarding the federal ruling on California's ornamental foie-gras ban. In a written statement, PETA peta'd: "The greedy producers and gluttonous
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foie Gras Ban Still Happening, Sort Of While the food press has turned the benign foie gras ban into the gastronomic Brown v. Board of Education of our lifetime, you won't likely see the fattened liver off too many menus
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anti-Foie Gras Activists Revealed Location Of Last Night's 'Secret' Dinner Animal rights activists protested a very special dinner Thursday night in San Francisco, one that featured foie gras, the succulent and soon-to-be-banned duck's liver of note. Activists with the Animal Protection and Rescue
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Violent Anti-Foie Gras Rhetoric Gives Chefs Goosebumps Chefs and restauranteurs — the sort of people who tend to have more knives and sharp objects on hand than most — are starting to fear the increasingly violent rhetoric that has fattened up as
