SF News Rocklin Resident Wants To Ban Outdoor Smoking, Even In Your Own Backyard NIMBYs inch closer toward literalism after Rocklin resident James Baker asked the City Council to ban outdoor smoking altogether, even for residents who wish to puff relaxing, cancer-causing cigarettes on their own property.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gaggle of Foie Gras Industry Insiders Gather to Discuss California's Liver Failure Chris Cosentino's Incanto in Noe Valley played host to something resembling a foie gras summit meeting on Tuesday. As EaterSF reports, a "who's who" of San Francisco chefs, representatives from local foie gras
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lafitte Hosts Pro-Foie Gras Dinner Next Week Oh, it's on, folks. Taking a stand against the pending 2012 ban on foie gras, Chef Russell Jackson will host a FU Foie Gras Dinner at Lafitte on Sunday, October 16. See, California
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foie Gras To Go Underground In CA? When the state's foie gras ban goes into effect in July of 2012, California restaurants will have to pull the luxurious (yet allegedly cruel) item from their menus. Although producers claim it doesn't
SF News Phone Book Industry Takes S.F.'s Yellow Pages Ban to Federal Court The Local Search Association, a trade group for the phone book industry, really wants to make sure they can continue shoving an unsolicited lump of wood pulp on your doorstep every year. As
SF News Yellow Pages Ban Put on Hold While the Bean Counters Study Economic Impact We had our fingers crossed that the Board would pass President Chiu's Yellow Pages ban last night and finally remove the soggy lumps of paper pulp from our doorsteps, but that legislation was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Arizona House of Representatives Passes a Ban on Banning Happy Meal Toys So weary were we of last year's Happy Meal Ban that we almost missed this nugget from the Chronicle entirely: Worried that someone will take away their precious plastic toys, the freedom-happy states
SF News Proposed Circumcision Ban "On Track" to Show Up On November Ballot Lloyd Schofield, Folsom Street Fair attendee and vocal advocate of child penile rights, told the Examiner that his proposed ballot measure to ban the practice of circumcision in San Francisco is "on track"
SF News Bebe Bans Fur San Francisco clothing retailer bebe has decided to drop real fuzzy-wuzzy fur from all of their designs come January, according to bebe CEO Gregory Scott. The company -- which made a name for
