SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Thomas Keller Kicks Alice Waters's Michelin Ass!* Every food critic is shocked, shocked!, to discover that a bunch of out-of-town restaurant reviewers disagree with their own taste. The Chron's Michael Bauer does not understand why the Michelin did not reprint
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: The Doña Tomàs Cookbook. We tried three, and we can safely say that Thomas Schnetz and Dona Savitsky's batting average with the clumsy home cook is a respectable .667. We had a decent success with the budín
SF News Don't Answer The Phone, Don't Open The Door Friday's incident at the Cloyne Court co-op involved a recent graduate from the stats department, who was found unresponsive in the dorm room of a friend he was visiting. An autopsy is scheduled
SF News East Bay Blotter It is now illegal in the state of California to steal free newspapers, as reported in the Berkeley Daily Planet, itself, familiar with the issue. Berkeley Mayor, Tom Bates, was happy that the
SF News Going, Going, Sold! Long-standing live music venue, The Ivy Room, in Albany is also closing "as we know it." The current ownership relinquishes the premises in two weeks. Kimberly Chun and the Guardian have the details,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Bay Area Tour at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Sorry, this isn't the same production of Mother Courage starring Meryl Streep, which recently closed in New York. Nor is it Tony Kushner's translation of the great Brecht play,
Arts & Entertainment F*** That Bridge: East Bay Events Over Labor Day Weekend As we mentioned here before, the Bay Bridge eastbound will be closed Labor Day weekend. For those of us who live East of the Edenic S.F., here are some cultural offerings on
SF News East Bay News First, the quick and dirty: the Oakland Tribune reports: one dead, two injured, 3 alarm fire at a 6 story residential hotel in downtown Oakland early Friday morning . In the Berkeley Daily Planet,
Arts & Entertainment Caila Thompson-Hannant of Shapes and Sizes World events got you down? Sometimes wonder if American citizenship is worth all the grief? If you’re considering marrying a Canadian to escape it all, we’ve got one more reason to
SF News Talking Trash In other garbage news, the City of Oakland is complaining about the trash accumulating in the DIY Bordertown Skatepark, built by skateboarders and legitimized by CalTrans last year. Bordertown is now faced with
SF News Everybody Loves Livermore? Money Magazine has published its annual list of "Best places to live" in these here United States, with the highest ranking Bay Area city coming at number 31. While we've never visited the
Arts & Entertainment But Does BAGel Radio Like Jelly? So, get this: Ted, and his partner, Misty, went to the Flaming Lips show in Berkeley last Saturday, and got invited to dance on stage the entire show. Even better, they were to
SF News Cody's Books, 1956-2006 Happy 50th birthday, Cody's Books, and rest in peace, Cody's Telegraph Street -- the most iconic branch of the Cody's Books triumverate is closing for good tonight at 8 p.m. Folks are
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Peaches Christ But when we got a release on This Year's Midnight Mass Film Series (which runs at midnights every Friday and Saturday from tonight until mid-August, see the complete schedule here), we knew we
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Victor Navasky's <i>A Matter of Opinion</i>! Times have changed -- now, we're far more likely to try to pass off the thoughts of Lisa Schwarzbaum as our own, but that doesn't mean our fondness for Navasky has decreased even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Tries the Shangri-La Diet It's not what you think, the food is quite good. Inka must serve domestic sodas, but there you can try some Inka Cola, the Peruvian equivalent of Coca-Cola. If you were a sommelier
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Reads Hungry Planet They visit a struggling Sicilian family, who, when they do the accounting for the picture with a week's worth of food, is shocked to discover they spend more than $2,000 on cigarettes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Phoenix Ashes This is a tragedy, of course: the pasta store will move to a new location, at the corner of Strawberry Creek Park in Berkeley, but without the space for the restaurant, and with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Sorrel The tapered point of a bright green sorrel leaf stands out at the market, but that leaf's tartnessfrom high levels of oxalic acidstands out on the plate. Take a bite of
Arts & Entertainment City CarShare's Old Enough to Start Kindergarten Happy birthday to you! City CarShare (it's basically a membership-based car rental program with extra perks) turns five this year, and they're throwing a party and giving out awards. Nancy Pelosi will be
SF News Cody's No More Was it something we said? First there was the dispiriting news about Clean Well-Lighted's sale, and now the Chron reports that the flagship Cody's Books on Telegraph is closing, after 43 years. NO!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Goat Cheese Of course, we weren't alone in those dark, pre-goat cheese days. Thirty years ago, few Americans knew anything about this French staple. A woman named Laura Chenel went to France to learn to
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela</i> Faithful readers, you've probably noticed that this SFist watches the same types of movies over and over again: So we figured we'd mix it up a little bit and go watch something a
Arts & Entertainment Last Chance To Win Passes to SFist Night at Impact Theatre! There's less than one day left to enter to win passes to SFist night at Impact Theatre! We're taking over all of La Val's Subterranean (1834 Euclid in Berkeley) on Thursday, April 20
