Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the East Bay Express: Letters about the bloggers fighting in small claims court. A Berkeley activist opposed to B-Town Dollar Stores, moves, says it's reverse racism. A fun-loving amputees' group called
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 We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian. You know why? Because we were voted readers' favorite local blog!!!!!!!! Thank you thank you thank you thank you! We're pleased to be in such good company as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section (Abbreviated) Round Up Roasted Chioggia beets with nectarine juices & marjoram. We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here is our short and sweet favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Michael Bauer eats
Arts & Entertainment Propaganda III: an Anti-American 4th of July Review Zombie Time has a chortle-worthy review of the Propaganda III art show -- a not-so-mildly anti-capitalist (and surprisingly anti-Semitic) exhibit -- which was held at, where else? The always-chic Bambuddha Lounge! You know,
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next, oh.... the SF Weekly. Matt Smith finds out that Don Fisher got arrested for getting 15 year old girls drunk (when he was 19). The power of investigative journalism, folks! ....and HA!
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, let's say the San Jose Metro. Hillary Clinton is not doing very well fundraising in Silicon Valley. Eco-trendiness is getting kind of old. What exactly does it mean to be a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --The Yerba Buena Center is screening , a well-received documentary about a quadriplegic woman's pig rescue efforts and how she was let down by the worker's comp system. $8, 7:30 p.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Ouch! Tres Agaves appears to have slipped. Who wants "watery tequila jus flavored" chicken?
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up? Oh, let's say the SF Weekly. Everyone loves Eliza Strickland! Matt Smith is enjoying blogging, we think. Ticketing bikes who run stop signs. Cover article: Summer movies (including Frameline and Sicko)
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Since SFist Sarah L didn't get to the SJ Metro last week, we hit them next! There are too many pigeons in the South Bay, says Gary Singh. Moms other than Pat Tillman's
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For A Water Connoisseur We're always fascinated by people that really know a lot about a subject, even if it's not one we're usually interested in. Case in point: a few years ago, the wife dragged us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Science Catches Up To Common Sense: Sex, Wine, And Chocolate Are Good For You! Sex is good for you. So is wine. Oh, and chocolate. We think most of know this on an instinctual level, but it's nice when experts back these suspicions up. Of course, the
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies And next up, the SF Weekly. Know why? Because SFist was voted READERS' CHOICE BEST BLOG!!!!! Yay! We're so excited! Thank you, SF Weekly readers! There's no link for the Best-Of readers' choice
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Un-natural Food Additive Alert So, we ourselves are as naïve as anyone else on this topic, having not-too-long-ago extolled the virtues of dishes containing the latest faux-food villain at B Restaurant in Oakland... Guess what? Truffle oil
Arts & Entertainment Letters To (Another Pub's) Editor--Martinis At The Mark Five parts vodka, one part gin is a "San Francisco Martini?" And it may have originated at a San Francisco institution? While our personal martini recipe is different (all gin plus a misting
misc SFist Give-Away: 86 Recipe Cards The San Francisco world of restaurant gossip columnists went head over heels when Grace-Ann Walden retired from the Chronicle and the Inside Scoop column. She had all the info, friends in all dining
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies (A Little Late) Sorry for the delay in reading your alt-weeklies this week; there was a comical mixup in our attempts to implement the weekly switchoff between us and SFist Sarah L. We'll try again in
Arts & Entertainment Dinner First, and then TheaterFIRST in Old Oakland There's a little theater company doing some pretty big plays on 9th Street in downtown Oakland AND offering dining discounts at neighboring restaurants for ticket holders. Part philosophical exploration, part 11th-Century Middle Eastern
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Heart Heritage Pork You may not yet be familiar with the concept of "heritage" animals (a.k.a.: Why does my pork have a name?). Let us enlighten you: It's the same as "heirloom" but for
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: For Whom the Onion Rings* Indeed, a young lady was reading one night, and we had to admit: with its mostly white walls, blonde hardwood floor and table tops, Cha-Ya is a clean, well-lighted place. The high organically
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: How Greens Is Your Vino? The tasting took place in the awesome private dining room at Greens, in the corner of the Fort Mason building, with spectacular views through windows on the Bay from two sides. We'd be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Tomato Taste Test We used tomatoes from the Grand Lake Farmer's Market and stored them at room temperature overnight to keep their flavor at its peak. We sliced them just before the tasting, since the best
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog Goes to Ashland on the Elizabethan Stage A sort of poor man's As You Like It, Two Gents covers the same terrain as many of the Bard's comedies. A couple of young men travel from Verona
