SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Pollan Cares About the Farm Bill (And You Should Too) No longer a little-known piece of farm legislation that would dictate agriculture funding and policy while no one was paying attention. This year, food and farm advocates are pushing hard to publicize the
Arts & Entertainment The Complexity Of Kids' Music: We Talk To Juno Baby's Adam Adelman Last Wednesday, we told you our quick take on Juno Baby's line of educational entertainment products for kids (the long and short: cute, cool, and engaging). Adam Adleman, one of the founders of
Arts & Entertainment Trapped In The Closet Sing-Along We said it was awesome, didn't we? Yep, sing a long to all twelve chapters of Kelly's hipoperia-- all with the video itself playing in the background. But wait, there's more! The night
SF News Calif. Legislature Wants To Teach <i>Us</i> How To Save Bipartisan legislators introduced a bill in the California Senate Wednesday that would grant every child born within the state a $500 savings account, earmarked for higher education, a home downpayment, or retirement. The
SF News Happy Birfday, Alex Tourk If Alex Tourk had a MySpace page, he would have moved Gavin from the #1 spot on his Top 8 after he heard about the affair, and deleted Gavin as a friend. So
SF News Treasure Hunt: Claymate of the Month Tucked away in the Yerba Buena Gardens, the multimedia arts and technology museum with the sweet name of Zeum (pronounced "Zee-uhm") is a heaven of creativity and fun. Its digital studio, music production
SF News Cycling: The Prologue Sets the Stage Clip in sports fans, between the weather and the Amgen Tour of California (TOC), it's going to be a great weekend for cycling in the Bay Area. Whether you're tackling Mt.Tam on
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>The Substance Of Things Hoped For</i> We’re sure there are a lot of great films at Indiefest, but we screened one of the best on Wednesday night at the Roxie - The Substance of Things Hoped For. Daphne
SF News News About The Mayor Hey, does anyone know what the mayor of San Francisco's up to? --M&R report that Gavin has been attending rehab sessions every day this last week -- some as individual sessions
SF News Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute Complaints were made because the increased street cleaning would mean increased amounts of time people had to go out and move their cars. It might also affect business in the area as it
SF News SF Ballet Gala By The Numbers Hip, hip, HOORAY! Hip, hip, HOORAY! Catherine Bigelow, the Chron society columnist, is back from vacation, and here with a special report on Wednesday night's SF Ballet Opening Gala! Number of people pictured:
SF News Travelling Riverside Blues On Friday, a judge ruled against the union but said that the city could redact or black out personal information as they see fit. If this was the Bush administration, that would mean
SF News 14 Murders in 17 Days So what's the deal? On January 2, the city had just patted itself on the back for reducing the murder rate in 2006 by 11% over 2005. Well, in today's Examiner, local Republican
SF News Did You Feel That? At around 10:50 p.m. tonight, there was a second earthquake almost in the exact same spot on the Hayward Fault (3 miles ESE of Berkeley) and at almost the same intensity
misc SFist Answers: Mmmm, Yogurt There've been quite a few good Questions sent to us, and we're still working on them. That means you, Justin. Tune in Wednesday for your regularly scheduled SFist Answers. Keep your Questions coming
SF News The Warriors: On the Rebound Hey, here's a couple of news flashes for you: on Wednesday night the Warriors won, on the road, by holding a fourth-quarter lead. That's right, the team's road losing streak of eight games
SF News Treasure Hunt Asia Galleries 1534 Grant Ave., San Francisco CA. The store opens at 11AM Wednesday through Sunday and after that who knows... We can't stop going to this Asian antiques store at the foot
SF News It's As Cold As Ice We owe a lot of this from a cold front that came in from Alaska (never a phrase you like to hear) that seems to have sat itself down and decided to do
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. We feel especially in touch with our inner Cookie Monster after all that reading, and you'll see why. These are our favorite tidbits from
misc SFist Answers: We Can Do This Together So, hey; what would you have us answer? We are your grenadine-swilling Bay Area oracle of the internets, y'all. As all-encompassing as Dr. John York's ignorance... As omni-present as that one tie of
misc SFist Answers: Reaching Under The Desk And Hitting Restart So! Do you have some answer that has eluded you for an annoying amount of time? Do you feel that you need some sort of advice? Do you need help with something? Would
Arts & Entertainment A Mighty Shearer It's difficult to categorize Shearer's art because he's done radio (KRCW), TV (Jack Benny, SNL, Politically Incorrect, Ellen, Friends, Murphy Brown), movies (This is Spinal Tap, For Your Consideration, Abbott and Costello, A
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Chocolate Exhibit Opening Free Chocolate We got a wake up call at Wednesday night's Free Chocolate exhibit opening by artist April Banks. Her images detailed the politics of chocolate, from years spent researching cacao farms in
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Goes To The Movies: Hilary Hahn Plays Symphony Hall It was a night of romantic movie themes and orchestral folk music (and one modern piece described in the program as "an aircraft revving for takeoff"), with violinist Hilary Hahn the main star.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Section Round Up We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. These are our favorite tidbits from today's offerings: SF Chronicle Stanford alum and local food writer Janet Fletcher gives three quickie menus--that’s 90
