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  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    Maialino to Start Serving Breakfast Tomorrow

    Beginning tomorrow, Maialino will be getting an earlier start on the day. Danny Meyer's Roman-style trattoria will have a breakfast soft opening tomorrow, and then officially commence service on Monday. Brunch will follow on Dec. 26.

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Big Day for Gay Marriage from Jersey to D.C. to San Francisco

    ​It's a big day for gay marriage across the nation. In San Francisco, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled that a potential legal revolution to overturn Prop 8 will not be televised live, though it will be YouTubed. The judge will preside over the federal trial, Perry v. Schwarze ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    No TV For Prop 8 Trial in San Francisco -- US Supreme Court

    ​The US Supreme Court has pulled the plug on broadcasting the historic Prop 8 federal trial, beginning today in San Francisco. Last week, Judge Vaughn Walker made the decision to allow delayed televised coverage of the trial. Video coverage was to be available regularly on YouTube, though Wal ... More >>

  • Film

    January 12, 2010

    Building a Better New York Jewish Film Festival

    The year's NYJFF pushes the familiar aside

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    The James Beard Awards Semi-Finalists Have Been Announced

    Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?​The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Chatting With Beth Ann Simpkins About Pulino's Pizza, Bi-Coastal Pizza Obsession, and Her 100 Percent Carbohydrate Diet

    Beth Ann Simpkins (left) and Ruth Kaplan are at the helm of Pulino's pizza program.​When Pulino's opens next Monday, it will doubtless draw a stampede of pizza obsessives intent on making their own pronouncements on the pies that emerge from the restaurant's vast ovens. But while plenty of peo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    A Photo Tour of Williamsburg's New Blue Bottle Coffee -- But What Is Missing?

    ​"Jeez! This place is gigantic," a friend exclaimed as we stepped inside Blue Bottle. (Click on the pictures for a better view.) It being one of the nicest days of the century, a friend and I decided to go to Williamsburg to check out Blue Bottle Coffee, Oakland, CA's contribution to the New ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 24, 2010

    'Under the Covers'

    ​"Jeez! This place is gigantic," a friend exclaimed as we stepped inside Blue Bottle. (Click on the pictures for a better view.) It being one of the nicest days of the century, a friend and I decided to go to Williamsburg to check out Blue Bottle Coffee, Oakland, CA's contribution to the New ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 24, 2010

    'Galaxie Presents Honey Soundsystem'

    ​"Jeez! This place is gigantic," a friend exclaimed as we stepped inside Blue Bottle. (Click on the pictures for a better view.) It being one of the nicest days of the century, a friend and I decided to go to Williamsburg to check out Blue Bottle Coffee, Oakland, CA's contribution to the New ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    Colicchio, Boulud, White, Humm Big Winners in Last Night's Beard Awards

    ​Pomp, circumstance, product placement, and varying levels of inebriation all converged at Avery Fisher Hall last night for the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards. Many white men were awarded large gold pendants that dangled from green sashes. It was a particularly good night for New York, wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    And Now Your Human Hair Will Be Used to Soak Up That Oil Slick

    ​It's not (quite) as scary as it sounds: Human -- and pet -- hair is being collected around the country to make homemade brooms, mats, and barriers that will go to help protect Louisiana's coastline from that nasty oil slick in the Gulf. This genius and, yes, amazingly gross plan was initiated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    The Most Exciting Moment of TechCrunch Disrupt Thus Far: Michael Arrington Told to "Fuckoff"

    ​Do you know what a TechCrunch is? No? Well then: it's a site run by a guy out of San Fransisco for San Fransisco tech geeks, and unless you work for FourSquare or you're a venture capitalist with a few hundred thousand to peel off, don't worry too much about it. All you need to know is that T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Eddie Huang Will Get His Chairman Bao Smackdown

    BaohausBang, pow, bao.​After his unhappy discovery last month that a new San Francisco food truck had appropriated the name of his signature Chairman Bao pork bun, Eddie Huang may get his change at revenge, of a sort. The Baohaus proprietor e-mailed us to say that a San Francisco chef has offe ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 13, 2010

    Thee Oh Sees+Golden Triangle

    BaohausBang, pow, bao.​After his unhappy discovery last month that a new San Francisco food truck had appropriated the name of his signature Chairman Bao pork bun, Eddie Huang may get his change at revenge, of a sort. The Baohaus proprietor e-mailed us to say that a San Francisco chef has offe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Good Food Awards: Enter Your Pickle Today

    FlickrWin a trip to this slope-y, geologically suspect metropolis.​ Hoarding your artisanal pickles for yourselves and your friends? Have a killer bit of handcrafted charcuterie you've been waiting to unveil to the world? Well, today's your day: The San Francisco Chronicle announces the first ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Jack Daniels the Cat Abducted in San Francisco, Found in Harlem

    via San Francisco Chronicle​Awwww. Today in cat news: Jack Daniels, a nearly blind black cat, was somehow stolen from the San Francisco SPCA a year ago, and was found in Harlem last week. No one knows how exactly he got there or why -- catnapping! -- but after being discovered by animal contro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    To Truly Go Green, Eat Bugs; Should GM Fish Be Labeled?

    ​Phil Ross, a San Francisco-based chef and artist, hosted an insect-based meal at Brooklyn Kitchen this past weekend, as a means to promote a tasty, sustainable diet of animals you can raise yourself at home. [NY Times] Less than a month after Eataly was unleashed on New Yorkers, a roundup of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    Le Fooding Draws Le Criticism

    Le bam. Le pow.​It has now been more than 48 hours since the second coming of Le Fooding, which took over the grounds of P.S.1 on Friday and Saturday nights. Although this year's theme was a staged battle between New York and San Francisco chefs supposedly driven to blind, combative rage by a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    YouTube Treasure: Patty McCormack and I Lit Up San Francisco

    ​Back in 1999, I was sent to San Francisco to interview Patty McCormack onstage at the Castro Theater, which was filled with gays and straights and drag queens and all sorts of people, there to worship the nasty girl from The Bad Seed all grown up. Here's a newly posted clip of the preparatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Bourbon Coffee Coming to West 14th Street

    ​ New York is about to receive yet another caffeine infusion, but this time, its origins are a bit more far-flung than San Francisco or Portland.

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    LuckyRice to Return to New York, Expand Beyond

    L.A. and San Francisco about to get lucky, too.​LuckyRice, the Asian food festival that debuted in New York this year, has plans to return next year and will also expand to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Per Crain's, the five-day Asian food fest will run from May 4 to 8, 2011.

  • Film

    January 5, 2011

    Americatown: Where National Monuments Go to Mingle

    L.A. and San Francisco about to get lucky, too.​LuckyRice, the Asian food festival that debuted in New York this year, has plans to return next year and will also expand to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Per Crain's, the five-day Asian food fest will run from May 4 to 8, 2011.

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    The Cockettes Conquer New York

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 25, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 47 History of a hype: Worm in Big Apple By Maureen Orth New York is dead, everyone complained. The last thing to hit town was "Jesus Christ Superstar," and it was so unbelievably crass. The major art op ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    National Chinese Restaurant Awards Ceremony Slights New York

    ​This obscure restaurant near the corner of 16th Street and Seventh Avenue -- which advertises a combination of Sichuan and Vietnamese food -- was declared one of the best Chinese restaurants in the country in the inscrutable "Top Chefs & Owners" category. This past Sunday, correspondent Bil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    SF's Atelier Crenn To Have Peacock on the Menu; FITR Offers Recipe

    animalpicturegallery.netBeautiful, but dumb.​ Atelier Crenn opens today in San Francisco, the new project from former Luce chef Dominique Crenn located in the Marina. The place will exhibit the usual farm-to-market ethos, but kicked up a notch. The chef has forged an alliance with Scrivner Hop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    New Yorker Who Invented the Fern Bar Dies

    S.F. ChronicleNorman Jay Hobday, fern bar creator​Norman Jay Hobday, the man credited with inventing the leafy breed of swinging singles bar called the "fern bar," died last week at the age of 77 in San Francisco. Originally from upstate New York, Hobday ended up in San Francisco after the Kor ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 2, 2011

    Ty Segall

    S.F. ChronicleNorman Jay Hobday, fern bar creator​Norman Jay Hobday, the man credited with inventing the leafy breed of swinging singles bar called the "fern bar," died last week at the age of 77 in San Francisco. Originally from upstate New York, Hobday ended up in San Francisco after the Kor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Guy Fieri's Lamborghini Swiped in Daring S.F. Burglary

    get1car.com​It was like a scene from Mission Impossible IV: In the early morning hours, a thief descended by rope into a luxury car dealership on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco and stole the pride of Guy Fieri's 10-car collection - a fever-yellow Lamborghini valued in excess of $200,000.

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    San Franciscan Visits New York, Isn't Impressed

    ​Although last year's Le Fooding proved that in a San Francisco-New York smack down, almost everyone lost, at least one man has done his bit to incite a new skirmish in the non-existent battle.

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    Man 'Engulfed in Flames' at San Francisco Porn Shop

    ​Uh, yikes. A man was "mysteriously engulfed in flames" at a porn shop (or, "adult bookstore") on Sixth and Mission Streets in San Francisco and has been hospitalized with third-degree burns that are said to be life-threatening. It's unclear how the man caught on fire, but police said he'd bee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Veggie Mag Uses Meaty Models; Daniel Boulud Plans Montreal Resto

    ​A food blog has introduced a food-cart walking tour, charging $40 to take participants to some of the city's most talked-about mobile vendors. [NY Post] Underground food markets are cropping up around the country, allowing vendors to avoid hefty fees for health permits and insurance. [NY Tim ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 13, 2011

    REVVED UP

    Go nuts for MGM Grand

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Is Porn Better With a Plot Or Not?

    ​There are two kinds of porn lovers--avid ones and liars. And there are two kinds of porn movies--ones with elaborate plots and tons of dialogue and ones where they just open the door and get it on. I picked up a bunch of both types at the birthday party for Gawker's Brian Moylan the other n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Rogue McDonald's at St. Marks and Third Avenue Scores a DOH 'B'

    ​San Francisco street mural, artist unknown The popular Mickey D's just east of Cooper Square has been flaunting a new DOH inspection sign - and it looks like they made it themselves.

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    VillageVines Finally Gets a Food-Related Name, Now Called Savored

    Savored​VillageVines, the online restaurant discount site that sounds vaguely like the bottle of $3 Chardonnay found in the back of grandma's cupboard, has undergone a makeover and now finally has a name that sounds like it's at least related to food. It'll now be called Savored. And with a ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 22, 2011

    900 Degrees' Pie in the Sky

    A one-stop pizza place in the West Village tries to give you everything

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Kiddie Meals Become Less Kid-Friendly at Jack in the Box

    You might be smiling, but the kids sure won't be.​Kids are out of luck at the mostly West Coast burger chain Jack in the Box -- they'll no longer be receiving a free toy along with their children's meal, following new laws in San Francisco and Santa Clara County that require such meals to meet ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 29, 2011

    'Afrolicious: Pleasuremaker+Señor Oz'

    You might be smiling, but the kids sure won't be.​Kids are out of luck at the mostly West Coast burger chain Jack in the Box -- they'll no longer be receiving a free toy along with their children's meal, following new laws in San Francisco and Santa Clara County that require such meals to meet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    10 Reasons Why Same-Sex Couples Want to Wed on the Very First Day

    Forget the fear of laws changing - people lined up to see him the first day he came out! So why not their spouse?​Some people have asked us: If same-sex marriage is here to stay, just why exactly do couples have to get married the first day, anyway? Isn't it a waste of money for the cash-strap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    San Francisco Hosts the First Pug/Human Pop-Up

    ​Does your dog look like this? San Francisco's got us beat when it comes weird food events, at least at this point in time. Fork in the Road's Bay Area correspondent Tracy Van Dyk spotted this poster, which advertises a dinner under the stars for humans and pugs, who always look hungry with ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 24, 2011

    WEEKEND WARRIORS

    Working hard and playing harder

  • Voice Choices

    September 7, 2011

    LOVERS' LANE

    Go cruising with Hunx and His Punx

  • Voice Choices

    August 31, 2011

    Patrick Wolf

    Go cruising with Hunx and His Punx

  • Voice Choices

    September 14, 2011

    LUST FOR LIFE

    Three chances to see Girls

  • Voice Choices

    October 26, 2011

    'Que Bajo'

    Three chances to see Girls

  • Voice Choices

    November 9, 2011

    'Reconstryct' w/ Lost+Commodo+Joe Nice

    Three chances to see Girls

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Christmas Songs With Dirty Lyrics!

    The Kinsey Sicks is the San Francisco-based drag troupe that specializes in spoofy tunes that add twisty, sometimes unclean thoughts to your most beloved traditional works of music. In this lively clip, "America's favorite dragapella beautyshop quartet" zigzags through a bunch of Christmas stand ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    AP: Ex-Health Inspectors Nabbed on Bribery Charges in SF

    ​Two former San Francisco health inspectors have been accused of swapping cash in exchange for okaying hundreds of restaurants' food safety qualifications, the Associated Press reports. The ex-inspectors are said to have sold up to 350 health certificates since 2007, charging several hundre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    Medieval Times: In Case You Ever Wondered What Medieval Food Looked LIke

    ​Tomato bisque, the first course. Hey, are we in a Burger King? Why are those people wearing paper crowns? It's been a decade since I went to Medieval Times with Michael Musto and Lynn Yaeger. I wrote a feature, but it was killed. Now some friends (including FiTR San Francisco correspondent ... More >>

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