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Gay Sex and the City Coming To HBO

They're developing a pilot for an as-yet-untitled series about three 30-something gay friends navigating life and love in San Francisco.

Cupcakes With Chronic Diseases

Don't touch them! They're undoubtedly contagious. Over the last couple of years, FiTR has gone from being neutral on the subject of cupcakes -- from tolerating them, only wishing we had an entire piece of cake instead -- to downright hating the tiny near-cylinders of dried-out cake surmounted by b ... More >>

7-Eleven Has Mashed Potato Vending Machine--In Singapore. When Do We Get Ours?

Put in your dollar, and you're good to go. You may have noticed we haven't heard much from Fork in the Road San Francisco correspondent Tracy Van Dyk lately. That's because she's driving from San Francisco to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina with a companion known only as "A". But she paused a moment s ... More >>

3 Good Things: Lazy Canning, Food on a Stick, Sculpture

[See More 3 Good Things: Cookbooks, Music, Leftovers | Cannabis in the Kitchen | Anisette, Blueberries, Tumblr] 1 San Francisco-based illustrator Kate Pocrass, champion of the mundane and the average, offers us some cute illustrations of various foods on sticks, including grilled corn, paletas, and ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: Usher, Grass Widow, Kool Keith

This week in the Village Voice, now available in a red box near you: I review the seventh album by Usher, the surprisingly minimalist (and unsurprisingly enjoyable Looking 4 Myself; Jessica Hopper chats with the San Francisco band Grass Widow about their move toward the light on their new album; and ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Ban Doesn't Hurt Disabled, Court Says

More weed news from the West Coast: A federal court in California just ruled 2-1 that cities can ban medical marijuana dispensaries -- and that doing so doesn't violate the Americans With Disabilities Act. As detailed by the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco's Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appea ... More >>

Black Coffee Roasting Company Beans Arrive at Murray's

Certified organic, with the roasting date inked in by hand. Now that's artisanal! If you're a coffee fanatic, it calls for a little celebration every time a new coffee roaster hits town. In the last couple of years, we've seen the arrival of Stumptown (Portland), Intelligentsia (Chicago), and Blue ... More >>

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 Tracy V ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

'Reconstryct' w/ Lost+Commodo+Joe Nice

'Que Bajo'

LUST FOR LIFE

Three chances to see Girls

LOVERS' LANE

Go cruising with Hunx and His Punx

Patrick Wolf

WEEKEND WARRIORS

Working hard and playing harder

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 >>

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 >>

'Afrolicious: Pleasuremaker+Señor Oz'

900 Degrees' Pie in the Sky

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

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

REVVED UP

Go nuts for MGM Grand

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.

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.

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 >>

Ty Segall

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Americatown: Where National Monuments Go to Mingle

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.

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Thee Oh Sees+Golden Triangle

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

'Under the Covers'

'Galaxie Presents Honey Soundsystem'