Issue July 2013

Recipes

Barbecue time

By Bill Knutson

About two years ago, I had to give up my grill. The apartment building I live in started enforcing a California fire code that bans grills with a propane tank larger than one pound... Read More
New & Notable

Union Street French market Chez Berlue introduces new monthly wine club

By Julie Mitchell

San Francisco is the perfect place to be a foodie. And while there are abundant local offerings from farms, bakeries, artisan shops, and wineries, the City is also a place to explo... Read More
Dishing

Dishing with Kelsey Nixon

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

How did you go from “final four” and “fan favorite” on The Next Food Network Star (Season 4) to your own show? I have no idea! I think it was a lot of hard ... Read More
Sports Corner

Interview with Hugh Delehanty, co-author of ‘Eleven Rings’

By Steve Hermanos

The hottest sports book of 2013 is Eleven Rings. It is co-written by ex-Bulls and ex-Lakers coach Phil Jackson, and Hugh Delehanty, a former editor for Sports Illustrated and Peopl... Read More
Business

My surveillance problem and yours

By John Zipperer

Bay Area tech companies found themselves in some unfamiliar, muddied waters when it was reported in a British newspaper that a massive U.S. government spy program was collecting da... Read More
The Wild Wild Web

Are the rich kids of Instagram the supermodels of today?

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

As the 1990s unfolded, fashion designers began dumping supermodels as their human clothes hangers in favor of movie starlets, and the public, as it always does, got bored and moved on to the next big thing — a revolutionary concept called The Internet.... Read More
Scenes

Colors of the season

Gay Pride festival rainbow display at Ambiance on Union Street (photo: Ambiance) ... Read More
North Beach Journal

Comic oddments and oddities

By Ernest Beyl

The death of Jonathan Winters a while back sent me slipping into a reverie of memories of when there were comic giants walking the streets of North Beach. Winters was such a giant.... Read More
On and Off Chestnut

Summertime blues and shuffle

By Jim Maxwell

Certainly some of that June gloom will linger over the Marina for a while with the loss of The Grove — a small, independent, locally owned business that was truly a unique and be... Read More
A & E

Images of the North

This exciting sculpture is by Joe Nasogaluak, an Inuit artist from Tuktoyaktuk, in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Carved out of Brazilian soapstone and standing 23 inches in he... Read More
Police Blotter

Crime on the beat

By From the officers of Northern Station

The crimes below are a small snapshot of what the officers of Northern Station are doing. For a more comprehensive list, visit www.sf-police.org; under Compstat, there is a link to... Read More
Supervisor's Report

Francisco Reservoir: A once in a lifetime opportunity

By Supervisor Mark E. Farrell

We are fortunate to live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. According to the latest census, more than 800,000 San Franciscans now call this seven-x-seven square-mile... Read More
News Briefs

Di Suvero’s Unloved Sculpture

It appears many people are not enamored with Mark di Suvero’s massive steel structures dotting Crissy Field, which were recently installed by SFMOMA as a cooperative venture ... Read More
News Briefs

Shocked’s Return Cancelled

Singer Michelle Shocked, whose anti-gay rant at Yoshi’s (1330 Fillmore Street) in March ended with the staff turning off her microphone and announcing she would never perform... Read More
News Briefs

Congestion Pricing Possibility Returns

Stockholm has it; London has it; Milan has it; even Singapore has it. It’s congestion pricing, the charging of fees for driving in crowded districts, and it is once again bei... Read More

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