In A Christmas Story, the class groans when Miss Shields announces they will be writing on a theme, but Ralphie’s imagination hits a fever pitch.  Amick Boone and Kevin Hobson understand that excitement, and just like Miss Shields, like to hand out themes regularly to an assortment of writers to

Pete’s is really one of my favourite kinds of restaurants.  One, because it old, worn and still run by a family.  Two, because they have delicious chickies.  I don’t mean girls in tight sweaters, but I’ve seen them there too. I don’t know why, but I lose all semblance of

In honour of their latest issue on what’s great outside the forty-nine square miles, 7X7 is hosting a little cocktail this Friday afternoon at Coda. San Franciscans love to pack up and go, and they’re hoping you’ll drop by and share your latest travelogue, pick up a some tips from

Entertaining out-of-town family and friends without annihilating their wallets is kind of tough in San Francisco, namely because everything everyone always wants to see is an overpriced tourist trap. The trick is to find something similar, that is usually a lot cooler and either cheaper or free. Screw the Napa

Though our much derided neighbour to the south proudly exclaims it from a mountainside for all to see, a schlep through the oxidizing shadows of the Dogpatch reminds us that San Francisco proper was once an industrial city itself. People go back and forth over the trajectory of the neighbourhood’s

Sip, shop and shuffle this evening at Market Street clotheshorse The Seventh Heart as that they are holding a pop-up sale/ welcome to town for OAK of New York City. Doesn’t say if they will be of the complimentary variety or not, but there will be spirits’and scenes, and looks,

Having spent some time in the Sunset of late, I found myself on Taraval completely famished and across the street from the Taqueria El Sol, which Christy had recently mentioned as a spot to find the elusive asada fries. I’m from Los Angeles, but I had never heard of this

Since the thirties there have only been a couple of alternatives when it came to dining with a view of Land’s End, without spending the pretty pennies it takes at the Cliff House. One is the VA Hospital Canteen, which, despite its cool name has a menu that is sub