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SFGate: Food & Dining
    SIX OF A KIND: Bay Area Classics / Perennial Favorites
    by mbauer@sfchronicle.com (Michael Bauer)
    [5 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    We're lucky to live in an area so rich in restaurants that not only break new ground but also respect tradition. Some of our most popular establishments have roots that go back more than a century. Dozens of places have informed the Bay Area dining scene for...


    Smart Italian dishes at Acquacotta in Alameda
    by mmorgan@sfchronicle.com (Miriam Morgan)
    [3 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    Like many chefs, John Couacaud always dreamed of owning his own place, even when he was a teenager starting out in the business, and even as his career took him to various Bay Area kitchens, including three years at Oliveto in Oakland, three years at Prima in...


    Dining Out: A new take on Thai in Berkeley
    by food@sfchronicle.com (Carol Ness)
    [30 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    The white tablecloths are gone. The back wall has been moved back and a sleek blond-wood booth now occupies one corner, giving the dining room a less cramped feel. The west Berkeley space that housed Vanni's Thai restaurant until it closed in 2006 is now the...


    The Inside Scoop: New chefs at Circolo, Postrio; more Copia changes
    by food@sfchronicle.com ()
    [30 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    With the change in seasons has come the changing of the guard at some notable Bay Area restaurants. Garrett Martindale, who brought solid footing to the food at the Carnelian Room and was doing the same at Neiman-Marcus' Rotunda until he left in March, is now...


    Dining Update: Brunch is the way to go at Saint Michael's Alley
    by Amanda Gold
    [30 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    Getting into Saint Michael's Alley for brunch can feel like getting caught in a traffic jam at rush hour. The restaurant holds only about 44, and there isn't much room on the sidewalk for lingering. It's one of the reasons owners Michael Sabina and Jennifer...


    Food Conscious: Bringing sea change to menus
    by food@sfchronicle.com (Carolyn Jung)
    [30 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    Glance at the menu of Tataki Sushi & Sake Bar in San Francisco, and you'll notice some glaring omissions. Notably missing from this tiny, 7-month-old establishment are such traditional staples as bluefin toro, hamachi, unagi, octopus and ever-popular spider...


    Prime picnic weather inspires outdoor spread
    by food@sfchronicle.com (Casey Ellis)
    [30 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    October in the Bay Area brings some of the most picnic-perfect, festival-friendly weather of the year, so I like to seize these days before winter rains make outdoor eating only a memory. This weekend's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park...


    Eloise brings New York tastes to West County
    by mbauer@sfchronicle.com (Michael Bauer)
    [19 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    It's just another day in the fickle restaurant world: West County Grill closes with great fanfare at about the same time that Restaurant Eloise quietly opens. Both have similar sensibilities but are on opposite sides of Sebastopol, a town that's been hard on...


    About our reviews
    [11 Jul 2007 at 2:00am]
    - Dining Out reviews appear in the Wednesday Food section and the Sunday Chronicle Magazine. These are the restaurant's first review, and are based on at least three visits to the restaurant. We wait until the restaurant has been open at least a month...



SFGate: Entertainment
    HOROSCOPE
    by Christopher Renstrom
    [7 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    ARIES (March 20-April 18): You face a moral dilemma and don’t know what to do. Seek out that older sibling or relative whom you know will ask all the tough questions. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): Don’t pursue your point because the weird thing is you’re right—...


    Wipeout HD breaks from racing game pack
    by ewong@sfchronicle.com (Erick Wong)
    [7 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Wipeout HD: Racing Game. Developer: Studio Liverpool. Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. $19.99 for PS3 (download only). ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+. Until recently, you could make a strong case for Wipeout XL on the...


    New DVD releases
    [7 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    Feature: "The Happening" (2008), "Kill Switch" (2008), "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" (2008) Documentary: "Apocalypse Africa: Made in America" (2008), "Electile Dysfunction" (2004), "Indyfans and the Quest for Fortune and Glory" (2008), "Slacker Uprising" (...


    Strong slate of French films in S.F. for festival
    by mlasalle@sfchronicle.com (Mick LaSalle)
    [7 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    There was a time when it was possible to say that San Francisco and the Bay Area regularly got to see the cream of the European cinematic crop. We didn't get everything, but we got every European film worth seeing. That hasn't been true for a long time. Even...


    Grand Ole Opry sets stage for debates
    by John Gerome
    [7 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    CBS News' Bob Schieffer said moderating the debate between John McCain and Barack Obama won't be nearly as unnerving as his Grand Ole Opry debut was Sunday. "I was nervous coming between Trisha Yearwood and Brad Paisley. I may be moderating the third...


    Fiction review: 'What Makes a Child Lucky'
    by Clea Simon
    [7 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    What Makes a Child Lucky By Gioia Timpanelli Norton; 127 pages; $19.95 Like a pot of lentils, Gioia Timpanelli's stories are elemental, simple but filling, and her new novel, "What Makes a Child Lucky," is no exception, teaching the basics of survival in a...


    Sunday (Saturday, too) in the park with Warren
    by lgarchik@sfchronicle.com (Leah Garchik)
    [7 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    Joel Selvin did the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass heavy lifting - the highlights, the numbers of fans, the generosity of Warren Hellman, who made it all possible - so happily, the pleasure was all mine. The mister and I got to sit in the grass and soak it all up,...


    During the much-anticipated (and, I'm guessing, soon forgotten) debate betwee...
    by jcarroll@sfchronicle.com (Jon Carroll)
    [7 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    During the much-anticipated (and, I'm guessing, soon forgotten) debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin last week, there was a small kerfuffle after Palin accused Biden of saying that raising taxes is patriotic. Turned out that what Biden really said was...


    'Atlas of the Real World' puts us in our place
    by jking@sfchronicle.com (John King)
    [7 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    In our age of Mapquest and Google Earth and Global Positioning Systems, printed maps can seem downright quaint. They're filled with information you don't need at the moment. They offer detail and context when all you're looking for is the most direct line...


    Q&A with author of 'The Forever War'
    by mstannard@sfchronicle.com (Matthew B. Stannard)
    [7 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    New York Times reporter Dexter Filkins is considered by many to be the nation's premiere war correspondent. His new book, "The Forever War" (Alfred A. Knopf, $25), recounts his experiences covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the terrorist attacks in...


    Insiders' views of China's art
    by kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker)
    [7 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    Uli Sigg, businessman and former Swiss ambassador to China, has assembled the world's largest collection of contemporary art made in China. "Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art From the Sigg Collection" fills the entire Berkeley Art Museum, yet comprises only a...



SFGate: Art
    King Tut to make triumphal return to S.F.
    by swinn@sfchronicle.com (Steven Winn)
    [6 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    Thirty years to the month after King Tut first took San Francisco by storm, antiquity's most famous monarch will attempt to reprise the feat. The San Francisco Fine Arts Museums are announcing today that the touring exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of...


    TASK party: Art happening
    by rharmanci@sfchronicle.com (Reyhan Harmanci)
    [2 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    The success of Oliver Herring's TASK events and parties - gatherings where strangers create and perform specific creative tasks - is, he says, due to its simplicity. "The goal of TASK is to create platforms and outlets to let a diverse group of people express...


    Kevin Chen's job: to make sure show goes on
    by eguthmann@sfchronicle.com (Edward Guthmann)
    [2 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    In his undergraduate days at Columbia University, Kevin Chen studied under Robert Thurman, the West's pre-eminent scholar on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Chen didn't follow Eastern spirituality as a career path but applied that mind-set to his work as an art and...


    Noe Valley comes alive in new murals
    by jgreen@sfchronicle.com (Josh Green)
    [2 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    Muralist Mona Caron unveiled her latest contribution to San Francisco's mural art world on Sept. 27, celebrating the completion of two 65-foot-long murals at the site of the Noe Valley Farmers' Market. The diptych covers walls on the east and west sides of...


    Exhibition documents documentarian Meiselas
    by Ann Levin
    [1 Oct 2008 at 2:00am]
    In a culture that seemingly suffers from attention deficit disorder, photographer Susan Meiselas stands out for her insistent desire to go back and revisit the people and places she has shot. Meiselas, 60, is best known for the work she did documenting the...


    Illusion 7: Artists in white, guests in black
    by rharmanci@sfchronicle.com (Reyhan Harmanci)
    [25 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    For the seventh and final Illusion art and performance event, the format remains basically unchanged: The walls of Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts will be covered in white paper for the artists to do live drawing along with dance and musical...


    A look back at Frank Lobdell's 'Dance' series
    by kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker)
    [20 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    To the list of the creative life's underestimated risks add the fact that an artist never knows when his work may peak or how long he can sustain it there. This fateful truth lends a wistful undertone to the otherwise thrilling and soulful show of Frank...


    Joel Meyerowitz dives into the elements
    by jhamlin@sfchronicle.com (Jesse Hamlin)
    [20 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    Last year, photographer Joel Meyerowitz was making a video of Olympic divers as they sailed through the air and plunged into the pool. But as he watched from an underground viewing room, he became more intrigued by the clouds of bubbles that formed in the...


    LeWitt panels painted over at SFMOMA
    by swhiting@sfchronicle.com (Sam Whiting)
    [19 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    It is a tough concept to grasp - that a painting is still a painting even at the moment it is being painted over. But there it was, Wednesday morning, a set of two-story wall drawings by Sol LeWitt being primed in white and rolled over with heavy gray. There...


    Sydney G. Walton Square sculpture stroll
    by 96Hours@sfchronicle.com (Gail Todd)
    [18 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    San Francisco is an outdoor sculpture garden, a museum in the streets. Here are a few of the many downtown sculptures to enjoy while eating a brown bag lunch and getting some fresh air. Sydney G. Walton Square: Start at this urban oasis, about a block west of...


    'Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5 Edition'
    by 96Hours@sfchronicle.com (Mary Eisenhart)
    [18 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    Bay Area Filipina American artist Jenifer Wofford got the idea for the Galleon Trade series of exhibitions two years ago when, as a graduate student at UC Berkeley, she received a grant to go to the Philippines and study Manila's burgeoning art scene. The...


    Sometimes artwork is all about the framing
    by kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker)
    [13 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    The contemporary painter who wants her work to look tuned in but not derivative, worldly but not ironic, may have to work between styles, as Londoner Katy Moran does. Anthony Meier gives the Bay Area its first look at Moran's art, which has garnered...


    Hertz to head Yerba Buena Center's visual arts
    by kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker)
    [12 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has appointed Betti-Sue Hertz director of visual arts programming. She begins working full time in December but is already consulting with staff members on the near-term exhibition calendar. Hertz, 55, comes to YBCA after eight...


    Koons opens 'playful' Versailles show
    [12 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    Versailles, the most gilded and over-the-top of French royal palaces, has let contemporary American artist Jeff Koons install his eye-popping giant balloon animals and other zany sculptures alongside masterpieces by Veronese and Bernini. The show, which runs...


    Avedon's power player portraits on display
    [12 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    Barack Obama has a wall of his own, staring directly at the man known as President Bush's brain, Karl Rove, who looks back with a smirk. In the new exhibition "Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power" opening Saturday at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, just steps...


    'Garry Winogrand: The Sixties': Fraenkel show
    by 96Hours@sfchronicle.com (Mary Eisenhart)
    [11 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    Photographer Garry Winogrand was known to shoot an entire roll of film in the course of walking a city block and left thousands of undeveloped rolls when he died in 1984. Like contemporaries Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander, he seized upon the advent of faster...


    Walker's abstractions illustrate complexity
    by kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker)
    [6 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    In a culture seething with moving images, painting that asks us to take it seriously must acknowledge its own inertia. New York painter and former Bay Area resident Sarah Walker understands this, to judge by her involving new work at Gregory Lind Gallery....


    Underground art galleries serve a special niche
    by rharmanci@sfchronicle.com (Reyhan Harmanci)
    [4 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
    Across the Bay Area, hidden in nooks and crannies, is a whole constellation of guerrilla galleries. Some exist only for a night; others stick around for years. In addition to warehouse live-work art venues, such as the Mission District's Million Fishes and...


    Art review: 'Spared From the Storm'
    by kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker)
    [14 Aug 2008 at 2:00am]
    Visitors to "Spared From the Storm: Masterworks From the New Orleans Museum of Art" at Stanford may leave with mixed feelings of relief and anger: relief and gladness that the museum's staff secured the preservation of so many wonderful art objects during...


    Review: Diebenkorn show traces long friendship
    by kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker)
    [25 Jul 2008 at 2:00am]
    The intimate but intense presentation of Richard Diebenkorn's work that charts friendship between the artist and Carey Stanton at Stanford's Cantor Center closes a circle. Diebenkorn (1922-1993), a painter who helped to define Bay Area sensibility before and...


    Bay Area's best new art, now / YBCA overview offers snapshot of everything fr...
    by kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker)
    [23 Jul 2008 at 2:00am]
    Few can resist the prospect, realistic or not, of an overview of the local cultural landscape. This guarantees "Bay Area Now 5" at Yerba Buena Center a high level of audience interest. The fifth edition of the YBCA's triennial snapshot of regional art...



SFGate: Culture Blog!
    Tube Tops
    by rain.jokinen@gmail.com (Rain Jokinen)
    [5 Oct 2008 at 11:00am]
    Sunday October 5th The CW is doing some weird stuff with its Sunday night line-up, essentially outsourcing the whole thing to a company called Media Rights Capital , who is taking on the...


    Crucial RV Park Advice from Beth and Ben
    by spotsblog@hotmail.com (Beth Spotswood)
    [1 Oct 2008 at 2:00pm]
    Ripped from the pages of Dear Abby, my beloved Ben (friends since 1988!) and I respond to the trials and tribulations of the "regular" folks. Enjoy! DEAR Beth and Ben: My husband and I are in...


    Rocchi's Retro Rental: The Unspoken Hunger
    by jamesrocchi@gmail.com (James Rocchi)
    [30 Sep 2008 at 2:00pm]
    Near Dark (1987) Between HBO's True Blood and the upcoming film adaptation of Stephenie Meyers' hotly-read teen novel Twilight , it looks like we're going to be up to our -- and I only...


    Crime Doesn't Pay. It Just Pisses People Off
    by spotsblog@hotmail.com (Beth Spotswood)
    [24 Sep 2008 at 3:00pm]
    My neighborhood, and most likely yours as well, should you live anywhere within the city and county of San Francisco, is basically a lawless, war-torn wasteland. I'm just waiting to emerge from my...


    Rocchi's Retro Rental: "Failure is Not an Option!"
    by jamesrocchi@gmail.com (James Rocchi)
    [23 Sep 2008 at 2:00pm]
    Apollo 13 (1995) Back in the U.S.A. for a week after 16 days in Canada, I'm still feeling a little behind, a touch out of it, a bit confused. Part of that is just the sheer exhaustion of covering...


    So what? I Stole a Centerpiece
    by spotsblog@hotmail.com (Beth Spotswood)
    [17 Sep 2008 at 3:00pm]
    Two of my best friends in the whole wide world got married this weekend! Yep. Brian married Brian. And it's about time. I'm sick of them living in sin. I'd been waiting for this weekend for...


    San Francisco City Hall: The Movie
    by spotsblog@hotmail.com (Beth Spotswood)
    [10 Sep 2008 at 2:00pm]
    Anticipation is building for Gus Van Santʼs bio-pic Milk and quite frankly, I could not be more excited. While discussing our mutual enthusiasm in seeing our fair city on the silver screen, my...
















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