What’s wrong with ‘Man v. Food’? What isn’t?

Lying around in full couch tuber regalia, following the heartbreakingly tantalizing 49er game, I had the misfortune to channel-surf through the treacherous waters of Monday Night Television, only to find my mental Minnow festooned around the awful coral head of Adam Richman’s Man v. Food. As if driving past an overturned car in a highway […]

Fresh: Beta

Lisa Hemenway's new store isn't quite ready for prime-time, but gives locals a sneak peek

Dude, Get Your Car Off My Farm

Walking by a cracked and decrepit freeway on-ramp - reclaimed from the morning commute and relegated to the urban wasteland by the Loma Prieta earthquake - two San Franciscans, thinking more like old-school farmers than new-age city dwellers, look at the cracked blacktop bleeding with weeds and saw, incredibly, an orchard. And the topsoil, so manifestly absent in the windswept concrete col, in which these imagined trees would sink their roots?

Santi | Santa Rosa

Relocated Italian eatery has made Santa Rosa it's home