Huffington PostHong Kong, my favorite city, sends the opposite message. Its restaurants are run with precision, and it boasts some of the world’s best hotels. Surely any city that can look after visitors so superbly…
Your dog or pet is as much a part of your family as your children, or for some of you, your dog or pet is, for all practical purposes, your child. In fact, Pet ownership…
Poke restaurant beats culinary luminaries in Yelp listHonolulu Star-AdvertiserTwo Honolulu restaurants were in the top 20, including Sushi Izakaya Gaku at No. 11 and 18th-ranked Ono Seafood at 747 Kapahulu Ave. (not to be confused…
Zap2it.com (blog)Just before that season premiere, during Sunday’s (March 2) Oscars, O’Neill will be rooting for “Dallas Buyers Club,” in which he portrays a Food and Drug Administration official who opposes AIDS patient Ron Woodroof’s…
By [email protected] Just before that season premiere, during Sunday’s (March 2) Oscars, O’Neill will be rooting for “Dallas Buyers Club,” in which he portrays a Food and Drug Administration official who opposes AIDS patient Ron…
TIMEShare. Read Later. Send to Kindle. FASHION-ITALY-MOSCHINO. Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty Images. A model presents a creation for fashion house Moschino as part of the Milan’s Women’s fashion week Autumn/Winter 2014 collections on…
LondonistFood poverty is exacerbated in London, where a high cost of living and spiralling housing costs meet low wages and benefit caps. If anyone needs reminding why ‘all the poor people can’t just go and…
$15 minimum wage campaign targets Seattle fast-food chainsKOMO NewsSEATTLE – Protesters targeted 25 fast-food burger restaurants Thursday in their “boycott McPoverty” campaign for a $15 minimum wage in Seattle, urging customers not to patronize chains…
Oakland LocalOakland has been at the forefront of progressive food service since the Black Panthers started the Free Breakfast for Children program in 1969. That history is one reason the city was chosen to host…
On-Demand Food Startup SpoonRocket Brings Its $6 Meals To San FranciscoTechCrunchSpoonRocket, the Y Combinator-backed startup that hopes to provide healthy, fast, and cheap meals to hungry customers, is now available in San Francisco. Or at…
Science RecorderWatch nearly invincible crazy ant dominate fire ant by neutralizing its venom [VIDEO]. The researchers believe this newly found detoxification process is the result of an ancient evolutionary arms race between fire ants and…
The AlmagestIn a new study researchers have found the Rasberry crazy ants can also fight off its bitter rival, the fierce-stinging fire ants even though the poison of these are thrice more toxic than DDT….
News10.netRecently, the company held a social marketing effort that allowed customers to give each other digital coke bottles with words written on them, but it backfired a bit because the site would not allow users…
Food marketers offer super samples before Super BowlUSA TODAYNEW YORK – A bevy of big-name marketers are banking that the way to Super Bowl fans’ hearts — and wallets — is through their stomachs. Companies…
Bleacher ReportThe Seattle Seahawks will play host to the San Francisco 49ers in what has become the best rivalry in the NFL. After both teams battled it out and split their two matchups during the…
MarketWatch (blog)If you’re a stock-market bull, you may want to pull for the San Francisco 49ers. The Super Bowl Indicator holds that any NFC team winning the Super Bowl is bullish for stocks. It’s worked…
CBS LocalSAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Either San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee or Seattle Mayor Edward Murray will be shipping local food delicacies to the other after Sunday’s NFC Championship game between the 49ers and…
WZZMJuice Ball 2014 Comic–Con theme benefits Kids’ Food Basket and Kitchen Sage. 8:11 AM, Jan 10, 2014 | comments
Washington PostKAMPALA, Uganda — A spokesman for South Sudan’s military says fighting continues in the oil-producing Unity state despite ongoing efforts by regional leaders to get both sides to agree to an immediate cease-fire. Military…
USA TODAYThree final acts duked it out one last time Thursday night, vying to be named X Factor champ for Season 3 and to snag a $1 million recording contract with Sony Music Entertainment. Who…
Typhoon Haiyan has hit the Philippines so hard that the 500-mile-wide, 200 MPH winds storm has reportedly killed 10,000 people, and sent over 125,000 into shelters. The number of injured is not known, but has…
The press release below announces Taste of The NFL at Blackhawk Country Club, Danville, CA, Sunday. Sip, Taste and Tailgate Like a Pro An of afternoon of football and food & wine tastings on September…
Centerplate, one of the largest hospitality and concession companies in North America, and San Francisco’s Teamsters Local 853 recently announced the ratification of a collective bargaining agreement for 200 retail and food service employees working…
Paula Deen, who’s show Food Network announced it was dropping effective when it’s contract ran out next month in the wake of revelations that she used the N-word more than once with people who worked…
Paula Deen has been dropped by the Smithfield Foods organization out of Virginia, and just three days from Food Network’s decision not to renew Ms. Deen’s contract with the television organization when it expires. Here’s…
UPDATE: Paula Deen Dropped By Smithfield Foods Paula Deen Update One. In this Paula Deen Update, reporting on the latest since The Food Network dropped her for using the N-word in working with her employees,…
Paula Deen. When the Food Network celebrity chef thought it was no problem in making racist n-word fueled comments about every black person from kids to President Obama, she reportedly knew there was a risk,…
SF Carnival 2013. It was its usual mix of girls, food, fun, dancing, and something new: dudes videobombing. I was all set to talk about how long the SF Carnival 2013 Street Festival was when…
SWSX kicks off today, and runs between this Friday, March 8th, and March 17th, which just happens to be St. Patty’s Day. Thus, by that last day, there’s a good chance you’re going to be…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8POhMZnb6E Seriously, this man loved Dalya Food Products so much, he bust out in song at MacWorld. It was hilarious!
WOW! This is great news. If you recall from a past post, City Slicker Farms, one of Oakland’s great non-profits, is having a ground breaking of its planned and now underway West Oakland Urban Farm…
Super Bowl XLVII is just five days away. If you’re in either San Francisco or Oakland and looking for a Super Bowl Party to attend, visit the Lake Chalet in Oakland, or the Park Chalet…
Just got this email from Oakland’s City Slicker Farms: Groundbreaking Ceremony for Innovative West Oakland Urban Farm and Park 1.4 Acre Farm and Park Will Provide Food and Community Resources as Vacant Industrial Lot Is…
Dolphins are animals who mean no harm and just want food, like the rest of us. So, it should come as no surprise at all that a dolphin would go after the food in the…
Pop-Up Foot Trucks are all the rage today, and some are (perhaps stupidly) referring to them as very much like tech startups. (And really for racial reasons: if the folks starting the pop-up food trucks…
In this Oakland News, some new places to try, and other goings on about Oakland. District Oakland is a new bar and restaurant that is the sister of District San Francisco on Townsend, not far…
The San Francisco Herb & Natural Food Company, a firm that creates herb products, is embroiled in an unfortunate situation that’s caused it to recall its food products. On July 26th, a voluntary recall of…
What’s fun about the Game Developer Conference (GDC), just held in San Francisco and ending on Friday of last week, is the number of talented and experienced folks you meet at parties, via friends, or…
This past weekend just flew by! The amount of man power put into the Oscar’s just blew my mind but the man power I want to talk about is the media. My credentials only granted me…
A representative for something called Oakland Veg Week sent a rather detailed email about an event called, you guessed it, Oakland Veg Week, set for tax-day April 15th to April 21st. Check it out: Oakland,…
Cats are not like dogs, and when I first got Janelle I was so over protective. I went to all sorts of cat web sites and looked at all the human food that was dangerous…
It may seem simple, you go into PetCo and pick out some cat food that is reasonably priced, but for the longevity of your furry friend it’s important to read labels and find out which…
Oakland Food Truck Pods Coming to a Neighborhood Near You! After three years of sometimes contentious discussions, the Oakland City Council is poised to propose a pilot plan to allow Oakland’s numerous and varied food…
Concerned that fans and patrons think Andronico’s is totally out of business with the close of its Telegraph Avenue store in Berkeley, the food retailer’s went on a big push to let you know they’re…
Yesterday, a Facebook Friend (got to explore the definition of that) asked for the recipe for a great dish for Thanksgiving. The first idea to pop in this blogger’s head was the tried and true…
