Hannah Tepper

Summer fairs and festivals

Get ready for the solstice with our guide to summertime fun

05.17.11 - 7:00 pm | Hannah Tepper |

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ONGOING

Young At Art Festival de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, SF. (415) 695-2441, www.youngatartsf.com. Through May 22, free. The creative achievements of our city's youth are celebrated in this eight day event curated and hosted by the de Young Museum.Read more »

No animals were harmed in the making of this sandwich

05.05.11 - 9:19 am | Hannah Tepper |

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Last week long-time SF vegan restaurant and gathering place, Café Gratitude reopened after a short closure due to remodeling, unveiling not only their spruced-up interior but a new menu that includes old favorites as well as some new creations.

Included in the new menu is a vegan BLT sandwich. Sounded great, so I promptly traipsed down last weekend. Of course on the restaurant's New-Age, posi-vibes menu this BLT is called “I Am Extraordinary,” with sautéed maple bacon, romaine, tomato, spicy aioli, and avocado on an organic wheat bun. Read more »

Food and Drink

Superlist 2011: Bottomless mimosas

City-wide guide to the best sparkling orange deals

05.03.11 - 4:42 pm | Hannah Tepper |

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DRINKS In the murky depths of our foggy past (the '80s!), the Guardian regularly featured Superlists — as-close-as-it-gets-to-comprehensive guides to a small facet of our beloved city. We were feeling a little dry and reporter-y on a recent Sunday, so we're bringing the tradition back with bottomless mimosas.Read more »

FEAST: 9 meat-free marvels

Vegetarian sandwiches take over the world

04.26.11 - 6:10 pm | Hannah Tepper |

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The sandwich, like the wheel, is an timeless invention that keeps us rolling. But if you be a vegetable lover, or just someone who fantasizes about two pieces of bread cradling things other than animal carcass, you must plan ahead — or risk finding yourself stuck with a woefully dull cheese and lettuce number. Lucky for us, here in the Bay we celebrate all sandwich orientations — some with brassy beets, others laced with sweet and spicy barbeque sauce, all ample reasons to raise our veggie flags high as we chow down.

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FEAST: 7 brunch cocktails

Why be sober when you can sparkle?

04.26.11 - 5:50 pm | Hannah Tepper |

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The Urban Eating League's food activists with flair

04.22.11 - 1:43 pm | Hannah Tepper |

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Last Sunday I wore a slip, faked pregnancy, drenched myself in beer, and ate five brunches in four hours. Sure, behavior that doesn't raise an eyebrow on those of us who have seen the dark side of a bottomless mimosa, but this time my bedlam brunch behavior was part of a carefully devised social eating event focused on community building and celebrating local food. Improbable, no? May I present to you: The Urban Eating League.

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Green today, gone tomorrow

Hayes Valley farm faces the reality of interim use

04.19.11 - 5:55 pm | Hannah Tepper |

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URBAN FARMING Green thumbs may soon be mourning the partial removal of Hayes Valley Farm. The urban agriculture education project is facing the prospect of condos being built on one of its two sections of city-issued property by Bay Area development company Build Inc., as early as February 2012. The company has been slated to build on the property since before the farm project began in January 2010, but was delayed by the recession of 2008 and its wet-blanket effects on new construction projects.Read more »

Heady

From restorative yoga to dream astrology, classes to expand your mind

04.12.11 - 4:41 pm | Hannah Tepper |

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CAREERS AND ED "Just to let you know, this class is different than other yoga classes," warns the receptionist at the San Francisco Integral Yoga Institute. It's Monday night and I've just shown up at the institute to try my first restorative yoga class. "You roll around on pillows ..." he continues.Read more »