W.T.F. is Leopard Salmon?
By Chef John from Food Wishes Video Recipes
To celebrate the opening of Hockey season, I'm going Canadian on your collective asses. I’m doing wild salmon fillet (caught near Alaska, off the Canadian coast) broiled with a glaze of Canadian maple syrup (they sure love their maple trees up there) and Dijon mustard (okay, that's French, but Montreal is the Paris of North America after all). This is another one of those "not really enough ingredients to be called a recipe" recipe. But, it is very tasty, very easy, and perfect for those winter nights when you...Not like you need me to tell you this, but here goes: Don't eat frozen, generic pot pies. Not because they tend to taste like shit, not because they take absolutely forever to cook in the oven, but because they may have caused an outbreak of salmonella poisoning that has sickened more than 100 people in dozens of states.
Latchkey kids across the country, take heed: I know the whole "pie" thing makes it sound good, but do yourself a favor and stick with the microwavable burritos.
The Omaha-based food giant ConAgra, who makes the pies in question -- Banquet pot pies, as well as similar store-brand generics -- has stopped making the offending frozen food abominations (they say "voluntarily" like it's some generous offer). The company then swiftly issued a statement essentially blaming the public for not fully cooking the pot pies. Huh. Maybe if they didn't take a goddamned hour to bake it wouldn't be such a problem, no?
-- Brian Bernbaum
Sam Spade would be a happy man today. As the Chronicle reports, the Maltese Falcon has returned to John's Grill, again. After a replica of the bird was stolen from its longtime perch at the Ellis Street restaurant in February, and a $25,000 bounty failed to bring it back, restaurateur John Konstin enlisted some local Academy of Art students to produce yet another replica.
Inspired by the classic 1930 Dashiell Hammett crime novel, the famously pilfered bird sculpture has a long history of being stolen, replicated, and stolen again. In addition to the two replicas originating from John's Grill, there are at least five more replicas floating around -- including one gold replica estimated at $8 million, that's actually worth stealing. As Chronicle writer Steven Rubenstein notes, "Getting stolen is the only thing the Maltese Falcon is truly good at."
John's Grill owes its notoriety to a single line in the original novel, in which private eye Sam Spade (immortalized by Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 film) stopped into the joint for an order of chops, baked potato and sliced tomatoes -- known today as the Sam Spade Special, and for $28.95, you too can feast on a little bit of that classic San Francisco noir. Don't forget to say something really enigmatic while you're eating, like "All we've got is that maybe you love me and maybe I love you."
-- Brian Bernbaum
From the SF Weekly:
Rock flung himself across the country to be with his wife, Allyson Baker, guitarist for erstwhile Bay Area band Parchman Farm. "It was kind of a blessing in disguise," he says. "I probably needed to get out of New York, and didn't really realize it until I got out. When you're from New York, you feel like you're not allowed to live anywhere else."
Here's some of the new Ace Rock album
You know what the hood is missing? Mix-it-yourself cocktail combinations that'll get you fucked up, mad, and put the hurt on your dome. Good thing for us, Sergio Ornelas at Beer and Rap has already taste-tested these SF concoctions and came back with this Beer and Rap Taste Test rating SF's finest like the "Walk It Out" and the "A Bay Bay".
Here's what they had to say about the "Walk It Out":
The lowest rated drink was the Walk It Out coming in at a miserable 2.625. Unfortunately I don't have a picture of this one (kind of the downfall of having a taste test with tons of alcohol) but it was one can of Wild n' Out Energy Drink and two little bottles of 1800 Silver tequila. Seeing as how Wild N' Out is sponsored by MiLD 94.9 the Bay Area's rap station for people who don't like rap I had a good hunch that this shit was going to be garbage. As for comments on this oneLydia: "ok this tastes like gas, I can't even drink this. I'm guessing this is what Nick Cannon smells like"
Sean C: "Walk Away"
Cas: "Carburetor Juice, Just walk away son..."
Nick: "Drunkest taste"
Max: "Damn are you serious? Damn."
Thuggy: "Pink Assgasoline" "Doo Doo"
Conceit: "Smells worse than it tastes, Carbonation saved it"
Traci P: "Did the killer clowns drink this?"
Here's is handy map of two locations where you can buy these tasty beverages, made by the SF Weekly. If you know of any more, let us know and we'll update our Drank Map.
Not a huge personal fan, but certain friends of mine will be happy to know more tickets are available; if the roboscalpers don't get them all first!
Here's the latest:
Second Show Added By Popular Demand!Tickets on sale Monday at 10am!
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Thursday, October 25th at 8pm (JUST ADDED!)
Friday, October 26th at 8pm (SOLD OUT!)
ORACLE Arena in Oakland
Tickets for the newly announced October 25th performance are on sale MONDAY, October 15th at 10am at www.livenation.com, Ticketmaster outlets or charge by phone at 415-421-TIXS, 510-625-TIXS or 408-998-TIXS.
Tickets are $93.50 and $57.75 for reserved seating plus applicable charges.
What's worse for artists, corporate radio or corporate record labels? Radio is saying labels this week. See, the record labels want more dough from the broadcasting industry, but the broadcasters are bigger and meaner, and play dirtier. So when Congress asked them why they can't chip in more radio dough to artists, NAB simply said:
From the BetaNews:
"I would put that back as a responsibility of the record labels. Why have the record labels allowed that to happen with artists that have helped make them as successful as they are today? [Why is it] the responsibility of the broadcasters to cover, I would say in some cases, the misdeeds of the record labels?"
This kind of logic is backed by statements from the new owner of EMI, Britain's largest music group, From the Telegraph UK:
Guy Hands, the financier whose private equity group, Terra Firma, boughtEMI in August, told staff in a confidential e-mail last week that "The recorded music industry... has for too long been dependent on how many CDs can be sold," he wrote. "Rather than embracing digitalisation and the opportunities it brings for promotion of product and distribution through multiple channels, the industry has stuck its head
in the sand. ...
Hands is understood to have been surprised at the size of salaries paid
to second-tier executives. On Friday he warned that unless there was a major cultural change, more established bands could follow Radiohead's lead, choosing to cut the label out of the loop and distribute their music directly to consumers.
"Why should they subsidise their label's new talent roster – or for that matter their record company's excessive expenditures and advances?" asks Hands.
So, SF, who do you think is worse?
So it's Wednesday, October 10th, 2007, the day Radiohead said they'd email me 'In Rainbows' for the $10 I spent on it. (I didn't have to pay anything, but that's a different story). Yet, I've received no word from Radiohead, and as of 7 a.m. the album had yet to've appeared on some of my favorite p2p services. What the fuck, Radiohead! Downs mad! Downs want new mopey songs! Downs smash! Rwa! Rwa!
In othwe news, Radiohead so totally not first band to give away music for free.
--David Downs
By David Downs
UK producer James Lavelle says SF crowds should check out the UNKLE live show this month, because it's not like it was cheap to make. Lavelle hit the road for the first time ever this year, supporting 2007's War Stories off of Lavelle's new label, Surrender All.
The 34 year-old Brit says the three-month old live expedition, which swings through San Francisco October 27 at Mezzanine, will offer a full, yet costly display on-stage. A full band, plus DJ, lighting, and visuals gets crowds “Restless” for the aptly-named new tune (featuring Queens of the Stone Age's, Josh Homme), but live “Restless” is pricey.
“I'm paying for this by myself,” says Lavelle. “I'm way, way in debt on what ...
