In junior high, a friend imparted some wisdom to me by way of his grandfather: "If something's free, take it." (His pops also advised, "If there's a chair, sit down," as well as a third axiom that has been lost to time.) Anyway, residents of San Francisco should be advised that Yahoo! will be giving out free pizzas on from 11 a.m. to midnight on Wednesday, October 26. Where? At North Beach Pizza. What's the deal? It's a stunt to promote the Web portal's "Best Of" campaign. Show up at North Beach Pizza at the designated time, and you'll get... More

Friend of Slice Cyrus Farivar responds to our last entry about Berkeley pizza hotspots: Ok, firstly, as far as East Bay rags go, the Berkeley Daily Planet is not exactly a gold standard. This is the same paper that in 2002, following a random possible hate crime against a rabbi and his son, ran the headline "The Jews Are Attacked Near Campus." (And yes, I'm biased, I was an editor at the Daily Californian.) The Telegraph joints (Blondie's, Fat Slice) are good given their proximity to campus, but not for much else. If you're near campus and you can't do... More

It's back-to-school time, which is welcome news to college-town pizza purveyors nationwide. The rumbling thunder of keg parties and the flash of rush-week hazing signal an end to the summerlong drought of business that typically plagues merchants used to the steady drizzle of crumpled student dollars. It also means that at least a few back-to-school pie guides appear on the horizon, breaking down the options for freshmen not yet wise to the ways the local slice winds blow. They are the Farmer's Almanacs of the college pie world. One such guide recently came to our attention. It was compiled for... More

Seems Slice is making a virtual road trip west. Here's yet more out-of-state New York–style-pizza news, this time from the Contra Costa Times out in Bay Area's Contra Costa County. Sierra Filucci, a correspondent for the paper, profiles Berkeley, California, newcomer Gioia Pizzeria, a shop she says blends the best of the New York School with West Coast sensibilities. On first read, we at Slice were like, "That's an oxymoron." I mean, do West Coasters have any sense when it comes to pizza? But it sounds like Berkeleyites are in good hands: Will Gioia, the proprietor, is Brooklyn-raised. Moreover, Filucci... More

Halloween night's Larry King Live featured an interview with Ted Rowlands of KTVU and Laura Ingle of KFI radio, who were in the courtroom for day three of alleged wife-and-baby-killer Scott Peterson's preliminary hearing. (Nancy Grace was guest host; Mr. King was out scaring trick-or-treators.) Grace: Well, let me ask Ted Rowlands a question, speaking of his urgency, his concern—yes, it may have wiped out his mind what he was fishing with, but am I correct? Was it in the testimony today, Ted Rowlands, that when he got home, saw his wife's vehicle, the pocketbook, the keys, the wallet, and... More