Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

City of small eats: We like Gene Miguel. So much we asked the Hoodscope blogger and Examiner Cheap Eats guy to do some posts for us. Miguel has a keen eye for the unspectacularly arresting, like these spicy fries from Java restaurant (or the prosthetic-size burrito he blogged for SFoodie). Not crazy-ass good, probably, nothing that'd ever rate Bauer notice. Just stuff that reveals the texture of life in the city.

Pry the fruit tree from our cold, dead hands: Bogus -- Noe Valley, SF says someone stole lemon trees right out their pots from a home on 29th Street. Maybe the thief was merely interested in a bit of urban homesteading, the kind Chron's Jane Tunks writes about today? Time to get out the shotgun. Just like homesteaders of yore.