• Five people were shot last night outside the bar El Tin Tan (3065 16th Street) in the Mission. One person was critically injured. [CBS]
• Last night’s food-tastic episode of Bethenny Ever After found everyone’s favorite skinny girl roaming the Grub Street Food Festival in NYC with self-declared “incredibly nerdy” food blogger Nicholas Freitel… [Grub Street NY]
• Martha Stewart bemoans the “crazy weather” at her farm, Cantitoe Corners in Bedford, NY, but begins, “Let me preface this by expressing my deepest concern for the horrors happening in Japan.” [MarthaBlog]
• Ruth Reichl says, in the face of such disasters, you should, “eat a good breakfast. Be grateful for what you’ve got. Enjoy the sunshine while you’ve got it. Then go out and save the world.” [Ruth Reichl] ALSO, Ruth will be speaking at Stanford on March 29. [FoodGal]
• In Japan, “grocery store shelves have been stripped bare, as wary residents brace for the threat of a nuclear disaster at quake-damaged power plants to the north.” [St. Catharines Standard]
• A fraternity hazing ritual sent a University of Virginia student to the hospital when he had to eat “dog food, matzo balls, gefilte fish, and soy sauce.” We feel ill just reading about that. [Fox News]
• Movie theaters are seeking exemption from calorie-labeling laws for chain restaurants. Nice try, guys … [NACS]
• High-school heroes: Two 15-year-old girls got Kellogg’s to pledge that it will try to limit deforestation caused by the palm oil it uses in products like Frosted Flakes and Girl Scout Cookies. [Grist]
