more ›

The new Michelin was stingy with stars for San Francisco: no 3 stars restaurants (the only one in the wider bay area being the French Laundry in Napa), two 2 stars (Aqua and Michael Mina), and a 12 one stars (Fleur de Lys, La Folie, the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton, Rubicon, Bushi-Tei, Quince, Range, Acquerello, Masa's, Gary Danko, Boulevard, Fifth Floor). Alice Waters got only one tiny puny star for her Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Spanked! more ›

Torontoist visits the site of a new Frank Gehry structure, stalks "the elusive Bahamas streetcar", and watches Tom Green get surgery. more ›

Sunday kicked off the 10th annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival featuring over 170 music acts, most of them local but some of them national (Vincent Gallo) and international (Ane Brun). The MCMAF offers a fantastic opportunity to get out into your neighborhood bars and clubs and see some bands on the rise. You can also get an earful of the uniquely adventurous and creative music coming out of the bay area. The film offerings range from panel discussions to music video screenings, including a premiere of the newest video for The Strokes, so be sure to check out the film schedule. more ›

We initially passed this press release from the Author's Guild along to Gothamist Jen so that she could get the scoop on Gawker and FishbowlNY. Why? Because it looks like the Author's Guild along with the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981, have come through with an $18 million dollar settlement for copyright infringement by companies like Time, Inc., The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal for republishing freelancer's content online without their permission. more ›

[] more ›

But SFist's loss is, we suppose, Gothamist's gain. Not that they'll pay any attention to her what with their big celebrities and troll-like billionaire Mayor Bloomberg. They won't make her feel at home or give her treats or follow her every move with intense scrutiny and maybe-verging-on-mean snark. No, they'll just ignore her like every other starry-eyed ingenue who goes to the big city to seek fame and fortune. more ›

It's that time of year again -- time to buy breathmints and hide the carton of cigarettes that you drunkenly told your significant other that you would stop smoking as of New Years Day. It's also time to nominate your favorite weblogs for the fifth-annual Bloggies, which are like the Oscars, except with many, many fewer free giveaways to the voters. Gothamist Jen points out that there are a scant five days left to get your nominations in. more ›

So many people to thank! If we forget you, rest assured that a warm, fuzzy thanks is in our hearts. First, we'd like to thank our contributors, without whom this site would be just another anonymous pet blog project, devoid of people in bunny suits and Chris Daly anecdotes. We'd like to thank Gothamist Jake and Gothamist Jen for wasting their ivy league educations on publishing and editing pointless rehashes of stories in the local press. We're thankful that Steve Jobs got his job back at Apple so that he could make the computers that work good, look good. We'd like to thank Dewey Nicks of Harper's Bazaar for coming up with the bestest idea ever, shooting Da Mayor and his wife embracing suggestively on the Getty's rug. We'd like to thank the Essefficist for possibly being an even crankier question and answer columnist than Dan Savage. We'd like to thank turkeys for being both stupid and delicious. Of course our thanks go out to Almighty God for selecting George W. Bush to lead us through these troubled times. On that note, we'd also like to thank whoever invented the Martini. Oh yeah, and you, our devoted readers - thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Now go buy a t-shirt, damnit! more ›