DISCUSSION/THEATER: Before Michael Bennett and Bob Fosse rose to fame with shocking original choreography, directorial genius, and having a penchent for abusing dancers, we had Jerome Robbins. The mastermind of steps behind such famous works as Gypsy, West Side Story, and Fiddler on the Roof, just to name a few, will be discussed in length tonight at "Words on Dance Celebrates the Life and Career of Jerome Robbins." The panel discussion will be hosted......

Pro-life animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty is being accused of taking part in a break in of a UC Santa Cruz faculty member, whose research using animals "sheds light on the causes of breast cancer and neurological diseases," and attacking a man at the residence. According to Santa Cruz Sentinel: Santa Cruz police reported that six people wearing bandanas tried to break into a Westside home ["Westside rules!" -- SFist] just before......

West Side Story turned 50 last year, and Leonard Bernstein would have turned 90 next August. Classical music is giving Hallmark a run for its money as an anniversary-driven industry. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, an orchestra near and dear to Bernstein's heart for over 40 years, will play a tribute to him this Saturday, 2/9, at the SF Conservatory of Music (8 p.m., 50 Oak Street), which will include SFCM alumni conductor and Bernstein protegé,......

No, not Frank Chu -- although a Gav versus a crazy would be most fascinating, indeed -- Carmen Chu. Let's back up a bit here: In her first hickory-bold move since taking over for he who shall remain nameless, Chu decided to chip away at the homeless problem in the Sunset. Chu, according to the Examiner, "publicly demanded that several city departments come up with a specific plan to address her west side district’s homeless......

Kids, it's time to get rocking. (Especially before the "Private Party" dry spell that is coming on. Yikes.) This week, the San Francisco music gods are offering a vast array of newbies and veterans - something that we will graciously partake of any day of the week. Now that the bets are in (okay, so no one really cast any bets - how boring is that?), you can go to Cafe du Nord, tonight,......

We've always been warm for One Rincon Hill's late-modernist form. For some reason, though, we failed to realize this darling accent of omission, located at the tip on the building's west side, is intentional. What fun! See, we have been wondering just when they planned on sticking in the last panel at the top, because it's been like this for weeks. But after visiting their (annoying, Flash-based) site to see who we could call......

Week Around The -Ists...

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

East Bay Eater SFist Julie reports in from the other side of the MacArthur Maze! To tell you the truth, we were hesitant to share this restaurant review with you, because we were worried that you would swarm our favorite neighborhood breakfast place and extend our wait for corned beef hash, but now, with the collapse of the 80/580 interchange, we have nothing to worry about. So here goes... There are many good and great......

Funny, the SF-based Tanners never had these issues in Full House -- the Chronicle ran an interesting set of articles yesterday detailing the problems that San Francisco-based families face when trying to stay in the city. The articles profiled a couple who live on Guerrero Street and their two kids (5 and 1) -- on the one hand, an affordable area because of the high-density housing and street traffic, but on the other, not the......

here's a little theater company doing some pretty big plays 9th Street in downtown Oakland, AND offering dinner discounts at neighboring restaurants to ticket holders....

As expected, the beating up of members of the Bakers Dozen acapella group is now a full blown story with all the breathless reporting and graphics that comes with it. It's even gone national with Drudge reporting that the singers were beaten up "after singing the Star Spangled Banner" as if we here in San Francisco are so anti-American that we'll beat anyone up who sings the National Anthem. ...

Hey, we're back from vacation! And we just missed the 5-foot sinkhole that opened up on California Street between 6th and 7th Avenues for New Year's Eve. Does anyone have pictures? In our second item of news on the city's west side, CHP and the SFPD shut down the Golden Gate Bridge to pedestrians to thwart Code Pink's peace march across the span, to commemorate the 3000th U.S. casualty in Iraq. Code Pink didn't have......

This week we go a little mental....

ax2 + bx + c = Wednesday. Tonight: You're staying home tonight and playing SFist Eve's drinking game for her appearance on SF/Unscripted at 7:30 on Comcast Channel 11, right? Right? Of course you are! Thursday: A twofer! Hey you guuuuuuys -- Rita Moreno's at the Berkeley Rep in the Glass Menagerie -- and tonight, after the performance, she's hosting night/OUT, an event for East Bay LBGT theater fans. The party's free with a ticket......

Don't worry, San Francisco: As we check out the great theater through the tunnel or across the bridge, we'll always leave our heart with you. ...

...even though you probably have, already. Last week the SF Weekly amused and engaged us for the second week in a row. Will they make this week number three? Let's find out. What do you know? Treasure Island real estate intrigue is cover worthy (we want that button)! Matt Smith is starting to rival Phil Matier as our favorite local reporter (somebody give Matt a regular TV segment, please!) with his piece on our......

Our friends and family tried to tell us, but we had to find out for ourselves anyway: July in an ivy-covered Northeastern college town is no place for a California boy. We mention this because that's where we were four summers ago, huddling by the air conditioner in a townie bar to escape the heat that had been trying to braise us, watching the A's play Cleveland on ESPN, when we discovered the best.......

Special "workers of the world unite" edition. Tonight at the Last Day Saloon features MC Art Link-Letterz, Lowfat and award-winning vocalist Tony Lindsay. Show starts at 9:30, and the Last Day Saloon is at 5th and Clement -- west side represent! For other weekend music pics (and a chance to win to next Friday's Cake show) check out When The Lights Go Down In The City. Tomorrow, our friends at Southern Exposure will be......

SFist is going to take a stand and say that Lucca Foods makes the best sandwiches on the West Side. We're not going to say that theirs are the best in the whole city, because we feel that title belongs to San Jose Avenue's Roxie Food Center, but Lucca brings you the best sandwiches our side of the avenues. We started eating at Lucca during a particularly dark time in our lives. It was......

A feature in which SFist brings attention to restaurants in the oft-overlooked Richmond and Sunset districts. We hope you're inspired to try new some new places, and we'd love to hear recommendations of Westside joints you'd like to see reviewed, so please send your thoughts our way, or leave them in the comments....

A feature in which SFist brings attention to restaurants in the oft-overlooked Richmond and Sunset districts. We hope you're inspired to try new some new places, and we'd love to hear recommendations of Westside joints you'd like to see reviewed, so please send your thoughts our way, or leave them in the comments. Out in the Sunset, you can't swing a cat without hitting a pretty decent Thai restaurant. We're reminded of the line......

SFist has decided to take Dr. Phil's advice and to go out on "dates" with our long-standing sweetheart. Living in the Outer Sunset as we do, our desire to keep the relationship alive is tempered by a desire not to go to far from home. And thus a new, intermittent SFist feature is born, in which we review restaurants in the oft-overlooked Richmond and Sunset. We hope your inspired to try new some new......

Well we knew San Francisco was a happy place for both organic produce and poets. Better to be a starving artist picking up the leftovers at Boulevard than at TGIMcAppleruckers. What we lacked in the quantity of entries was more than made up for in their quality (certainly better than ours). It was really a very, very close vote, but unfortunately we can only send the prize of two boxes of organic fruits and......

The newly single, and recently more vocal, Gavin Newsom can have his pick of the staff to bring as a date to someone's first anniversary party. Congratulations to all the happy couples who got hitched last year in San Francisco -- especially friends of SFist Ed and Norm up in Silverton, Washington. You guys are such a cute couple. Sorry about the damn state Supreme Court. Such a busy week. Of course we've been......

Our advertiser, Westside Organics, who's handsome delivery van zooms in and out of that advertising banner up there, has given us a couple of boxes of fresh, organic produce to give away to you! Since last time we did this, Niall K. had won within thirty minutes of the post going up (but thanks again to everyone who entered), we're going to shake things up this time. So we're asking our readers to write......

[Ed. Note: This is maybe too personal, but anyone looking for a room in a share, east Mission?] Oh man, it's already started to look like some kind of boozed-up, stuffed to the gills, Xanax and Percocet inducing kind of holiday season -- and we love it! Nothing like depressants in pill form and drinking on an empty stomach to ward off that ten pound weight gain. Contact your doctor. On the other hand, however......

Congratulations to our Westside Organics contest winner Niall K., who managed to score himself three deliveries of fresh produce by getting back to us within, oh, thirty minutes or so of the post going up. We should have made the questions harder! Live and learn. Thanks to everyone who entered -- we're sure you'll get some free stuff from us eventually. In the Guardian, Dan Leone thanks everyone for their support through his recent troubles......

[Ed. Note: If the site of cartoon-illustrated pubic hair offends you, go get a therapist. If the sight of the mayor and his wife's cartoon-illustrated pubic hair offends you, just take another Xanax with your Martini like we did.] The good people at Mesh, who share our obsession with a certain photograph, will be kicking out the jams tomorrow with a fete featuring Willpower of Imperial Teen, Madelia, The Mall and DJ Vin Solo at......

SFist is proud to welcome our first local advertiser, Westside Organics! You may have noticed their handsome banner up there. We gave them a break on price because, well, we need the money to buy t-shirts for the contributors - as lame a thanks as that is for all our hard work. They were nice enough to throw in three deliveries of standard fruit and veggie boxes as a thank you. Not that we......