Arts & Entertainment Teen Vogue: The San Francisco Treat, Part 2 The May issue of Teen Vogue features a positively lovely editorial starring our fair city. And by lovely, we mean Olsen-inspired. More photos after the jump! Image replaced to avoid hotlinking. Photo of
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Royals 2 A's 1- So who is this Jack Cust and where the hell did he come from? He's from New Jersey and was drafted in '97 by the Dbacks. He then went
SF News A Day to Reclaim the Streets from the Tyranny of Pedestrians As Metblogs helpfully reminds us, today's Drive Your Bike to Work Day, a time to air out the pedals and carry our bikes out blinking into the light of day. Roof-racks ahoy! If
Arts & Entertainment We Will Soon 'Be Free To Move About The Country': Southwest Airlines Coming Back Continuing a string of semi-interesting news regarding lower-cost airlines, Southwest has announced that it's starting service directly to and from SFO on August 26. During a media conference at SFO last week, Gavin
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>La Vie En Rose</i> And The Closing Night Party And on to Mezzanine Thursday night for the SFIFF closing night party -- with a surprise performer . . . . but before the final sendoff, we headed over to the Castro Theater for what turned out
misc Teachers In E. Palo Alto School Dist. Going To Be Slightly Less Underpaid Ahh, teaching. That difficult, underpaid profession. We're totally behind those who are bringing future generations up to speed with the world being better compensated. Unfortunately, the salary typically given to this profession is
SF News Sure to be a Very Pleasant Conversation (if you Leave Your Torches and Pitchfoks at Home) Well is going to be awkward: a public town-hall meeting with Muni Director Nat Ford. It's this Wednesday, May 16, at noon; at the Ferry Building in the Port Conference Room on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Brief Moment Of Personal, Soup-Related Victory It's the little things that get you through the day sometimes. After about two years of subscribing to the daily menu email of the ever-more-pricey San Francisco Soup Company, we finally won ourselves
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Congorama</i> It's easy to make a heroic character lovable and the bad guy despicable, but it's much more of an accomplishment to turn a fallible, sweaty, chubby guy with real flaws, including a seriously
SF News Speaker Pelosi on Gas Prices: Talking the Talk (Speaking the Speak?) Nancy Pelosi is sticking up for her constituents, amidst all the recent news that San Francisco has the highest gas prices in the nation. She says that she's trying to make July 4th
SF News Rescue Geary As always, the project's being held up by a one or two critics who insist that nobody wants to move any faster on Geary than they already do, and that people who ride
Arts & Entertainment More Than Gizzards And Brains: Incanto's Got Grape Alder at Vinography is in the process of reviewing every darned wine bar in town -- 14 of the 26 have been reviewed so far. What surprised us a little -- we hadn't
SF News Your Commute: Lower Level Go It's the A-Race-Ing Maze! (and not related, but SFist Rain, how awesome that the finale of Amazing Race All-Stars was in SF?) As promised, Caltrans's work around the clock paid off handsomely, with
SF News Microsoft? Deal Or No Deal? As of yesterday, people were abuzz that Microsoft had reopened merger talks with Yahoo over the past few months in the wake of the Google-DoubleClick purchase and the news that Google is now
Arts & Entertainment Conan the Triumphant Conan O'Brien's week in San Francisco came to a close today with his final taping at the Orpheum Theater, and the line to get in reached from the front of the theater, all
SF News Students Struck by SUV It's not quite clear what caused all this, but one of the eyewitnesses said it looked like the driver was asleep.
SF News Your Commute: Oy Vey Part Deux So those stories out there saying the commute this morning wasn't so bad didn’t quite tell the whole story . Turns out there were some problem spots out there, just not throughout the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>A Few Days Later...</i> Okay, we're not going to lie. When we read the description of the Iranian movie in the SF Int'l Film Fest guide as "a gorgeous minimalist portrait of a woman crushed by indecision,
SF News The Warriors: Just Livin' the Dream Warrior Nation, can it get any better? Seriously. After Golden State's tenacious, gutty, and spirited come-from-behind 103-99 victory over the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night in the O-rena, the Warriors have taken a 3-1
Arts & Entertainment CounterPULSE Second Anniversary Show! We knew very little about the art space & resource center, CounterPULSE, before attending their Second Anniversary Show on Sunday night (yes, we mistakenly kept calling it "Compulse"). This is their second year
Arts & Entertainment Sloan's Patrick Pentland Best show you've played and what made it great?: Osaka, Japan, 1998. Playing our first show, so far from home, not knowing what to expect, and having the crowd go from sitting politely
SF News Of Course We Were There It is not often that an event we attend simply blows away its billing. Friday night, however, we managed to procure tickets to the single greatest game in the last 13 years of
SF News Now You Too Can Be Environmentally Conscious While Waiting Forever For a Cab The company was founded by eight cab drivers who wanted to help save the environment by reducing carbon emissions. So they bought a Prius, painted it green, and started up a company. Right
SF News The Warriors: Meltdown to a Reality Check That huge farting noise you heard last night wasn't Mark Cuban sitting on a whoopee cushion, it was the sound of the air going out of the Warriors playoff fantasy balloon. In a
SF News It's In the Hole Yesterday, a hearing was held about this very issue in front of the Board of Supes budget committee. The problem is that the courses are in the hole for about $1.4 million
