Arts & Entertainment Who Wants To Be A Non-Local Superhero? So the premise of is that Stan Lee, of Spider-Man and Fantastic Four and X-Men fame, is picking the best action hero character, and the winner gets a comic book issue dedicated to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Movies at Dolores Park Behind us was Film Geek guy who spent the entire night dazzling his fawning girlfriend with his amazing ability to discover plot holes. In front of us was some woman who just couldn't
Arts & Entertainment Om's Al Cisneros When was your best show ever? The last time we played NY which was a couple of months ago. It felt to us that people were finally seeing this (Om) as its own
SF News Still Going for the Gold If you're waiting with baited breath to see if we become an Olympic city, don't. The USOC will decide first whether to even put together a bid in the fall (they're not sure
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Let’s Get This Picnic Started Insider Tips: steer clear of melty items like chocolate, candy, and frosted cakes. Don’t bug out, either; store food in airtight containers to avoid ants taking over. Seeing ants swarm all over
SF News Keep Smiling, Keep Shining Well, that wasn't what we were hoping for. Yes, the Giants did indeed lose their first game of the big road trip, 8-6 to the Washington Nationals. We haven't seen a road trip
SF News Thanks For Stuffing The Ballot Boxes For Us! Thanks for reading us, everyone, and thanks for voting for us too. We're thrilled to be in such august company as Taqueria Cancun and Green Apple Books (and Baker Beach, which has a
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog Goes to Ashland on the Elizabethan Stage A sort of poor man's As You Like It, Two Gents covers the same terrain as many of the Bard's comedies. A couple of young men travel from Verona
SF News Speed King So what are we to do about it? Well, there's creating more bus-only lines but that'll piss off businesses who are concerned about the loss of potential car-driving customers. See the fracas about
SF News Zero Days Since Our Last Accident Anyways, these thoughts occur to us in the wake of the reports that four construction workers working on a 55-story condo at One Rincon Hill (sketch of the building at left) were injured
SF News Yeah, It's Always Sunny in San Francisco-- What Of It? This morning while drinking our coffee and surfing the Web, we went to Deadspin and saw this little blurb about Giants' fans treatment of Phillies pitcher Brett Myers. Myers was cited for taking
SF News Mountain Bike Racing and the Upside of Global Warming The best professional road cyclists in the world are competing for the maillot jeune on the rolling plains and brutal mountain passes of Europe right now, but this weekend, we've got our own
SF News Delays In Service It's not often that we have sympathy for agencies' delayed-service problems, but allow us to go all BART apologist Linton Johnson and/or SFPD apologist Neville Gittens on you here and offer our
SF News Barry's Judgement Day Could be Weeks Away And according to most people quoted in the story, none of whom give their real names or job titles or anything resembling something that they would want to stake their reputation too, everyone
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Simple Summer Supper Great ingredients make great food, and all you have to do is get out of their way. Here's a casual summer meal we assembled for the test kitchen staff. This weekend, find your
SF News Design Within Whose Reach? That's where San Francisco company Design Public's sample sale, which is running the entire month of July, comes in. Just log in to their outlet store with the password , and you'll have access
SF News Pardon Me Boy, Was that the Palo Alto Station? You know those "baby bullet" trains Caltrains implemented that everybody loves and increased ridership? Not everyone is feeling the love. See, the express trains have been so popular that more people are riding
SF News Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! The final this year should be a real humdinger of a game as it involves not only two storied teams who have played some great and stirring soccer, but because it features two
SF News Dear Giants It's over. Finished. Kapoot. As of this moment, we will no longer start to believe in you. Once again, for like the umpteenth and hundredth time, we started to think that you had
misc Gastronomique: Savor for the Savvy Cook. The restaurants include Myth, thus the proud display there, but also Acquerello, the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton, Farallon, the Fifth Floor, La Folie, etc. That is the crème de la crème, and
SF News Tora, Tora Taxi Commission Nevermind. So, then what is it we keep hearing about the SF Cab Commission? Why has this usually obscure governmental backwater suddenly become the latest source of gossip, intrigue, and petty name-calling? Well,
SF News Your BART Breakdown of the Week As a result, twenty-four out of fifty-five trains ran late. There was no train service from Richmond into San Francisco or down to Daly City and everything but the Dublin-Pleasanton line was turned
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Clark Kepler For any readers who might not know, tell us why Kepler's is so awesome. For me and many others who've been around for a while, growing up in the bookstore was awesome. Kepler's
misc SFist Raves: Little Otsu, Our Hero We're so delighted by Little Otsu that we're posting a Rave on Friday! So we've been meaning to check out Little Otsu since the switch from clothing products to paper, along with the
Arts & Entertainment How Super? That's a pretty decent line for a weekday, morning screening that's over an hour away, huh? Is really worth an hour at 4th and Mission? Friend of SFist James Rocchi seems to think
