Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Judge John Hodgman Solves All Your Problems For your last-minute, late-night Friday plans, noted erudite funnyman and "Famous Minor Television Personality" John Hodgman will weigh in on your pressing issues in a live edition of his Judge John Hodgman podcast.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drake's Bay Oyster Company Goes To Court Drakes Bay Oyster Co. lost their 40-year lease on federal land back in November when U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave them the boot and subsequent efforts to renew the lease were
SF News Gavin Newsom's Book On Social Media Channels Farmville, Angry Birds The Lite Gov. is, as you know, an expert on social media. He tweets (sometimes angrily). He blogs. He even has a Google+ account. That's why he smartly (read: questionably) named his long-awaited
Arts & Entertainment Sting Will Christen S.F.'s First Outdoor Waterfront Concert Venue Multiple Grammy-winning artist Sting is the first act booked to play a lavish, yet temporary, new waterfront concert venue at the America's Cup Pavilion on Pier 27/29. The 9,000 seat venue
Arts & Entertainment Enormous Mammal Makes Pier 39 Pitstop A gray whale headed south on its annual sex trip to Baja Mexico made a slight detour into the San Francisco Bay yesterday, reportedly stopping off near Pier 39 to look at the
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Africa Fries? Twitter released a thing called Vine yesterday. It allows you to post six second videos. It is either GIF-like or the best thing that Twitter ever did. [Gizmodo] [TechCrunch] Africa Fries are the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Asking For A Liquor-Free Super Bowl To prevent post-game rioting, Mayor Lee and SFPD Chief Greg Suhr are asking local bars to ease up on the hard alcohol during the Super Bowl, because sure that'll work. [Chron] A blast
Arts & Entertainment That '70s Jobs: First Clip Of Ashton Kutcher As Steve Jobs Is Predictably Kutcherian Although we've had a preliminary glimpse with these sultry promo shots, it feels like we've been waiting ages — like the same amount of time we wait for a new iPhone, basically — to see
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Annie's Homegrown Pizza May Contain Shards Of Metal Organically minded grocery shoppers seeking out Tombstone alternatives may want to check the labels on their Annie's Homegrown brand organic frozen pizzas. The Berkeley-based packaged foods maker has issued a recall on a
SF News Berkeley Teacher Busted For DUI, LSD After Leaving Grateful Dead Bar What was that about all California drivers being on drugs? 51-year-old Berkeley High School teacher Douglas Haight (seriously?) lost his job and teaching credentials after a December DUI arrest turned up a bottle
SF News DUI Suspect's Shocking Twitter Rant Against Arresting Officer 48-year-old Khalil Jaser was arrested for last summer in Brisbane, California for driving under the influence. Then, like a shunned lover, he proceeded to call his arresting officer a total of 152 times,
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Kaepernick Bread Pudding We know how SFist readers feel about the Taxis in San Francisco, but how do public radio listeners feel about them? Take a look around The Forge, a new pizza joint in Oakland's
SF News Day Around The Bay: Flammable Art Installation Goes Horribly Awry Queen's Nails Gallery on Mission Street in La Lengua was damaged by fire last night after an art installation involving 50,000 matches outlining a map of the United States went horribly wrong.
SF News Video: Armed Thugs Rob Two Local Pharmacies For OxyContin As you know, we're completely mesmerized by SFPD's Vimeo channel, which the department has been using to crowdsource justice lately. A local version of America's Most Wanted, if you will. The latest video
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'Sex And The City' Live! (And In Drag) After a successful run of live Roseanne episodes and Golden Girls Christmas Specials, the folks from Trannyshack return with their latest take on another classic (or classically trashy) piece of television: HBO's seminal
SF News Filmmakers Ryan Coogler and Forest Whitaker Talk Oscar Grant, 'Fruitvale' In the wake of a huge buzzwave at Sundance and a $2.5 million distribution deal with the Weinstein Co., Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale has already sparked debate about the what it means to
SF News Man Found Carrying Two Pounds Of Cocaine In His Stomach Pleads Guilty To Dumb Idea 55-year-old Emmanuel Amankwa, who was busted at San Francisco International Airport back in October with over two pounds of cocaine pellets in his stomach, has pled guilty to possession of more than 500
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Mandy Patinkin's Beard Spotted Celebrity sightings! Joe Montana had dinner with the wife and kids (and a sidecar) at Jasper's Corner Tap. And Saul Baronsen/Mandy Patinkin's beard showed up at Universal Cafe. Meanwhile, Delroy Lindo was
SF News Colin Kaepernick and Alex Smith Celebrate NFC Championship at Unexciting San Jose Club Meteoric quarterback and social media punchline Colin Kaepernick and the rest of the team apparently made it back to the Bay Area in a hurry following Sunday's victory in Atlanta. Kaepernick and long-forgotten
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tomorrow Night: 'So I Married An Axe Murderer' With Drinks Mike Myer's 1993 magnum opus So I Married An Axe Murderer may not have achieved the same critical acclaim as Wayne's World did a year before, but as a screwball comedy about the
Arts & Entertainment For Proper Kaepernicking, Adorn Yourself With These Full-Size Temporary Tattoos Have your bicep-kissing Kaepernicking moments felt a little lackluster lately? Having some underwhelming performances in the endzone? Maybe what you are missing, dear faithful Niners fan, is the power of God in the
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Castro Street Goes Under The Knife Bullitt/Tonic/Dr. Teeth bar crew opening another bar in the Solstice space on Divisadero. Brace yourselves, Pac Heightsians. [GrubSF] Castro Street goes under the knife, getting a couple improvements to widen the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sudsy Bay Area Cleans Up 'Top 20 Most Influential Beers Ever' List Just in time for San Francisco Beer Week 2013, the beer nerds over at First We Feast have rounded up a panel of discerning brewers, beer distributors, journalists and other beer industry professionals
Arts & Entertainment Oscar Grant Movie 'Fruitvale' Buzzes At Sundance, Sells For $2.5 Million [Updated] Fruitvale, the feature film starring Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant has been a big hit with the Hollywood bigshots in Park City for this year's Sundance Film Festival. After a successful premiere
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Enormous Mammal Heads South On Sex Trip Today in wildlife photography, intrepid nature watcher David Cruz spotted a gray whale breaching in the waters just west of the Cliff House over the weekend. As the first significantly documented whale activity
