SF News Newsom Slams Local Blog For Creating "False Controversy" The sweet scriubes over at Streetsblog posted a might fine article on how San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, allegedly, "has been quietly pressuring MTA Chief Nat Ford to delay or prevent proposals to
SF News Daisy Does the 49ers: 35-0 Please welcome Daisy Barringer, who will cover the San Francisco 49ers for SFist. Added bonus: she goes to the actual games, which means you'll feel just like you're there, cheering on the footballs
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Top Chef 7</em> Open Casting Call, 10/18 Although we find this season particularly listless -- for reasons we can't put our finger on, exactly -- Top Chef will return for another cycle of fast-paced cooking and egregious under-salting. And with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Gourmet</em> Magazine Ends Run After 70 years in print, Gourmet magazine will call its November issue its final one. While rags like Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country (oh, come on, the latter is nothing short of genius;
SF News $25,000 Reward for Justice for Brandon While stomping over to Whole Foods SOMA on Sunday (alas, Greenlee's Cinnamon Bread trumps the boycott), we looked to the sky and saw a plane carrying a banner, reading, "Who Murdered My Son?
SF News SFist Blotter: Harvest Moon Edition CHINATOWN/SUNDAY: A man was shot in the city's finest neighborhood, Chinatown. The victim, according to reports, was an adult male, who was shot at Grant Avenue and Jackson Street "a little after
SF News <em>High School Musical</em> Bag Leads To Arrests Can the High School Musical franchise do no wrong? Not likely. Take, for example, two Concord bank-robbery suspects who were arrested in connection with an October 2008 robbery of a U.S. Bank
SF News UCSF Researcher Nabs Nobel Prize For Medicine Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 60, a molecular biologist at the University of California at San Francisco, won the Nobel Prize for medicine today. Just what , exactly, did Blackburn do to win this this fancy
misc Week Around the Ists Chicagoist was stunned when the city's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, widely expected to be in the final two with Rio's bid, was eliminated in the first round of IOC voting. Gothamist
SF News Day Around the Bay In defense of NOMA. [Bubo, Curbed] Alex Barkett kicks Whip It between the legs. [Appeal] Food service workers and their all too common addiction to cigarettes. [Bauer] Free Roman Polanski? [SFBG] Making employers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Oysters Tonight Leave work early if you can, folks. Tonight (and every Friday night) El Rio is giving away free Tomales Bay oysters. the protein slurping starts at 5:30 p.m. Mmm. Now go.
SF News Senator Mark Leno Throws A Fete In The Castro We were working on a post of images from last night's Mark Leno bash at Trigger in the Castro. But, lo and behold, Beth Spotswood beat us to it, doing an extraordinarily far
SF News Breaking: Twitter Founder Sells Home, Buys Home The fine folks over at Curbed reported yesterday that Twitter co-founder Evan Williams (heretofore known as @ev) sold his SOMA penthouse (going for a scant $1,498,000) on Fourth Street. You know,
Arts & Entertainment Gay Family Day at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 10/3 Are you of the gay persuasion? Do you have a family? Do you like old roller coasters? Do you like Dipping Dots? Well, you're in luck. The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, a seaside
SF News Cha Cha Cha, a Mariachi-Free Establishment Mission Mission has come across a jarring display of pure, unadulterated hate. The Mission's favorite place to eat tapas and swig sangria, Cha Cha Cha, is a mariachi-free zone. No! We love the
SF News Local Drag Queen Makes History at AT&T Park We're a little late on this one, but: local tranny Donna Sachet made history this past week by becoming the first (?) drag queen to perform the "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a Major League
SF News Prop 8 Must Release Records, Says Judge The people who sponsored last year's gay marriage ban must hand over certain internal campaign records to lawyers looking to overturn Prop 8. Turning down a request to block their super-special information from
SF News Inundated With Sea Lions An influx of sea lions at Pier 39 has resulted in the need for more docks. According to SF Examiner, around 1,500 of them "are piled on top of each other on
misc Scenes from a <em>Trauma</em> Shoot: SOMA Today, a Huey Helicopter parked right on Norfolk at Folsom next to Wish. The fine folks at Trauma have been filming in the area all week. Here's a shot of the Hollywood magic
SF News Bochy, Sabean, SF Giants Brian Sabean and Bruce Bochy, according to John Shea at SF Chron, "will be re-signed and return to the 2010 Giants." Good news, right? And now for some bad news: the Giants, as
misc Ask SFist: Parking in Nob/Russian Hill On viscous news days such as today, we reach into our inbox to see what readers have on their minds. Here's something: I’m now a car owner living in Russian Hill and
Arts & Entertainment Val Diamond to Leave Beach Blanket Babylon Val Diamond, the gorgeous "oak tree-like icon " behind Beach Blanket Babylon's big hat, will be leaving. Over there for more than 30 years, Diamond is best known for "channeling Ethel Merman to the
Arts & Entertainment <em>Where the Wild Things Are</em> Party & Film Review Well, would you look at that. SFist landed an invite to a VIP party at the Contemporary Jewish Museum for a fete honoring Spike Jonze's re-telling of Where the Wild Things Are. Actually,
