SF News Wal-Mart To Begin Selling iPhones We have nothing against retailers as a whole - really, an afternoon at Target is a culturally-enriched afternoon -- but Wal-Mart is, in a word, well, trash. So it comes as a surprise
misc Photo du Jour 288 Photo by Matt Baume/SFist It's back. That house on Castro Street is - at last! - all dolled up for the holidays.
SF News White House Officially Recognizes Japantown as Preserve Worthy Exciting news, Japantown fans! We think. The White House has officially declared San Francisco’s Japantown a Preserve America neighborhood. What is that, exactly? Well, according to reports, it "recognizes the cultural and
SF News Yelp Day Never Happened: Prop 8 Related? You remember how the Mayor's office told Yelp that they were going to declare December 4 Yelp Day? But then, when the day arrived, team Newsom blabbed to the media that that wasn't
SF News Heterosexual Alert Photo by Matt Baume/SFist The image above has a smattering of aimless queers all hot and bothered, and not in a good way. It seems at last week's Marriage Equality Community Forum,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Cubby Creatures co-founder Brian Weaver strums the bass in a new band these days, Reptiel (that's Dutch for Reptile, who also feature ex-Thee More Shallows ilk). They play a gig in the
misc Week Around the Ists LAist wined and dined on some of the city's best international food. The Korean BBQ truck had the edge of a street taco and the Imagawa-Yaki Japanese pastries were fulfilling. Seattlest turned investigative
SF News Day Around the Bay Transbay Terminal, full steam ahead. [Curbed] Presidio museum, scaled down. [SFGate] They Might Be Giants, nerd wear. [Laughing Squid] Carole Migden, still working. [CBS 5] Mission Street Food, dirty. [Mission Mission]
SF News Peskin to Strip SF Symphony Funding After reading Matt Smith's fantastic article (Nov. 18, "Business Conductor") on how much the San Francisco Symphony gets annually via taxpayers -- Michael Tilson Thomas alone is one of the highest-paid conductors in
Arts & Entertainment Opening Night Party at YBCA for transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix by Jeremy Hatch Tonight at 8:00, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will open their new exhibition, transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, with a big party involving Campari cocktails and Thomas’ Apartment,
misc Fell Street Free Fall Trey Blog came across the scene of a failed suicide attempt, which happened a few weeks ago. The images are sad yet fascinating. Someone, it seems, jumped from the top of a Fell
misc Photo du Jour 287 Curious t-shirt found at Stinson Beach. (Also, that is a generous star count there, movie reviewer.)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kellogg's Saves Mother's Cookies We will try writing this through our tears of joy. See, Kellogg's, according to Serious Eats, is saving Mother's Cookies from being a delicious memory of the past. Oakland-based Mother's Cookies, which filed
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BAR: Celebrate 75 years of the end of prohibition by getting drunk, committing vague acts of sexual assault, and writing ill-advised text messages. Over at Elixir (a bar that has been serving hooch
SF News Silent Protest Perplexes Though we loathe Stuff White People Like to its core, this kind of protest might be found there. You've seen it before: sour-looking, self-righteous puss with tape over the mouth to signify censorship.
SF News O.J. Simpson Gets 15 Years In Prison OJ Simpson, the former football great who murdered former Dana Hills High School homecoming queen Nicole Brown Simpson and her pal Ronald Goldman, was sentenced to 15 years in prison today. His sentence,
SF News Canine Fecal Matter Letter of Anguish, Glen Park Shit happens. Even on the up-and-coming Chenery Street in Glen Park. First of all, nice semicolon placement, angry poop hater. And second, why can't dog walkers put their vile plastic bags of fecal
SF News Hank Plante Nails Newsom on Colma-Bought SUV Oh, Hank. When you deliver, you do it in spades. Earlier this week, when Newsom held a press conference in Noe Valley to push the actually impressive Shop SF, an incentive plan begging
SF News CalTrain Fatality in Hayward park News is coming in that there was a fatality at Hayward Park this morning at around 7:30 a.m. According to CalTrain spokeswoman Christine Dunn an unidentified person was struck and killed
misc Day Around the Bay Girl, hold my earrings: Latina tranny war erupts between SF Weekly and SFBG. [SFBG, SF Weekly] Check out where you will never be able to live. [Curbed] Internet famous doesn't pay. [Valleywag] More
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TALK: Controversial House Speaker Nancy Pelosi returns to SF to talk about and sign copies of her latest book Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters. We're pretty sure it's about
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Flaming Egg nog by Tiffany Maleshefski You know what we love? When cartons of egg nog start to appear on the grocery store shelves. Yes, we said egg nog, that creamy, slightly sweet, vanilla-esque, mystery drink
