SF News SFist Cheshire Remembers 2004 Like SFist Emily, I'm bad at lists. So I'm just going to relish the chance to write in the first person singular for a moment and break down the highlights and lowlights of
Arts & Entertainment Calendars for Font Freaks Anyway, most commercial calendars are fairly bland, anyway -- especially the typography. But good news has arrived: FontShop, an international purveyor of fine typefaces (the U.S. office is based right here in
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Black Box is Beautiful Don't get us wrong, we love elaborate theater sets and admire the craftwork and imagination that go into creating them -- there's something oddly sweet about an intricately built space that will be
SF News Salinas to Close Its Public Libraries The libraries would have been saved had Salinas voters passed a ballot measure in November that would have hiked sales taxes slightly, as Oakland and Modesto voters successfully did in the March 2004
SF News Troubled Bridge Over Local Waters It was reported at the end of last week that the Govenator rejected the suspension design for the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, opting instead for a skyway design not unlike the
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Come for Dinner, Stay for the Hell We know, you've got a lot of pulls on your time these days, what with company holiday parties and SFist's first Bay Blotto tonight, but you really should know about a couple of
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's Not Who You Know To paraphrase Norm, it's not who you know, it's who know. With that, this week's live theater recommendations consist of shows featuring friends of ours. Pretty good deal, being SFist's friend, isn't it?
SF News Alta Bates to Disgruntled Employees: Take Your One-Day Strike and Shove It The Chron quoted Alta Bates Summit's vice president for medical affairs, Dr. John Gentile, as suggesting the sympathy strike is meant to unify the unions so that they can bargain collectively for a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Getting Sappy and Cheesy in Vermont We picked up a quart each of their lightest and heaviest syrups, though any one of their four varieties is likely better than anything you've ever tasted. And the cheddar... well, there is
SF News Medical Marijuana Case Goes to the, uh, Highest Court; Massachusetts Gay Marriage Case Doesn't Meanwhile, the Court will hear arguments today in , a medical-marijuana case that started right here in the Bay Area. In 2002 Angel Raich of Oakland, who suffers from an inoperable brain tumor (among
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Freebird! For the rest of us who want to assuage our guilt by picking up an expensive free-range bird, make sure you check out East Bay Animal Advocates' website. Apparently, it doesn't take much
misc Get Ooey and Gooey in Oakland Thursday night the Museum of Children's Art in Oakland is presenting a hands-on workshop for parents with small children: "Ooey Gooey Night: The Making of Creative Messes." From the museum's Web site: "Young
SF News Summit Faces Uphill Battle Alta Bates Summit's director of public relations, Carolyn Kemp, was quoted as acknowledging that the results of the audit "were not in our favor" but also downplayed the significance of the specific complaints.
SF News Literacy and the Election It must be Literacy Day here at SFist! We want to alert you to a publication geared for new and busy voters called the . Right now, as the website undergoes updating in time
SF News Domestic Partners: Know Your Rights On January 1, 2005, Assembly Bill 205, "The Domestic Partners Rights and Responsibilities Act of 2003," goes into effect. According to the National Center for Lesbian Rights (which has a good info page
Arts & Entertainment Mourn the Birth of a Theater No, no, no, we don't mean that. We mean, go check out the opening of Last Planet Theatre's first show in its brand-new space on the border of the Civic Center and the
misc SF Schools Want Your Opinion Monday: Roosevelt School Auditorium, 460 Arguello Boulevard Tuesday: Gordon J. Lau School Auditorium, 950 Clay Street Wednesday: Thurgood Marshall Auditorium, 45 Conkling Street Thursday: Horace Main School Auditorium, 3351 23rd Street For more
Arts & Entertainment What to Do This Weekend: Theater SFist isn't sure how we missed knowing about this in advance, except to say that small theater marketing is typically, shall we say, less than ubiquitous. But the San Francisco Fringe Festival is
SF News The Legal Battle for Same-Sex Marriage in California Pushes Forward SFist wishes the plaintiffs great success at tearing down one of the most noxious legal forms of discrimination that are still on the books. For more information about the battle, go to Marriage
Arts & Entertainment The Lion King: Exactly as Expected Therefore it was with some amount of surprise that we walked out of at the Orpheum Saturday night feeling exactly as we'd imagined we'd feel about the show before we'd seen it. Details
Arts & Entertainment Things to Do this Weekend: Theater SFist is usually more energized by small theater than large, but we'd be remiss if we didn't give props to A.C.T., which just opened , a collaboration between the renowned avant-garde master
Arts & Entertainment Darko Sees the Light at the Lumiere []Ed. Note: Salon.com has a great explanation of what's actually going on in Donnie Darko for those of you who were wondering "Dream sequence or parallel dimensions or both?"
Arts & Entertainment The Circus Comes to Town Well, it's that time again: The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the self-proclaimed Greatest Show on EarthTM, is coming to the Cow Palace tomorrow and staying until next Monday. Then it's
