Arts & Entertainment Attention Cheapskates: Virgins, Whores, and Pizza in Berkeley One of SFist's favorite theater companies, Berkeley's Impact Theatre (full disclosure: one of us is heavily involved with the company, but we wouldn't be if the company weren't so damned good), launches its
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Little Wednesday Tuna Decadence For the freshest, creamiest sushi-grade ahi, your best bets are Tower Market on Portola in Twin Peaks or Piedmont Grocery on Piedmont Ave. in Oakland. Get one piece of tuna, as thick as
SF News This Week in Bay Area Olympians Time for a good, old-fashioned roundup of the week our locals had over there in Athens: Concord-born Cal swimming superstar Natalie Coughlin has had a fantastic week. SFist has had a fantastic week
Arts & Entertainment Bed Down with the Bard Tonight So apparently this is the deal: for $28 per member ($35 nonmembers), you get dinner, stargazing, camping out, breakfast the next morning, and a guided nature walk after breakfast. Tickets for the actual
SF News Absentee-Minded Printer in the East Bay Our SFist Emeryville correspondent received, unsolicited, an Alameda County permanent absentee voter application in the mail yesterday and noticed that it was addressed in a bizarre order: middle-first-last. His fiancee's was addressed the
Arts & Entertainment Krugman Benefit for KPFA Tonight Tonight, economist, columnist, and professor Paul Krugman will speak in conversation with longtime journalist and KPFA radio host Larry Bensky in a benefit for KPFA and Pacifica Radio. The event is at 8pm
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chicken and Waffles Make Triumphant Return to Oaktown Soul food options just haven't been the same since Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles closed up shop in Oakland a couple of years ago. The bay area offshoot of the L.A. institution was
Arts & Entertainment Shh -- Don't Tell Any of the Shakespeare Festivals ...but Shakespeare was a fraud. Or at least that's how the Bard conspiracy theorists would have it. And Berkeley's Central Works Theatre Company's current production, (apparently that's pronounced "Loney," lest we get something
SF News Binding Nemo? But according to the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), the city didn't go nearly far enough in asking for concessions from Pixar in terms of contributing to the local community.
Arts & Entertainment Getting Wilde with the Young and the (Relatively) Cashless SFist loves live theater (or "theatre" if you're getting all highbrow on us). We think everyone should take in a play here and there instead of a movie -- it's more intimate and
SF News Sharks Stay Chummy with Wilson Check local sports blogger Jon Swenson's Sharkspage for the latest in local hockey news and analysis, ya hoser.
Arts & Entertainment All Hail the Parkway Theater Beginning this Friday, August 6th, the Parkway Theater in Oakland will be presenting The Animation Show, a collection of animated shorts curated by Mike Judge, the creator of "King of the Hill" and
