Arts & Entertainment Interview: Cole Stratton We should have asked him what he did to attract performers from Mr. Show, The Kids in the Hall, Saturday Night Live, Stella, The State, The Daily Show, Arrested Development, and The Upright
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Ristorante Mare This small restaurant, situated in a eucalyptus-scented hillside pocket of the Pedro Point area, looks like what it is: a good neighborhood place. Its proprietors — according to the framed newspaper items covering the
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to the SF IndieFest Benefit Party! Musical acts Potion, Teenage Harlets, Tom Jonesing, and The Sermon will be performing, festival previews will be previewed, advance IndieFest tickets will be sold at a 10% discount, and there'll be drink specials
SF News Neither a Buyer Nor a Renter Be One of our sources is RealFacts. The research firm specializes in data on multifamily housing, and they send out a regular newsletter. Today's includes the following interesting comments made by its president, Sarah
SF News J.T. Leroy: The Chron's finally on the case The creative team behind J.T. Leroy should send James Frey flowers, since his little revelations have given the J. T. Leroy hoax story a sort of also-ran quality. However, we were pleased
SF News The Most Exciting Antiques Roadshow Ever 150 FBI, Immigration & Customs, Fish & Game and IRS raided eight stores located in Fisherman's Wharf and Union Square, as well as warehouses on the piers. It's thought that all eight businesses
SF News SFist checks out the 510: Public Access TV Edition To call it "the Bay Area's homage to 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000'" is to sell both TV shows short. We tuned in for 'Monster Island's' broadcast of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and
SF News Bubble? What Bubble? Although the CBIA expects a "modest" drop-off in construction employment, UCLA economist Christopher Thornberg's not so optimistic: he sees a 25% drop in related jobs. Flickr photo by TheBeege724 By SFist Lisa, contributing
misc SFist Raves: The Power of Rock Compels You After realizing that we were probably never going to make it past the C, G, and F chords, we promptly gave it up (just like karate, the piano, African line-dancing, and summer school
SF News Bob McLeod, R.I.P San Francisco seems a little darker this week, with the passing of former Chronicle photo editor Bob McLeod this Monday. This SFist only knew Bob a little bit. Our most vivid memory of
SF News What's That Smell? 4 blocks in the Haight were closed this morning, due to a nicked gas line. A second leak reported at 6th and Mission was determined to be a false alarm. Though that block
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The One City, One Book Edition Or maybe we'll just head back into the bookstore for a copy of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices. It's the inaugural selection for Oakland's "One City, One Book" campaign. Oakland Library
SF News New Year's Eve See that? See how I said "we're" back there? I know we've all mentioned it, but the "we" thing really insinuates itself into your brain. I've sent work email in the "we", notes
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a copy of <i>Saturday</i> has been met with acclaim by a zillion reviewers more reputable than we are, so we'll just tell you that it's a really good book that we recall enjoying very much. You can
Arts & Entertainment Come On And Take A Free (Or Cheap) Ride Driving can be a real pain, as we're expected to retain a level of alcoholic responsibility while everyone else on the road appears to be hammered into oblivion. Taxis can be hard to
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a Copy of <i>Go Ask Ogre</i>! We recieved a review copy of this book, but never felt comfortable writing an actual review of it. How do you review someone's adolescence? Maybe that sentiment makes us appear less than professional,
Arts & Entertainment Ring In The New Year At The Asian Art Museum Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. they're having their 20th Annual Japanese New Year's Bell Ringing Ceremony, which is free to atttend with paid admission to the museum. "Based on
misc The 'Fisties: The Scorecard, 2005 If we didn't feel it was a conflict of interest, we'd be awarding that Best Blog Readers 'Fistie to y'all, but can our love really be quantified with an award like that? Well,
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a copy of <i>Stories For Airports</i> Enter below by New Year's Eve to win a copy of judy b.'s book, which she discussed so eloquently in the piece below.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Does It Up Right We're not going to list all the awesome folks who came because we know we'll leave someone out and look like jerks. But thank you to all who came, thanks to Otis for
misc The 'Fisties: Best San Francisco Celebrity We here at SFist like our celebrities like we like our men: insane, rude, dirty, and fabulous. Oh, wait, that's NOT how we like our men anymore (that's 12 years of therapy finally
SF News Alert Buffaloist! We love the idea of interstate extradition. We're imagining a style situation, except with a way less charming cast -- hey, do you think that Dog was the guy who brought him back
misc 'Fisties: Best Place to Shop -- Retail Our favorite place to shop for non-essentials is, bar none, Super 7. We wander their tiny store for ages, certainly inciting suspicions of shoplifting. But we swear we're not! We just love everything
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win A Puzzling Prize Pack The first is a set of Tangoes, the story of which you can find here. Our set of Tangoes comes to us from local game maker Rex Games, which also makes several other
