SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fine Dining Returns to the Golden Gate Last weekend we got in touch with our inner tourist and took part in the rebirth of a San Francisco legend - the Cliff House. Since January of 2003 it has been largely
Arts & Entertainment Got Some Spare Time in November? SFist spent a nice day at the beach on Sunday with some friends and learned about a rather interesting project over drinks at the new Sutro's at the Cliff House (a review of
SF News Blue Angels Blues Fleet Week may only be a little less than a month away, but that still hasn't kept us from already hitting the phones to find out whose friend of a friend of a
SF News Honoring the Fallen Derek over at Ephemera emailed us this morning to point out that he had visited the candlelight vigil in the panhandle organized by Berkeley's MoveOn.org and Win Without War and took some
SF News But Can She Cook? SFist loves to hate the Chron. They haven't won a Pulitzer for reporting since 1952 - which may have something to do with the fact that we can't remember ever buying the Sunday
Arts & Entertainment Crunk Critics, Drunk Didacts and Lush Literates Writers and drinkers go together like Bogie & Bacall, like Brad & Jen, like Hall & Oates. Which is why we, the underpaid and over-inebriated writers at SFist, couldn't be more excited about
Arts & Entertainment Run, Robert Duvall, Run! Following "Star Wars," Biskind writes that Lucas was haunted by it's success - that whole selling out thing. Not to mention being the one blamed for killing the Golden Era of 70's movies
Arts & Entertainment Southern Exposure Celebrating Thirty Years SFist loves the Mission and thinks it's just about one of the most creatively vibrant places in the world. We were excited to get a press release detailing the thirtieth anniversary celebration of
SF News What's My Name? Here at SFist we've been getting it from all sides as to what we should call ourselves. SFist? SFist? Friscoist? Bayist? Fogist? First off, you can use any of these to get to
SF News Conservative Pundit to Brave Berkeley One of Rush Limbaugh's pet pundits Michelle Malkin has been invited by California Patriots, the politically conservative campus group at Cal, to speak about her book In Defense of Internment: The Case for
SF News SFist Monday Morning Quarterback It's an exciting time for football fans, as the NFL preseason was wrapped up and the college season got off and running. In case you were busy at the beach, out of town
Arts & Entertainment Bay Blogger, uh, Friday Posts are usually excerpts from newspaper articles, wire services and legal rulings, generally about the personalities in the courtroom and precedent setting cases. It's a great digest for the news junky or legal
SF News Señor Spanky (Probably) Revealed Lucky for us and our lawyers, there's been a tie! We received an equal number of votes for both Town Hall and Bacar. Both are relatively new, both chic, both doing well. Hmm,
Arts & Entertainment SFist First Thursdays A new month, a bunch of new artists. Beat feet to some free art openings, meet the artists, drink for free. What could be better? SFist favorite Nicole Hayden will be showing along
misc Labor Week: Calling All Cube Dwellers The technology sector here in the Bay Area has taken a big hit over the last few years. We all know it, even if we don't work in Silicon Valley. Restaurants struggled, retailers
SF News Putting Politics on the Back-Burner By now, hearing something referred to as "only in San Francisco" has been thrown around so much that it's almost not worth saying anymore. Every once in awhile, though, we come across a
SF News Stop the Presses! Or Whatever! Our First Blind Item!!! "That chic South of Market restaurant's doing fine with customers but not so well with the staff. At least two food servers are gone, I hear, because the boss asked whether they were
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Culinary Digest We do the reading so you can concentrate on eating. Gerald Hirigoyen is at it again, adding Bocadillo to his empire of French Basque eateries here in The City - coverage by Paul
SF News Wine Snobs and Baseball? But what really cut was the photo included in the story, that of your typical effete wine-drinking Yuppie couple watching a Giants' game from tony box seats (with pictures of boats in the
Arts & Entertainment Get a Ticket, By Any Means Necessary It's hard to remember what it was like back then through our misty-colored "I Love the 80's" eyes, but there was a time when PE was the mightiest musical force that roamed the
SF News Somebody Pitch This to Ben Stiller When we first saw a t-shirt for an actual kickball league, we were pretty sure it was the coolest thing we had ever heard. After playing for several seasons, we can say that
SF News Watching and Learning We do love our protests here in the Bay Area. We love them so much that we follow protests in other cities like some folks follow football. Except it's always the same two
Arts & Entertainment The Other Mag SFist admits to having something of a nerd crush on Annalee Newitz. We've been reading her Techsploitation column in the Bay Guardian (also found on Alternet.org and in the San Jose Metro)
SF News Olympics Roundup It's finally time to get off the couch and get back to work. That's right, the Olympics are over, nothing went horribly wrong, everybody was smitten with being at the sites of the
misc Labor Week: Sex Workers Unite! [Ed. Note: Labor Day is not just the cut-off point for wearing white shoes - it's a day to honor the workers who make this country great. In our honor (we're workers too!
