SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Bayou Belle Punch from Cent'Anni Cocktails Victoria D'Amato-Moran is an artisanal cocktail-maker for hire who can often be found at Bay Area and national cocktail competitions, and her catering service, Cent'Anni Cocktails, aims to provide handcrafted, fresh, and innovative
SF News SoCal Girl Trying to Sail Around the World Is Safe and Sound Not sure if any of you have been following the tale of 16-year-old Abby Sunderland's attempt to circumnavigate the globe solo in a sailboat and become the youngest person ever to do so
SF News Brown Already Calling Whitman a Nazi "It's like Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels invented this kind of propaganda. He took control of the whole world. She wants to be president. That's her ambition, the first woman president. That's what this is
SF News UC Librarians Get Politely Vicious About Being Gouged for Subscriptions Here's a funny bit: Librarians at various UC schools are waging a quiet war against Nature Publishing Group, the publishers of influential journals like Nature and Scientific American who have raised the cost
SF News Beware Fake Lotteries This must be some kind of ghetto thing we don't understand, but six people were arrested for running an underground lottery in which paper tickets were sold in stores in Richmond and San
Arts & Entertainment <strike>Gray</strike> Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Neil Young's "Old Man" Another Planet just announced that Neil Young will be playing two solo shows at the Fox on July 11th and 12th. If there are any Boomers in the audience, or hardcore fans of
SF News Judge Rules Against Tobacco Ban at Walgreen's You damn well ought to be able to buy your smokes at Walgreen's if you can buy them at Safeway, says Justice William McGuiness of the First Appelate District Court. The court ruled
SF News Fast Passes Phasing Out in October, Translink Is Becoming Clipper, and More Change is afoot in your commute, ladies and gentlemen. As of late June, you'll no longer be able to buy Muni Fast Passes online, and as of October those fun, colorful, ever-changing paper
Arts & Entertainment Scenes from the Red Carpet at the GLAAD Media Awards Local celebrities and non-local celebrities joined many besuited gays, lesbians, and their admirers at this past weekend's GLAAD Media Awards at the Marriott. The S.F. edition of the awards, which also take
SF News Phone Books to Continue to Be Printed, Delivered, Whether You Want Them Or Not A bill that would have made it harder for the phone companies to dump those mountains of unwanted phone books on our collective doorsteps has died in the California state senate. Sen. Leland
misc Weekend Palate Cleanser: Lego Printer A dude named Adam in the U.K. built this working printer out of Legos, a felt tip marker, and a kit from an old printer of some kind. He explains, "I designed/
Arts & Entertainment Newly Out Lesbian Country Singer Chely Wright Performs in S.F. Tomorrow The gay and celebrity web-o-spheres were abuzz last month about the teased and pre-planned public coming out party for Chely Wright, the country singer who had huge success starting in the late 90s
SF News Stanford Kids Develop An Open-Air Electric Car Some Stanford graduate students have created a concept vehicle that may see some large-scale production and distribution. It's called the WENG, which stands for Where Everyone Needs to Go, and it's a four-seater,
SF News Local Activist Recounts Scene on Palestinian Aid Ship Oakland-based structural engineer Gene St. Onge was aboard one of the Gaza-bound aid ships in the flotilla that was assaulted by Israeli soldiers this week. He was on his way to help build
misc The Me Me Me Generation In a column yesterday, local ranter Mark Morford takes on a new study that says that college kids these days are 40% less empathetic than their peers of 20 or 30 years ago.
SF News Supervisors Wait to Take 'Largely Symbolic' Vote on Muni And in useless news today, the Board of Supervisors is "in limbo" about whether or not to reject Muni's latest budget, even though this amounts to a "largely symbolic" vote on the part
SF News Authorities Talk 'OD' In Re: Cow Palace Death, But Overdose of What? Though toxicology reports are still two weeks off, the San Mateo County Times wants to be the first to shout it from the rooftops that last weekend's post-Cow Palace, drug-related death and multiple
SF News BREAKING: Rue McLanahan Has Died Only one Golden Girl remains, ladies and gentlemen, and it's Betty White. Rue McLanahan has died of a massive stroke at the age of 76. Rue had suffered a minor stroke earlier this
SF News Are Mushrooms to Blame For the Violently Bad Trips Up North? The case of mixed martial arts fighter Jarrod Wyatt who, up in Crescent City, CA, murdered his friend by drilling a hole in his chest and ripping out his heart, makes us wonder:
SF News Are You Too Racist to Be a Juror in the Mehserle Trial? The questionnaire being given to potential jurors in the Los Angeles County trial of former BART cop Johannes Mehserle has come to light, and most of the questions come down to "Do you
SF News Huge Sinkholes Suck Down Pieces of Guatemala (Again) We got a little snarky about the sinkhole reportage in Richmond from last month, but this, ladies and gentlemen, is a sinkhole. This massive hole made at least one three-story building disappear in
Arts & Entertainment The Full Outside Lands 2010 Lineup Announced Via Video Here's the full lineup for Outside Lands 2010, which happens on August 14 and 15 in Golden Gate Park. It's pretty much everything we'd heard via the leak and hints, with the addition
SF News Supervisors May Reject Muni's New Budget The Board of Supes is holding a hearing tomorrow to decide whether to reject Muni's latest budget, which includes a City Charter-mandated 9% raise for union members on July 1, which totals about
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Sicilian at Credo FiDi workers may already be familiar with Credo (360 Pine), the Italian restaurant opened in January by local political heavyweight Clint Riley who once assisted a certain lady named Nancy in her first
SF News Another Child Star, Gary Coleman, Dies Before His Time We don't know the full details just yet, but we'd heard that former child star Gary Coleman was hospitalized in Utah after falling in his home, and he has now died at the
