misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Christmas Light Hero This video's already gotten around the past couple of days, but just in case you missed it: It's a kid, playing "Guitar Hero," but the screen is made of Christmas lights. Is this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: The Rural Alberta Advantage This interview comes to us via Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce. As previously discussed, we are eagerly anticipating The Rural Alberta Advantage's return to San Francisco tomorrow night. We recently had the chance to
SF News Extinct Plant Found Growing Wild Near Golden Gate Bridge A specimen of the Franciscan manzanita plant -- also known as the San Francisco manzanita and thought to be extinct in the wild -- was discovered recently in the Presidio by botanist Daniel
SF News Construction Beginning on BART's Warm Springs Extension At long last, another new leg of the BART system is about to see the light of day, this time on the Fremont line. The Warm Springs extension project, which will extend BART
SF News Missing Nurse Found Dead One Year Later The body of Donna Mae Dowell, the 68-year-old nurse who worked at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View and went missing in December 2008, was just identified after being found by a hiker
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Three Muppets Do "Carol of the Bells" The Muppets have been up to all kinds of new web stuff lately -- like this revived "Bohemian Rhapsody" that we shared a few weeks back -- and now we have this delightful
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 12/14-12/20 This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter. Yet another jam packed week
SF News TransAmerica Pyramid Gets Green Building Certification On Friday, Mayor Newsom announced that the TransAmerica Pyramid had achieved LEED Gold certification for being one of the greenest buildings in the nation, thereby boosting San Francisco ahead of Los Angeles or
Arts & Entertainment SantaCon 2009: Kinda Rainy, Kinda Drunken What do you get when you couple a torrentially rainy day with the now annual SantaCon in which people gather in SF (and around the globe) to lead citywide bar crawls and/or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Holiday Indulgences: The 12 Days of Christmas Dinners at Meadowood If you've got the means, or if you're going to be up in Napa and need a special-occasion date place between now and December 19th, look no further than the 12 Days of
Arts & Entertainment Lady Gaga Drops In On SF Bar for Surprise Pre-Show? Possibly as a small thank you to the gay community who helped give her a leg up in '08 while she was still touring around in semi-obscurity, Lady Gaga allegedly dropped in on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: A Classic Hot Toddy When we crave a delicious and showy version of a Hot Toddy during these (by SF standards) Arctic winter months, we think back on a version we had once at Range, where they
SF News John Pérez Selected As First Gay Assembly Speaker Assemblyman John Pérez of Los Angeles, a former union leader and a cousin of LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, was unanimously chosen yesterday by his Democratic colleagues to succeed Karen Bass as the 68th
SF News BART Board May Be Awarding Contract for Oakland Airport Tram BART administrators have recommended awarding a $492 million contract for the construction of a tram link between the Coliseum BART station and the Oakland Airport to a joint venture of Flatiron West Inc.
SF News Apple Moving Into "The Cloud" Taking lessons from recently acquired LaLa, Apple is said to be making moves to make iTunes more web-friendly, potentially allowing users to access their music via "the cloud" online, rather than having it
SF News Tribal Casino Revenues Down Across State According to a new report, tribal gaming resorts in California saw a 6% drop in revenue in 2008, and the report's author, Alan Meister, foresees a similar drop across the local industry in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Virgin Mary Drag Nothing says Christmas like a drag performance, right? New York-based drag performer Mimi Imfurst is doing the second of two shows tonight in San Francisco at Finn's Funhouse (814 Grove St) of her
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Top Chef</em> Finale Resumes in Sonoma Tonight The trio still standing on Bravo's Top Chef comprises The Brothers Voltaggio (brusque, tattooed, envelope-pushing Michael and staid, straight-laced, classically trained Bryan) and beardy Kevin from Atlanta, who has proven that simple food
SF News McSweeney's Bay Bridge Investigative Report Released As promised, as part of their San Francisco Panorama broadsheet newspaper, the one-time printing of which is available today at various local booksellers for the special price $5, McSweeney's investigative report on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Smuggler's Cove Opens Tonight Martin Cate, Tiki historian and former proprietor of Forbidden Island in Alameda, opens his newest venture Smuggler's Cove (650 Gough Street) to the public this evening. A couple weeks back we ran one
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens On Ice: A Gallery A troupe of about fifty assorted drag queens, gays, lesbians and others took the Union Square ice rink by storm yesterday -- all in the midst of the afternoon storminess that included a
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The FarmVille Theme, by Oakland Composer Steve Kirk FarmVille, for those unaware, is one of those time-sucking Facebook apps that drive us, personally, insane. But hey, we all need a little distraction sometimes, and it turns out the theme song to
SF News Yahoo! (Allegedly) Profiting From Compromising Your Privacy Despite efforts to get it removed from the internet, Yahoo!'s 2006 "Law Enforcement Investigators Guide" details the various fees that government and police officers would need to pay in order to obtain
SF News UPS Delivering Holiday Packages Via Bicycle This should please those commenters whose knee-jerk response to any and all posts regarding transit woes is "Get a bike.": UPS, who lately has been bombarding us with those ads with the white-board
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 12/7 - 12/13 This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter. First the bad news --
