SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Restaurants Gain/Lose Stars In 2010 Michelin Guide As Monsieur Bauer and many food blogs are reporting today, SF's showing in the new Michelin Guide is a little less stellar than last year. Many foodies would trust the much sought-after Michelin
Arts & Entertainment NSFV: Whole Steer Butchered at SFMOMA Event This is another NSFV (Not Safe for Vegans) post, so consider yourselves warned. SF Weekly food blogger Meredith Brody snapped the pic at right of a whole steer that spit roasted and then
SF News How's About That Rain? It's currently pouring cats and puppies outside SFist HQ, and we feel woefully under-informed about this development. We just read this morning that the heaviest rain was supposed to hit north of here,
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Fest '09: A Gallery - UPDATED Saturday was sunny and electronic; Sunday was chilly and leaned more toward back-to-basics rock. Also thrown in was some gypsy music, hip-hop, and whatever you want to call this new rock operetta thing
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 10/19 - 10/25 This SFist weekly concert preview is brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce. Rely on Epicsauce for concert listing updates, and follow them on Twitter. It remains a good time to be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Autumn Apple Cocktail from Cyrus With his book Artisanal Cocktails, local startender Scott Beattie established himself as a leading figure of West Coast-style, farmers-market-driven cocktail creation. And as the drink specialist at Healdsburg's Cyrus, Scott championed the building
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: AutoTune the United Nations Please forgive us once again if you're totally over AutoTune masters The Gregory Brothers. We're still not. And we love the little world music moment they add to the United Nations summit of
Arts & Entertainment Lit Crawl: A Bar Crawl for Literary Types In addition to marking the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake, Saturday also marks the annual Litquake Lit Crawl, a three-phase bar crawl through the Mission featuring a great many writer types
SF News Supes Update: Michela Has No Friends; Chu Costume Drive Has Enough Feather Boas It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Let's check in on the Board of Supes shall we? The Chron's Insider column brings us a couple notes on Board happenings this week, noting firstly
SF News Get Flu Shot, Get on Plane We don't know the larger wisdom behind this effort, but several flu shot kiosks have been set up at SFO dispensing H1N1 vaccinations to those 18 and older for the reasonable (by airport
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Sleepyhead" by Passion Pit NYC-based band The Walkmen will be playing at 6:20 p.m. on Sunday of the Treasure Island Music Fest (see our preview here), and this rather dark song, "On the Water," is
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Fest: A Preview It's the music fest that all the hip kids and true indie and indie-ish music fans have been waiting all year for, and it's finally here. The two-day long Treasure Island Music Festival
misc New Da Vinci Artwork Discovered The first previously unknown work by Leonardo Da Vinci to be discovered in a hundred years, a 13-by-10-inch chalk, ink and pencil drawing being called "La Bella Principessa," has been identified via fingerprint
SF News Fire at Tiffany's A little early for breakfast (7 p.m. last night), a two-alarm fire broke out at 360 Post on Union Square, otherwise known as the Tiffany's building, whose upper floors are home to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Thao With the Get Down Stay Down One of the local acts we're most looking forward to seeing at this weekend's Treasure Island Music Festival (one-day and two-day passes still available!) is Thao with the Get Down Stay Down. They're
SF News The Storm: She Has Passed Are you receiving us? Do you have electricity and such? Apparently 10,000 Bay Area residents still do not, and some major power line connecting Northern and Southern California was knocked out near
SF News New Gavin Newsom Ad: Totally Circular, Dude We don't really think the narration for this new Gav-for-Governor spot is the *strongest* bit of campaign ad copy we've ever heard. And is it wrong to say the whole circular thing ("...that
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'San Francisco Rain' by LYS Hey guess what! It's raining! So here's a little palate cleanser today that could be considered the progressive-house antithesis to yesterday's "Storms" by Stevie Nicks. It's called "San Francisco Rain" and it's by
SF News Loma Prieta, 20 Years Later As many in the local news/blog firmament will be repeating this week, Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, which was not such a doozy of a quake in
SF News The Storm: She Is Here Get out those water wings, kids! The worst of the rain is expected to fall today between, um, right now (7 a.m.) and 7 p.m. tonight, and there's a wind advisory
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 10/12 - 10/18 Once again, this week's concert preview is being dutifully provided to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, on which you should rely for your Bay Area concert listings. Always. All eyes this week
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Seven Decades of Cocktails from <em>Gourmet</em> We're still pretty broken up about this week's demise of ultimate food-porn mag Gourmet, and while some like Cook's Illustrated's Chris Kimball might be quick to blame the internet, Gawker is quick to
SF News <em>Trauma</em> On Chopping Block? Hollywood gossip columnist and sometime crazy person Nikke Finke has marked Trauma as next in line for cancellation, following on the axing of NBC's Southland, and citing the $3 million-per-episode price tag. As
SF News Surprise! Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize They sure do love our fine President up in Norway! Despite having only been in office 12 days when the nomination deadline passed, the Nobel committee went ahead and awarded Barack Obama the
SF News Sea Lions: Maybe We Should Stop Trying to Save Them? We noted last week the recent infestation of sea lions spilling over down at the piers, and this week's SF Weekly has a piece about efforts by Sausalito's Marine Mammal Center to rehabilitate
