SF News Pebble Beach Gays Become Suspects In Their Own Art Robbery Did you happen to hear about this art theft down in Pebble Beach in which 13 paintings, totaling somewhere between $27 million and $80 million in value depending on who you ask, were
SF News Senate Names Health Care Amendment After Safeway In one version of the Senate's health care bill up for debate next week, a provision meant to encourage preventive medicine for employees has been named for Pleasanton-based grocery chain Safeway. The company
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Wine Apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch Nobody we know really strives to be a wine snob, but a person can always come off sounding like one in mixed (read: non-Bay Area) company when it comes to choosing or discussing
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 9: A Gallery We would have taken some more closups of the artists, but you know what? It was pretty goddamn crowded out there at HSB this year! It was especially crowded come around 5:30
Arts & Entertainment Pics From Castro Street Fair Yesterday, in addition to being Day 3 of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and the serotonin hangover day for LovEvolution attendees, was also the 36th annual Castro Street Fair -- a tradition started by Harvey
SF News Mud from 1800s Finally Washing Out of Bay We came across this curiosity in the Chron this a.m.: several generations worth of free-floating sediment, upon which several pieces of the SF Bay's ecosystem depends, has finally washed out to sea
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 10/5 - 10/11 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. Excellent week with The Knife's Karin Dreijer
Arts & Entertainment Love Parade '09: Some Pics Speaking of fuzzy hats... It's been dubbed LovEvolution this year, but it's all the same shit. Nostalgia for 90s-rave-era fashion, combined with deep house beats and nostalgia for 60s-era peace, love and body
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Contest!: Win a Pair of Tix to 3-Day Phish Fest 8 in Indio Those who have attended Coachella are probably familiar with the Empire Polo Club in Indio. And those who are avid Phish heads (or those who pay attention to our advertisers here on SFist)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Pisco Sol from Pisco Lounge A new local fave for it's hip-casual vibe, tasty drinks and lively crowd, Pisco Latin Lounge was founded by James Schenk, chef-owner of next-door "nuevo Latino" restaurant Destino. It won recognition as a
Arts & Entertainment Green Day Musical "American Idiot" Extended Again According to Berkeley Rep, "American Idiot" (see SFist's review here) has turned out to be the highest grossing show in the theater's history, with the biggest one-day gross and the largest advance sales
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eater SF Unveils List of 38 Essential San Francisco Restaurants It's sure to cause controversy, which Eater SF editor Paolo Lucchesi openly acknowledges, but Eater has just inaugurated The Eater 38, a non-ranked list of the best, most beloved restaurants in the city
Arts & Entertainment A Preview of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 9 It's going to be a semi-warm weekend and just possibly (though we can't promise anything) it will be sunny in Golden Gate Park at least on Friday and Sunday, so the ninth annual
SF News <i>Guardian</i> Offers Advice to New Online Newspaper There's a staff editorial in this week's SFBG discussing the decline of the Chronicle and a new KQED/Warren Hellman-led non-profit venture to create a new online news source for San Francisco. The
SF News Angry Customer Arrested at SFO for Bomb Threat A frustrated customer at the Philippine Airlines ticket counter at SFO's International Terminal, when told he was going to have to pay for a full round-trip fare, became so incensed that he held
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kylie Minogue - TIX AVAILABLE Forgive us if her sugary sweetness leaves you wishing for a glass of milk (or some kind of metalcore antidote), but the Australian Madonna is hitting our shores for two shows starting tonight
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Quivira Vineyards It's harvest time in Napa and Sonoma, and a lot of grapes have already been plucked from the vines and sent to be crushed, eventually to make their way to your lips anywhere
SF News Bunch of Blood on Civic Center BART Platform Though small bits of blood on the ground are not a rare sight in the Civic Center/Tenderloin environs, we felt we should mention a not-insignificant amount of spilled plasma being mopped up
SF News Samoa Disaster Declared Major, CA Unscathed Apart from a few new sand dunes, the CA coast remained unscathed by yesterday's tsunami in the Pacific. The tsunami struck the islands of Samoa and American Samoa, killing over 100 people with
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Let It Be," Russian-Style In this special video, a large Russian man bearing some resemblance to Newt Gingrich in a sailor costume gets up and sings the Beatles' "Let It Be" really badly. There is also a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em> at CalShakes Probably like many of you, we've always liked the idea of A Midsummer Night's Dream (and the title) more than the play itself -- at least what we remembered understanding about it from
SF News Danielle Steel's Former Bookkeeper Convicted of Embezzlement Kristy Watts, a former accountant/assistant to Danielle Steel who also goes by Kristy Siegrist, was convicted in U.S. District Court today of one count of wire fraud and four counts of
Arts & Entertainment Folsom Street Fair '09: A Gallery - SOME NSFW! - UPDATED It was a lusty, warm day at Folsom Street Fair yesterday, and people showed up in droves to show themselves off in their leather harnesses, bustiers, jockstraps and the like. They also showed
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts Again this week, our concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, who provides concert listings for Bay Area venues in a neat, easy format each week. Follow Epicsauce
SF News Carsonist: Is He/She Back? There was another car fire in the Richmond last night, the first since that string of them in July which, as you might recall, the SFPD was trying to pin on loony transient
