SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Five-Spice Margarita at Cantina Though we've certainly not completed our cocktail tour of San Francisco, our Friday drink column is coming full circle after inaugurating itself back in March with Cantina's Laughing Buddha. We return to Cantina
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>South Pacific</i> at the Golden Gate Theater Theater fans may have heard about the 2008 Lincoln Center revival of South Pacific, which took home a bunch of Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, Best Direction and Best Scenic
misc Get Your 15 (or 2) Minutes of Fame on <i>Trauma</i> Everyone's soon-to-be favorite, Bay-Area-based NBC drama featuring a helicopter-trauma-unit is looking for extras! [Ed. Note: Your SFist Editors will be LIVE-BLOGGING the Trauma premiere this coming Monday evening, because yes, we are that
SF News Thousands of Protesters, <i>Ellen</i> Producers, Descend on UC Berkeley Campus Yesterday While an estimated 5,000 students and faculty packed Sproul Plaza at U.C. Berkeley yesterday to protest a whopping 32-percent fee hike in the next year, thousands of different students were distracted
SF News Karl Rove Draws "Hundreds" In SF Karl Rove made an appearance behind enemy lines last night in SF, at a local gathering at the Ritz-Carlton of conservative bastion The Heritage Foundation. Rove made the astute observation before a crowd
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "No Signal" Horror Movie Cell Phone Montage Brilliant pop culture blogger FourFour gives us this brilliant montage (which must have required, like, months of work) in which he edits together the myriad moments from recent horror film history in which
SF News Ahmadinejad Mentions Allah, Nuclear Weapons; Fails to Mention Detained UC Berkeley Grads At U.N. He says it was "a long-shot," but Berkeley professor Ken Light was hoping Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would take a moment out from invoking Allah and predicting the downfall of global capitalism at
SF News Census Taker Found Hanged With "Fed" Scrawled on His Chest A part-time U.S. Census field worker in rural Kentucky was found hanged Wednesday in a remote part of Daniel Boone National Forest, dangling from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled across
Arts & Entertainment A Folsom Street Fair/Leather Week Preview You may not be into leather or the BDSM scene, but if you live in San Francisco you've probably breezed through Folsom Street Fair once or twice. Call it what you will, but
misc Photo: "Constellation Sutro" Over SF This photo comes to us via SF Citizen, along with the missive, "You know that Autumn has come to San Francisco when you see a crescent moon inside of the nine red stars
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Gary Danko Tops Zagat Guide Once More We suspect that the only people who rely on the Zagat Guide in the Bay Area are recent New York transplants and elderlies who pick it up in the bookstore in Danville, but
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "He-Wolf" Spoof of Shakira's "She-Wolf" It looks like we have a new "Single Ladies" when it comes to spoof videos on YouTube (particularly from dance-talented gay men), and it's Shakira's "She-Wolf." While it may not inspire a Kanye
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Brief Encounter</i> at A.C.T. Noël Coward may have died thirty-six years ago, but his work remains as adaptable and relevant as ever, as proven in the second Bay Area production of a Coward play this year --
SF News Man Gets Seven Years for Nine SF Bank Robberies 52-year-old James Burge plead guilty to the unarmed robberies of nine SF banks in 2007 and 2008, including branches of Wells Fargos, Bank of the West and Bank of America, and was sentenced
SF News Security on BART Stepped Up After Al Qaeda Plot in NYC We've always wondered whether BART was as likely a terror target as the New York City subway system, and always suspected that no, it isn't. But you may have noticed some stepped up
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts This week's SFist concert preview brought to you by Epicsauce, who keep track of the local music scene every week just for you. by Kevin Meenan Great week for Bay Area live music
misc Weekend Palate Cleanser: Vintage 80's Dating Service Videos Dating Montageby smithy00101 These fine fellas were all looking for Ms. Right circa 1985 at a SoCal video dating service. We'd just like to say that we also like to wear bright socks,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pet Shop Boys Concert Preview The Pet Shop Boys are kind of like the Rolling Stones of the gayische electronic pop scene: they just never stop working and touring. But unlike the Stones, the Boys have been making
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Improved Sunrise from Rickhouse Rickhouse (246 Kearny), the recently opened Financial District cocktail haven by the guys who brought us Bourbon & Branch, is already drawing crowds in the post-3 p.m. hours after the markets close.
SF News First Swine Flu Vaccines To Be Released As Nasal Spray The first batch of H1N1 flu vaccines, some 3.4 million doses, will come in the form of a nasal spray from a company called MedImmune. We couldn't be more pleased about this
Arts & Entertainment Jackie Beat, She of the Corn Syrup Spoofs, Comes to SF You may recall L.A.-based drag queen Jackie Beat's corn syrup ad parodies which we aired here on SFist a few months back. Well, the LA-based Ms. Beat is coming to town
SF News Cyclists Being Pulled Over By Cops Today We're receiving a report of cops cracking down on cyclists running red lights and issuing tickets. The report comes from near Zuni at Van Ness and Market, and multiple cyclists have received citations
misc Our Old Friend Zennie: Calvin Klein Display Racist? Our old trekkie pal Zennie Abraham is back on his City Brights blog questioning the display currently in the windows at the Calvin Klein store in the Westfield Centre. A reader wrote in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Green Day's "American Idiot" Musical at Berkeley Rep There probably hasn't been a true rock opera produced for the stage since "The Who's Tommy" -- "Rent" and "Spring Awakening" come from more pop traditions in our book and basically amount to
