Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Green Day's "American Idiot" In honor of this past weekend's world premiere of Green Day's "American Idiot" musical at Berkeley Rep (the show's still technically in previews, and has recently been extended until November -- we'll have
SF News UPDATED: NBC Bay Area Readers "Laughing" About Little Girl's Reattached Hand We'd now like to point you to this story of a little girl from Los Gatos, Erica Rix, who was on the Today show this morning telling Matt Lauer about the hand she
SF News 'Pink Slip Parties' Return Not unlike speed-dating events where desperation and forced smiles hang thick in the air, so-called 'pink-slip' parties are allegedly making a comeback. These were popular during the dot-com bust eight years ago where
misc SFist History Lesson: The Key Route and the Bay Bridge For those of you killing time waiting to see if the Bay Bridge reopens on schedule, why not spend ten minutes watching this charming film, "The March of Progress," about the engineering marvel
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Smokin' Stoned Fruit from Reza Esmaili of Conduit The cocktail menu at Conduit, designed by bar manager (and recently elected President of the U.S. Bartending Guild) Reza Esmaili, tends toward seasonally appropriate and well-balanced flavors that pair well with food.
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: AutoTune the News ft. Geese, Dragons, Joe Biden and T-Pain We still love these guys, and they're milking their internet fame for all it's worth. Consider yourselves cleansed. PREVIOUSLY: AutoTuning The News, AutoTuning the News, Obama Edition
SF News The iPhone Is Killing AT&T, One 'Bump' Download at a Time Many AT&T customers, including the legion of iPhone users out there, may be aware of some wonkiness with their wonder devices of late. Dropped calls, delayed voicemails, inability to access voicemail,
SF News George Gascon Declares Futile War on Drugs and Hookers in the 'Loin Has anyone heard of this thing called the War on Drugs started by President Nixon, in which drug dealers and users get thrown in jail in order to clean up our streets and
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Puppy Can't Get Up And here ends our coverage of adorable pets for the week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Preston of Dry Creek A couple weeks back we filled in the Friday Drinks column with a post about Cline Cellars, and today we're back with the launch of a new column about local wineries which we're
SF News Nancy Garrido Called "A Robot" and "The Real Monster" We're not sure how we feel about all the flack flying at Nancy Garrido, wife of schizophrenic kidnapper/rapist Philip Garrido. The woman married him while he was in prison for kidnapping and
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Time Lapse of the Station Fire in LA Let's take a look at what our SoCal buddy at LAist sees as the sun goes down. It's both scary and beautiful. Enjoy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Zine Alert: Food+Sex One of our discoveries at this past weekend's Eat Real Fest was a new art/collage magazine called Food+Sex. Publisher Mark Andrew Gravel was on hand selling copies on Saturday at Jack
SF News Swine Flu: Don't Panic, But Yes, Panic. There were plenty of predictions this past spring that the H1N1 virus was going to come back to bite us in the ass this winter, and last week a White House advisory panel
SF News This Summer Has Actually Been Chillier Than Usual It's not your imagination, friends. That impenetrable marine layer and frustrating fog have, in fact, been a little worse than average according to Examiner.com today: "San Francisco's average high temperature for June,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Weekend We Got Fat and Learned Butchery at Oakland's Eat Real Fest It was a festival-heavy weekend for us, what with Outside Lands bridging the generations through music, food, wine and Tom Jones, and the first annual Eat Real Festival in Oakland, a celebration of
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Matt & Kim Wander Naked Through Times Square One of the best sets of the weekend at Outside Lands was by the skinny Brooklyn duo known as Matt & Kim. Their energy is infectious, and in this video, shot last February,
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Day 3: The Last and Final Gallery As many of you probably know, the weather took a turn for the San Franciscan on Sunday and Golden Gate Park remained socked in all day. But that did not deter fans from
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Day 2: Another Gallery The second day of Outside Lands on Saturday was equally as hot (temperature-wise) as the first, and the crowd was estimated at near the festival's capacity of 60,000 -- and it was
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Day 1: A Gallery It was hotter than anyone could have dreamed possible for August in SF yesterday, and the sun stayed out much of the day for the opening of the Outside Lands Music Festival in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Promissory Note from The Alembic If you break down contemporary cocktail culture as aficionados like Camper English are wont to do, you may be inclined to generalize that East Coast style (inspired lately by NYC joints like Milk
SF News Meter Maid Gets Decked By Samoan Woman Just in case you didn't catch this on the SFGate's Crime Scene blog (possibly because you don't read SFGate's Crime Scene blog), we thought we'd bring your attention to this charming story in
Arts & Entertainment Tom Jones Gives Pre-Outside Lands Interview to SFBG We're not sure if Sean McCourt at the Guardian got old Sex Bomb on the phone, or whether these statements came through a publicist, but there's a brief interview with that legendary piece
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Thievery Corporation's "The Numbers Game" This track off of Thievery Corporation's lastest album features jazz guitarist Chuck Brown, a.k.a. The Godfather of Go-Go. Check out TC, maybe with Chuck in tow, at Outside Lands tomorrow night,
Arts & Entertainment Some Quickie Highlights at Outside Lands This Weekend The weather for Outside Lands this weekend is looking downright grand, so for those of you with tickets and those still on the fence, SFist brings you this roundup of highlights. It's been
