SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Boulevard's Biscaccianti This week's drink comes to us from Steven Liles (a.k.a. The Reverend) at Boulevard, who created this recipe using Galliano Authentico to be featured on Boulevard's cocktail menu for the upcoming
Arts & Entertainment Dore Alley Street Fair Permit Threatened Because of Public Sex, Nudity The always filthy Up Your Alley Street Fair (a.k.a. Dore Alley) -- which is sort of a smaller, gayer, more distilled and urine-soaked version of Folsom Street Fair -- is being
SF News Condoleezza Rice Put On Defensive by Stanford Student Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced a difficult audience of students at a dorm reception yesterday at Stanford, where she's lately gone back to teaching. A few awkward exchanges were caught on
Arts & Entertainment Ju$t Another Rich Kid Unveiling Limited Edition Set of Designer Coke Spoons in SF <strike>Tonight</strike> Next Week It may not be the best moment to be celebrating the blind indulgence of American consumer (and drug) culture, but fashion designer Ken Courtney of Ju$t Another Rich Kid is nonetheless forging
Arts & Entertainment Ticket Giveaway for Michael J. Fox/Michael Pollan Event at City Arts & Lectures It's kind of an odd double bill, but not as much once you know the connection: Michael J. Fox is making an appearance tomorrow night at City Arts & Lectures in conversation with
SF News Martinez Shell Oil Employee Dies Inside Holding Tank Late last night the body of deceased Shell refinery employee William Maddock, who had been with the company for 22 years, was found inside a water holding tank on plant property in Martinez.
Arts & Entertainment <em>NYT</em> Gives Mixed Review to SF Ballet's "Jewels" Alastair Macaulay, writing for The New York Times, gave a rather stilted and mixed review of the San Francisco Ballet's current staging of Balanchine's "Jewels," honoring several of the dancers but getting fussy
misc Anti-<em>SF Weekly</em> T-Shirt We just spotted this and thought we'd share, especially since many of you have been quite vocal in your annoyance with Weekly reporter Matt Smith's prudish stance on allowing Kink.com employees to
Arts & Entertainment John Wray, Author of <em>Lowboy</em>, Reading This Week in SF San Franciscans who spend any time around 6th or 7th and Market are no strangers to schizophrenia. Lowboy is a new novel that centers on a young man living with the disease who
SF News Preservationist Battle Over Historic Longshoremen's Hall In case you aren't tuned into City Planning and Architectural Preservation news, the SFBG has a new piece about the battle surrounding the possible demolition of 113 Steuart Street, which once housed the
SF News FBI Hunting Serial Bank Robber The manhunt is on for this gangsta, who allegedly robbed six Bay Area banks over the course of ten days this month. They say he's between 5' 7" and 5' 10", white, slim,
SF News Ming Dynasty War Ship Sunk Hours from Destination Some of you may recall the replica of a 17th Century Chinese war junk that toured through San Francisco last fall. It was called the Princess Taiping and its mission was to complete
misc A Rat, on a Cat, on a Dog Touring Union Square It's sort of like a miniature circus act. We think this video was shot recently on someone's phone, as Greg Pike brought his troupe of three up Powell Street, but we can't be
SF News Australians, Hong Kong-ians Panic About Incoming Swine Flu From San Francisco The insane worldwide panic preceding a potential (though unlikely?) worldwide pandemic of swine flu reached new heights today, with Australian flights from California being screened before deplaning and a woman in Hong Kong
SF News Out-Of-Town Homeless Migration to SF Down 16% According to the latest biannual census of the city's homeless by the SF Human Services Agency, there are 6,514 homeless living in the city, an overall increase of 2% since 2007. 78%
Arts & Entertainment Laurie Anderson Comes to City Arts & Lectures on Monday On Monday at 8PM, renowned musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson will be at City Arts & Lectures "in conversation with" Michael Azerrad. Anderson made a name for herself in the arts scene
misc 'Baby Shaker' Inspires More Provocative iPhone Apps (Semi-NSFW) Gay blog Unzipped.net pointed us to a few other iPhone apps in the same shaky vein of Baby Shaker but not yet pulled from Apple's e-shelves. These are particularly geared toward a
misc Japanese Kid Is One-Man Beatbox Band We weren't sure at first if this was a fake, because it came from College Humor. But no, we think this kid is actually making all those sounds, and his work has already
Arts & Entertainment Stars of NYC Gay Scene Make SF Debut at Lip Service 'Tis the season when many of your more athletic gay friends start hitting you up for donations for their AIDS/LifeCycle trip to LA, and amongst the gays of SF there are about
SF News Microsoft Sales Fall For First Time, Because They Suck ...Also, it's a bad economy and cheaper notebook computers have impacted PC sales, and Apple's putting a slightly bigger dent in the market. Oh, and Vista SUCKS and never "took off like the
SF News BART Fare Hike Could Take Effect July 1 In their meeting yesterday, BART directors said they'd probably be raising fares by at least 6% on July 1, rather than wait until a scheduled increase next January. The increase will take the
misc <em>SF Weekly</em> Shows Its Prudish Side Toward Kink.com In a piece that SFBG's Tim Redmond has already called "remarkable for its prudishness," SF Weekly's Matt Smith has written an indictment this week against S&M porn producers Kink.com for
SF News Sunset Reservoir Solar Panel Project Gets Go-Ahead The three-person Board of Supervisors Finance subcommittee approved yesterday (without recommendation) what would be the state's largest photovoltaic power project, which would put 25,000 solar panels on the rooftop of the Sunset
SF News Already Imprisoned Man Charged in Chandra Levy Murder Case Remember Chandra Levy? She was the intern who went missing in 2001 and was later found dead in Rock Creek Park in D.C. and the prime suspect, for a while, was California
SF News AutoTuning The News This dude Michael Gregory has done what we always strive to do: make the news a little less BORING for all you folks out there who have learned to demand a little wit
