SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coit Tower: A Summary You know, with all this Bill O'Reilly brouhaha, we totally realized that, as stalwart San Francisco residents, we'd never actually to Coit Tower. In fact, we only know it as the rightmost icon
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Delay So close to heaven, and yet so far.... the crab boats remain docked -- even though crab season has officially started -- as the fishermen continue their price negotiations with the crab processors.
SF News Ode To Skull : Beethoven's skull...... Beethoven's skull..... So it turns out some guy in Danville's had fragments of Beethoven's skull sitting in a safe-deposit box, and he's turned them over to San Jose State, which apparently
Arts & Entertainment Daly On TV (Not Shouting) Hey, no one told us Hothead Supervisor Chris Daly was going to be on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night! About O'Reilly, of course. We're so bummed we missed this! (Usual Suspects, will
SF News He Told You So Chris Daly's being remarkably unsmug about the way the whole SF Grand Prix bike thing went down, isn't he? You may remember a few months ago, Daly staged a mock bike race to
SF News Political Junkie: He's Just Not That Into You Dear Political Junkie: I'm a very attractive woman with a great job in New York and lots of dating prospects. The problem is my ex. I mean, he said it was over and
SF News Phil Ting Wins The Crown Just like Ron Chun dreamed it would be -- His Highness Gavin triumphantly hands Phil Ting the coveted assessor/recorder scepter! Ting was the only one who had to go through the RCV
Arts & Entertainment SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival: <i>It's My Country Too</i> As we settled into our seats at the Castro for the world premiere of documentary , part of the SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival, there was a generalized hubbub as a tall man
SF News The Mighty Mighty Unions Amazing what a difference two days makes, huh? After the unions triumphed in their combined opposition to Arnold's Very Special Election -- well, would you look at that? Sutter is settling with the
Arts & Entertainment As Open Night As A Three Dollar Bill The Three Dollar Bill Cafe is such an excellent name for the restaurant inside the SF LGBT Community Center. If you've got the time and inclination, stop by the cafe and check out
SF News Tow This Dennis Herrera's already moving to reward the 98% of San Franciscans who reelected him city attorney (not you, SFist Jackson!) by announcing that he's extracted $5.7 million in settlement for the City
SF News eNRAged Good ol' Chris Daly -- in an interview with the NY Times about Proposition H (reduces swelling), he said about the anti-H forces, "I'm crazy, but they're crazier." (Special bonus quote from the
Arts & Entertainment A Wedding Cantata You probably haven't been to a vocal concert since your high school crush object sang that solo from in the annual choir festival. What relevance does choral music have to my everyday life?
SF News SFist Votes Folks who voted before work were smiling and nodding at each other on public transportation today (in part because -- really, these red "I Voted! Ya Vote!" stickers they're giving out in SF
Arts & Entertainment Prince For A Day The media orgasmatron following Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla through their edge-free trip to San Francisco practically peed itself the other night as the royals on-deck chortled their way through that old chestnut,
Arts & Entertainment Film Arts Fest: Wellstone! KQED listeners and Howard Deaniacs patiently lined up in the on-again off-again drizzly evening outside the Roxie, reading complimentary copies of Mother Jones and blocking the entrance to Dalva, as a sodden and
SF News Prove Him Wrong Secretary of State Bruce MacPherson's going all Nostradamus on us, predicting a 42% turnout for Tuesday's election. What? You think we don't care or something? Let's show that guy he's wrong! (upwardsly, we
misc Animal Roundup: Heartwarming! Remember that guy who was saved from a car crash by his faithful dog, who ran for help and barked until someone came to rescue her human companion? (Is that the right term
SF News Your Commute: Dum-Dum Sucker We've all thought about it -- but who knew someone had the Easter Eggs to actually go and ? CHP arrested a Petaluma man Wednesday on 101 in Marin for dressing up a dummy
Arts & Entertainment Deadly Juice Squeeze Things got a little ugly on Fifth and Mission yesterday, as the World Can't Wait protestors struck a blow against George Bush by tossing Molotov cocktails at the right-wing bastion of the San
misc Halloween News Just in time for Halloween, Animal Care and Control has issued a renewed warning asking city residents to be careful about bats. San Francisco has seen five rabid bats over the last two
SF News Royal Londonist Exchange SF Anglophiles, take those cozies off your pot of Lovejoy's tearoom blend -- Prince Charles and Princess Camilla (recently upgraded from "the Rottweiler" to the more august-sounding "Duchess of Cornwall") have announced the
misc Housing Bubbles: Luck Of The Draw Shirley Jackson, put down that rock! At 7:30 a.m. yesterday, the SF Redevelopment Agency hosted a low-income housing lottery that attracted over 4300 applicants. The SF Redevelopment Agency, along with Centurion
SF News Bright Lights, Big City Ooooh-weeeee-ooooooh! The Air Force is dismissing panicky claims from residents in the area that they saw some weird spooky lights over the cross on Mount Davidson last night. People across the state and
misc Freaks and Geeks -- So Chic Hey, no one told us that Gavin was giving a State of the City address last night! We totally would have gone! It was all blah blah blah, Tony Hall, blah blah beautification,