Arts & Entertainment Go Ahead, Buy This $200 Steve Jobs Action Figure Sweet respite is on the way for Apple fanboys craving a small memento of Steve Jobs for themselves: a new 12-inch ultra-realistic Steve Jobs doll "action figure" will be hitting the market soon.
Arts & Entertainment Today's Techies Are Yesterday's Hippies, And Other Thoughts From The New Yorker As of late, a flurry of national media attention has followed San Francisco's growth and attendant cultural ramifications (take George Packer's recent Silicon Valley piece or this week's meditation on SF's housing crunch
Arts & Entertainment Haunted House Ups Fright Factor With Start-Up Theme Halloween is coming, and assorted ghouls, goblins, and Miley Cyruses will soon stalk the streets in search of blood. However, the scares this year will come from a different source: a new haunted
SF News Raiders Fan Tazed After Stripping, Urinating At UK Airport A man dressed in a Raiders t-shirt made a lasting international impression when he stripped naked on the tarmac at Manchester Airport. The 52-year-old man, who appears to be British (unless Oakland residents
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Restaurants And Creativity Explored Team Up For Cookbook For your Friday reassurance that yes, there is goodness and humanity in this world, we bring you a look at the new Arts & Eats cookbook, which releases today as a collaboration between
SF News Prop. 8 Creep Now Targeting Trans Teens The man behind Prop. 8 may have suffered a setback when his anti-gay marriage campaign was thwarted earlier this year, but Frank Shubert isn't letting that get him down. He's now ramping up
Arts & Entertainment Lebowski Fest Is Coming: 5 Questions For The Dude In Charge Ah, The Big Lebowski. It's clocked miles of quotable moments, inspired a new generation of ironic bowling teams, and spawned a festival that's now over a decade old and rolling. With the Lebowski
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Literary Map: Do You Live In A Famous Author's Apartment? Do you live at 891 Post, 620 Eddy, 1155 Leavenworth, or 20 Dashiell Hammett? If you do, you're walking the hallowed halls of one of Dashiell Hammett's apartments. But there's nary a neighborhood
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: SPCA 145th Anniversary The year was 1868. Andrew Johnson was President, top hats were en vogue, and a kind-hearted banker named James Sloan Hutchinson opened the first SPCA west of the Mississippi. This Saturday, the SF
Arts & Entertainment Your Topical S.F. Halloween Costume Ideas, 2013 Edition It may not feel like it, but we've entered October, and that means Halloween is fast approaching. Halloween is a dark and spooky day when the souls of the dead rise up to
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse Take disaster preparedness to new and more fun heights with Curiosity Atlas' How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse, the official launch of their next chapter of doing/making/skillsharing workshops. From stockpiling beer
Arts & Entertainment People In SF Wake Up Earlier, Go To More Dive Bars Than In NYC In a new installment in the eternal New York City versus San Francisco comparisons, the folks behind a new app have compiled some interesting data on the habits of our fair city. The
Arts & Entertainment Check Out This 1885 Vice Map Of Chinatown There was a time when San Francisco was known more for its brothels, seedy boarding houses and gambling parlors than its high rents, tech companies and leather parties. And according to a rare
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Years After the Fire Two years after the Fillmore and Haight fire, here's what former residents have to say about their housing prospects. [Haighteration] A genius has discovered how to charge your phone on BART. [Uptown Almanac]
Arts & Entertainment It's A Small San Francisco After All, In Photos Ah, tilt shift: the magical photography technique that renders houses and monuments tiny and toylike while speaking to our desire for a renewed sense of childlike wonder in a big, scary world. Also,
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On Market And Sanchez: Anti-Google Screed A disgruntled anti-Googler has put up this large-scale poster, poetically decrying the search engine's inexorable reach into our lives. It reads: I'm watching you/ I'm targeting you. I'm searching for you. I'm tracking
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sergio Romo's 'Illegal' Ice Cream Now In Stores Giants pitcher Sergio Romo never thought he'd have his face on an ice cream carton, and Three Twins founder Neal Gottlieb never imagined he'd be mentioned on ESPN. But that's just the sort
SF News After Tragic Fire Ousts Residents, Lower Haight 1-Bedrooms Go For $4K In September 27, 2011, a massive fire broke out at 493 Haight Street, gutting a Walgreens and several businesses and driving residents of the upstairs apartments from their homes. But the fire wasn't
Arts & Entertainment Do This Saturday: Brandon Bird At The Gauntlet Gallery Want some surrealist pop culture with your serving of art this weekend? Look no further than "The Art of The Astonishing World of Art”, a solo show by artist Brandon Bird at the
Arts & Entertainment So Many Jewels: Bulgari Exhibit Comes To The De Young Jewelry thieves looking to pull off one last heist take note: the De Young's Bulgari exhibit opens this weekend, and as drab and poor as that makes us feel, it's the perfect opportunity
Arts & Entertainment Hungover Thoughts On The America's Cup, From The Deck Of The Princess Aside from bed and couch, there are no optimal places to be very hungover. However, there are some locations that will make matters worse: the backseat of your parent’s car, for instance,
SF News Taxis Services Could Maybe Get Better, By 2015 It may surprise no one to learn that there are currently no enforceable dispatch performance standards in place for San Francisco taxis. How many times have you been told a taxi is on
Arts & Entertainment Do This Saturday: Yoga in the Park Finale with Om Records Feeling frazzled by back-to-school season or stressed by summer's end? Lucky for you, it's the season finale of Yoga in the Park, which means a giant outdoor "ommm" for all involved. This Saturday
Arts & Entertainment Meet The Bay Bridge's New Troll And now, in troll news: reports have swirled about the fate of the troll that took up residence on the bridge in 1989, and now SF Appeal has word that there's a new
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: We Players' 'Macbeth' Here's the first thing you should know about Fort Point after dark: even if you've been sweating like porcine on one of San Francisco's hottest weekends, come nightfall you will still be shrouded
