SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lunch of the Future! (Or: What I was handed coming off BART This Morning) When we were in elementary school, perhaps during the Reagan presidency (and the accompanying jellybean zeitgeist), we imagined that in the future, all food would be in pill form. Here we are in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why Bother Learning About Wine--Use Technology! We're all for technology that simplifies and informs, but sometimes we see a new service that sounds a little silly to us. eWine Match, a service of Foster's Wine Estates in Napa, allows
SF News The (Carbon) Prints Of Tides Well, isn't it interesting that this is happening right after the Board of Supes votes to leave PG&E and pursue Community Choice Energy? Today, Gavin (Representing the City and County of
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For The Founders Of Yelp We enjoy Yelp quite a bit. During our rare moments of free time, we often have fun slogging through the site's multitudes of oft-useful, oft-comedic opinions on local services, establishments, and especially restaurants
misc Yahoo's Happy To Share Personnel News; Not So Chatty About New Webmail Ads So, we were just reading the newswires, and came across this story of how one of Yahoo's co-founders, Jerry Yang, has been named CEO. Well, "yahoo" for him . . . we guess. Perhaps he'll help
misc Top 5 Comments of The Week Hi, folks -- welcome to the latest edition of the Top 5. As SFist is community driven, we enjoy picking out some of the best comments that you folks contributed -- the ones
misc Week Around The -Ists Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. Due to some sad shootings in
SF News Green Wombat's Got The Goods On The B of A/Redwood Forest Foundation Deal Green Wombat was at the Bank of America / Redwood Forest Foundation announcement yesterday, which took place at the "urban redwoods" next to the Transamerica Pyramid. As part of the bank's $20 billion "green
SF News It's Nice Working With Friends, Ain't It? (Accountemps, a Robert Half Int'l company, is a temp firm specializing in finance/bookkeeping/accounting needs. You may know the company from its extremely annoying radio spots where the boss always pines for
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Phil Bronstein Phil Bronstein is the Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. In no small part thanks to Eve Batey (our "Editrix Emeritus" and the Chron's current blogging and interactive editor), Mr. Bronstein agreed to
SF News Oh No-Gurt: Local Company Recalls Soy Yogurt WholeSoy & Co. issued an allergy alert on June 7 and expanded it just yesterday when the scope of the accidental ingredient became more clear. Two customers reporting allergic reactions to the product
Arts & Entertainment One Book To Bind Them: One City One Book 2007 But you know a banner we can all unite under? The One City One Book: San Francisco Reads program. Imagine, hordes of people reading a sort of narrative story on paper! No electricity
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Like Tamagotchi For Wine Enthusiasts Have you heard of Crushpad? It's a relatively new company whose product is akin to an adult version of one of those tamagotchi pets -- except that when you're done, instead of a
Arts & Entertainment McSweeney's Has Good Stuff To Read For Cheaper Than Usual We usually keep things pretty simple around here -- so if you want something a little more literary, there's a plethora of clever, quirky, smart, and wonderful writing at McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Your Carbon Footprint Off The Dinner Table "Low carb diet" had a lot of buzz in the past few years. Perhaps "low carbon diet" is next. A while ago we wrote about the possibility of saving the world through cuisine.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Is Subject Of a Casual Gaming Hit Every Monday, Logler.com presents its "Casual Games Global Top 10," a list ranked by data from major download portals. Just so happens that the number one game this week is called "Big
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Indian Man's Love Of NoCal Wine Sparks Successful Venture Back Home We find something inherently charming about falling in love with something (especially wine), and making your passion into your life. All the more charming that the dream's genesis was here, and it traveled
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Masters of Bacchanal Administration? Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, already offers an undergrad degree in wine business -- but now the school is expanding its program. Graduate students cam now earn an MBA in Wine Business.
Arts & Entertainment Neighborhood Dialogue In The Mission On Saturday, neighbors convened for a rap session at 25th between Mission and Valencia. We sat in long enough to hear a man on a microphone's semi-successful efforts to find some bilingual volunteers.
misc Top 5 Comments of The Week: Non-Audio! Hey, everyone -- here are the semi-arbitrary Top 5 Comments of the Week. For this, our fourth week of doing it, we thought it'd be a swell idea to try it out in
Arts & Entertainment If We've Swam To Alcatraz Once, We've Done It 500 Times On Monday, three people are each making their respective 500th open-water swim to Alcatraz and back. Swimming's hard! And the water's cold! And they won't be wearing wet suits. But these three guys
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Digg's Kevin Rose You know who Kevin Rose is, right? He used to be on television quite a bit. Now, he's all over the podwaves, co-hosting, behind the scenes, and making guest appearances. And he's the
Arts & Entertainment Top Chef: We Told You So Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, and often-guest (and apparent season 3 regular) Ted Allen were there to judge. At stake? $20k to charity of the winning team's choice. All this one was missing was
SF News Bold Multimedia Action By MTC Regarding Older Drivers The Metropolitan Transportation Commission is all over the problem of keeping only confident, competent senior drivers on the road. It's unveiled a new video to educate both seniors and those with seniors in
SF News How's Carole Migden's Driving?: We See You Spinning, Senator We're sure many of you received letters from Carole Migden, as did we. They serve as yet another medium for excusing her recent poor driving -- and offer up a short list of
