SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry Booted From Sparkling Water's Top-50 Restaurant List San Pellegrino, the fizzy bottled water located below the Vitamin Water and Lipton Brisk at our nearest corner store, revealed their annual World's Best 50 Restaurant awards today. The kicker? Annual favorite the
SF News Bay Area Empty-Handed After 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today. And guess what? No one from the Bay Area won. Even though local pubs (new and old) entered a bunch of samples -- it's super pricy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Awards 2011 Nominations Announced The James Beard Foundation announced its final nominees today for their annual awards bestowment, set to take place on May 9. As expected a slew of nominees are right here in the Bay
SF News Very Few Bay Area Folks Won Grammy Awards Last Night During last night's Grammy Awards - did you watch?! - a few winners "with strong Bay Area ties" took home trophies. Neil Young won best rock song for "Angry World"; Berkeley Repertory Theatre's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Veteran queer rockers Pansy Division play their first show in SF since 2009, with special guests The Minks, an all-female Kinks cover band, and Bad Backs, a new band formed by a
SF News Scene From A World Series Trophy Meet & Greet San Francisco Giants fan Lauren Ruffo, displays her Giant's sleeve and her Giant's bear, named Aubrey Huff, after having her picture taken with the Giant's 2010 World Series trophy on display at the
SF News S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards 'Social Network' Speaking of Facebook accolades, the San Francisco Critics Circle Awards bestowed The Social Network, the non-gritty Harvard drama about barely-legal college kids, lawsuits and social media, with three awards Monday night, including best
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Esquire Loves Gather Restaurant In Berkeley Refined gentleman's magazine Esquire named Gather the 2010 “Best New Restaurant” and bestowed its "Chef of the Year" honor to its chef, Sean Baker. And why wouldn't they? Just look at Baker. He's
SF News Meet Your Bay Area MacArthur Fellows The MacArthur Foundation named 23 MacArthur Fellows for 2010 today. That is to say, 23 smartypants learned from the Foundation that they will each land a cool $500,000 in "no strings attached"
misc We're Honored... SF Bay Guardian's annual "Best of San Francisco" issue came out today. And? SFist won Best Local Blog in the Readers Poll category. (Aw shucks, San Francisco, thank you so very, very much!
SF News Offensively Named Marijuana Wins Pot Award The medicinal, confounding, self-righteous, and needlessly macho world of ardent pot smoking had some sort of award ceremony this past weekend. The High Times San Francisco Medical Cannabis Cup held their first-ever competition
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow Night: <em>SF Weekly</em> Bestows Accolades to Local Musicians Tomorrow evening, October 15, SF Weekly will hold their annual music award bash, honoring local artists for their aural talent in 10 distinct categories -- rap/hip hop, dance/electronic, international, soul/R&
SF News UC Berkeley Prof Receives Economics Nobel Prize Oliver Williamson, a professor at UC Berkeley, won the Nobel economics prize on today. Along with Elinor Ostrom, Williamson nabbed the award "for their analyses of economic governance - the way authority is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, which consists of women from all four corners of the world who joined together out of concern for the planet, will be honored tonight with
Arts & Entertainment 3 Locals Named MacArthur Fellows Thee people from the Bay Area, two from Berkeley and one from San Francisco, were named MacArthur fellows last night. The "genius award," one that allows its members to work on their craft
Arts & Entertainment GayVN Nominations Announced, Janice Dickinson and Margaret Cho to Host The GayVN nominations we announced today. What are the GayVN Awards, you ask? They are the Oscars of male homosexual pornography. Up for Best Picture kudos are Ass Cruisin', Best Men Parts 1
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Foundation to start Awarding Bloggers The James Beard Foundation Awards committee, which just announced an open call-for-entries for the 2009 James Beard Foundation Awards (i..e., foodie awards), has a brand spanking new medallion to hand out next
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin vs. the GayVN Awards According to the fine folks over at The Sword (NSFW), the GayVNs (NSFW) will be held here on Saturday -- you know, those homosexual pornography achievement awards, which led to Mayor Gavin Newsom
misc Possible Golden Globe Award Cancellation = Dwindling Will to Live Due to the continuing WGA strike, the Golden Globes look like they might - might - get the ax. (For all of you book-reading intelligentsia who claim to have TV sets only so
misc Day Around the Bay School buses to run on waste grease from local restaurants. [SF Sentinel] 2007, as Chrissy from Newport Harbor: the Real OC might say, is "o-v-e, but the 'r' is not there yet." Totes,
