SF News Miami(st) Nice You might have noticed a new city up top in our -ist nav bar: Miamist is in the house! We've been checking them all day long for updates on Wilma, but will keep
Arts & Entertainment Income Doesn't Get Any More Disposable Than This Did you know there are craptards out there willing to lay down hundreds dollars for a ? Apparantly it's true. We just got an invitation to "an evening of watches and Patrón margaritas" --
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink O to Zed Somewhere deep in the Tenderloin you can find a secretive wooden door, sometimes marked by 'Daddi-Dee' waiting to see if you'll bum him a cigarette or slide him a note. The journey through
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Winter Squash "But, um," you're thinking, "shouldn't that read 'winter squash is to '? Because, you know, they're winter squash?" Pish tosh, we say. The winter add-on is more about how long you can store
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Val's Restaurant & Lounge Amazing what getting in the wrong turning lane will do for you. After a movie at the Century 20 Daly City — about which theater, the less said, the better, but let's just note
SF News American Football Spectacular: At Least Pinatas Have Candy If there is something that American Football Spectacular learnt hard about in the preceding two weeks, it is squandered opportunities. In the last two games, your San Francisco 49ers have received gift-wrapped double-digit
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Charles Siegel There are few things as beloved as chocolate--it can change moods, please crowds, make an otherwise forgettable event suddenly memorable. It's magical. And it can concern us sometimes, as with recent local chocolatiers
SF News SFist Parties With The Techies SFist hit Mobilefocus at the Fairmont last night. Although a Casablanca theme seemed bizarre for a tech event the food and bevs were good and the booth bimbos were wearing belly dancer outfits,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ian Lendler Today's victim of the SFist interview has only been in our fair city for a couple of weeks, but that doesn'r mean we're going to take it easy on him! His new book,
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Watches Arnie & George When we last saw our favorite Republican bigwigs, Arnie and George, they were having a bit of a problem getting together. Twice, during the President's extended and ill-fated vacation, he visited our fair
SF News It Had to be Said It must be 中途ハンパ written in a wrong way. Embarassingly wrong. 中途半端(chew-toe hamper) is the orignal form. 半端 sometimes is written in katakana, thus 中途ハンパ. 中途ハンパ means half-way, unfinished, incomplete, uncompleted. Somewhere
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Samantha Chanse Other than a few culinary issues, and a penchant for the New York Times, Samantha Chanse seems to be adjusting well to the west coast. She’s found cheap Maker’s Mark, a
misc You Put Your Mocha Java In My Chocolate! With some fair frequency in this column and elsewhere, we've bemoaned the loss of local business to the big guys, whether by corporate buyout or the sort of overproliferation that can present a
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fashion Week: Opening Night The Beautiful People were out in full force at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater Wednesday night. We felt like we had really pulled a fast one as we picked up our media
SF News BarCamp 2005 It all started on Thursday night when Andy Smith, celebrating his birthday at the Beauty Bar and wearing a bathrobe, asked if we were going to BarCamp. "Uh, sure," was the reply, not
Arts & Entertainment Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast The reason? The bar's owners determined that her work, which she describes as "unique mixed media works...[with] tasteful nudity in themand a totally non-sexual context" could not remain because (in the words
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: You Can Ride Our Tail Any Time Last week’s roundup covered quite a few places in the Mission: Pizzeria Delfina, the resurrected Window, the Thai-French fusion at Baku, dim-sum at Big Lantern, and Crazy Sushi. We thought it was
Arts & Entertainment Charo-Guitar is Whatever You Say During the week of August first, fans of Charo -- and who on earth isn't her fan -- are in for a treat: the board of supes has designated it Charo Week in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Drinking for Literacy Artists for Literacy takes a really unique and fresh approach to getting people to read - they do it by using all kinds of media, not just the written word, to get people
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink J to Zed Sfist has a little crush on James Ormsby. No less than three times in seven months, we have been drawn back to his swanky Gavin-endorsed restaurant in SoMa, Jack Falstaff. We are not
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Servin' Up Summertime Our friends and family tried to tell us, but we had to find out for ourselves anyway: July in an ivy-covered Northeastern college town is no place for a California boy. We mention
Arts & Entertainment Three... Is The Magic Number 22 movies were screened in total, with Adam Davis' Runner taking the first place trophy. Jeff Cleary's Searching For Billy Ocean Volume One finished second, and Jen Hoenigsberg's Slinky rounded out the top
Arts & Entertainment Like Cannes For People With A.D.D. Admission will be a suggested donation of $6-$10, which, when you consider what you get ( 20 or 30 films, the booty-shakin' sounds of Hush Hush resident DJ Swayzee, a bar for drinkin',
Arts & Entertainment Hey, Who's That Gringo Mariachi? Last night Melanie and I went to Pancho Villa for the award-winning deliciousness. As you may know, it's not unusual for somebody to be standing in the back playing a guitar. However, the
Arts & Entertainment Movie Review: <em>Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus</em> Seeing Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is like watching a documentary, attending a concert, seeing a feature film and reading a short story all at the same time. Beautifully shot and featuring gorgeous
