SF News All the Fans in Giants' Land Love that Crazy Crab Oh, woe is the Giant fan. This week we were taunted at by our resident A's scribe and all we could come up with as a retort was "at least we got a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: It must be Siegfried, because it's not Roy. Trader Joe's has become a weekend ritual for us. We really can't admit this without shame. Weekends used to be times to climb mountains or party endlessly. Now, we must wake up early
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria Gays don't always have the best grasp on their activist history (which may be why they think that picketing a lame bar is the best use of their resources), but you couldn't ask
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Sasha Aickin Of course, SFist is all over Frameline 29: The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. We're so pleased and honored to administer The SFist Interview to Sasha Aickin, director of one of the
Arts & Entertainment Mysterious Boy Berry's parents, friends, shrink, religious leaders, doctors, and the ambiguously sexual eccentrics who admire his moxie all seem to have their own plans for Berry; none of them help him to figure out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Odeon Gone, What's Still Fresh? We have to admit being sad to see the Odeon disappear. While the bar did not leave up to the bourgeois sophistication of its French name, we will miss it. We still have
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music?</i> We're not sure what attracted us to . Maybe it's because Sons of Provo, a mockumentary about a Mormon boy band, opened our eyes to the possibility that there was more to Christian music
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Half Moon Bay Brewing Company Beer: We like it. So Half Moon Bay Brewing Company — a waterfront restaurant that brews its own — seemed a great choice for a foggy afternoon on the coast. We had s**t to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Review: "All Tomorrow's Jokes" at the Hemlock Tavern SFist checked out the All Tomorrow's Jokes event last Friday and learned something valuable. Mainly that just because it says "tommorow" (sic) on the press release doesn’t necessarily mean it's supposed to
misc FDA Guarding Against Fabulous Sperm We must confess that we're rather attached to our bodily fluids. But not everyone hoards theirs as selfishly as we, and that's got the FDA all riled up: under new recommendations, gays will
misc Animal Roundup 'Cause everyone loves news about animals! Unsafe sex kills, people -- 12 penguins at the SF Zoo have died of chlamydia. We don't even want to know what's going on in that penguin
SF News Badlands's Bad The San Francisco Human Rights Commission has finished its investigation into the Castro bar Badlands, and concludes that yup, Badlands really was discriminating against African-Americans (.pdf) at the door. The HRC found that
SF News Gap Announces New Brand "Forth & Towne" -- Snark Now, Or Forever Hold Your Peace How anything the Gap Empire was up to escaped our attention is beyond us, but Chicagoist let us know that Gap, Inc. will be test marketing their Talbot, J. Jill and Lane Bryant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Takes in the View We'll make this one short and sweet -- at Red's Java House (Pier 30), what you see is what you get. On a nice day, you can't beat being bayside; you can't beat
SF News Odeon: Sold-eon? SFist had just recently been introduced to the venue, but had heard about the exploits of its patrons all the way over on the east coast before even getting out here. Nearly every
SF News SFist Blind Item: Hair Pulling Isn't Just For Girls So, say you're a major local publication, and you win a major award for work published in said publication. What else would one do but go out to one of EssEff's fancy local
Arts & Entertainment On The Road with Electric Six Electric Six are a rock band from Detroit who want you to enjoy yourself, whether that's through the guitar-heavy dance grooves they deliver, or through their laugh-out-loud lyrics. Don't get them wrong; they
SF News Barry Switching To Football In a meeting with the press in the locker room today, Barry Bonds announced that, instead of retiring, he's going to switch sports and suit up with the 49ers this fall. "Are you
Arts & Entertainment Watch Deadwood, You F**king C**ksuckers Of course SFist is of the opinion that The Sopranos is the only good thing that's been on television in the last decade or two. Sure, there's stuff that's entertaining all over TV
SF News An SFist Easter Miracle! As our loyalty to all things Apple has been on the wane of late, in large part due to the Apple v. Does case, we figured we take the lifeless carcass down to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Le Trimethyldioxypurist Se Réveille sur la Rue de Polk So first, the good news -- your Trimethyldioxypurist happened on a swell place for a cup of coffee, one that we fully encourage you to try. The bad news? La Boulange de Polk,
Arts & Entertainment SXSW Music Wrap Up For those of you who aren't familiar, SXSW is the biggest music festival in the U.S., happening over five days and four nights each year in gorgeous Austin, Texas. More than 1,
Arts & Entertainment SFist To Rock Austin That's right, SFist is getting on a plane early tomorrow and will be flying deep into the heart of Texas in order to bring you wall-to-wall reporting of the internerd/hipster fest that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco A to Zed SFist had to overcome it's own self-acknowledged, inverted form of snobbery to make a reservation at widely applauded Marina District restaurant A16. We accidentally left our passport to Chestnut Street - the fake
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wide Awake in North Beach: Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store is a small, intimate cafe in North Beach, right on the corner of Columbus and Union. Both bar seating and small, round tables are available; plenty of large windows
