SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gourmet de l'Ouest: Patpong Out in the Sunset, you can't swing a cat without hitting a pretty decent Thai restaurant. We're reminded of the line in Six Degrees of Separation, where dining in New York is described
SF News SFist Rants: We Want to Drink More and Later Imagine one of those "from the past" montages like thay have on "Cold Case". Some early 90s dance music (maybe Rhythm is a Dancer) plays in the background as a thinner, younger, and
Arts & Entertainment Save the Gizmos! The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hosting an event tonight to highlight "endangered gizmos," or technology products that are on the cutting edge of innovation but that could fall prey to increasingly more restrictive
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Royalty Sometimes, SFist likes to dress up as a pretty, pretty princess. We're so cute afterall. When we're really feeling pathetic we put on our old prom dress, the one we wore when we
SF News Your Commute: The Park Grill MUNI's bad enough -- people laden with bags moshing their way onto teeny-tiny trolley cars, a mother holding an infant and frantically clutching at your head and jacket sleeves as she attempts to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Closing Time Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) tried to get similar legislation passed several years ago, with the approval of the Board of Supes, but used an economic argument instead. His idea was that if
Arts & Entertainment Happy Parrot Day! February maybe the dreariest month, what with it being the dying days of winter and there being a dearth of sports on TV, but cheer up, San Franciscans, the Board of Supervisors has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Snark Gawker's all hot and bothered that Luna Park, the Valencia street eatery which expanded to hell-ay, is now making the move to the loisaida. That's right, it will soon join uber-good Katz's Delicatessen
misc Inside the Hotel Vitale Mark over at HotelChatter tipped us off to some anonymous photos taken from the inside of local hotelier Joi de Vivre's new boutique hotel on the Embarcadero, Hotel Vitale. While the project was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Goes Shopping Gah. Crowds. Who can stand them? Oh, sure, we'll wait a few weeks before we make all our holiday returns and exchanges. Oh, yeah, Union Square will be like a walk in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Staggering Through Fog When the weather gets as ugly as it's been recently, you just gotta find a place that feels like home. No, not that 200 square foot dump you call an apartment. We're talking
SF News Smoke 'Em If You Golf 'Em Funny little thing about this law, though- it actually calls for the banning of smoking in every city park except one, the public golf course. Turns out that a high percentage of golfers-
Arts & Entertainment Creative Commonists It's good to be a nerd. At least that's how SFist feels after hanging out at the Swedish American Hall, taking full advantage of the open bar, nodding our head to the DJ's
SF News City Stops Slacking Sowers The news story that got the ball rolling was an investigation into the state of various local parks. There was the usual interviews with upset neighbors at the lack of any sort of
SF News Political Junkie: Gossip Talk Oh, what the heck, let's go so-best one more time! Tongues are a-waggin' in town (and not just like that, you sick pervs) over the Gavin-x-Kim news and we're here to give you
Arts & Entertainment <em>The Darwin Awards</em> Having never been to a movie set before, we were entertained by watching the multitude of techs and runners standing around drinking coffee and communicating via walkie talkies. Apparently there is a lot
SF News Parties To Which We Were Not Invited Question: where does one go if one were to celebrate the birthday of an Orchestra Conductor? Why the Tosca Cafe, of course! Last Tuesday, San Francisco Symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas (that’s
SF News Remembering Daniel Price Almost exactly one year ago, a normally-jaded San Francisco was stunned by the news of a man shot to death on Gough Street. Daniel Price was escorting his wife home from a Christmas
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker While we don't want to seem a shill for any business enterprise, Scharffen Berger's catchphrase of "America's Finest Dark Chocolate...From Bean to Bar" is really pretty accurate. This is damned good chocolate,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: The Buena Vista I know, I know -- today's hip, cultured SFist wouldn't be caught dead so close to the wharf. But there's some really cool stuff down there; places from the past that have stood
SF News Medical Marijuana Case Goes to the, uh, Highest Court; Massachusetts Gay Marriage Case Doesn't Meanwhile, the Court will hear arguments today in , a medical-marijuana case that started right here in the Bay Area. In 2002 Angel Raich of Oakland, who suffers from an inoperable brain tumor (among
SF News Political Junkie: Anger Management Well, he wasn't wearing a t-shirt to promote his new rap album, but, like Ron Artest, Chris Daly ain't sorry. Well, that's not entirely fair. At yesterday's unprecedented censure motion hearings before the
SF News Caressing the Hand That Feeds You SFist brings you another update on the Governator's bill-signing binge -- and this one will hit you right in the gut if you're an unrepentant file-sharer like we are. It is now a
misc Bird Hunting with the Essefficist It's Tuesday again so the Essefficist is back with more Q&A for our loyal readers. Today we bring you answers to your questions about weird hamburgers and pruney toes. Also, for
