Arts & Entertainment Interview: Brian Regan What's your take on the comedy scene in the Bay Area? I don't live in the Bay Area, but I when i see Bay Area people slip on banana peels, I laugh my
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Girl fight! [KGO] -- Barney's -- like its irritating X-Mas holiday window display this year -- is full of green, self-righteous crap. [Curbed SF] -- Mark Zuckerberg might be the next Bill
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Warning: when visiting the ice rink at the Embarcadero, please be careful. You could fall face-first on the ice, cut open your knee, swallow a couple of itchy Vicodins to abate building pain,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Reverend Billy As you walk around and see stores decorated for Christmas before Halloween, it’s hard not to think that consumerism has gone out of control in this country. Unlike other problems, there’s
SF News SFist Blotter -- A Vallejo husband and father, Kevin Owens, 41, went though with a murder/suicide pact (with himself, we guess) on Friday night. He shot and killed his wife, Stacey Owens, 38; wounded
Arts & Entertainment It’s on Post-Consumer.com The recently-released website post-consumer.com is addressed to “anyone who has played or attended an indie rock show in Santa Cruz between 1999-2004.” We did! We were there! We remember the tall, handsome
SF News Vallejo Mayor Candidate -- Hic! -- Arrested for Public Intoxication Vallejo's too-close-to-call mayoral race -- endlessly touted as the gay man vs. black man showdown of the century -- has gotten a little more interesting. And a little drunk. Actually, a lot drunk.
misc Ask SFist: Why Not Drink the Juice? The main pro-roids (pro-drug?) point was this: seeing as how athletes already push themselves to physical extremes, shouldn't synthetic enhancers also count? Since it also deals with the body? See who's a lightweight,
SF News MISO Confused On a recent cab ride to the airport, we picked up the November issue of TODO: Little Guide. Big Town. for kicks. After scanning the restaurant, bar, and shopping guides, we came across
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Eugene Robinson By Frances Reade Eugene Robinson has been the leader of S.F.'s most dangerous art-rock band Oxbow since 1989. We don’t mean Oxbow is "dangerous" as in "Tipper-Gore-no-likey." We mean "dangerous"
SF News Oh You Should Totally Vote! It Looks Good on You. Oh is it a voting day or something? It totally sneaked up on us! It still feels like Monday today. Actually it also feels like October. Anyway, you should probably vote yes on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight (All Hallow's Eve Edition) So much to do, so much not to do. What's a girl to do? Well, here is just a smattering of what's going on tonight. (An aside, is there any reason to buy
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Jazz 117 Warriors 96- Overture/curtain, lights/This is it, the night of nights/No more rehearsing and hearsing our parts/We know every part by heart/Overture, curtain, lights /This is it,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bye Bye, Barleycorn A campaign was started to save it, complete with petitions, a Great Pub Toast, and proposed legislation from Aaron Peskin. But it was all to no avail. In a city filled with mixed
Arts & Entertainment Sfist Reviews... Eulogies “Eulogies are most commonly designated for those who have passed, but really they are just words of praise, and in this case they are for the living,” explains musician Peter Walker. “The name,
Arts & Entertainment SFistPhoto: Ad Hoc Golden Gate Park Hookah Lounge Now you're up to speed. Try it yourself, if you want.
SF News NYC vs. SF? It's a strange debate, one that gets bandied about during drunken bar conversation all of the time. Strange because who moves here thinking they'll reside in a compact version of New York, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: Holy New Whole Foods! What would Batman and Robin think? With its chic industrial/gothic design, the new “market hall” style Whole Foods that opened recently near Lake Merritt in Oakland certainly could be used for a
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Emmy-winner Al Gore might also win the Nobel Peace Prize. Weren't Bono and Princess Diana supposed to win that at some point, too? (You know, before she...vroom.) [Wired News] -- Bay
SF News Wikipedia Makes Move to SF Currently with six full-time employees on staff (whoa), according to the Chronicle, Wikipedia wants to expand its talent base while increasing its presence in developing countries (i.e., Asia), so it's making the
SF News What Hath Halloween Wrought? According to the BAR, there now exists a need for "the creation of an Office of Special Events" at City Hall, a "'dedicated and separately funded' office to oversee annual events like Halloween.
SF News Muni Almost Kills Someone The man being dragged was fine. The driver of said L-line, of course, was pissed, "yelling, 'Who pulled the release bar?'" Muni spokeswoman Maggie Lynch says that streetcar doors aren't designed like
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the deceptive SF Weekly. Letters abound, either outraged by the fake Barry Bonds story or entertained by the elk. Why don't the negative letters have the names of the authors?
SF News UPDATE: Butt Biter Behind Plan to Split State's Electoral Votes Charles Hurth, city attorney for the tiny town of New Haven, Mo., is one of the main men behind the push to make California Electoral College votes more Republican-y, a confusing ploy that
SF News Day Around the Bay -- So it has come to this: Barry Manilow, Brian Boitano, AT&T Park, and ice. [Examiner] -- The fuzz busts cannabis-sweets fusion culinary artists. [Oakland Tribune] -- Arrested Berkeley Rent Board
