misc Week Around The Ists What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly,
SF News Who's Running For Mayor: The Chicken And The Wolf Okay, okay, okay, okay -- we hear you about Laughing Squid's scoop that Chicken John running for mayor, folks! We were totally slammed at work today, that's why we're getting this up late.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Eats: Can't Stop Eating Those Free-Range Burgers Another stop on our East Bay tour of the best burgers made from "naturally-raised" meat: Luka's Taproom & Lounge. Just look at the picture. Need we say more? Note the little cup of
SF News Day Around The Bay --Who owns the new East Bay Express? [the EBX's 92510] --Oh, Newsom's all for foot patrols. [KCBS.] --The Bike Coalition and Ross Mirkarimi want lights at Fell and Masonic. [Examiner.] --Wanna pay someone
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Night At The Tadich Grill There's a lot to love about the Tadich Grill, that venerable San Francisco institution. We've eaten there many times before, and there are some things some folks don't get about it that we
misc Blocker: 800 Divisadero Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. Blocker, No. 5: Divisadero St.
Arts & Entertainment Oh No, Ed Jew!: Swear To God SFist Christopher Rogers sends in this picture he got outside the bar Shanghai Kelly's (in District 3) last Thursday. No other news to report, it's just a fun picture.
Arts & Entertainment Where'd Those 73 Other Galaxies Come From? Look what we found in the SFist Flickr stream! Reader IMPEACH sends along this picture, confirming the reports we've gotten from a couple of other readers -- there's now 85 Galaxies on Frank
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City There are a bunch of great shows to see this week, but frankly the pickins are a little slim compared to the embarrassment of riches that we're used to here in SF. Tonight
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lunch of the Future! (Or: What I was handed coming off BART This Morning) When we were in elementary school, perhaps during the Reagan presidency (and the accompanying jellybean zeitgeist), we imagined that in the future, all food would be in pill form. Here we are in
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For The Founders Of Yelp We enjoy Yelp quite a bit. During our rare moments of free time, we often have fun slogging through the site's multitudes of oft-useful, oft-comedic opinions on local services, establishments, and especially restaurants
SF News June Muni Payout Part 2: $157,736.31 Some of the cases are pretty standard -- personal injury, property damage, etc etc etc. (We winced upon reading of one plaintiff who was whacked in the face when they grabbed for a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Friday night at the de Young never looked so good! Get a sneak peek into the closet of Nan Kempner, San Francisco native turned famous New York socialite as part of an upcoming
Arts & Entertainment The Noisette's Dan Smith Best show you've ever played and what made it great? Best show was the first at the Mother Bar in the east end of London- It was the best because it was our
SF News SFist Blotter As discussed in the SFist Contributes tips page, what people heard in Ingleside Heights early yesterday morning was a mysterious car explosion. Witnesses saw a man park a car, get out of the
Arts & Entertainment Blocker: 4600 Mission Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. Blocker, No. 2: Mission St.
SF News Incident at New Montgomery and Mission Today We saw your question in the Opera post about some commotion going down at New Montgomery and Mission this morning, and have the following information to pass along. --They arrested a shooter in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Like "Pirate Master" for instance! This show screams executive pitch: "It's 'Survivor' meets Pirates of the Caribbean!" But being that we're only (semi) fans of one of those (the one without Johnny Depp)
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last Thursday night we squeezed into 330 Ritch to see Spoon, one of our favorite bands of all time. We'd just helped celebrate former SFist Eve's birthday at Tempest Bar and picked up
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Drinking and shopping? Sounds harmless! Or does it....? Find out for yourself at GenArt's first SF spring shopping event. Over 40 local vendors are offering discounted wares for the ladies and the fellows,
Arts & Entertainment Shopping + Cocktails = Fashion Heaven The only thing we love more than shopping and cocktails is shopping while sipping cocktails. (Of course, we've made many poor shopping decisions while under the influence, but that's besides the point.) Tonight,
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Since SFist Sarah L didn't get to the SJ Metro last week, we hit them next! There are too many pigeons in the South Bay, says Gary Singh. Moms other than Pat Tillman's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --Always mean to get out to Orinda to see the summer Shakespeare? This year, it's Richard III, and tonight's preview is the first performance. $32 for tonight, and prices will go
Arts & Entertainment City Creating Halloween Containment Zone? Whoa whoa whoa. What's that about the waterfront? Well, the Rincon Hill blog says that Halloween might be forcibly migrated to Pier 32, according to "Scuttlebutt," which we assume is the gay version
