Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Here's what on tonight around the city - assuming you survive the Zombie Mob Invasion... Carnaval weekend in SF jumps off at the Great American Music Hall, with Sila and the Afro Funk
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Cocktail Artist Alberta Straub But the drinks are only one part of the bar-going experience; there's also the lively chatting with the bartender. So we shyly sent a few interview questions to Alberta, and she was gracious
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Cafe in Need is a Cafe Indeed He writes, In the past, we’ve tried comedy, live music, wine events, family nights, and various “get-something-free” promotions. ... In our perfect world, we’d find some sort of evergreen event that is
SF News Don't Hate Esther Because She's Beautiful Hwang claims that she was outside the North Beach bar Dolce last week, celebrating the end of her law school finals and waiting for her boyfriend when she saw some police officers. She
Arts & Entertainment Design Remix Here At SFist This top menu lineup will soon change; keep those eyes peeled. We're thinking we'll put up easy links to search by category, like MUNI, politics, and burritos -- so let us know if
SF News Leaked Muni Memo: "we need to take steps to ensure that unacceptable conduct does not continue" There's probably no shortage of folks who'll claim that this is yet another polite platitude. But check out this leaked Muni memo from Nat Ford: "we need to take steps to ensure that
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For SFist's Founding Editor It's mostly this guy's fault. Jackson West, who was the first editor here at SFist, got the ball rolling with this post, "The City that Knows How." He helped to grow the site
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Well, all of San Francisco politics is trivial, isn't it? Get that confirmed at tonight's 4th Annual Political Trivia Contest, featuring Chris "Whiskers" Daly, Ross Mirkarimi, and Jake McGoldrick, at a benefit for
Arts & Entertainment Must John Barleycorn Die? Hey, tomorrow's Saturday. You were going to have a few stiff ones anyway, right? May as well have them at the John Barleycorn. From 1-5 p.m. tomorrow there will be a free
Arts & Entertainment Alexandra Lipsitz, Director of Air Guitar Nation If you’re hoping to get into the competitive side of air guitar, or just prove to your partner that your moves really are totally solid, you should check out “Air Guitar Nation”
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To The SwapSF Book Swap! SwapSF is one of those freecycle groups that encourages people to trade cool things amongst themselves -- and what's cooler than books? So bring $5 and some books you want to trade for
Arts & Entertainment More Than Gizzards And Brains: Incanto's Got Grape Alder at Vinography is in the process of reviewing every darned wine bar in town -- 14 of the 26 have been reviewed so far. What surprised us a little -- we hadn't
Arts & Entertainment Sloan's Patrick Pentland Best show you've played and what made it great?: Osaka, Japan, 1998. Playing our first show, so far from home, not knowing what to expect, and having the crowd go from sitting politely
Arts & Entertainment Black Eyed Peas to the Rescue! You may be shocked -- SHOCKED -- to learn that sometimes, some of the people who come to the Castro for Halloween are not entirely well-behaved. Fortunately, after last year's shootings and stabbings,
Arts & Entertainment It's a Blog War! So a bunch of bloggers had a few drinks last night, or as someone on the Wall and SF Junto put it "some lame meeting of whiney bloggers at a hipster bar” when
SF News Love, San Francisco Style The funny thing about all this, however, is that just a few years ago, San Francisco was listed as not one of the best places for singles. Hmm... Anyways, all you need to
Arts & Entertainment Closing Time, Time For You to Go Out, Go Out Into the World Anyways, die to recent troubles at two clubs, the Entertainment Commission is looking at possible solutions to the problems. One of them is to have better and more educated owners. The other? Later
SF News The Three Face of Giants fans Editor -- Peter McGowan should pass an edict that all vendors at AT&T Park must take a knee when Barry Bonds comes up to bat, as nothing gets my ire up
Arts & Entertainment It's Rabbit Season Inspired by Santarchy and Bad Santa, a bunch of people have started up their very-own Easter themed bar crawl, the Bad Bunny Bar Crawl. For those of you who missed it (including ourselves
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What’s There To Love About the East Bay? Lots! A Penny-Pincher’s Guide to Albany You wouldn’t know it from the property values or the chi chi restaurants on Solano Avenue, but Albany has many a cheap option that can accommodate our miserly lifestyle. Option #1: Albany
SF News A Troublemaker, a Moron, and a Jerk Walk in to a Bar We've bolded the funniest parts, but really, you've got to read the whole thing. This guy just totally flipped out at SFist_Mattymatt (aka Matt Baume). Our favorite excerpt: "I would not be
Arts & Entertainment Living Legend Lets Loose At Laurel Lounge No, not the Laurel Heights familiar to San Franciscans, with its chain stores and baby strollers, but Oakland's Laurel District, home to personable purveyors of down-home cooking, musical instruments and lessons, locally-penned books,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Geek Out! A science fair with open mic? Awesome! Dorkbot is a monthly meeting of artists, designers, engineers, students and any interested parties who gather to share ideas and projects relating to any form of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Goes to the Oyster Bar at the Farallon Restaurant Every once in awhile, SFist likes to get out of their little burrtito ghetto and enjoy the finer things of life. Like the new oyster bar at Farallon. Put into the restaurant in
SF News I Wish... However. That's not to say that NextMuni's work would be done. Oh hell no. There's still a boatload of fixer-upperring to be done on that site. (The graphic design alone looks like something
