SF News Emporium Reopening The new Westfield will host the city's first Bloomingdale's (which will be the largest on the West Coast), a fancy Burke-Williams day spa, will connect to the current San Francisco Centre mall (with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Jade Bar Ok, we're ashamed to say we are a bit of a new-ageist. Sometimes, even in the middle of a noisy drinking establishment we can feel the ebb and flow of the natural forces
Arts & Entertainment Instant Cama Not Going To Get You We have mixed feelings about Cama closing. On the one hand, they made a yummy chocolate drink with Toblerone that we liked. They also had couches and booths and we like any place
Arts & Entertainment Dark Side of the Cop's Marco Panella New bands are always getting compared to other bands. Most of the up-and-comes suffer by this comparison. In rare cases, it may be helpful. Such is the case with Panella’s band, Dark
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: The Bigfoot Lodge Take Sasquatch for example. Perpetually bashful, unashamedly fuzzy, Bigfoot has been a major source of bar banter since his first sighting in 1811. While the wayward biped may just be a big hairy
SF News SFist Tourist: Chinatown Ghost Tour So, SFist Tourist has a bit of a confession: we went on the Chinatown Ghost Tour over a week ago and plumb forgot to write about it until we were watching Big Trouble
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Sadie's Flying Elephant With its scribbled over fallout shelter walls, Sadie's is a fine choice to prepare for the end of days. But even with the air-raid shelter feel it's charming nonetheless, with a long oak
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Islands On Islands Go to the Forbidden Island in Alameda. Billing itself as Alameda’s “first and only tiki lounge,” it’s a first-class joint for picking up drinks with props. More importantly, however, these drinks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: This Bull Got Teeth. Bullshead has big shoes to fill: it occupies the space of Tallula, the Indian-fusion restaurant in the heart of the Castro. Tallula was such a sophisticated, refined place that the big shoes were
Arts & Entertainment It's An Honor Just To Be Nominated However, it was not to be, as we just recieved notification that we were nominated again this year! (This is the part where we'd link to the award information on the BAPC site,
SF News Across The -ist Network Breaking the law, breaking the law We -ist folks love us some crime, and no misdemeanor is too petty for a post on any of our sites. This week, join us for a
SF News Guilfency Bump Watch! You can find some more pictures from the same day here, captioned "Kimberly Guilfoyle and husband Eric Villency Sighting in Soho After Lunching at Bar Pitti Restaurant -- July 16, 2006." There's also
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: John Barleycorn And they hae taen his very heart's blood, And drank it round and round; And still the more and more they drank, Their joy did more abound. ~ From The Ballad of John Barleycorn
Arts & Entertainment Dirty, Dirty Bloggers Q: Are you going to be trading up, a la One Red Paperclip? A: I wasn’t, but after pondering this question for the entirety of my morning commute, I decided that I
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Explain Themselves Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! This is new! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail
Arts & Entertainment Journalist Josh Wolf Jailed for Video Screw getting Dooced, Josh Wolf has set the blogger bar a bit higher than getting fired. He's been jailed. Judge William Alsup, presiding over a federal grand jury case investigating the attempted burning
Arts & Entertainment SFist Raises a Fist for Surrealism The Fist is currently on view at the Weinstein Gallery in Union Square as part of a Donati retrospective until it makes its final home at the De Young. The Milan-born Donati appeared
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin: Dishing and Swishing Last Friday night, Kathy Griffin, star of the Bravo reality show "My Life on the D-List" and heir apparent to the Sandra Bernhard/Joan Rivers style of snark and dish comedy -- without
SF News The Last Team To Arrive When we staggered in their unmarked doors last night, the only thing we were scanning the crowd for was a fresh vodka and soda -- but our eyes alit on a strangely familar
Arts & Entertainment Good thing it wasn't at 1130 Market St; we like to get to bed early Today is 7/11, and in memory of club, there'll be a somber BYOB flashmob at 7:11pm at a downtown 7/11 store that replaced the club, located, perfectly enough, at 711
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Have Needs, Too Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Driver over intercom as the M train inbound approached downtown: "Next stop, Montgomery. Beautiful people, get off here." -- From MeiMei
misc Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where
misc SFist Barks and Whines: Argus Lounge Sports Basement in the Presidio used to be one of our favorite stores because they welcomed (past tense) dogs inside. They changed that policy last year and we are afraid our behavior may
SF News End Prejudice Against Backward Baseball Cap Wearers Our story began last week when a mens softball team headed off to the Connecticut Yankee for some post-game celebratory drinks. As is softball players' wont as the Yankee is known as a
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Guide to the World Cup Part 1- Why You Should Care Instead, we're going to try and get you into it by showing you just how much fun the World Cup can be. Picture it not as something you have to do because you
