Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Great Happiness Space: Tales Of An Osaka Love Thief</i> As SFist Mihi so wisely put it in her review, "Don't hate the player, hate the game." As we got totally caught up in the -like mind games between the host men and
Arts & Entertainment Workin' for the Weekend Friday, March 2, 2007 Earlybird Special: Fukwerk Fridays @ 111 Minna Roll up your sleeves and loosen your tie with loungy beats and discounted booze -- and hey, check out the art of Brazilian
SF News Today In Purple Gloves They found Shin at his parents' house, hiding in a closet. Once caught, Shin reacted violently to the arrest, hitting one officer in the nose. Before being taken in, though, he called a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's There To Love About the East Bay? Lots! First Stop: Van Kleef's At first, we thought the lonely, empty feel of downtown Oakland after Five kind of depressed us. But no longer! Now we're happy to spend our happy hours (and extended happy hours) at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Save the Barleycorn While SFist Nico went to the Barleycorn and gave it a vigurous nod of approval, we have to say we've never been there. We wish we had as it sounds like one of
SF News Treasure Hunt: An Ounce of Bliss Their name's the stuff our dreams are made of but the first minute we spend at The San Francisco Chocolate Factory doesn't bode well. "Do you make the chocolate here?" We ask, our
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We'll Stick With the Pub on the Corner. You’re let in only after you give the pretty gatekeeper the password, which none of you want to mutter, mostly because you feel like an asshole not being let into a bar
SF News The Flu Boat The trip over didn't quite set a course for adventure, however, as several days after setting out to sea, an outbreak of the norovirus hit the boat. The norovirus is a nasty little
misc Mmm...Junk Food.... We kind of imagine this thing being like what happens when you go on Haight Street but instead of people going up to you and saying "buds...doses" you hear "Doritos...cokes...." The
SF News New Rules The biggest one is an increase in the minimum wage, from $6.75 an hour to $7.50. Next year, it'll go up to $8. In San Francisco, however, the minimum wage is
Arts & Entertainment Hey, At Least It's Free Now Friedman, who died last week, definitely has his intellectual cred. He's got a Nobel Prize fer crissakes. And he's definitely been a figure of major influence over the years. His economic viewpoints
SF News Is a Bar More than the Sum of Its Customers? We got there early and noticed that the place had the same sort of feel as the previous bars-- long bar with tables in the center in front of couches but that it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Arrow Bar If you're going to be wending your way through crack addicts, men wearing garbage bags as clothing and general oddities of the night you might as well do it for the right reasons.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Madrone So, bonus points for a place that allows you to contemplate that which enriches the mind as you sit and systematically execute brain cells. Yes, we can appreciate an establishment that fills its
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: The Attic Halloween is a special time. Not only is it perfect for carousing in purely ridiculous get-ups (when else can you go out of the house with a giant penis on your head?), one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Diary of a Happy "Hour" 5:59 Buy second of two expensive drinks, wonder where all the people who drink at this bar are, also where are our friends supposedly meeting us there. 6:12 Friends show up.
SF News Baseball the Way God Intended-- During the Day Quick note on todays ALCS game-- the game is scheduled to start around 1:30 PST. The reason MLB is giving is because it's supposed to, yes, snow late Friday night and they'd
Arts & Entertainment And We Can See Those Fighter Planes Of course, this means there'll be the attendant complaints about noise and from the leftier side of the political spectrum, cries of glorification of the military and this is San Francisco and wasted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Amnesia Good Lord Almighty, we can barely remember anything. Maybe it's something in the food, maybe we're trying jam too much information into our tiny little brains, or, heaven forbid, we're just getting old,
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
SF News North Beach is Italian For Even Less Fun After cracking down on the North Beach Street Festival and the Jazz Fest, it looks like the Powers that Be are all set to crack down on North Beach itself. At issue is
SF News The Chron Behind Bars If life were a Monopoly game, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada just rounded the Free Parking corner -- the next roll might put them in jail. Do not pass go, do not collect
misc SFist Rants: When the Olympics Committee Comes A-Calling We’re considering booking our dream vacation now if the Olympic Games will be in San Francisco instead of Los Angeles or Chicago in 2016. Maybe it's a chance to try apartment or
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
