SF News With Arms Wide Open Anyways, a couple of days before the big doings, your San Francisco Board of Supervisors decided to weigh in and issued a resolution condemning the rally as an “act of provocation" by an
SF News SFist Goes To The 75th San Francisco Golden Gloves Though last week's Golden Gloves was not actually the "Golden Gloves" event sanctioned by boxing's governing body, USA Boxing, that information failed to dissuade some of the Bay Area's greatest fighters from appearing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Never Leave Home Again But then GrubHub let us know that they've started a Bay-Area-based site. According to the email they sent us: We called 8,361 restaurants in the Bay Area (which, by the way, is
SF News Tourney Update Despite the dearth of local men's teams in the tourney, the Bay Area is still part of the tournament, hosting some pretty sweet regional games for both the Sweet 16 and the Elite
SF News Forth and Towne Hits SF (Eventually) We snarked on Forth and Towne, local retail monolith Gap, Inc's concept store geared toward the 35+ contemporary woman, nearly a year ago. But if you snark on a store nowhere in your
SF News A Call to Wheels Tonight at 7:00 PM, the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Commission is holding a special meeting that could affect the future of mountain biking in the Bay Area. The Commission is
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Sobhraj</i> As much as we were ready to love this slender (70 minutes) documentary, we bristled at the introducer's assertion that the reason for the inclusion of this film in the festival was because
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Birds and the Trees Matthew Bourne's at Orpheum Theatre Not since Mark Morris's The Hard Nut or the antics of Les Ballets Trocadero de Monte Carlo has the Bay Area seen anything quite like Matthew Bourne's all-male
Arts & Entertainment Rock Star Auditions Get your leather pants and best rock caterwaul ready, because Jason Newsted will be attending an open-call audition today here in San Francisco: "Rock Star: The Series" Casting March 21st Rockit Room 406
Arts & Entertainment Catch Lucky! And, hey, did you see the comment from Anshuman on how to hack NextBus to reflect your desired route? We tried it for all our favorite Muni lines, and it totally works! Anshuman,
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Blog Pulse All anyone can talk about is the snow, snow, snow. (OK, those last two are actually tagged as "hail," but you get the point and the pics are pretty.) In our eyes, all
SF News Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow It snowed in the Bay Area this weekend -- the first March snowstorm since 1896. And we're not just talking snow like in the Sierras or maybe on the top of Mount Tam
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Tyrone Davies The Bay Area has its fair share of web celebrities, but sometimes something surfaces that stands out for its awesomeness. After both VH1’s Web Junk and BoingBoing featured this clip, we knew
SF News Cal State Day Care The nonprofit group Fight Crime Invest In Kids has released a study showing that it costs more, on average, to send your child to a private preschool ($4022/year) than it does to
SF News Don't Pee on Pooh This LA Times piece asserts that, among other things, proudly Christian Kinkade "heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a former employee's wife who came to his aid when he fell
SF News Are All The Would-Be Buyers Fleeing The State? We were feeling pretty good about the state of the California housing market after reading the PDF of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's most recent report. Housing prices up 18.8%
Arts & Entertainment You Mean There's Actually Culture OUTSIDE the City? Inconceivable! It's about 70 miles north of the city, which might be a bit of a strain on your City CarShare budget, but you can always take the bus. No, really, you can --
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony: Dr. Atomic Strikes Back. For the new new stuff, there is a Concerto for Piano by Kevin Volans, and a Concerto for Orchestra by Robin Holloway, two world premieres commissioned by the SF Symphony. We know very
SF News The Season Comes Down to Tournament Week In the next ten days, Bay Area hoops fans will have plenty to watch. West Coast Conference (WCC) Men's Tournament March 3-6, McCarthey Athletic Center, Spokane, WA Six seed Santa Clara plays Friday
SF News Kerry Eleison This year we find the Bay Area teams at opposite sides of the salary cap spectrum. The Niners got rid of some deadweight (like Ahmed Plummer) and are rolling in dough. That sounds
SF News There Oughta Be A Contest State Senator Joe Simitian (pictured at left) has announced the finalists for his "There Oughta Be A Law" contest, where state citizens can submit their proposals for a law that California needs. You
SF News Bay Area Hardware The Olympics are done -- the last broom has been swept by the curling team, the snowboarders are done Fakey McTwistying, or whatever their jumps are called, the last ice skater has fallen
SF News El Gordo Tips The Scales Thank goodness SFst Rita tipped us off to Novato's El Gordo, who weighs 32 pounds, after a recent 10 pound weight loss. That's right, before going on his diet, this cat weighed 10
Arts & Entertainment Rain On, Ride On So what's a fat tire to do in the Bay Area for a little wet-weather action? You could brave the conditions and hit the trails anyway, or you could look for some lower-impact
Arts & Entertainment The Tour Comes to Town Now that the San Francisco Grand Prix is no longer, this race offers Bay Area cycling fans their only chance to see the best road cyclists in the world battle it out on
