SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The East-Bay Pizza Round-Up: Cheeseboard, Zachary’s and Gioia But as we continue to search for the perfect pizza true to our east coast roots (our hearts belong to New Haven, CT brick ovens), we are happy to report that what we’
misc National Condom Week! (How Did We Miss This?) But luckily… we forgot all of our problems, when we found out that today is the last day of National Condom Week! February 14- 21! Hurry to the PPGG website to take the
Arts & Entertainment McLaren Park: It's Time Us Full-figure Girls Get Noticed To Little Miss Golden Gate Park, princess of the City, Honey, I'm sick of you and your flat-ass panhandle getting all the attention. You think you're the only park in the whole City
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Gets Inspired by our Local Magazines ReadyMade, who recently moved its headquarters from Oakland to Berkeley, has had a spot on our bookshelves long before we started seeing copies of it for sale in Urban Outfitters. In classic magazine
Arts & Entertainment Wait, Wait -- Well, this sounds like fun! A reader who went to yesterday's live taping of the NPR news game show "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" writes in to report that the game show's "special
Arts & Entertainment The Awkward Adventures of the Superfisters In Roanoke of 500 years ago, the settlers clash with a creepy bestial native tribe. In Berkeley of the present day, a young boy comes of age as he discovers that a creepy
misc Pet Shop Noise The Milo Fondation basically takes unwanted pets, houses them, and tries to find them owners. Volunteers house the pets until owners are found so according to the foundation, there were never really that
SF News There is Unrest in the Forest, There is Trouble With the Trees The cops are saying that the encampment had become a public safety concern. Protestors, however, said that they weren't camping out, they were just there 24 hours a day. Ever since UC Berkeley
SF News Don't Panic Yet Actually, the scientists say that there's small earthquakes happening all the time and it's just that a few of these were more noticeable than others. The good news is it's not a harbinger
Arts & Entertainment A Kite Doesn't Run Through Fremont No, we're just joking. It's not known why they're not filming in Fremont as they appear to be filming almost everywhere in the East Bay but Fremont. Scenes so far have been shot
SF News Did You Feel That? At around 10:50 p.m. tonight, there was a second earthquake almost in the exact same spot on the Hayward Fault (3 miles ESE of Berkeley) and at almost the same intensity
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Liz Ross Liz is a former member of Hannah, Lessick, Lines In Analog Sound, and Sun of Mercury. She mostly plays a 1962 Gibson LG 1 acoustic, and she has several vintage electric guitars, her
SF News It's Monday-- Do You Know Where Your College Football Team Is? Stadium issues aren't just affecting Bay Area professional teams, but college teams too. There's a fight going on about renovating Cal's Memorial Stadium that's been going on for the past few months. And
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide Returns! What's going on for this? Well, here's a list of the women participating and what their selling. Just scanning down the list, we're seeing a lot of pottery, some needle works, prints. Everything.
SF News Eritrean Community Crime Shocker Murder victims-- who died after being shot via open fire in a third floor apartment-- include a widowed mother named Winta T. Mehari, 28, of Berkeley, her brother Yonas Mehari, 17, who lived
SF News This Week In Your Commute News First we turn to the water where an expected eight ferry terminals are to be built in the coming years to service all of those commuters who've moved far, far away from San
Arts & Entertainment Mmmmm...chocolate factory tour The former Kona Coffee factory in Berkeley has been the home base for local chocolatier Scharffen Berger for the past five years. http://www.scharffenberger.com/ They offer a free and delcious factory
Arts & Entertainment ChronicleWatch Watch: By The Numbers Total number of problems fixed: 139. Breakdown by region: San Francisco -- 70 (29 street repairs, 23 park fixes, 7 public transportation fixes, 11 signs). East Bay -- 44 (21 street, 14 park,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Monologue at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Never underestimate the power of silly. Besides, not all theater has to be Theater. Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford mix Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett's existential
SF News Say Goodbye to Polystyrene Pam The reason? Styrofoam has polluting chemicals in it and has a tendency to stick around landfills and other things as they're not biodegradable. That is bad. The ban is probably going to pass
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chocolate. Yummy, Yummy Charles Chocolates SFist braved a visit to Emeryville to check out the happenings at Charles Chocolates. There we learned a bit about tea, a bit about chocolate, and a whole lot about how the two
Arts & Entertainment The Oakland Hills Fire, 15 Years Later We weren't living in California at the time, but we remember the Cal student in our dorm the next semester telling us her harrowing stories of escaping with nothing more than her cat
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Sufjan Stevens in Berkeley Who was fortunate enough to see Sufjan Stevens last week? Opener My Brightest Diamond, who SFist Emily interviewed last week, started the show looking like Santa's little helper in a crimson cocktail dress.
Arts & Entertainment Shara Worden from My Brightest Diamond Shara has completed the arduous SFist interview process and, among other things will inspire you to go to Coney Island, if not the rest of NYC. If you haven’t managed to secure
Arts & Entertainment What Else is Going on For Litquake Well, if you want to check the schedule of events, go here. There's plenty to choose from and it seems like something is going on everywhere at all hours. Everyone's favorite event is
