SF Restaurants, Food & Drink I to Zed SFist can't even begin to recall the number of times it has aimlessly wandered past the Imperial Tea Court in San Francisco's Ferry Building Market Place and wondered why it appears to be
SF News Ain't No Sunshine When She...Signs a Confidentiality Agreement Ah, yes, the City of Berkeley. You might have thought back room dealing and hiding documents and meetings from public review was just a San Francisco thing, but Berkeley has its share of
SF News Patriot Act Author Questions Supreme Court, Bush Adminstration We'll admit it, one of our favorite political blogs is written by a Republican. That's right, we said it. Hey, it's all about 'balance' here at SFist, if not moderation. Shades of gray,
SF News Is the IT Guy Stoned or Something? Berkeley may have a reputation for cannabis tolerance, but that hasn't penetrated to the city's public education establishment. A few days ago, Cal NORML received a call from a Berkeley High School student
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jacob Leland Hometown team loyalty and keen insight into local's seasonal wardrobe? You may have noticed the Oakland pride creeping into new SFist contributor Jacob's posts. When he's not cyber heckling the Red Sox Jacob
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Plumcots and Apriums Neither plums nor apricots were showing particularly well yet at the Berkeley Farmer's Market, but we found some decent samples of their hybrids. We've noticed purple-skinned plumcots and pluots, along with soft orange
SF News All Over for Le Chateau The neighbors have spoken, and it's all over for the kids at Cal Berkeley's Le Chateau co-op (called an "Animal House" in the East Bay Express). Friend of SFist Patricia Johnson penned a
SF News Fight to Rename Berkeley's Jefferson Elementary The issue was brought to the school's attention by parents and community activists. In an uncredited editorial in the Daily Californian, it's pointed out that the city is named after George Berkeley, who
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz has been in they Bay Area since 1987, when she was an undergrad at UC Berkeley. She stayed on and did a Ph.D. at Berkeley, where she edited a book
Arts & Entertainment Impact Briefs 7: The How-To Show Last weekend, we hit the East Bay to witness SFist Cheshire's on-stage debut in Impact Theater's . There we sat in the basement of La Val's Subterranean (1834 Euclid in Berkeley) drinking our beer
misc SFist Rants: Stupid-Ass Bicyclists We just recently got a new job in Berkeley that's too far from the house to walk. Plus, since we took a substantial pay cut to work at the new place, losing even
SF News What's the Dilly-o, Delio? The question we have to ask is this: were journalists just traipsing about the country side, fabricating quotes and anecdotes merrily for years without repercussion or something? For all the old media bleating
Arts & Entertainment Dowd! Friedman! It's Punditpalooza! According to Leah Garchik, the double-bill might never have happened. Dean Orville Schell got Dowd to appear and came up with the idea of adding Friedman to the bill. When he asked an
SF News New Book Links Computers With Counterculture Yesterday on Slashdot was a review of local NYT tech correspondent John Markoff's new book, "What The Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry." Quoting the review: Most histories
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Represent: Three World Class Restaurants! Of course, our first thought was how did we do against the other 'ists? Well, we beat the crap out of LAist, with a series sweep at three to nothing, and that's what
SF News Dogster Nominated For Webby In the interest of full disclosure, SFist Ted, our new weatherman, also happens to be Dogster Ted. And while we've harshed on the Webby Awards only just recently, we're still proud. You can
misc A Better Butter Battle After the jump: godliness, the gays, a moustache, and the triumphant return of the Internet.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Pizza in the Western Addition Whether you are a Ralph Barbieri fan that enjoys Amici's, a Berkeley-ite that swears by Zachary's, a fan of Chesh's recent discovery Pizza Fiesta, or you, like friend/idol of SFist Pim, enjoy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Raising A Stink To get our cheese fix, there are a few places to go to: the Cheese Board in Berkeley deserves a few posts of its own, there are a few neighborhood cheese shops in
SF News Cal Faculty Board Faults National Merit Process In the ongoing debate between those who support a blanket meritocracy in school admissions versus a weighted approach that considers race, class and gender, the Faculty Board of Admissions and Relations With Schools
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's the Ides of March. Whatcha Gonna Eat? But it doesn't have to be this way. Michael Chiarello, whom we sort of adore, gets it right with this recipe from NapaStyle: the hearts of romaine are left as whole leaves, adorned
Arts & Entertainment Bright, Indeed Unless you're hitting A.C.T. or Berkeley Rep, it's a bit tough to find good theater to go to on a Wednesday night. Right now (and at least through early April), however,
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: SFist Has You Covered SFist is proud of our coverage of local events, including SF IndieFest, SF Noise Pop, and Cinequest. We're really happy to continue this tradition with our coverage of the San Francisco International Asian
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Holy Grail Discovered: Decent Delivery Pizza Found in Berkeley (Yeah, we've heard countless times from the east coast transplants among us about the inherent inferiority of west coast pizza -- not to mention bagels -- so save it!) But when we're not
misc SFist Cares ... About Growing Things No kidding that SFist loves libraries. But libraries aren't just books you know, sometimes they're collections of other things. BASIL is the Bay Area Seed Interchange Library. Yes, seeds. Like, growing things seeds.
