Arts & Entertainment Drinking with the O'Essefficist After soliciting answerable questions from myriad colleagues and cohorts, the Essefficist has some doozies to work with this week. (But don't let that stop you from sending in some of your own.) Having
Arts & Entertainment Dredging up the Past with the Essefficist Welcome back to the wonderful world of the Essefficist, where no amount of steroids could possibly help us answer your questions any better than we already do. But could help us answer your
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Case You Missed It: King Cakes That said, there are things about Mardi Gras that do appeal to us -- those metallic purple, gold, and green beads, for example. We got our annual fill of those from our brother-in-law,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: the Romantic-Industrial Complex Edition SFist would like to take a moment of silence for Arthur Miller, who passed away last night. Without question, Miller was one of the great American playwrights. We regret that we'd only read
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's Time Again for Free Stuff From SFist! The sun in the sky, Heirloom tomatoes are here! Call New York and gloat. Avocados free, Over your neighbor's tall fence. When ripe, steal at night. Safeway sucks ass. Berkeley Bowl: No parking.
Arts & Entertainment Blogger Powers, Activate So the left-wing bloggers, with Berkeley’s own Daily Kos leading the way, did some digging. They found out that Talon News Service is pretty much a house organ of the Republican Party
SF News Your Commute: Casual Day The East Bay's Casual Commute just got a little more codified with today's Chron cover story about the cheapest way to get across the Bay Bridge. We've never been able to find a
SF News Berkeley Ballot Initiative Recount Challenged By EFF So while we want to play up the reefer angle on this -- the Bay Area being pothead heaven and all -- since we've been so politically inspired, we're going to have to
SF News SFist Blotter Did you hear sirens last night? There was a high speed chase starting from Turk and Gough in San Francisco around 12:15 a.m. that went for 30 minutes, reached speeds of
Arts & Entertainment Eyes on the Rightsholder's Prize Just a few minutes ago, Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow published an excerpt and link to a Toronto Globe and Mail article that describes how a classic documentary on the civil rights movement, Eyes
SF News Kos the New Armstrong Williams? Not at all. Armstrong Williams was paid through taxpayer dollars to sell the Administration's terrible No Child Left Behind Act, possibly infringing upon all sorts of anti-propaganda laws and definitely kicking the mangled
Arts & Entertainment Hope On a chilly but still night on Ocean Beach, SFist and HiMY SYeD joined interested passerby in sending a message of hope to the victims of the Tsunami, assembling HiMY's message in luminaria
SF News Take Action for Tsunami Relief Two dear friends of SFist wrote in to let us know about local tsunami relief events. Your Waitress wants photobloggers and everyone else to know that HiMY SYeD, Toronto native and current Bay
Arts & Entertainment Gimme Indie Books Good news for city readers -- Berkeley indie bookstore legend Cody's Books is following in the lead of its across-the-street neighbor Amoeba and opening a branch in San Francisco. Cody's has signed a
misc Redefeat Bush Rallies are being called throughout the day tomorrow, including several large ones in D.C., and we can bet your bottom dollar that there’ll be some sort of rally here. Meanwhile, people
SF News SFist Gift Guide: East Bay Cool Andrew Krucoff, who used to be Mr. Intervista at Gothamist, apparently has a fetish for Berkeley punk. Hence he's gone and provided the innerweb with free downloads of this sweet compilation tape [Thanks,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Zak Nelson Zak works for Heyday Books which specializes in books about California. For any of you scrambling to buy last minute Christmas presents, Heyday titles might be the ticket. Zak's given SFist so many
SF News SFist Cares ... About Islands (in the stream?) Yeah, that was cheesy, we're a little feverish here. Seacology works on projects around the world and in a unique way. They ask the local islanders to make a sacrifice on behalf of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads Addendum: Author Events SFist enjoys going to literary events for a number of reasons, the least of which being that being at an actual book signing or reading makes us realize that these author are "Just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Vitamin Express Okay, so it's off the beaten path. But this is EssEff, what would be more appropriate? Vitamin Express is a great place for vitamins (duh), supplements, healthy snacks, lotions, aroma therapy, gum, and
Arts & Entertainment Put On Your Yarmulke, Here Comes Hanukkah The big event happening is the annual lighting of the Bill Graham Menorah at Union Square. The fun starts at 5 p.m. and lasts 'til 6 p.m., so for those who
SF News Down and Out in Berkeley So you know when the police come and roust some homeless person on the street and take away their shopping cart? Ever wonder what happens to the shopping cart? Do they become part
SF News Summit Faces Uphill Battle Alta Bates Summit's director of public relations, Carolyn Kemp, was quoted as acknowledging that the results of the audit "were not in our favor" but also downplayed the significance of the specific complaints.
Arts & Entertainment Comic Relief Getting the Boot Annoyingly, Christmas seems to come earlier every year -- an egregious example of this being that new flick with Ben Affleck and Tony Soprano. However, we'd like to spread the word about an
misc The Essefficist Votes It's election day Q & A. Whoo hoo! First, let's hear from loyal reader Redd Harrington: Kerry! We love that guy! Thanks, Redd. You're a trooper. And from loyal reader Frog Dog: Dear
