Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Fall TV Premieres Tonight The last season of "Prison Break" didn't actually take place in prison, with its band of prisoners finally breaking free and hitting the road in search of buried treasure. Of course, a show
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last Thursday night we went to Bimbo's to see Stereo Total at the behest of a good friend. We'd never seen the duo before but they charmed us with their energy, humor, zesty
SF News Ross Saving The Day -- Vigilantes In The Backstory So hey, remember that shooting that Ross Mirkarimi helped solve? According to the Chron, the cops are saying it was a vigilante father-son duo, out for revenge after the victim stole a gold
SF News Did Barry Give Mustard Gas to Saddam Hussein? There's big legal news concerning the Barry, none of which involves Curt Schilling or Grand Juries. Oh no. Barry has just been slapped with a lawsuit by an inmate in a South Carolina
SF News We Have a Weiner! So why Brooklyn? Well, it's a little bit of a non-sequitor and we like non sequiturs. Also, because baseball is about tradition and the passing of baseball lore from father to son and
Arts & Entertainment Selections from <em>LA Times</em>' Critical Mass Article Too much ink has been spilled and too much bandwidth used to praise/bury Critical Mass in length. Now the LA Times gets in on the action. We'd love to break it down
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Deep Fried Murder: A play about the world of competitive eating, veganism, and breaking up. Curtain rises at 8 p.m. at the Climate Theatre, 285 - 9th Street; $12. -- Altered
SF News Bonds' Helmet In Hall; Should Be An Interactive Exhibit Looks like the helmet Barry Bonds wore when hitting his record-tying and record-breaking home runs (755 and 756 if you're counting) is being displayed at the National Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame.
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the SF Weekly: What? MORE letters about Rainbow? Matt Smith threatens to derail Newsom's gubernatorial campaign if he doesn't do something about parking. Rape awareness campaigns in the Castro. Cover
SF News Booze Knocks Out Some of Your Favorite Sites Chortle. Although this sucks for 365 Main (especially with an angry nerd mob at its door to compound its problem yesterday) and, sure, this is a dream many of us have fantasized about
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After And in other Bonds news, his alleged ex-mistress is doing her best to come off as a credible witness by taking it all off for Playboy. A's 12 Angels 6- We have to
SF News It's Not Over til the Grand Jury Sings The case against Bonds stems from the initial Grand Jury on BALCO. Barry got up there and told everyone he never used steroids except by accident when he got duped into taking the
misc Week Around The -ists This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going
SF News Singin' In the .01" of Rain It's a record-breaking day! It has never in the history of the world (or, rather, in the history of weather record-keeping) rained on a July 18th before in the Bay Area. The .01
misc Were You Saying "Boooo" or "Gavin Boooo-som"? Here's a clip of Gavin on some time-filler radio show a couple days ago, talking about playing baseball and giving us an incredibly humorous taste of what he looks like when he's had
SF News Society Snaps (So Send Us Your Society Shots) San Francisco socialites have been fellated for far too long by such hard-hitting glossies as 7x7 Magazine and San Francisco Magazine. Hell, even the pages from new society (excuse me, “philanthropy”) rag Benefit
misc Elizabeth Edwards Has Pride Hey, newsflash! Gay people vote! Taking advantage of this breaking news, Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, will be addressing the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic club at their
Arts & Entertainment Cycling: Reviewing the Soul of Cycling Let's face it, the great American cycling novel has yet to be written (not lately, anyway). And what cycling-related literature there is falls into one of three categories: inspiration, celebration, or perspiration. If
SF News Please let go of the Doors Oh how we hate that high-pitched whine generated by held-open subway doors. It hurts, but of course, that's the -- it's supposed to make you let go of the door so the whole
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up Duck meatballs from the Oakland Tribune. We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. It's short but suh-weet. SF Chronicle: Breaking bread with neighbors
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like
misc Faux Cardinal The girl, named Azia Kim, showed up on campus the day before freshman orientation this school year, and told two freshmen she was a freshman having temporary housing problems due to some kind
Arts & Entertainment Why Aren't <i>You</i> Paying For The Chron? You know we love the Chronicle around here at SFist -- where else would we get breaking news updates, steal pictures, and follow the lives of the Gettys and Trainas? So we're still
