SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around the Bay: Buena Vista Bartender Celebrates 50 Years of Pouring Irish Coffees Bystanders helped detain the teen suspect accused of plowing into a crowd of people in Oakland; the Sandy Fire is growing in Ventura County; and Joseph Shaw, a bartender at Buena Vista, just celebrated 50 years working at the bar.
Arts & Entertainment Literary Fest Litquake Opens With Lovely Laura Linney Serialized gem / siren song Tales of the City drew many folks to SF. Well, it brought us here, anyway. And the character of Mary Ann Singleton acted as a temporary stand-in until
SF News A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Ross Mirkarimi Sandwich Ross Mirkarimi, the supervisor for the Western Addition/Lower Haight's District 5, was out for a jog this morning around 9:45 a.m. (guess Ross doesn't get into
SF News What's Fair For the Haight Street Fair The complainers against the festival are the Haight Ashbury Improvement Association, the Cole Valley Improvement Association, the Waller Street Association and the Buena Vista Neighborhood Association. They're requesting that a beer
SF News SFist Votes Folks who voted before work were smiling and nodding at each other on public transportation today (in part because -- really, these red "I Voted! Ya Vote!" stickers they're giving
SF News Political Junkie: Ross Will Save The Day! Did you look up the other day and see that big Green R rotating slowly in the sky? That's the Mirkarimi-signal! To the Ross-cave! We'll take the
SF News Ist'wonderful So say 'Ni hao' to Shanghaiist, 'Bonjour' to Parisist and 'Yo' to Phillyist. While the last two haven't 'officially' opened (in other words,
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: The Buena Vista I know, I know -- today's hip, cultured SFist wouldn't be caught dead so close to the wharf. But there's some really cool stuff down there; places from
