Arts & Entertainment Local Band to Tour Libya I mean, when we heard from our musician friends that there weren't enough rehearsal spaces and music venues in the San Francisco area, we had no idea it was this bad. The Heavenly
Arts & Entertainment Neck Face SFist loves us some writers. And by writers, we mean "bombers," "graffitos," "vandals,", "artists," what have you. One in particular caught our eye on our travels around the city -- that inimitable man
misc Calling Noah Of course, any sort of discussion about flooding caused by rain in these here parts must always be tempered by what happened in South-East Asia, but due to all the almost biblical amount
SF News Drink When He Says "Special Interests" "In these State of the State speeches, governors often begin by listing their accomplishments of the past year. I will do the same. The year before I took office as governor, California had
SF News Denny's Stabber Freed (For Now) Amber Oberholtzer, the 21-year old woman who stabbed 16-year-old Frankie Mead to death on New Year's Day in Fisherman's Wharf, was freed last night while the DA continues to investigate the situation. (If
SF News This Old House As we said, there's nothing legitimately wrong in what the Giants are doing, and as die-hard supporters of the Orange & Black we're okay with the Giants searching through the sofas looking for
SF News Jeremy on '04 GOOD STUFF Sports: Swimming star Michael Phelps. He could have entered fewer races to help ensure better results in his best events, but he didn't -- he participated in every event in which
SF News Oral Arguments End in Gay Marriage Court Case After last Thursday’s nice, legalistic hearing on the legality of gay marriage, Friday’s hearing, the last of the two-day hearing, took a turn to the not so nice as the two
SF News Let the Court Cases Begin Hearings began Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court on the legality of Same-Sex Marriage. On one side is the City of San Francisco, representing twelve plaintiffs who filed suitafter the California Supreme Court
SF News Remembering Daniel Price Almost exactly one year ago, a normally-jaded San Francisco was stunned by the news of a man shot to death on Gough Street. Daniel Price was escorting his wife home from a Christmas
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Holiday Fun Edition SFist is celebrating the holidays in many ways, as some of us will travel to far-off lands (or just the Midwest), while others of us will remain right here. All of us are
SF News No Gun For You We must have missed this in the midst of all the Apprentice hoopla, but last week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors did what they do best- passed a sweeping, half-baked but well-intentioned
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 A Bridge by Any Other Name? As if it’s not enough that the re-building of the Bay Bridge has turned into huge spat fight over money and design another spat is possibly brewing over the most important part
SF News Troubled Bridge Over Local Waters It was reported at the end of last week that the Govenator rejected the suspension design for the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, opting instead for a skyway design not unlike the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: See's Candies See's Candies was founded in L.A. in 1921, but they've had stores here in San Francisco since 1936. While the company became part of Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway empire in 1972, there's
SF News Alta Bates to Disgruntled Employees: Take Your One-Day Strike and Shove It The Chron quoted Alta Bates Summit's vice president for medical affairs, Dr. John Gentile, as suggesting the sympathy strike is meant to unify the unions so that they can bargain collectively for a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Getting Sappy and Cheesy in Vermont We picked up a quart each of their lightest and heaviest syrups, though any one of their four varieties is likely better than anything you've ever tasted. And the cheddar... well, there is
SF News What Big Game? It's the Big Game this weekend! Tips on how to take that wacky "BART" train to "the East Bay" are exchanged, history is retold, anecdotes about marching band and intra-school antics are fondly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Cares About Literacy SFist knows we're awesome so we find it really sad that some people can't read us. It would be one thing if people read us, but there are plenty of people who can't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Untacky Tiki Technology Ah, if only. Trader Vic's - now a global chain, but in the 1930s the world's first Tiki restaurant - doesn't skimp on the atmosphere. You feel it in the wallet, of course,
SF News Screw You Guys, We're Out of Here Ever since the election, there's been a lot of grumbling about our misfortune in being attached to the rest of the country. Finally, somebody did something about it: posted the Web site USoutofSF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If Not for the Children, then for the Zombies We're informed by the Richmond Review that the California Psychological Association has named its "Legislator of the Year 2004." The lucky winner is State Assembly Speaker pro Tem (whatever that means) Leland Yee,
SF News Suffrage For All It's true that the main goal of the Vote or Die campaign seems to be to get celebrities to wear shirts that say Vote or Die on them. But that doesn't mean you
