SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 3 Tasty Ways To Celebrate Julia Child's 100th Birthday There are better ways to honor Julia Child's 100th birthday (born 8/15) than by braving Tu Lan (pictured on their menus, she was a fan of the Vietnamese joint back in cleaner
Arts & Entertainment Tony Sly, No Use For A Name Frontman, Dead At Age 41 Tony Sly, singer and principal songwriter for noted San Jose, California hardcore punk outfit No Use for a Name has passed away at age 41. His cause of death has not yet been
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Garcia Bobblehead, Hunter Pence Debut Tonight [Update] Born in city's Excelsior District, Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia would have been 70-years-old today. And with that, your San Francisco Giants will honor the noted musician with a performance by Moonalice on the
Arts & Entertainment Watch Olympic Torch Cauldron Lightings From 1968-2010 Here are the majority of the Olympic torch cauldron lighting ceremonies from 1968 to 2010. Ohhh, ahhhh. Our favorite? It would have to come down to either the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics,
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey's PETA Ad Features Cat On Crooner's Head For your evening viewing pleasure, we give you Morrissey's PETA ad, which features a feline atop the singer's head. Regarding the campaign to spay or neuter your pets, Morrissey said, "Letting cats or
Arts & Entertainment Judy Blume Coming to the Castro Theatre Sunday! Perhaps the most important young-adult author of the twentieth century, Judy Blume, is coming to the Castro Theater on Sunday to take part in a screening of a new film by her son,
SF News Of Course, Famous People React To 'Dark Knight Rises' Colorado Massacre Friday's massacre during a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" inside a movie theater in a Denver suburb will go down as yet another horrific footnote in American history. These incidents are,
Arts & Entertainment You Guys, Charo Is Sick And Can't Make It To Yoshi's Due to a minor illness, all performances of the great Charo at Yoshi's San Francisco have been canceled. "Maybe she got a case of the coochy coochies?," offensively IM'd friend of SFist Beth
Arts & Entertainment Nina Arianda To Play Janis Joplin In Big Screen Biopic Enough of this sports talk. Let's get down to serious business: Tony Award-winning actress playing dead divas. Nina Arianda, who recently nabbed best actress honors at the Tonys for her work in Venus
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 7 Favorite Food Lines In Movie History What with Nora Ephron's untimely passing, one of her most noted films' famous quotes, the one that follows Meg Ryan's (very) fake orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally, has been played on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops, Future Castro Gay Sports Bar, Featured On 'Chelsea Lately' Even before Hi Tops (a new sports bar soon to take over the old Lime spot in the Castro) has opened, it's already making national news. Well, it received a hefty shout-out on
Arts & Entertainment Sarah Silverman To Lead SF Gay Pride Parade! Emmy Award-winning comedian Sarah Silverman will grace San Francisco will her presence come Gay Pride. In fact, she'll act as Grand Marshal in the Pride parade. Pretty nifty, huh? She is as famous
SF News Barry Bonds Smiles, Laughs, Talks Hall of Fame Former baseball player and infamous hard hitter Barry Bonds laughs like no one is watching as he catches game between the San Francisco Giants and the Arizona Diamondbacks in the city on Monday.
Arts & Entertainment Casting Call: 'The Bachelor' Needs Titular Stud ABC's drama The Bachelor is looking for a few good-looking men. Well, one. They need a new bachelor to pretend he's looking for love and lifetime companionship. Might that be you? "We are
SF News Arnold Schwarzenegger Needs Your Help Writing 'Total Recall' Erstwhile California Governor, former Mr. Universe and estranged father Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't made much progress in the eight months since he announced he would be putting pen to paper to write his autobiography,
Arts & Entertainment Meet The Cast Of Bravo's New Silicon Valley Reality Show Bravo unveiled a new batch of must-see shows for the fall season. One in particular, Silicon Valley, produced by Randi Zuckerberg, Mark's sister, will take place here in the Bay Area. (Regarding the
Arts & Entertainment Ashton Kutcher To Play Steve Jobs At the risk of ruining the start of the work week, we have some worrisome casting news: Ashton Kutcher, star of That ’70s Show and Two and a Half Men, will play Steve
Arts & Entertainment 'SNL' Hires Kate McKinnon, Show's First Openly Lesbian Player Saturday Night Live recently hired a new female comic, Kate McKinnon, known for her work with Upright Citizens Brigade and the Big Gay Sketch Show. The latter hints at the fact that, yes,
Arts & Entertainment Noted Poet Adrienne Rich Has Died One of the foremost poets and thinkers of the 20th century, Adrienne Rich, has died, SF Chronicle book editor John McMurtrie reports via Twitter. In addition to winning loads of awards for her
SF News Happy Birthday, Buster Posey! It's your favorite catcher's birthday today, Buster Posey, who turns a mere 25! In addition to trending on Twitter this morning, he's also an Aries who has to watch The Bachelor so his
Arts & Entertainment Video: Hundreds Perform Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" In The Castro Hundreds gathered in San Francisco's Castro district on Friday to perform Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" in remembrance of the deceased singer. (Which is to say, people performed a flash mob.
Arts & Entertainment Kylie Minogue: Perfect Poster Girl For Jean Paul Gaultier At The DeYoung Who better to promote Jean Paul Gaultier's upcoming exhibit at the deYoung Mueseum than Kylie Minogue? No one, that's who. The pop icon's image, as seen above, will grace poster walls, lampposts, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dine With President Barack Obama, Gwyneth Paltrow, And Angela Bassett In S.F. For $35,800 [Updated] Spare $35,800? Or need a date? Because there are few things we love more than this scene from Waiting to Exhale. And this SFist editor would like to personally thank Angela Bassett
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Mark Zuckerberg Was In Dolores Park Yuppie-hipster reduction sauce Dolores Park was filled to the rim with skin this weekend after warm temperatures brought out all kinds of denizens to the park—namely, those who loudly prefer bacon and
SF News Watch Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen Headline Gay Marriage Play [Video] Heterosexual actors like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Kevin Bacon, Jaime Lee Curtis, and Martin Sheen and gay actors like Jane Lynch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Matthew Morrison came together over the weekend to
