Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising One hundred years ago this month, San Francisco survived an earthquake. You may have heard of it. Well, despite the odds (and the sky-high earthquake insurance rates), people keep moving here, and San
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Noise Pop N' Shop Brought to you by Noise Pop, Feria Urbana, and KUSF, you'll have your pick of clothing, jewelry, and accessories from some of our best local artists and designers. KUSF's Rock 'n' Swap record
Arts & Entertainment Chappelle Sightings Continue I just heard from a bunch of my co-workers that they saw Dave at the Sportsclub/LA gym last night around 5:00. He wasn't really working out, just kind of checking out
SF News SFist Goes To The 75th San Francisco Golden Gloves Though last week's Golden Gloves was not actually the "Golden Gloves" event sanctioned by boxing's governing body, USA Boxing, that information failed to dissuade some of the Bay Area's greatest fighters from appearing
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Feist tickets! Enter to win a pair of tickets. (Contest ends at 3pm today; winner will be notified via email.) Other Noise Pop music tonight: Noise Pop Happy Hour hosted by Fernet Branca & Jackpine
misc SFist Whines & Dines: the 500 Club One of the great charms of dog-friendly San Francisco is the numerous places where dogs are allowed off-leash. Legally. The city lists two dozen parks around town. Sadly, there are many places remaining
SF News SXSW Update We were wondering why it was so easy to get a parking place in the Mission last night when we remembered that all the cool people are at SXSW. Cool people like SFist
SF News Moonbeam Thug? According to the woman, a fight broke out outside Club @17, on Telegraph and 17th, and her friend was hit in the face with a stiletto heel. As she was tending to her
Arts & Entertainment Classic Cars In The Rain So we're out on our lunch break, with no umbrella, trying to cross Market Street. , we grumble to ourselves. We look up, and -- hey, wow! A parade of classic cars coming down
Arts & Entertainment Krayg Burton from Film School But we digress. If you haven’t listened to Film School’s latest album, get it here (or maybe here, if you want to be the lucky billionth listener). It’s good. Normally
misc Justice for Strippers According to plaintiff's attorney Greg Walston, this hourly minimum (derived from the rate at the worker-owned and operated Lusty Lady), is meant to protect dancers from having to resort to prostitution or face
Arts & Entertainment The 'Fisties: Music Gillian Welch and Victoria Williams sat and watched Emmylou Harris perform, the guys from Los Super Seven hung out with some of the Knitters, and Patty Griffin stood by as Buddy Miller performed.
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to IndieFest's Rock N Roll Horror Show! Doors open at 7, screens at 8, and at 10 musical acts Stolen Babies and The Graves Brothers Deluxe hit the stage, with between sets by Church of Elvis DJs Bishop and Moonshine.
misc The 'Fisties: Best Bar, or, Staggering Through FISTies It’s about that time again (for the first time). Time to heap a whole year’s worth of praise on to several lucky and talented establishments that did us the kind service
misc A Voyeuristic Blind Item I was scheduled to judge a "Halloween Underwear Contest", but the club owner gave the promoter, Sean Masters, the green light to let the party get as risque as he wanted...The party
SF News Not at the Fore Front For all of the rhetoric surrounding San Francisco as some sort of liberal mecca, one has to remember that we are the first city on the left coast, and not in a political
Arts & Entertainment It's not a Party Until Someone Pukes on the Powermat "It's just something about the NES that does it for me like no other system has. I started this club because I had a feeling there were others out there that felt the
Arts & Entertainment Shameless Yvesdropping Send submissions to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Woman #1: Those are cute. Where did you get them? Frugal Woman: Payless. Woman #2: No kidding... [Several minutes later, approached
SF News Regatta de Blanc Did you know that the Rolex Big Boat Series is going on right now in our very own Bay? For 41 years, now, the St. Francis Yacht Club has been holding this regatta,
Arts & Entertainment A Mighty Ruckus at Islais Creek If you haven't bothered to click on the banner ad we've had running all this month for A Mighty Ruckus at Islais Creek, we will happily bring the scoop you you! Brought to
misc SFist Rants: The SF Bay Area Publicity Club Imagine how excited we were to hear this morning through the PR Newswire that your humble little -ist website had been nominated for a prestigious "Pubby" Award! A "Pubby"! For best Bay Area
misc M to Zed. Mmmmmm! One letter repeated many times that describes a state of deliciousness. Hence, we had high hopes for the letter M. There are so many Bay Area eateries beginning with the alphabet's middle
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fashion Week: Friday Night Being a blogger by day and fashion correspondent by night is freakin' tiring. While we didn’t make it out to the Palace of Fine Arts Thursday night, we were back and ready
Arts & Entertainment <em>Graffiti: Urban Scrawl or Artistic Freedom?</em> Discuss Amongst Yourselves. We visited the Commonwealth Club for their most recent session of Inforum, a division of the Club that aims to “inspire debate around civic issues” for people in their 20’s and 30’
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: You Can Ride Our Tail Any Time Last week’s roundup covered quite a few places in the Mission: Pizzeria Delfina, the resurrected Window, the Thai-French fusion at Baku, dim-sum at Big Lantern, and Crazy Sushi. We thought it was
