SF News A's Brand Baseball: Servin' Up Summertime Our friends and family tried to tell us, but we had to find out for ourselves anyway: July in an ivy-covered Northeastern college town is no place for a California boy. We mention
Arts & Entertainment Everbody Sing, Everybody Dance For those looking to party all night long, Threshing Floor Productions and The Hub at the JCCSF, along with the Progressive Jewish Alliance Present, DAWN, The 2nd Annual Arts Event Inspired by the
misc Bay Blogger... Friday Jennifer over at Life Begins at Thirty spent last week blogging about food. Of course, lots of people do that, including SFist. But what made this exceptional is that it was as part
SF News SFist Goes South For The Abu Dhabi This past weekend we made our way down to Long Beach for the Abu Dhabi Combat Club Submission Wrestling World Championships. A competition between the best submission wrestlers, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practioners, and Judo
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Odeon Gone, What's Still Fresh? We have to admit being sad to see the Odeon disappear. While the bar did not leave up to the bourgeois sophistication of its French name, we will miss it. We still have
Arts & Entertainment They May Be Losers, But They're Our Losers As compelling as the season finale of "The Bachelor" is, wouldn't you rather spend tonight doing something a little less lame? Our friends at Porchlight have been running their monthly series of 10-minute
Arts & Entertainment "All Tommorow's Jokes" at the Hemlock Tavern "All Tommorow's Jokes" features the comedy stylings of music duo Hard N Phirm, stand up comedian Jasper Redd, the sketch comedy group Prank the Dean, and stand up comedian Brent Weinbach. The show
Arts & Entertainment 81 Albums of Jessica Simpson On The Wall You probably remember that brouhaha about the CD price-fixing antitrust case, where that judge was going to give everyone who'd ever bought a CD from 1995 to 2002 around $14.99 if they
SF News Faith, Freedom, Morality You have no idea how refreshing it is to see in an age of teenage angst, apathy, and rap music, that a group of high school students are ready to take on the
SF News Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? Over here at SFist's fortress of solitude (above Jerry's Tattoo and Java), we've just been informed that "Big" Dick Cheney is currently ensconced at the Mandarin Oriental downtown, and an entire block of
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part One -- Austin On Zero Dollars A Day So begins our sordid tale of nerd debauchery here in Austin. The San Francisco Bay Area is representing to the fullest extent of the law here in Texas, and we've had a hard
Arts & Entertainment I Want You To Hit Me As Hard As You Can Not up for this kind of activity on a school night? Then how about this oldie-but-goodie Chron article about SF's real-life fight club (though they wear mouthguards, so we question their hard-core cred)
Arts & Entertainment The Crane, Boss, The Crane! Like toddlers fascinated by heavy machinery, we are so excited to report that they're going to be moving giant cranes underneath the Bay Bridge again!!! Remember the last time they did this, back
Arts & Entertainment SFist Party Crash -- East Bay Rats' Fight Night If you don't know the legend of the East Bay Rats Motorcycle Club, think of it as having an aesthetic somewhere between Mad Max and Edward Gorey. Rather than tricked-out Harleys with glitter
Arts & Entertainment Rivera in the City Killer ocean views and Diego Rivera? Sounds like a dreamy vacation in Mexico, no? Well, actually no. Climb up the hill above Bimbo's 365 Club to the San Francisco Art Institute, and you'll
SF News When I Grow Up, I Wanna Be a Stripper Ahh, career day. There's nothing quite as inspirational as inspirational speakers coming into school to tell you how if you work hard, you too could become a lawyer or a doctor or a
misc rita: 2004's So-Bests It was a good year, it was a bad year. Here's my list of the so-best parts of 2004, in no order at all. So-Best photo: Nope, not Gav+Kim (you all breathe
Arts & Entertainment Calendars for Font Freaks Anyway, most commercial calendars are fairly bland, anyway -- especially the typography. But good news has arrived: FontShop, an international purveyor of fine typefaces (the U.S. office is based right here in
misc Housing Bubbles: What Am I Bid? Buying a house is even worse than buying something on ebay -- you promise to pay people you've never met some exorbitant amount of money that you clearly don't have, you write a
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Corene Oustad You'll of course want to jump straight to Corene's restaurant picks below. Be forwarned that she hasn't even listed the home of her favorite chef. That's because the University Club is a place
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Culinary Piracy Our idea of being a foodie outlaw is eating ribs in front of a vegetarian or putting chicken on pizza (which we're still not entirely comfortable with). Cheap thrills, we know -- but
SF News An SFist Cameo on DCist ...or is it a DCist cameo on SFist? Our sister site notes that one of our local boys, Adam Werbach, and his new group, the November 3 Theses, have invaded their town to
misc Thinking About Laundry With the Essefficist First things first: Hurray! John Ashcroft is stepping down. Second things second: Big ups to Jackson and Eve for coming up with the new Essefficist mascot over there on stage left. What says
SF News Busy Day Marcia, Marcia, Marcia -- oh, we're just the good ol' reliable Bay Area in Election 2004, no one cares about us -- no one's wooing us, no one's filling up our airwaves with
