SF News SFist Sightings We were very busy running errands dowtown this morning when we spotted a silver fox coming our way. "Damn, who that?" we said to ourselves, "Thank gawd we're wearing our cute new purple
Arts & Entertainment At Least Go Buy Us A T-Shirt Remember those days? My parents went to blah-blah-blah and all I got was this stupid... Well, if you go to Oakland's Bulldog Coffee Shop today from 6-7:30pm, not only will you get
SF News Up, Up and Away In My Beautiful Taxi The reason for all this is health care. The Taxicab Commission was tasked with the job of coming up with a health care plan for all of the drivers out there. The plan
SF News Don't Be A Litter Bug So today, Gavin introduced a new campaign to stop littering. This time, the campaign will be mainly educational as that appears to be the problem. We don't understand why people wouldn't think littering
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Survey Says</i>? 'Who Cares!' (Or, Please, No More News About McDonald's Coffee!) (Though we recommend you read The Shot's take on it, and all things coffee, of course) The type of person that goes to fast food places for coffee is generally looking for caffeine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Worth The Wait? Bi-Rite Creamery Saturday--the sun was shining, Dolores Park was full to the brim, and evidently everyone else had the same idea we did: "let's get some ice cream." Bi-Rite Creamery, which opened only a few
Arts & Entertainment Wanna Be in the Pictures? Curator Ariella Ben-Dov organizes the festival’s accepted submissions by subject, as opposed to genre; the result in an eclectic mix that can feature documentaries, experiments and short narratives all in one screening.
SF News MUNI By the Numbers Anyways, the Chron did a story and discovered that MUNI has a lot of problems right now, mainly that it's on time only 70% of the time. That's 15% lower than mandated by
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Get Mortified's Scott Lifton What's the most mortifying thing you've encountered in this project? My mother reading my diary entry about me almost stalking a girl in high school How many years must pass before people can
misc Meet Me at the Coffee Shop/We Can Dance Like Iggy Pop It's two in the afternoon, doesn't anybody have jobs? And it's the worst kind of coffee shop denizens too, the kind who have their laptop on and are pretty much camped out there
misc Around The -Ists Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cocola is a No-No-La. . . At Least For The Coffee There are many fine examples of patisseries and boulangeries that make wonderful coffee. Cocola, located in the Westfield, that wondrous new monstrosity of a shopping complex, is not one of them. While we're
misc Of Human Bondage in the Mission There's a hitch in all of this in that there's really nothing anyone can do about it. It was a private sale so no public hearing was needed and as Kink.com doesn't
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews UCB ASSSSCAT at Sketchfest Which makes us wonder how much of a review we read is really what the critic thought or what kind of mood the critic is in. Think about it-- if you're in a
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: The Bald Truth--It Ain't About The Food A lot of stupid crap for a show where the mantra has been "it's all about the food." We still enjoy the show, but believe that the producers should (and will) be a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Parties We <i>Were</i> Invited To: Good, Good, Good, Good Hydration The scene: everyone is standing around the bar, taking sips from wine glasses--but they aren't filled with wine. One of the attendees comments that she can't believe that a room of (mostly) journalists,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coffee Follow-Up: Take A Pill, People (Or Not) Hey, folks, your Trimethyldioxypurist is back with a quick follow-up to the review of Meth Coffee we posted yesterday. We saw something related on the wires this morning. We're tempted to just link
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Buzz About 'Meth Coffee' Gets Your Trimethyldioxypurist Off His Ass Hey, folks. It's been a while. Accordingly, we should probably reprint our mission statement: Or something like that. Your Trimethyldioxypurist has been very happy with his coffee-related life; we're utilizing our good brewer,
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Goes Catholic Those of you who've been vociferously participating in our ongoing debates about Falun Gong, Mormonism, and Scientology will be pleased to hear that we spent tonight steeped in Mozart's Catholic Mass in C
SF News New Rules The biggest one is an increase in the minimum wage, from $6.75 an hour to $7.50. Next year, it'll go up to $8. In San Francisco, however, the minimum wage is
Arts & Entertainment SFist on the Radio Again The show we'll be on is Irene McGee Show on 106.9 FREE FM. Apparently we're supposed to help co-host and show off our expertise on all things media and San Francisco. As
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wake Up and Smell the…Gentrification? So, we were surprised a couple of Monday mornings ago to see what seemed to be a hipster oasis that sprouted up over night on 24th St near Bryant. It's a spacious venue
Arts & Entertainment Mmmmm...chocolate factory tour The former Kona Coffee factory in Berkeley has been the home base for local chocolatier Scharffen Berger for the past five years. http://www.scharffenberger.com/ They offer a free and delcious factory
Arts & Entertainment Help Homeless Connect Connect The problem is that under the rules of Care Not Cash, most of their welfare money goes to their rooms with only a little bit left over to make ends meet. The eighty
