SF News American Football Spectacular: Modern Ruins Our capable and attractive SFist Editor Jon has been all over this story like Sara Lee on cherry pie. Bless him. Here at American Football Spectacular, we've been watching this story build with
SF News Diary Of a Poll Worker I just got home. It took an hour and a half for the sheriff's deputy to come pick up the ballots and supplies. This was long after the parking operations guy had come
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Craig Newmark As you probably know, Craig Newmark is the genius (and we really mean it here) behind craigslist, the most addictive place on the internets. SFist Nick Ross covers all things craigslist for us,
SF News The Haunted Ghost Tour On a chilly Sunday night in front of Coffee to the People, we met our genial tour guide, Tommy, an honest-to-goodness ghost hunter, There were only two of us on the tour, but
Arts & Entertainment Dick Valentine of Electric Six Best venue in the world? Glasgow Barrowlands. Best fans in the world? The Scottish. You’ve said that the greatest fans are in Scotland, yet you named your album SWITZERLAND. Please explain. Doesn’
Arts & Entertainment Bad Reporter! Down! So we immediately snapped up his very first book when we saw it on the shelf at Stacey's the other day: Dog v. Cat, an expose of the 2004 pet election that tore
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Um, Yeah, But What Kind of Grinder Did They Use? Please excuse us. We need to take issue with an article, "French roast brews, sip for sip" in today's Los Angeles Times. Why were we reading the L.A. Times, you ask? We're
SF News Shaking All Over Okay, so we over-reacted a bit and unfortunately, our back is still smarting from the attempt at diving underneath the coffee table, but there was an Earthquake tonight. A 4.4 one in
SF News Yeah, It's Always Sunny in San Francisco-- What Of It? This morning while drinking our coffee and surfing the Web, we went to Deadspin and saw this little blurb about Giants' fans treatment of Phillies pitcher Brett Myers. Myers was cited for taking
SF News Design Within Whose Reach? That's where San Francisco company Design Public's sample sale, which is running the entire month of July, comes in. Just log in to their outlet store with the password , and you'll have access
Arts & Entertainment How Super? That's a pretty decent line for a weekday, morning screening that's over an hour away, huh? Is really worth an hour at 4th and Mission? Friend of SFist James Rocchi seems to think
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If You Take The Caffe Out of North Beach, Is It Truly Trieste? So, there's a new Caffe Trieste location, right smack dab on Market Street (1667 Market, at Gough). This represents the company's fourth location, but its second here in the city . . . the other one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Joe! Therefore, we'll remind y'all that the marketing Powers That Be are trying to promote some movie based on a pretty crappy (though admittedly enjoyable in parts) book by offering we worker bees a
misc SFist Whines and Dines: Atlas Cafe But now dogs in the Bay Area have two, count ‘em, two monthly newspapers catering to their needs. The Woofer Times claims to produce 40,000 free papers per month distributed at over
Arts & Entertainment SF Rolls Out the Punk Rock Red Carpet to Host Benefit Auction for the West Memphis Three In 1994, three teenagers – Jessie Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols – stood trial and were convicted for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in the small town of West Memphis, Ark. Many believe
misc Local Coffee Guy Takes A Fall; Coffee Community Helps Him Back Up Some time ago, we met Steve Ford, who, among other things pulls a great shot of espresso. We met him during his tenure with the stalkerriffic Blue Bottle Coffee Company; since our encounter,
misc What's In A Name? SFist Spotlight On Ritual Roasters, Part II In part one of our spotlight on Ritual Roasters, we told you the backstory behind one the the Mission's most popular new cafes. We did, however, save one important component of that story
SF News Yeah, It's Another Scandal! So what does this have to do with the price of the Tea at Coffee Tea & Spice on Haight? Turns out one of his clients was rumored to be one Barry Lamar
Arts & Entertainment Only The Good Yvesdroppings Die Young Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Old man outside bar: "Smoking kills." Smoking hipster: "Only the good die young." -- From Ingrid/Bar in TenderNob Teen girl: "I don't know why
SF News Who Needs A Laptop? So, this morning... I stop in at the corner coffee shop which is buzzing with the usual unemployed people (usually with emo hair, or Marina hoop earings) busily tapping away at their PowerBooks
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Craig Wedren tickets! Anyone else a little worn out from all this running around to rock shows? Nothing a little hot coffee and a fresh giveaway can't fix. We highly recommend trekking out to Bernal Heights,
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Rough-looking woman to rough-looking guy, both of indeterminate age: "I'm not an exhibitionist, I'm an inhibitionist." -- On the 71 Haight
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Are Courageous (For Trying This Coffee) So, get this -- Cafe Gratitude has coffee. It's not brewed, but instead, per the cafe's menu, "infused for 48 hours in cold water." Organic beans, no less, from a company known as
misc This Just In -- Self-Heating Coffee! (Is Awful! Shocker.) So, while for the most part we're very into doing coffee the "right way" (grind just before brewing, etc etc), there's a part of us that's super susceptible to gimmickry. We always want
SF News Watch Out Bush/Cheney, Here Comes the Board of Supes The measure brought out the snark from Gavin, of all people, who said in response: "I imagine, immediately, Congress will probably convene into session and begin impeachment proceedings.'' Hey, that's our line.
