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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Kasper Hauser/Elephant Larry Now, before tomatoes get thrown at us, we don't mean it in a negative way. It's not like we didn't enjoy Kasper Hauser-- we very much did-- it's just that we liked Elephant
SF News Who's Attacking Newsom Now! So... who's on this week's list? Let's bring 'em out! --Aaron Peskin and Ross Mirkarimi!: Luke Thomas at Fog City Journal reports that Supervisors Peskin and Mirkarimi decided to take advantage of Gavin
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
SF News It's Saturday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team Is? What's going on is that he whole development thing is sort of a chicken vs. the egg conundrum- do you develop first and bring the Niners with you or do you wait for
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
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef:</i> La-La-Later -- First and foremost, we (usually) like it and want to help keep it on the air. We figure that sharing what happened last week on the day a new episode is about
SF News Your Daily Dose of Whatever Gate We're Calling It Talk about tension city-- here was the political rival of the Mayor chatting it up with the Mayor's ex-wife. And according to Matier & Ross, Kimberly signed off with these words: "all right,
SF News 14 Murders in 17 Days So what's the deal? On January 2, the city had just patted itself on the back for reducing the murder rate in 2006 by 11% over 2005. Well, in today's Examiner, local Republican
SF News <strike>Swells</strike> Fake Question Time By The Numbers There's no Swells society column today! Sad! So we're doing a Fake Question Time By The Numbers instead. Number of people in attendance: 200. Number of chickens: 6. Number of times Angela Alioto
Arts & Entertainment Bloggers 1, KSFO 0 It's looking like Spocko the Blogger's little stunt he pulled on KSFO is working. Both Bank of America and MasterCard pulled either all of their advertising or some of their advertising from KSFO.
SF News More on the Yale Choir Story The major source of controversy stems from the police response. According to the Chron, the police went to go check it out but deemed it not that much in a way of a
SF News Other Things That Happened Today Sorry, we've become so obsessed with the upcoming Fake Question Time and those Yalie a capella singers that got beaten up that we totally didn't cover any of the other city news from
misc New Year's Bash The facts appear to be these: The Baker's Dozen, an all-male (but not exclusively gay) chorus from Yale was asked to perform at the house of Reno Rapagnani, a retired SFPD officer and
SF News Political Junkie: Thin Veneer Of Something Sulky, sulky -- Gavin Newsom was sober and mad after yesterday's Board of Supervisors inaugural ceremony, which the Chronicle tactfully described as having a "tone of political contentiousness running just beneath a veneer
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your TV! Also, I'm really, really lazy. So, much like I did last year, I will instead offer readers a glimpse at the top ten shows currently on my TiVo Season Pass list. Please feel
SF News Political Junkie: Booooo! It's a bad sign when the Oakland City Council (and its participating public -- see notes in the comments below) takes the "worst behaved political activity" award on a day where not only
Arts & Entertainment Netroots Powers, Activate! Now that Netroots have slowed down on the Tauscher hating, they've moved onto another subject to which their ire is drawn, KSFO. One of the diarists on Daily Kos is telling the story
SF News American Football Spectacular: Drink An <i>Art Shell</i> For Art Shell It was announced today that Art Shell would not return as the Raiders head coach in 2007. Fired? Resigned? Stepped down? Stepped aside? Stripped of his title? Canned? Whatever, it was Al's decision.
SF News Your Commute: One Dollar More While the extra money will go to retrofitting, the new snazzy Bay Bridge suspension bridge redesign is what triggered the increase in the first place -- you may recall that when Schwarzenegger tried
Arts & Entertainment SFist Christopher's Best From The Past 365 Days * Album Of The Year: Mogwai -- "Mr. Beast" The mostly-instrumental music of Glasgow's Mogwai has been described as big instrumental rock music for a soundtrack. The soundtrack of your whatever-you're-doing. If whatever-you're-doing really
SF News Jobs iNnocent Not everyone, however, thinks that all of this settles the case. One guy interviewed for a story and who obviously doesn’t worship at the cult of Steve Jobs (blasphemer) thinks Jobs is
SF News State Senate Shenanigans Well, the latest rumor (from the Bay Area Reporter) is that folks have heard tell that Aaron Peskin is now thinking about running for the State Senate seat as well. Whaaaaa? The tea-leaf
SF News Your Third (Third!) Berkeley Quake The Chron included a helpful link to a Google map of the area (why didn't think of that?), which shows that the epicenter was between Ashby Ave. and Highway 24, right off Claremont
Arts & Entertainment Happy Festivus Whlie tomorrow is technically Festivus, we thought we'd get a head start on the holiday that's the holiday for the rest of us. So here's snippets from the "Seinfeld" episode that started it