SF News Helen and David We're getting a creepy Harold and Maude vibe here -- what else are you going to think when a 30-year-old man enters into a suicide pact with a 109-year-old woman in San Francisco?
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Multigenre Edition Theater isn't just theater anymore. Throw in some dance, circus, puppetry and even a bit of some horror and comic books, and you've come a long way since, say, Neil Simon. Women on
SF News J.T. Leroy: The Chron's finally on the case The creative team behind J.T. Leroy should send James Frey flowers, since his little revelations have given the J. T. Leroy hoax story a sort of also-ran quality. However, we were pleased
SF News American Football Spectacular: We've Been Used. Our 49ers won over the Houston Texans. Yet we write this with a sneer, for the fix was in. Houston had but to lose this game to garner the top pick in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Weekend OK. We promise never to attempt lame rhyming ever again. But we DID want to let you know that there's a "Creature Comforts" marathon on BBC America tonight, starting at 7:30 p.
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Aren't Fooled Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Whoo. Dude With Huge Sunglasses: "Hey Marty." Marty: "Oh! Hey! I didn't recognize you because you're disguised as an Italian." -- North Beach Mom, trying
Arts & Entertainment Santarchy Grips San Francisco They respect no law of man or God. They hedonistically pursue pleasure and merriment at all costs. They look fantastic in red and white. They are the legions of Santas who have gathered
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Are Very Worldly Teacher: "You could have him gesturing at stuff." Student: "He can't gesture! He's British!" -- Academy of Art University Woman: "You know, in Georgian Republic, I was very religious, but it was banned.
SF News The Warriors: It's All in the Name It's time to bring back the cool, clever names of yore. Where are the Boston Beaneaters and the Houston Colt .45s and the Minnesota Muskies? If there's one league that had the name
SF News Barry in the U.S.A From a marketing standpoint, it's great for baseball. Barry gives the games legitimacy they might not have gotten if say, the biggest guy on the U.S.A team is Mark Grudzielanek. It'll
SF News SF Examiner Letters in Reruns? The always-vigilant Bay Area Transit News gets credit for pointing out the apparant Xeroxing. Only a few words were changed between his letter published on September 5th and the one published yesterday; that's
Arts & Entertainment Howard's End For the five of you who still listen to radio, the big question out there is who will replace Howard Stern. Howard, of course, is saying goodbye to free radio on December 18th
SF News Phil Ting Wins The Crown Just like Ron Chun dreamed it would be -- His Highness Gavin triumphantly hands Phil Ting the coveted assessor/recorder scepter! Ting was the only one who had to go through the RCV
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes To See: <i>Re-Animator of the Dead: The Tale of Herbert West</i> Going to see a Primitive Screwheads show at the Off-Market Theater is always weird -- you wait in one room, are ushered into an elevator, and eventually enter the theater itself. The theater
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Samantha Chanse Other than a few culinary issues, and a penchant for the New York Times, Samantha Chanse seems to be adjusting well to the west coast. She’s found cheap Maker’s Mark, a
SF News Google's Next Stop: The World Word on the street (Fine, we actually just got an email from a friend. We can't lie -- our relationship with the street is a strained one, at best) is that Blogger parent
SF News Men in Tights For the last seven years, bike racing has relied on Lance Armstrong's star power to draw new fans to the sport. And gauging by the size of the crowd yesterday at the Barclay's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: The Corral Steakhouse Remember in , when the pre-Skeletor-phase Jennifer Connelly, on the advice of a talking worm, walks through what appears to be a solid wall, but is actually a gap in the maze when she
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink K to Zed Try and think of somewhere, in the heart of San Francisco, that you can dine on South Indian specialities like Dosa and Uttapam. Not such an easy question, is it? Ok, just to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Make Your Reservations Now! You know all our fancy, world-class, four star restaurants, and how difficult it is to get a reservation? You've got to plan months in advance -- both to book a table, and to
misc SFist Raves: Secret Bathroom Spot So there you are, wandering around one of San Francisco's bountiful neighborhoods when all of a sudden you get that calling from nature. You start to look around for a place to go
Arts & Entertainment Hey, Who's That Gringo Mariachi? Last night Melanie and I went to Pancho Villa for the award-winning deliciousness. As you may know, it's not unusual for somebody to be standing in the back playing a guitar. However, the
SF News Chronicle-flavored SPAM? We're sorry, but that's it. We added the SFGate blog to our Bloglines feeds because we figured that we could just ignore Mark Morford and maybe there would be some good stuff. Seriously,
Arts & Entertainment They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To: Trouble in Paradise at the Pacific Film Archive 1. No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing,
Arts & Entertainment Piedmont Bird Callers Do Letterman Piedmont is known for being full of seriously nice houses -- we always joked that the city's raison d'etre is so that rich folks wouldn't have an address in Oakland (okay, we bear
