Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Zipping Up Our Green Boots We got lucky this weekend. Not like that. We got lucky because one of our dear friends gave us a fantastic pair of black leather boots. The boots are brand new, never been
Arts & Entertainment Fly Us to the Moon Spring is springing all around us (Hello, Sunshine!) and while we can't afford to go on a real vacation on our salary, we can afford to dream. Which is why we love Flight
SF News I Wish... However. That's not to say that NextMuni's work would be done. Oh hell no. There's still a boatload of fixer-upperring to be done on that site. (The graphic design alone looks like something
SF News Love on The Run: Crush or Flush Just similar in design to speed dating but specifically designed for the cell phone, Crush or Flush™ displays a picture and personal descriptors (tags) for each person that you can peruse with just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Modern Alchemy: Jim Woods And Mateveza Yerba Maté Ale We've seen some hideous examples of what can happen when a product attempts to combine several things into one. We've also seen some pretty good examples. Well, now there's a pretty stellar one:
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Glossies With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Branford Marsalis SFist recently sat down with Marsalis for our first-ever email interview. Q. First off, did you have anything to do with the fact that the top view of the "Braggtgown" CD looks like
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Stick A Fork In It; It's Done Hey, folks, welcome to our weekly opinions on the past week's , which we hope will spur you to watch tonight's episo-- What? Last week was it? No after-season wrap-up where they contestants yell
SF News Treasure Hunt: An Ounce of Bliss Their name's the stuff our dreams are made of but the first minute we spend at The San Francisco Chocolate Factory doesn't bode well. "Do you make the chocolate here?" We ask, our
SF News More Transit Thrills Than You Can Possibly Stand They're also planning to allocate $64,000 to Public Works for the sprucing up a few blocks of Valencia Street -- that's just design-engineering of 17th to 19th, not the actual construction. Construction
SF News And It Burns, Burns, Burns, the Ring of Fire, the Ring of Fire The fire rings would be designated places where bonfires could happen. There would be signs letting everyone know what the deal is with the hope that people would only build bon fires in
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 Goodbye, Leslie Harpold Leslie Harpold has died. A writer, designer, editor, and web pioneer of prodigious skill, she was 40. Why did Leslie Harpold matter? To those who never met her, it was because she "was
SF News Cool Web Site Alert First up is one from fashion/design site Jargol. It's one of those Google map type thingies that let’s people know where to go for the "coolest" independent shops. Yeah, most of
SF News We're Going Through Changes Over the next three months or so you'll start noticing a few other new things. One of them will be upping the amount of postings. That'll mean more news, more politics, more arts
Arts & Entertainment Rigoletto: The Killer, The Jester, His Daughter, Her Lover. We were going to make a snarky comment about the crimson theme of the set: it is the only color, the rest is black and white; and the interiors are only red: walls,
Arts & Entertainment Where's Our SFiS? Editor & Publisher reported that the t-less "SFiS" will feature writing by SFisT cult fave society writer C-Big, fashion editor Sylvia Rubin, and feature writer Carolyne Zinko -- and it was supposed to
Arts & Entertainment Who Wants To Be A Non-Local Superhero? So the premise of is that Stan Lee, of Spider-Man and Fantastic Four and X-Men fame, is picking the best action hero character, and the winner gets a comic book issue dedicated to
SF News American Football Spectacular: Your Santa Clara 49ers' Stadium Preview Welcome to American Football Spectacular for 2006 season. We hope you enjoyed your offseason, and are poised for the joy of our National Football League preseason previews. This week, after years of dithering,
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 Frameline 30: SFist Has You Covered It all starts with tonight's 7:30 screening of at the Castro (where else?), followed by the 30th Anniversary Opening Night Gala at the San Francisco Design Center. We're not just showing up
SF News Your San Francisco Giants: Happy Days Are Here Again? Here's what taking two-out-of-three games on the road against the best team in the National League will get you-- Giants bloggers are actually experiencing glee. And why not? They did take two from
Arts & Entertainment "Trading Spaces" Officially Runs Out Of Nice Neighborhoods, Takes Over The Sunset Neighborhood jankiness aside (and we must note that janky or not, we wouldn't trade our Sunset space for the world, we love it so), we were also surprised at the scope (or lack
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finalists In The Bay To Breakers T-Shirt Contest Remember when we told you guys about the Design The Bay To Breakers T-Shirt contest, and SFist Eve suggested a cartoon of Chris Daly throttling a naked runner? Well, we're all disappointed she
Arts & Entertainment Authors Go On Tour - Why Can't You? We'll start with SFist Peninsula headquarters in Menlo Park at Kepler's: The kickoff to their travel series comes from Frances Mayes (warning, there's sound at that link), on Saturday, April 1, 7:30
