SF News SchwartzenWatcher Ain't Gonna Play Sun City The accusations, which have been floating around for years, came from a quote in an unauthorized biography of the big lunk. Here's the quote that's stirring all this: "According to Rick Wayne, who
SF News Ask And Ye Shall Receive (And by "Receive," we Mean "Get F**ked") Attention Caltrainiacs: don't plan on taking the N line home this evening, because it's not running like it used to. Ever-vigilant Muniwatcher Jamison has informed us that some wacky car-driver done gone crashed
misc The Worst Is Yet To Come? Trying to figure out what your house is worth in today's real estate market is only slightly less difficult than practicing haruspicy to predict what will happen next week. Articles like the one
SF News The A's Finally Have an Opponent The A's might have wrapped up their playoff spot days ago, but the big question of who they would play was still up in the air. Finally, this afternoon, the A's got their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Jade Bar Ok, we're ashamed to say we are a bit of a new-ageist. Sometimes, even in the middle of a noisy drinking establishment we can feel the ebb and flow of the natural forces
SF News Your Commute: Tying Up Traffic There's a report that a MUNI bus managed to snarl all the traffic on 580 after getting in an accident with a big rig? Sure, we can believe a MUNI bus tied up
SF News Going, Going, Sold! Long-standing live music venue, The Ivy Room, in Albany is also closing "as we know it." The current ownership relinquishes the premises in two weeks. Kimberly Chun and the Guardian have the details,
SF News Your Commute: BART and Caltrain Isn't everyone glad the Bay Bridge is reopened? Well, maybe not BART -- they're reporting a 13% increase in ridership over Labor Day weekend, including 10,200 riders who used the overnight service.
misc The Philistine's Fall Music Preview. You want to go below to see movie clips of Deborah Voigt and our running commentary on the SF Symphony's and SF Opera's season. Picture of MTT -Hi, Mike, good to see you
SF News East Bay News First, the quick and dirty: the Oakland Tribune reports: one dead, two injured, 3 alarm fire at a 6 story residential hotel in downtown Oakland early Friday morning . In the Berkeley Daily Planet,
Arts & Entertainment Libation Liberation: Owl Tree Knowing very little about why people obsess over the things they do, this tongue-thick reporter believes the owl isn't a bad choice when you come right down to it. We've always had a
SF News Downtown Business Interests vs. the Progressives: SFist Breaks It Down If you have any understanding of San Francisco politics, or San Francisco at all, you have to have noticed that basically everything in this city breaks down to a battle between the "Downtown
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Explain Themselves Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! This is new! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail
Arts & Entertainment Screw It, We're Moving To Busy Town Our pals at Shanghaiist tipped us of to David Friedman's blog, Ironic Sans. We already had an internet crush on David from his site on GameBoy camera photography (a not so secret obsession
Arts & Entertainment Mountain Biking: Freewheeling it Festival-Style in Fairfax It's hot. No, it's freakin' hot. So what goes well with scorching heat? If you answered bands, bikes, beer, and bitchin' trail riding, then you might want to wheel yourself out to Fairfax
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: They Love the '70s at Marines Memorial Theatre We admit we were a little skeptical when we heard about this Janis Joplin musical. After all, remember Lennon, the musical that premiered here and closed after a month
Arts & Entertainment Good thing it wasn't at 1130 Market St; we like to get to bed early Today is 7/11, and in memory of club, there'll be a somber BYOB flashmob at 7:11pm at a downtown 7/11 store that replaced the club, located, perfectly enough, at 711
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Have Needs, Too Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Driver over intercom as the M train inbound approached downtown: "Next stop, Montgomery. Beautiful people, get off here." -- From MeiMei
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lou's Living Donut Museum Closing San Jose institution Lou's Living Donut Museum is closing at the end of this month, due to an illness in the family of the owners, the Chaviras. The eponymous Lou of the donut
Arts & Entertainment Bay Guardian Down, But Not Out Maybe there is something to this 6/6/06 numerological weirdness after all. The mood seems dark and sinister for an election day. And it was certainly some devilish characters who have shut
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: In Memoriam It's a melancholy Everybody Hates Chris column about the District 6 election: this week's episode -- Everybody Hates Death. We were sorry to read in the paper that one of the candidates that
misc Dear Mr Ford: Special Bay To Breakers Edition After finishing the Bay to Breakers, my spouse and I were good little citizens and walked to the MUNI buses that were lined up to take us back toward downtown. We had paid
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Jonestown: The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple</i> Anyone who's interested in San Francisco history must see this movie. Director and MacArthur genius grant recipient Stanley Nelson (who previously directed the Emmy-award-winning ) has put together a sensitive and thoughtful history of
Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: <i>San Francisco</i> There's something vaguely weird in reviewing a movie that came out in 1936 (Who this young rising star Clark Gable? He's going to go far!), but we had a great time at the
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election (Part I) This week's episode: Everybody Hates A Scoop! A super-secret source passed on the word that the Downtown Lobby has a new candidate to run against Chris Daly in the November 2006 election for
