SF News The Sky is Falling! And then last night, three pieces fell from a FedEx flight onto homes and yards in Danville. The flight was carrying deliveries to Dallas-Fort Worth, but shortly after takeoff, started losing cargo. Betten
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Takes in the View We'll make this one short and sweet -- at Red's Java House (Pier 30), what you see is what you get. On a nice day, you can't beat being bayside; you can't beat
SF News Drinking With the SFFD The second-in-command of the San Francisco Fire Department, Deputy Chief Fred Sanchez, stepped down yesterday due to controversy over his actions involving a drunk battalion chief. Some people just can't take the heat,
Arts & Entertainment Weirdest. Conference. Evar. That said, for $25 in advance or $30 at the door (space is limited, though) you can listen to folks with masters degrees help you come to grips with your soul and your
SF News Bay Blogger Thursday: Austin Edition So of course we're surrounded by Bay Bloggers all week here in Austin, but didn't think to ask "Hey, you wanna do Bay Blogger Thursday?" We know, stupid. Luckily we also hadn't remembered
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part Three -- Tremendous Delirium Oy. That Gawker party was a doozy. We're going to have to give Krucoff some credit -- we're going to have to face off in a liver-busting tiebreaker to claim best two out
SF News The Giants Want You! Doing what hasn't been determinted, but the job does carry with it the title of "Special Assistant." Why, you’ll be just like George Costanza, although we don’t think Sabean will allow
SF News SFist Rants: We Want to Drink More and Later Imagine one of those "from the past" montages like thay have on "Cold Case". Some early 90s dance music (maybe Rhythm is a Dancer) plays in the background as a thinner, younger, and
Arts & Entertainment <strike>Marin County's</strike> San Francisco's Robin Williams Harshes on Disney -- Loves Pixar In the "d'oh, we totally forgot" department (we've been sharing a blunt with Al Gore), yesterday evening our snarker-in-arms down south Defamer (who we swear is actually Thomas Pynchon drinking away his career
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Royalty Sometimes, SFist likes to dress up as a pretty, pretty princess. We're so cute afterall. When we're really feeling pathetic we put on our old prom dress, the one we wore when we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Gets It Right the Second Time It's like drinking "green." It's vibrant, a little raw, and really just . . . different. Strong, but not oppressively so. Pungent. Piny through the middle; a nice, fresh finish. Perhaps some elucidation is in order.
Arts & Entertainment Fair fa' your honest sonsie face, Great Chieftain o' the puddin' race And for a good list of Celtic music events related to Burns Night, go here
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Staggering Through Fog When the weather gets as ugly as it's been recently, you just gotta find a place that feels like home. No, not that 200 square foot dump you call an apartment. We're talking
SF News Doing More Shortly after the terrible tsunami in the Indian Ocean, SFist Mary-Lynn put together a great SFist Cares feature. But as the extent of suffering has begun to become fully apparent, we felt that
Arts & Entertainment <em>The Darwin Awards</em> Having never been to a movie set before, we were entertained by watching the multitude of techs and runners standing around drinking coffee and communicating via walkie talkies. Apparently there is a lot
SF News Jeremy on '04 GOOD STUFF Sports: Swimming star Michael Phelps. He could have entered fewer races to help ensure better results in his best events, but he didn't -- he participated in every event in which
misc Pub Transin' The New Year In For all those New Year’s revelers looking to party-hop or wondering how they are drunkenly going to stumble home after drinking way too much champagne, there are plenty of public transportion options
SF News Week in SFist -- Feliz Navidad Edition And He said to those who sold doves, "Take these things away! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise! John 2:16 [New King James] Granted, that was after he'd
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Moments in Trimethyldioxypurism Ritual. It's very important in our society. A ritual can be more powerful than its components -- after all, don't we all know that person who drinks the dreaded in the morning, claiming
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Viva La Trimethyldioxypurist Holy crap, man -- pass the sweetener! Straight up, before anything else is mentioned about Cafe Macondo, it must be known that this is a super dark, wickedly bitter cup of coffee. This
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nectar of the Gods [] Now that Thanksgiving is over and done with, there are only about eighteen gazillion other reasons to throw a party and drink yourself into oblivion this holiday season. Should you be invited to
SF News Another One Bites The Dust While we may not be big fans of golf, we are, however, big fans of the Chronicle's golf columnist Brian Murphy. Well, more like big fans of his Weekend Water Cooler column that
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Free H. Brown! ... and the District 5 race claims another victim. Last-place candidate H. Brown, a writer and self-described homeless man who garnered 43 votes in the election, had spent Tuesday night, like us, drinking heavily.
Arts & Entertainment Comedy that Puts the "Mock" in Democracy Based on Wonkette's early numbers, it looks like it could be party-time in the Bay Area. But things have a way of changing at the last minute, so who knows. Either way, you're
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Political Parties So tomorrow you'll have done your homework, stood in line, gotten your sticker and have been a good citizen. Now you just need a drink. On Election Day there are Parties (Democrat, Republican,
