Arts & Entertainment Hold On to Your Hats: Santacon Rears Its Bearded Head Again Saturday The annual, abominable snowman of a pub crawl known as Santacon returns Saturday, and here’s how you better watch out for the damned thing, or else Santa yourself up and ride the tide of Yule.
Arts & Entertainment WARNING: SantaCon Is Saturday, Though It Will Definitely Get Rained On If you want to mark yourself “Safe From SantaCon,” you’ll want to avoid the bars on Saturday, and once again, some hucksters are out pushing $30 tickets to this event that is actually free and completely unorganized.
Arts & Entertainment Drunks Throw Up Strong Performances At Beer Mile World Classic The underground competitive drinking contest known as the Beer Mile had a milestone event on Treasure Island Saturday, with the Beer Mile World Classic bringing the drinking game's world record holders together for
Arts & Entertainment Watch 'People Behaving Badly' Outside Of Outside Lands "It should be called Outside Craziness," beams Stanley Roberts, jewel in the KRON 4 News crown, reporting on the festivities and tomfoolery happening outside Outside Lands. Roberts found drunks, jaywalkers, angry festival goers
SF News Sober Up, People: SFPD Will Start Jailing Chronic Inebriates As part of their ongoing efforts to save us the trouble of stepping over drunks on the sidewalk, San Francisco Police plan to implement a new policy that will lock up the city's
SF News 23-Year-Old Woman Leads Police On Late Night DUI Rampage Early Thursday morning after last call, a 23-year-old woman with at least three prior DUI charges to her name decided to go for one more when she steered her Jeep Cherokee up a
SF News Publicly Drunk Pregnant Woman Gives Birth At Santa Cruz Jail A pregnant woman who was arrested in Santa Cruz for being publicly intoxicated was about to be released from jail Monday when she went into labor. And she ended up having the baby
SF News Bevan Dufty Still Wants a 'Wet House' in S.F. Where Homeless Drunks Can Drink In Peace Back in 2010 we first heard about the push to open a 'wet house' in San Francisco, modeled on a similar one in Seattle, in which homeless, chronic drunks can live in peace
SF News New SF Archbishop Partakes In Too Much 'Holy Water,' Gets Arrested For Drunk Driving A soon-to-be appointed San Francisco Archbishop risked the lives of others when he decided to take to the road while blotto. Dreamy-eyed Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was arrested on Saturday at 12:26
SF News Marina Partiers Leave Behind Massive Fort Mason Mess Happy Earth Day, everybody! Just when we thought our faith in the drunkards had been restored, we spotted this disaster area left behind after throngs of Marina District revelers took their overconsumption outdoors
SF News Man Who Drove Through Muni Tunnel Blew A 0.20 BAC Scott Mitchell, the 40-year-old man from Sebastapol who tried to take a shortcut to the Embarcadero from Church Street in his Ford SUV last month, had a blood alcohol concentration nearly three times
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tonight Addendum: Dueling Manhattans At Jardinière Jardinière, Hayes Valley's white-hot spot for perfect food and all-around exquisiteness, is having another one of their local guest bartender series. Tonight they will feature Frommer’s Travel Guides editors. David Lytle (whose
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jumbacos Prevail: Richmond District Jack In The Box Approved For Late-Night Food When last we checked in at the with the problematic Jack in the Box in the Richmond, the twofer taco joint had lost it's 24-hour privileges after a drunken altercation at the restaurant
Arts & Entertainment Jay Barmann Guest Bartends at Jardiniere on Tuesday Critically acclaimed bon vivant Jay Barmann will be mixing drinks behind the bar at Jardiniere tomorrow, November 1 from 6-8pm. Join him, won't you? The Grub Street editor (and fellow SFister!) is just
SF News SFist Blotter: Mission Shooting, SoMa Drug Robbery, Drunken Panhandle Assault Mission / Shooting: Police today increased efforts to learn more about the daylight killing of 18 year-old Kevin Hall, who was shot near the intersection of Alemany Boulevard and Crescent Avenue on August 25.
SF News Bay to Breakers Drunk Tents to Offer Free Juice, Nap Time Anyone who thought the 100th running of the Zazzle Bay to Breakers 12k urine-a-thon was going to be boring ought to check out the organizers' plan to handle the drunkards. As race spokesman
Arts & Entertainment Play "Everyone's Irish" Bingo (Because You're Already Drunk) It's St. Patrick's Day, so everyone gets a free pass for being drunk at an inappropriately early hour. And while you're out there hopping from a stereotypically named Irish bar to an unnecessarily
SF News There Will Be a Sobriety Checkpoint, Somewhere, Tonight Starting at 6:30 p.m. and extending throughout the evening the SFPD will be doing a sobriety checkpoint at an undisclosed location to look out for drivers who partook too much of
SF News Drunk Guy Almost Drives Car Into Pond in McLaren Park And today on our favorite beat, namely the Drunks Behaving Badly beat, we find one obviously [read: allegedly] drunk dude who drove his car into McLaren Park around 2:20 a.m. this
SF News That Alcohol Tax? Still Possibly Not Dead. Even though Gavin vetoed that alcohol "fee" (or "tax" if you prefer), there are apparently rumblings still on the Board of Supervisors, likely originating with John Avalos, about trying to override Gavin's veto.
SF News S.F. Considers a 'Wet House' Where Homeless Alcoholics Can Live and Drink In Peace You know how the Board of Supervisors are trying to make up for some $17 million spent annually on medical care and law enforcement related to alcohol abuse by taxing all alcohol sold?
SF News Update RE: Police Cracking Down on Dolo Park Drinking We made it a personal mission to check out the sitch in Dolores Park this past Friday afternoon, following on reports of a police crackdown on "illegal" drinking in the park, and we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Tales of the Cocktail Last week in New Orleans, bartenders and cocktail journalists from around the country gathered for a particularly booze sozzled conference known as Tales of the Cocktail. Highlights included the History of Saloons in
misc Texts From Last Night: The Best of the 415 Because we've developed an addiction to this little site called Texts From Last Night -- to which users submit the funny / insane texts they either sent, or received "last night," identified only by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Rock & Rye Because we all know the Twain adage about summer in San Francisco, we'll skip it and throw out this recipe for a slightly wintry concoction that comes to us via Greg Lindgren of
