SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vive Le Bon Anniversaire! 4:30 p.m.: Catch the last matinée showing of at the U.A. Theater on Shattuck. (This theater has the tastiest popcorn we've tried lately, by the way. Not too salty. No
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Organic Mani-Pedis In The East Bay? So, you San Francisco folks have it made. With places like Polished Lounge and Le Crème Spa, you can go get a "natural" manicure and pedicure in a big puffy chair with lots
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Eats: Can't Stop Eating Those Free-Range Burgers Another stop on our East Bay tour of the best burgers made from "naturally-raised" meat: Luka's Taproom & Lounge. Just look at the picture. Need we say more? Note the little cup of
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, let's say the San Jose Metro. Hillary Clinton is not doing very well fundraising in Silicon Valley. Eco-trendiness is getting kind of old. What exactly does it mean to be a
SF News Day Around The Bay --Who owns the new East Bay Express? [the EBX's 92510] --Oh, Newsom's all for foot patrols. [KCBS.] --The Bike Coalition and Ross Mirkarimi want lights at Fell and Masonic. [Examiner.] --Wanna pay someone
SF News BART Peers Into a Crystal Ball -New transbay tube -More stations in SF and extensions in the East Bay and in the Peninsula -More trains with more doors and no drivers. Also with flat screen TVs showing news and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV There were a lot of locals in the world of reality TV this week! "America's Got Talent" included an audition from an East Bay music teacher named Michael Strelo-Smith. He had an OK
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: M&R Man, we're bummed the Chron still hasn't put back up the pictures of the Canton Flower Shop and their stymied attempts to inspect the legendary shower in the back -- but we do
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up? Oh, let's say the SF Weekly. Everyone loves Eliza Strickland! Matt Smith is enjoying blogging, we think. Ticketing bikes who run stop signs. Cover article: Summer movies (including Frameline and Sicko)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hens Can Rest A Little Easier . . . some of them, anyway. The Rainbow Grocery Co-op is the first San Francisco-based store to announce that it will exclusively carry cage-free eggs. The news was spread by animal advocacy group East Bay
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Since SFist Sarah L didn't get to the SJ Metro last week, we hit them next! There are too many pigeons in the South Bay, says Gary Singh. Moms other than Pat Tillman's
Arts & Entertainment Back To Indie For The EBX It all seems very amicable, and no one's saying anything about this formally, but it hasn't been a secret that a lot of people have been unhappy with the Village Voice Media's franchising
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies And next up, the SF Weekly. Know why? Because SFist was voted READERS' CHOICE BEST BLOG!!!!! Yay! We're so excited! Thank you, SF Weekly readers! There's no link for the Best-Of readers' choice
Arts & Entertainment What's There To Love About The East Bay? Lots! Next Up: New and Creative Theater If you've ever wondered what the Weather Underground and The Book of Jeremiah could have in common, then check out the innovative new production from Berkeley-based theater company, Just Theater. We don't claim
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soon, More People Can Pay Too Much For Groceries The East Bay Biz Times is reporting that Whole Foods is planning a major expansion throughout the East Bay. Yes, soon enough, Lafayette, Dublin, and Oakland will be able to experience the "whole
Arts & Entertainment Fill Your Belly at Full House Café To tell you the truth, we were hesitant to share this restaurant review with you, because we were worried that you would swarm our favorite neighborhood breakfast place and extend our wait for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: The Seaman’s Soup Kitchen Okay, it's really NOT a soup kitchen, but if you have a boat docked in Oakland’s Embarcadero Cove Marina (down the highway from Jack London Square and across from Alameda's Coast Guard
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies (A Little Late) Sorry for the delay in reading your alt-weeklies this week; there was a comical mixup in our attempts to implement the weekly switchoff between us and SFist Sarah L. We'll try again in
SF News Family In The City The articles profiled a couple who live on Guerrero Street and their two kids (5 and 1) -- on the one hand, an affordable area because of the high-density housing and street traffic,
Arts & Entertainment All We Meant To Do Was Get A Burger You may know by now that we prefer our meat grass-fed, pedigreed, pasture raised, and without ooky hormones, antibiotics or other additives. So when we had a craving for a burger the other
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What’s There To Love About the East Bay? Lots! A Penny-Pincher’s Guide to Albany You wouldn’t know it from the property values or the chi chi restaurants on Solano Avenue, but Albany has many a cheap option that can accommodate our miserly lifestyle. Option #1: Albany
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Sunny Weekend: Thai Brunch in Berkeley (Yet Another Reason to Visit the East Bay) It can get pretty crowded in the cafeteria-style seating area, but on warm weekends it’s nicer to sit outside on the lawn outside of the temple anyway. While the lines to get
Arts & Entertainment At Least Go Buy Us A T-Shirt Remember those days? My parents went to blah-blah-blah and all I got was this stupid... Well, if you go to Oakland's Bulldog Coffee Shop today from 6-7:30pm, not only will you get
Arts & Entertainment A Little Bite of This or That? <i>¡Qué Bueno!</i> Small plates are certainly très chic these days (even if our propensity for mixing foreign phrases is not), but usually, the price tag is not quite as nice of a fit. Not that
Arts & Entertainment Local Zine Scene: Ker-Bloom! Local zine Ker-bloom! never fails to supply a light meditation on various topics (love, gamer culture, mid-life crises and more) – the latest issue, #63 deals with topics of forgiveness. Each issue is gorgeously,
