Arts & Entertainment Review: Aqueduct and Why? Bottom of the Hill tends to draw a mixed crowd. We can never accurately predict which shows will sell out there. We were pleased, and surprised, to see that the place was packed
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Brendan Benson SFist liked Lost in Translation because it accurately captured how disorienting traveling can be. Singer Brendan Benson evoked a similar feeling when he spoke with us on Friday as he was preparing for
SF News Welcome to the Front Row: The Warriors Season Preview So it is, yet again, with this year's East Bay ballers. For about the fifth year in a row, the Warriors' marketing department is trying to hype us on the upcoming season as
Arts & Entertainment Cody's Books on Union Square So we're giddy about the new Cody's Books at 2 Stockton Street, in the old Planet Hollywood space across from the Apple store. Cody's, a Berkeley institution started by Pat and Fred Cody
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Green Day Now, we're not (too) ashamed to admit that we've loved Green Day ever since their first (no longer on Lookout) album from 1990. But.... come on, they're playing SBC Park? Who's the American
misc Animal Roundup: Dog Daze in San Francisco Was it not enough that we broke Dogster? (Get well soon, SFist Ted! We need you to cover the upcoming heat wave!) We've got even more bad dog news to report. Local animal
Arts & Entertainment We Built This City On Rock n' Roll We personally think the whole "Top Whatever" lists thing to be totally overdone and usually laughably wrong. On the other hand, they are darn fun to ruminate over. Especially a particularly juicy one
SF News Your Commute: Steeeeeee-rike! Hang up those K signs -- looks like we might be having a BART strike next week. Hey, at least it's not happening the Friday before July 4. So how you getting to
SF News Your Commute: Up, BART, Up After two hours of debate, BART voted to raise its fares again, starting in January 2006, upping the minimum fare from $1.25 to $1.40. South Bay fares are going up an
SF News All Over for Le Chateau The neighbors have spoken, and it's all over for the kids at Cal Berkeley's Le Chateau co-op (called an "Animal House" in the East Bay Express). Friend of SFist Patricia Johnson penned a
Arts & Entertainment Impact Briefs 7: The How-To Show Last weekend, we hit the East Bay to witness SFist Cheshire's on-stage debut in Impact Theater's . There we sat in the basement of La Val's Subterranean (1834 Euclid in Berkeley) drinking our beer
SF News SFist Raves: The N Judah We complain about MUNI all the time, and we're not about to take it back. But like all great passionate affairs, our hate, anger, frustration, and disappointment is tempered by deep love, like
SF News David Versus Goliath -- And Goliath's Bigger Brothers, Backed By The Persian Army Buried inside the Chron's Bay Area section a while back, we found a story about an East Bay blogger who is currently embroiled in a court battle against Kaiser Permantente. As we're always
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Sucks News flash! Traffic is really bad around here! The Examiner is starting a six-part series looking at specific traffic jam spots, what's wrong with them from a civil engineering perspective, and what we
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo Essay: East Bay Rats At It Again All photos copyright Bayete Ross-Smith.
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Blogspotter What did we tell you, Chris? Switch to blogger.com! The Chron, fresh from learning that "blog" is short for "Web-log," (gosh! You can read them any old time and they can be
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Christopher Appelgren Although Christopher is way too diplomatic to play favorites with Lookout’s current roster of artists, he does have a few tips to local artists, as well as other ideas about what to
SF News SFist Team Party Crash: CodeCon Reception The party was for CodeCon, San Francisco's very own indie coder convention. As Technorati's Niall Kennedy put it, "When I was growing up, I loved Microsoft. Now I'm here at CodeCon." Founded in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's What? It's the Essefficist, Silly! Snarkity snark snark, ya know? Fetch the comfy chair. Anyways, it seems only right that the Essefficist bring you crucial information about tasty, locally produced, cooling treats as we enjoy this unseasonably warm
SF News Your Commute: Casual Day The East Bay's Casual Commute just got a little more codified with today's Chron cover story about the cheapest way to get across the Bay Bridge. We've never been able to find a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Party Crash -- East Bay Rats' Fight Night If you don't know the legend of the East Bay Rats Motorcycle Club, think of it as having an aesthetic somewhere between Mad Max and Edward Gorey. Rather than tricked-out Harleys with glitter
SF News Wait, Wait Just a Minute H&M, Now Wow, this news just keeps getting older. We were aghast, we were agog, and now were still awaiting. From that nation up north that brought you irresistibly spiffy furniture with funny names: more
Arts & Entertainment Barbarians to Invade the Uptown As Scaramouche points out, there should be quite the turnout, so if you're into blogs or are a blogger, and you qualify as a Bay Area resident (we doubt anyone from Eureka, Sacramento
misc The Essefficist! The Essefficist! The Essefficist! So without further adieu, let's hear from Carnal Carl: I hope you can help me with my recent moral quandary. There is a charming young woman who goes to grad school in the
SF News Former Raider Pro-Bowler Shot The tale of former Raider's center Barrett Robbins just got a lot sadder yesterday, as he is currently in crtical condition after being shot in an apparent robbery attempt inside a Miami nightclub.