SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Arrival of the Wine Stimulus Package We recently had the lovely experience of sitting down with Sean Andrade, certified sommelier, wine educator, and chief vino dude from The Andrade Wine Group to discuss eating on a budget without having
SF News Where's the Stimulus, Gavin? Halloween comes early at City Hall after Newsom's "economic stimulus package" press conference, which is being referred to as one of the "ugliest news conferences" in ages. Mild-mannered yet astute Jim Herd was
SF News House Defeats $700 Billion Bailout Bill, Dow's Drops 777 Points While we convert our money into gold, porn, and cocaine, check out how local California house members voted on the bailout, which was defeated (29 in favor, 24 opposed) today. In favor: Nancy
SF News Yahoo Layoffs Happening Right This Very Second According to a Valleywag tipster: FYI - I've heard the word from my peeps over at Yahoo Search Marketing in Burbank CA that the layoffs are going down as we speak, and people
Arts & Entertainment <em>Conde Nast Traveller</em> Says <del>We</del> SF Rules Yay. Sure, the only-in-SF tourism industry is an important part of our economy, or whatever. And not that we're complaining -- we have won the top spot for 17 of the past 18
SF News Happy Birfday BART Tomorrow BART celebrates 35 years of hauling your asses around. Revenue service began on 9/11 in 1972. Since then, according to BART Board President Lynette Sweet, BART has continued to "carry the
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week Hey, everyone -- once again, it's your contributions that have put the sheen on the apple that is SFist. Check out your editors' picks for Top 5 comments of the week -- and
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Buy and Sell Looking to do some crafty shopping or feel like flogging your crafty creations? Here are a few ways to get your fix. Modern Times, one of our favorite independent bookstores in the city,
SF News <i>The Economist</i> On Our City's Economy It's always interesting to take an "outside-in" look at our fine city, like when the L.A. Times wrote about the Haight a couple months back. This time, it's the venerable UK-based that's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight If you can't score tickets to the show, head over to Bottom of the Hill and check out NOMO, an Afro-beat band from Detroit for $10. 1233 17th St, SF. Calling all PSP
SF News Your Commute: Oy Vey Part Deux So those stories out there saying the commute this morning wasn't so bad didn’t quite tell the whole story . Turns out there were some problem spots out there, just not throughout the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Another Cute-Ute Rollover Accident in S.F. We been noticing a lot of these kinds of accidents lately, with a small SUV rolling over at what must be fairly low speeds. We happened upon this scene this afternoon at McAllister
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Mark Mulroney Artist Mark Mulroney lives and makes art in Berkeley but hails from Dutton, PA. He came over to the Bay to teach at the San Francisco Art Institute and participate in an economy
SF News Gavin Wants To Hear From You We checked our e-mail this morning and saw that OH MY GOD we got an e-mail from Gavin! And what does the Gavster say? That there's much more to governing than "making our
SF News Everyone is A-Otay Not that we'd want to give him any ideas, however. In the not-so-happy side are homelessness, crime, and housing, all of which were listed as concerns. According to the pollsters crime wasn't even
SF News The Latest From Richmond: So Much More Than the Last Stop on a BART Line Not too surprisingly, Richmond residents are still a little testy about the whole thing. In particular, residents are upset that the plants' much-hyped warning system failed to notify them. Most residents slept right
SF News I Only Want 2 See U in the Purple Rain Well, the good news for those of you who like rain is that we're about to get pummelled by a bunch of storms, starting possibly tonight. In fact, February is looking like it's
misc Of Human Bondage in the Mission There's a hitch in all of this in that there's really nothing anyone can do about it. It was a private sale so no public hearing was needed and as Kink.com doesn't
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Paul Mooney at Cobb's Pub Paul Mooney is an Evil Comic Genius. He's evil, because he can coax out hysterical giggles from people who, outside of his presence, would never even think to laugh about the subjects he
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 Who Loves the 90's? The Raiders Do! Let's go to the rap sheet, shall we? At his first stop in Indianapolis he was let go after making obscene gestures at the coach during a game. At his next stop in
SF News Your Commute: Going Back to Nowhere Even more troubling, the same ole trouble spots are the same ole trouble spots. Part of the study includes the Top 10 Most #1 Congested Spots and nine out of the top ten
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Joe Goode Performance Group. The music he wrote is actually the opposite of the work he conducted the night before: it is pretty minimalist, with very simple melodic lines, underscored with a few bass notes here and
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand. The 8th Symphony is a monumental work, involving the full orchestra, three choirs and eight soloists, plus the organ and a harmonium. The harmonium was off-stage, supposedly to tmper its sound a bit,
Arts & Entertainment Harmon Juices Us Up That's right, Harmon and OJ, sharing the screen. In Harmon's words: Some (let’s call them the sane) would be apprehensive to work with OJ. But I couldn’t pass up the gig.
