Arts & Entertainment We Read the Glossies With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Save the Barleycorn While SFist Nico went to the Barleycorn and gave it a vigurous nod of approval, we have to say we've never been there. We wish we had as it sounds like one of
Arts & Entertainment Opposite of the New Black Where do we begin? Victoria's plunging neckline that doesn't really plunge into anything? Vanessa's weird headband she ripped off Ashley Olsen and/or Prince at the Superbowl? Victoria's Dick Cheney-esque smirk? Vanessa's creepy
SF News Today's Installment of <em>As the Gav Turns</em> ANYWAYS, let's take a look at all the big picture stuff out there, starting with the rumor that DiFi wanted Gavin to resign. This morning, the rumor was completly denied by DiFi's people.
SF News SFiS By The Numbers SFiS -- more than just SFist minus the T! We give the new glossy advertorial section of the Chronicle our patented By The Numbers treatment below. (Warning -- SFiS only appears in .pdf
SF News Is Polyester Our Doom? According to the article, while clothing made from artificial fibers takes more energy to produce than from natural ones, it takes way less energy to maintain it. It can be washed in cooler
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Cool Web Sites For the Day First up is Menutopia. Ever want to go to a restaurant but not sure if they'd have anything you'd like? Or want to plan ahead in advance? You could go to Citysearch but
Arts & Entertainment Bodypainting At The Westfield Mall Cool, in a Demi Moore/silver guy in Fisherman's Wharf kind of way! Thanks for sending these on to us, Drew! More pictures after the jump (and even more at Drew's website.)
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Oliver Chin What's your favorite thing about them? Collaborating with fantastic illustrators and artists to give people worthy alternatives to the cookie-cutter commercial widgets that permeate our culture. What's on your holiday wish list? Please
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Hunt: Spring Steel Boning 321 Linden Street in Hayes valley is home to a spectacular corsetiere and her custom and ready wear corsets can give an hourglass figure worthy of Marilyn Monroe. The large showroom in front
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Cheese Fondue When was the last time you dunked bread cubes into a simmering soup of liquid cheese? Fondue went out of fashion in the 1980s, but only after it had been in fashion so
Arts & Entertainment SFist Christopher's Best From The Past 365 Days * Album Of The Year: Mogwai -- "Mr. Beast" The mostly-instrumental music of Glasgow's Mogwai has been described as big instrumental rock music for a soundtrack. The soundtrack of your whatever-you're-doing. If whatever-you're-doing really
Arts & Entertainment Susannah Furr of Pronk What's the story behind Pronk? Pronk comes from my belief that clothing impacts our day and so our closets need to be curated carefully. With this in mind, I set out to make
Arts & Entertainment Harry Denton and Donna Sachet's Drag Brunch Yesterday's Sunday's A Drag ($30+) brunch at Harry Denton's Starlight Room mainly filled us with cheer, laughter, and decent food and drink. Brunch with entertainment, emceed by Donna Sachet (pictured above)? Sign us
Arts & Entertainment Upper Playground's Andrew Revelli Name Andrew Revelli Introduce yourself in one sentence Retail legend Age and Occupation 29, Vice President, Upper Playground and FIFTY24SF Gallery
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Values A visitor from the Midwest expressed surprise about the "holiday tree" sprouting up in San Francisco's Civic Center. The tourist mentioned to us that he had heard a lot this year about San
SF News Cool Web Site Alert First up is one from fashion/design site Jargol. It's one of those Google map type thingies that let’s people know where to go for the "coolest" independent shops. Yeah, most of
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Karma's Four Teeth And A Gigantic Ass Welcome to our thoughts on Wednesday's episode of Top Chef on Bravo, which we hope will help psych y'all up for tonight's episode. We must say that this episode was a vast improvement
Arts & Entertainment Take The Greats You Greedy Rakes, But Please Leave Your Mistakes at SwapSF on Saturday While gone, we were remiss in properly pimping an haute fashion event put on by Friends of SFist Jason and Monica. But with a method to our madness, knowing from experience that you
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Everybody Into The Pool Pat Murphy of the Sentinel was also there with the color commentary, reporting that Daly went into the splash with his wife Sarah, for a bid of $18,500. In reading Pat's article,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Takes a Look at 7 X 7's Hot 20 Under 40 So who are these hot people? Do we know any of them? How does one become hot? Are we hot? So we took a looksee and read through just who was hot. There
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>9/11: Press for Truth</em> We all know the anger of extremist Muslim fundamentalists, but what we don't know and what the White House keeps conveniently hidden from the American public is how we let them get so
SF News Voila! The A's Get The Monkey Off Their Backs This afternoon beneath overcast skies at McAfee Coliseum, the 2006 Oakland Athletics continued to defy expectations by smacking the Minnesota Twins 8-3 in a fashion befitting a potential World Series team. The entire
SF News Pelosi Gets Hip Or maybe she's trying to get in with the hipster crowd here in ole SF, the kind of crowd who'd probably be more into congressional representatives who dance to Taiko drums than congressional
Arts & Entertainment Where's Our SFiS? Editor & Publisher reported that the t-less "SFiS" will feature writing by SFisT cult fave society writer C-Big, fashion editor Sylvia Rubin, and feature writer Carolyne Zinko -- and it was supposed to
