SF News Solid, Liquid, Gas The three forms of water, in your daily news! Solid: Authorities continue to be baffled about a huge piece of ice that fell from the sky over Oakland, landing in Bushrod Park by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Shoe-Shines The Birkenstocks. The purpose of the organization is to "protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food and life," and we cannot agree more. However, in its fight against fast
SF News Forth and Towne Hits SF (Eventually) We snarked on Forth and Towne, local retail monolith Gap, Inc's concept store geared toward the 35+ contemporary woman, nearly a year ago. But if you snark on a store nowhere in your
Arts & Entertainment <i>Black Panther Rank and File</i> Opens At Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Despite our WASPy, suburbanite background (which we go to great lengths to avoid acknowledging except when confronted with it like a speeding train at events such as these) – we walked through an exhibition
Arts & Entertainment We Want Freedom From 8-11 pm hit YBCA (701 Mission at 3rd Street) for short films about the Panthers and live music from Sok the Virgo, Mr. Rath & Descry (Subkrew), DJs Pink Panzer, Paul Paul
SF News SXSW Update We were wondering why it was so easy to get a parking place in the Mission last night when we remembered that all the cool people are at SXSW. Cool people like SFist
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Tyrone Davies The Bay Area has its fair share of web celebrities, but sometimes something surfaces that stands out for its awesomeness. After both VH1’s Web Junk and BoingBoing featured this clip, we knew
SF News Election Woes Well, it's not quite Bush stealing Florida or anything, but due to circumstances out of our control, the previous Gavin-Sofia couple name election has hit some woes -- it looks like the polling
SF News Free Havarti! The Free Republic? Yep, the Free Republic. As in one of the largest and most notorious conservative organizations in the land. As in an organization that has on its Web site a whole
Arts & Entertainment If You're Looking for Sin, Look in Berkeley Though we do tire, at times, of the alpha-male genre, few comic books or movies do it with more relish and gusto than Frank Miller's . So unless you're some kind of sobbing tree-kisser
Arts & Entertainment Show of Hands: Who Pays For 7x7? Who Pays For 7x7? Suckers, that's who. A treatise on the quality of this magazine is perhaps best left for another day, and for other people to make. After all, what business do
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Free Tibet Ars Technica covers a few other Google-related stories this week: Ken Fisher gives his review of Google Video, his disappointment with the service, and what he thinks is the company's reasoning for introducing
SF News What Was and What Could Have Been Something big was going on alright, the hometown University of San Francisco Dons men’s basketball team was playing host to the number eight team in the country, the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Unhyped coming
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Google China and Spin Control The issue now is Google's decision to censor search results on its Chinese site. In an interview with Reuters (vectored via CNet news.com), Sergey Brin acknowledges that the decision will be criticized,
SF News When it Rains, It Pours The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is warning residents in low lying areas that the expected rain for this and next weeks may lead to property damage and flooding. The PUC has mobilized
SF News The Perils of Pelosi So we have a political party, the Dems, in a Catch-22: don't propose anything and get criticized for not having a plan only to then come up with a plan and get criticized
SF News Barry in the U.S.A From a marketing standpoint, it's great for baseball. Barry gives the games legitimacy they might not have gotten if say, the biggest guy on the U.S.A team is Mark Grudzielanek. It'll
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads -- Or Listens to Others Read A couple literary events have made their way into our inbox lately, and we want to tell you about them. It's just that simple. Sometimes we like to watch people reading, it's like
Arts & Entertainment Howard's End For the five of you who still listen to radio, the big question out there is who will replace Howard Stern. Howard, of course, is saying goodbye to free radio on December 18th
SF News Mouseketeer Gets Married Reading that Daily Dish feed on the 'gate is always such a guilty pleasure. And today is no exception! Top on the Dish is the revelation that Not Britney Spears (i.e., Christina
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Dance and Theater Stage Fog doesn't have anything against dancers, and to prove it we're featuring some of our favorite companies this week, letting them mix it up with theater. After all, San Francisco is a
misc Win Tickets to the Ray Brown Birthday Tribute at Yoshi's! This weekend, Christian McBride, John Clayton, Russell Malone, Benny Green and Greg Hutchinson will celebrate the 79th birthday of the legendary jazz bassist Ray Brown (1926-2002) at Yoshi's. We'll have more about this
misc SFist Rants: Kids With Cameras With the first season of local youth-programmer Uthtvs’ flagship shows, "Elements" and "Speak on It" ending a couple of weeks ago (with reruns starting on UPN starting in October, or you can stream
SF News Edgar Winter Group Expresses Dismay Today's Examiner announces Muni: Free rides to be a thing of the past. Well, duh -- should they even be a thing of the present? Political statement makers aside (maybe), we'll admit to
Arts & Entertainment Interview: John Vanderslice The best things in life really are free. Free shows at Amoeba fall into the category of one of the reasons that living in San Francisco is totally awesome. Tomorrow (Tues.) the day
