Arts & Entertainment SFisting: Reefer Madness On Demand The week between Xmas and New Year's always makes us into shut-ins. Plus, it's raining, like, all the time. We're broke. We're pervs. And there's nothing on TV. But wait: there is. Something
Arts & Entertainment SFist Music Coverage = Facts, Opinions <em>and</em> Free Stuff In addition to our show reviews, artist interviews, and weekly concert listings, we added a new dimension to our music coverage this year: giveaways! We know you just love to read us talking
Arts & Entertainment The Attentive Adventures of the Superfisters Though we like to pall around with victims of corporate censorship, occupies a genre you might wish to enjoy from arm's length -- lest you be sucked into the world created by Dwyer
SF News American Football Spectacular: There Are Wins, And Then There Are Wins That Don't Help. This is the bear time of American Football, where the NFL's regular season gasps its last, college teams compete through the institutional irregularities of the bowl games, and high schoolers are home for
misc Eating Out Tomorrow? There are a lot of restaurants open tomorrow, but keep in mind that there are also a lot of people looking to eat out, so we strongly suggest you make reservations. About.com
SF News Dogs And Kids Work It Out Who was it who said "never work with children or animals?" Well, whoever you are, Bevan Dufty's proving you wrong, as he proudly announces that he's united the two famously-warring factions in San
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes Back to Austria Later, Arnie went on to express disappointment in his fellow countrymen and said that he considered them friends and as friends, he expected them to stand by him when he makes a difficult
SF News Too Bad, So Sad Somehow, they managed to screw up and not get enough signatures to qualify their initiative to amend the state constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage. They needed 598,105 signatures, but they didn't get
SF News SFist Checks Out The 510: The Grinch Edition We've heard of evergreen news stories, but this an evergreen story about decorated evergreens: assorted East Bay neighborhoods inevitably have one or two streets where the decorating is absolutely over-the-top. We are dying
Arts & Entertainment The Semimystical Adventures of the Superfisters Okay, we're sorry, but if you're not totally in love with we're going to have to fight you. Recommended highly by the froods at Isotope Comics as well as by us, It's the
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Blissen and Jill Bliss It's not too late to pick up some gorgeous little things from Blissen, the company founded by SFist Interviewee Jill Bliss. A vibrant, growing community of small-scale artists, crafters, and designers, Blissen products
SF News Rent-a-Tree Well, in San Francisco, it's definitely getting so it makes more sense to rent than it does to own -- so we're not entirely surprised to hear of a program where the Friends
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How To Open Sparkling Wine With party season in full swing, we want to provide a reminder about the proper way to open a bottle of sparkling wine. Here's a hint: It's not about how far the cork
misc The 'Fisties: Freaky Geekery 5th Place — Neogentronyx: As first reported by CNet, Carlos Owens is an Anchorage steelworker who moonlights as a designer of larger-than-life robots, known as Mech (or Gundam Mecha, if you're an otaku like
misc SFist Answers: New Year's Special A reader of SFist Answers writes in anonymously: This year, I'm celebrating my last under-21 New Years Eve. What fun things can the local twenty year old chick do to bring in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Allen Salkin For the uninitiated, Festivus was the holiday Frank Costanza cooked up in lieu of Christmas and features a Festivus Pole instead of a Christmas Tree. Families get together, stage the "Airing of Grievances"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Splurges like a Hog We ordered a $100 steak at Olivetto. Bistecca alla Fiorentina, it was described, "Niman Ranch Beef Porterhouse Steak with 'bianca di Spanga' beans and Spinach, White Truffle Butter (for two). $100" We found
SF News Jerry Tang Update In addition to posting fliers posted all over the city, they've created a wiki on the effort to find him, which is being constantly updated withinformatin on whom to contact if you can
misc The 'Fisties: Best Bar, or, Staggering Through FISTies It’s about that time again (for the first time). Time to heap a whole year’s worth of praise on to several lucky and talented establishments that did us the kind service
SF News Pistol Packin' Pardners Piss on Prop H In 2002, nearly 10 in every 100,000 Californians died at the hands of a firearm, for a totaly of 3,410 deaths according to the Center for Disease Control and Injury Prevention.
Arts & Entertainment The Superlative Adventures of the SuperFisters Kablammo! Oh excuse us. We were just reading some comic books. This week, courtesy of Isotope's guidance, we're checking out Harvey Pekar's new book, ; as well as Desolation Jones, a newish series inked
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Elbert Chang Today’s interview subject, Elbert Chang, appreciates Fry’s. Which is what you might expect from someone who will repair friend’s guitar amps for free. When he’s not winning friends and
misc SFist Cares Holiday Gift Guide: Animal Lovers Now is not the time to forget the SF/SPCA where you can find all sorts of gifts, many very reasonably priced. We love the advent calendar of doggie treats! You know by
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Sumo Lounge Our sister, Austinist has already been initiated into the cult of Sumo Lounge, but for those of you not in the know: Sumo makes really big fancy-pants bean bags (the Omni, ottomen (the
misc Win Passes To See <i>Going Shopping</i>! Our friends at Larsen Associates love SFist readers! They've given us passes for the run of engagement of , which opened yesterday at the Opera Plaza cinema. Holly (Victoria Foyt), is a successful clothing
