Arts & Entertainment The Essefficist, Rabbi, Leaves, End. Huh? The Essefficist apologizes for the unexcused absence last week, but we don't recall getting any threatening letters (or any lonely ones, for that matter), so we're over it already. If you are. So
Arts & Entertainment FunCheapSF How many times have you faced Friday wondering what you're going to do with your weekend that's fun and cheap, or better yet, free? If you were to consult the funcheapSF list, you
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's Not Who You Know To paraphrase Norm, it's not who you know, it's who know. With that, this week's live theater recommendations consist of shows featuring friends of ours. Pretty good deal, being SFist's friend, isn't it?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Culinary Piracy Our idea of being a foodie outlaw is eating ribs in front of a vegetarian or putting chicken on pizza (which we're still not entirely comfortable with). Cheap thrills, we know -- but
SF News SFist's First <i>Original</i> Blind Item!!! Hint: It's not musical genius on the right. Think much, much less soulful. Bonus: First three readers to send in the correct guess and then show up at our December 9th shindig get
Arts & Entertainment Nerds and Frat Guys Rejoice at the DVDs This Week So, let's see what the fuss is about this week: Spider-Man 2 was pretty popular, we hear. We had a good time when we saw it in the theater, and we like Alfred
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nectar of the Gods [] Now that Thanksgiving is over and done with, there are only about eighteen gazillion other reasons to throw a party and drink yourself into oblivion this holiday season. Should you be invited to
SF News Quit Whining About Crime For those of you who take one look at a Craigslist posting for a room in the Bayview and think to yourself, "It's too dangerous," it may be time to reevaluate. Fact is,
SF News Bay Blogger, Erm, Friday We're worried about Kat Hunter. Oh, we think she'll be fine. What we're worried about is the legions of lonely gamers out there who dream about meeting a smart, sexy woman who they
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Pnut Pnut's got it right. What makes San Francisco such a great place to live is that everyone you know "works on their own dream as well as whatever else they do." Seriously. We
Arts & Entertainment Let the Stalking Commence Filming has started for the upcoming Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo romantic comedy "If Only It Were True," based on an adaptation of local novelist Marc Levy's 2000 novel of the same name.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Is Giving It Away For Free It's come to this. We don't know if it's a failure of the imagination or simply a lack of inspiration, but we're just not getting enough questions to fuel the acerbic wit machine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Takes A Smoggy Bullet For You You've got three options: the 5, the 101, and the 1. For this article, we drove down on the 5 and then hurried back up on the 101. We skipped the 1, even
Arts & Entertainment Get Ready to Write If you're seeing some writerly types walking around looking a bit more haggard, worn out and overly caffienated than usual it's only because November is NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. For the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: MontyLuke This week we bring you an interview with Monty Luke, DJ extraordinaire and someone man enough embrace SF despite his ties to LA. In the interview below Monty shares the secret location of
SF News O Canada! Election results got you down? Considering bolting like those kids in Red Dawn did after their high school was taken over by the Russians? Stop looking at guide books for Switzerland and Sweden!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Cares After sitting around this morning nursing hangovers, wounded egos and sad souls, we realized that life must go on and for many people in the area life is already tough and will only
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Political Parties So tomorrow you'll have done your homework, stood in line, gotten your sticker and have been a good citizen. Now you just need a drink. On Election Day there are Parties (Democrat, Republican,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Renee Saucedo If you live in District 9, then you've probably witnessed one of Renee Saucedo's bike tours as she's ridden around town with friends drumming up support for her campaign for Supervisor. SFist loves
Arts & Entertainment SFist Meets a Hero! If you don't know, Afrika Bambaataa basically blessed the world with hip-hop - along with fellow angels Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and the people of the South Bronx (we're so jealous you have
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Jennifer DePalma [] San Francisco has a well-deserved reputation for tolerance. But SFist's friends on the other side of the aisle have pointed out that while latex fetishists, Macintosh users and conspiracy theorists can feel free
SF News Sausage King Could Cook Stuart Alexander has been convicted of three counts of first degree murder, one count of attempted murder and the special circumstances of public employees on the job and a multiple homicide. Whew. You
SF News And They're Out of the Fajitagate! If you've been living under a rock for the last year, then you'll have no idea what we're talking about. But then we had enough trouble getting DSL in our home, so it
Arts & Entertainment 15 Years Later On Sunday the 17th at 5:04 p.m., it'll be the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. We still live with reminders of the quake every day -- from the
misc All Tied Up With the Essefficist You may recall from our post on Tuesday that the Essefficist is working on answering our colleague Rita's question as to how the Power Exchange works. While we still haven't heard back from
