Arts & Entertainment Mmm...beer... Yep, Germany's most famous tradition that doesn't involve invading France is back for the annual Oktoberfest By The Bay at the Fort Mason Center. Having been to the real Oktoberfest in Munich, we
SF News Crazy Carmelites Strike Again Okay, we'll admit it, Californians have a reputation for being wacky. Nutso. Bonkers. Flakey. Weird. Crazy. So maybe we are. Certainly the folks of Carmel-By-The-Sea have had their fair share of "Only in
Arts & Entertainment SFist First Thursday Tonight at Lisa Dent's gallery at 660 Mission will be a special viewing of the work of Hank Willis Thomas, local photographer and recent California College of the Arts MFA graduate. SFist has
Arts & Entertainment Going to the Theater Makes You Feel Smarter, We Promise SFist is not above shilling for our friends - Phil Bronstein does it, why shouldn't we? So we'd like to invite you to visit tonight or tomorrow's performance of , written and directed by
Arts & Entertainment While You're At It, You Can Pay Your Late Fees Too For those of you who love the antiquarian hunt, there's also a separate section for the "Best of Book Bay," with rare and unusual books (between $20 and $250), including the first ever
SF News Pick Up Your Own Towels After six weeks of fruitless negotiations, the San Francisco hotel workers union, UNITE 2, has called for a two-week strike against a number of local hotels. The boycott is against the San Francisco
SF News Giants Fan Killed In all the (justified) glory for Barry Bonds hitting the big seven-oh-oh, there's some sad stories as well. A Giants fan was killed after the Giants beat the Padres on Friday night, in
misc Behind the Wheel San Francisco sure does love its bicycles. Every time we get on the Bay Bridge in our *gasp* car, we wish there was a way to ride our bike across the bridge to
Arts & Entertainment Got Some Spare Time in November? SFist spent a nice day at the beach on Sunday with some friends and learned about a rather interesting project over drinks at the new Sutro's at the Cliff House (a review of
misc The Essefficist Needs Your Help We here at the Essefficist, SFist's weekly question-and-answer/advice column, have been striving to bring you honest answers to life's nagging questions for the past couple of weeks now. However, we're a little
Arts & Entertainment Three Guys, a Girl, and Pizza Place Basement... SFist had a great time at , Impact Theater's ninth season opener. If you don't know Impact Theater, they're a Berkeley-based company focused on "producing new plays by emerging playwrights that are relevant, interesting,
Arts & Entertainment Attack of the Flying Tomatoes The city of Bunol, Spain hosted its annual Tomatina festival on Wednesday. 20,000 drunken participants wore goggles {insert beer goggle joke here} in preparation for the onslaught of 130 flying tons of
Arts & Entertainment Duck and Cover We warn you because the DMB is around town all the time, and boy do we have lots of bridges. Many of their top albums were recorded accross the Golden Gate at The
Arts & Entertainment Attention Cheapskates: Virgins, Whores, and Pizza in Berkeley One of SFist's favorite theater companies, Berkeley's Impact Theatre (full disclosure: one of us is heavily involved with the company, but we wouldn't be if the company weren't so damned good), launches its
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Little Wednesday Tuna Decadence For the freshest, creamiest sushi-grade ahi, your best bets are Tower Market on Portola in Twin Peaks or Piedmont Grocery on Piedmont Ave. in Oakland. Get one piece of tuna, as thick as
Arts & Entertainment Welcome to the Family As a short note, we wanted to welcome our new friends DCist to the Gothamist family. SFist has a bunch of talented friends from art school who graduated from Duke Ellington School for
SF News Your Commute/SFist Blotter Growing increasingly worried about safety, the union representing MUNI bus drivers have requested that the SFPD provide them with a dedicated police force. MUNI currently has 1 sergeant and 10 officers assigned to
Arts & Entertainment Party People Just to let everyone who's dropped by SFist know that we'll be eating, drinking and answering questions for prizes at local literary hotspot Edinburgh Castle Pub tonight, in celebration of the site's public
SF News Can Finally See TV The FCC has finally come to the rescue of those of you who haven't succumbed to the Comcast cable juggernaut San Jose's Channel 11 has been given approval to build a new transmitter
misc Pass the Dutch Auction The last five or ten years have seen the Bay Area go from boom to bust, and while SFist didn't have to pack up a truck and move back to Palookaville like some
Arts & Entertainment Park Party SFist loves us some old-school hip-hop, yo. We've got an entire library of classic movies, records and books on the subject. Which is why we were so excited to attend a park party
SF News Love and Human Remains Many of SFist's friends - and some of us at SFist ourselves, have been known to complain about the paucity of eligible straight men in the Bay Area. So we're sad to say
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If It Plays at the Chronicle SFist's pals at the San Francisco Chronicle are good friends to have. We hear the hot news first, we get thrilling behind the scenes gossip, and one time we saw Sharon Stone in
Arts & Entertainment TiVo-Lution Three thumbs up! Alviso based TiVo has gotten approval to allow subscribers to email recorded shows. Various entities in the television industry objected, as usual - you know, blah blah blah, proprietary rights,
SF News Kings of the Forest The forests of Northern California are some of the most beautiful in the world. SFist has been simultaneously awed and humbled by trips up north to visit our millenia-old friends the redwoods. So
