Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Places we like on the Interwebs. Before we go into our craft blog round-up for the week we wanted to be sure to give a nod to the great work Lisa Congdon and her family did on the art
misc New Year's Bash The facts appear to be these: The Baker's Dozen, an all-male (but not exclusively gay) chorus from Yale was asked to perform at the house of Reno Rapagnani, a retired SFPD officer and
SF News And It Burns, Burns, Burns, the Ring of Fire, the Ring of Fire The fire rings would be designated places where bonfires could happen. There would be signs letting everyone know what the deal is with the hope that people would only build bon fires in
SF News Oakland's New Last-Minute Mayor Yeah, we don't remember any dramatic hand-on-the-Bible or inaugural speechifying either -- it turns out they threw together a somewhat slapdash inauguration when someone realized that the Oakland city charter required Dellums to
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Have An "Art Shell" For American Football Spectacular This New Year's Eve The Art Shell drink works like this: * Drop a shot of Jagermeister into a pint of O'Doul's. * Toast to Art. * Slam it. * The drinker of the beverage must then hold a stoic Art
Arts & Entertainment What's Up For the New Year So with that in mind, what is there to do tomorrow night? Well, we don't know actually as it's looking like it'll be movie night, but for those of you looking to go
SF News Big Day at Stanford Nevertheless, it is still big news that the Great Female Golf Hope just got accepted into Stanford and is planning on attending. Really. And she's planning on attending and graduating too, unlike Tiger
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Liz Ross Liz is a former member of Hannah, Lessick, Lines In Analog Sound, and Sun of Mercury. She mostly plays a 1962 Gibson LG 1 acoustic, and she has several vintage electric guitars, her
SF News The Homeless. Again. Here comes the numbers (mostly compared to 2004), according to the Mayor: -4,800 less homeless people -2,600 homeless individuals were put in supportive housing -87% reduction in people claiming cash payments
Arts & Entertainment Goodbye, Leslie Harpold Leslie Harpold has died. A writer, designer, editor, and web pioneer of prodigious skill, she was 40. Why did Leslie Harpold matter? To those who never met her, it was because she "was
SF News Sad News In The -Ist Family So we were stunned to hear that always-hilarious Phillyist editor Star C. Foster died suddenly over the weekend. Star's emails always saw the lighter side of our server problems, spam attacks, and other
Arts & Entertainment Things To Do In San Francisco When Your Shvitzing Over the Holidays Okay, so the family is coming for the holidays and you don't know what to do other than the Wharf and any place that doesn't involve getting solicited for spare change every ten
Arts & Entertainment A Mighty Shearer It's difficult to categorize Shearer's art because he's done radio (KRCW), TV (Jack Benny, SNL, Politically Incorrect, Ellen, Friends, Murphy Brown), movies (This is Spinal Tap, For Your Consideration, Abbott and Costello, A
SF News The Kim Family Story Our thoughts, sympathy, and condolences at SFist go out to the family, friends, and coworkers of James Kim. We weren't the only ones following the story -- SFGate reports that the story has
SF News James Kim Found Dead Law enforcement officials have confirmed that James Kim has died. Friends of the family have set up an unofficial PayPal donation page, though they warn you that they haven't talked to the Kim
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Getting in the (Holiday) Mood Music: may be the most important element and is the backdrop for our decorating. Drag out your favorite holiday songs be they Snoop Dog, Snoopy-themed, or the likes of Steve Earle, King Missile,
SF News San Francisco Family Missing James and Kati Kim, along with their two daughters Sabine and Penelope, drove to Seattle to spend Thanksgiving with James's family. The Kims were scheduled to be in southern Oregon last Saturday night,
SF News Typhoon Just Misses Gavin Yes, the typhoon was named after the pungent fruit with the spikes on it -- do they not name typhoons in Asia after people? (The typhoon is also being referred to as Reming
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Sections Around the Bay We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. These are our favorite tidbits from today's offerings: SF Chronicle: Tasty homemade food gifts that are ea$y on the budget (dark, milk &
misc SFist Shops Locally and So Should You Below you'll find a list of some of the craft fairs happening in the bay area this December. Because when it comes down to it, wouldn't you rather do your shopping in a
SF News You're My Blue Sky, You're My Sunny Day See, according to Global Change Research Act of 1990, the Government is supposed to produce a report on Global Warming every four years. The last one was due in November 2004 meaning that
SF News Is a Bar More than the Sum of Its Customers? We got there early and noticed that the place had the same sort of feel as the previous bars-- long bar with tables in the center in front of couches but that it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Arrow Bar If you're going to be wending your way through crack addicts, men wearing garbage bags as clothing and general oddities of the night you might as well do it for the right reasons.
SF News Short Coattails Take Doug Chan in District 4, for example. Newsom was the conservative (for SF) Police Commission member Chan's go-to guy -- Newsom showed up at Chan's kickoff rally; he walked the Sunset with
