SF News Jeremy on '04 GOOD STUFF Sports: Swimming star Michael Phelps. He could have entered fewer races to help ensure better results in his best events, but he didn't -- he participated in every event in which
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Getting You Off Your Ass SFist knows how it goes. You have good intentions. You write little sticky notes like "Floss every day" and "Go to the gym 3x a week" and "Call Mom more" and stick them
Arts & Entertainment Any Way You Want It Like a lot of these types of sites, we have no idea what the irony level is- most of the people seem awfully sincere. On the other hand, is there anyway to appreciate
SF News Krissy's year end list 10 things that 2004 brought into my life, in random order Rhythm & Motion Dance Center: Their dance workout program is both fun and exhausting, and they don't laugh at you when you
Arts & Entertainment Always a Crowd-pleaser Alternately, you could spend the day at Pier 39, participating in a celebration marking the 15th anniversary of the sea lions' arrival at the docks. Fun! We look forward to encountering unpleasant, angry-looking
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Black Box is Beautiful Don't get us wrong, we love elaborate theater sets and admire the craftwork and imagination that go into creating them -- there's something oddly sweet about an intricately built space that will be
misc Housing Bubbles: What Am I Bid? Buying a house is even worse than buying something on ebay -- you promise to pay people you've never met some exorbitant amount of money that you clearly don't have, you write a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Lark in the Morning Without a doubt, the coolest place in the Cannery: Lark in the Morning. It's a place where music is serious and music is fun. Classic instruments, like guitars, mandolins, recorders, xylophones, bongos, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: It's a Noun, It's a Verb, It's a Present So maybe you need a present for your ardent younger sister with the stars in her eyes who just finished her first-year winter finals at UC Santa Cruz. Or maybe you sport kitsch
SF News Get Ur Geek On - What We Want For Christmas Edition The Flash iPod has been rumored for a while now - in fact, it was speculated to come out before the iPod photo. Now we have more than a rumor we have an
Arts & Entertainment Put On Your Yarmulke, Here Comes Hanukkah The big event happening is the annual lighting of the Bill Graham Menorah at Union Square. The fun starts at 5 p.m. and lasts 'til 6 p.m., so for those who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Rainbow Grocery The inagural entry in our shopping guide goes to Rainbow Grocery. We've made no secret of our fondness for Rainbow in the past, but wanted to bring it to your attention as a
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
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
misc Do Think Of An Elephant ... because how could you not with a picture this cute? Elephant with a pumpkin! Ha! The Oakland Zoo held its annual Thanksgiving Leftover Pumpkin feeding for the animals in residence yesterday. We can
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
Arts & Entertainment If You Want Something Sung Right... That's why every year we go to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Sing it Yourself Messiah. Yup, that's right. The whole damned thing, sung by you and selected soloists. What? You don't
misc Fun with Buns So, let's say that you've decided that your image needs an overhaul. Maybe your current look is wearing thin; it's just not you, the crowd is tired, the music sucks. And there's that
Arts & Entertainment Believe in Von Iva SFist was blown away by Von Iva when they opened for Metric at the Great American Music Hall in late October. This all-female Bay area-based band doesn't need no stinkin' guitars -- just
misc Get Ooey and Gooey in Oakland Thursday night the Museum of Children's Art in Oakland is presenting a hands-on workshop for parents with small children: "Ooey Gooey Night: The Making of Creative Messes." From the museum's Web site: "Young
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend All Festival Edition If SFist answered to mammon instead of to you, our readers, we might bother to have a big budget pick this week. But look at what's out there! Dude, it's so not going
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 In Levi's World Wrangler is King The rodeo, livestock show and other related events lasted the whole week, but we showed up at the end for the event finals. We don't know much about the rodeo -- everything we
SF News So Best Sort of relating to an earlier post today, our boy Gavin's definitely not having the best week. His tax increases lost (so MUNI fares may go up to $1.50, 300 city jobs
