SF News Our Nightly Festival of Lights Remains Undisrupted Many residents didn't participate, and in fact most of the people we talked to had never heard of it. Inconceivable! How could they have avoided Lights Out's bombardment of enviromessaging? The event had
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Plumpjack caves in to Lights Out SF. [CurbedSF] -- Oh snap! "...if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown
Arts & Entertainment Boss's Day with Hillary Mendelsohn Hillary Mendelsohn is a gift-giving expert for Office Depot (hmmm.. how exactly do we get THAT job?) and the founder and president of thepurplebook: The Definitive Guide to Exceptional Online Shopping. So basically
SF News 'Cause Perfect Didn't Seem So Perfect Some fantastic news! It's going to rain! One of the two topics we remotely even care about (the other being our hair) is the possibility of rain. Baptismal, cleansing rain! San Francisco seems
Arts & Entertainment New (ish) Contributer Interview: Julie Feinstein Adams I wanted to write for SFist because: I need attention. Lots of attention. You should read my pieces because: You'll eat better, look nicer, be more surrealist, and give interesting holiday gifts. Best
SF News Coitus Interruptus for Good Vibrations According to the Chronicle, "revenue this year is likely to end up $3 million short of the $13.9 million they had projected. They are seeking a $500,000 line of credit to
misc Happy Birfday, Juanita MORE! Happy birthday, Juanita! We would come visit you tonight, but our crippling agoraphobia unfurled just in time for the holiday weekend. Drats! But that doesn't mean that you, dear readers, can't visit her
SF News Muni Alert: Get Out of Town, and Stay Out Not only is Muni adjusting service levels to accommodate the bridge closure, they're actually reducing service levels on one of the days. On Monday, Sept 3rd, a bunch of lines will be suspended
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week Ahhh, the lazy days of summer keep on keeping on, yet the commentary here on SFist continues to be fast, furious, fierce, and even funny. We really enjoy that pretty much any reader
Arts & Entertainment This is the End, My Muggle Friends, the End In case you haven't heard, tonight, at precisely 12:01, THE VERY FINAL HARRY POTTER BOOK WILL BE RELEASED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!! OH MY GOD!! OH MY GOD!! And by final, we mean
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Now, "On the Lot" is a show with a lot of problems. It probably would have been cancelled a long time ago, but since Steven Spielberg is one of the producers, it's been
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week Hey folks, we're back again with our favorites amongst the comments and opinions you, the readership, made about SFist's stories that ran the week of July 1. Despite the weird holiday schedule, there
Arts & Entertainment Think This Way Celebrate independence by celebrating mind-control! Go check out the one-day-only "PROPAGANDA III WORLD TOUR" (it's capitalized in all of the PR materials, so you know it's legit). They've collected hundreds of political posters
Arts & Entertainment Propaganda III: Subverting Uncle Sam Above poster by Trudy L. Cole If the purple Impeach banner at Sunday's Giant's game got you all giddy with subversive glee, then tomorrow's opening of the Propaganda III World Tour at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: RiffTrax Live We say almost only because the movie they did, which they kept secret until the night of the show, was the Sylvester Stallone arm-wrestling epic and all the comedic riffing in the world
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Don't let the grind get you down after the holiday weekend! Here are a few ways to keep the party going around the Bay: Thunderdome + amateur hour = guerilla theater at its finest! A
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Naia Gelato: Local, Innovative, Cavalcade of Flavors Okay, so nobody ever accused us of being especially observant, but we only recently recognized that "Naia", at 451 Castro Street, was a gelateria. See, the sign only says the name, and there's
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Who needs a little culture after a weekend of mayhem? (We do, we do!) Here are a few things going on tonight that might pique your interest. Spring Art Auction at Mezzanine Visual
Arts & Entertainment Annual César Chávez Holiday Breakfast and Parade At this morning's breakfast in the Mission, local officials called for this California-only state holiday to be expanded into an official national holiday. Did Mayor Gavin Newsom whip out a newspaper and start
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Refrigerate Your Moon Cakes? Did you know that Chinese New Year is celebrated for 15 days? The last day, March 4, 2007, is the Lantern Festival. So, we're not too late in getting this crucial holiday food
Arts & Entertainment Picking up Yvesdroppings Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Tet Festival Yesterday morning, photographer Matt Cohen went to the Tet Festival in Little Saigon. The Tet Festival is a celebration of the Vietnamese New Year and is the biggest Vietnamese holiday. Happy Year of
misc Around The -Ists Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we
Arts & Entertainment Up on High, In the Mix Feeling quite adventurous, a few weeks ago we decided to test our legs on Mix Canyon Road a bicycle ride located just on the western side of Vacaville. We've heard amazing things from