SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thanksgiving Slacker Prep: The Best Places For Takeout Turkey And Pie In SF For all you jerks out there who can't be bothered to roast a turkey yourself something which requires very little skill, as local cooking guru Mary Risley taught us a couple years ago,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thanksgiving Prep: Which Safeways Have The Longest Lines? Despite your professed love for artisanal and local everything, most of you San Franciscans will set foot in a Safeway sometime this Thanksgiving week. But not all Safeways are created equal, and it
Arts & Entertainment Noe Valley's Delightful Wishing Tree The Wishing Tree of Noe Valley is getting some love this holiday season, already bedecked with hopeful notes. Now in its fourth year the tree is located on Eureka Street between 21st and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Bay Area's Six Best Winter Beers Given the Bay Area's subtle seasons, it's sometimes easier to tell the time of year by what beer you're holding. According to that calendar, we're slipping out of pumpkin season and approaching a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Shake & Bake,' For Thanksgiving (A Taylor Swift Parody) A lot of you who are not flying out of town in the next two days are probably still debating where to eat your turkey on Thursday, or deciding whose houses to hit
Arts & Entertainment Grumpy Cat Arrives At Macy's Today The official, frowning host of today's unveiling ceremony of Macy's annual holiday windows is internet celebrity pet, Grumpy Cat. Grumpy, who also stars in a horrific looking Lifetime Christmas movie that arrives next
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: YouTube-ing Family Makes 'All About The Baste,' a Thanksgiving Parody Remember the Holderness Family? They did this viral video last year showing off their Christmas jammies, and now they're back with a Thanksgiving spoof of that ubiquitous Meghan Trainor song "All About the
SF News Stockton Street Becomes Pedestrian Holiday Plaza Lots of holiday cheer and zero cars or cranes will occupy two blocks of Stockton Street in the Union Square shopping district this season. Construction for the new Central Subway project (coming soon
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Umami Burger Launches 'Pumpkin Spice Latte' Burger As Kind Of A Joke Starting this week you will be able to enjoy a tongue-in-cheek Pumpkin Spice Latte Burger at S.F.'s two Umami Burger locations, but of course it's not really what it sounds like.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Chloe Sevigny' Does Halloween In honor of our nation's favorite holiday for getting bloodied and/or tarted up, we bring you this pair of videos by comedian Drew Droege, seen here in his fictionalized drag persona of
Arts & Entertainment 20 Halloween Costumes To Avoid At All Costs In 2014 Many of you are probably still weighing your options for costuming on Friday, and some of you have probably already made some poor choices. For whatever it's worth, here again is SFist's two
Arts & Entertainment I Went To 'Hell In The Armory,' And I Have A Few Words Of Advice It should go without saying that Hell In the Armory, the new haunted house attraction in the basement of the infamous Kink.com headquarters, is not for pearl-clutchers. It is raunchy, it is
Arts & Entertainment Despite There Being No Trick-Or-Treaters, S.F. Once Again Tops List For Trick-Or-Treating Cities The people over at real estate site Zillow don't seem to understand how few children there are in San Francisco. And for the fourth year in a row, our city is number one
Arts & Entertainment ...And Now, A Baby Dressed As Skrillex For Halloween Though we are neither Skrillex nor baby aficionados here at SFist, we nonetheless had to share this photo that got sent in by mom Maria R. of her 15-month-old son Skylar, whom she
Arts & Entertainment Photo: West Portal Homeowner Clearly Wants To Frighten Children A tipster sent in this photo of a mock guillotine, complete with severed and bloodied mannequin head, that's been installed in the front yard of a West Portal home for the Halloween season.
SF News Drought To Make Your Halloween Pumpkins Way Smaller Another unconsidered consequence of our intractable drought: smaller pumpkins! As CBS 5 reports, local farmers are reporting a shortage of medium- and large-format pumpkins as a result of there being less water to
SF News What Are You Still Doing At Work? It's time for everyone's (least) favorite open thread for a holiday-weekend Friday. Do tell us, dear SFist readers, what are you still doing at the computer when you should be on the road
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grant Achatz, Blaine Wetzel Among Star Lineup For Meadowood's Christmas Dinner Series I know it's hard to think about the holidays in July, but the ever popular (and pricey) 12 Days of Christmas dinner series lineup at The Restaurant at Meadowood was announced this week,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Chloe Sevigny' Celebrates 'Independence' It's once again time for a video amusement from comedian Drew Droege, in the YouTube-famous character of "Chloe Sevigny." This week's topic, of course, is "Independence," and it involves chin harnesses and epaulettes.
SF News Open Thread: What Are You Still Doing At Work? Seriously? And how long has it been since July 4th fell on a Friday? You should have been at the airport/on the road last night. Not that we want to shame you.
SF News July 4th Fog Watch: Will It Or Won't It? You know it probably will. Every year, weather forecasters around the Bay Area try to be really optimistic about what the fog is going to look like after sundown on the 4th of
SF News Here's What's Closed On Memorial Day Hope your Memorial Day is an honorable one. Here's where you won't be spending it: Federal, state courts and offices: closed City and county offices: closed Banks, savings institutions, credit unions: closed Post
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Free Rides For Cinco de Mayo Revelers Yes, it's offensive to call Cinco de Mayo "Mexican St. Patrick's Day." And yet, that's how many people treat it, as an excuse to drink themselves blind then to stagger on home before
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The 2014 'Hunky Jesus' Contest Bares Holy Man Flesh By all accounts, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence managed to get at least a thousand people over to Hellman Hollow in Golden Gate Park for their annual Hunky Jesus Contest an event which
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chloe Sevigny's 'Easter' All around funny man Drew Droege (and director Jim Hansen) are back with a brand new installment in their Chloe Sevigny drag series. “I have whagonloads of childhood mammaries of E-asters past," says
