Arts & Entertainment Photo: 49ers Drink 'Homo' Milk In Locker Room Circa 1951 Today's Niners gem comes from What's On The 6th Floor, the blog for the San Francisco History Center and Book Arts and Special Collections. And what a collection it is. This week they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drunk & Sticky: Best Bits Of Anthony Bourdain's S.F. 'Layover' We've done a 180-degree turn on Mr. Anthony Bourdain after viewing last night's San Francisco The Layover on The Travel Channel. Bourdain calls Swan Oyster Depot one of his favorite places in San
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Weird Al Yankovic, Alice Cooper & Steven Tyler Supergroup Via the fine folks at Laughing Squid, Weird Al Yankovic, Alice Cooper and Steven Tyler joined forces at Mala Restaurant in Maui, Hawaii on New Year's Eve to sing "Come Together" by The
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Victoria Jackson How did the woman who brought us Handi-Off turn into this paranoid, confused pile of a human being? Who can say. Only the voices that swim inside her head know for sure. But
Arts & Entertainment Shirtless Bruce Lee Look-alike Rapping On BART [Video] Well, this is fun. Muni Diaries brings our attention to a Bruce Lee look-alike caught rapping freestyle whilst riding a BART train the other day. Also, he has no shirt on thus showing
Arts & Entertainment UC Davis Pepper Spraying Cop Turns Into Meme For better or for worse, the UC Davis pepper spraying cop has turned into a white-hot, photoshopped thing folks currently love to blast out over a sundry of social media outlets. Which is
Arts & Entertainment Couple's Rad 'Star Wars' Engagement Photo Shoot In related Star Wars news, photographer Michael James recently took part in an engagement photo shoot, one that breathes new life and (ahem) force into a stale tradition. Specifically, these pre-wedding photos of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ricky Gervais and Liam Neeson Do Improv Ricky Gervais’s new sitcom Life’s Too Short debuted in the UK TV this week. We hope it's as good as his other work. This piece in particular, featuring Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Arts & Entertainment Couple Visiting S.F. Create 'Full House' Intro Parody Video We don't know who the Kaplans are, but we sure do like their style. Lauren and Michael Kaplan used edited footage from a recent trip to San Francisco to re-creating the intro to
Arts & Entertainment Martha Stewart Vexes Mission Cycling Sect Mission Mission brings word that Martha Stewart, one of the most critical yet underrated philosophers in these our modern times, fell prey to San Francisco's sensitive cycling community over the weekend. It seems
SF News Photo: Brian Wilson Wears LSU Football Uniform, Plays Trumpet For your viewing please, here's a photo snapped today of Giants closer Brian Wilson sporting a Louisiana State University football uniform and wielding a large instrument. He's also holding a trumpet. SF Giants
Arts & Entertainment Sassy Guy in Elmo Shirt Goes Off on KRON's 'Lazy, Fatass' Stanley Roberts Sing-song voiced Stanley Roberts met his match recently during a segment for KRON 4's addictive People Behaving Badly. Filming law enforcement ticketing titularly bad drivers, one sassy law breaker sporting an Elmo t-shirt
SF News Yucky Anti-Nonviolence Leaflet Handed Out at Occupy Oakland We do hope that some members of the Occupy Oakland splinter don't devolve into aesthetic gobbledygook more focused on protest fetishization, bandana-wearing and Oscar Granting than they are in maintaing the Occupy Wall
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'This Is Halloween' Light Show Hey, folks! Halloween is just around the corner. What are you planning on going as for the big night? We might dress up a ghost, the color purple, or this. Or maybe even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission NIMBYs Force Fun Deli to Change Name Misguided and borderline xenophobic Mission residents, fooling themselves and others into the grand illusion that they're caring and creative ilk, recently NIMBY'd out all over their new surroundings. Again. This time it had
SF News Cranky Cyclist Causes Caltrain Delay Bicyclists. They ruin everything. Like, for example, your morning commute. As the SF Examiner dutifully points out, a heated round of words between a bicyclist and a Caltrain conductor delayed service by a
SF News Quote of the Day: Regarding Pets in San Francisco This from today's column by C.W. Nevius, ever the faithful chronicler of "Only in S.F." moments: Why going to the veterinarian is different in San Francisco: Sitting in the waiting room
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Herman Cain Sings Song About Pizza Republican presidential candidate and former Godfather's Pizza CO Herman Cain made headlines last week after becoming the GOP frontrunner for 2012. At last according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, anyway.
SF News Marin Resident Biz Stone Spams Followers With Ed Lee Endorsement [Updated] Twitter co-founder Biz Stone accidentally (?) spammed his entire prestigious lot of followers with the following plea: “Will you endorse @EdLeeforMayor for Mayor on @Votizen https://www.votizen.com/m/93t6at/." Oops. Regarding the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Willie Brown Name Checks Subway (Again) For whatever curious reason, former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown loves Subway sandwiches. And he likes to mention it. A lot. Today, the charismatic $5 foot-long deep throater wrote about his three favorite
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Melissa McCarthy's Ranch Dressing Taste Tester Granted, if you're above the coveted 18-to-25 age bracket, and used to another season of not-ready-for-primetime players, you're almost required to claim that you've fallen out of favor with Saturday Night Live. However,
Arts & Entertainment Litquake Releases 140 More Chelsea Handler Tickets This just in: Litquake has released 140 more tickets for their in-conversation evening with Chelsea Handler, host of E!'s popular (and chronically hit-or-miss) Chelsea Lately. She makes her first Litquake appearance on
SF News Feds Accidentally Raid CBS Correspondent And Political Consultant's Home Oh dear. FBI agents got the wrong address this morning after pouding on the door of noted CBS correspondent Priya David and her husband, esteemed political consultant/friend of SFist Alex Clemens. The
SF News Daisy Does The Niners: 49ers Win Season Opener By Daisy Barringer I’m baaaa-aaaack. Miss me? No? Fine. But did you at least miss football? Because I sure as hell did. Summer in San Francisco can be a little depressing, as
Arts & Entertainment Americans Ranked Coolest Nationality, Claims Horrible Survey Lists. Where would struggling sites and bad l'interweb be without them? The most recent one to land in our inbox ranked the coolest and least coolest nationalities in the world. Which is an