SF News Pierre Valley: A Real Neighborhood After All It seems that there is enough evidence to support the neighborhood's existence. Despite its odd pronunciation, which is meant to rhyme with Noe Valley (which we question, since PV has seemingly seceded from
misc What-ever: Hyphens Pulled Earlier this month, the newest (and truncated) version of the OED got rid of many cherished hyphens. The editor, Angus Stevenson, "eliminated some 16,000 hyphens from the sixth edition," according to a
SF News Marijuana Is Disgusting We couldn't get though this article about today's bust of the East Bay operation Tainted Inc., which produced "marijuana-laced candies, cookies, ice cream, peanut butter, barbecue sauce, granola bars and brownies," without gagging.
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the SF Weekly: Matt Smith mocking the frivolity of San Francisco political concerns. The nudist mayoral candidate (sorry, Spotswood, not Gavin). Cover article: something's not quite right about the City Attorney's
SF News Where'd Your Trash Can Go? Newsom, in his defense, says that SF has more garbage cans than any other comparable city, and he thinks people are using them to throw away personal or commercial trash instead of signing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Fewer Garbage Cans in San Francisco :( (And what are the brand names adorning the garbage strewn about our city according to a recent study? Let's see, in order: McDonalds, San Francisco Muni, Burger King, Starbucks, Safeway, FedEx and Jack
Arts & Entertainment Cycling: Reviewing the Soul of Cycling Let's face it, the great American cycling novel has yet to be written (not lately, anyway). And what cycling-related literature there is falls into one of three categories: inspiration, celebration, or perspiration. If
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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: The Hottest Place in Town It's another fine mid-Spring night in San Francisco: 51 degrees, foggy, swirling winds. So what do people do? They put on their parkas and head over to Mitchell's Ice Cream in the Mission
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Food-Related PSA: Free Haagen-Dazs Hey -- more free ice cream! This one's not left to chance, like that whole "Dreyer's" thing. Anyone and everyone that shows up at Haagen-Dazs on May 15 between 4 p.m. and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'I'm Really Enjoying This So-Called 'Iced Cream'' Oakland-based Dreyer's (Edy's to our friends on the right coast) seems to want to bring you closer to your neighbors . . . by making you enter a contest to win an ice cream party. Strange.
SF News We Are Family In his speech, Gavin added that he understands why people would feel the need to leave the city as his mother did the same when Gavin was just a wee little lad. Have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Worth The Wait? Bi-Rite Creamery Saturday--the sun was shining, Dolores Park was full to the brim, and evidently everyone else had the same idea we did: "let's get some ice cream." Bi-Rite Creamery, which opened only a few
misc Shooting at the Walls of Heartache, Bang, Bang, I am the Warrior What's the game like? Well you, or you and a partner, or you and a group of friends, are a team. That team will have a "secret weakness" like chocolate ice cream perhaps.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flying High At Firefly It's a small, intimate restaurant, and it tends to heat up pretty good in there--we shed our layers rather quickly, even when it's cold outside. The staff is always very friendly, and was
SF News We've Looked At Clouds From Both Sides Now Actually, what they do is create a cover for all the reflected heat from the sun. So the heat stays up in the clouds and winds up in the air and hello warmer
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Karma's Four Teeth And A Gigantic Ass Welcome to our thoughts on Wednesday's episode of Top Chef on Bravo, which we hope will help psych y'all up for tonight's episode. We must say that this episode was a vast improvement
Arts & Entertainment Shara Worden from My Brightest Diamond Shara has completed the arduous SFist interview process and, among other things will inspire you to go to Coney Island, if not the rest of NYC. If you haven’t managed to secure
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The End of Kelly's Burgers? While walking down 16th today we noticed something off, something unusual, something different and then we figured out what it was-- Kelly's Burgers looked not only closed but boarded up. The familiar outdoor
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Writes Stinking Prose...Wait, Stinking Praise. Having garlic infused drinks, garlic spread on your bread, garlic appetizer, garlic entree and garlic ice cream: we fancy all these once in a while. But stringing all these into a meal sounds
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Enough For Ya? What is it with geeks and spicy food? RSA, the computer security company, and Electronic Arts are engaged in a friendly eat-off competition at the Prince of Wales pub in San Mateo to
Arts & Entertainment The Slightly Tardy Adventures of the Superfisters starts off with an argument between Knightbat and his teen sidekick, Nightbird, both of whom bear a blinding resemblance to another superhero duo (and we're not referring to Superhorse and Supermonkey). Like many
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Bing Ji Ling Bing Ji Ling is a San Francisco musician with the best pedigree we've come across: His dad was a musician who met and married his mother here in the '60's. ahhhhhh. This may
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Blogger Roundup The food blog world is aflutter over the biggest awards ceremony of the year. The Oscars? Don't be silly. It's all about the food, baby. The 2006 Independent Food Festival and Awards are
