Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Information Overload A Sneak Peek at the Fringe at Exit Theatre Talk about advanced publicity. The SF Fringe doesn't open until September 6, but on August 9 the Exit throws its doors open to theatre
SF News SFist Watches the World Cup So naturally, we went to Belden Place. Why not? We were rooting for les Bleus and the idea of being surrounded by people screaming "Sacre Bleu" or "Zizou!" with non-ironic French accents warmed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If You Take The Caffe Out of North Beach, Is It Truly Trieste? So, there's a new Caffe Trieste location, right smack dab on Market Street (1667 Market, at Gough). This represents the company's fourth location, but its second here in the city . . . the other one
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Guide to the World Cup Part 1- Why You Should Care Instead, we're going to try and get you into it by showing you just how much fun the World Cup can be. Picture it not as something you have to do because you
SF News The Gray Lady: Bring Your Wallet to SoMa What we saw instead was a wallet-busting tour of an area that's got a lot of great bargains. Although SFist totally applauds the inclusion of City Kayak's Bay Bridge tour, we were wishing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What Strikes Gastronomique's Fancy. We are titled Gastronomique, and have to once in a while live up to the quiet sophistication of haute cuisine. So we went to the Fancy Food Show with great expectations. These were
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Aren't Fooled Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Whoo. Dude With Huge Sunglasses: "Hey Marty." Marty: "Oh! Hey! I didn't recognize you because you're disguised as an Italian." -- North Beach Mom, trying
Arts & Entertainment Zombie Poker 1. Arrive at the Italian Cemetery (540 F Street, Colma, CA 94014, 2 blocks from Colma BART station) on Saturday October 15 between 1:30 PM and 2:00 PM. 2. Look for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: The Italian Girl in Algiers. The San Francisco Opera opened its season last Saturday and picked up right where it left off last time we visited. , just like Cosi fan Tutti, is another joyful and energetic opera, another
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Tomatillos The tart taste of a tomatillo, which is a relative of the tomato, adds a zingy note to guacamole or salads, though Elizabeth Schneider cautions readers to use raw pieces in moderation. More
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Bitter Melon Bitter melon is, obviously, bitter. Western palates shy away from this sensation, but it's a common component throughout Eastern cuisine, where many consider bitterness to be a cleansing panacea. Piles of these exotic-looking
SF News New Pope! With the election of a second non-Italian Pope in a row, we're hoping that this kind of "outside the box" thinking bodes well for the heavenly reign of Pope Benedict XVI, and that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Just Bite Me This week, at Gastronomique, we went and educated ourselves about Italy. We actually traveled there last week, and had a wonderful time, until we went to the Mechanics Institute. There, Carol Field told
Arts & Entertainment Fred Korematsu, 1919-2005 The Asian-American civil rights community has lost a hero with the passing of Fred Korematsu yesterday in his daughter's home in Marin. Korematsu, an American citizen and Bay Area resident, was 22 years
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gourmet de l'Ouest: Lucca Foods & Wine Shop We started eating at Lucca during a particularly dark time in our lives. It was 2001, and your author had just gotten dumped, was seriously ill and broke as s**t. Thank god
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Italia nella Missione And his legacy continues: at SFist, we are proud of gay weddings, even though we know fully well they are the first step on the slippery slope towards man-on-domesticated-wolf-o-philia. And we are proud
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco A to Zed SFist had to overcome it's own self-acknowledged, inverted form of snobbery to make a reservation at widely applauded Marina District restaurant A16. We accidentally left our passport to Chestnut Street - the fake
SF News Save the Old Church The Archdiocese has been looking to sell the church to a developer as the church has been closed since 1994 due to the fact they can’t afford the $7-$8 million in
Arts & Entertainment We've Got Big Balls The gala begins at the Opera House where there will be cocktail receptions, seated dinners, and a gala performance of among other things “Romeo and Juliet.” For the celebration, the Opera House will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Drives Thru Does the concept of a drive-thru window for your morning coffee sound odd? Not so odd in Beantown. It's an interesting juxtaposition. The Boston and San Francisco areas have many similarities -- they
