Arts & Entertainment Ring In The New Year At The Asian Art Museum Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. they're having their 20th Annual Japanese New Year's Bell Ringing Ceremony, which is free to atttend with paid admission to the museum. "Based on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 'Fisties: Best Sushi Hamano's chefs place a large slab of meat, always fresh, always the highest quality, on rice with the perfect temperature and stickiness. And Hamano offers the whole range of sushi: the vegetarian pieces
Arts & Entertainment Happy Holidays from SFist: Win a "Zatch Bell" DVD! What works well in Japan sometimes doesn't exactly translate over here. "Zatch Bell" passed its hundred-episode mark overseas, but it's made a much more modest splash stateside. The story concerns a race of
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Mana: Beyond Belief</i> It was the usual scene outside the Roxie during a film fest -- odd groups of people clumped in odd places on the sidewalk, frantic-looking pedestrians just trying to get into Truly Med,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Staff of Life Pass the basket, please! The San Francisco-based US Bread Baking Guild competitive team won this year's Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, described as "the World Cup of bread baking." The team coach
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Music Video Asia So we have a cousin. No, this is not some coy way of referring to the newest -ist site, Austinist(welcome!), we're talking about our actual cousin. Anyways, our cousin plays this game
SF News Have You Swashed Your Bum Today? There is a member of the SFist staff who is so crazily germ-phobic that he has not made physical contact with a toilet seat in 18 years. It is therefore entirely appropriate that
SF News As the BALCO Turns Hold onto your hats, sports fans, as Victor Conte, the mad scientist in charge of the BALCO labs is all set to go on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20 this week and name
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Spot the International Superstar No, not that choad in the middle -- dude on the left, Iron Chef Rokusaburo Michiba! Hell, if we'd known you get to fly all-expenses-paid to Japan to meet Michiba-san (and eat at
