SF News Carole and the Case of the $397,000 After paying up last year for disclosure violations, Senator Carole Migden is once again under investigation for not disclosing or itemizing credit card charges that total $397,000. According to the LA Times,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Dirty, Delicious Business of Reservation Scalping Eater SF uncovered something new and morally-questionable -- two of our favorite topics -- TablePronto, an online service that scalps restaurant reservations. Basically, it's a site that allows you to buy and sell
SF News Your Oil Spill Weekend Roundup So...ugh. Birds died, gastronomic seasons were delayed. What's more, it hasn't even been a week, and already some of your favorite local and national politicos are personalizing the spill, more than ready
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Misfits: a little post-Halloween chillingness -- sexy, bare-chested, punk chillingness, that is -- for you tonight. Behold: the Misfits play a few ditties along with the Hellbillys and the Memphis Murder
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Great Northern @ BotH 11/9/07 Back in May, we were introduced to a great indie-pop band called Great Northern. We quickly fell in love with their latest release, Trading Twilight for Daylight and have been trying desperately to
Arts & Entertainment Emerson String Quartet. We missed some of what he said, coverage was spotty up in the hills north of LA and once Phil starts talking, he's hard to stop. He just won't let a disconnected call
SF News How to Help Your Fellow Californians/Fire Victims As of now, six people have died and more than 500,000 people are in "mass migration" over the mind-numbingly destructive wildfires happening all throughout Southern California. It is, for lack of a
SF News SoCal Ablaze Whether you like it or not, SoCal is a part of us. So, this one is going out to our lower half: stay safe, San Diego and SoCal. Fueled by disgusting, freakishly warm
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera: the Magic Flute The set, originally designed for the 92-93 season of the LA opera, and seen for the first time in SF, is build around a massive pyramid: Mozart was a Mason when he composed
Arts & Entertainment Mini-View with Charlie M. from the Happy Hollows Do you have any Bay Area ties? Yes, our singer Sarah is from here. And she went to SF State. Actually, none of us are from LA. Chris and I are from DC.
SF News No, No Norteños Those who are subject to the preliminary injunction...can be arrested in the 60-square-block zone -- and face up to six months in jail -- if they engage in one of a number
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Shadow Circus Vaudeville Theatre: (In)famous night of underground "circus arts, burlesque, music, and puppetry" begins at 9 p.m. at Fat City; $10. -- Rogue Wave: Oakland indie-rock band performs with
misc Week Around the -Ists LAist began the month with a new food series exploring the popular and unknown late night eats around town. If a Top Chef winner opened up a late night spot in Los Angeles,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Augie March: Australia band, crooners of the catchy "One Crowded Hour," will be playing at 8:30 p.m. at Slim's; $15. -- The Go-Go's: Saccharine '80s LA girl rock. Gravy Train!
misc Week Around the -Ists Chicagoist knows what it's like to like the Cubs. But naming your kid Wrigley Fields? At least they can breathe a little easier now that Grossman's out and Griese's in. Maybe all that
SF News UPDATE: Butt Biter Behind Plan to Split State's Electoral Votes Charles Hurth, city attorney for the tiny town of New Haven, Mo., is one of the main men behind the push to make California Electoral College votes more Republican-y, a confusing ploy that
Arts & Entertainment Selections from <em>LA Weekly</em>'s Sean Penn Article We used to think we couldn't stand Sean Penn, but he never really did anything to deserve our ire. He's talented; seems to have similar political to ours; married to her, wonderful her;
Arts & Entertainment Tannhäuser We were wrong. Thank God. And the allusion to fedoras was not a dig at the previous general director (even though she indulged in them) but to last year’s LA opera production
Arts & Entertainment Giveaway! Win Tickets To See Gunther! We love the Eurotrash!!! Wanna win tickets to see Gunther, the Swedo-pop source of the delightful "Ding Dong Song (You Touch My Tralala)"? (YouTube clip from his show in LA above.) The mulleted,
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, a completely not soaked with alcohol East Bay Express: Hey, we just picked our issue up with the classifieds side up and you can go to LA on a Price Is
misc Week Around the -Ists There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Andy Vogt Where is the best place to see art in the area? Hard to pick one since they all have something different to offer. I always enjoy shows at Ampersand International Arts, Gregory Lind
SF News Day Around the Bay [NSFW] -- Crank (prank?) calls to 911. [Chron] -- Wildfire still wild -- 7,000+ acres wild. [CBS5, San Jose Merc] -- Death, death, death, death... [Chron, Examiner] -- Fines to go up
misc Week Around the -Ists Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. As LAist melts away in their
SF News Now Boarding Group A.... Out Of SFO Southwest has gone a little nuts about the news themselves -- are you also getting emails where they're giving you triple Rapid Rewards credit if you book a ticket online out of any