SF News Cream Pie Cuteness Makes Pie Fight a Success Laughing Squid has an brilliant comment commencing their post on the same topic. Someone classically bitching about the mess made and the mass selfishness on the pie fighters' end. And we couldn't agree
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last week was a great week for live music, and we managed to see three fantastic shows. Last Friday we started off seeing Rufus Wainwright at Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium. Having (somehow) never
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Night At The Tadich Grill There's a lot to love about the Tadich Grill, that venerable San Francisco institution. We've eaten there many times before, and there are some things some folks don't get about it that we
SF News When Kids Invade Muni The above photo of the adorable little ones on their way to the Symphony was taken by Flickr user Alie Slavin. The expression on every face pictured is priceless, especially the adults' in
SF News What Goes Up Shouldn't Go Down So here's the numbers: in the three years that Gavin has been Mayor and Heather Fong the Police Commissioner, San Francisco has averaged 90 homicides and 23.5 homicide arrests a year. That's
SF News BRT Not BART The plan, called BRT (couldn't they have chosen something slightly different from another mode of pub trans in the area? All this stuff is confusing enough without having to someday contemplate a BRT
Arts & Entertainment We're All Headed South Last Friday, your East Bay Correspondent left the confines of her designated area to witness a rare spectacle - a Bay Area performance by Survival Research Labs. which took place in San Jose
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin: Dishing and Swishing Last Friday night, Kathy Griffin, star of the Bravo reality show "My Life on the D-List" and heir apparent to the Sandra Bernhard/Joan Rivers style of snark and dish comedy -- without
SF News California MMA Starts With a Bang and Ends With a "Looping Right Hand of Death" Last Friday was an historic night in California combat sports history, as the first ever sanctioned Mixed Martial Arts competition was held in San Jose's packed-to-the roof HP Pavilion. Anticipated since the establishment
Arts & Entertainment Blame Canada: When Performance Art Goes Bad Last Friday, a performance art piece got ugly -- and we don't just mean because it failed to critically explore the (mis)/dissemination of the capitalist hegemony: Novato performance artist Joe Canada promised
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Crashing Daly's Party Everybody may or may not hate Chris Daly, but we all agree -- everybody looooooves little Jack! Your Junkie's Best Celebrity of 2005, resplendent in his orange Che Guevara onesie, graciously received guests
Arts & Entertainment All The Subtlety of Roller Disco, Plus the Nuance of Scott Baio Last Friday, roller films were the theme, with , Roller Boogie (one of the many missteps in the management of Linda Blair's career) and the aborted foetus that is Skatetown USA (which marks the
misc SFist Rants: Kevin, at the Cingular Store Complaining about cell phones..what's next, airplane food? We know. But this really pisses us off. We've been a loyal (if "fear of change" counts as "loyal") Cingular customer since 1999, if you
SF News Wanted: New MUNI Boss Burns was hired from Philadelphia after the "MUNI Meltdown" in 1999. As much as we love to kvetch about MUNI, we do have to admit that it has gotten better since he took
SF News SFist Team Party Crash: CodeCon Reception The party was for CodeCon, San Francisco's very own indie coder convention. As Technorati's Niall Kennedy put it, "When I was growing up, I loved Microsoft. Now I'm here at CodeCon." Founded in
