SF News Chronicle Columnist Hypes Same Website Under Scrutiny For Potential Conflict Of Interest With Paper We're probably going to have to chalk this up to longtime Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik's lack of awareness, but in her latest column she happens to be hyping the same rich-people-experience site, IfOnly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Did A Few Angry Yelpers Get Kicked Out Of A Presidio Restaurant For Threatening To Yelp? An amused restaurant customer recently wrote in to Leah Garchik at the Chronicle to describe a scene she witnessed at an unnamed restaurant in the Presidio (it's got to be either Presidio Social
SF News Armistead Maupin Returns To San Francisco For Good Famed chronicler of a semi-fictitious San Francisco of the late 70s and 80s, Armistead Maupin, has moved back to the city with husband Christopher Turner after two years of trying to make a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Are Under The Table Bag/Purse Hooks Only For Dorks? Chron columnist Leah Garchik is one of the coolest people I know, so I was disturbed to discover that I've been breaking one of my former colleague's cardinal rules: using those beneath-the-table/bar-hooks
Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin, Chronicler of '70s City Life, Leaving the City Sad news! Armistead Maupin, author of the Tales of the City novels among others and a writer more fully identified with San Francisco than any other living writer we can think of (don't
Arts & Entertainment Mickey Hart To Turn Golden Gate Bridge Into Giant 'Wind Harp' In honor of the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge, being celebrated this May, artist and former Grateful Dead member Mickey Hart will turn the iconic bridge into a giant musical instrument
misc Garchik gets all the punchlines: "Upon learning that Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is Time magazine person of the year 2010, many senior citizens asked, 'What's Facebook?' says Janice Hough. And many young citizens asked, 'What's a magazine?
SF News Around the Sports Dial Here's what we've missed in the world of Bay Area sports while trying to figure out who the Oceanic 6 are... -And now.the Rai-duhs. First they signed oft-injured and oft-whining Javon Walker
Arts & Entertainment Marie-Antoinette and San Francisco: Match Made in Bourgeoisie Heaven? While the pairing seems unlikely (despite San Francisco being the "Paris of the West"), the Legion of Honor has received the, uh, honor of hosting the Marie-Antoinette exhibit. The show specifically focuses on
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Bans Meat At The Fillmore Morrissey is coming. And you know what that means? Clever lyrics, melancholia, and no tender morsels of tasty beef. Or chicken. Or even a Hot Pocket. Last month Leah Garchik mentioned that, "word
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Forget-Me-Nots --Matier and Ross report that it looks like everyone's going to punt to Jerry Brown to make the final decision about whether to throw Ed Jew out of office or not over the
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Paperwork The City Attorney's gone through all the residency documents that beleaguered Burlingame boy and erstwhile supposed San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew provided last week, and ---- baaaaaaaaahmp -- (that's supposed to be a
SF News SFist Blotter A gay African-American high school English teacher at the private Urban School is recovering from three stab wounds he received a few weeks ago while eating at the Taqueria Cancun down near Mission
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Glossies With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of
SF News SF Ballet Gala By The Numbers Hip, hip, HOORAY! Hip, hip, HOORAY! Catherine Bigelow, the Chron society columnist, is back from vacation, and here with a special report on Wednesday night's SF Ballet Opening Gala! Number of people pictured:
SF News Stars Almost Die In Fire!!!!!! Apparently, they were among the dozen or so people who were staying at the lodge when it caught on fire. And, believe it or not, stars evacuate buildings when they're on fire too
SF News The Littlest Goldfader-Dufty Dufty informed Leah Garchik that they started out listening to his godmother Billie Holliday in the delivery ward, but ended up doing the pushing to Li'l Kim. How many licks? Sidney shares a
SF News Do You Have Prince Albert In A Can? Har har! We were going to post about this yesterday too, but forgot until today. Some wag managed to do an entire interview with KTVU Tuesday night about that fire near the Altamont
SF News End Prejudice Against Backward Baseball Cap Wearers Our story began last week when a mens softball team headed off to the Connecticut Yankee for some post-game celebratory drinks. As is softball players' wont as the Yankee is known as a
SF News Aidin Vaziri Over The Balcony! We've always wanted to be mischaracterized in a bullying fashion by the Chron's Pink Pages writer Aidin Vaziri! So Vaziri, on the SFGate's Culture Blog, pokes some gentle fun at us for posting
SF News CSI Plumpjack -- Cancelled The Chron's Leah Garchik gets all the good dirt -- she breaks the news in Friday's The In Crowd that Gavin Newsom has parted ways with Scientologist/actress Sofia Milos. Your gossip hounds
SF News This Week On CSI: Plumpjack Let's check in with San Francisco couple of the moment, CSI: Plumpjack -- how's the love blossoming between Mayor Gavin Newsom and actress/Scientology activist Sofia Milos? Leah Garchik reports that CSI: Plumpjack
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beach Blanket Babylon <i>Again</i>? Wow, Gavin Newsom must really like big hats. (Yes, commenter Matt, we know you like big hats too.) Leah Garchik reported in yesterday's The In Crowd that when CSI: Plumpjack made their triumphant
SF News Sofia Milos + Guest Hooray to us! We have now officially flogged the Gavin Newsom & Sofia Milos thing to death. But hey, we got in the paper of record -- thanks, Swells! We'd like to thank
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sofia Milos Newsom? Gavin'll try anything to lower the crime rate around here! Leah Garchik triumphantly reports that Gavin was seen kissing CSI: Miami detective Sofia Milos goodbye at a North Beach cafe last Monday morning,
