Arts & Entertainment Return To The Caffe Cino The SF Public Library, in conjunction with its James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, is sponsoring a free event tomorrow (Sunday Jan. 21) from 2-4 p.m., to promote an anthology called
SF News Crosses Vandalized The crosses have been a source of controversy since they were put up months ago. Despite it being said to be "in memory" of all the troops killed in the war, it's seen
Arts & Entertainment Goodbye, Leslie Harpold Leslie Harpold has died. A writer, designer, editor, and web pioneer of prodigious skill, she was 40. Why did Leslie Harpold matter? To those who never met her, it was because she "was
misc San Jose to Clean Up Libraries Yep, San Jose wants their libraries to be Spank Free. Or at least by decree of San Jose's mayor-elect, Chuck Reed. Reed was shown a clip of the story KGO ran on all
SF News Libraries-- Cesspool of Sex & Violence Why do we bring this story up? Because KGO, Channel 7, sent their very own I-Team out to investigate our libraries and discovered that, well, bad things happen there. And you know what?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Smells Like Faux Cookies Have the agency folks ever tried waiting for a 14 Mission or 45 Union bus, or even done that routine lately? Itís never, ever about comfort, but maybe thatís the ad folks point.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau 2006 We have always been a sucker for organizations that do good in the community and are perceived to be fiscally responsible. The wine's importer, W.J. Deutsch & Sons Ltd. made a seven
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Be YouTube Stars After the jump: calm your endorphin-frazzled nerves with a more familiar brand of Castro chaos: yet another Muni Meltdown.
SF News Beautiful City, Ugly Buildings Rybczynski throws us a couple bones (he hypothesizes that part of the problem with architecture in SF may be that the city is already too pretty, and notes that also-gorgeous Rio has horrible
Arts & Entertainment Debates Around The Districts So we're trying to compile a handy-dandy list of all the forums we can find, arranged by district and by date -- but we can barely find anything out there! So we're posting
Arts & Entertainment Big Ass Book Sale! So, when we hear statistics like "400 volunteers, 7,000 boxes of books, 300 tables and 200,000 books in over 50 categories", we might ordinarily have to reach for the NoDoz, but,
SF News Cycling: Horsing Around with the Barnabe Trail More than 70 percent of this planet is currently covered by water. Between global warming and privatization, the remaining 30 percent is quickly disappearing from public view. So, it's only natural to expect
Arts & Entertainment SFist Plays Perplex City We found the Rubik's Cube behind some puzzle books, led there by clues around the Main branch of the library. Once solved (by taking it apart and reassembling it; we're not proud), a
misc Win Passes To <i>The Night Listener</i> We were surprised to see that Williams (whose eternally FRESH and HILARIOUS mincing simp impression makes us want to kick puppies) had taken on the lead role in the film version of local
Arts & Entertainment JK And The Rowlings Okay, let's get the premise of this band over quickly, and with a minimum of references to Hufflepuff badgers and flying Bludger balls -- the band Harry and the Potters is made up
misc Unskinny Bop This is actually part of a long standing battle in the city over the private booths. Critics have called them exploitive as club owners make it so the women who work in the
SF News The SFist Voters' Guide: 6/6/06 We don't care if your voter information guide isn't here yet -- we can't wait any longer! It's that time of the quarter again -- for SFist's shallow surface summaries of the important
SF News Craigslist Encounters: Things We Expect In The News Arrrgggghhh. Sometimes that is the one reasonable response to what people write about Craigslist. Of course we realize that due to network effects Craigslist will reach a critical mass in a city and
SF News Save The Date! Dum-dum-da-DUM, dum-dum-DA-dum..... -- that's right! SF's own J.Lo, Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, has announced that she's getting married in Barbados on Memorial Day, in three weeks! Who's the lucky mayor TV personality? Eric
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads SFist Cheshire is trying to get into Jonathan Lethem's , but so far it's a little impenetrable. Too much writerly acrobatics for Chesh's taste in the first 40 pages or so. Disappointing considering his
SF News Why We Love College Basketball It's March, and that means all eyes are upon the sport of college basketball. And why not? College basketball is primal, peppy, loud, fun, historic, goofy, social, exciting, unpredictable, decisive, brave, clean, and
SF News Who Should Coach the Raiders? So with that in mind, we thought we'd take a look at the potential candidates and a few of our own.
Arts & Entertainment Shake, Rattle, and Browse You may want to metaphorically brace yourself under a solid table (and not in a doorjamb, for crying out loud!) -- 2006 is not only the year of the Congressional midterm elections, but
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: An Author Fall Into a Million Little Pieces Being that we haven't actually read Frey's book, we weren't too perturbed over the Smoking Gun's story. We didn't read the book and come away from it thinking, "Wow. I can't believe one
Arts & Entertainment SF360 Revealed! Part Three: It Wouldn't Be SF If It Wasn't At Least Slightly Orgiastic Whew. Let's catch our breaths, here. Celebrity chefs? Srsly? We're not totally sold on this one. While we like the whole one-city/one-book thing that the SF Public Library hosts, this "expanded theater"
