SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Menu-less Los Altos Restaurant Costs $400 Per Person And Only Serves 8 The more exclusive the experience, the more we really want to go there. At least that's the theory, right? Down south in the Silicon Valley suburban haven of Los Altos, Palo Alto Online
SF News Horrible Racist Teenagers Are A Thing In The Bay Area Naively, you might have assumed that teenagers in the San Francisco Bay Area would be less blatantly racist than teenagers in, say, the depths of Mississippi in 1952. Sadly, you would be wrong.
Arts & Entertainment Gary Dahl, The Man Who Invented The Iconic 1970s Fad Gift The Pet Rock, Dies Apart from mood rings and All In the Family, nothing quite evokes the mid-1970s like The Pet Rock a stroke of marketing genius from advertising copywriter Gary Dahl that went on to become
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Restaurant Manresa Suffers Major Fire In Los Gatos The Michelin two-starred restaurant Manresa, arguably one of the most influential and renowned restaurants in the Bay Area, suffered a two-alarm fire last night in its kitchen that is sure to shutter the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A $1,200 Slutty Dish From A New Los Gatos Japanese Restaurant In an inside-baseball market where chefs make headlines for leaving their esteemed eateries for dreams of indie-like taquerias or whatever, we are nothing short of elated to see this edible dish of unabashed
SF News Netflix to Build Big New Campus in Los Gatos The Los Gatos Town Council last night voted 3-2 to approve a new 550,000-square-foot office campus for Netflix, despite some concerns from residents about obstructing views and removal of mature trees. As
SF News UPDATED: NBC Bay Area Readers "Laughing" About Little Girl's Reattached Hand We'd now like to point you to this story of a little girl from Los Gatos, Erica Rix, who was on the Today show this morning telling Matt Lauer about the hand she
SF News Amazon to Buy Netflix? Word on Wall Street is that Silicon Valley's Netflix, who in just 12 years has changed the way we rent movies while clobbering Blockbuster's power, might be bought out by Amazon. According to
SF News Davenport Beach Teen Identified The 17-year-old boy who had been reported missing in the water near Davenport Beach early his week has been identified as Dennis Cyncor-McMillan of Los Gatos. According to reports, "[a]round 4 a.
misc Bay Area Bands Head to Coachella 2008 We instantly checked to see who was "headlining" the event and the six biggest names are: Jack Johnson, the Verve, Raconteurs, Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab for Cutie, Roger Waters, Love and Rockets and
SF News Vandalism Report Card: Recurring Neo-Nazi Flair on Stillman Well, this was unnerving. We came across these, um, public art pieces while walking down Stillman Street. Shot earlier this evening, the paint was fresh yet gooey. If we had to guess, one
Arts & Entertainment Vandalism Report Card: Los Gatos Church We're not one to laugh at church vandalism. Ever. But the following story in today's Mercury News is goddamn hilarious. And hilariously bad. Los Gatos police believe the suspects who scrawled swastikas and
SF News Surprise: Fred Thompson Opposes Gay Unions Jerry Orbach would not be pleased. Today, right here our own backyard, Republican Presidential candidate (and now eventual loser) Fred Thompson said he is "personally opposed to civil unions and domestic partnerships." Uh
Arts & Entertainment Can We Exchange These NetFlix? Los Gatos-based NetFlix has one of the greatest products around, and we give them a lot of leeway despite the company's annoying, ever-present pop-up ads. The company just announced a summer concert series
SF News SFist Blotter It's a tough biz, the tourism industry -- the cops had to break up a fight between the Bush Man, the Clown Man, and the Fisherman over who got to work what turf
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Represent: Three World Class Restaurants! Of course, our first thought was how did we do against the other 'ists? Well, we beat the crap out of LAist, with a series sweep at three to nothing, and that's what
SF News Just Hook The IV Directly Into Our Brain As of now, this is still a pipe dream, though -- TiVo and Netflix admit that it will be an uphill battle coaxing reluctant fascist movie companies that they can ensure against piracy.
SF News Poison in the Post The Los Gatos post office was evacuated yesterday after 14 postal workers and one customer became mysteriously ill. People reported an odd odor and a weird metallic taste, and a few people broke
misc Coyote Ugly South Bay residents are seeing significantly larger numbers of coyotes moving into their residential areas. So far, 12 cats and 2 dogs have been killed in one Los Gatos neighborhood, and neighbors report
Arts & Entertainment Rental Coup One of the many great things about living in the Bay Area is the number of great places from which to rent movies. While folks in the fly-over are stuck with Hollywood, Blockbuster,
