SF News All the Small Things So naturally, this morning, we checked out the Examiner's web site only to see that a court hearing has been set over the Bush administration wanting to put a biodefense lab at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Pairing Wine and Food We thought we'd share some of our wine-pairing tricks to help you decide what to drink with your next meal. There's no great mystery. Use a couple guidelines to steer you one way
Arts & Entertainment Another Hole In The Head: The Chainsaw Massacres While we love everything about the Another Hole In The Head film festival, we're especially stoked about the The Primitive Screwheads' production of their new show, The Chainsaw Massacres, at CELLspace June 14
Arts & Entertainment Interview: SFist hearts Voxtrot Now that SFist has signed year books, been told to stay “cute ‘n cool” about five thousand times, updated facebook with our new school, and has promised to NEVER change, we’re all
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lou's Living Donut Museum Closing San Jose institution Lou's Living Donut Museum is closing at the end of this month, due to an illness in the family of the owners, the Chaviras. The eponymous Lou of the donut
SF News Gratefully Dead in San Mateo Foucrault, of course, denies the charges. The allegations matter even more because Foucrault is up for election as San Mateo County Coroner. Yes, for whatever reason, there is an actual election on who
SF News Not Dead Yet Over the weekend, a compromise was reached in that people who wanted to drink booze inside Washington Square Park, where the music could be heard, can. It's just that they'll be cordoned off
Arts & Entertainment For Those About to Rock This year, both Live 105 and 107.7 the Bone busted out their Top 500 lists and that made the weekend even that more exciting. It was a veritable smorgasbord of rock. It
Arts & Entertainment Free We Are Scientists! You might already know that their debut album, With Love & Squalor, will drive you to do strange, angular dances to the stop-start rhythms, alarm clock guitars and addictive melodies. The 'Scientists may
SF News School Daze You know, we're kind of getting into the week-long series that the Chron's doing on the San Francisco school system. It's a comprehensive look at all the various factors affecting the perception of
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 Answer Hazy, Try Again Somehow, your crack SFist political team missed this story from the Examiner last week. In this instance, the use of the word "somehow" means 1) we can't navigate the Examiner website anymore and
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Confirm our Suspicions Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Cocktail waitress to guy at bar: "Hey, did you ever end up taking that pill you found?" Guy at bar: "Um
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>The Great Happiness Space: Tales of an Osaka Love Thief</i> goes inside a popular "host boy café" in Japan to examine the lives of both the patrons and the employees. Think of these cafes as kind of like strip clubs but the roles
misc Craigslist Encounters: Can I Get A Witness? We would be lying if we said that the Craigslist community section is anything but a good-ol' hodgepodge. There are nearly no off-limit topics and much of the free-form discussion is devoid of
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Interview We're continuing our series of interviews of the Anyone But Chris Daly hopefuls in the upcoming District 6 election! Today's guest: Matt Drake. Hi, Matt! Check out Matt's campaign blog too. Matt emailed
Arts & Entertainment The Frolicking Adventures of the Superfisters How can you not love Long Tail Kitty, you heartless fiend? The answer is that you cannot. You are powerless to resist his high-spirited capering. Drawn by local artist Lark Pien, sees LTK
SF News R.O.T.C in the U.S.A First up, the School Board, as a member of the Board, Mark Sanchez, has introduced a measure that will ban JROTC (Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps) programs. Apparently, every school child in the
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>The Future of Pinball</i>/<i>Buffet</i> Our usual movie companion loves pinball with a burning passion. A burning passion! So all week, it's been like, "When do we get to see the pinball movie? When do we get to
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Pizza! The Movie</i> Whatever you do, don't go see hungry. Boy were we glad we'd had that burrito (but we must admit, that didn't prevent us from stopping off for a slice after the film). Even
SF News Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part One Nathaniel Ford: Thanks for coming in. Eve Batey: Oh, thank you for having me. NF: By all means. I guess this will be an opportunity for you to get to know me and
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Crossing Genres at the Magic Theatre Christmas, in May? Well, yeah. The Magic Theatre rearranged its season a bit. But The Long Christmas Ride Home may be worth the wait. Penned by Paula Vogel as
Arts & Entertainment Supersize Us Are fast food joints the blight Schlosser and company would have us believe, or are you "lovin' it"? (Incidentally, have you seen that McDonald's commercial where the prone McD's customer slides along the
SF News Our Afternoon Web Surfing Those of you who read this site regularly probably think you have a good sense of what this particular correspondent is interested in -- traffic, Chris Daly, heartwarming tales about animals, general schadenfreunde.
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: SFist Has You Covered In addition to our coverage, we'll be giving away tickets to DocFest screenings, of course. So come back to SFist early and often for all sorts of DocFesty goodness. In fact, let's kick