SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 78 Food Writing Words That Are Out The remarkable and remarkably talented Joyce Slaton of CHOW complied a list of the 78 most annoying words to read in a restaurant review. Among them? "Gastro pub," "sustainable," "toothsome," "meltingly tender," "slurp,
Arts & Entertainment 'GQ' Declares S.F. 20th Worst-Dressed U.S. City Billed as the key reason why romance novelist Danielle Steel skipped town, the city has no sense of high style. In fact, GQ just declared San Francisco the 20th Worst-Dressed U.S. city.
Arts & Entertainment Celebrate Zoetrope's Summer Issue, July 19 Featuring new fiction from Stuart Dybek, as well as Emily Ruskovich and May-Lan Tan making their literary debuts, the summer issue of Zoetrope features a cover designed by Beck. Yes, that Beck. You
SF News AP to Open North Korean News Bureau Wow. Um, OK: Associated Press announced today that, in an agreement with the eerie and truthiness-riddled Korea Central News Agency, they will open a news bureau in Pyongyang. Interesting. And... odd. Maybe AP
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour "Jhon Thumb" by Bob Horowitz. (The Jhon Thumb Band appearing live at Kimo on Wednesday, June 15.)
SF News NBC Bay Area Anchor Egos Aflutter Over John Kessler Gaffe Former KPIX news anchor and Emmy Award-winner John Kessler felt the need to apologize on Facebook today after announcing his new gig at NBC Bay Area, which, ridiculously, managed to upset some of
SF News Fox Picks Up J.J. Abrams' 'Alcatraz' UGO Entertainment reports that J.J. Abrams' San Francisco-set (obviously) time-traveling (also kind of obvious) crime drama Alcatraz has been picked up by Fox. You'll remember crews were around town filming the pilot
SF News More On Arianna's Plan To Launch San Francisco HuffPo While news that AOL's Arianna Huffington plans to dip her toes in the crowded Bay Area media pool is nothing new, she went into further detail about a looing SF HuffPo. Huffington revealed
SF News Examiner Needs Course in Drag 101 Pardon us, San Francisco Examiner, but Donna Sachet is not "a drag queen dressed in a red ball gown." She is THE drag queen dressed in a red ball gown. Next you'll be
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, at 7x7 Magazine: Premonitions of San Francisco's Future What with the city's attention so clearly fixated on Ingleside and Silver Terrace, 7x7 Magazine wants you to be aware of these little-known San Francisco neighborhoods: the Mission, Hayes Valley, and Dogpatch. It
SF News Tom Sinkovitz Leaves NBC Bay Area Drats. One of the Bay Area's most esteemed and throaty-voiced anchors, Tom Sinkovitz, will be departing NBC 11. The former KRON anchor spent nearly three years at the Bay Area's NBC affiliate. "Sinkovitz'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tablehopper Launches Sister Site: Deep Dishing Tablehopper founder and writer, Marcia Gagliardi, who singlehandedly changed the way people write about food in the Bay Area, announced today a new venture about Bay Area grub joints, watering holes, and more.
SF News WSJ Ditches Honorifics In Sports, Cites Lincecum As Example Honorifics are a woefully antiquated sign of ye olde MSM. Like grown men who still send written thank-you cards, it smacks of creepiness and, far worse, insincerity. Which is why the Wall Street
SF News Cyclists Treated Like "Bedbugs In Need Of Extermination" By Media, Says Streetsblog According to Clarence Eckerson Jr. of Streetsblog NY, "television and print media portray cyclists as if they were a menace to society, like bedbugs in need of extermination. The constant barrage of late
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Pop-up Dance Party at Cafe Zoetrope We almost forgot! Before cementing any plans for the evening, we strongly suggest you head over to Coppola headquarters in North Beach for a choice pop-up dance party to help celebrate the release
SF News U.K. Journalist Offers New Perspective on Yesterday's "Robot Rampage" British tech news website The Register has caught wind of yesterday's explosives incident in Potrero Hill and reported it with a brilliantly sensationalistic headline: "ROBOT COP scatters LIVE GRENADES in San Francisco STREET"
SF News Publisher of <em>SF Weekly</em> Moving to <em>The Village Voice</em> SF Weekly Publisher (and an all-around swell chap) Josh Fromson will leave the city's noted alt-weekly to take over at The NY Village Voice. Both SF Weekly and The Village Voice are owned
SF News Vital Queer and Transgendered Health Clinic to Close on Thursday, Local Media Fails to Report While local online news sites burn pounds of ink on an increasingly tepid KUSF story, a real closure that could cause real tragedy might flare up this week, and no one in the
SF News Yesterday's Car Explosion Receives Paltry Coverage The Examiner was there, and KGO put up a brief note about the car that spontaneously combusted in downtown S.F. yesterday as well. But as a few commenters noted, it's surprising that
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via B.K.: "bed bugs in the news suddenly? why? It's not like they materialized a month ago. So why the sudden press? Did the alpha bed bug bring it's vast fortune over
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Funny, Because We're Michael Bauer's Long Lost Son Food criticism czar Michael Bauer has had it with rapscallions tossing his name to and fro -- especially when they don't actually know him and/or have blood ties. (And you know who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Daily Castro Sandwich Shop Media Mention Because a day can't pass where that sandwich shop in the Castro receives attention -- and, by the way, that sandwich shop isn't in the Mission; just because it's not a gay-specific story,
SF News SF Examiner's Colorful Crime Reporting Is hell frozen over? If we here at SFist are wondering if one of San Francisco's major dailies is going to end up sued for calling suspects "goons" and "thugs" -- and describing
misc Read SF Public Press Funnies! SF Public Press, an online site that's also a $2 newspaper, recently featured a full page comic strip from artist Andrew Goldfarb and writer Shawn Gaynor about sit-lie law. It's like Garfield, but
