misc The 'Fisties: All Winners: The Best of New Bay Area Restaurants We were going to award the Best New Restaurant award of 2005, to Jack Falstaff which opened exactly a year ago, and which we reviewed here on SFist after our third visit. Although
misc The 'Fisties: Favorite Athlete Truth be told, it's not that easy to choose our favorite Bay Area athlete these days. We don't think it's a stretch to say that twenty years from now, some barfly isn't going
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Gama-Go Family of this SFist, please read no further, for several of your gifts come from Gama-Go. We're ashamed to admit this, but we didn't even know that they were local until we interviewed
misc Protestors at UC Santa Cruz Kiss-In Hate Our Freedom In response, TC. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Service members Legal Defense Network (SLDN) said: "to suggest that a gay kiss-in is a 'credible threat' is absurd, homophobic and irrational. The Pentagon is
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Lotta Jansdotter If you're like us, you're doing a lot of your holiday shopping today and tomorrow. God! Why do we do this to ourselves? We're freakin' hungover from too much "holiday cheer", and with
misc Duck Update Remember the guy who ran over the ducks at a Campbell car wash earlier this year? Well, the cops still haven't made any arrests yet, but "by no means is the case closed,
misc The 'Fisties: Best News Story 2005 So here's a random selection of our favorites from 2005. Did we leave out yours? Best Daly: Our favorite post this year? The provocative interview of Chris Daly's better half, of course! In
misc SFist Cares Holiday Gift Guide: Medical Miracles The San Francisco AIDS Foundation offers a marketplace/storefront from which you can bounce around to different merchants who'll sell you something and donate part of the proceeds to the Foundation. You can
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Blobby Farm For the not-so faint of heart there is “Shark Dog 2 (The Revenge) is the most versatile of predators. He can stalk his prey in the water, he can crawl up on to
misc The 'Fisties: Best Playground Bring your kid there, have them play on the state-of-the-art structures which look like they have been designed by Santa during a sabbatical at NASA**, have them network with the neighborhood kids, take
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a 'Zine Grab Bag! What do you do with fancy-pants 'zines that are just too damn nice to recycle? If you're SFist Jackson, you generously share them with our readers. Enter below by midnight Monday to win
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a Copy of <i>Julie and Julia</i> Ced, in his enviable thoroughness, read to prepare for his interview with the author, and has agreed to pass his review copy on to a winning SFist reader. So, enter below by midnight
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Blissen and Jill Bliss It's not too late to pick up some gorgeous little things from Blissen, the company founded by SFist Interviewee Jill Bliss. A vibrant, growing community of small-scale artists, crafters, and designers, Blissen products
misc The 'Fisties: Best Fancy Restaurants Campton Place won our heart almost a year ago, in our pre-SFist life, when we ordered a four course meal which ended up an eleven plate effort, with so many freebies thrown in
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Upper Playground Upper Playground is the real San Francisco treat, with apparel, accessories, lit, and art that has that safely countercultural vibe. Pick up a vintage polo for the office cool guy, a FIFTY24SF t
misc SFist Rants: Stay Home If You're Sick This SFist is not writing from our desk, as we usually do -- we are writing from home, where we sit propped up by pillows, chugging Airborne, and blowing our nose every 15
misc SFist Raves: Food Loving Fund Raising Not only could you score a food photography lesson with local cookbook writer Heidi Swanson who took the pretty picture on the left, you could win a $200 voucher towards dinner at feted
misc H. Brown & Anti-Semitism "For taking one for the team in fighting Donald Fisher pretty much alone. I feel almost responsible because I kept writing about the Jewish cabal of Fisher & Shorenstein & Blum & Goldman
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Poketo And Poketo isn't kidding when it refers to itself as an art collective, for "Working within the themes of wanderlust, and the fantasy journeys elicited when receiving greetings from a distant land, the
misc SFisting: Trying Not to Make Jokes About Wrapping Your Box Because many people celebrate some version of a gift-giving holiday this time of year, it seems like a responsibility of ours to cough up some kind of locally focused sexy shopping guide. No
misc The 'Fisties: Best Burrito Rita: Let the burrito debates begin! Lincoln/Douglas rules! (I have absolutely no idea what that actually means, but doesn't that sound all high-school debate-team-y?) RESOLVED: that Papalote has the best frickin burrito
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Linden, From Grateful Dogs Hey, this coming Saturday is the third Saturday, so why not go check out Linden? Linden is a good size, good-looking golden retriever/chow mix, about 60 lbs. and just an all around
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Terra Bella Aromatherapy We were never lotion divas until we met Terra Bella's hand and foot lotion. It's thick like buttercream frosting, goes on smooth, and soaks into your skin within seconds leaving no greasy residue.
misc The 'Fisties: Freaky Geekery 5th Place — Neogentronyx: As first reported by CNet, Carlos Owens is an Anchorage steelworker who moonlights as a designer of larger-than-life robots, known as Mech (or Gundam Mecha, if you're an otaku like
misc Justice for Strippers According to plaintiff's attorney Greg Walston, this hourly minimum (derived from the rate at the worker-owned and operated Lusty Lady), is meant to protect dancers from having to resort to prostitution or face
