SF News Virtual Book Tour: An Interview With Author Tom Dolby As part of local literary impresario Kevin Smokler's "Virtual Book Tour," Tom will be spending the day online shilling his paperback edition of his debut novel. While we didn't get a chance to
misc It's Hard to Leave Your Heart in San Francisco Now, there might be some of you wondering how could this be? How could the city that gave us the Summer of Love, the Winter of Love, and that damn Tony Bennett song
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban on Muni? We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's Time Again for Free Stuff From SFist! The sun in the sky, Heirloom tomatoes are here! Call New York and gloat. Avocados free, Over your neighbor's tall fence. When ripe, steal at night. Safeway sucks ass. Berkeley Bowl: No parking.
SF News Gavin Goes on the Offensive After being blamed for the re-election of W., made a virtual pariah in the Democratic Party, and befriended by Angelina Jolie all for letting a few gay people marry, you would think that
Arts & Entertainment Living in the Pollan Nation Pollan is the author of and a couple of other books, as well as countless articles for Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and elsewhere. He is a master of investigative
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Closing Time Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) tried to get similar legislation passed several years ago, with the approval of the Board of Supes, but used an economic argument instead. His idea was that if
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: Double Feature We signed up for the screenings that Larsen Associates offered credentials to but weren't already claimed by fellow 'Fisters. Which means we were given New York productions. Granted, we're the least removed from
SF News Don't Send Your Loved One's Remains to the Southland As if we didn't have enough to worry about already (sex offenders in Cupertino trying to hit on you, insane criminal clowns), UC officials have admitted that they have been less than diligent
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Words Well, surely you have $5. Five whole dollars buys you all the pizza you can eat at Poetry and Pizza on Friday. That's tomorrow. We double-checked the hipster central calendar. You're free. Don't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Does Anybody Read 7x7? Sam Breach of Becks & Posh bravely opened up a copy of 7x7 magazine (San Francisco's answer to society mag New York Magazine) only to find her own name in it! Of course,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Snark Gawker's all hot and bothered that Luna Park, the Valencia street eatery which expanded to hell-ay, is now making the move to the loisaida. That's right, it will soon join uber-good Katz's Delicatessen
misc Not Looking Good For Apple... ...and this time, at least, that's what we want to hear. John at the Legal Reader points to a piece quoting Terry Gross, partner in San Francisco-based Gross & Belsky LLP, who contends
SF News SFist Was Robbed! Next time we're sending out schwag bags to all the voters. Looks like we've been snubbed by the august nominating committee (read: random cranks on the internets) for this year's Bloggies. Oh well.
Arts & Entertainment A Children's Book About Ganja? We weren't even stoned and we had to laugh. But after we had a chance to read an advance copy of It's Just a Plant: A Children's Story of Marijuana posted online by
Arts & Entertainment Local Band to Tour Libya I mean, when we heard from our musician friends that there weren't enough rehearsal spaces and music venues in the San Francisco area, we had no idea it was this bad. The Heavenly
Arts & Entertainment Neck Face SFist loves us some writers. And by writers, we mean "bombers," "graffitos," "vandals,", "artists," what have you. One in particular caught our eye on our travels around the city -- that inimitable man
SF News Armageddon It What with the tsunami and the upcoming inaguration, disaster scenarios are all the rage. To help calm down an unsettled world, the German Reinsurance company, Munich Re, has come out with a list
misc They're Just Big Boned While both SF and LA were on the "Fittest" list, our fine city was close to the best at #4, while the City of Angels was a mere, pitiful #21. San Jose whupped
Arts & Entertainment Learn the Secrets from People So Successful, They're Teaching Screenwriting Online Some of you aren't happy with San Francisco. You're the type who grew up here, maybe, or came here for college from some small town, and now you feel that you're getting a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Eternal Search for True Love For further proof that some people never learn, be sure to tune into the two-hour premiere of The Bachelorette tonight at 9:00pm on ABC. Jen Schefft returns to the reality TV dating
Arts & Entertainment Squatters' Rights The ongoing landlord-tenant dispute known as the Rent movie negotiations flared up once again, with Chris Columbus's production team claiming they were promised free use of the facilities on Treasure Island, and the
SF News Take Action for Tsunami Relief Two dear friends of SFist wrote in to let us know about local tsunami relief events. Your Waitress wants photobloggers and everyone else to know that HiMY SYeD, Toronto native and current Bay
SF News Political Junkie: Gossip Talk Oh, what the heck, let's go so-best one more time! Tongues are a-waggin' in town (and not just like that, you sick pervs) over the Gavin-x-Kim news and we're here to give you
