SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The East-Bay Pizza Round-Up: Cheeseboard, Zachary’s and Gioia But as we continue to search for the perfect pizza true to our east coast roots (our hearts belong to New Haven, CT brick ovens), we are happy to report that what we’
SF News Well the Landslide Will Bring it Down This all happened around 3 in the morning and luckily all sorts of alarms went off alerting people that something was up. As a result, nobody was hurt. The landslide pushed a pile
misc SFist Treasure Hunt Contest Here's the particulars. It starts on Saturday, March 3rd at 4:30 PM and begins at Justin Herman Plaza. The hunt will take you through Chinatown, Telegraph Hill, and North Beach. You get
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Modern Alchemy: Jim Woods And Mateveza Yerba Maté Ale We've seen some hideous examples of what can happen when a product attempts to combine several things into one. We've also seen some pretty good examples. Well, now there's a pretty stellar one:
Arts & Entertainment More Photos from Yesterday's Amgen Tour of California Photographer Matt Cohen went to yesterday's Amigen Tour and took these photos of the race. You can't really pick a better place to hold a bike race than North Beach. At the end
SF News Downtown Train Now that the T-Third is up and running, we can all start focusing on the next big MUNI project, the central subway. This is a proposed underground that would go from near the
SF News North Beach is Italian for Piazza Right now the problem with the piazza is... drum roll please... money. Or more like not knowing where it'll come from. Estimated price is somewhere around a half million, which doesn't sound like
misc SFist Rants: Curb Your Yellow Bus Elsewhere Our block circling antics have happened everywhere from Russian Hill and North Beach to Civic Center and SOMA, at varying days and times. However, we don't usually like to play the blame game
SF News Aaron P. Is President Where's Rakim to cut Aaron Peskin's single? The progressively-aligned District 3 representative is widely expected to win another term as the president of the Board of Supervisors in the wake of Newsom's Election
Arts & Entertainment Spem in Alium: There is Hope in Our Soul. You had to stay in your squeaky pew last night, at the performance of the same 40 part motet by actual live human beings, the singers of the Schola Cantorum and of the
SF News Down Goes Tower The reason for Tower going under is they got bought by Great American Group who decided to liquidate and sell of the company, something that makes no sense to us, that being buying
Arts & Entertainment And We Can See Those Fighter Planes Of course, this means there'll be the attendant complaints about noise and from the leftier side of the political spectrum, cries of glorification of the military and this is San Francisco and wasted
Arts & Entertainment Instant Cama Not Going To Get You We have mixed feelings about Cama closing. On the one hand, they made a yummy chocolate drink with Toblerone that we liked. They also had couches and booths and we like any place
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Specs' So, um. We really want to like North Beach. It's got its fancy European panache, a tribe of passport-holding Italians and you can get a real cup of espresso, but sadly there are
SF News North Beach is Italian For Even Less Fun After cracking down on the North Beach Street Festival and the Jazz Fest, it looks like the Powers that Be are all set to crack down on North Beach itself. At issue is
SF News Do You Know Who Else Loves the 90s? The Warriors Do! Look, we love the 90s as much as anyone. We loved the Smashing Pumpkins and the whole grunge thing and we loved Pubic Enemy and watching "BH 9'er" and "Melrose Place" back-to-back and
SF News I Saw Gavin Newsom (And Two Supervisors) We saw him last night in North Beach, walking down Columbus in front of Cafe Greco with a woman who looks like pretty much every woman he's ever dated: thin, brunette, etc. It
SF News Operating Thetan Level IV Seventy-five million years ago, Aaron Peskin was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of eleven planets, including his home planet North Beach. The Galactic Confederacy was comparable to our own, with
SF News SFist Watches the World Cup So naturally, we went to Belden Place. Why not? We were rooting for les Bleus and the idea of being surrounded by people screaming "Sacre Bleu" or "Zizou!" with non-ironic French accents warmed
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Have Standards to Uphold Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Lesbian visiting from out of town: "I was going to try to kiss 38 women for my 38th birthday, but decided
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If You Take The Caffe Out of North Beach, Is It Truly Trieste? So, there's a new Caffe Trieste location, right smack dab on Market Street (1667 Market, at Gough). This represents the company's fourth location, but its second here in the city . . . the other one
Arts & Entertainment Don't Fence Me In First off, we would like to report that getting booze was not a problem. Not a problem at all. We, in fact, quote a friend of ours who we ran into: "mumble...mumble.
SF News 4.7 Quake on Calaveras Fault Anybody else feel the seismic alarm clock go off this morning at 5:24? A 4.7 magnitude earthquake shook the Calaveras Fault, centered approximately six miles from San Martin, California. It was
Arts & Entertainment The North Beach Festival: Now With More Beer Basically, what this will mean is that part of Washington Square Park will be open for everyone and parts of it will be fenced off for all the alcoholics to roam free. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Guide to the World Cup Part 1- Why You Should Care Instead, we're going to try and get you into it by showing you just how much fun the World Cup can be. Picture it not as something you have to do because you
