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,
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,
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
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 it would be
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
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.
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
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'
SF News How Dry We Are The decision was at the behest of the neighborhood types who complained about the drunken hordes of riff-raff acting all riff-raff-y. They were opposed by neighborhood businesses and organizers of
Arts & Entertainment Good Show, Yvesdroppings Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Striped shirt Marina guy: "It's like, we hold these truths to be self-evident. What movie is that from again?" -- From
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Chaise Lounge Not that there is anything wrong with sitting on couches. We like to sit on the couch, which is a great reason to check out our next dog friendly bar – Chaise Lounge in
SF News To Be Continued... Two stories from last week are still being stories this week, so we thought we'd update everyone on what the latest has been. First up, North Beach, where yet another big,
SF News North Beach Is Italian For No Booze Oh wait, there's going to be no booze allowed this year? Nevermind. Apparently, some people have been complaining about the drunken hordes of frat boys, Marina girls, and aging alcoholics who
SF News We Got In The New York Times! Well, all right, we didn't get in the New York Times . But their slurpy Sunday Styles article about our glamorous gad-about-town mayor and his Scientologist/actress girlfriend did mention
misc SFist Answers: Blah Blah Blah TG Writes: Will I get pregnant in the next three months? Reply hazy -- ask later. See, folks, sometimes we need more info to give a better answer than that. Of course, with a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beach Blanket Babylon <i>Again</i>? Wow, Gavin Newsom must really like big hats. (Yes, commenter Matt, we know you like big hats too.) Leah Garchik reported in yesterday's The In Crowd that when CSI: Plumpjack made
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Called On The Carpet When the Chron bites, it bites down hard -- check out today's editorial about Gavin Newsom whining about his love life. Funny, he didn't seem to mind the publicity when
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sofia Milos Newsom? Gavin'll try anything to lower the crime rate around here! Leah Garchik triumphantly reports that Gavin was seen kissing CSI: Miami detective Sofia Milos goodbye at a North Beach cafe last
Arts & Entertainment The Tour Comes to Town Now that the San Francisco Grand Prix is no longer, this race offers Bay Area cycling fans their only chance to see the best road cyclists in the world battle it out on
misc SFist Answers: Do It Like We Do Marie-Christine asks: I'm French, living in Paris and working for an IT company. I'm organizing a business tour (15 people aged 35 to 55) . . . spending 2 nights over
SF News Search For Jerry Tang Continues On January 7, the Financial District, North Beach, and SOMA were canvassed based on a December 16 possible sighting by a security guard in the 1 California area. In that sighting: (A) security
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Aren't Fooled Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Whoo. Dude With Huge Sunglasses: "Hey Marty." Marty: "Oh! Hey! I didn't recognize you because you're disguised as
SF News Wetter Than a [Fill In Tasteless Reference to Aroused Female Genitalia] SFist Rita (always looking out for the staff) was worried about flooding in North Beach earlier this week, and now we can report the corners of Powell and Columbus on Union are now
