SF News A's Anatomy: The Overrated Stat of "W" “...the game is still wins and losses. The Pirates led the league in ERA in 1989 or around there. They finished last. I guarantee you those pitchers would have rather had wins. You
Arts & Entertainment All We Meant To Do Was Get A Burger You may know by now that we prefer our meat grass-fed, pedigreed, pasture raised, and without ooky hormones, antibiotics or other additives. So when we had a craving for a burger the other
Arts & Entertainment Lock Up the Women and Children The party will be held at the Angel's clubhouse at 4019 Foothill Blvd. in East Oakland and thousands are expected to attend. From all over the world too. The highlight will be a
SF News Breaking News from the SFist News Desk An Alaska airlines plane has been evacuated at the Oakland Airport for suspicion of an explosive device on board. It's probably nothing as it's usually nothing but it's still kind of exciting. As
Arts & Entertainment At Least Go Buy Us A T-Shirt Remember those days? My parents went to blah-blah-blah and all I got was this stupid... Well, if you go to Oakland's Bulldog Coffee Shop today from 6-7:30pm, not only will you get
Arts & Entertainment Living Legend Lets Loose At Laurel Lounge No, not the Laurel Heights familiar to San Franciscans, with its chain stores and baby strollers, but Oakland's Laurel District, home to personable purveyors of down-home cooking, musical instruments and lessons, locally-penned books,
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Looking For Love at <i>Summer Palace</i> and <i>Mistress of Spices</i> This was a good weekend, thanks in large part to the Asian-American film festival. We spent part of the past two days at the Castro checking out a couple of remarkably different films:
Arts & Entertainment We Asked And You Delivered! (Obama Edition) Aw, you guys! Have we told you lately how much we love you? We sent out a plea for pictures from yesterday's Barack Obama rally in Oakland and all you awesome readers who
Arts & Entertainment Please Send Us Obama Rally Pictures! We missed the Barack Obama rally in Oakland because we were at the movies, but it sounded amazing -- 10,000 people in front of City Hall, and the unofficial word from the
Arts & Entertainment A Little Bite of This or That? <i>¡Qué Bueno!</i> Small plates are certainly très chic these days (even if our propensity for mixing foreign phrases is not), but usually, the price tag is not quite as nice of a fit. Not that
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Not Just Film But Music Too The SF Asian-American Film Festival hosts not only ten days of the latest and greatest in Asian and Asian-American film, but two nights of current highlights from the Asian-American music scene too: one
SF News A's Anatomy: Part II - The Corner Infield and Designated Hitter You want wild cards? We’ve got wild cards. Just about every player in this category is a wild card; by that we mean you would have to be an awfully good seer
Arts & Entertainment What’s There to Love About the East Bay: Lots! Next Up: The Troubled Tale of the Speakeasy Theaters But apparently all is not well in the land of discount movies and cheap beer. The Contra Costa County Times is reporting that the new Cerrito Theater is having some trouble trying to
SF News American Football Spectacular: Free Agency 2007, "What's In Your Cart, Oakland?" * Jeremy Newberry, C Now, we here in the Bay Area know Mr. J-New 62; he went to Cal and then became a three-time Pro Bowl center for the 49ers. He was a warrior,
Arts & Entertainment Dinner First, and then TheaterFIRST in Old Oakland There's a little theater company doing some pretty big plays on 9th Street in downtown Oakland AND offering dining discounts at neighboring restaurants for ticket holders. Part philosophical exploration, part 11th-Century Middle Eastern
Arts & Entertainment A New Chef at B Oakland's B Restaurant (or just "B," apparently), promised to be such a place. Since the establishment's doors opened across its refurbished 120-year-old mosaic tile floor in 2005, reviewers have unanimously noted the New
SF News A's Anatomy: WHEEEEEEE!!!! A’S BASEBALL IS HERE!!!! Perhaps you would like a preview of the upcoming season from a totally official source? Well, you’re obviously not going to get that from us, but we are pleased to bring you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's There To Love About the East Bay? Lots! First Stop: Van Kleef's At first, we thought the lonely, empty feel of downtown Oakland after Five kind of depressed us. But no longer! Now we're happy to spend our happy hours (and extended happy hours) at
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For the SF Asian-American Film Festival! This is the 25th SF Int'l Asian-American Film Festival, and they're celebrating their silver anniversary this year with a special focus on Chinese-American film, a retrospective of the work of Korean filmmaker Hong
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Gets Inspired by our Local Magazines ReadyMade, who recently moved its headquarters from Oakland to Berkeley, has had a spot on our bookshelves long before we started seeing copies of it for sale in Urban Outfitters. In classic magazine
Arts & Entertainment The Adventures of the Superfisters: The Dramatic Conclusion I've had a lovely time hanging out at Isotope and writing comic book reviews for SFist for the last year and a half, and it's very fondly that I'll be devoting this last
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Branford Marsalis SFist recently sat down with Marsalis for our first-ever email interview. Q. First off, did you have anything to do with the fact that the top view of the "Braggtgown" CD looks like
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Aim Low Kid Since we happen to be engaged to lead singer Daniel Phifer, we get asked what Aim Low Kid sounds like quite a lot. We usually get frustrated because their sound is pretty hard
SF News We Have a Winner As you can see, the 38 Geary tied with the 30 Stockton in another big of a surprise as the 38 was leading for most of the week. Maybe it was all the
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork talks to Marie Kare of the Sampler We saw our first Sampler two years ago while interning at the ReadyMade offices in Oakland. We looked on eagerly as a big thick envelope arrived stuffed with handmade goodies that included buttons,
