SF News Sister City-hood Is Powerful Sister sister -- Shanghai and SF affirmed their 25 years of friendship as Gavin and Shanghai mayor Han Zheng totally touched their cut pinky fingers together to affirm their sister city status. Gavin
Arts & Entertainment It's Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Yvesdropping Kid: "...and then they give you eggnog, but you might not like it." Smaller kid: "What's eggnog?" Kid: "You don't know? It's Christmas milk, dummy." -- On the N Creepy Metreon In-Theater Food
SF News Suspects Arrested for Oakland Vandalism Two suspects have been arrested in the Oakland convenience store vandalism case. According the Chronicle, two men have been taken into custody and four more warrants have been issued for other suspects. As
Arts & Entertainment Open Your Hart (to Hart) This Holiday Season You can take in this "all-star holiday benefit concert" Sunday, December 4 at 7:30, at the Herbst Theater. As for the star power of the event, there's a lot of them, but
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Esteban! Just like we said at the end of the 2005 season: the A's need pitching in '06. On Monday, Billy Beane surprised baseball insiders by putting on shoes with laces and signing free
SF News Violence Erupts in Oakland According to the Oakland Tribune, last Wednesday, a number of men in black suits, white shirts and bow ties vandalized two liquor stores in West Oakland. Starting with San Pablo Market and Liquor,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jason Shiga Ahh, the allure of the world wide web. How well SFist remembers those first months out of college, working a real job. While we were being trained we had an inordinate amount of
SF News Buy Everything Day Lying comfortably in bed, watching the KRON Morning News, we burrowed deeper into the covers at their piece on the mad crush of people at Walmart in Oakland. When we see a crowd
misc Please Hammer, Do Hire Us Tuesday, November 22nd between 7pm - 9 pm Film Arts Foundation 145 Ninth Street #102 San Francisco, CA We are holding an audition for two Hammer music videos, which will have national distribution.
SF News If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball This SFist gives thanks every day that we live in San Francisco. There are only a few things we miss about our former Midwestern home: Steak and Shake, our family, and the NBA.
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: U2 The first time we saw U2 it was 1984 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Obviously, that was a long time ago: pre-Apple commercials, pre-hanging out with politicians, pre-heavy-handed attempts at irony, pre-blues co-opting,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Mark Inglis Taylor Although the Anniversary show is already down, Lobot is still worth the trek to Oakland, and always has something to check out. Just make sure you go in to the warehouse with the
misc Win Passes to See <i>Scared New World </i>! Thanks to all of you who entered yesterday's contest for passes to see , and congratulations to the lucky winners! As we told you yesterday, The Film Arts Foundation and Larsen Associates are offering
misc Win Passes to see <i>Come Fly With Me Nude</i> We here at SFist are looking forward to the The 21st Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema, which runs from Nov 3-9 at the Kanbar Hall and the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Juliet Mae Spices We found FitzHenry, a stylishly dressed, slim, energetic woman, at Oakland's Grand Lake market. We left with and a small armful of other ingredients. FitzHenry's extensive background in marketing is in evidence at
SF News American Football Spectacular: Or Else, Down We Go Together -- from the song "Winners Never Quit" by Pedro The Lion Friends, as we've said before, these are indeed dark time for American Football in the Bay Area. As both of our professional
SF News Begone! Begone! Begone!...It's So Much Fun to Say Other highlights: in Sacramento, the church is selling a posh retirement community to pay off sex-abuse victims, and the retirees are miffed. Lots of propaganda for Prop 73, which would require parental notification
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The Devil You Know When A's Brand Baseball last appeared here, the A's and manager Ken Macha (right, not a recent photo) had broken off contract negotiations. $2.6 million over 3 years, with a team option
SF News American Football Spectacular: Indy's Race Against Themselves When looking at the 2005 schedule of your San Francisco 49ers' season, the Week 05 matchup against the Indianapolis Colts didn't bode well. The Colts've had one of the most overwhelming offenses in
misc Win Tickets to the Ray Brown Birthday Tribute at Yoshi's! This weekend, Christian McBride, John Clayton, Russell Malone, Benny Green and Greg Hutchinson will celebrate the 79th birthday of the legendary jazz bassist Ray Brown (1926-2002) at Yoshi's. We'll have more about this
SF News Your Commute: The Triplets of Berkeley-ville Well, at least it wasn't in the Transbay Tube -- a woman went into labor on the steps of the Berkeley BART stop today. With triplets. Watch where you're walking this afternoon! People
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Game Over, Man We've come to bury Ken Macha, not to praise him . . . 2005 was a down year for the A's, and they won 88 games. That's 3 fewer than they won in 2004--a year when
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: That’ll Be All, Jeeves Oakland-based “global web property” Ask.com announced late last week that they’re phasing out the Jeeves persona that was beloved by some. Their reasoning was “user confusion,” in that bewildered users mistook
misc SFist Rants: Stand to the Right, Walk to the Left, <i>Honey</i> Seriously, people. We recall being in the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport a few years ago, when a rather snappy gentleman uttered the above phrase ("Stand to the right, walk to the left,
