SF News Is a Bar More than the Sum of Its Customers? We got there early and noticed that the place had the same sort of feel as the previous bars-- long bar with tables in the center in front of couches but that it
SF News And It's a Hard Rain's a-Fallin' So why is it? Well, it's a matter of sewage. San Francisco just doesn't have enough of it. And what we do have is single-pipelines, which obviously can't hold as much rainfall as
misc Dine Around on Wednesday The interesting thing is that the main sponsor is Zephyr Real Estate, not exactly a company most people will have the warm fuzzies for. But whatever-- it's a great thing and for a
Arts & Entertainment Let's Try This Again Somebody put the "SNL" Pelosi skit back up on YouTube. Since the skit is pretty funny and was taken down earlier, we're going to put it back up. Why? Because the Man can't
SF News It's Tuesday-- Do You Know Where Your Team Is? Okay, here's today’s team on a move recap: As for things in Oaktown, the repercussions of the A's possible move to Fremont has mainly been a shrug and a cry of "so
Arts & Entertainment Help Homeless Connect Connect The problem is that under the rules of Care Not Cash, most of their welfare money goes to their rooms with only a little bit left over to make ends meet. The eighty
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Marc-André Hamelin MAH: Everything I do musically comes from my belief that the piano repertoire is a great deal larger than most people realize. From what is heard in piano recitals these days, it's easy
SF News Not a Good Way to Start the Day The editorial, predominately displayed on the Examiner's getting-better-but still crappy web site basically says that Gavin hasn't even begun to make this city safe enough and probably never will due to problems he's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Gun Show Yes, we went to the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Cow Palace this weekend. Why? Aren't we supposed to be virulently anti-gun? Shouldn't we hate not just guns but people
SF News Bad Weekend for MUNI Between our really bad hangover and our fantasy football loses we thought we had a bad weekend but MUNI? They had a really bad weekend. After an attempt was made to replace some
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Paul Mooney at Cobb's Pub Paul Mooney is an Evil Comic Genius. He's evil, because he can coax out hysterical giggles from people who, outside of his presence, would never even think to laugh about the subjects he
Arts & Entertainment Happy Friday, Everyone Hat tip, Andrew Sullivan of all people, who used this video to celebrate this week's election news.
SF News The Great Outdoors: El Corte Madera Creek Open Space Preserve First off, let's clarify the name. It may be El Corte Madera Creek Open Space Preserve (ECM) on the maps, but in the hearts and minds of locals, it's known as Skeggs, which
SF News Homeless in the Park, I Think It Was the 4th of July Mayor McDreamy himself went to take a tour of the park and said the park was "looking good" and talked about how this is going to be an ongoing project. He also said
SF News The Giants Put Some Things Onto the Hot Stove First up, we bid adieu to the other Alou, Moises. Moises was great when he played but didn't play that much. Signed to get Barry's back in the lineup, he constantly broke down
SF News Fremont! Basically, the Coliseum doesn't work anymore because it's seen better days-- it, in fact, has that "first apartment you lived in when you moved here and shared a two-bedroom apartment with five people"
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Karma's Four Teeth And A Gigantic Ass Welcome to our thoughts on Wednesday's episode of Top Chef on Bravo, which we hope will help psych y'all up for tonight's episode. We must say that this episode was a vast improvement
SF News Say Goodbye to Polystyrene Pam The reason? Styrofoam has polluting chemicals in it and has a tendency to stick around landfills and other things as they're not biodegradable. That is bad. The ban is probably going to pass
SF News Diary Of a Poll Worker I just got home. It took an hour and a half for the sheriff's deputy to come pick up the ballots and supplies. This was long after the parking operations guy had come
SF News Short Coattails Take Doug Chan in District 4, for example. Newsom was the conservative (for SF) Police Commission member Chan's go-to guy -- Newsom showed up at Chan's kickoff rally; he walked the Sunset with
SF News The District 6 Election's First Concession District 6 candidate (and first name on the ballot) Viliam Dugovic has thrown in the towel, sending along the following concession speech to his email list. For same reason, we where put down
SF News Today's the Day Did we mention that we know we're wrong? Nevertheless what happens here is more important because while the possible defeat of George Allen will be a good thing because it'll make us less
misc Sister Christian, Oh the Time Has Come Why did the appearance of the Sisters upset people? Because it's "a direct affront to Jesus Christ," said Nick Andrade, the Parish Council president at Holy Redeemer. He then took it to the
SF News Your Commute: Look Out Below! The bus driver, driving towards the Castro, was tooling up the steep Noe Street hill between 29th and Valley when the electric bus was blocked by the offending garbage truck. The truck driver
Arts & Entertainment It's Only Rock n' Roll The Stones play Oakland Coliseum tonight having had to move it from last night's show due to Mick having a bad throat. Now granted, most people don't really care about the Stones anymore
