SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chocolate. Yummy, Yummy Charles Chocolates SFist braved a visit to Emeryville to check out the happenings at Charles Chocolates. There we learned a bit about tea, a bit about chocolate, and a whole lot about how the two
SF News Take A Walk on the Polk Side To remedy the situation, officials are planning on adding historic street lamps (ooohhh) and planting more trees to pretty the place up. There is also a call for a moratorium on liquor stores
SF News Who's the A's Boss? So what are the A's supposedly looking for? Basically somebody who gets out of the way and realizes it's Billy's team. A's managers can't have a big enough personality to overshadow Billy and
SF News Democracy in Action- Name the New Couple We thought we had come up with some good names ourselves, but you, you people...we want to party with you (and yes, that somehow makes this the second Stripes reference of the
Arts & Entertainment Where's Leslie? Sometime a few weeks ago, Dennis Richmond's co-anchor stopped being Dennis Richmond's co-anchor and was nowhere to be found. For weeks, the word from KTVU had been only that she was taking a
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Need to Calm Down Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave
SF News So Fresh and So Clean San Francisco just received a grant of $1.8 million dollars that will go to helping clean up the streets in certain neighborhoods. The program, called the Community Corridor program, is already being
SF News There's Nothing Funny About this Post Recently, we linked to a story about a group of people setting up a "tent city" in Richmond to protest all of the escalating violence there. Well, over the weekend, a twenty year
SF News (A Late) Swells By The Numbers Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 73. Total number of people pictured whom we recognize: 11. Minority count: 11. Not the same 11 whom we recognized. (15.3%
SF News Whither Gavin Matier & Ross today has an interview with Gavin about the upcoming Mayoral election and his future in politics that's getting a lot of play. So what does the future hold for Mayor
misc A Very Late Day Around the Bay Last night's "Battlestar Galactica" was....awesome. Just awesome. -YMCA plan to cut down trees for their Camp Jones Gulch camp near La Honda not going down well with people who live near there.
SF News American Football Spectacular: Accounts Of Explosiveness Considered And Debunked. Week Seven of the National Football League's 2006 regular season dawns cold and crisp over our Bay Area teams. The Indian Summer is breathing its last and Autumn is seeping in. The advent
SF News Debate the Power Special props go out to Berg who in giving his comments about there being no debate, compared the whole thing to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march from Selma to Birmingham. He then
SF News The Haunted Ghost Tour On a chilly Sunday night in front of Coffee to the People, we met our genial tour guide, Tommy, an honest-to-goodness ghost hunter, There were only two of us on the tour, but
Arts & Entertainment The Oakland Hills Fire, 15 Years Later We weren't living in California at the time, but we remember the Cal student in our dorm the next semester telling us her harrowing stories of escaping with nothing more than her cat
SF News We Got an Earthquake Plan The 100 page plus plan includes details on staging areas using big, wide open spaces such as AT&T Park, Candlestick Park, Pier 48 and Crissy Field. Also listed are possible shelter
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Two Gallants Two Gallants will be appearing with Trainwreck Riders both Saturday and Sunday at Bottom of the Hill. Although tickets might be scarce, try your darndest to get to the show. Hey, you’ve
SF News Your Commute: Oracle Open World, Oracle Closed Streets Also, all the crosswalk lights have been extended an extra 10 seconds in all directions. Who knew you could pay the city to do that? We're going to take up a collection and
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Everybody Into The Pool Pat Murphy of the Sentinel was also there with the color commentary, reporting that Daly went into the splash with his wife Sarah, for a bid of $18,500. In reading Pat's article,
SF News We Said, Now We've Got Our Magic Bus The main component of the plan is to have a bus-only lane for the buses. Obviously, the thinking is that one of the main things that holds up buses is traffic and evil
SF News The Only Bomb That Will Go Off on Sunday Will Be the Raiders According to officials, an online discussion somewhere on the site "New Attack on America Be Afraid" (we're big fans of that site that site but we hate how they draw over pictures of
Arts & Entertainment New Contributor Interview: Nick Ross Luckily, you’ve probably noticed that Nick has been gracious enough to spend some of his precious craigslist trolling time to write for SFist. Read up! Nick’s finds and tips on craigslist
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Ain't Gonna Play Sun City The accusations, which have been floating around for years, came from a quote in an unauthorized biography of the big lunk. Here's the quote that's stirring all this: "According to Rick Wayne, who
SF News Bill O'Reilly Spreads the Love Last week, San Francisco's #1 fan, Bill O'Reilly finally told his elderly and half-senile audience just what "San Francisco Values" are. And what are they? Well, let's go to the transcript, shall we?
Arts & Entertainment SFist Takes a Look at 7 X 7's Hot 20 Under 40 So who are these hot people? Do we know any of them? How does one become hot? Are we hot? So we took a looksee and read through just who was hot. There
