misc The 'Fisties: Best Vegetarian Food In fact, it's pretty easy for the garden-variety lacto-ovo vegetarian to find something to eat on almost every menu in the Bay Area. No more are the days of having to settle for
misc Eating Out Tomorrow? There are a lot of restaurants open tomorrow, but keep in mind that there are also a lot of people looking to eat out, so we strongly suggest you make reservations. About.com
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes Back to Austria Later, Arnie went on to express disappointment in his fellow countrymen and said that he considered them friends and as friends, he expected them to stand by him when he makes a difficult
SF News It's Fonzie For Finley This isn't to say that the trade for Finley ranks up there with his trade for Schmidt or Rob Nenn. It's not. Finley is 40 years old and had a hooorible year last
SF News Too Bad, So Sad Somehow, they managed to screw up and not get enough signatures to qualify their initiative to amend the state constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage. They needed 598,105 signatures, but they didn't get
misc Protestors at UC Santa Cruz Kiss-In Hate Our Freedom In response, TC. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Service members Legal Defense Network (SLDN) said: "to suggest that a gay kiss-in is a 'credible threat' is absurd, homophobic and irrational. The Pentagon is
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 an Italian." -- North Beach Mom, trying
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Organica--Simplicity at its Finest, and More Proof that our readers don't steer us wrong. Last week, we posted our 'Fistie awards for best coffee/cafe in town. A few of the people leaving comments mentioned Cafe Organica at 562
SF News Boxer Drops the "I" Word Boxer says she got the idea after speaking with John Dean at a public discussion. Dean, of course, knows a whole lot about illegally eavesdropping on people and lying to cover it up.
SF News Care Not Cash Results Well, we suppose he has every right to crow about it -- Gavin Newsom announced to a cheering crowd of social service providers and homeless people that the number of homeless people on
Arts & Entertainment Big Changes at Tribe.net The very definition of a 'chilling effect' on free speech is when legislation or enforcement of new laws are so potentially onerous that people and organization self-censor out of fear and potential liability.
SF News Farewell Joseph Owades Okay, one could argue that he didn't invent the computer or some new fangled gadget that changed the world. And he didn't come up with the cure for AIDS or polio or acid
SF News SFist Checks Out The 510: The Grinch Edition We've heard of evergreen news stories, but this an evergreen story about decorated evergreens: assorted East Bay neighborhoods inevitably have one or two streets where the decorating is absolutely over-the-top. We are dying
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes To Austria Europe, of course, has banned capital punishment for years. As has much pretty much most of the Western world, as well as pretty much most of the rest of the world. Which is
SF News Rent-a-Tree Well, in San Francisco, it's definitely getting so it makes more sense to rent than it does to own -- so we're not entirely surprised to hear of a program where the Friends
SF News ChronicleWatch, Where Are You? Residents have been complaining for about a year, with scant help from city officials. SFPUC,which oversees the lights, blames the problems on "aging infrastructure and a complicated transmission system that must be
SF News Shake It A 3.4 magnitude earthquake hit the Hercules area of the East Bay around 10 a.m. this morning. But we didn't feel anything here in San Francisco, how about you? This report
SF News All We Hear... Is Video Gaga ....video goo-goo, video blah-blah. Even as people continue to debate whether Officer Andrew Cohen's now-notorious film project, involving African-American officers eating out of dog bowls and Charlie's Angels parodies is racist/sexist, in
misc SFist Rants: Stay Home If You're Sick This SFist is not writing from our desk, as we usually do -- we are writing from home, where we sit propped up by pillows, chugging Airborne, and blowing our nose every 15
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How To Open Sparkling Wine With party season in full swing, we want to provide a reminder about the proper way to open a bottle of sparkling wine. Here's a hint: It's not about how far the cork
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Fisties: Best Coffee People who've been reading our "Trimethyldioxypurist" missives will not be especially surprised by the winners. For those who are strangers to our periodic ramblings about coffee and cafes around the City by the
misc H. Brown & Anti-Semitism "For taking one for the team in fighting Donald Fisher pretty much alone. I feel almost responsible because I kept writing about the Jewish cabal of Fisher & Shorenstein & Blum & Goldman
misc SFisting: Trying Not to Make Jokes About Wrapping Your Box Because many people celebrate some version of a gift-giving holiday this time of year, it seems like a responsibility of ours to cough up some kind of locally focused sexy shopping guide. No
SF News We're Still Poor, How About You? The California Budget Project* today released a report that "examines how the Bay Area’s workers and their families have fared before, during, and since the boom and subsequent bust." Their findings (beware,
SF News TechConnect Public Hearing Sasha at Left In SF did liveblog the event, which you can watch on SFGTV here [RealPlayer]. We have to commend kicking it off with a good old, single-source, un-verifiable rumor:Google proposed
