Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Way Too Much TV Tonight! But there's no way we're missing out on this season of "Alias." The last season blew our minds what with the zombies and the glowing orb and the HOLY CRAP! finale ending. And
Arts & Entertainment Still Yvesdropping We know it's not as good as overheard in new york. Send us some better quotes if you don't like the ones we've been using. Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail
Arts & Entertainment Serenity Now, Insanity Later "The screening is overbooked," hollered a media rep to a long line in the lobby. We'd estimate that about 200 people were waiting with free-sneak-peek passes; without blogger credentials, they were made to
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Porter, From Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. Aw, Porter. Who doesn't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Karma=Good Coffee? Indeed. Ah, it's times like this that we wish we really wish we could describe "taste" better. We found a really nice coffee -- from a local roaster no less -- and when we
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Green Day Now, we're not (too) ashamed to admit that we've loved Green Day ever since their first (no longer on Lookout) album from 1990. But.... come on, they're playing SBC Park? Who's the American
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ian Lendler Today's victim of the SFist interview has only been in our fair city for a couple of weeks, but that doesn'r mean we're going to take it easy on him! His new book,
SF News Your Commute: BART Makes a Boo-Boo So, to make up for it, they've decided to add service and add the numbers of trains put on each run. It won't be back like it was before and people not going
SF News SFist Agitates SFist Agitates! (And no, not just from our use of the first person plural.) What causes can you promote this weekend? On Saturday alone, you've got two sets of well-paired options. Make Love,
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,
SF News Political Junkie: Ross Will Save The Day! Did you look up the other day and see that big Green R rotating slowly in the sky? That's the Mirkarimi-signal! To the Ross-cave! We'll take the Prius-mobile! Remember when District 5 supervisor
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Watches Arnie & George When we last saw our favorite Republican bigwigs, Arnie and George, they were having a bit of a problem getting together. Twice, during the President's extended and ill-fated vacation, he visited our fair
SF News It Had to be Said It must be 中途ハンパ written in a wrong way. Embarassingly wrong. 中途半端(chew-toe hamper) is the orignal form. 半端 sometimes is written in katakana, thus 中途ハンパ. 中途ハンパ means half-way, unfinished, incomplete, uncompleted. Somewhere
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Week - Part Three We're so excited, we can hardly stand it. Two, count them, TWO TV monsters in one evening! What could be better? As we mentioned last week, we love us some Martha, and her
Arts & Entertainment Sex Party in Union Square; Shoes Optional To get our juices flowing, KRON hosted a girly festival in Union Square on Sunday, complete with pink balloons, pink lemonade, pink tents, pink t-shirts, and a giveaway of 1,000 pairs of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Grapes Even before harvest, grape vines produce big fleshy leaves you can use to wrap various stuffings, and you can crush unfermented grapes to make verjuice ( if you prefer), a tart liquid similar to
SF News Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) We missed the Arcade Fire show this weekend but: (shicka shicka, bell bell). Haven't we already heard this story? Yet another PG&E underground vault blew up this afternoon, injuring a passerby
SF News I'm Not Bronstein If we haven't given you enough ideas on what to do this weekend, how about hanging out at the Chronicle looking for famous people? From an email sent to Chronicle staff earlier this
misc Housing Bubbles: The August Numbers If only you buy a house on Pacific Avenue for $300 like Monopoly! The August real estate numbers for the Bay Area are in and boy, it doesn't look good for anyone. For
SF News You're Doing A Heck Of A Job, Annemarie Could it happen here? ? On the theory of forewarned is forearmed, the news media from potential FEMA disaster spot number 3 (that's us!) are now frantically investigating the qualifications of SF's own Homeland
SF News Fires in the City A second fire in the Inner Mission in about as many months, as firefighters rushed to a burning apartment building on Capp Street between 18th and 19th Street early Thursday morning. Three people
SF News The SchwarzenWatcher's Running For Reelection The LA Times reports that American Media tried to pay off the guy who shot a movie of Arnie in Brazil for Playboy, called "Carnival in Rio" to stop him from screening it.
SF News Google's Next Stop: The World Word on the street (Fine, we actually just got an email from a friend. We can't lie -- our relationship with the street is a strained one, at best) is that Blogger parent
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Ricky, From Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. Now, say it with
Arts & Entertainment An Evening with The Paris Review It sure is a literary week here at SFist, with our Andrew Sean Greer interview and giveaway on Monday, the Picador Birthday event and book giveaway (you can still enter to win today!
