SF News Getting Your Money's Worth on Muni ... Even on the Days That it Isn't Free Here's the good news: you remember how Muni had NextBus info available for all the electric lines, but declined to make that info public, saying that the data wasn't reliable yet? Intrepid SFist
misc Is It Us, or Did It Just Get Rainbowier in Here? Oh hey Pride is coming up this weekend! We nearly forgot. It feels kind of redundant to talk about gay pride in SF sometimes. So, readers, got any big plans? Looking forward to
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i> To Get New Host; Animatronic Puppeteer Seeks Work Hey, folks -- season one is over, but that doesn't mean there's not something delicious about it in the news to help us bide our time until season 2 begins (thankfully, again here
Arts & Entertainment City Hall Welcomes Back Harvey Milk Contrary to what you might be thinking, Mirkarimi has not discovered a rift in the space-time continuum; instead he's continuing his monthly art exhibitions in his office. Up now through mid-July is, “Let’
Arts & Entertainment The Doomed Adventures of the Superfisters It's a beautiful, mournful look back at a miserable 1987, wherein a boy's emotions are repeatedly chiseled away by a world that doesn't care that he has any feelings at all. Nobody cares
SF News Gavin Walks The Talk SFist Reader Amy tipped us off to these photos of our green mayor at the Walk the Talk eco-fashion show and event Saturday night. Check out how casual he is, all open necked
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Pairing Wine and Food We thought we'd share some of our wine-pairing tricks to help you decide what to drink with your next meal. There's no great mystery. Use a couple guidelines to steer you one way
SF News What's Green and Bangs the Drums? Like a lot of you, we stumbled into the election booth last Tuesday and discovered much to our surprise that we had to vote for Nancy Pelosi. Did we know that? Does she
misc Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where
Arts & Entertainment Interview: SFist hearts Voxtrot Now that SFist has signed year books, been told to stay “cute ‘n cool” about five thousand times, updated facebook with our new school, and has promised to NEVER change, we’re all
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lou's Living Donut Museum Closing San Jose institution Lou's Living Donut Museum is closing at the end of this month, due to an illness in the family of the owners, the Chaviras. The eponymous Lou of the donut
SF News Vote?! We bounded out of bed this morning, (that is, once we made sure that our floor hadn't been replaced by brimstone) eager to vote in today's election. OK, the eager one was actually
Arts & Entertainment War! It was a typical day on the front. A battle was brewing, but people continued to live their lives, knowing that the day might well be their last. Women in hoop skirts made
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Garlic Scapes and Others Thin garlic scapes bend into graceful arcs as they emerge from the soil, creating a striking vegetable. The center becomes wooden as the garlic ages (hence the hard neck in hardneck garlic), so
Arts & Entertainment SFist Unintentional Party Crash: Wired Rave Awards Honest to goodness, we weren't even planning on going to the Wired Rave Awards, much less wandering in uninvited (we've been, it's not all that). We just dropped by to hand off some
SF News Your Daily Gavin What?? More pictures of Gavin Newsom??? Keep sending them in and we'll keep running 'em. This one's from The Party Cow's Flickr Study of Gavin's facial expressions -- well worth checking out. After
Arts & Entertainment 10th Annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival Sunday kicked off the 10th annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival featuring over 170 music acts, most of them local but some of them national (Vincent Gallo) and international (Ane Brun). The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Sorrel The tapered point of a bright green sorrel leaf stands out at the market, but that leaf's tartnessfrom high levels of oxalic acidstands out on the plate. Take a bite of
Arts & Entertainment SF Rolls Out the Punk Rock Red Carpet to Host Benefit Auction for the West Memphis Three In 1994, three teenagers – Jessie Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols – stood trial and were convicted for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in the small town of West Memphis, Ark. Many believe
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Air Guitar Championship Last Thursday night we went to go check out the San Francisco Regional of the U.S. Air Guitar Championship. And it was awesome. The competition worked like this-- the first round consisted
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i> Bonus Coverage: The <i>Top Chef</i> Drinking Game Howdy, folks -- the "top mixologists" at SFist feel that Bravo's Top Chef has given us so much in terms of culinary excellence, intrigue, and bitchiness (not necessarily in that order), that we
SF News What Would You Ask Mr Ford? We're totally afraid that we're gonna jinx ourselves by spilling the beans like this, but we can't hold back any longer: this week, we're actually going to get to ask Muni's Executive Director
SF News Keep It Well-Lighted! We can't take any more of this Bay Area independent bookstore stress -- first the Kepler's drama and now this? Venerated SF independent bookstore stalwart A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books is on
misc Local Coffee Guy Takes A Fall; Coffee Community Helps Him Back Up Some time ago, we met Steve Ford, who, among other things pulls a great shot of espresso. We met him during his tenure with the stalkerriffic Blue Bottle Coffee Company; since our encounter,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Goat Cheese Of course, we weren't alone in those dark, pre-goat cheese days. Thirty years ago, few Americans knew anything about this French staple. A woman named Laura Chenel went to France to learn to
