SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Corn Farmers bred the super-sweets for a good reason. As soon as you pick corn, enzymes begin to convert the sugar in the kernels to starch. Hence the old advice to boil water before
SF News Everyone's a Bit Jumpy Thomas Hawk sends us pictures of a police action at the Montgomery Street BART station today. The details are still fuzzy, but apparently a 'mysterious package' was found and the station was closed.
Arts & Entertainment Know your rights all three of them Are you kidding? Of course we were at the BayFF on Bloggers' Rights. We'd like to say that we were there because we were dying to hear the roundtable discussion on legal issues
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Bitter Melon Bitter melon is, obviously, bitter. Western palates shy away from this sensation, but it's a common component throughout Eastern cuisine, where many consider bitterness to be a cleansing panacea. Piles of these exotic-looking
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Now 4: The Scene First off, the crowd was huge. Our sources tell us the event was oversold. Hundreds with tickets had to wait outside, and hundreds more waited to pick up tickets from will-call. We ran
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Tomatoes You knew this post was coming. You've seen tomatoes piled up at the farmer's markets, a gumball machine of green, yellow, orange, and red spheres, and you've wondered when we're going to talk
SF News The Crab Revolution Will be Televised But that's not the juicy bit of the story, oh no. Turns out, Fox Sports Bay Area wanted to cover the protest before the game but were told not to by Giants officials.
SF News Taking One for the Team SFist Ted, Weatherman, set a new standard for self-sacrifice that is going to be hard to top yesterday. On a cool evening at Jackson Park, SFist and friends took on Wired Magazine in
Arts & Entertainment We Built This City On Rock n' Roll We personally think the whole "Top Whatever" lists thing to be totally overdone and usually laughably wrong. On the other hand, they are darn fun to ruminate over. Especially a particularly juicy one
Arts & Entertainment We Gotta Get Out Of This Place You know, we love all the talk about secession because, well, it's fun. But let's face it, do we really want to secede? If we did, we'd have nothing to make us all
SF News Gavin in Ought-Six? Well, Randy Shaw apparently got the news that the Gavster's strategists are looking into the possibility of running for the Democratic nomination for the gubenatorial race next year. He writes in Beyond Chron:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Cucumbers We found cucumbers by the armful at this weekend's Jack London Square farmer's market. Pickling cucumbers, Japanese cucumbers, standard American cucumbers. The abundance flaunted itself, and challenged us to take some into the
SF News May Just Look Official Enough Via the Flickr blog (disclosure: Yahoo owns Flickr, Yahoo pays some of this SFist's bills, but this isn't officially from Yahoo) we find out about an ID generator for photographers who use Flickr.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Zucchini, Mostly The simplest treatment features sautéed slices with minced garlic—we suggest the flavorful, hard-necked Rocambole variety you can find at various market stalls. Before turning on the heat, slice the squash into thin
misc Something to be Proud of There were tons of lovely floats; one of our favorites was for Wells Fargo, which gets extra gay points for incorporating a showtune (but also loses gay points for it being a showtune
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Theater: The Goat by Edward Albee But you have to sympathize with modern writers, faced with an increasingly open-minded audience. Fifty years ago, interracial relationships were the stuff of discord. Twenty years ago, it was homosexuality. What's left? Edward
Arts & Entertainment SFist Infiltrates the Flaunt! Fashion Show Last week's Flaunt! fashion show, presented by f.r.e.s.h. (Fund-Raising Events to Spread Hope) had a lot going for it. First, it's for a great cause: all proceeds went to
SF News Political Junkie: Let's Never Fight Again! So best is back!!! And do we see..... a Kimberly Guilfoyle-Newsom- in the future?? Matier and Ross report that Gav and Kim went together to dinner at Enrico's and then out for drinks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deliver Us From Yet Another Burrito You know we love San Francisco. You should also know that we hate the fact that nobody f**king delivers (coming soon to an SFist Rant near you). So when we heard about
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Peaches Mmmm. Peaches. Repeat after us. Mmmm. Peaches. We've been slurping down sample slices at various farmer's markets stands, and we were drawn to the Gold Dust heirloom peaches from Frog Hollow. Sure, it's
SF News Did You Just Feel Something? Why, no, as a matter of fact, we didn't feel a thing. But don't be deceived: there's been an earthquake! Two of them, in fact! Quick, turn on Fox News! We're all going
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Apricots We have been eagerly tasting apricots on our farmer's market forays, waiting for them to go from tart and unpleasant to juicy and sweet. Someday soon, we knew. Saturday wasn't promising until we
Arts & Entertainment SFist Paints The City Black and White The atmosphere was festive even as we rode the N towards downtown, the usual Saturday MUNI crowd of metal-lyric quoting beach residents and squirmy tweens replaced by Dom-toting fashion plates. The balmy weather
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival 2005 Photographer Rob Kunkle spent last week taking pictures of the acts at the Mission Creek Music Festival, which was held at multiple locations across The City last week. Pictured are The Gentlekin. Check
Arts & Entertainment Current Mood: Live, Local, Latebreaking About a hundred folks showed up (though only 60 or so RSVPed -- naughty bloggers!) and included folks from Craigslist, Technorati, Six Apart, Wordpress, Feedster, Blogger, and so forth. Mark Tamayo, aka SFist's
