SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Krug Champagne's Publicity Stunt At Burning Man Backfires Krug Champagne summoned the wrath of many Burners (almost one year later!) after they staged a crass publicity stunt involving "society bloggers" at Burning Man 2011. As many of you know, Burning Man
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour 11 For reasons better left unsaid (and in the name of tasteful censorship), we here at SFist are enjoying ABC 7 Dan Noyes' new publicity shot. Very much so. (Even better than the old
SF News Keep It In Your Pants, Stanford Update: Now with "correct" spelling! We understand that it's common for coaches to put their game plans (strategy notes? football-y documents?) in their pants. What is strange is Standford using the following shot
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After There's a gym at the Super Mondo Corporation where we work and today there was some big volunteer thing going on with a bunch of kids learning basketball moves. Attending the big goings
Arts & Entertainment Ignatz Award Nomination For SFist Favorite 'Minty' Lewis' P.S. Comics Even though he defected to Los Angeles, we were tickled when local fave Keith Knight took home a Harvey Award. Now another Bay Area sequential artist is up for a prestigious comics industry
misc Week Around The -ists Over at Chicagoist, readers weighed in with their favorite memories of a local concert venue celebrating its silver anniversary and railed about the passage of a statewide smoking ban for Illinois. The former
Arts & Entertainment It's a Blog War! So a bunch of bloggers had a few drinks last night, or as someone on the Wall and SF Junto put it "some lame meeting of whiney bloggers at a hipster bar” when
SF News Our Bumblebee Is Back! In this interview, Jennifer Siebel rambles on and on about how she only went to business school to please her parents ("a pattern for much of my life"), cries a lot, says she
SF News Muni Drivers: Not All Bad! Okay, our treatment of Muni drivers hasn't been totally kind lately, but that doesn't mean we hate them. We yearn -- -- to write some stories about awesome drivers. And lo and behold,
SF News Not A Girl's Kind Of Girl Here's the full quote from the article: "I shouldn't say this, but there are two sides to every story,'' she said in an exhausted tone. "If people did research into the scandal
SF News Aqua Teen Hunger Force Strikes San Francisco After the events of today, the marketing company behind it all told the SFPD where they could find the things so the police could disable them. It’s not quite known where all
Arts & Entertainment Cycling: RSVP Dates for 2007 It's just getting too dangerous out there on the pavement these days isn't it? Time to head for the hills. Mountain biking is a grass-roots sport that is only about one bake sale
SF News RIIIIIII-COLA!!!! And it's not necessarily because he's missing Question Time. No, he's also missing out on the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a less exciting but probably more relevant meeting featuring a Special Guest
SF News Political Junkie: You're E-Vited! That Cubist-y gavel graphic Daly's picked to illustrate the evite is -- as is the greeting line: "Dear Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom," as if some other Gavin Newsom, whose middle name is Edward,
SF News Has Anyone Seen this Man? Yes, it's only been a few weeks into the main part of the campaign for Governor, that being after Labor Day, but questions are already being asked about whether Phil's campaign is either
SF News We Snoozed, But We Didn't Lose! For the second year in a row, we talked smack about our nomination for a Pubby Award, the SF Bay Area Publicity Club's Media Excellence Awards. However this year's awards banquet had a
Arts & Entertainment It's An Honor Just To Be Nominated However, it was not to be, as we just recieved notification that we were nominated again this year! (This is the part where we'd link to the award information on the BAPC site,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Information Overload A Sneak Peek at the Fringe at Exit Theatre Talk about advanced publicity. The SF Fringe doesn't open until September 6, but on August 9 the Exit throws its doors open to theatre
Arts & Entertainment Wanted, Dead or Alive: BNE While we'd like to be able to sympathize with grumpsters who foretell of the fall of Western Civilization at the hands of taggers, we just can't. Graffitti is as old as the first
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Send in the Divas DivaFest at Exit Theatre Exit Theatre's DivaFest features female artists who actually have talent to back up their diva title. (Though you may find a transvestite in the mix.) Leading the festival is
SF News Who Needs A Laptop? So, this morning... I stop in at the corner coffee shop which is buzzing with the usual unemployed people (usually with emo hair, or Marina hoop earings) busily tapping away at their PowerBooks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Called On The Carpet When the Chron bites, it bites down hard -- check out today's editorial about Gavin Newsom whining about his love life. Funny, he didn't seem to mind the publicity when he was posing
SF News About Those Photographs, Pictures Of.. What is there to say about the Barry in Drag photos that hasn't already been said? Like everyone else, our first reaction was "what the..?" followed quickly by "that's pretty funny" with a
SF News Having Your Fraud, And Profiting Too So are the people behind the J.T. Leroy hoax all irritated that James Frey has gotten the bulk of the publicity -- and subsequent sales boost -- in the "Authors who misrepresent
SF News Road Woerriors Unlike last year when the War-bags started 3-20 away from home, they came out hot this year, posting a 6-3 road record through the first month and a half of the season. Granted,
