SF News Only Happy When It Rains Well, at least Shirley Manson from Garbage is happy: it's still raining and we've got more rain predicted, off and on, for the next two weeks. Thanks to the persistent rain, newscasters have
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Trainwreck Riders You may have seen that we described Friday night's Noise Pop headliner Jason Collett as "rainy Sunday afternoon music." Ironic, then, that on the actual rainy Sunday afternoon, we went to see a
SF News Outside Art Wind, rain and even high tide apparently wasn't keeping some people from going all Andy Goldsworthy on Ocean Beach. SFist took advantage of Saturday's brief sunshine for some beachcombing and came across this
SF News It's Raining, It's Pouring Tired of squishy socks? You and the rest of the Bay Area -- today's wet weather makes it 25 days of rain in a <30-day [ days hath March!] month, making March 2006
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Hank Needs a Home! Meet Hank. He's part pit bull, part something else (mastiff?), and all awesome. Hank was abandoned in front of our house in Oakland last Friday night, in the rain. He's a big guy,
Arts & Entertainment Bar of Contemporary Art Opens with New Works from Nathalia Edenmont The atmosphere inside was pleasant enough albeit a bit stark, but what won us over was the stunning large-format photography of Nathalia Edenmont. Strikingly brilliant in color and equally unsettling in imagery, Edenmont’
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Villainy, Thy Name is Stephen So, anyone else out there watching on Bravo? Allow us to introduce you to it -- it's like the Apprentice for foodies. Notably, it takes place right here, in our fair city. The
misc SFist Rants: Couldn't Stand the Weather It's not that it's rainy. We can handle the rain, or at least be okay with it. It's always rainy this time of year. No. What's getting to us is the whole schizo-ness
SF News Your Commute: Accidents Lots of accident-related news today. First off -- crank up "Livin' On A Prayer" because like Bon Jovi says, it's slippery when wet. A sudden downpour in Santa Clara led to 13 --
SF News GitMo-ntgomery Man, our office is by the Montgomery BART/MUNI stop and we didn't see this. Well, we did overoptimistically think we wouldn't need an umbrella today, so we were a little distracted by
SF News Your Commute: On The Blotter Lots of death and transit events to report today: Did you hear the helicopters whirring overhead in the Mission last night? The SFPD came in full force after reports of a serious shooting
SF News Sonoma Levee Breach What do you know, Schwarzenegger was right for a change -- our levees in terrible shape. Due to all the rain this weekend, a levee has broken up in Sonoma County and Highway
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping Needs to Get Out More Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. A normal-dressed girl, speaking to a man dressed as an Imperial Officer (who was eating a burger and fries): "Yeah, I got here late. I
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Symphony: Mostly Schumann. We are not here to solve chicken and egg problems: did Gilbert look this way because the orchestra sounded that way, or the other way around? In any case, the sound threads conductor
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Independent Film Festival: SFist Has You Covered From February 2 to 14, IndieFest features movies to suit all tastes and schedules, so you have no excuse not to take some risks and check out whatever might interest you. You can
SF News Rock and Roll Even the rich aren't immune from the laws of gravity -- the folks living in those multimillion dollar homes perched precariously on the edge of Telegraph Hill are all a little on edge
Arts & Entertainment New Contributor Interview: Chuck Jordan You may also have noted a trend among new SFist contributors—they are not lovers of the Mission Burrito. Before you scream “un-SanFranciscan”! we’ll hasten to point out that Chuck is a
SF News How To Get Bush Face it, Niners fans, you were torn last weekend. On the one hand, they had a pretty solid win over the Lambs and Alex Smith finally showed he's got a bit of game.
SF News When it Rains, It Pours The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is warning residents in low lying areas that the expected rain for this and next weeks may lead to property damage and flooding. The PUC has mobilized
SF News Yes Siree Bob, It's Winter The atheists and earthists out there (wish we had a hand sign we could flash right now) know today is the last crucial day of our year. It's the winter solstice. Today at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 'Fisties: Best Sushi Hamano's chefs place a large slab of meat, always fresh, always the highest quality, on rice with the perfect temperature and stickiness. And Hamano offers the whole range of sushi: the vegetarian pieces
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a Copy of <i>Julie and Julia</i> Ced, in his enviable thoroughness, read to prepare for his interview with the author, and has agreed to pass his review copy on to a winning SFist reader. So, enter below by midnight
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Pomegranates Back in the day, Hades abducted Persephone while she frolicked in the fields. Boo on that, we say. Her mom, Ceres, goddess of the harvest, eventually found her and brought her back to
SF News The SFist Guide To Election 2005: The Local Stuff Wait, what's that you say? There's lots of political bickering in San Francisco? Well blow us down! We'd never have guessed. As usual, this year's local ballot features some posturing, some confusing language,
misc Win Passes To Midnight Mass with Peaches Christ! Over here at SFist we have lavished the love on Peaches Christ, like the fans (stalkers?) that we are. It was like a dream come true when she offered us some tickets to
