Arts & Entertainment You Can Be On Top (Chef). We'd Like It. The next season of Top Chef is looking for a few good contestants, right here in San Francisco. Applicants that aren't able to attend can submit video profiles instead, but Sunday brings you
Arts & Entertainment The Photo Of The Taxi Beast Bless you and may the Lord keep you, SFist readers! Look what turned up in the SFist Flickr stream (tag your pictures too!): a picture of the cursed 666 taxi medallion!!! Thank you,
SF News Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Banana Again? Now, you know, one of the things we hate about all this Barry hullabaloo is that it allows other people to grab a big brush and paint us Giants fans in an unflattering
Arts & Entertainment Think This Way Celebrate independence by celebrating mind-control! Go check out the one-day-only "PROPAGANDA III WORLD TOUR" (it's capitalized in all of the PR materials, so you know it's legit). They've collected hundreds of political posters
SF News We Like to Watch (Muni) Who's project is this? Who's running the show? We have no idea. All we can do is glue our eyes to the screen, watching unsuspecting San Franciscans milling around at train stations. The
SF News Political Junkie: Scheduling Conflicts Soooooo.... guess who is having a mayoral event that very same day???? In order to qualify Mayor Gavin Newsom for the ballot this coming November, we need your help. We are going to
SF News Mysterious Cyborg Indian Attacks Our Telephones San Franciscans awoke last Saturday morning to discover a strange robot had taken control of the horizontal and the vertical on their answering machines: a recorded voice begging victims to support Assembly Bill
SF News Speaker Pelosi on Gas Prices: Talking the Talk (Speaking the Speak?) Nancy Pelosi is sticking up for her constituents, amidst all the recent news that San Francisco has the highest gas prices in the nation. She says that she's trying to make July 4th
Arts & Entertainment Your Funny Video For the Day Via Wonkette, this is the patriotic, "support the troops" country song even us San Franciscans can enjoy
SF News We're Only Average The survey, conducted by the City Services Auditor found that while the city's grades seem to be improving from the last survey in 2005, they still aren't that great. In fact, in the
misc Local Gays Make Good, But Stay Local "Are SF days as a gay mecca over? Or is the list biased to LA, DC and NY media types?" Cedric asks. Excellent questions! The answers are no and yes, respectively. Readers, of
SF News Third Fake Question Time The tie was red, the gel was flaky, and Fake Question Time was ON! Big thanks to Luke Thomas for letting us use his photos! Check out even more amazing photos, and Fog
Arts & Entertainment Living Legend Lets Loose At Laurel Lounge No, not the Laurel Heights familiar to San Franciscans, with its chain stores and baby strollers, but Oakland's Laurel District, home to personable purveyors of down-home cooking, musical instruments and lessons, locally-penned books,
SF News Everyone is A-Otay Not that we'd want to give him any ideas, however. In the not-so-happy side are homelessness, crime, and housing, all of which were listed as concerns. According to the pollsters crime wasn't even
SF News Don't Be A Litter Bug So today, Gavin introduced a new campaign to stop littering. This time, the campaign will be mainly educational as that appears to be the problem. We don't understand why people wouldn't think littering
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Worth The Wait? Bi-Rite Creamery Saturday--the sun was shining, Dolores Park was full to the brim, and evidently everyone else had the same idea we did: "let's get some ice cream." Bi-Rite Creamery, which opened only a few
Arts & Entertainment Kamala Harris addresses Immigrant Resources Fair San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris spoke before a crowd assembled at the Centro Del Pueblo auditorium in the Mission today. Her primary message to the community was that people should not
SF News Everybody (Still) Loves Gavin ABC 7 is the latest people to do a survey on Gavin and all the recent Gavin news and found out that the dude is still pretty popular in town, all to the
Arts & Entertainment Phil Ting kicks off the S.F. Solar Task Force Standing atop the Moscone Center this afternoon, S.F. Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting announced the creation of the San Francisco Solar Task Force. It plans to issue a set of recommendations to assist San
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: VIVA Viva--a campy stylized soft porn movie played at the Roxie Theatre for the San Francisco Independent Film Festival last week and our plus-one was running late. The theatre seemed freakishly well-lit and we
SF News Downtown Train Now that the T-Third is up and running, we can all start focusing on the next big MUNI project, the central subway. This is a proposed underground that would go from near the
Arts & Entertainment Beach + Politics = San Francisco This Sunday (the 10th) at 10:30am on Ocean Beach, Brad's going to get a bunch of volunteers (maximum capacity: 1200) to lie down in the shape of the word "IMPEACH!" and then
SF News It's Wednesday-- Do You Know Where Your Football Team Is? And so Doctor Fatass commences the 49ers steady march to Los Angeles. Today Santa Clara, tomorrow King City, 2030 Los Angeles. Is nothing in this town sacred? The 49ers have been playing in
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Little Mental at The Marsh We never understood how antidepressants could actually increase suicidal thoughts, especially in teenagers. How messed up is that? Well, Jennifer Berry is happy to tell you. After signing up for
