SF News American Football Spectacular: Your Santa Clara 49ers' Stadium Preview Welcome to American Football Spectacular for 2006 season. We hope you enjoyed your offseason, and are poised for the joy of our National Football League preseason previews. This week, after years of dithering,
Arts & Entertainment JK And The Rowlings Okay, let's get the premise of this band over quickly, and with a minimum of references to Hufflepuff badgers and flying Bludger balls -- the band Harry and the Potters is made up
SF News The Last Team To Arrive When we staggered in their unmarked doors last night, the only thing we were scanning the crowd for was a fresh vodka and soda -- but our eyes alit on a strangely familar
misc SFist Barks and Whines: Smiley’s Schooner Salon and Hotel Online dog resources are hardly new to the Bay Area. For years we’ve had the San Francisco Dog Owners Group and a canine focused page at citysearch.com. We have two problems
SF News Happy Anniversary, Laurie Beijen! If we ever host a World Series of San Francisco Pop Culture contest, we're totally asking the question "Who's Laurie Beijen?" Ms. Beijen is, of course, the well-connected bride who made Gavin Newsom
SF News Wake Me Up, When The All-Star Game Star Game Ends Okay, yeah, we know, the Giants have to promote the hell out of this sucker as there's not much else to brag about on King Street these days and 2007 is looking even
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
SF News Video Of Gavin We laughed so hard watching those Revenge of Crazy Crab and KTVU Mike Litoris clips this weekend that we immediately decided we finally had to get out from behind the curve and finally
SF News Ding Ding! The San Francisco Treat It turns out Rice-A-Roni actually a San Francisco treat -- the family of the guy who currently runs the Napa Valley Wine Train ran a pasta business in the Mission in the 1930s,
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Transformations Conrad Susa, who was in attendance and seemed quite pleased afterwards, wrote Transformations in 1975, on a commission of the Minnesota Opera, based on a libretto of Anne Sexton, itself based on her
SF News Mountain Bike Racing and the Upside of Global Warming The best professional road cyclists in the world are competing for the maillot jeune on the rolling plains and brutal mountain passes of Europe right now, but this weekend, we've got our own
Arts & Entertainment "I Will Always Have a Dildo in My Window!" Meet Jeremy Paul, a husband and father who moved his family to the Castro district, and was shocked, SHOCKED, to see such blatant promotion of the homosexual lifestyle in his own backyard. Literally.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Live on the Edge at Intersection for the Arts Choreographer Erika Chong Shuch is one of the most exciting younger artists San Francisco has to offer, and has blown our mind with her past two shows. This
SF News Design Within Whose Reach? That's where San Francisco company Design Public's sample sale, which is running the entire month of July, comes in. Just log in to their outlet store with the password , and you'll have access
misc Gastronomique: Savor for the Savvy Cook. The restaurants include Myth, thus the proud display there, but also Acquerello, the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton, Farallon, the Fifth Floor, La Folie, etc. That is the crème de la crème, and
SF News Your BART Breakdown of the Week As a result, twenty-four out of fifty-five trains ran late. There was no train service from Richmond into San Francisco or down to Daly City and everything but the Dublin-Pleasanton line was turned
Arts & Entertainment Where All The Cool People Will Be Tonight Running from 7-11 tonight at Candystore (3153 16th between Valencia and Guerrero), there'll be food, drinks, DJs, and giveaways galore. Admission is $5-$20 sliding scale (but we bet they'd accept more, if
SF News Bumpwatch! A super-duper tipster forwarded this pic of our city's expatriate, Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom Villency. (Your fun-loving Us Magazine readers at the 'Fist added the arrow and message our very own selves!) Wrap up
misc Unskinny Bopping No Longer Allowed -Smoke (tobacco, that is). -Put left-over food in a Styrofoam container -Go shopping with plastic bags -Stop somebody from taking a dump on the street And now we can add another thing to
SF News Political Junkie: Sanity Alert! We are very sad to report to you that Chris Daly is in the Chron today -- but not for hauling off and hitting anyone, or yelling at someone so loud that the
misc Unskinny Bop This is actually part of a long standing battle in the city over the private booths. Critics have called them exploitive as club owners make it so the women who work in the
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we've never seen
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Victor Navasky's <i>A Matter of Opinion</i>! Times have changed -- now, we're far more likely to try to pass off the thoughts of Lisa Schwarzbaum as our own, but that doesn't mean our fondness for Navasky has decreased even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot on the Cookie Trail. Cookies are humankind's single greatest creation. Brain surgery, motorized vehicles, the world wide web - all are helpless against the restorative power of the cookie. Surgeons forget to tie off a vein, cars
SF News Welcome Back Blotter The South SF police and Humane Society had to intercede for an unfortunate man overwhelmed by 80+ rabbits last Friday. He had apparently bought two rabbits two years ago for his son's school
