SF News Gavin Goes for the Gold Actually, the Mayor has a plan. See, the key isn't necessarily to pass muster with the US Olympic Committee, but the International Olympic Committee since they are the one's who have the final
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Selected Shakespeare San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Free Shakespeare in the Park returns with starring the magnificent Julian Lopez-Morrilas as Prospero. (If you haven't seen this man in action, you're missing out.) Local director Kenneth Kelleher
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i> To Get New Host; Animatronic Puppeteer Seeks Work Hey, folks -- season one is over, but that doesn't mean there's not something delicious about it in the news to help us bide our time until season 2 begins (thankfully, again here
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Convenience, Choice, Coffee . . . Still Craving Cafe Ponte This is a tale of warning; we're sharing the very start of what's already an addiction... A few weeks ago, we attended an annual event in our neighborhood -- a sidewalk sale where
Arts & Entertainment City Hall Welcomes Back Harvey Milk Contrary to what you might be thinking, Mirkarimi has not discovered a rift in the space-time continuum; instead he's continuing his monthly art exhibitions in his office. Up now through mid-July is, “Let’
Arts & Entertainment How to Get the Guy: First, Stand Uncomfortably Close to One Ahhh. Beautiful San Francisco! Apparently our "little city by the bay" is full of single woman who "just can't seem to find love on their own." Yay! These two love coaches are going
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 30: SFist Has You Covered It all starts with tonight's 7:30 screening of at the Castro (where else?), followed by the 30th Anniversary Opening Night Gala at the San Francisco Design Center. We're not just showing up
SF News Anderson Cooper Sighting I heard a rumor that Anderson Cooper was in town today, shooting a live show this evening. Can you substantiate this rumor? Please? While we here at SFist haven't heard jack about a
SF News Going to the World Cup With Fabian Núñez Hey, we just found out a way to go-- just give tons of money to Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez? He's taking some of his biggest fund raisers to Germany to watch the Finals.
Arts & Entertainment The North Beach Festival: Now With More Beer Basically, what this will mean is that part of Washington Square Park will be open for everyone and parts of it will be fenced off for all the alcoholics to roam free. The
SF News What's Green and Bangs the Drums? Like a lot of you, we stumbled into the election booth last Tuesday and discovered much to our surprise that we had to vote for Nancy Pelosi. Did we know that? Does she
Arts & Entertainment The Flesh-Baring Adventures of the Superfisters We kinda suspect that the debauchery seen in "Hard to Swallow" -- orgies of muscular men, fluid-spurting phalluses, sexual grave desecrations, gay hookers fondly remembering tricks of yore -- are represetative of how
misc Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where
Arts & Entertainment Vloggercon 2006 Video geeks are descending on San Francisco this weekend for Vloggercon 2006 (or 'video blogger conference' if you're not a fan of tech neologisms). It was inspired by Webzine and the original Vloggercon
Arts & Entertainment Interview: SFist hearts Voxtrot Now that SFist has signed year books, been told to stay “cute ‘n cool” about five thousand times, updated facebook with our new school, and has promised to NEVER change, we’re all
misc SFist Barks and Whines: Argus Lounge Sports Basement in the Presidio used to be one of our favorite stores because they welcomed (past tense) dogs inside. They changed that policy last year and we are afraid our behavior may
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Joan of Arc The ghost of former general director Pamela Rosenberg was hovering above when a man dressed in a gray business suit was the first to come on the stage. We feared for a second
SF News End Prejudice Against Backward Baseball Cap Wearers Our story began last week when a mens softball team headed off to the Connecticut Yankee for some post-game celebratory drinks. As is softball players' wont as the Yankee is known as a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Interviews Marcia Gagliardi Marcia, could you describe in a few words what/who is the tablehopper? “The tablehopper” is an insider weekly e-column/newsletter about the SF dining scene, chock-full of gossip about what’s opening,
SF News How Dry We Are The decision was at the behest of the neighborhood types who complained about the drunken hordes of riff-raff acting all riff-raff-y. They were opposed by neighborhood businesses and organizers of the festival who
SF News Ma vs Ja: Losing My Religion Well, it turns out that the eldest Reilly daughter goes to not just any private school, but a Catholic one. So in retaliation, Reilly supporters stepped up and took it to the next
SF News School Daze You know, we're kind of getting into the week-long series that the Chron's doing on the San Francisco school system. It's a comprehensive look at all the various factors affecting the perception of
SF News Progeny of the Guilfency Impending According to Page Six, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Eric Villency actually got engaged "at the end of last year, but (Kim) kept it secret until her divorce from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom became
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: The Last Suppers So last night the best reality show on television came to an end for this season. It was down to the final two -- perhaps there was a little controversy, perhaps one of
SF News Catching You Up With the Joneses -After Gavin vetoed the "Healthy Saturdays" initiative, the Board of Supervisors voted to see if they could override Gavin's veto but couldn't. Once again, the vote came down to a 7-4 vote, not
