Arts & Entertainment Still Yvesdropping We know it's not as good as overheard in new york. Send us some better quotes if you don't like the ones we've been using. Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail
SF News Landmark This, Baby! The San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board will be meeting next month to decide, well, not much, really. They're going to choose 10 buildings or places to recommend to the Board of Supes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Karma=Good Coffee? Indeed. Ah, it's times like this that we wish we really wish we could describe "taste" better. We found a really nice coffee -- from a local roaster no less -- and when we
Arts & Entertainment City Guides' Scavenger Hunt You don't have to lose at Monster Park to be a Niner -- it's almost time for the Third Annual City Guides' Scavenger Hunt, and it's got a Gold Rush theme this year!
Arts & Entertainment One City, One Book Maybe this is just stemming from a misplaced nostalgia for our fourth grade class, where everyone was required to buy the exact same edition of The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander, but we
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Green Day Now, we're not (too) ashamed to admit that we've loved Green Day ever since their first (no longer on Lookout) album from 1990. But.... come on, they're playing SBC Park? Who's the American
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ian Lendler Today's victim of the SFist interview has only been in our fair city for a couple of weeks, but that doesn'r mean we're going to take it easy on him! His new book,
Arts & Entertainment You Gotta Play To Win To live in the Bay Area is (frequently) to be able to count more than one aspiring filmmaker in one's circle of acquaintance. The next time you're at some dinner party/Zeitgeist get-together/
misc SFist Cares ... About One Million Dollars Amazon.com has chosen 10 finalists, from nearly 1000 entries, to win its first Nonprofit Innovation Award. The organizations go all out to raise money during September. They use Amazon's 1-Click system to
misc SFist Rants: Stand to the Right, Walk to the Left, <i>Honey</i> Seriously, people. We recall being in the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport a few years ago, when a rather snappy gentleman uttered the above phrase ("Stand to the right, walk to the left,
Arts & Entertainment Madcat Film Fest: City Nights Documentaries about San Francisco are always our favorite type of anything. So we bundled up for last night's outdoor screening of the Madcat Int'l Women's Film Festival's City Nights program at El Rio,
Arts & Entertainment Artificial Hip Over 150 shorts, a restropective of the bizarre Tractor group's work, a Beck music video compilation, Jackson and His Computer Band, a Mike Mills (director of keynote, and tours of the very few
SF News Last Week in SFist Last week, on As The 'Fist Turns..." Rescued animals arrive in SF, and you can help. Beloved Menlo Park bookstore may be saved from disaster by outside investors. Watch what you're saying, because
SF News I'm Not Bronstein If we haven't given you enough ideas on what to do this weekend, how about hanging out at the Chronicle looking for famous people? From an email sent to Chronicle staff earlier this
Arts & Entertainment Ticket Giveaway to see <i>Hellbent</i> Having enjoyed several years' worth of legitimate real-life horror during Castro Halloweens, we can't wait to see what passes for a Halloween spookiness in that ludicrous city to the south. Ms. Christ herself
SF News Ski Jump Redux So now that Laurie Beijan had her dream wedding at Flood Mansion uninterrupted by cries of "Tubular!" from outside -- what's going on with Jonny Moseley's ski jump plans now? The good folks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Miscellaneous Awards also went to Julie Kaufmann, of the Merc, for best food section, and to the Chron’s Miriam Morgan, Linda Murphy, Carol Ness, Michael Bauer, Craig Lee for best food section, best
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: The Italian Girl in Algiers. The San Francisco Opera opened its season last Saturday and picked up right where it left off last time we visited. , just like Cosi fan Tutti, is another joyful and energetic opera, another
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Picador! In case you missed our passing mention in yesterday's interview with Andrew Sean Greer, Picador, the publishers of such SFist faves as and A Death in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th birthday with
Arts & Entertainment Note To Editor: Have One of the Interns Come Up With a Strained, Jackassy Joke About Russian Monks For This Headline
misc Animal Roundup: From NOLA to SF Well, maybe they're not sending human evacuees to the Bay Area anymore, but we're definitely taking the four-legged kind -- the first organized evacuation of pets from the devastated Gulf Coast arrived at
Arts & Entertainment Extremes In fact, with the help of his friend and websmaster Carl, Thomas is online-novelizing his newly peaceful, conformist lifestyle. The book is titled , and despite being only available in lousy PDF, it's a
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fringe Festival Reviews #2-4 Like we said before, you never really quite know what you’re going to get at the San Francisco Fringe Festival. But last night we did a marathon Fringe, seeing three shows between
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fringe Festival Review #1: <I>Show Me Where it Hurts</I> Thursday night was night number two of the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The Exit Café, Fringe headquarters, wasn't very busy, but they had the beer and free pretzels ready (you can eat and
SF News Interview: Hellen Jo When she’s not stuck in San Francisco because of BART’s pathetic nocturnal schedule, Hellen is the cellist for local musical favorites, Scrabbel, and the artistic force behind Komisches Buch (that's German
