Arts & Entertainment The Rake's Progress The patrons were willing to entertain an oil well and a 1950s Americana re-setting that dramatically differs from Stravinsky's original 18th Century,even though they were a tad skeptical. At first. After all,
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Lungless Salamander Today's Chron Bay Area section takes a break from covering the plight of lungless salamanders in Korea (why is this in the Bay Area section? Yes, yes, we know, it's because Cal researchers
Arts & Entertainment SFGate Dupes a Few Trolls In an effort to tame the trolls, SFGate's site (as well as a few others like ThinkProgress) use software from an outside company that implements a unique "block user" function. This feature blocks
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Built in 1911, the Tower Theater is up for sale. Again. [Curbed SF] -- Fatal Bayview fire still under investigation. [SF Examiner] -- Jew's attorney asks, "More time, please?" Look, the only
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Confidently Needing More Time Regarding his Fazio-free residency case, Ed Jew's attorney Stuart Hanlon came to court minus one Mr. Jew today. According the SF Examiner, Hanlon told reporters that "Mr. Jew is not here today...he’
SF News The Academy of Art <del>Real Estate Scam</del> College Eats Up SF BeyondChron's Paul Hogarth dares to go where many fear to tread: all up in Elisa Stephens' grill. Again. Hogarth writes about the Academy of Art College's plan to swallow up even more of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Cinewhores Present Midnight Cowboy (1970): Although tame by today's smut-filled standards -- oh, you heard right! -- Midnight Cowboy has the distinction of being the only X-rated film to have ever snagged
SF News SFist Blotter -- A Vallejo husband and father, Kevin Owens, 41, went though with a murder/suicide pact (with himself, we guess) on Friday night. He shot and killed his wife, Stacey Owens, 38; wounded
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: Nov. 26 - Dec. 2 Wednesday, we are welcoming Faun Fables home from their recent tour in Austria and Switzerland. They will be playing with Australian legend, Daevid Allen (which we here is Faun Fables' dream - Hooray
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Dewars Repeal Day, because you shouldn't take the right to have a drink for granted. Go Eight, a Hanukkah
SF News A Special Stand-Alone Thankfulness Post! Yeah, yeah, it's been a crazy few months at the day job for us (thanks for noticing, commenter MHTH! We really are trying to get back to a semi-normal posting schedule again soon,
Arts & Entertainment Getting to Know... MiGGs Full given name: Donald Patrick Miggs Hometown: Home, hometown? Bay Shore, NY. I have a home in beautiful Montclair/Oakland I'm selling but now I live in Malibu and Tampa. Relationship status: Incredibly
SF News Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Liberalist of Them All This didn't sit well with New Yawkers. Douglas A. Muzzio, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College, fought back and said, “Blame San Francisco. We're not No. 1.” So the NY Times
SF News The Board Of Supervisors Date The Boss Monica Lewinsky's interest level in working for SF city government just went up a notch, as the SF Board of Supes overwhelmingly voted down Chris Daly's proposal to ban office affairs between supervisors
SF News The Tide Is High That said, the weather today is beautiful. As it be tomorrow and for the rest of the week. Why not take the time to go to Crossroads or Buffalo Exchange and buy a
misc Thankful For Your Pets? Since this is the perfect time of the year to make a donation, we thought we'd help out those animal lovers among us by providing a list of local animal-related charities and nonprofits
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink UPDATE: Being Prepared for Not Being Prepared: Grocery Stores Open Late? Every year at Thanksgiving, you're bound to forget one or two critical items. A shallot, cooking twine, mushrooms, Ketel One -- something will slip your mind and you run the risk of having
Arts & Entertainment Apple and the Marina Come Together in Perfect Nerd-Fratboy Harmony This Friday -- Black Friday -- Michaela Alioto-Pier's little neighborhood that thrives on ridicule will become a little more ridicule-less. At 9 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, on the day of November twenty-third,
SF News Glen Park Woman Raped Twice By Same Assailant Oh Jesus H. Christ, this is an upsetting story. We caught wind of this today on SF Weekly's The Snitch We're (not at all) surprised that major local media outlets haven't reported on
SF News SFist Blotter (Barry Bonds is on SFGate's Crime page. Ha!) -- A 19-year-old woman was shot -- "in the back today...at 5:39 p.m." Huh?-- during an attempted street robbery in SF's
SF News Go Back to Andorra, You Stupid Lithuanians! While not nearly as exciting as receiving top honors as the best city for tourists to walk slow on city sidewalks, or best city in which singles can hump, on Monday the FBI
Arts & Entertainment Who's Gossiping, Getting Murdered On Your Street? While walking around our neighborhood the other day, we noticed a couple of cop cars outside a residence, with the fuzz scurrying about. Being the nosy, concerned citizens that we are, we immediately
SF News Day Around the Bay -- And then Nancy was all, "Like, what the hell, you guys?" [SF Examiner] -- The Central Subway Project. [Transbay Blog] -- Now you don't have to leave your bedroom to travel. Ever
Arts & Entertainment Ives Got Music, Who Can Ask for Anything More? In the program notes, we see that this violin concerto was written for and created by Ferdinand David, a violinist virtuoso friend of Mendelssohn. SF Symphony Concertmaster Alexander Barantschik happens to play on
SF News Leno vs. Migden: the Aftermath Although we were much too busy with failed attempts at bit-part stardom to care about our civic duty this weekend -- a mistake we'll never make again -- we have read some interesting
