Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Next Year Sfist Jon grudgingly admits: "Okay- I want to read War & Peace this year. Because every year I say to myself it's time I should read (aren't we supposed to read it?) and
SF News It's Raining Mon (and Tue, and Wed...) Now, we don't condone such a practice, as it does cost the city tens of thousands of dollars to pick it all up. But we'd be lying if we said it wasn't a
Arts & Entertainment ...And Boy, Are My Loins Tender We're not normally in the habit of endorsing tribe.net - it's a little too Burning Man for our tastes - but no SF-geek should go without reading this blurb about the origins
Arts & Entertainment New SFist Contributor: Matt Baume First up is Mr. Matt Baume. Although one reason he cites for moving to SF is an "urgent" need to leave LA, its becoming clear that he loves the Bay Area for its
Arts & Entertainment Calendars for Font Freaks Anyway, most commercial calendars are fairly bland, anyway -- especially the typography. But good news has arrived: FontShop, an international purveyor of fine typefaces (the U.S. office is based right here in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Holiday Fun Edition SFist is celebrating the holidays in many ways, as some of us will travel to far-off lands (or just the Midwest), while others of us will remain right here. All of us are
Arts & Entertainment All Is Calm, All Is Bright Well, SantaCon has come and gone, but you still have that urge to make with the merry this holiday season, preferably through participatory art? Well, you're in luck -- San Francisco is hosting
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Zak Nelson Zak works for Heyday Books which specializes in books about California. For any of you scrambling to buy last minute Christmas presents, Heyday titles might be the ticket. Zak's given SFist so many
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Black Box is Beautiful Don't get us wrong, we love elaborate theater sets and admire the craftwork and imagination that go into creating them -- there's something oddly sweet about an intricately built space that will be
SF News Interview: Rebecca Gholdston When she isn't being interviewed on NPR or moonlighting as a model for Ready Made, Rebecca can be found winking at the workers at El Castillito. She claims you get more Guacamole that
SF News Salinas to Close Its Public Libraries The libraries would have been saved had Salinas voters passed a ballot measure in November that would have hiked sales taxes slightly, as Oakland and Modesto voters successfully did in the March 2004
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Come for Dinner, Stay for the Hell We know, you've got a lot of pulls on your time these days, what with company holiday parties and SFist's first Bay Blotto tonight, but you really should know about a couple of
Arts & Entertainment The Essefficist, Rabbi, Leaves, End. Huh? The Essefficist apologizes for the unexcused absence last week, but we don't recall getting any threatening letters (or any lonely ones, for that matter), so we're over it already. If you are. So
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Vitamin Express Okay, so it's off the beaten path. But this is EssEff, what would be more appropriate? Vitamin Express is a great place for vitamins (duh), supplements, healthy snacks, lotions, aroma therapy, gum, and
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's Not Who You Know To paraphrase Norm, it's not who you know, it's who know. With that, this week's live theater recommendations consist of shows featuring friends of ours. Pretty good deal, being SFist's friend, isn't it?
misc Do Think Of An Elephant ... because how could you not with a picture this cute? Elephant with a pumpkin! Ha! The Oakland Zoo held its annual Thanksgiving Leftover Pumpkin feeding for the animals in residence yesterday. We can
SF News Infamous Eastern Span to be Named after Infamous Western Man? And here we thought "Emperor Norton" was just a decent indie music label...SF-based cartoonist Phil Frank (perhaps best known for his Farley series in the Chron) is spearheading a campaign to name
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Trimethyldioxypurist Holiday Survival Guide Steel Cage Match: Caffeine v. Tryptophan Turkey contains an amino acid called tryptophan, which makes you sleepy. Coffee (thanks to trimethyldioxypurin, natch) perks you up. So one should counter the other, right? Yeah,
Arts & Entertainment They Want Two States Further amplifying the rivalry between here and there, the San Francisco Convention and Visitors' Bureau has launched a new website, called Not in L.A., supposedly to lure Angelenans up what they call
SF News "Rent" Not Paying Rent? From what we understand of the deal, the San Francisco Film Commission is paying $12,000 rent each month to the Treasure Island Development Authortiy, but is subtracting the cost of the work
Arts & Entertainment If You Want Something Sung Right... That's why every year we go to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Sing it Yourself Messiah. Yup, that's right. The whole damned thing, sung by you and selected soloists. What? You don't
SF News Interview: Vinnie Esparza There are however awards that DJ's can win. Lots of papers, like the SF Weekly and The Guardian have a Best DJ category (we can already hear you shouting, when will SFist have
Arts & Entertainment Interview: David Paul Like many of us, the first hip-hop song David heard was Rapper's delight. Unlike most of us, this led David to begin DJ'ing in 1985. In 1991 he founded Bomb Hip-Hop. With everything
misc The Essefficist: So Strong <i>and</i> So Bad? Welcome back to the wonderful world of the Essefficist, gentle reader. Our first question this week comes from our main man Sam in Concord: Um... Shim-Sham Sam... I think you sent this to
