SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold The Temporary In-N-Out In Shanghai For a one-day tasting event (known to the horrific as a "pop-up"), In-N-Out, arguably California's best purveyors of hamburgers, opened a stand in Shanghai. As Serious Eats notes, "The menu at the tasting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Late '90s Santa Cruz band the Huxtables headline a night of "fun rock" tunes. Take, for example, the song their dedicated to Dungeons & Dragons, "Dungeon Master," which they had to revise
misc Week Around the -Ists Gothamist learned that actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his SoHo apartment, cause of death unknown so far (but apparently the masseuse who found him called Mary-Kate Olsen before 911). Bostonist considered
Arts & Entertainment New Global Monopoly Game Leaves Its Heart Elsewhere Though this may amuse a smattering of transplants who neither want this city to grow nor evolve into the world-class city it secretly is, a new global Monopoly board is coming and San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Start the Egg Nog <i>Now</i> This is the story behind the best egg nog--and the best egg nog traditions to accompany it. First, we must explain that this recipe is . It was a secret when Mr. George P.
Arts & Entertainment Aliza Cohen's <em>Bundles & Passages</em> After living in Shanghai for several years, 27-year-old Bay Area artist Aliza Cohen returns home to boast her new series, Bundles & Passages, featuring work that reflects her feelings of time-honored culture shock
SF News News From SFO This morning, SFO crews found a dead body lodged in the wheel well of the nose of a United plane coming in from Shanghai. It might have been a stowaway. A woman was
Arts & Entertainment Inspired, Piercing "U Can't Touch This" Routine Our sister site over in Shanghai notified us to this. Sure, on the surface it seems like a viral, isn't-that-darling clip of a Chinese man executing a well-choreographed tribute to "U Can't Touch
Arts & Entertainment Oh No, Ed Jew!: Swear To God SFist Christopher Rogers sends in this picture he got outside the bar Shanghai Kelly's (in District 3) last Thursday. No other news to report, it's just a fun picture.
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Shanghai Kiss</i> The world premiere of played on Saturday night at the Castro Theatre and the house was packed. One of the themes running through the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival last year
SF News Gavin Newsom's Next Trip Gavin's trip is occasioned by the 50th anniversary of San Francisco's sister city relationship with Osaka, and he's going with a delegation of 45 people, including Jeff Adachi and Ross Mirkarimi (we know,
Arts & Entertainment Digital Camera Test: $10 Walgreens Innovage Mini [Please see the note added to the end of this post for info about software drivers.] This straight outta Shanghai drugstore special advertises itself an eight-frame-per-second sports digicam. It's complementary metal oxide semiconductor
misc Week in -Ist Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect it's beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned. They also seem to be concerned about which subterranean
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>No Sleep Til Shanghai</i> The crowd at the Kabuki Theater on Friday night had more hip-hoppers than usual, as SF Int'l Asian-American Film Fest attendees eagerly lined up three-deep for the sold-out showing of No Sleep Til
SF News Fourth Runner-Up Gavin's number five! Gavin's number five! Mayor Newsom came in fifth in this year's World Mayor Awards -- a markedly better showing than last year, where he came in "less than 1500 votes
SF News Follow-Ups We know you're probably just dying to know what's been happening on all those fascinating news items we've been telling you about. Well, fret no more! Your prayers have been answered! Supervisor Gerardo
SF News Sister City-hood Is Powerful Sister sister -- Shanghai and SF affirmed their 25 years of friendship as Gavin and Shanghai mayor Han Zheng totally touched their cut pinky fingers together to affirm their sister city status. Gavin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rise To Vote, Sir (With Your Trimethyldioxypurist) Palindromes are fun. From small ones ("Anna") to big ones ("a man, a plan, a canal -- Panama"), something that runs the same from front to back can provide minutes of sheer entertainment.
