SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cocola is a No-No-La. . . At Least For The Coffee There are many fine examples of patisseries and boulangeries that make wonderful coffee. Cocola, located in the Westfield, that wondrous new monstrosity of a shopping complex, is not one of them. While we're
SF News Greening San Francisco Bring your own bag Paper bags are just as bad as plastic in their own way, so whenever possible, bring your own bag to the grocery store. Pretty much every grocery store carries
SF News Happy Days Are Here Again? Now for those of you thinking "wha?" here are the reasons given: -My, look at how clean downtown looks -Look at all those happy, smiling shoppers shopping -Aren’t those fancy, schmany restaurants
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Bay Area Daiso! Daiso (or "The Daiso," as its website occasionally refers to it) is a cult-fave upscale Japanese 100-yen store -- like a dollar store, but stocked with awesome Japanese houseware items. We cannot overemphasize
Arts & Entertainment Upper Playground's Andrew Revelli Name Andrew Revelli Introduce yourself in one sentence Retail legend Age and Occupation 29, Vice President, Upper Playground and FIFTY24SF Gallery
Arts & Entertainment Darlybird's Rachel Schutz Introduce yourself in one sentence: I am quirky, erratic, unorganized, and sensitive. Age and Occupation 30 Mom/Small business owner
misc I Could Do With A Spot Of Brains San Francisco's a lovely city, but it would be even nicer if someone did something about this damn zombie issue. Seriously, it's getting to be a real problem. We have no problem with
misc Wanted: Pissboy What, pray tell does it take to have the job of personal peon? Well, you have to live in San Mateo and have access to a car. Which is great because you'll have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Smells Like Faux Cookies Have the agency folks ever tried waiting for a 14 Mission or 45 Union bus, or even done that routine lately? Itís never, ever about comfort, but maybe thatís the ad folks point.
misc SFist Shops Locally and So Should You Below you'll find a list of some of the craft fairs happening in the bay area this December. Because when it comes down to it, wouldn't you rather do your shopping in a
SF News It's Sunday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team Is? Let's start in Santa Clara where Matier & Ross remind us that there's been three attempts to move a team that way-- the Giants, the A's, and MLS's San Jose Earthquakes (hey, did
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Lettuce These days, it's not easy being greens. No sooner had newspapers tired of the spinach-borne onslaught than another Salinas company issued a voluntary recall on its lettuce. Photo by Melissa SchneiderE. Coli
SF News Amos and Arnie Strangely enough, word is also getting out there that Amos is on the payroll of the Governor as a political consultant. Hmmmm...you wouldn't think...no, not even possible. Brown is saying that
misc SFist Week in Review: MUNI, MUNI, MUNI Elsewhere, with the elections coming up, there was a lot of politics happening. The governor went green, his opponent went to Loserville, Population 1, Rob Black went back to Africa, Nancy Pelosi tried
SF News Brinks Truck Heist Goes Bad In one of those stories straight out of a TV show, a security guard for Brinks Trucks, you know the kind of truck that drives around with all that money, was shot and
misc (Clean) Up the Beach Anyone who wants to go, just show up at Crissy Field (603 Mason and Halleck Street in the Presidio) by 9 and they will assign your task and place to do such task.
SF News Emporium Reopening The new Westfield will host the city's first Bloomingdale's (which will be the largest on the West Coast), a fancy Burke-Williams day spa, will connect to the current San Francisco Centre mall (with
Arts & Entertainment Where's Our SFiS? Editor & Publisher reported that the t-less "SFiS" will feature writing by SFisT cult fave society writer C-Big, fashion editor Sylvia Rubin, and feature writer Carolyne Zinko -- and it was supposed to
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog Goes to Ashland on the Elizabethan Stage A sort of poor man's As You Like It, Two Gents covers the same terrain as many of the Bard's comedies. A couple of young men travel from Verona
SF News HANC Hampers Whole on Haight At a meeting last Wednesday of the Haight Ashbury Improvement Association (the People's Front of Haight Ashbury), the owner of the property, Mark Brennan, announced that Whole Foods wasn't going to move into
misc Unskinny Bopping No Longer Allowed -Smoke (tobacco, that is). -Put left-over food in a Styrofoam container -Go shopping with plastic bags -Stop somebody from taking a dump on the street And now we can add another thing to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Fishing on Craigslist Walk around the corner, and you'll be at Market and 14th. You'd imagine the hustle and bustle to propagate half a block away. But it's almost like the video rental place with the
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 SF Rising, Part Two Thanks for sending in more earthquake-related events, guys! There's so many that we're doing another post of upcoming events! Keep 'em coming in and we'll keep posting them. Don't forget, the big anniversary
SF News The City Under the City Has Fabulous Shopping! But Not So!!! ... says Rodney Pimintel, Deputy Director for Capital Projects at the SFCTA. The as-yet-unbuilt Central Subway WILL connect to the existing subway lines on Market, come hell or high water; it
