Arts & Entertainment Authors Go On Tour - Why Can't You? We'll start with SFist Peninsula headquarters in Menlo Park at Kepler's: The kickoff to their travel series comes from Frances Mayes (warning, there's sound at that link), on Saturday, April 1, 7:30
SF News Forth and Towne Hits SF (Eventually) We snarked on Forth and Towne, local retail monolith Gap, Inc's concept store geared toward the 35+ contemporary woman, nearly a year ago. But if you snark on a store nowhere in your
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Buddha Bar Is nothing sacred? Canines have very few opportunities to really perform work in this modern society, and now we can’t even pull kegs around in shopping carts? The teams do stop at
Arts & Entertainment An Entire Week's Worth of Eavesdropping, Knocked Off in a Single Busride Sniff. Mom, I'm fine. I have like an AMAZING immune system right now. I take vitamins every day. Sniff It's just a cold. What kind of doctor are you going to go see
misc Good one, Judy. A trainload of subway riders was startled and a little starstruck Saturday afternoon when Assemblymember Mark Leno stepped on board at Civic Center heading toward Embarcadero. "Look who it is!" yelled a guy
SF News Having Your Fraud, And Profiting Too So are the people behind the J.T. Leroy hoax all irritated that James Frey has gotten the bulk of the publicity -- and subsequent sales boost -- in the "Authors who misrepresent
SF News Undercover Gavin While his going undercover is eminently snark-worthy, it is the typical politician who gets dinged for living too much in the bubble and not with the public. Would His Willieness ever feign riding
SF News SFist checks out the 510: Happy Birthday, Jack London The Oakland High School attendee went on to extract revenge against schoolchildren everywhere by writing a series of books guaranteed to be used in classroom lessons on everything from symbolism to manifest destiny.
misc 'Fisties: Best Place to Shop -- Retail Our favorite place to shop for non-essentials is, bar none, Super 7. We wander their tiny store for ages, certainly inciting suspicions of shoplifting. But we swear we're not! We just love everything
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Not Quite a Year in Review, Part 2 Ray of Light Theatre No, this isn't some new incarnation of a superhero, or a bio of some lucky kid hanging around Barry Bonds. Ripped from the Weekly World News headlines, this anti-musical
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Lotta Jansdotter If you're like us, you're doing a lot of your holiday shopping today and tomorrow. God! Why do we do this to ourselves? We're freakin' hungover from too much "holiday cheer", and with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Oysters Holiday shopping and holiday parties leave us little time to cook this season. As we wandered the waterlogged Ferry Plaza market this weekend, we passed by the stalls of produce, knowing any veggies
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Today In other news, we were pretty bummed when we realized we had missed Oprah's Christmastime Favorite Things episode when it aired last month, so we can't tell you how thrilled we are that
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Blobby Farm For the not-so faint of heart there is “Shark Dog 2 (The Revenge) is the most versatile of predators. He can stalk his prey in the water, he can crawl up on to
Arts & Entertainment From Wessels to Wodka The decommissioned Alameda Naval Air Station isn't just where the nuclear wessels used to be kept -- it's now home to plenty of businesses who are taking advantage of all the space the
misc SFisting: Trying Not to Make Jokes About Wrapping Your Box Because many people celebrate some version of a gift-giving holiday this time of year, it seems like a responsibility of ours to cough up some kind of locally focused sexy shopping guide. No
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a Copy of <i>The Germ Freak's Guide</i>! OK, you're laughing now, but remember this moment when you're hacking up a lung after your cross-country holiday flight filled with snot-oozing babies. Enter below before midnight Saturday to win a sanitized for
Arts & Entertainment Shop Early and Often! The Small Business Commission of San Francisco recognizes both the benefits of keeping our spending close to home and our desire to buy cool stuff with its Shop Local First Week. All this
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Elbert Chang Today’s interview subject, Elbert Chang, appreciates Fry’s. Which is what you might expect from someone who will repair friend’s guitar amps for free. When he’s not winning friends and
misc Win Passes To See <i>Going Shopping</i>! Our friends at Larsen Associates love SFist readers! They've given us passes for the run of engagement of , which opened yesterday at the Opera Plaza cinema. Holly (Victoria Foyt), is a successful clothing
Arts & Entertainment Shhhhh! The loud crass holidays impeding your Oprah-like search for your spirit? Perhaps some time spent without the distraction of dialogue would help you clear your mental palate. Until the gentlemen come along and
SF News Buy Everything Day Lying comfortably in bed, watching the KRON Morning News, we burrowed deeper into the covers at their piece on the mad crush of people at Walmart in Oakland. When we see a crowd
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Would You Like Some Cicciolina With That Wine? An advance edition due to the upcoming holiday. Happy Thanksgiving to you all! We cannot find a link to it, so take it with a grain of salt, but we read recently that,
SF News SFist Wants A Pony For Christmas Known as "the holidays", this is the time of year when we have to quit blowing all our expendable income on candy and pr0n, and must use it instead to buy what they
SF News Parties To Which We Were Not Invited But We Bet We Could Go To If We Were Slightly More Desperate As you can guess from the fact that we're still posting instead of primping, we didn't get invited to the H&M opening party. Sure, we're a little bit pissed, but we
