SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat This: 3 Perfect Ways To Enjoy Asparagus Smack dab in the middle of spring, asparagus is adorning menus. Here are a three choice dishes (two found at local restaurants, one you can make yourself) featuring the herbaceous, perennial plant. Gitane:
Arts & Entertainment [VIDEO] Watch The de Young's Flower Tower Go Up The de Young is paying tribute to local floral designers with their annual springtime mash-up of art and flowers. From March 19 to 23, the show features the work of more than 100
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Michael Mina's Warm Asparagus Salad Spring is here, you guys. And it's totally going to be over before you know it and tourists will litter the city with their touristy ways and everything will be simply horrid until
misc Tulip Mania A tulip's life is short enough, particularly in the far westerly reaches of our city/county. We seem to remember that in past years, the tulips at the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden (in
misc New Tunes Tuesday #16 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Take the jump to see what other CD's are coming out today...
SF News The Gays Take It In the End This afternoon, Cloutier gave his first (though unofficial) victory speech as well as his first public mea culpa. He called his Palm Spring bout of being blotto a "foolish mistake." (Also, he's kind
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Virgin Spring and Through a Glass Darkly: Ingmar Bergman's rape/revenge flick (oh, we know that it's much more complicated than that, we're sure) The Virgin Spring inspired Wes Craven's Last
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #5 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. The rage of fire is completely encapsulated in the first EP with its screaming vocals and huge guitar
Arts & Entertainment Mahler Lied, No One Died. MTT's take on Mahler, a forcefully engaged and expressive rendition, has been observed here quite a few times. We expect to be blown away by the orchestra. We actually demand it. But the
Arts & Entertainment Ingmar Bergman Also Dies It was a deadly weekend to be famous, that’s for sure. As one commenter already pointed out today, famous people tend to die in threes: Bill Walsh, Tom Snyder, and of course,
misc <em>Dreamgirls</em>' "Family" Via NBC's Family in the '80s Here are some of your favorite NBC stars from many, many years ago, singing one of the weaker ditties from Dreamgirls. Who knows? Maybe this will jumpstart cast members from The Office and
SF News The A's So Far- Part III Travis Buck (.265 AVG, .371 OBP, .538 SLG, 6HR, 17 RBI) - A- With the plethora of healthy outfielders at the start of Spring Training this year (my, how quickly things change), chances
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Who needs a little culture after a weekend of mayhem? (We do, we do!) Here are a few things going on tonight that might pique your interest. Spring Art Auction at Mezzanine Visual
Arts & Entertainment Jolene Garcia of Penny and Maude Why'd you start your own company? Because I want to be able to work my own hours while my kids are little. Favorite items? I love Super Chick and all the bobbi pins
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: The Hottest Place in Town It's another fine mid-Spring night in San Francisco: 51 degrees, foggy, swirling winds. So what do people do? They put on their parkas and head over to Mitchell's Ice Cream in the Mission
Arts & Entertainment A Day After the First Day of Spring Yesterday was the first day of spring so we decided to celebrate a day late with a YouTube clip of Tchaikovsky's Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" from Disney's Fantasia. Then we realized that's
Arts & Entertainment Fly Us to the Moon Spring is springing all around us (Hello, Sunshine!) and while we can't afford to go on a real vacation on our salary, we can afford to dream. Which is why we love Flight
misc Of Course, You Know, This Means War City spokesman Brad Rovanpera said that nobody seemed to notice anything until news trucks started showing up in the Creek to report on all this. The reason, of course, is that now we
Arts & Entertainment Keeping Score: Stravinsky 1-SFist Eve 0. Tonight’s episode focuses on the Rite of Spring, which is described by members of the orchestra as "sexy," "rock’n’roll" and "raw." MTT would not be our first choice to tell
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Kilowatt Old Navy has finally realized the errors of its ways and is hoping to find a new dog mascot to fill Magic’s sizeable paws. If your mutt (pure breeds need not apply)
Arts & Entertainment The Grapes of Path Usually when we think of Napa, we think of Range Rovers and froofy wine-tasting tours that inevitably get sloppy and end with a brutal hangover and two cases of overpriced Chardonnay. But this
SF News Springtime In February A large portion of Western literature doesn't make sense to California kids. Specifically, we don't get all those poems about springtime, because it just doesn't feel like that big a deal. This is
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival - No Terri Nunn, But Still Good Tonight's opening features (watch out for Flash), a film about the German passive resistance movement during World War II. We hear it's pretty good, and the director, Marc Rothemund, is expected to attend
