SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed SF Chef Jeremiah Tower Has a Substack, and It's Already a Hoot One of San Francisco's first celebrity chefs, Jeremiah Tower, who came up during a time when "celebrity" and "chef" weren't often said together, still has a few things to say food and restaurants. And at age 81, he has just launched a Substack newsletter.
SF News How And Where To Watch Tonight's Perseid Meteor Shower Hey everyone, it's time for the annual Perseid meteor shower! And, as it's San Francisco in August, that also means it's time for everyone to get disappointed that their view of the Perseid
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed California Chef Jeremiah Tower Taking Over New York's Tavern On The Green Chef Jeremiah Tower, who made a name for himself in the Bay Area first behind the line at Chez Panisse and later as the chef-impresario of Stars in San Francisco, has decided to
SF News Where To Watch The Perseid Meteor Shower Tonight The annual Perseid Meteor Shower dotted the sky last night. Did you see it? Probably not, especially if you live in San Francisco, a city held captive by Karl this summer. But if
SF News Local Astrologist Predicts Bad Vibes For Mayor Quan's Post-Occupy Career Occupiers, political pundits, twitter humorists and TV talking heads have all been speculating on what the post-Occupy future holds for embattled Oakland mayor Jean Quan. While the general consensus seems to be "she
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin 2012 Stars Announced The 2012 Michelin stars are slowly trickling in today. Chefs and restaurants are given the news via a phone call (similar to the ones semi-finalists receive on America's Next Top Model). So far,
SF News Photo: Last Night's Jupiter, Venus & Moon Viewing SF Citizen's Jim Herd snapped this amazing shot of last night's Jupiter, Venus, and moon sighting from Golden Gate Park. This planets were visible from all around the world last night. Did you
SF News L. Ron's Great Grandson To Join CoS Protest This Saturday? Since the Scientologists moved the day of celebrating their church's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, from last Saturday to this Saturday, due to last week's protest, there will be yet another rally against the
misc Yoni Wolf of Why? SFist has been a fan of Why? since we first saw them at Bottom of the Hill a few years back. We recently came across a cover they did of the Cure’s
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *CRAFT: Knitters and crocheters come together in harmony tonight over at the (newly remodeled!) Three Dollar Bill Cafe. Don't know how? No worries. Someone will be there to teach you. Happens every Monday.
misc Sandra Bernhard's New Year's Eve Extravaganza The last time we saw Sandra Bernhard, which was at Bimbo's earlier this year, we almost walked into her as we were leaving the ladies room and she was making her entrance from
misc All Up In Your Face: Joan Van Ark Speaking of Joan Van Ark, what on earth? Oh honestly. What happened to her visage? The former "Knots Landing" thespian and awkwardly spinning "Night of a 100 Stars" model has unveiled a new,
Arts & Entertainment Film du Jour Perfectly paired with Scissor Sisters' "Filthy/Gorgeous," these iconic ladies of the '80s look that much more amazing/insane during this "Night of a 100 Stars" high fashion bit. Our favorite? Susan Lucci
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... Eskimo Joe We featured Eskimo Joe in our weekly column a few weeks ago and stated that "Hands down, one of the best CD's of 2007." We still completely agree with that sentiment - even
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After -It appears Scott Ostler was not the only one to start the Mike Nolan Death Watch. Over at the Merc, Tim Kawakami started the clock up too. On KNBR, the natives are getting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Mike Birbiglia Here at SFist we like to think of ourselves as givers. We give. You take. Again and again. So here you go, we're doing our part. We've got a pair of tickets for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Monday's Fall TV Premieres Following "Stars" at 9:30 p.m. is yet another season of "The Bachelor" and horror or horrors joy of joys, there is actually another Bay Area gal vying for her 15 minutes
SF News Get a Job Time to stop fretting over whether he is or is not the father. Time to get a job. How about: -- Backend Software Engineer - Digital Music Store [A2Z Development] -- Executive Director,
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last week was a great week for live music, and we managed to see three fantastic shows. Last Friday we started off seeing Rufus Wainwright at Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium. Having (somehow) never
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Dance, get trashed, shove something up your nose in the bathroom, shove something up, um, somewhere elsewhere in the bathroom, have a ball at this iron-hot Thursday weekly. At Tubesteak Connection, Bus
SF News Political Junkie: Gavin's Back (Ow!) Oh, Chris Daly's going to have a with this one for his own blog -- the Chronicle Local News Blog gleefully reports that, at Sunday's Celebrity All-Star game at AT&T Park,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Considered to be the largest underground hip-hop event in America, Scribble Jam kicks off at 9pm at Slim's. Come check out freestyle and emcee battles plus scratching, breakdancing, beatboxing and graffiti competitions. $16
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Giants 13 Dbacks 0- Yes, the Kid (the Franchise? The Enchanter?) pitched a shutout as the Giants offense exploded (somewhere, Matt Cain cried himself to sleep) but the big news is that Barry
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Blog Round Up Cheers, baby! Photo courtesy of Something in Season. We're salivating over two tasty events next week. The StarChefs Rising Stars Revue on Tuesday the 19th and Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Tonight The winner of last season's "American Inventor" isn't exactly rocking the very foundation of American living, (for the record, the winning invention was some kind of child's car seat), but perhaps this season