SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Cancun Pigs Before we introduce the participants, a few words on the rule: we did a one-on-one comparison, which we judged based on two dishes from Yucatan, the peninsula at the bottom right of Mexico
SF News Paying More For Less We rant and we rave, but the fact is, SFist is stuck for local transport without Muni. Even if we had a car, where the hell would we park it? So when we
SF News Crotchmas Comes But Once A Year Our favorite Bay Area funnyblogger and jazz musician, Ian over at Wrapped Up Like A Douche, is staging a pledge drive -- kind of like fellow funnyman Jerry Lewis. Except instead of exploiting
SF News Supes Pass Electronic Electioneering Bill -- Twice So how did Sophie Maxwell's bill do? Well, due to an SFist power lunch, we weren't able to attend in person. We were able, however, to catch up via SFGTV -- scroll down
SF News The Art Of Compromise So we're pro-union, as you well know. Which means we're on the side of labor in the ongoing hotel disupte -- just like Gavin! Which means we support the union's efforts to starve
SF News Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? Over here at SFist's fortress of solitude (above Jerry's Tattoo and Java), we've just been informed that "Big" Dick Cheney is currently ensconced at the Mandarin Oriental downtown, and an entire block of
SF News Layoffs At E*Trade Naturally, this didn't go over that well with everyone as they began to wonder what the chances of keeping their job are when they've just trained Sanjay and Apu to do it. Or
Arts & Entertainment Solarize This Hey, a fight in the Tenderloin that doesn't involve Supervisor Chris Daly? Singer and Angry British Man Ian Brown, the former lead singer of the Stone Roses ("I Wanna Be Adored" -- yeah,
Arts & Entertainment SF VMAs? The Chron's Matier and Ross get back to the gossip we pay twenty-five cents in the MUNI for and report that Gav Daddy Newsom is aggressively wooing MTV to throw the 2005 Video
Arts & Entertainment Bad News For Bloggers SFist Jackson's not here today, but we know he'd want us to let you know that, as expected, Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Kleinberg ruled against the bloggers and for Apple. Judge Kleinberg
SF News Chron Management to Media Workers Guild: How Shall We Screw Thee? Let Us Count The Ways... The company says the changes are necessary to cut labor costs, reverse the newspaper's financial losses and forestall the possibility of an asset sale. Despite the major changes proposed, the company is still
Arts & Entertainment Smoochie Boochies In the Morning Smith has been filling in for the past couple of days and sadly, Friday will be his last day. According to his site, he called in last spring for a phone interview to
SF News Your Commute: Cable Car Blues Maybe Rice-a-Roni's not the San Francisco treat anymore either -- as part of the Great MUNI Cost Hike of Ought-Five, the city is proposing raising fares on the cable cars from $3 to
SF News Burning For School So apparently the San Francisco school board held some public meetings to decide on the start of the new school year. Before Labor Day? After Labor Day? Decisions, decisions, decisions. Everyone was pretty
SF News Fair Fares Part Deux The protests against the fare hike opened with the traditional forming of the slightly-over-the-type-named organization with the slightly-over-the-top political agenda, the Coalition for Transit Justice. On Tuesday, they and others held a rally
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Words Well, surely you have $5. Five whole dollars buys you all the pizza you can eat at Poetry and Pizza on Friday. That's tomorrow. We double-checked the hipster central calendar. You're free. Don't
Arts & Entertainment Winter of Love Doc Trailer Online , a documentary about our Winter of Love, has footage of the Mayor's meetings in the days leading up to the Valentine's happening, as well as footage of the ensuing exchanges of heartfelt vows
misc Inside the Hotel Vitale Mark over at HotelChatter tipped us off to some anonymous photos taken from the inside of local hotelier Joi de Vivre's new boutique hotel on the Embarcadero, Hotel Vitale. While the project was
SF News Chamois Whammy Seems San Francisco based Pottery Barn Kids is recalling "about 92,000 chamois blankets because the decorative stitching can come loose, posing a strangulation hazard to a young child." The high-markup quality polyester
SF News Britney Spears' Baby -- How Can We Help? In light of that big hullabaloo that's going down in D.C. tomorrow, something SFist is trying as hard as possible not to think about (we prefer the hand over the ears and
misc Out-Ward Bound Well, at least 2005 isn't going to be a total wasteland of thwarted progressive political dreams -- Ward Connerly's term on the UC Board of Regents is almost up! It's been a long
Arts & Entertainment Great White Nope, not that Great White, the even more lethal kind. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is currently playing host to a Great White shark. As you may know, Great Whites are NEVER in captivity
SF News Alta Bates to Disgruntled Employees: Take Your One-Day Strike and Shove It The Chron quoted Alta Bates Summit's vice president for medical affairs, Dr. John Gentile, as suggesting the sympathy strike is meant to unify the unions so that they can bargain collectively for a
Arts & Entertainment Let the Stalking Commence Filming has started for the upcoming Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo romantic comedy "If Only It Were True," based on an adaptation of local novelist Marc Levy's 2000 novel of the same name.
SF News The Presidentator? One good thing about the election being over is that we no longer have to be submitted to political ads. Oops. Strike that. Two weeks after the election, a "grass-roots" organization (meaning a
