Arts & Entertainment SFist Paints The City Black and White The atmosphere was festive even as we rode the N towards downtown, the usual Saturday MUNI crowd of metal-lyric quoting beach residents and squirmy tweens replaced by Dom-toting fashion plates. The balmy weather
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival 2005 Photographer Rob Kunkle spent last week taking pictures of the acts at the Mission Creek Music Festival, which was held at multiple locations across The City last week. Pictured are The Gentlekin. Check
misc SFist Raves: La Mission We're pretty inclusive when we say "The Mission." To us, it's anything from 16th to 24th, Dolores to Potrero. The Mission is one of the few places where we really feel like we're
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: C'est quoi, Koi? Ooops, maybe the Outback people did not know that the week-end dim sum crowds park in their lot. Maybe they look back and forth at the dining room and the lot and think,
misc SFist Rants: Kids In Public Boy, do we feel like a grumpy old man writing this. According to a recent AP article, only 14.5% of the population in San Francisco are children under 18. This is the
misc SFist Blotter/Animal Roundup Nick Faibish's mauling continues to send shock waves across the city -- Gavin Newsom's announced that he's starting a panel to look into possible restrictions on pit bull ownership in San Francisco. Gavin
SF News The Supreme Court Bogarts That Joint By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court voted today to overturn a decision by a San Francisco federal appeals court that allowed the use of medicinal marijuana. The court ruled that in cases
SF News Happy Birthday, Matt Gonzalez! Pictured is, of course, local lightning rod Chris Daly and his wife Sarah who, appropriately enough, is wearing SFist's "Mrs. Chris Daly" tee (buy one today). We'd like to let Sarah know that
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Dewey Decibel And so Flip Out Guitars was born. Why Flip-Out? Well this SFist doesn't actually play the guitar, but if you scroll down you'll see a guitar that is plainly different. You'll also get
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Sous le Soleil Exactement Café du Soleil opened last week in the space formerly occupied by Movida. For the neighborhood, it seems like a win-win situation: le Soleil still serves the wine-and-beer under the same license as
SF News Ewwwwwwwww! Okay, SFist was already a little grossed out by the very idea of "The Universe Within" show at the Masonic auditorium. Leave it to some German dude to come up with a way
SF News A Bump in the Road "" by the Doobie Brothers played in the background as the governor confidently strode into a residential San Jose neighborhood to pave a pothole and attempt to get some positive press for his plans
SF News Fight to Rename Berkeley's Jefferson Elementary The issue was brought to the school's attention by parents and community activists. In an uncredited editorial in the Daily Californian, it's pointed out that the city is named after George Berkeley, who
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Casey Smith We like to think that SFist interviews with locals are like catching little glimpses in to parts of the city you don’t know as well. For today’s interview Casey Jex Smith
SF News Mo' Money, Mo' Problems Let's start off with the extra money for the city budget. Thanks to the super-hot real estate market, the city found an extra $43 million to help plug the $102 million dollar debt
SF News Tourist-Baiting The Examiner's in the middle of a week-long article series about San Francisco's tourism industry, where Examiner reporters try out various tourist services. Yesterday's Nellie Blys took cabs from various locations around the
SF News Badlands's Bad The San Francisco Human Rights Commission has finished its investigation into the Castro bar Badlands, and concludes that yup, Badlands really was discriminating against African-Americans (.pdf) at the door. The HRC found that
SF News C Plus! Everyone is about San Francisco! The results of the San Francisco residents' poll about San Francisco are in, and the city scored a C+. Not quite at "SEE ME" levels, but you ain't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Eat At URL's The first time we had lunch at "URL's" (har har) was a while back when we were working down Mathilda a piece at Hewlett-Packard and our friend was at Yahoo. He gave us
Arts & Entertainment The Gates: West Coast Version Once it's finished later this year, Octavia Boulevard -- that eastern-edge-of-the-Castro strip where once squatted a disused offramp -- will be a sort of lasting, permanent demonstration of SF's long-held disdain for urban
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Just Bite Me This week, at Gastronomique, we went and educated ourselves about Italy. We actually traveled there last week, and had a wonderful time, until we went to the Mechanics Institute. There, Carol Field told
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Borf'd Amongst the graffitos, San Francisco has a reputation for being uber-tolerant of their guerilla art. Which is why folks from as far away as Washington, D.C. drop by on occassion to throw
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Nona's Kitchen Beaches fronting bays full of wet-suited surfers, sheer cliffs, fog-shrouded hills with or without clusters of houses clinging to the craggy edge -- it's mostly gorgeous, but natural beauty appreesh is tiring and
SF News I Want to Ride My Bicycle The Board of Supervisors voted 6-5 to allow the sponsors of the San Francisco Grand Prix Bicycle Race, otherwise known as the T-Mobile International, to have around $200,000 in costs waived by
SF News Upgrading To Dot-Bomb 2.0? That's right, with all the crazy purchases, consolidation and boost in VC capital in the tech sector, a lot of folks are wondering if the boom is back. Of course, at SFist, this
