SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Still Kicks Alice Waters's Michelin Ass! The bay area Michelin Guide 2008 is out, and there’s not much changed from last year: the French Laundry is the only place with 3 stars (the most) in the wider bay
SF News The Chronicle Looks at the Gavin Years With Gavin's re-election "campaign" about to get under way, the Chron took a look at four years of the Gavster. Since Sunday was beautiful and the sports on TV plentiful, we'll give you
SF News Our Nightly Festival of Lights Remains Undisrupted Many residents didn't participate, and in fact most of the people we talked to had never heard of it. Inconceivable! How could they have avoided Lights Out's bombardment of enviromessaging? The event had
misc Week Around the -Ists Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come
Arts & Entertainment Muni's Guide to this Weekend As previously noted, one of the best weekend guides in the city is produced by Muni and sent out exclusively to the press. (The PresidiGo, meanwhile, extends that courtesy to its riders.) So,
SF News Question Time, Unwillingly Mine Hey, remember that Question Time thingy? You know, that non-binding measure that voters passed which called for Gavin to appear in front of the Board of Supes and answer questions thrown his way
SF News Muni Loves To Count There's a money room in the basement of 1 South Van Ness, where the Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, is headquartered. Workers literally count by hand bags of cash and coins taken
SF News Happy Birfday Loma Prieta Earthquake! Was it 18 years ago today that we went running out into the streets with the ground rolling under our feet? 18 years ago today since the Giants and the A's duked it
SF News A Room of One's Own...In Which to Shoot Up As mentioned in today's Chronicle, the idea of a safe-space in which intravenous drug users can shoot up -- without fear of arrests, beatings, rapes, or whatever happens in those movies after heroin's
SF News Zombie Attack & Containment Operation Tonight Beware: staring tonight at precisely 7:30 p.m. the undead will gather around the Double L Gyratory Undead Attractor and wreak havoc around the city. Might you be one of them? Horrors!
SF News It's a Motherf------ Column-Off dueling press conferences and memo-leakage, the Homeless issue is becoming the Issue du Jour, leading to a full-fledged reporter dogpile. First came CW Nevius who weighed in with yet another story on the
SF News 'Cause Perfect Didn't Seem So Perfect Some fantastic news! It's going to rain! One of the two topics we remotely even care about (the other being our hair) is the possibility of rain. Baptismal, cleansing rain! San Francisco seems
SF News Just Shoot Us Sadly, the website is a little confusing -- a lot of , and their plans for implementation are alarmingly sparse. And what's the difference between "Not Aware" and "Don't Know"? Navigating through the poll
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City - R.I.P. R.I.P. When The Lights Go Down In The City November 2004 - September 2007 It was SFist's first editor Jackson West who asked me to write a music column back in
SF News Free Market Head-Scratcher: Who'd Have Thought, Bargain-Basement Housing Not Always of Highest Quality But like we said: it's cheap! Jeff's been making the most of rent control for years and years now, and he'd like to keep it that way. Well, of course! Who doesn't like
misc Week Around the -Ists Chicagoist knows what it's like to like the Cubs. But naming your kid Wrigley Fields? At least they can breathe a little easier now that Grossman's out and Griese's in. Maybe all that
Arts & Entertainment Literary Fest Litquake Opens With Lovely Laura Linney Serialized gem / siren song Tales of the City drew many folks to SF. Well, it brought us here, anyway. And the character of Mary Ann Singleton acted as a temporary stand-in until many
SF News And the Fog Came Rolling In Don't you just love autumn in the city? Today's highs will be in the low 70s.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zagat '08 Survey The 2008 edition is out: your nice alphabetical list of restaurants with a grade for food, decor and service, as rated by the users of Zagat. This year, it is going 2.0,
SF News Oh No Ed Jew!: Suspended, Replaced Mayor Gavin Newsom suspended Ed Jew today, (temporarily) removing him from office a little before 9 a.m. this morning at Waverly Place in Chinatown, according to the Chronicle. The young-ish Carmen Chu,
SF News Four Months 'Til The City Takes Over Lots of people think that the SFHA is pretty much a mess, but it remains to be seen what's going to happen. We're kind of hoping to see what happens if Mirakarimi makes
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Duct Tape We're back from our inadvertent hiatus -- here's hoping it's a less busy week for us at the day job and an even more busy week for Ed Jew news! Fang qi means
misc Week Around the -Ists LAist saw national headlines soar this week with news about the Jena 6 in Louisiana and of a police taser incident at a John Kerry event. Locally, Hollywood protesters marched in support of
Arts & Entertainment Park(ing) Day Pics Some of our readers and us came across Park(ing) Day parks. The ones we went to had some of the friendliest frolicking individuals we have ever met who were sober. And these
