Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: The New InterContinental - Viva Las Vegas! Does the InterContinenetal San Francisco Hotel at 888 Howard fit in with top law school UC Hastings on the left and historic City Hall on the right? You make the call.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Yuppie Passport Hell in San Francisco But once you're past the "creepy", "leer"-ing security staff, it's all downhill from there, right? Well, maybe not. Nationally-famous local violet blue told the story a few months back of the hassles
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #2 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Standouts: 1. Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails Red Wine (w/ Bonus DVD): Hands down, one of the best
SF News It's Got to be the Morning After, Bitch Lions 36 Raiders 21- And so what are we to make of the Raiders game? They absolutely sucked for a half, rallied to make a game of it, and then just as soon
SF News That Smell Yum! Did you smell something nasty in downtown SF yesterday? Some people described it like raw sewage, and others like rotting meat. Turns out it was from the sewage holding system, which was
SF News Lunar Eclipse Of The Heart It's a day of relatively-unusual natural phenomena -- first the earthquake this morning and then, less than 24 hours later, there's going to be a total eclipse of the moon. The lunar eclipse
Arts & Entertainment <del>Western Addition</del> NOPA in the Gray Old Lady Awesome last name recipient and New York Times contributor Nicole Spiridakis covered NOPA (AKA, "North of the Panhandle" -- of course) in this past weekend's travel section of the NYT, "Colonizing an Urban
SF News Your Commute: Meltdown! (Sorry, We're Not MattyMatt) Well, first and most importantly! -- SFist MattyMatt's started a new job so he's been pretty busy at work and hasn't had time to post lately, for all folks asking about him in
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Speedy Trial Speedy trial? Say it fast: OhNoEdJew! At yesterday's hearing, residentially-challenged Supervisor Ed Jew's legal team went against conventional criminal defendant wisdom, and requested an early trial. The trial could go as early as
SF News Victory is Very Nearly Ours The winning city gets ten cute hybrid taxis. To Gavin's credit, whether we win or not, he's pledged that the city's entire fleet will be hybrid by 2011. And we bet we'll be
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Giants 4 A's 1- You know how we said that these games aren't that big of a deal anymore? Well, they are when one team wins the first two games of the series
Arts & Entertainment Compression Artifacts Become Unbearable at JPG Magazine Some kind of storm's a-brewin' over at JPG Magazine. The friendly photo mag, a sort of side-sibling of Flickr, will be under new management as of its next issue. The founders, Derek and
misc Bay Area Wanderer: Welcome Back, Sun. * Bay Area Wanderer: Near Martin Luther King Drive and Lincoln, San FranciscoAhh, it is nice to have the sun back with us.Couples holding hands. Kids frolicking underneath eucalyptus trees. Picnics.Springtime... is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Worth The Wait? Bi-Rite Creamery Saturday--the sun was shining, Dolores Park was full to the brim, and evidently everyone else had the same idea we did: "let's get some ice cream." Bi-Rite Creamery, which opened only a few
SF News Cycling: Stage 7 Closes out Strong Despite a few anxious laps during the climactic Stage 7, wire-to-wire overall race leader Levi Leipheimer (Discovery Channel) found just enough energy to fend off a cheeky breakaway from Danny Pate (Slipstream) and
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Beading On A Sunny Day Want to know how we spent our sunny Saturday afternoon? It involved some good friends, white wine, and lots of beads. We wanted to craft and enjoy the summer weather we were having,
SF News We've Looked At Clouds From Both Sides Now Actually, what they do is create a cover for all the reflected heat from the sun. So the heat stays up in the clouds and winds up in the air and hello warmer
SF News There Ain't No Party Like a Pelosi Party If the sun is shining a bit brighter and the birds are chirping a bit chirpier it could only be because today is a big day-- as of this posting, our little Nancy
SF News Treasure Hunt Asia Galleries 1534 Grant Ave., San Francisco CA. The store opens at 11AM Wednesday through Sunday and after that who knows... We can't stop going to this Asian antiques store at the foot
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Liz Ross Liz is a former member of Hannah, Lessick, Lines In Analog Sound, and Sun of Mercury. She mostly plays a 1962 Gibson LG 1 acoustic, and she has several vintage electric guitars, her
Arts & Entertainment And the Winner Is.... Anyhoo, the winner for best picture is Little Children and no, it's not the prequel to "Little Woman." It's a movie that was out for a bout a week, starring Kate Winslet about
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Get your Beer & Burger on at Toad’s SFist Mary Ladd, contributing
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Operates in the Park. --Friday was the Opera opening night at the opera house, and I was one of the penguins there, in that March of the Penguins. --I read in the paper there was a report
misc The Philistine's Fall Music Preview. You want to go below to see movie clips of Deborah Voigt and our running commentary on the SF Symphony's and SF Opera's season. Picture of MTT -Hi, Mike, good to see you
