SF News Keffiyeh Trend Finally Fades in SF Since the Bay Area is ahead of the rest of the U.S., yet (arguably) so behind the rest of the world when it comes to style, fashions, hoop skirts, belts, buckles, shoes,
misc Pondering the Semiotics of Hipster Beards Like all things hipster, we wondered just how this beard thing works and the meaning of it all. Like, the guy checking IDs at the bar had a very scruffy, mountain man beard
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Let's get this over with. Last week's pathetic challenge still hung in the air this week with the designers discussing Carmen's exit, and Chris proposing a "Project Runway" fragrance that would be a
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,
Arts & Entertainment Education Prognostication From George Lucas' 'Edutopia' Mag San Rafael-based Edutopia Magazine, which is brought to us by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, looks to the future in its latest issue, identifying 10 ideas or trends that its experts believe can
misc Week Around The -ists This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going
Arts & Entertainment Topshop: The San Francisco Treat We've never been to London, so we've never shopped at Topshop. Anybody we've met who's ever shopped at Topshop always raves about it. "It's like H&M, only better!" they say. Usually
Arts & Entertainment We Love The Pretty Maps The map to your right (from this analysis) is the percentage of people ranking more than one choice in the supervisorial races in November -- but we just think it's awfully pretty. We
SF News Is Polyester Our Doom? According to the article, while clothing made from artificial fibers takes more energy to produce than from natural ones, it takes way less energy to maintain it. It can be washed in cooler
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Why the Caterer Needs Some Chill Time We need to relax, pronto! A killer gig of taking care of other people -- otherwise known as catering -- leaves us with sore muscles, red eyes, and a smile on our face.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Amber Eyes always peeled, nose always to the grindstone, corpus madidus Nico has noticed a disturbing trend in our fair city recently: a resurgence of the mustache. Odious as it may be, its staunch
SF News Miss Murder Maybe you should have voted for Prop A this election cycle after all -- at the halfway mark for 2006, there've been 45 murders this year, putting us on pace for 90 by
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Bender's Bar and Grill Welcome to the Year of the Dog. To celebrate and honor this year, we will keep our paws to the ground and our nose in the air to uncover all the best places
SF News Houstonist to SFist -- Drop Dead (Soccer) Hey, do you remember way back to two weeks ago when the latest member of the -ist family came on board and SFist Eve said we couldn't think of a reason to hate
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jill Tracy With Anne Rice only writing for God and "gothic" becoming synonymous with crazy teen killer, those of us who like our music how we like our coffee are left twisting in the dramatically
SF News Always a Few Years Behind You know how all those 'hott trends' seem to start in New York, and float out here fanned by the butterfly wings of fashion and lifestyle magazines? Well, this summer, the 'buzz' isn't
SF News Political Junkie: We Have A Winner! The votes from Ohio are in! The hanging chads have been dimpled! The electoral college has matriculated! We're calling the SFist Hottest SF Supervisor race -- and the Marina's own Michela Alioto-Pier takes
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part Two -- Bloggie Nights For those of you who were wondering, yes, we are actually here for the panels. Kind of. We're also here to get drunk and make out. But only after discussing copyright reform, comment
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Mission Statement (Of Sorts) From Your Trimethyldioxypurist After the discovery of the holy grail of Bay Area coffee last week, it's a good time to sit back and take stock of why we do this. And how we go about
SF News Armageddon It What with the tsunami and the upcoming inaguration, disaster scenarios are all the rage. To help calm down an unsettled world, the German Reinsurance company, Munich Re, has come out with a list
