SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anthony Bourdain Also Filmed at Mr. Bing's Today Boy, do we love us some Mr. Bing's in North Beach. In fact, it's where we might or might not have gotten into a heated argument recently with the editor of Inside Scoop
SF News Roseanne Barr Running for U.S. President During Thursday night's Tonight Show comedian and macadamia nut purveyor, Roseanne Barr announced her bid for U.S. President in the 2012 election. "I decided since you're the one who got Arnold Schwarzenegger
SF News San Francisco Mom, Son, Public Toilet Featured On 'Intervention' On last night's Intervention (the Emmy Award-winning reality series that follows drug addicts around with a camera, culminating in a usually heart-wrenching "gift" of rehab presented by the subject's family) two locals were
Arts & Entertainment Dan Savage Makes Stephen Colbert Break Character Sex advice columnist and It Gets Better founder Dan Savage stopped by The Cobert Report last night to discuss monogamy in marriage. Profiled in the New York Times recently, he "argued that sometimes
SF News Like to Stream AND Get Discs Via Netflix? Prepare to Bend Over and Take it in the Wallet Your days of enjoying a combo plan of getting a disc or two via those red envelopes in the mail and streaming content from California-based Netflix are numbered, kids. Starting September 1, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: James Brown's Cup-O-Noodle Commercials Inside Scoop's masterful Paolo Lucchesi brings us crucial entertainment this afternoon: James Brown's two long-lost Cup-O-Noodle commercials. They're beautiful. Lucchesi notes: "Sometimes there are no words. This is not one of those times.
SF News NBC Bay Area Anchor Egos Aflutter Over John Kessler Gaffe Former KPIX news anchor and Emmy Award-winner John Kessler felt the need to apologize on Facebook today after announcing his new gig at NBC Bay Area, which, ridiculously, managed to upset some of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma Winemaker to Appear On 'The Bachelorette' On tonight's season opener of The Bachelorette -- girlie spinoff of The Bachelor, ABC's popular fake reality dating show about white people -- one of the 25 bachelors in competition is 28-year-old Sonoma
SF News 'Alcatraz' Gets a Teaser Trailer Alcatraz, the latest time-traveling island psychodrama from J.J. Abrams and company got picked up by Fox for the 2012 season. Wonderful, and now we have this teaser trailer. It looks very... mysterious?
SF News 8-Year-Old Botox Daughter Taken Out of Mother's Home The 8-year-old girl whose mother gave her Botox injections and bikini waxes, in a bizarre effort to turn her into a pageant beauty winner, was taken out of her home. After fame-hungry San
Arts & Entertainment Sidewalk 'Star Trek' Etching Found on 7th Avenue Chase Tingley came across this sharp piece of Star Trek sidewalk art along 7th Avenue, between Irving and Hugo "in some guy's driveway," in San Francisco. The etching was created by David Fisher.
SF News Fox Picks Up J.J. Abrams' 'Alcatraz' UGO Entertainment reports that J.J. Abrams' San Francisco-set (obviously) time-traveling (also kind of obvious) crime drama Alcatraz has been picked up by Fox. You'll remember crews were around town filming the pilot
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Be a Guest on 'Check, Please! Bay Area' The lovely Michele Mandell brings word that noted KQED restaurant-review show Check, Please! Bay Area is looking for a few good reviewers. Might you be one of them? The rules, in addition to
Arts & Entertainment Big Brother 13 Open Casting Call In San Francisco While we loathe most competitive TV shows, Top Chef and the CBS's epic Big Brother are the notable exceptions. Compared to Bravo's Emmy Award winner about scallop searing, molecular gastronomy and fauxhawks, Big
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LITERARY: Tonight kicks off Fantomas-By-The-Bay, a centennial celebration of pulp fiction writers Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain's ultimate anti-hero, who was as enigmatic as he was treacherous. Tonight's reception, Fantomas Strikes the Bay!
SF News 4/13: Liveblogging 'The Franchise: A Season with the San Francisco Giants' Live from our Western Branch office on Divis, the SFist team will gather on April 13 to liveblog Showtime's The Franchise: A Season with the San Francisco Giants. We invite you to join
Arts & Entertainment You Should Be Watching: Bad Girls Club, Ken Burns' Civil War Monday, 4/4 Bad Girls Club: The advent of reality TV has led us to this very moment, and what a moment it is. Bad Girls Club, a jarrong hour-long show, houses seven
SF News Hulu Wins Best Internet April's Fools Day Prank As you well know, no one should trust anything on the internet today, April Fool's Day. What's more, most jokes fall flat. However, Hulu's 4/1 gag wins for sheer '90s adorability. Behold.
Arts & Entertainment Behold Britney's Lackluster GMA Performance Britney Spear's much-ballyhooed San Francisco mini-concert, filmed at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Sunday, aired today on Good Morning America and landed with a resounding meh. " I've seen her use more energy when
SF News Video: Preview of Giants Reality Show on Showtime OK, we're getting quite, um, rustic here by showing you a recorded preview of The Franchise, the Showtime reality show based on the San Francisco Giants post-World Series win. Sadly, Showtime hasn't released
SF News Broke-Ass Stuart Lands IFC Travel Show Time to start retroactively kissing writer/blogger Stuart Schuffman's ass, Bay Area media folks. Because Schuffman (AKA Broke-Ass Stuart) just landed his own travel TV show. It'll be called Young, Broke, and Beautiful
Arts & Entertainment Biz Stone, Tablehopper On Rachael Ray Tomorrow Say what you will about Rachael Ray, but we've never felt that disdain others do for the 30 Minute Meals hostess. Maybe because her Olive and Garlic Soft Cheese Spread has been a
Arts & Entertainment Must Read: Tim Redmond's <em>American Idol</em> Recaps If you're not reading American Idol recaps by SF Bay Guardian's Tim Redmond, you're missing out. And how. The noted alt-weekly editor has been doing a surprisingly bang-up job wrapping up this year's
SF News Tom Sinkovitz Leaves NBC Bay Area Drats. One of the Bay Area's most esteemed and throaty-voiced anchors, Tom Sinkovitz, will be departing NBC 11. The former KRON anchor spent nearly three years at the Bay Area's NBC affiliate. "Sinkovitz'
SF News Casting Call: Seeking Housewives for 'Real Housewives of S.F.'? [Updated] While we can't tell you for sure that this casting call is for Andy Cohen's noted sect of housewives on Bravo (*cough* *cough*), but an ad posted today on Craigslist seeks six affluent
