Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>The Great Happiness Space: Tales of an Osaka Love Thief</i> goes inside a popular "host boy café" in Japan to examine the lives of both the patrons and the employees. Think of these cafes as kind of like strip clubs but the roles
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: And Then There Were Two Okay, folks, first let us apologize for not reviewing the delightful "chef reunion show" a few weeks back. Part of us wanted to, but we opted out because, honestly, who the hell wants
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>The Future of Pinball</i>/<i>Buffet</i> Our usual movie companion loves pinball with a burning passion. A burning passion! So all week, it's been like, "When do we get to see the pinball movie? When do we get to
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Whole-a Whole-Lotta Lamb Ahhh parrots, lambs, and pepper monkeys -- welcome back to our review of the Top Chef animal farm. Another Top Chef episode in the can; the season will be over shortly, so watch
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Combing the Beard's Results. Our side of the country still hold its own in the award count. Running in the 100m dash of these Olympics, Thomas Keller won a gold medal for Outstanding Restaurant. That means the
SF News Don't Pee on Pooh This LA Times piece asserts that, among other things, proudly Christian Kinkade "heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a former employee's wife who came to his aid when he fell
SF News Suspect in Fat Tone Murder Captured Andre "Mac Minister, Choppa, Chop" Dow, the prime suspect in the Fat Tone's murder was captured yesterday in a San Francisco apartment, by SFPD SWAT and FBI agents. There was a standoff for
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to <i>Gambling</i>! A man goes on a desperate journey through the Las Vegas night in search of a his girlfriend who has mysteriously disappeared - and discovers that he is under surveillance and is the
SF News American Football Spectacular: Super Bowl 2006, "The Big Show, Detroit Style" Pittsburgh vs. Seattle (in Detroit) Sunday, February 5, 2006 The Battle For Proof The Pittsburgh Steelers have undergone the most dramatic testing of any NFL team ever, after squeaking into the playoffs as
Arts & Entertainment SF Weekly To Issue Correction Once again, SFist is here to stick up for ol' Harmon, as he's run into controversy yet again in his most recent SF Weekly Infiltrator column, "Dieter Gone Wild." In this episode, Harmon's
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Consume! The keynote announcements from Google are in line with the more believable rumors of the past couple of days: the Google Video Store, a partnership with CBS and other video content providers for
SF News SFist Tech Labs: What's Inside the Google Cube? But as it turns out, all the excitement has been going on here in our very own idyllic backyard of Mountain View. As adventure-seeking tech writers sought to unlock the Mysteries of the
SF News American Football Spectacular: To A Frontier Town... There Came A Bowl Game. As pointed out by American Football Spectacular's religious consultant Ms. No, Mormons aren't supposed to gamble. Further, according to the BBC's write-up on Mormon ethical practices, "Gambling in any form is condemned as
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Last Call Save some room on your social calendar, because, like 2005, these cool shows are expiring around January 1. Besides, if you’re feeling a little Grinch-like, there’s nothing like a holiday show
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: an American Tragedy We saw the Met's new production on Monday, and one thought sprung to our mind: there is an East Coast-West Coast divide that would make the gangsta rappers proud. Oh, we are not
SF News R.I.P., Pat Morita Best known for his role as Mr. Miyagi in , Pat Morita passed away yesterday at his home in Las Vegas. A look at his bio, however, makes it clear that Morita was much
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Val's Restaurant & Lounge Amazing what getting in the wrong turning lane will do for you. After a movie at the Century 20 Daly City — about which theater, the less said, the better, but let's just note
misc SFist Rants: Stand to the Right, Walk to the Left, <i>Honey</i> Seriously, people. We recall being in the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport a few years ago, when a rather snappy gentleman uttered the above phrase ("Stand to the right, walk to the left,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Bigger, Longer and Mostly Uncut at the Curran Theatre Cirque du Soleil isn't the only artsy circus company around, and unfortunately, for all the other companies like Cirque Eloize, they'll all be compared to those commercialized French-Canadians taking
SF News Men in Tights For the last seven years, bike racing has relied on Lance Armstrong's star power to draw new fans to the sport. And gauging by the size of the crowd yesterday at the Barclay's
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The A's . . . Lose? The A's have lost four games in a row, to the Minnesota Twins and the Baltimore Orioles. They were defeated by A's Brand Baseball's two favorite Orioles, (in order) SS Miguel Tejada and
Arts & Entertainment What's this, Another Charo Article? Geez. Several years ago, there appeared a Charo-themed article in the fabulous (and now sadly defunct) local cynicism-zine Bringdown. Writer Jay Owens travelled to Reno for Charo, and described a geriatric-crowd-pleasing first act of
SF News The Neon Lights They Shine So Bright On Market We've been wondering when, if ever, we'd see a "CSI: San Francisco". Now, before one of you clever commenters points out that part of the "CSI" formula involes cops actually solving crimes (seriously,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Moss Beach Distillery Here's the thing: We are Breakfast Eaters, and we are drinkers, so the words "champagne brunch," once they enter our brain, tend to stay there, ping-ponging around and popping out anytime the old
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
