Arts & Entertainment Upcoming Events -- Hilary Hahn The Korngold incorporates various movie themes from 1930s Hollywood, and the symphony will also be performing Aaron Copland's and a suite by Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly. (We don't think the Kodaly has any
SF News American Football Spectacular: At Least These Enemies Stay Close, or "<i>Guess Who</i>, OAK Edition" O, those Oakland Raiders. A team so historically shot through with internal strife that we just expect it at this point. It's ordinary. But as of Wednesday, the Raiders' 2006 regular season strife
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Sections Around the Bay We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. These are our favorite tidbits from today's offerings: SF Chronicle: Tasty homemade food gifts that are ea$y on the budget (dark, milk &
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Ancient Secrets Of the Four-Hour Thanksgiving Salad Oy, gee. We're sick today. We feel like grade-A crapola, and it may color our review of the last episode of just a tad. Not to mention that we're about 10 lbs. heavier
misc Dine Around on Wednesday The interesting thing is that the main sponsor is Zephyr Real Estate, not exactly a company most people will have the warm fuzzies for. But whatever-- it's a great thing and for a
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Karma's Four Teeth And A Gigantic Ass Welcome to our thoughts on Wednesday's episode of Top Chef on Bravo, which we hope will help psych y'all up for tonight's episode. We must say that this episode was a vast improvement
SF News Mirkarimi's MUNI Meeting Does anyone else remember those awesome signs they used to have behind the driver on the old MUNI buses -- "Information Gladly Given But Safety Requires Avoiding Unnecessary Conversation"? Well, get some information
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: We Left Our Knives In San Francisco Man, we loved last season of . So much so, that we're gonna keep writing about it, even though it's made the move to Los Angeles. Top Chef, for those who don't know, is
Arts & Entertainment Live Public Radio The show is formatted like a radio program, so Barsamian will talk with Ali, and Kronos will intersperse musical interludes relating to the ideas being discussed throughout the conversation. We'll totally do the
SF News Political Junkie: You're E-Vited! That Cubist-y gavel graphic Daly's picked to illustrate the evite is -- as is the greeting line: "Dear Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom," as if some other Gavin Newsom, whose middle name is Edward,
Arts & Entertainment Local Loses Colbert's Green Screen Challenge For those of you who don't watch the "Colbert Report", Stephen has been running a green screen challenge where he asked members of the Colbert Nation to add all sorts of computer effects
Arts & Entertainment What Else is Going on For Litquake Well, if you want to check the schedule of events, go here. There's plenty to choose from and it seems like something is going on everywhere at all hours. Everyone's favorite event is
Arts & Entertainment Debates Around The Districts So we're trying to compile a handy-dandy list of all the forums we can find, arranged by district and by date -- but we can barely find anything out there! So we're posting
SF News SFist Editorial: Edward Champion on Muni But this Wednesday morning was a different routine with a different set of rules. I should note from the onset that I've found most MUNI drivers to be kind and helpful. Even when
Arts & Entertainment The Blah Adventures of the Superfisters is a collection of three stories, told simultaneously and finishing with an unexpected cross-pollination: one is a cute retelling of Journey to the East (with some slightly distracting Christian imagery sprinkled in), another
SF News Google: Okay, Now Maybe Doing A Little Evil To help them, they've hired as lobbyists two ex-Republican Senators, Dan Coats of Indiana and Connie Mack of Florida. And on Wednesday, Google will take part in their first political fundraiser, for Republican
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Watches "the Daily Show" We've tried to make fun of this whole Hackgate thing and we thought we did a slightly better than a half-assed job, but we have been bested. And so now we bow to
Arts & Entertainment 24 Hour Nerdy People Tonight: The Canvas Gallery is hosting "Ask a Scientist," with Nancy Garland, a Technology Development Master at the U.S. Department of Energy, discussing Alternative Energy: A Cleaner Future for Cars. Tuesday: The
SF News The Warriors: If It Wasn't for Bad Luck . . . This is how it plays when you're payin' for your snakebit ways. The Warriors caught a, uh, bad break Wednesday when they learned that first round draft choice Patrick O'Bryant will likely miss
SF News Word From Black Rock City So how was Burning Man this year? Well, we can tell you that aside from a frightful sandstorm on Wednesday, the weather was absolutely delightful. We can tell you that there was the
misc East Bay: Animals Gone Wild Contra Costa Times columnist, Sarah Jacobson, writes about a raccoon cocktail party on the front porch of her Pittsburg home in the wee hours of the morning.And while we would disagree with
Arts & Entertainment It's An Honor Just To Be Nominated However, it was not to be, as we just recieved notification that we were nominated again this year! (This is the part where we'd link to the award information on the BAPC site,
Arts & Entertainment Ten Years To Bitch (Extra Bonus: All Female Zeppelin Band!) Happy 10th birthday, Bitch Magazine! Back in 1996, local writers Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler kicked up a furor with their provocatively-named zine about feminism and pop culture -- and ten years later,
SF News We Have Something Nice to Say About MUNI-- No Really Anyways, we had dinner with friends at the Fillmore Grill (yummy food, by the way-- we highly recommend the Zinfandel Braised Lamb Shank) Wednesday night and went out to wait for the good
Arts & Entertainment Castro Halloween Cancellation Update! We've been closely following this strange attempt by Bevan & Friends to put a stop to Halloween parties in the Castro -- including private house parties. Check out the coverage of Bevan's Wednesday
