SF News Gavin Defends Screw Tops The article isn't online, but it's a piece called "All You Really Need To Know About WINE" and Gavin's on page 138, as "Plumpjack Winery Founder and Mayor of San Francisco." It's accompanied
Arts & Entertainment SFist Christopher's Best From The Past 365 Days * Album Of The Year: Mogwai -- "Mr. Beast" The mostly-instrumental music of Glasgow's Mogwai has been described as big instrumental rock music for a soundtrack. The soundtrack of your whatever-you're-doing. If whatever-you're-doing really
Arts & Entertainment Lake Tahoe: Open for Business Olympic Valley, home of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, showing a dusting of snow. After getting off to a slow start, it seems the ski season at the Lake Tahoe area is finally
SF News That's Amore The rest of the story is a bit Rashomon-like in a "Men are From Mars, Women From Venus" kind of way. The other people in the restaurant were two people on a first
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Worms Go In, The Wine Comes Out The church, the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, says they're mainly making it for sacramental purposes but if it happens to have a good taste, well why not sell it? So the church is hiring
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Section Round Up We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. These are our favorite tidbits from today's offerings: SF Chronicle Stanford alum and local food writer Janet Fletcher gives three quickie menus--that’s 90
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 &
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Noc Noc Noc Noc is the establishment. At 557 Haight (between Fillmore and Steiner) some industrious folks have created a room to satisfy your inner Flintstone, er, your inner Flintstone hopped up on heroin speedballs,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau 2006 We have always been a sucker for organizations that do good in the community and are perceived to be fiscally responsible. The wine's importer, W.J. Deutsch & Sons Ltd. made a seven
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gavin to 49ers: Hit the Road, PlumpJack! Wine was flowing freely, and Gavin was having his fair share. We mean, he had a lot to get over with. Which explains we could overhear him say such things as: If I
Arts & Entertainment We Survived Being On Local TV (So Far): A True Story Despite our apprehension at having done so, we think it's really cool that there is good, quality local programming available in our area. A sort of televised equivalent of SFist, no? And of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Drinking Game: Our Trimethyldioxypurist! We've never watched Check Please! before, ever, so we're going to be kind of making up the drinking game based on the description of the show on their website -- so if nothing
SF News It's OK Brit In other Gavin Facebook news, the same sharp-eyed reader also found the Facebook group "It's ok Brit, we've all been caught drinking underage with city officials." Here's the group description: Don't feel bad
SF News Democracy in Action- Name the New Couple We thought we had come up with some good names ourselves, but you, you people...we want to party with you (and yes, that somehow makes this the second Stripes reference of the
SF News Brittanie's Fake ID? According to Sunday's Matier and Ross (posted on the 'Gate Saturday evening, which is why this is going up now), the Chron did some investigating and has confirmed that, based on her voter
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Joe Mangrum When he’s not attempting to get every single resident of the Mission to fight him, Joe makes art (maybe you’ve been lucky enough to see some of his stuff around the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Conquers 49 Geary Catharine Clark Gallery It was hard not to be completely in awe of Julie Heffernan’s show at the Catharine Clark Gallery. It’s been awhile since we’ve seen an artist with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Incanto's Whole Roasted Suckling Pig with its "Nasty Bits" We can't think of a better way to spend a birthday (our husband's) than eating an entire animal with seventeen fellow carnivores at Incanto Restaurant's private room, in Noe Valley. This is a
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,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: How Greens Is Your Vino? The tasting took place in the awesome private dining room at Greens, in the corner of the Fort Mason building, with spectacular views through windows on the Bay from two sides. We'd be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Movies at Dolores Park Behind us was Film Geek guy who spent the entire night dazzling his fawning girlfriend with his amazing ability to discover plot holes. In front of us was some woman who just couldn't
SF News Ding Ding! The San Francisco Treat It turns out Rice-A-Roni actually a San Francisco treat -- the family of the guy who currently runs the Napa Valley Wine Train ran a pasta business in the Mission in the 1930s,
SF News Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! The final this year should be a real humdinger of a game as it involves not only two storied teams who have played some great and stirring soccer, but because it features two
misc Gastronomique: Savor for the Savvy Cook. The restaurants include Myth, thus the proud display there, but also Acquerello, the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton, Farallon, the Fifth Floor, La Folie, etc. That is the crème de la crème, and
SF News The Warriors: Trading Places Unlike the Toronto Raptors, the Warriors have kept their plans for draft day close to the vest, which means they either have something up their sleeves or they still haven't figured out what
