Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i> To Get New Host; Animatronic Puppeteer Seeks Work Hey, folks -- season one is over, but that doesn't mean there's not something delicious about it in the news to help us bide our time until season 2 begins (thankfully, again here
Arts & Entertainment How to Get the Guy: First, Stand Uncomfortably Close to One Ahhh. Beautiful San Francisco! Apparently our "little city by the bay" is full of single woman who "just can't seem to find love on their own." Yay! These two love coaches are going
Arts & Entertainment The North Beach Festival: Now With More Beer Basically, what this will mean is that part of Washington Square Park will be open for everyone and parts of it will be fenced off for all the alcoholics to roam free. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Pairing Wine and Food We thought we'd share some of our wine-pairing tricks to help you decide what to drink with your next meal. There's no great mystery. Use a couple guidelines to steer you one way
Arts & Entertainment Food Blog Round-Up We like beer, we really do, although we're feeling a bit overwhelmed by it right now. While we can all agree that: Budweiser isn't very good; the hierarchy of quality goes: draft, bottle,
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Joan of Arc The ghost of former general director Pamela Rosenberg was hovering above when a man dressed in a gray business suit was the first to come on the stage. We feared for a second
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Interviews Marcia Gagliardi Marcia, could you describe in a few words what/who is the tablehopper? “The tablehopper” is an insider weekly e-column/newsletter about the SF dining scene, chock-full of gossip about what’s opening,
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Madame Butterfly As for the 3,000 inside, they were treated to a glorious show. Madame Butterfly is a crowd pleaser, as far as tragedies go, and this production came up with a recipe for
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: The Last Suppers So last night the best reality show on television came to an end for this season. It was down to the final two -- perhaps there was a little controversy, perhaps one of
SF News To Be Continued... Two stories from last week are still being stories this week, so we thought we'd update everyone on what the latest has been. First up, North Beach, where yet another big, fun festival
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: The Spanish-American War; Cannes or Canned? Oh, man, we're coming down to it--Bravo's just keeps getting better and better. Watch this San Francisco-based series tonight at 10 p.m. before it's too late! Someone is walking away from this
Arts & Entertainment 3 to the 3rd: Varnish Fine Art Celebrates Three Years of Giving Us Culture and Getting Us Drunk The trio of artists chosen to exhibit their work at this milestone show was a diverse group, featuring cast metal sculptor Brian Elliot, intaglio printmaker Kevin Evans and ceramicist Liz Orleans. At first
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Opening Night Party During the post Q&A, our companion dropped our gift-bagged Skyy Vodka bottle. Oh, how sad we were as we listened to it roll down the angled floor of the Castro to
Arts & Entertainment The Grapes of Path Usually when we think of Napa, we think of Range Rovers and froofy wine-tasting tours that inevitably get sloppy and end with a brutal hangover and two cases of overpriced Chardonnay. But this
SF News Beer And Movies Eventually At The Red Vic The Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi-penned ordinance goes into effect immediately, but the Red Vic still had several hurdles to leap. We spoke to the Red Vic's Martha Beck, to see if we could be
misc SFist Whines & Dines: 21st Amendment and Hennessy’s Wine Shop The tradition continues with the 10th Annual Dog Days of Summer on August 5th against the Colorado Rockies. But the competition hardly matters, what does matter is before the game all the dogs
SF News This Week On CSI: Plumpjack Let's check in with San Francisco couple of the moment, CSI: Plumpjack -- how's the love blossoming between Mayor Gavin Newsom and actress/Scientology activist Sofia Milos? Leah Garchik reports that CSI: Plumpjack
SF News Your Commute: Cows on the Highway It was, in a word, iyick. Also, in food related traffic jams, a traffic jam was caused on 880 yesterday when a truck carrying wine toppled near I-880, forcing a three hour closure
Arts & Entertainment Y to Zed Y is for Yuppy Marina which is where four girlfriends travelled to check out a fairly new sushi bar that we had read good things about . Yuzu is a modern, minimalist and sleek
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Villainy, Thy Name is Stephen So, anyone else out there watching on Bravo? Allow us to introduce you to it -- it's like the Apprentice for foodies. Notably, it takes place right here, in our fair city. The
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Russian River So the next time you hear a New Yorker tell you how much better everything is there than San Francisco (and you are living here because?), ask them if they have a dog.
SF News Political Junkie: A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Mayor Sure, SF's Gavin Newsom's legalized gay marriage, and San Jose's Ron Gonzales built a city hall (and transacted some funny business with garbage collectors, but that's a separate story) -- but they got
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sofia Milos Newsom? Gavin'll try anything to lower the crime rate around here! Leah Garchik triumphantly reports that Gavin was seen kissing CSI: Miami detective Sofia Milos goodbye at a North Beach cafe last Monday morning,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An Obsession With Coffee? Oh, and you can consider the above set of links the Trimethyldioxypurist's guide to getting started as an enthusiast. Obsessive is a whole other level, and you'll know it if you're there*, and
Arts & Entertainment Love in the Time of Cleveland Steamers Call us bitter, but we simply don't have any words in us to express love beyond "I'd hit it." It is therefore astounding to us that Lee Lessack deftly assembled seventeen swoony-croony ballads
