SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Tries WineParty It's not hard to figure out the appeal. You get a bunch of people together in a friendly environment with a half-dozen or so bottles of wine, and people get to unearth new
SF News The Warriors: Hanging By a Thread On Wednesday, the War-terloos were worn down and overmatched by the Miami Humidity, losing at home 110-96. Last night, they sleepwalked through their game with the Phoenix Sunburn like it was a preseason
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Overdosa Since Sam wrote such a great review, we eschewed our second visit, and will just give some quick notes of our first impressions. Overall, we were quite pleased with the place. The hostess
SF News American Football Spectacular: Bowl-tastic LIBERTY BOWL Fresno St vs. Tulsa Saturday, December 31, 2005 Fresno has been all slumpy since nearly upsetting USC in a monstrous toe-to-toe battle. Tulsa used to be in the same conference with
SF News Farewell Joseph Owades Okay, one could argue that he didn't invent the computer or some new fangled gadget that changed the world. And he didn't come up with the cure for AIDS or polio or acid
Arts & Entertainment TypePad Down, Joins Growing Club But today, we got an IM from Om Malik letting us know that TypePad, SixApart's hosted blog service, has had 'an incident.' But we woke up late this morning, and figured it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How To Open Sparkling Wine With party season in full swing, we want to provide a reminder about the proper way to open a bottle of sparkling wine. Here's a hint: It's not about how far the cork
SF News SF Getting Its V Card If approved, Virgin'll be the only major airline based in California, and will have the potential to create as many as 2,000 local jobs, with an eventual additional 20,000-30,000 indirect
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Allen Salkin For the uninitiated, Festivus was the holiday Frank Costanza cooked up in lieu of Christmas and features a Festivus Pole instead of a Christmas Tree. Families get together, stage the "Airing of Grievances"
SF News The Perils of Pelosi So we have a political party, the Dems, in a Catch-22: don't propose anything and get criticized for not having a plan only to then come up with a plan and get criticized
SF News Sister City-hood Is Powerful Sister sister -- Shanghai and SF affirmed their 25 years of friendship as Gavin and Shanghai mayor Han Zheng totally touched their cut pinky fingers together to affirm their sister city status. Gavin
Arts & Entertainment Open Your Hart (to Hart) This Holiday Season You can take in this "all-star holiday benefit concert" Sunday, December 4 at 7:30, at the Herbst Theater. As for the star power of the event, there's a lot of them, but
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads -- Or Listens to Others Read A couple literary events have made their way into our inbox lately, and we want to tell you about them. It's just that simple. Sometimes we like to watch people reading, it's like
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Would You Like Some Cicciolina With That Wine? An advance edition due to the upcoming holiday. Happy Thanksgiving to you all! We cannot find a link to it, so take it with a grain of salt, but we read recently that,
SF News Mouseketeer Gets Married Reading that Daily Dish feed on the 'gate is always such a guilty pleasure. And today is no exception! Top on the Dish is the revelation that Not Britney Spears (i.e., Christina
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Pomegranates Back in the day, Hades abducted Persephone while she frolicked in the fields. Boo on that, we say. Her mom, Ceres, goddess of the harvest, eventually found her and brought her back to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink O to Zed Somewhere deep in the Tenderloin you can find a secretive wooden door, sometimes marked by 'Daddi-Dee' waiting to see if you'll bum him a cigarette or slide him a note. The journey through
SF News Who Reads Yesterday's Papers -Worried about mercury levels in fish? So is the Board of Supervisors! This week they approved an ordinance that will call for restaurants to post warnings, in English, Chinese and Spanish, about mercury
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ian Lendler Today's victim of the SFist interview has only been in our fair city for a couple of weeks, but that doesn'r mean we're going to take it easy on him! His new book,
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping on Drunkards Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the inaugural edition of Yvesdropping. Hopefully, time will show that the cleverest elements of this new feature extend beyond its deliberately misspelled and mostly meaningless name. Thank you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: You Can Ride Our Tail Any Time Last week’s roundup covered quite a few places in the Mission: Pizzeria Delfina, the resurrected Window, the Thai-French fusion at Baku, dim-sum at Big Lantern, and Crazy Sushi. We thought it was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Make Your Reservations Now! You know all our fancy, world-class, four star restaurants, and how difficult it is to get a reservation? You've got to plan months in advance -- both to book a table, and to
misc SFist Raves: Sailboats on the Bay While our tenure as a ship's captain was short lived, as we didn't know how to tack and ended up drifting downwind until our angry father found us and rescued us from a
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Dava Guthmiller Tell us aboutPow.wow? In 2003 I got a stuck in a rut, personally. I was lacking motivation and realized I didn't have much of a life outside my office. So, what better
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Mangeurs d'ail, et fiers de l'être. Bouchon is Keller's other restaurant, the French bistro sidekick to his French Laundry's and his Per Se's haute cuisine. The French Laundry, in Yountville in Napa, is arguably the best restaurant in the
