Oh, this looks like fun. While hogging the Internet today, we came across this Yahoo group for the homeless, which bills itself as a "unique, independent, community based support group, moderated by anonymous homeless and formerly homeless volunteers, in San Francisco, California." It's great. The homeless or lease signers among us can send them tips, blow whistles, upload real photos of meals served in several shelters, see photos of health and hygiene conditions at......

SFist interviews Brian Regan...

In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed over fifty homes within the first 24 hours. National outlets may be covering the fires, but CNN also found it is easier to buy a gun than fruit and......

SFist interviews Mike Birbiglia and gives away tickets to his upcoming show at Cobb's. ...

Even more pressure to stop screwing around and settle down, this time from advice columnist Jeanne Phillips, aka Abigail Van Buren, aaka Dear Abby. "I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em," the syndicated advice columnist told The Associated Press. "That is the highest form of commitment, for heaven's sake." Pft.......

San Franciscans have already had a year to enjoy the Green Zebra Guide coupon book. We here in the East Bay wouldn’t know about that, since we’ve never seen that book ourselves, although we’ve heard tell of its exploits. However, when we found out that a coupon book specifically for East Bay eco-minded businesses, organic food, restaurants, sustainable living services, and entertainment was on its way to our little forgotten corner of the bay, we......

When we began our daunting, three-month-long apartment hunt this past June, we soon discovered that the competition for affordable one-bedrooms suitable for two people was fierce. We needed to find an abode before our impending marriage at the end of September, but after spurts of fruitless open houses throughout the summer, we feared we were doomed to walk through our separate "thresholds" post-matrimony, with our various roommates lurking down the hall. So, last week, after......

Firings! Lies! Non-lies! It's so fucking exciting! A few hours after our post last week about Jeff's cameras in the THC's Seneca Hotel, we caught word of some firings. OMG did we get someone canned? Well, no. As it turns out, two folks were terminated at a different property (here's the job posting for their replacements), but it wasn't related to the cameras. Whatever the real reasons are for the firings, they cannot possibly......

Matier and Ross have both our obsessions covered in tomorrow's column! (The column's dated for tomorrow's paper, but went live this evening which is why this is going up now.) First off: Ed Jew! The Chron finally runs the story that accompanied the pictures of them being denied access to Ed Jew's alleged shower in his flower store from last week that were taken down. Alas, the pictures don't make another appearance, but M&R......

--Gavin Newsom angrily denies Chris Daly's cocaine allegations, calls them "sleazy," and calls for everyone in the Board of Supes to condemn them. Tom Ammiano says he thought it was one of Daly's better speeches. [The Chron (and audio clip), CBS 5 (with video of Daly at the meeting and Newsom's denial), ABC 7 (also with video), Fog City, Beyond Chron, Examiner, SF Sentinel. Watch the video from SFGov here, around item 36.] --Your Two......

We enjoy Yelp quite a bit. During our rare moments of free time, we often have fun slogging through the site's multitudes of oft-useful, oft-comedic opinions on local services, establishments, and especially restaurants (feel free to check out our vast [6] amount of reviews ). We were interested to hear more about the genesis of this community-based Web site, and wondered how Yelp's growth and evolution looked to those behind the scenes. The site's founders, Jeremy Stoppelman (who's the CEO, and talked to SFist once before) and Russel Simmons (the CTO), took a few minutes to answer three questions for us. Hey -- six answers for the price of three!...

We're sure many of you recieved letters from Carole Migden, as did we. They serve as yet another medium for excusing her recent poor driving -- and offer up a short list of accomplishments, presumably to let her consituency know how horrible we'd have it without her. Hurrumph. ...

You may remember Megan Morrone from TechTV -- or you may have heard her filling in on a podcast here or there. We've recently become reacquainted with her works through Jumping Monkeys, her blog, wherein Megan relates stories about her life as a parent of three children. She, with Leo Laporte, has just launched a new, affiliated podcast of the same name, of which one episode (basically an introduction to this "show for geek parents") has been published. We listened to it and were so anxious to hear more that we hit Megan up for the "Three Questions . . ." treatment. To our delight, she complied. ...

SFist gives away tickets and album for Voxtrot at Great American Music Hall on 5/30/07...

Ever since Alberta, the best drink-mixer EVER, vanished from behind the bar at the Orbit Room, we haven't been back. It's been a dark, dry time. But now the bartendress-shaped void in our life has been filled by cocktailsonthefly.tv, Alberta's new webby home! The most important booze-slinger in town is now starring in professionally-shot drink-making tutorials, highlighting her talent for combining fresh fruit and top-notch booze. We're talking about fine, precision-crafted workmanship here --......

There's never a good time to visit the emergency room, but being forced to do so on the same day as Bay to Breakers would definitely be an even bigger bummer. We thought our fianceé Daniel Phifer would be avoiding the whole mess altogether when he ventured over to Berkeley on Sunday morning to engage in some very adult activities. Unfortunately, he returned to San Francisco a few hours later with a shattered wrist (he should've attended the Safety Day in March!) and a visit to the Kaiser emergency room that inconveniently coincided with the winding down of SF's annual drunken marathon—well, one of them, at least. Here's the account told last night through Daniel's itchy, Percocet-induced haze, as he awaits surgery in the morning (they're putting a high-tech plate in his wrist that will get him well on the road to recovery in a couple of weeks):...

As previously reported, San Francisco style appears to be everywhere nowadays. Unless, of course, you happen to be a perspiring actress in desperate need of a personal assistant/paid BFF. (Um, does the job have benefits? And does she have a Black Card we can use to pick out new coats for her at Neiman's? Just curious.) We don't dish out our advice for free. ...

Japanese arts are known for their minimalism and depth. One could spend years trying to unravel the deeper meaning of haiku. Since we don’t personally speak Japanese, we’ve had to read haiku in translation. Which has prepared us well for the task at hand today—deciphering the deep inner meaning of David Best’s mini-view (yah, cute term, we’re quite proud of it). Best is the guitarist for Fujiya & Miyagi, which, we’re pretty sure is......

We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: In honor of Mother's Day, Yummy Mummies who happen to be food professionals spill advice and recipes on keeping families with children fed. Our fave tips: pour yourself a big glass of wine (yes!!); kids eat better when they help, or at least watch, while (Mom) cooks; and break meals down into three manageable pieces --......

SFist interviews Nic Dillon from the band Casados. They are performing tonight in San Francisco at the Rockit Room...

SFist interviews Patrick Pentland from Sloan...

Thanks for everyone's help in the 4FQT comments on fixing the light levels on our pictures from Gavin's 4th Fake Question Time townhall meeting! As readers suggested, we downloaded the Gimp (we're too cheap to shell out for Photoshop) and tried to figure out what exactly fixing a "logarithmic color curve" entails. We still don't know, so we basically just played around with a bunch of features and retouched the pictures as seen here.......

What's the price of a free society? Lunatics running around loose: online threats have lead UC Hastings to shut down, just for today. What are the threats? Who's responsible? We don't know. What we do know is there are a lot of unhappy, unpredictable, desperately fragile folks in the world, some of whom have had the bad luck of being burdened with pain from which it may seem impossible to ever recover; and we can......

UPDATE! Let's just pretend that our embarassingly mispelled hedline is a Lindsay Lohan joke. Yeah, sure, that's the ticket. Thanks for sending in pix and video of your own experiences with Muni's near-meltdown (and please, remember to not be jerks when using your cameras). Didja catch us complaining on NBC11's news last night? (The reporter is still seeking comments from riders, BTW -- so send her an email.) As expected, Muni's still staggering around,......

SFist interviews Artis Mark Mulroney...

It's never just me, myself, and I when you've got SFist Jenna on your side! Ask the Cube Expat!: Are you plotting ways to escape yet another dreary staff meeting right this minute? Dragging out your coffee breaks? Itching to ditch your day job but don't know where to start? Then you should make the trek over to Sausalito tonight and check out freelance writer and editor Michelle Goodman as she lays down a blueprint......

Meat and Greet Self-described as a print magazine of meat culture, Meatpaper celebrates the launch of Issue Zero at Sugarlump coffee lounge tonight in the Mission. Tastings and demonstrations by local restaurants and meat companies like Incanto and Prather Ranch serve up festivities (non-carne nosh will be available for the veggie crowd); drinks will be provided by Trumer Pilsner , Sonnema VodkaHerb and others, along with a gallery of meat-inspired art to feast your eyes......

SFist interviews Eric Allen, bass player for the Apples in Stereo...

If you ever find yourself in Belmont and want to light up a cigarette, here's a word of advice: don't. Thanks to a new resolution being considered to fight second-hand smoke, the city will be the toughest on smoking anywhere. Smoking in company cars? Nope. Smoking on the sidewalk? Fuhgeddaboutit. Same with your apartment and even your home if one of your neighbors complains. If you do get caught, the anti-Smoking SWAT Team will come and get you and send you to a smoking reeducation camp where they will forcibly keep your eyes open Clockwork Orange style and make you watch the movie about the Marlboro Man until you see the evils of smoking. ...

Listen, we are here for you. It is important that you ask Questions that you desire us to Answer. So, hey; what would you have us answer? We are your tea-sipping Bay Area oracle of the internets, y'all. As all-encompassing as fuzzy blanket... As omni-present as that one tie of Gavin's... As multi-functional as your winter sweatpants... Whatever you've got, we can answer. So let fly! Do you have some answer that has eluded you......