"A San Francisco family is looking for a personal assistant / household manager to join our team on a long term basis." Are you that someone? more ›

SFist Rita is on a well-deserved holiday break so we apologize ahead of time for this week's suckage. more ›

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 67. more ›

Since we have to lead with anything Journey here at SFist, check out the YouTube clip of the ad for Atari's "Journey Escape" we found on Kotaku. Avoiding (pixelated representations of) crazed fans and manipulative music industry types never looked so fun! Buy it now! If espionage is more your game, then the cloak-and-dagger shenanigans at HP should be up your alley. Even reporters were entangled in the web of lives spun to discredit a board member who once wed John Traina's sloppy seconds ex-wife Danielle Steele. more ›

We had so much fun with our first caption contest that we're doing it again! What in the Sam Hill is going on here between Gavin Newsom and girlfriend Sofia Milos, at Danielle Steele's party for the Nick Traina Foundation? Post your captions in the comments; best caption wins unspecified prizes! more ›

About a month ago, everyone's favorite San Francisco homeboy, Robin Williams, thought he'd do something civic minded and gave the Department of Public Works a gift of $80,000. The money was supposed to go to repairing a retaining wall and median strip on Seacliff Avenue near his crib. Win-win for everyone involved, including San Francisco, right? more ›

A weekly peer into the San Francisco bar scene through a big pair of coke bottle-thick beer goggles. Submitted as usual by barrespondent Drew. more ›

So we had to go put our tale of "San Francisco Secret Service" callback woe up on Scott Stereogum's post requesting stories of calling the numbers in Paris Hilton's hacked Sidekick. While there, we noted that her friend "Nessie Traina," AKA Vanessa Traina, daughter of local romance novelist Danielle Steele, was also listed. She was last spotted at Fashion Week in New York. Of course, the number is a 310 number, which means she's abandoned us for the splash and dash of Southern California, so we didn't bother to call. more ›

We had two new weekly features debut this week - the Trimethyldioxypurist will be bringing you slightly jittery thoughts on the local coffee culture and the independently owned establishments that make it happen every Monday. If you want to know what weird songs are turning up on SFist's collective shuffle setting, check out SFist listens on Wednesdays. We'll also be chronicling the efforts of a NaNoWriMo novelist for the rest of the month - find out what it's like to write an entire novel in a month, or "What Danielle Steele does once a year for parking permit money." more ›