SFist worried over drugstore chain Walgreens celebration of Black History Month.Gothamist was surprised that apparently New York City is the fourth most miserable city in the country, after Detroit, Stockton, CA, and Flint, MI.Shanghaiist finds out what the Chinese think of Hilary and Obama.It was with a healthy amount of schadenfreude that Phillyist reported that former Eagle, and now Cowboy (ew), Terrell Owens owes the Eagles a significant wad of cash.Torontoist is two weeks......

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

Okay, here's something that we've always wondered about in football-- why don’t coaches in the final minutes of a football let the other team score to get the ball back instead of letting the other team run down the clock and kick the game-winning field goal? Just look at the Eagles/Giants game. The Eagles were in easy field goal range with about two minutes to go and the Giants out of time outs. So the Eagles just ran the clock out and won the game with a last second field goal, something that was pretty much inevitable. So what if instead of doing what they did, the Giants let Westbrook run it in for a TD with a minute or so left so they could get the ball back? Wouldn’t that make more sense than hoping that some sort of fluke play occurs? If you were a coach, would you rather take your chances hoping that the team that's driving either screws up the field goal, fumbles, or gets backed up due to penalties or would you rather take a chance with your offense scoring again? ...

-Rams 20, Raiders 0- On ESPN's Sports Guy column, they joked about the Raiders' season. The punch line was the title of Art Shell's book: "It Worked So Well In Practice: The Art Shell Story." Which sums up the Raiders season--. comedy gold, Jerry, comedy gold. ...

Rams 20 49ers 17- At the end of the first half in the game against the Eagles a couple of months ago, Mike Nolan was faced with a decision on whether to go for it on fourth down and inches or kick a field goal. He went for the field goal and was criticized by some of the Faithful for doing so, mainly because they were convinced the Niners were on the verge of rallying and going for it might have swung Big Mo there way. In yesterday's game, Nolan was faced with a similiar decision, this time in the fourth quarter and ahead 14-13, and once again went for the field goal. This time, it might have cost them the game as they lost on a last minute TD. Bring on the controversy. It must be said too that a team that at one point was looking almost as bad as last year's travesty is now in a situation where there's huge debate over a coaching decision and whether or not it cost them a game. Why? Because when you get blown out a lot, it doesn't matter. These things matter now. ...

Let's look back at a week in which no site in the -ist network adopted anyone from Africa......

It's Week Four of the National Football League's 2006 regular season. Things have been tough. How’ve you been? Here's what happening with your Niners and Raiders for this October 1st...

Eagles 38, 49ers 24- You can look at this game several ways. Some people will spin it and say the 49ers showed some gumption and were several mistakes away from being in this game. Other people can look at the game and see that the Iggles were basically toying with the 49ers. Whenever they needed a big play on offense, they did it. Whenever they needed a big play on D, they got it. Case in point, in the third quarter when the 49ers were on the one and unable to get in and only . On the third down play, Frank Gore fumbled and 292 pound Mike Patterson returned it for a 98 yard touchdown. The Eagles scored on their first two possessions and looked like a pretty smooth running machine for the rest of the game, or at least they did when it appeared they weren't cat napping. ...

Torontoist visits the site of a new Frank Gehry structure, stalks "the elusive Bahamas streetcar", and watches Tom Green get surgery. Phillyist rejoices in the Phillies' wild card chances, mourns the injuries sustained by Eagles defensive end Jevon Kearse, and goes pirate on our asses. SFist notes that Guns and Roses were in town, that San Franciscans are taking over reality TV, and that the San Francisco Chronicle's skills of original nomenclature could use some......

It's Week Three of the National Football League's 2006 regular season. Here's what happening with your Niners and Raiders. ...

After the first two games of the season, Niners fans are all giddy and glowing about things. They have the same look on their face one has when one finally hooks up with their obsessive infatuation and starts dreaming up whole relationships/trysts in their heads. But the problem with all this giddiness is that, well, said infatuation was also really, really, really drunk and pissed off because their obsessive infatuation blew them off. And no, we're not projecting. At all. What we mean is that while the Niners are 1-1 and played well even in their loss, their two opponents in those games were not exactly the top of the line in NFL teams. The Cardinals are the Cardinals, perpetually doomed to doormatness, and the Rams appear to be still trying to find their way in a post-Martz world. ...

Let's meet the guys newly selected to bear the Silver And Black, shall we? Presenting the top three picks of your Oakland Raiders' 2006 Draft. ...

Lots of people love Memorial Day weekend because of the three-day weekend and the non-stop binging on fleshy dead animals, but we love it because all the rock radio stations bust out their "Top 500 of All Time" lists. We love those lists. It's where we get to hear what the mass of radio listeners consider their favorite songs and not the lunk-headed snots at Pitchfork. Will "Stairway" still be on top? Will people finally realize just how God-awful the Eagles really are? And most importantly, how much radio do you have to listen to just so you can hear the classic rock goodness that is the Top 20 songs? This year, both Live 105 and 107.7 the Bone busted out their Top 500 lists and that made the weekend even that more exciting. It was a veritable smorgasbord of rock. It also meant we got to hear what the favorite songs of both forty-something mullet heads and the alienated youth are. It's like a parallel world thing-- one is a list of everything before 1990 and the other is a list of pretty much everything after 1990. If we had only gotten Top 500 lists from both Alice and KFOG it would have been that much better because we could have also have gotten the favorite songs of Marina Chicks and white-bred Yupsters too. But, alas. ...

Growing up in public schools, we never bothered to learn Latin, but we hear that Caesurae translates to “cutting,” and this aptly titled group exhibition at Urbis Artium is not for the faint of heart. The show opens with Jordan Eagles’ series of luminous resin pieces that from far away look like the cross section of old-growth Redwood with their deep red, cracked concentric circles. Upon closer inspection, you find that the red color......

Man, that Colts/Bengals game on Sunday was good. Sixty-two points at halftime, eighty-two total points at the end. All that and Charles Johnson celebrating a TD by proposing to a Bengal cheerleader. Too bad we never got to see the game. Also not shown was the big, first place battle between Michael Vick's Falcons and the Tampa Bay Bucs. As well as the old skool defensive battle between Da Bears and the Panthers that had everyone talking '85 Bears. We also didn't get a chance to see the big Giants/Eagles game and for anyone who has ever lived in the East Coast knows, a big, late-fall throw down between two NFC East rivals is the kind of game that one can just hear John Facienda calling. What we did see, however, was a Raiders/'Skins yawner, a battle between a team already out of it and a team rapidly falling out of it. Unless you're a Raiders fan, that game held no interest to anyone unless they had someone on their fantasy team (like us). What did the other channel, that being FOX, show instead? An interview with Don "Chuckles" Rumsfield. Football, football everywhere, but not a good game to see. Why, oh why can't we see good football games?...

SFist would like to extend a warm welcome to all of you who found us via SFist Chuck's SFist Tech Roundup. Lotsa other stuff besides our contemplation of Apple's bigger plan over here at SFist last week... Like our contemplation of The Orphanage's bigger plan, which we promise to never contemplate again if they give SFist Matty-Matt (who appeared during KRON's coverage of the story a day later, as he raised his hand at......

Let the record show that we have serious issues with anything related to exhibition pre-season football. We hate how hyped they are, hate how seriously they're taken, and we especially hate how they put the games on TV when we want to watch something else. All this for a game primarily played by a bunch of people fighting to not be cut. Nevertheless, this week features the debut appearance of both Bay Area teams,......

We personally think the whole "Top Whatever" lists thing to be totally overdone and usually laughably wrong. On the other hand, they are darn fun to ruminate over. Especially a particularly juicy one that hasn't been done before. Recently, USA Today put together a list of the "Top Twenty American Rock Bands." The top American band of all time, as voted by the readers? Pearl Jam. Something they got in part for "longevity" even though we thought they broke up in '95 or something (we kid! We know they're still around. It's just that they’ve been releasing the same half-assed disc for the past ten years). Of local interest is the fact that the Bay Area throws down and represents. In fact, four out of the twenty (well, actually, twenty-one but do we really want to include Bon Jovi?) all hail from our hallowed climes. Those bands? The East Bay's own Creedence Clearwater Revival (15, tied with Bruuuuuce!!!!!) and Metallica (12), the Dead (7), and clocking in as the highest ranked Bay Area band-- Journey (5). Don’t stop believing, indeed. For a bit of perspective, that's more great bands than Chicago (zero bands), Boston (one band), Seattle (three) and the mighty New York (three). Take that, Big Apple! The only area more rocking than the Bay Area is SoCal, with six, but there should be some sort of penalty incurred for giving us the Eagles. ...

By now, hearing something referred to as "only in San Francisco" has been thrown around so much that it's almost not worth saying anymore. Every once in awhile, though, we come across a story that could only be described as "only in San Francisco." According to Matier & Ross in Wednesday's Chronicle, a big protest rally that was supposed to take place this weekend involving some of the twenty-two (!) candidates running to replace Matt Gonzalez on the Board of Supervisors (District 5) was cancelled. The reason? Burning Man. Turns out that there's nobody around to attend the rally because all the usual suspects are at the Playa. As are four of the candidates. Does this mean we should expect to see ads from "Burning Man Veterans for Truth"? ("Candidate Smith said he painted himself blue and danced to rave music all night but Candidate Smith is lying! I have proof that instead, Candidate Smith drank Corona's and listened to the Eagles with his ex-frat buddies the entire weekend.") EssEfist thinks we have a way around this problem. Considering that most of that District 5, a district that includes most of the Haight, is at Burning Man, maybe they should just hold the rally there? And yes, only in San Francisco.... EssEffist Jon, Contributing...