Hi, I’m Brock, and I’ll be your new editor. A wee bit about me: I used to work here writing stuff, where I skipped innumerable important deadlines by looking at this very site. I’m now humbled and honored to be a part of something that helped my work productivity take such a sharp nosedive; I only hope that I can help do the same for you. Coming to you live from one of the few......

The 2005 'Fisties went even better than we'd hoped, with great comments, discussion, and suggestions followng almost all the posts. If we didn't feel it was a conflict of interest, we'd be awarding that Best Blog Readers 'Fistie to y'all, but can our love really be quantified with an award like that? Well, maybe next year. Make the jump to see a rundown of all our 2005 awards. Thank all of you out there......

We here at SFist like our celebrities like we like our men: insane, rude, dirty, and fabulous. Oh, wait, that's NOT how we like our men anymore (that's 12 years of therapy finally paying off, folks.) But any celebrity who seems too classy, clean, or "just like us" is not who makes us buy that Us magazine at the Cala point of purchase. Our attitudes about celebrities mesh nicely with our attitude about our......

Our favorite place to shop for non-essentials is, bar none, Super 7. We wander their tiny store for ages, certainly inciting suspicions of shoplifting. But we swear we're not! We just love everything in the store SO MUCH that we can't make up our damn minds. We first sang their praises over a year ago, and our love has not waned in the slightest. We mean to subscribe to their Super 7 magazine ("the......

Oh, how to choose, how to choose. There are simply so many Movements in this town that it's only to be expected that some would utterly fail to have any impact whatsoever on our lives, other than giving us something to bitch about. For example, there was all that chatter a few months ago about banning pit bulls. And that citywide gun ban thingy that is probably, um, well, just a wee bit unconsitutional.......

When people ask us (as they do, with surprising frequency) why we don't eat meat, we often answer "because we can." We consider ourselves very lucky to be living in a city that offers indulgence to many a less-common political, dietary, and spiritual bent, as we get to consume the results. In fact, it's pretty easy for the garden-variety lacto-ovo vegetarian to find something to eat on almost every menu in the Bay Area.......

Beautiful pictures from Bay Area restaurants. How many do you recognize, how many of them were new in 2005 and which one of them, sadly, closed down recently? We were going to award the Best New Restaurant award of 2005, to Jack Falstaff which opened exactly a year ago, and which we reviewed here on SFist after our third visit. Although by no means does JF offer a perfect restaurant experience, we found it......

Let's review our sushi cred, will you? For SFist, we have been to quite a few sushi places; we are very familiar with the big names in the sushi market, the Ebisus, Blowfishs or Kabutos, which we visit periodically, and our s.o. comes from Japan. Yet, we find ourselves back at Hamano a few times a month, rain or shine. Why don't we ever stray too far? Part of it is the relationship we......

Man, every day in 2005 had some kind of good San Francisco Bay Area news story -- whether it was the lady who planted the finger in the Wendy's chili, Bill O'Reilly, explosions downtown, anarchist yutzes in the Mission, and nude art in bars, to pick some totally random examples we pulled from a disorganized riffling through the SFist archives search engine. How can we pick just one favorite news story for the entire......

Julius Kahn must have done something right to have the 'Fistiest park in the city named after him. Whatever he did*, his best accomplishment is to have this playground to his name. Nested in the south side of the Presidio, facing the mansions of the well-to-do, it breathes the charme discret de la bourgeoisie. And it is a city park, so even you can afford it too. Bring your kid there, have them play......

There are rumors swirling around --which will propagate and give credence to, of course, despite having absolutely no further information -- that Chef Daniel Humm could be leaving Campton Place Restaurant, just off Union square, due to some reshuffling after the acquisition of his restaurant (and the hotel which hosts it) by some LA businessmen. So just in case there is a hint of truth in this, we'll hurry and award him the first......

Boy--we sure love completely subjective awards, and we're super thankful for a chance to give out a few of our own. People who've been reading our "Trimethyldioxypurist" missives will not be especially surprised by the winners. For those who are strangers to our periodic ramblings about coffee and cafes around the City by the Bay, here are our favorites among the many, many cool, delicious, and often unique coffee choices at which we overcaffeinated......

A dialogue between SFists Rita and Jeremy on the eternally-debated question of the best burrito in San Francisco Rita: Let the burrito debates begin! Lincoln/Douglas rules! (I have absolutely no idea what that actually means, but doesn't that sound all high-school debate-team-y?) RESOLVED: that Papalote has the best frickin burrito in town. Mmmmm, I love me the Papalote fish burrito. The buttery fish, the just-the-right-amount-of-flour tortilla, the tangy organic tomato/onion/cilantro, and if you eat......

Sure, the Bay Area is pretty much tops in tech — but we're also tops in freakitude! So far this 'Fistie, we're casting a wider net, roaming around the world for the not just the coolest tech, but by far the weirdest. Don't worry, the winners are a home-town team. While great things were done by leaders in the field like Yahoo, Apple, Google, Sun, Intel and smaller companies like SixApart, Technorati, Odeo, Audioblog,......

Best Musical Event: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Best Local Venue: Golden Gate Park Were you among the tens of thousands who attended the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival this year? We cannot say enough good things about this event. If you're a fan of folk, Americana, country, bluegrass, or roots music of any ilk, you should have been at Golden Gate Park on September 30th and October 1st. This year's Hardly Strictly drew over 50 acts,......

When asked to nominate the best place to see art in this city, we admit to feeling a bit reticent. Though we’ve certainly been hot for many teachers, we’ve never been down with pedagogy, after all, and firmly believe in a “to each, his own” approach to art and art making. We took an academic approach to the problem nevertheless, searching our previous posts for patterns in art loving.......

When it came time to pick the best place to shop for food, we fretted over the decision. We knew the winner would be a farmer's market, since seasonal produce bought from local farmers beats virtually every store's fruits and vegetables. But which market to choose? The Bay Area probably has more farmer's markets per capita than anywhere else, each with its own personality and devotees. The Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market gets plenty of......

9 random pictures of pizza from 5 different Bay Area Pizza producers. Can you guess all 5 venues? Pizza Schmizza. It's just a piece of dough topped with tomato and cheese. What is all the fuss about, really? Why are people so impassioned about their opinions of what makes the best pizza? What is the point of bestowing this award when 80% of the popultion are going to argue with our choice? And how......

It’s about that time again (for the first time). Time to heap a whole year’s worth of praise on to several lucky and talented establishments that did us the kind service of getting us drunk. Yes indeed, ‘tis the season for recognizing the best of the best, the places that don’t settle for second place, that realize life is a marathon not a sprint, and any other clichéd ‘successories’ slogans you can think of. Crack-a-lack-a!!......

It's not like we didn't warn you -- the 'Fisties are here! All year long, we've done our best to keep our readers informed of the best and brightest in the Bay Area, and the 'Fisties are a distillation of that work. We'll be giving one out every weekday the rest of the year, so keep coming back (not that you wouldn't, already). Through a painstaking and highly proprietary process, we've come up with......