Former SFist editor Jackson West boasts that at the "last sample sale [he] came away with five hats for forty bucks." You don't get better testimonial than that, folks. Also, heads just look adorable in hats -- more so than you would think. Sure, those of you who suffer from extreme ovalarity of the visage might want to re-think the chapeau as a fashion statement. But for most of us, the hat not only......

R.I.P. When The Lights Go Down In The City November 2004 - September 2007 It was SFist's first editor Jackson West who asked me to write a music column back in '04 and he also came up with the name of it. I thought, it's SF-related and a quote from a Journey song - perfect! For the past three years my aim has been to tell you about the music in San Francisco that......

Larry Craig's police interrogation audio -- Senator Larry Craig still a lying homosexual. [Examiner, via AP] -- Tony Hall calls it quits. [Chron] -- Jackson West's last column for now. Good luck on the other coast, Jackson! Weep, weep. [Chron Blog] -- Harvey Milk Club hearts Tommy Ammiano and Kamala Harris. Of course. [Left in SF] -- Cupertino/Stevens Creek Canyon fire contained. [SJ Merc] -- BM suicide. [Chron Blogs] -- AIDS housing advocates and......

Checking out Laughing Squid, we came across yucksters SFShenanigans' Christmas-In-August calendar item. (Similar to last month's reverse trick-or-treat, which we hear was spooktacular.) Fun! But in the comments section of the Laughing Squid post is where it gets interesting: Kinton Linton Johnson, BART chief spokesperson and their number-one fan, baptized the comments section, saying SFShenanigans need to score a "free-speech permit" before singing "Carol of the Bells," getting festive. Sadly, he goes on to......

Much of the decimation of newspapers' revenues from classified ads has been attributed to the proliferation of craigslist, which, to our experience, is a generally cheaper, easier, and more effective place to list open jobs and such. Today we were tooling around digg and we noticed a link to open jobs at San Francisco-based eBay subsidiary StumbleUpon. Huh?...

-- Jackson West interviews Matt Stroud, SF Weekly's former web editor, just before he leaves SF. [Future Fresser] -- Oakland Post's editor, Chauncey Bailey, shot and killed in downtown Oakland. [Chron, Examiner, Oakland Tribune] -- Former San Mateo teacher gets a year in prison for doing it with a 17-year-old student. Whoops. [Chron] -- Homeless folks living in Golden Gate Park get the heave-ho. [Chron, Examiner] -- Avenue Q (featuring such characters as potty-mouthed puppets......

-- Are you ready for the genius that is Peaches Christ and her Midnight Mass cult-film series? [Bay Area Reporter] -- Television -- glorious, warm, loving television! -- on BART cars? Hmm. [Inside Bay Area, Oakland Tribune] -- Matt Stroud takes a brief, much-needed break from his Rocky-like boxing bootcamp training. [The Snitch] -- Affordable housing advocates get pinched by the fuzz. Remember, purveyors of justice: don't drop the soap! [Fog City Journal] --......

--We feel so bad for the Chron with the layoffs. They try to lift everyone's mood with a zillion articles about animals in today's paper. --Someone's listed a Pinole bridge for sale on Craigslist. --Dumpster diving in Berkeley. --A lifesize Mousetrap game! --Hyphy's played out. --Former SFist editor Jackson West brings his blog roundup to the SFGate Culture Blog! --And what with all the excitement yesterday, we plumb forgot to give you guys this......

It's mostly this guy's fault. Jackson West, who was the first editor here at SFist, got the ball rolling with this post, "The City that Knows How." He helped to grow the site with his wit, feel for the city, and a small group of contributors. As we zero in on SFist's third anniversary, we thought it would be a great time to see what Jackson's been doing since he last graced these pages,......

As far as we know, our mom is NOT behind this movement. But we're totally flattered that blogswarm at Calitics thinks we should run for mayor. We're even more flattered that our CrackBerry Chronicles are "dreaded" by someone other than Gavin Newsom. HIGHlarious! ...

To paraphrase an old joke about hockey, we went to a Town Hall meeting last night and a protest broke out. Case in point, the above photo of an attendee making a calm and rational point about the meeting by first shouting at Gavin and then approaching him while Gavin filibustered. We'll let SFist Elaine describe the scene. If you want more eyewitness accounts, Fog City has a recap as well as official Editor in Emeritus, Jackson West. ABC 7 has a video of the scene ...

The more eagle eyed among you might have noticed some changes to our masthead today. SFist Jackson West, SFist's editor since our launch in July 2004, has taken on the role of SFist's Editor at Large. After a month-long and certainly well-deserved vacation, he promises all of us that he will be back writing the posts we all know and love and getting drunk with San Francisco's movers and shakers. Freed from the administrative......

SFist interviews Cedric Westphal...

http://flickr.com/photos/sfist/sets/448065/"> The atmosphere was festive even as we rode the N towards downtown, the usual Saturday MUNI crowd of metal-lyric quoting beach residents and squirmy tweens replaced by Dom-toting fashion plates. The balmy weather made peoplewatching a pleasure, with the beautiful people out in full force. We were pleasantly surprised at the relative diversity of race and age of the party-goers assembling for the festivities. Equal parts prom, bacchanal, and summer camp, the Black......

We've gotten shout-outs from some local media types who we really respect since we've been around -- Annalee Newitz, P.J. Corkery, Bill Picture (hey, we love gossip) and the staff at the SF Weekly. Really, we're honored (with vanity and embarrassment tied for second strongest emotions). But to find out from H. Brown himself that we were chosen "Best Food Critics" is, to us, a high point -- especially since we're lucky to have......

The coffee at Phil'z is, in fact, the star of the show here, so let's skip straight to the conclusion: It's like drinking "green." It's vibrant, a little raw, and really just . . . different. Strong, but not oppressively so. Pungent. Piny through the middle; a nice, fresh finish. Perhaps some elucidation is in order. Perhaps we should go back to the beginning. The scene: SFist corporate headquarters, two weeks ago. "Did you......

The Cubs and Dodgers both lost last night, but, in one of the most painful games of the year, so did the Giants. To make matters worse, the Astros won, thereby giving themselves the lead in the NL Wild Card race. For those of you who don't pull your own teeth, or at least submit yourself to the torture of watching the end of crucial late-season baseball games, we'll give you a rundown of how......

We here at the Essefficist, SFist's weekly question-and-answer/advice column, have been striving to bring you honest answers to life's nagging questions for the past couple of weeks now. However, we're a little concerned that our efforts have been unsatisfying to you, the reading public. Why? Because we haven't been asked a single question. Not one. (At least not since we sent an email to our friends asking for some before we wrote the first column.)......

SFist's editor, Jackson West, dishes on why he loves San Francisco and where you don't want to be on a Saturday night....