Salesforce.com just dropped a bombshell on the Mayor's office, announcing that they are indefinitely suspending plans for that enormous, 14-acre office campus in Mission Bay. Instead, company officials say they are focusing on snagging more office space in downtown S.F. because they're growing faster than the campus can be built. more ›

St. Joseph's Church, which has stood empty since suffering damage in the Loma Prieta quake a little over 22 years ago, is finally going to get put back to use as the market for office space in San Francisco returns to its dot-com-era frenzy. Developer Chris Foley of the Polaris Group bought the property three years ago, and with office space now at a premium, the process of retrofitting and restoring the building is now underway, with the hope of finding an edgy office tenant with a taste for ecclesiastical architecture by mid-2013. We're just a little sad it isn't becoming a nightclub. more ›

Moving out of the LoRi (Lower Outer Rincon Hill)/South Park neighborhood, the folks at Twitter moved up Third Street to a sweeter, swankier pad. more ›

Submit your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know when and where you found the item and any other helpful info. This one reads like its straight off of Passive-Agressive Notes, although it's of a much more subtle caliber than this one. SFist reader CD found this note on his door, written by his neighbors. CD pointed out that the marathon-runners were... more ›

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Um, we're still trying to figure out what we thought of the Japanese movie Executive Koala, which was screened as part of the SFIFF's Late Night series. Maybe if we'd had more of the Stella Artois they were passing out before the movie -- but we were too nervous about losing our place in the incredibly long line snaking around in some complicated formation involving the handicapped ramps to get ourselves a plastic cup. So we thought Executive Koala was supposed to be about a human-sized koala bear navigating the treacherous world of Japanese office politics -- you know, a lot of giggly women saying, "Hai!" and men (and koala bears) bowing and saying "arigato gozaimas." Like Office Space, only with a koala and in Japanese. Fun! Right? Well, you know, we saw that the second half of the movie was supposed to be the koala trying to figure out if he had anything to do with some mysterious murders around town or if he's just being set up -- but we were totally not prepared for the movie to turn into a slasher flick! We're not good with gore! Turns out the movie was less like Office Space and more like the Cindy Sherman's Office Killer instead. Also, we were kind of freaked out at how uncuddly the koala looked, along with his creepy prehensile hands. Look at his weird expression in that picture above! Well, it's definitely going to be a Kult Klassic, and as cult classics go, it's not unentertaining. You might as well check it out; the theme song is pretty hilarious and all the stuffed animal characters are excellent. Executive Koala screens again at the Kabuki, at 4:15 this afternoon. more ›

SFist reruns an interview with Dave Terry of Aqueduct, just in time for their Noise Pop performance at Bimbo's, opening for Rogue Wave more ›

SFist interviews Aqueduct's David Terry more ›

sfist reviews Smoosh, aqueduct, and mates of state at noisepop 2005 more ›

Beginning this Friday, August 6th, the Parkway Theater in Oakland will be presenting The Animation Show, a collection of animated shorts curated by Mike Judge, the creator of "King of the Hill" and Office Space. more ›