Today in cross-country smacktalk, New York Daily News columnist Filip Bondy just comes right out and says what's on his mind: "San Francisco 49er's fans are soft." After the vitriol that came out of Texas before the World Series, the tired Bay Area bashing is expected, actually. But that doesn't mean we won't let it slip by without commentary. more ›

Photographer Ariel Dovas spotted this rock that looks like the city of San Francisco. Ta-da. more ›

There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco, but sometimes a picture says so much more that mere words. Each Tuesday (or Wednesday!), we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our sister site LAist does the same thing, which we found too inspiring to resist.) Much like Photo du Jour highlighting a nifty image shot by readers, 7 Reasons will feature photos from the SFist pool on Flickr showcasing the uniqueness of San Francisco. Here are 7 reason why the holiday season in S.F. is, for lack of a better word, rad.
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After voting on a fresh, new motto for San Francisco, we have a winner: more ›

Unlike the Clinton administration, where Bill and Hillary enjoyed hogging the tables at The Slanted Door, San Francisco isn't used to seeing the POTUS in the city. George W. Bush rarely, if ever, visited Baghdad by the Bay. But now? We've got Obama kicking it high-style with Vanessa Getty at the manse, spouting the virtues of green energy, and shutting down hecklers at The Fairmont. more ›

Nick Douglas, former Gawker and Valleywag scribe/Twitter Wit author, created a glorious new comic about a nascent online internet e-web venture in San Francisco. It's called Big Damn Deal. more ›

Eric Fischer came across this nifty map of San Francisco from 1862. We can't stop looking at it. Amazing stuff. more ›

David Byrne -- the tall guy in ivy league favorite Talking Heads/the man behind the score of The Last Emperor -- wrote in last week's Wall Street Journal about the perfect city. San Francisco was one of them, or so he thought. more ›

New York publication of note Vice -- that glossy, in-your-face magazine that features stinky Brooklynites wearing too-tight clothing and interviews with depressed music bands -- has come out with a very special San Francisco issue. In addition to featuring an interview with (former?) San Francisco resident Chis Daly ("If San Francisco were a giant, sprawling asshole, Chris Daly would be the inflamed hemorrhoid that just won’t go away"), they have an adorable neighborhood section (which balls out blows away 7x7 Magazine's bizarre and questionable neighborhood issue), a brilliant slam of Baghdad by the Bay that reads us to filth ("Would you like to be part of an entire social movement to extinguish and gentrify a once cosmically diverse metropolis?"), and of course, a section on our city's sourdough bead-like famous gay population. Be sure to pick up a copy at your nearest dive bar/compact disc resale store. Or, better yet, check it out online. more ›

Off the tops of our heads, we can't think of too many classical/chamber pieces written in honor of our fair city. This one, 1973's "San Francisco Polyphony," is by Hungarian-born composer György Ligeti who's most famous for scoring parts of Stanley Kubrick films like 2001 and Eyes Wide Shut. It's, like, dissonant and you can't exactly dance to it. But we welcome any imaginative suggestions for what all that scary ruckus is around 3:50 -- Embarcadero Station at rush hour? more ›

Early Saturday morning, a 16-year-old girl was shot on the 3400 block of International Boulevard in Oakland. According to reports, after OPD officers saw a car driving "erratically" a little before 1:30 a.m., "officers stopped the vehicle, which had four people inside. They saw that the 16-year-old girl, who was a passenger in the vehicle, had been shot." The unidentified victim is at an Oakland hospital being treated for life-threatening injuries. In San Francisco, just before 3 a.m., a man was shot in the Bayview district in the unit block of Espanola Street. He is being treated for non-life threatening wounds. No arrests in either case were made. more ›

According to the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless, who just released a report cloyingly titled "Homes Not Handcuffs," San Francisco is the seventh meanest city in the county. That is to say, we're the seventh meanest place when it comes to dealing with the homeless and homeless crisis in the U.S. Curbed reports that "out of the 273 cities the study looked into, San Francisco ranked 7th on the list." more ›

This glorious shot comes to you from noted photographer exxonvaldez. He captures "[r]unway 1 departures from San Francisco International Airport between 10:22pm and 11:38pm on June 27, 2009, as seen from Brisbane Marina." more ›

Here are some images of today's San Francisco Pride festivities. Wee! more ›

This year's murder rate -- which, as SF Appeal notes, the mainstream media cannot agree upon; it's 18 or 19, depending on who you read -- is kind of low. In fact, as SFist commenter redtim deftly pointed out last week, "last year we were at 48 (according to sfcrime) by Memorial Day." And now? We're at 18, 19, or 20. For SFist alone, it's been damn near impossible to find a consistent, traffic-spiking murder story to post on a regular basis. (Step up to the plate, lazy fucking criminals.) So, why is the murder rate so jarringly low? Has the Obama regime ushered in a kinder, gentler vibe throughout SF? Are our murderers getting craftier? Are reports of murders getting lost? In an effort to get elected governor, is Mayor Gavin Newsom hiding the bodies? Is this some sort of gift from the Baby Jesus? Tell us. more ›

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the peace-, love- and mud-fest known as Woodstock, and organizers of a free, commemorative concert in San Francisco are being threatened with a very un-peaceful and unloving cease and desist order from Woodstock Ventures, a New York-based organization that claims to hold the right to the Woodstock name. As SF Weekly's All Shook Down blog reports, the SF organizers do not plan to comply with the order, and are, as of now, going ahead with planning the October 25th concert, claiming that San Francisco has as much of a right to celebrate as any city -- with 18 of the groups who played at the 1969 festival hailing from San Francisco. As the Weekly puts it, "It's never a good thing when hippies fight. Especially aging hippies." We hope they work it all out, and we also hope Grace Slick will be there. more ›

LA Weekly baits San Franciscans in Ask Mr. Gold's most recent column. Erica, a Los Angeles-based reader, writes in to ask about her "friend in town from Berkeley" who loves burritos but is set in her Bay Area commie pinko burrito eating ways. What should Erica do? more ›

Reports are coming in that there was a mild earthquake felt in San Francisco. We felt it too, but it could have been our the washing machine in the spin cycle. "I believe I just felt a 3-4 point earthquake just now," reports one SFist comments. more ›

Lawrence Ferlinghetti isn't the only San Francisco luminary celebrating today. It's also Frank Chu's birthday!

The Bay Area's favorite protester, for years Frank has been walking the streets of SF with his sign demanding proper compensation regarding Soviet and American ex-presidents (and other galaxies) having filmed him and his family for something called "The Richest Family."
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This Star Trek fan is indignant over the CGI-inflated San Francisco in the 24th Century depicted in the trailer for the upcoming Star Trek movie. As he rightly points out, any San Franciscan knows that buildings this "outsize" would still be causing activists 300 years from now to "have fits about them." more ›

An unidentified gent was shot while hanging out in the Tenderloin on Monday night. The victim was plugged at Ellis and Jones streets sometime around 8 p.m. at t Ellis and Jones, according to the fuzz. No word yet on his condition, no arrests have been made. And in other news, crime (i.e., murder) is down in San Francisco in 2009, at least according to statistics. However, other crimes likes rape and arson are up, with the latter getting a 44% boost thanks in part to the Toilet Torcher. more ›

San Francisco played host to comic convention WonderCon. It's like ComincCon, only smaller. This year's convention saw, um, colorful fans of illustrated dramas, cartoon, furry sex, and explosive imagination converge at Moscone Center. more ›

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On the reeking pavement, in the darkness of a moonless night under the dripping rain, and surrounded by a hastily gathered crowd of wondering strangers, Norton I, by the grace of God, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, departed this life. -- San Francisco Chronicle, January 9, 1880

Timecapsule: January 7, 1898 more ›

"I wanna remind you that [today] is the first of the month and it's customary to say "rabbit, rabbit" before you say anything else. Think about that, write yourself a note. Alright, have a nice time."

How 'bout some high-quality formerly-local punk rock to start 2009 off with? Yes.

Ahh, Jawbreaker; now and forever the sound of The Mission... more ›

Defensive end Kevin Fagan and his mighty mustache helped hold the line for George Seifert's boxer's-mentality 3-4 defensive scheme during the zenith of San Francisco's 1980s power. more ›

This Sunday, the current San Francisco 49ers will be honoring the 49ers of the past by wearing mustaches in their final game of 2008 against Washington. We will honor this honor by honoring Great 49er Mustaches as this game draws nigh.

Roger Craig was one of the most versatile running backs the NFL has ever seen.

A perfect fit for Bill Walsh's short-passing offensive system, in 1985 Craig became the first man to gain 1,000 yards rushing and 1,000 receiving in the same season. more ›

Timecapsule: December 25, 1894 more ›