Earlier this month we mentioned that The Decemberists' five-night engagement at the Fillmore was canceled. It was going to be the highlight of our week, but we guess tofurkey will just have to do. This week, our picks are Travis who are playing with Maximo Park at the Fillmore tomorrow night. Friday night at the Fillmore, The Drones (listen to "Shark Fin Blues" here) are opening for Band of Horses, an indie-rock band based... more ›

As we only learned from reading the comments on our whiny post about the weather, there was just an earthquake in Berkeley about 30 minutes ago. It was a 3.0, centered near Claremont Ave. in the hills. That other quake yesterday was in Berkeley too. more ›

Photo and discussion of new reusable plastic shopping bags offered for sale at local stores more ›

SFist Nick forwarded along an unintentionally-hilarious article by professional provocateur Christopher Hitchens from earlier this week in Slate. In this article, Hitchens mostly complains about Conrad Black, the Canadian press tycoon recently convicted of corporate fraud, but check out this kicker at the end! more ›

Did anything happen at all in the San Francisco Bay Area today? All we've been doing is monitoring the Paris Hilton back to jail news! MOOOOOOM!!!!! more ›

clipper ship. A pirate ship? A tragic capsizing? What's the word? more ›

So hey, we've got some sad news. SFist is sorry to report that our beloved sports guru and fun-loving grammar anarchist Jon Shurkin is stepping down as editor. We're going to miss him and his dyspeptic-with-a-twinkle style. (No hate in the comments, please -- we're very sad!) more ›

You'd think that after our ungrateful sniping about the way we were (without our knowledge) nominated for a "Pubby" award, that the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club would blacklist us from all future events. more ›

Although the real-estate bubblewatchers got a head start on the festivities some time last year, we have been waiting until there's a whole lot of data before we begin the "Woe is us!" chant over our monthly (fixed) mortgage statement. That data has all fallen into our laps in the last two days. more ›

Shoppers trying to enjoy the a/c at the Oakridge Mall in San Jose on Sunday afternoon got less cool air than they were hoping for when the straining mall transformer outside the movie theater blew up. Witnesses reported seeing the lights flicker, hearing a huge boom, and then seeing sparks. In light of the panic and lack of power for the mall, Oakridge threw up its hands and decided just to close for the rest of the day. more ›

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 year? We love them all equally! more ›

Last week we featured some of the more usual holiday fare, but the San Francisco Bay Area is known for its unusual holiday shows as well. more ›

We have been thinking of the late 90s lately. One reason is that we feel this space has shifted paradigms: we haven't been reviewing restaurants for the readers lately, doing R2R as the Bloombergs of the world would call it if there was any money to be made; we have been going one step up in the pyramidal scheme, reviewing reviewers and now two restaurant guides focusing on our city. The two books, below the jump, are Patricia Unterman's San Francisco Food Lover's Guide, and Chowhound's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area. more ›

Well, it's official -- Dan Gillmor's "citizen journalism" project is here -- and it's called Bayosphere. Well get to that in a second. First, we'll let Dan introduce the project in his own words: more ›

SFist loves local magazines, from with discriminating tastes, a discriminating budget and an interest in local talent, art, personalities and flavor of all kinds." more ›

San Francisco's favorite but least read Q&A columnist, the Essefficist, answers questions about simple math, bay windows, and the Transbay Terminal. more ›

We have to be transparent about such things, so we'd just like to let our readers know that SFist has been purchased by SF Metblogs, who in turn have been purchased by Yahoo. What does this mean to you? Absolutely nothing. We'll still bring you the eight to ten or more posts everyday on issues that are important to folks in the San Francisco Bay Area. more ›

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A weekly escape from the humdrum world of going to bars without writing reviews of them. By stalwart barrespondent, Drew. more ›

Sometimes, SFist likes to dress up as a pretty, pretty princess. We're so cute afterall. When we're really feeling pathetic we put on our old prom dress, the one we wore when we lost our virginity like the cliche we are, and remember the good old days of drinking under the bleachers and cutting class to go to the mall. Why, yes, we did grow up in Mayberry, why do you ask? more ›

Ask Jeeves bought Bloglines. Honestly, we're surprised any of these dot coms still has the cash to do that sort of thing. more ›

After the discovery of the holy grail of Bay Area coffee last week, it's a good time to sit back and take stock of why we do this. And how we go about it. more ›

Ah, it’s raining today and for those of us working, nothing quite sums up the first day back after the holidays like it being grey and miserable outside. It looks like it’s going to be grey and miserable for awhile as five-day forecasts call for rain, rain, and more rain. When it rains, there’s nothing quite like the high-comedy that comes with watching the local news broadcasts as they spend what always feels like half the broadcast letting everyone know that “OH MY GOD! IT’S RAINING!” and then whip around to like every reporter they have on staff, all strategically placed throughout the Bay Area, just so that they can show to everyone that, yep, it’s raining there too. more ›

There is, however, one thing you're going to have a hard time finding in Manhattan, or most of the tri-state area, in fact. Something we take for granted, and consume on a basis so regular it's beginning to scare us: the Mission Burrito. It can be found nowhere else besides the San Francisco Bay Area. This SFist has argued before that the Bay Area is simply another region in the Mexican culinary pantheon - try ordering a burrito six hours to the south in Los Angeles and you'll see what we're talking about. Even Calvin Trillin agrees we have the best, and we hear he writes for some famous magazine based out there. more ›

Everyone out here talks so contentedly about how we live in our little idyllic utopian blue-state liberal/progressive/left-wing bubble -- so it comes as that much more of a shock to learn that a pro-choice doctor who works for Planned Parenthood in Contra Costa county has been targeted by Operation Rescue. more ›

The fight between Mayor Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors over renaming Candlestick by Monster Cable, Inc. more ›

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