For the second year in a row, readers selected SFist as the Best Local Blog in the SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay. Aw shucks. Thanks to those of you who voted for us. We're honored. Really. A few other noteworthy online folks who won this year? Marcia Gagliardi's Tablehopper took Best Food Drinks Blog/Site, Camper English's Alcademics was named Best Liquor Lowdown, and the beloved Laura Beck's Vegansaurus snagged Best Righteous Vegan Sass. more ›

SF Bay Guardian's annual "Best of San Francisco" issue came out today. And? SFist won Best Local Blog in the Readers Poll category. (Aw shucks, San Francisco, thank you so very, very much! We totally deserve it.) Other winners making the cut? Caliber SF (Best Eyes on the City), Crème Brulee Cart (Best Food Cart), Calitics (Best Political Shit-Sifters), Monistat (Best Drag Queen), Pop Up Magazine (Best Gazette Refresh), 222 Hyde (Best Bass-ment), Nopa (Best Overall Restaurant), and Cafe Prague (Best Czechvars With a Twist of Bohemia). Check out all the winners at SFBG. The issue features different (and possibly controversial) "local heroes" on the cover, so swipe a copy this week before they vanish. more ›

For those of you following the SF Weekly/VVM versus San Francisco Bay Guardian fight -- which one, you ask? the one about money, whether or not San Francisco is the worst run city in the U.S., and/or take your pick -- you simply must tune in to tomorrow's KQED "Forum". While you should always tune in to "Forum" (it's a great show overall, and Michael Krasny's voice soothes the soul), tomorrow SF Weekly scribes Benjamin Wachs and Joe Eskenazi, and SF Bay Guardian editor Tim Redmond go head to head to discuss, among other things, how much San Francisco spends per capita and the overall state of San Francisco. more ›

SF Bay Guardian City Editor Steven T. Jones has us all aflutter. According to his Twitter messages, something big will go down in tomorrow's issue of SFBG. Something real big. He wrote the following two curiosity-inducing messages today. more ›

• Beatropolis: Oh joy! Beatropolis has returned! (Not that they really went anywhere, but it always feels like forever when they're not around.) Anyway, Beatropolis' special brand of dance rock, live drum 'n' bass, and futuristic space pop will have you up until the wee hours of the morning. The Toy Soldiers (a heady nu-electrorawk mix of Flaming Lips, Justin Timberlake, and Hot Chip) and the Buttercream Gang (a local indie/post-punk/afro-beat band) also perform starting at 8 p.m. at Rickshaw Stop; $8.
• The Geek System: Starring Hard 'n Phirm , Reggie Watts, and " We have no idea what that last thing means--okay, some of that other stuff, too--but anything Kraftwerk-y is simply smashing by us. Starts at 10 p.m. at the Knockout; free.

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-- Cinewhores Present Midnight Cowboy (1970): Although tame by today's smut-filled standards -- oh, you heard right! -- Midnight Cowboy has the distinction of being the only X-rated film to have ever snagged the Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The film -- about the friendship between Joe, a rookie New York City hustler, and Ratso, a terminally-ill New Yorker -- is prefaced by a reading by queer author Kirk Read. (Oh, and Sylvia Miles is simply fucking awesome in Midnight Cowboy.) Doors open at 6:30 p.m. at ATA; $5-$20 (all donations go to benefiting the St. James Infirmary.) more ›

The airtight smiles. Awesome. For those of you somehow not tempted into becoming a part of Van Santian art -- or, you know, if you sport a vagina -- might we suggest catching round II of the Leno vs. Migden smackdown? Sponsored by the Harvey Milk Club, this meeting is sure to ruffle a few plumes and have local politicos affectedly scratching their chins for days to come. That's right, kids, it's on. It is... more ›

Good news for students of the struggle of the proletariat: even if you don't have time to read Marx, there are alternatives. Like Paul Krugman, Harpers, Howard Zin, Noam Chomsky, the Guardian of London -- and even our very own home-grown SF Bay Guardian. more ›

Gay marriage, GLBTQQGQQ$#@ discrimination, HIV issues, queers in the military, Donna McKechnie (we can only assume), health care, and more are what's on tap for tonight's presidential debate. Disgusting, we know. But 84% of eligible gays voted in the last election, so why not? (Who knew gays could even vote? Huh.) more ›

-- Litz Plummer, the Opera Lady: Wow. This should be an interesting combo: Coming to the Eagle this evening is the opera lady. You know? The one who sings on Maiden Lane, near the Hermes store. (Where you buy all of your blue separates, just like us?) She's part of tonight's "Thursday Night Live" along with All My Pretty Ones and Carletta Sue Kay. 10 p.m., the Eagle Tavern, 12th St. & Harrison; $5. more ›

Yesterday, we were shocked to find this picture of our homeboy, SF Bay Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann, posted on his blog. more ›

The Alternative Press Expo (or APE) was this past weekend at the Concourse here in San Francisco. The show, which is put on yearly by Comic-Con International, features indy and small press creators of zines, comic books, mini-comics, and more. After getting Larry Young's help to kick off our coverage, we attended on Saturday. We met so many cool people and saw so much neat stuff that we're breaking our experience into several posts. First up: the funny stuff. more ›

An event will be held today in yet another effort to Free Josh Wolf. Wolf, of course, is the video blogger/journalist being held in jail for contempt of court for not releasing the hottest video out there that doesn't involve a celebrity having sex with somebody else. And thank God for that but we'd love to see the alleged video of Britney and K-Fed playing chess. more ›

We here at SFist are high-minded individuals who do what we do for the joy of it (because it sure ain't for the money, honey). So why do we find ourselves suddenly obsessed with the idea of winning the Best Local Web Site award in this year's SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay? Sure, we love the Guardian (well, technically, Rita loves it for all of us), but it's not like the approval of its readers is necessarily indicative of quality, as evidenced by the truly horrible 2001 Best of Bay winning sushi place down the street from us. more ›

We're thrilled to the gills that the dailies are learning about this cool new sex podcasting thing all the kids are doing with their computers. more ›

We have been jumping up and down since one of our favorite food writers, heck, our favorite one, Dan Leone, Cheap Eats Guy at the Guardian agreed to do an interview with Gastronomique. Disclosure: we are total fan. We have read him punctually every Wednesday since, like, 1998 and time and again, even though we knew he was going to order the chicken and eschew the mayo, he has surprised us with his goofy-yet-poetic outlook on things. more ›