We checked out the Renaissance Faire on Sunday in Golden Gate Park, and...it was a complete and total blast. We saw live jousting, a group of people re-enacting The Merry Wives of Windsor, the truly awesome dancing musicians pictured above, and pirates, outlaws and the odd ninja or samurai. Afterwards, we headed (in full regalia) to Tommy's for margaritas, where we had the best conversation ever: "Were you at the Renaissance Faire?" asked a......

1) Waxed Mustaches. We've seen a few guys wandering around with this look, which takes the wispy mustaches that hairless hipsters of yore sported, and turns them into pointy weapons. Rollie Fingers did it better. 2) '70s-style tennis headbands. We first saw this last year at a Ratatat show, when we thought we had somehow wandered into a Bjorn Borg lookalike contest. This year, it got really out of control, as every eighteen-year-old with......

Readers responded with light speed and razor-sharp accuracy (more or less) when it came to detailing last night's devastating -- body-wash-plummeting-to-the-earth devastating! -- 5.6 quake. We will all look back on October 30, asking ourselves, where were we when the great 5.6 quake of '07 hit? Well, after sending out the we-hope-you're-still-alive-and-kicking call to the SFist team at large, they responded. Here are a few of the shattering moments in the lives of some......

Drove out to China Camp State Park with Sufjan Stevens on the stereo singing about Chicago. The air sat heavy with oil from the Eucalyptus trees and salt from the Bay....

Bay Area Wanderer: Larkin and Fulton, San Francisco Among the huge grey bricks of the Civic Center plaza's buildings, there sits a brushed metal sculpture....

* Bay Area Wanderer: Sansome near California, San Francisco Walking north as dusk settled in, suddenly columns lined up beneath the taffy-pulled pyramid....

* Bay Area Wanderer: Market and Mason, San Francisco...

It's January 1, and here are the best things from the last 365 days....

* Bay Area Wanderer: Freitas and Las Pavadas, Terra Linda The colors of Christmas to me have always been green and red and grey....

A truncated SFist Answers for the Holidays, 'tis time to answer your Questions such as they are. There've been quite a few good Questions sent to us, and we're still working on them. That means you, Justin....

This would be your weekly reminder for you to ask us Questions that you desire us to Answer. 'Cause that's what we do, here at SFist Answers. So, hey; what would you have us answer? We are your purely awesome Bay Area oracle of the internets, y'all....

In the spirit of Gavin's Question Time avoidance, and Rita's joyous/ugh mental image of Supervisor McGoldrick dancin' like a tutu-ed circus bear, we're bringing back SFist Answers. So! Do you have some answer that has eluded you for an annoying amount of time? Do you feel that you need some sort of advice? Do you need help with something? Would you like to know what not to do? Hey, we can answer that! We are pro-feshh-ohn-alls! Ask us! Email your question to sfistanswers@gmail.com....

On Saturday night, we went to go watch Raiders of the Lost Ark at Dolores Park. We love the idea of seeing movies in the park and couldn't think of a movie more perfect for such a showing. But as soon as we got there, we realized that in seeing the movie outside at the park, we were going to have to deal with our least favorite aspect of communal events, that being other people. We hate other people. ...