The Warriors season starts up tonight and in honor of the return of basketball, SFist Chris takes a look at the Warriors. ...

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Hey now-- the Warriors are on a bit of a roll as they won their second game in a row, beating the Nugs 110-96. Sure, Carmelo didn't play, but for the Warriors, they have to be happy with the game as it's the first time this season the exact same Warriors mentioned in the Warriors press guide actually all appeared in a game. All of this is making Bruce Jenkins and Tim Kawakami drink from of the very same sippy cup of Kool Aid SFist Chris drank from as they are all now having visions of being crushed by the Mavs in the first round of the playoffs. And hey, if that doesn't add some shine to your day, the Warriors, East Coast Edition, are sucking up the joint these days. ...

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Hey, maybe you could let the Laotian community know, in Laotian, when your refinery blows up? Cover article (which is by the same person that wrote the Lao article -- Kara Platoni had a busy week!): People hoarding gene patents. Book section: Books about eating, and a book about how a dowser found someone's missing harp. Nontraditional BBQ in Berkeley. And the digital music industry still sucks. And......

Mountain biking is a grass-roots sport that is only about one bake sale above your local group ride in terms of publicity and prestige, but it is an exciting sport that requires intense fitness, training, and dedication. At SFist, we understand the sport and the culture around it. We also understand what makes a good mountain bike race. To that end, we've reviewed the 2007 MTB racing season in order to provide our readers with a summary of this year's most interesting Northern California events.

So grab your bike, sharpen your elbows, and strap on a number plate for some challenging dirt action, or pack up the camp chairs, the cooler, and the kids, and head out to the races for a cheap day of fun and entertainment. Even if you aren't interested in competing, check out some of these events. You will see amazing feats of cycling prowess, discover the latest in space-age materials and designs, and probably pick up an armful of free posters, stickers, and other industry schwag.

For the past few seasons, the Warriors primary marketing slogan has been, "A Great Time Out". Brimming with hope after Tuesday's trade, SFist decided to catch a game at the O-rena to find out for ourselves.

Since the Merc's Tim Kawakami couldn't make it, we figured we'd step in for Saturday's game against the Cavaliers. This team now has new hope, and SFist was eager to see if there was a new buzz to go with it.

Our audit considered 11 different categories: parking, Oraclelization, concessions, personnel, entertainment, the crowd, new players, visuals/lighting, the seats, music/sound, and the game itself. Each category was ranked from 1 to 10, with 10 being Pac Bell/SBC/ATT park and 1 being, well, Candlestick.

SFist Jon and SFist Chris went to last night's Wolfmother show at the Fillmore. Opening up for them was Live 105 fave Silversun Pickups and some other band we'll get to. Thus explaining SFist's hangover today. Instead of doing a full on review, we thought we'd let SFist Jon and SFist Chris discuss the concert, that is what they can remember of it. And you know what this means? A whole post in first person!...

Last week's winner, the Guardian. The SF People's Organization is having a meeting this Saturday. Letters about guns in the Castro. Everything is better with strippers -- union woes, men against women, and a no-fatties proposal at the Lusty Lady. Hating on fixie bikes -- and big ups to SFist Sarah L for pointing out to us how awesomely combative the comments in response have gotten (typical comment: "My god man, do you have an......

We continue with our raging discussion on this year's upcoming baseball season. The rest of the award-winning SFist sports desk will join in as soon as their stupid day jobs let them. Oh, how we long for the days when we were merely crack monkey's chained to computers in Jackson's basement dungeon. Anyways, part I can be seen here and Part 2 here. SFist Chris

The National League West?

SFist's award-winning sports desk continues on with their scintiliating discussion about the upcoming baseball season. Part 1 can be seen here

SFist Chris:On paper, in my opinion, the Junior Circuit is clearly the stronger league, so I'm looking for a team with a DH to win it all this year.

This is a hott and sexxy weekend for mainstream movies. We've been eagerly anticipating Syriana (which confused Ruthe Stein, so good sign there), and The Chronicles of Narnia (our hearts sink as we read bizarro world critic LaSalle's glowing review). Other folks are all hot and bothered (in the good way) about gay cowboys and hot and bothered (in the bad way) about English speaking Chinese actresses playing geishas. But we've already had to......

We all acknowledge that as the Warriors' feel their way toward the playoffs this year, there will be some stumbles. Well, there are stumbles and then there are the kind of STUMBLES that make you realize this may have been the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. Last Wednesday against the defending NBA champeen San Antonio Spurs, the Warriors were stripped buck naked and exposed as pretenders. The Spurs absolutely had their way with the shell-shocked tribe. Can you say "low bridge"? It's pronounced Spurs 113 Warriors 89. ...

"Meet Baron Davis" essay contest is a feel-good thing, right? Pride of the franchise, gram ma-ma, and some lucky kid with the gift of written expression. Well it was a feel-good thing until we started reading the Official Contest Rules. ...

Bust out the lithium Warriors fans, cuz this season is shaping up to have more peaks and valleys than the Warrior Girls team photo. Amid the talk of playoffs and winning records, the one thing that the Warriors marketing department promised the fans was excitement. Well, if by excitement, they mean consistently strong play by a maturing team ready to put it all together with a play-off-caliber season, then we may have a problem. However,......

Welcome to our newest contributor, SFist Chris! He'll be covering those hard-working Golden State Warriors -- this is going to be the year, we can feel it! And a hearty welcome back to Mom-Marin-Correspondent SFist Amanda! Last week, we had politics on the brain as we gear up for Tuesday's election: City propositions, state propositions, and soon-to-be eleven-time candidate H. Brown. (Hey, was H. the guy on the stairs in our blind item?) In other news: we visited restaurants (French and Thai), we recovered from our Halloween hangovers (nice picture choice, SFist Jackson!), and we might be getting some extra movies off Netflix. Check out some zine art, make some chicken stock, or start looking for Bachelor-alum Jesse Palmer around town. ...

For perennial doormats like the Chicago Blackhawks, snakebit franchises like the Arizona Cardinals, and irrelevant standings stuffers like the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, hope springs eternal in the preseason. So it is, yet again, with this year's East Bay ballers. For about the fifth year in a row, the Warriors' marketing department is trying to hype us on the upcoming season as one of promise and playoffs. To quote Jim Mora, "Playoffs? Don't talk about playoffs. Are you kidding me? Playoffs?"...

Bay Area filmmaker Benjamin Morgan shot Quality of Life, his cutting-edge directorial debut film in our very own Mission district. The story of two young graffiti artists arrested for vandalism, this film has gotten a lot of attention from festivals (far more importantly,the film is well-liked by friend of SFist Chris of Larsen Associates, who proveded the passes we're passing on to y'all), and opened at the UA Galaxy yesterday. Want to go see......

From our friends at Larsen Associates comes big fun for five of our readers and their pals, as we've been offered 5 passes for two to see Transgeneration Thursday, June 23rd at 8 p.m. at the Castro. This screening will be the world premiere of the first two episodes in what will be an eight-part Sundance Channel series airing in September. Be the first on your block to take in this documentary following four......

Oh holy cow SFist loves scary movies. Last year, before we had this glorious soapbox to teeter on, we spent two glorious nights at SF IndieFest's first horror film festival Another Hole in the Head. In fact, when SFist was stil in fetal form, we remember telling the folks who would be our fellow editors how much we were looking forward to covering this year's festival -- and now it is upon us! (We......