Friend-of-SFist Matt V passes along these photos of a verrrrry safe looking taxi, sighted outside a Starbucks in the Abandoned Warehouse district of the Mission. "You choose what you pay," it says on the side, which is exactly how Lucifer would phrase an offer.......

That's right, we're heading straight from the final night of Another Hole In The Head to tonight's opening of Frameline 30, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. So many awesome film fests this summer, and we love them all! It all starts with tonight's 7:30 screening of Puccini for Beginners at the Castro (where else?), followed by the 30th Anniversary Opening Night Gala at the San Francisco Design Center. We're not just showing......

Wait 15 minutes, then drink two beers at once -- and join us for another installment of Dear Mr Ford, the column where we come to praise and bemoan Muni. Send said praise and moaning here! It wouldn't be Dear Mr Ford without an adventure with SFist Matt, would it? I must begrudgingly give Muni high marks for customer service today (even as I give it low marks for timeliness): I was on my......

How has your week in transit been? Ours has been pretty good -- we seem to have gotten on schedule with our current favorite N Judah driver, the guy who says makes announcements like "Muni loves you! I know all of you don't love Muni, but we love you! Don't forget your umbrella!" While we're never especially happy to go to work, because it's, you know, work, we love riding that guy's train. "Muni......

Remember when SFist Matt emailed Muni about the 21's schedule? Well, he followed up again, and here's what he learned: I called the hotline to find out what was up with the report that I filed with Muni Passenger Services. They told me that the matter was being investigated, and that no matter what they determined, they would refuse to make the results available to me. The only way for me to find out......

Wow, another year of SFist Reads seems to have whipped right by. Another year of online reserves checked out from the SF Public Library, another year of shopping at our fine local independent bookstores. As we here at SFist have eyes in the back of our heads, we happily look back over 2005 and ahead to 2006 for this year-end edition of SFist Reads. SFist Matt (an opportunity for wit will never pass this......

Saturday, there's the Canvas Gallery 5th Anniversary Party. $10 gets you in any time between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. for food and drink specials, live music, and the chance to rub shoulders with real live artists. Sunday: we're going to the David L Pharr Historic Streetcar Facility's fifth annual Open House celebration. This is such a cool event, we can't thank SFist Matt enough for sending it our way: from 11:00am and 4:00pm,......

We'll admit it -- we've been watching a lot of movies this week, and our reading has fallen by the wayside. However, our blissfully empty weekend is almost within reach, which means a trip to one of our local independent bookstores, as well as to the library to pick up our online reserves. Right now, all we want to do is lie in bed with the pets and a good book or three, so......

SFist was out for drinks with some colleagues (good luck, Jillian!) when she heard herself start preaching the gospel of the SFPL online reserve system. Now we're sure everyone we work with thinks we're a total dork (if they didn't already). Maybe we should have encouraged everyone to shop their local independent bookstores, instead--does that sound cooler? SFist Matt fell in line and finished Blink. He asks "Did you get to the part about......

We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to us by friends of SFist Ross and Jeff. Seems local freelance photographer Steve Malik was taking Muni from Montgomery Station to the Castro. "While we were on the platform waiting for our train I figured I’d grab a few photos of......

Remember how we warned people that hell hath no wrath like a blogger scorned? Well, in the interest of all that is weird and interesting and fun in this blogosphere we share, we'd like to direct your attention to an example of what we think could be called "player hating." Now a lot of us here at SFist keep our own blogs on the side, so as not to bother you with some of the......

Today is, of course, Festivus. And with Festivus comes the traditional airing of grievances. Not to mention acknowledgement that we stole the idea from the Daily Quickie column on ESPN.com’s Page 2. So, in celebration of the most holy of holidays, we here at Sfist would like to air our grievances. Sfist Rita’s grievances are that she is cheesed off that she only just started watching the Matt Gonzalez show on public access this......

SFist enjoys going to literary events for a number of reasons, the least of which being that being at an actual book signing or reading makes us realize that these author are "Just Like Us", thus fueling our dreams of quitting our day job and going on book tour. SFist Chesh alerted us to a particularly good one: Rachael Ray is appearing at Sur La Table in Berkeley from 3-5 today (hurry!). A flyer I......

Our idea of being a foodie outlaw is eating ribs in front of a vegetarian or putting chicken on pizza (which we're still not entirely comfortable with). Cheap thrills, we know -- but with thrills, you get what you pay for. So our ears perked when SFist Matt passed along a link to The Ghetto Gourmet. An East Bay play on the Gourmet Ghetto, this pair of transient chefs serve generous meals under semi-legal auspices......

[Ed. Note: This piece is a little discursive, but I think that it really captures quite the slice of San Francisco. Please indulge SFist Matt and let him take you away on a long, strange trip through the world of fuzzy bunnies.] So, let's say that you've decided that your image needs an overhaul. Maybe your current look is wearing thin; it's just not you, the crowd is tired, the music sucks. And there's that......

Every visit to the library is like your favorite secular or religious holiday when you reserve books in advance from the San Francisco Public Library. Or, if you want to hand on to your books, how about purchasing them from one of our local bookstores? SFist Mary-Lynn is reading The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition by James Howard Kunstler. She's only on chapter 2 where he is slagging something fierce on Atlanta,......

You know, it's getting so that we can't leave the house these days without running into an angry mob. This evening, during our nightly constitutional through downtown San Francisco, we were startled to turn a corner and crash into an absolutely massive procession - about a thousand people - furious about, well, the usual stuff. Bush; Iraq; capitalism; racism; 12 cruxgrozenical galaxies. One moment, nice quiet downtown stroll - the next, a huge mass......

SFist worked our butts off to bring you the latest and greatest in our election coverage - okay, we don't have a lot of pull yet, but we're pretty sure at least one of the candidates we interviewed is going to get a paying job thanks to you voters, in spite of the fact that they spoke to us. 1115, who've busied themselves with covering the national election, were also nice enough to chat.......

[Ed. Note: New SFist Matt investigates medical marijuana and the man who would write you the prescription. Come to think of it, our back is a little sore today...] Got chronic pain? Leukemia? Diminished appetite? Side effects from AIDS medication? Asthma? Nausea? Glaucoma? Well, then you should probably go see a doctor. Actually, you should probably go see a couple. And while you're at it, why not visit Dr. R. Stephen Ellis? Unlike the bearded......