With over 70 shows since July 1st, MiGGs deserves a break but not until they play one last show in San Francisco. Featured on Monday in "This Week in Le Rock" MiGGs blend an alt/rock, emo, pop and classic rock sound to perfection. They are returning to Cafe du Nord this Saturday night before they take a month off to put the finishing touches of their newest album, Unraveled (which we'll be listening to at......

The kids over at Curbed SF have the word on one polling place that's also an open house. Gross. Over in the enchanted Excelsior District, early morning voters have also been getting the hardcore sales pitch for a 6BR polling station that's going for $888,888. Not a bad price, btw, but still. Anyway, check it: "Went to vote this morning at 900 Persia Street in the lovely Excelsior District. Not only is it a......

Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Standouts: 1. Nicole Atkins - Neptune City: This New Jersey native, reaches down deep to relate stories of her hometown, Neptune City on her debut release. "From the time I was a kid I started collecting these sad little tragically beautiful personal stories from the people in my life, and my own as well. That sense of history really appeals......

We thought that Chris Daly's Board of Supervisor life might be looking up with his new committee assignment. But it's budget season and everyone is just a little bit testy right now, as there is a 6 billion dollars pie to be cut up among a three quarters of a million people. So I guess we shouldn't be that surprised that something would happen during today's Board of Supervisor meeting. And it did. Basically......

We get some interesting stories in the SFist editor's inbox, and here's the latest one we've heard. I was on Polk and Green yesterday running some errands when I noticed a light blue motorcycle going about 50 miles an hour and popping wheelies. Up and down Polk Street, from about Greenwich to Broadway and back again. What I noticed about this guy second or third time around was that he had a dog on his......

>While most of you have been analyzing the last five minutes of "the Sopranos" (soon to be the most analyzed piece of video since the Zapruder film) over-and-over again to figure it out, we got answers from our Muni Driver as to what a day in the life of a Muni driver is like. And since there's so much to his response, we'll do this in two parts. Today, the shifts. Next week-- bathroom breaks! ...

In today's installment, our new Muni Driver gives us his views on how to improve Muni. We'll get things started right away but first, a reminder. If you got any questions you'd like asked, send them to editor@sfist.com. ...

We enjoy visiting Charles Hogkins' web site, Burritoeater. Not necessarily for the opinions within his numerous reviews of taquerias, more because we just like his writing. He's got a funny, quirky style that, in our opinion, trenscends simple food reviews. He obviously enjoys doing it, but doesn't seem to take himself too seriously. And, hey, his ratings system is based on 10 mustaches. That's just funny, as are the use of terms like "burstage abatement," and his description of Papalote's burritos as "rendered with such mechanical consistency, some have wondered if there’s a mustachioed robot assembling them in an unseen corner of their tiny kitchen." We chatted briefly with Charles about his favorite food and another hobby of his, hiking....

We love when people send us little things that are going on in the city. It's that whole citizen journalism thing at it's best. Today, we have somebody who saw a recent development in a story in today's Examiner. Hey, and if you got something you think we'd find interesting, drop us a line at editor at sfist.com ...

Today, we take a break from dealing with MUNI's problems and take a look at the Day in the Life of a MUNI driver and answer that most important question: how and when Muni drivers go to the bathroom. And remember folks, you too can ask questions. Just drop us a line at editor@sfist.com. ...

As promised -- when we find people defending Newsom, we diligently write 'em up in the column we call.... Who's Defending Newsom Now! Who's swinging for the mayor? --The mayor himself!: Before heading out to Switzerland this week, Gavin sat down with the gay-focused Bay Area Reporter (picture features a blue tie) for a chat about what's going on with him. Beyond the now-standard complaint that the Chronicle is out to get him, Gavin also......

"So I get this call back from Peter Ragone asking me not to call Gavin anymore, but would I like to be an intern?" By SFist Elaine......

SFist interviews Oliver Chin, author, and Immedium publisher...

" class="imgright" src="http://www.sfist.com/attachments/sfist_matt/ladylistens-thumb.jpg" width="200" height="312" />Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave your overheard conversation as a message for us: (415)-659-8720 ... Neato! Woman: "Can I get you something from the corner store? I'm running in." Female friend (flustered): "A rich man." Woman: "...a winning lottery ticket?" Female......

Our pals at Shanghaiist tipped us of to David Friedman's blog, Ironic Sans. We already had an internet crush on David from his site on GameBoy camera photography (a not so secret obsession of ours), but we didn't know about his blog until we saw http://www.ironicsans.com/2006/07/a_parallel_istaverse.html">this awesome post. So I got to thinking. What if the “istaverse” people existed in fictional cities? I’m sure they would write about the new Starbucks being built in that......

SFist interviews Leah Kramer of Craftster...

Reader Nick quite intelligently sent his feedback to Muni, and even more cleverly sent his experiences to us. Here's hoping he gets a response from Muni on his concerns -- Nick, keep us posted! On Tuesday, I was waiting for a bus to take me from 4th and Market to 4th and King. A 30 came by and I got in line and waited for everyone to get off so I could board. While......

Perhaps a result of the recent spate of publicity surrounding laptop thefts at cafes, super-fine SFist reader Sugam observed this behavior: So, this morning... I stop in at the corner coffee shop which is buzzing with the usual unemployed people (usually with emo hair, or Marina hoop earings) busily tapping away at their PowerBooks and iBooks (occasionally Dells). I order a bagel and a coffee and as I wait recognize a neighbor sitting next......

Welcome, readers, to an all-too-rare edition of SFist Answers, where we pretend to know stuff. Today's theme: crying. Let's make people cry. Fun!...

Sure, we write about Muni a lot, but a lot of the reason for this is that Muni just gives us so damn much material! BART is a far less colorful subject, but that doesn't make it any less of an object of obsession for some. Two BART-related treats have come across our desk lately, and we're hard pressed to decide which one delights us more. SFist reader Ed has created this totally bad-ass......

Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Female: So I Googled myself the other day. Male: ....and? Female: It was a mistake to give that reporter my name at the Folsom Street Fair. -- From SFist_Rita @ a restaurant on 16th street Woman on cell phone: "He needs to see a shrink. Imagine him at 67, 77, 87. ... He'll stay in 4420, no, no, 4410. We'll have a......

Today's victim of the SFist interview has only been in our fair city for a couple of weeks, but that doesn'r mean we're going to take it easy on him! His new book, Alcoholica Esoterica, is a easily-digestible and very, very funny history of booze and drinking, and it comes out tomorrow! We here at SFist welcome Ian to San Francisco and eagerly anticipate the day he ventures out of his living room and......

San Francisco's favorite but least read Q&A columnist, the Essefficist, answers questions about, well, nothing. Sorry....

The irrepressible Mr. P.J. Corkery asks the question on everyone's mind -- what's on Gavin Newsom's iPod? Well, after some hemming and hawing ("I don't have time to download 99 cent tunes," "this iPod is just like being a mayor -- lots of diverse music!", "the acoustics in my mayor's office are great! I don't like earphones"), Newsom coyly reveals the following:

So I've got Andrea Bocelli ... Sade ... Jerry Garcia, of course ... Emmylou Harris ... Alanis Morissette ... AC/DC ... Prince ... John Mayer ... Gosh, there's a lot of country music here... John Mellencamp ... Linda Ronstadt ... John Denver ... Placido Domingo ... Rascal Flatts. ... Jane's Addiction. Lots of Jane's Addiction. ...

Like SFist Emily, I'm bad at lists. So I'm just going to relish the chance to write in the first person singular for a moment and break down the highlights and lowlights of the year for me, in no particular order: Best Moment of the Year My Life: Getting married Bravest Mayor/Person Most Wrongly Accused of Losing the Democrats the Presidential Election: Gavin Newsom Senator Who Actually Should Take the Blame: John Kerry Worst......

The Chronicle today said goodbye to yet another columnist, this time not out of economic hardship on part of the Chron, but on economic hardship on part of the columnist. Citing the need to move on from cabbing due to the hardships entailed by cab drivers, the Night Cabbie handed in the keys to his cab and signed off on his column in today’s paper, telling his readers that: Simply said, I got tired of......

It's the Big Game this weekend! Guess who's not excited about it? ...