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......

Ed Jew: I heard Vanessa Getty talked smack about you in W Magazine. Gavin Newsom: Oh, no she didn't! Ed Jew: Oh, yes she did. Gavin Newsom: Then I'm telling everybody how she wore the same blue dress on September 25th in SF, and November 13th in LA. Ed Jew: Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? SFist Elaine, contributing......

This is kind of a correction, kind of an apology, and kind of hilarious. Yesterday, while hunting up links for our Bay Area Blog Pulse, we were cruising Bloglines. The funny thing about RSS -- even if you've deleted something from your blog, once it's posted, it goes out over the wire. And apparently, if you're a MovableType user, once you've deleted something from your blog, the permalink doesn't necessarily die, either. So we......

Julie Powell first got her fifteen minutes of fame as the author of the Julie/Julia Project. She decided to cook every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking over the course of one year, all 524 of them in 365 days in her little Queens kitchen, and to each day document the progress on a blog. The blog was so successful and received so much attention (even from our Gothamist friends),......

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......