SFist interviews Onion editor, Joe Randazzo...

We've been talking so much about the Chronicle and the SF Weekly lately that perhaps one of our best-known local pubs is feeling a bit ignored. Editor & Publisher Magazine has published a feature spotlighting "10 That Do It Right." E&P selects a new list every summer from the nation's daily and weekly newspapers. E&P says it's not a "Top 10" list, but rather "a hat tip to a variety of publications which have, through excellence or innovation, shown the way in one area or another, such as news coverage, circulation, design, diversity or online."...

A man was stabbed at 11th and Folsom at around 1:30 Monday morning. The victim is alive but suffered life-threatening wounds. An angry neighbor in Belmont got so sick of the noise from her neighbor's evening carpentry activities that she revved up her black 1995 Mustang at around 11:30 p.m. and ran over the cabinets he was working on (and then fled the scene). Because she was shouting racial epithets at the time, she was......

Google got a lot of press over the weekend for their big April Fools Day joke. The joke is that they're all set to announce a new Wi-Fi flan plan that "delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems" and the call the program Toilet ISP, or TiSP for short. Hardy, har, har, Google…the Onion has nothing on you. ...

It's time for SFist Answers......

We really dread to be doing this, again, but here it is, your recap of the reaction to Gavin's admission that he's seeking counseling for booze. Or, as the NY Post puts it, "S.F. Sex Mayor In Booze RX." You know, we used to joke with our fellow -ists about how exciting our Mayor is compared to their boring, dreary Mayors (Gothamist's biggest scandal concerning Bloomberg was that he has bad fashion sense) but we're kind of over it. ...

Forget the Oscar nominations and the Super Bowl, what really matters in January is The Onion's A.V. Club choices for Worst Band Names. They have special categories for emo bands, death metal bands, bands with the word "f*ck" in them, bands with the word "funk" in them, and bands with gratuitous usage of exclamation points. Personally, we're of the opinion that there are two types of bad band names: annoying or boring bad and so-bad-they're-good......

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

-The Board of Supervisors really don't like Annemarie Conroy. -Members of Visitacion Valley gang plead guilty for gang-like behavior. Meanwhile former gang leader in Oakland shot dead. -Building inspector who bought property that was under review resigns. -Headline in the Onion: Nancy Pelosi Wants Congress to Want to Pass Bill: New Speaker Thought House Knew This Was Important to Her. -You know how several months ago everyone was talking about buying hybrids and the need......

We're back again! Only for today, though. Your fearless editor SFist Jon returns later this morning. --Brr. It's cold in here. There must be some Toros in the atmosphere. --Federal judge stops the new owner of the Mercury News from working with the Chron to consolidate local media coverage. --Yahoo defeats Google. --Ed Jew gets sworn in as the District 4 supervisor next week -- Fiona Ma stepped down early. --Is this for real?? They're......

This week we go a little mental....

We're heading over to The Canvas (1200 9th Avenue at Lincoln) to hear Aimee Bender read from her new book, Willful Creatures. We hear some kids from The Onion might be reading, too -- check it out! The event is free, and starts at 7:30. Image from Aimee's site Have an event you want to see in SFist Tonight? Send it our way!......

....that we only post the hilarious pictures that we find of Gavin Newsom, we've got your equal-opportunity hilarious Flickr pictures from all over the San Francisco political spectrum! Unfortunately, we can't find any hilarious pictures of Chris Daly. None at all? Please, readers, we're begging you to upload 'em (and send 'em here.) After the jump: check out, among others, Ross Mirkarimi falling into a dunk pit -- from his very own flickr account!......

Wednesday nights at the Beauty Bar features Hip-hop and Dancehall at "Flavor in Ya Ear." Come for the music, stay for the $2 Cuervo shots and $3 rum-and-cokes, and leave nauseous. 'Indie' more your thang? It's DIY DJ night, "Indie Circus," at the Hush Hush -- bring a CD or an iPod and spend fifteen minutes looking for something besides the Bloc Party and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah that everyone else also thought......

In order to provide you, dear readers, with the best content we can provide, SFist occasionally has to delve into things with which we might not want to delve into. Case in point is the release of the sixth Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Many of you might care about the release of this book and because it might be of interest, we shall write about it. Us? We don't care at all about any of this. The only reason why we read the first five books- twice- was merely out of some morbid curiosity to see what the entire hubbub was. And the only reason why we'd very often find ourselves up way past our bedtime reading the book wasn't because we couldn't put it down but because we were so unenthused about the book, we just couldn't wait to finish them. Nope. Don't care about Harry Potter at all. But as we said, many do. So much so, in fact, the Gavster has proclaimed Friday to be "All Potter's Eve," as did Mayor Matt Neely of Mountain View. The Pope even weighed in on the books, calling them "seductive" and "corrupting" to little children and there's so many jokes to be made here that we have a headache just thinking about them. And as usual whenever something this big happens, the business sections are full of stories about how Harry Potter might just be able to save independent bookstores. Or keep people from seeing the new remake of Willie Wonka. In fact, anticipation has run so high for this book that the Onion joked that security on the books were better than that of our public transit system and Gawker commented that it's probably true. Measures, however, haven't been good enough to keep all the books secure as various bookstores around the world have accidentally sold a few copies. ...

Special, "Why does all the good stuff happen when we'll be out of town?" edition. We already mentioned this in our interview with Craig Newmark, but the cool kids (read: blog nerds) will be at the Citizen Journalism meet-and-greet at the Varnish Gallery at six and then yukking it up with the Onion at the 12 Galaxies at ten. If that doesn't interest you, head down to the Winchester Mystery House and a take......

Our concert picks for the week of 5/12-5/18. Welcome, welcome, hordes of new readers who have recently discovered what our loyal readership has known for months -- that SFist.com is our fair city's Best Local Blog. (This will not be the first nor last mention of this honor bestowed upon us by SF Weekly). But enough with the self-aggrandizing babble. Onto the concerts! Tonight Ivy conjures their dream pop at Slim's in support of their......

We've been meaning to interview Craig Newmark for, like, six months -- ever since he dropped by SFist and left his phone number! Everyone here at SFist has used Craigslist for something, and we bet the vast majority of our readers have, too. Hell, SFist Cheshire was in 24 Hours on Craigslist, and when we first met, joked that he found "his car, his house, his job and his fiance on Craigslist." Well, he's......