Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Tonight The winner of last season's "American Inventor" isn't exactly rocking the very foundation of American living, (for the record, the winning invention was some kind of child's car seat), but perhaps this season
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Tonight First off, if you haven't read The Road by Cormac McCarthy yet, drop everything and do it. It's a fast read. It's also one of the most amazing books we've ever encountered--don't let
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Guess Who's Back? It's time for fun again! ABC 7 is reporting that District 4 Supervisor Ed Jew is back from his trip to China. Is he staying in Burlingame or District 4 tonight? To recap
SF News Your Commute: 880 Sucks The Most The results are in! What local highway is the worst to commute on, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Committee? Congratulations, 880! You win! I-880 between Fremont and Oakland won the coveted "Most Unreliable
SF News Son Of BART Employee Wins Spelling Bee! And the Bay Area dominates your reality TV scene YET AGAIN!!! Danville's own Evan O'Dorney, sponsored by the proud-as-punch Contra Costa Times, wins this year's spelling bee on the word "serrefine," which is
Arts & Entertainment It's Spelling Bee Time! Tomorrow's the finals of the National Spelling Bee! We've already got our TiVo set for the semifinals (which happen while we're at work), we've cancelled all our evening plans for the finals (on
misc Whale Watch So here's the progress report: they've got around 30 miles to go before they hit the ocean, and as the water gets more saline, their health and mood seems to be improving. (Probably
SF News Day Around The Bay --They reopened the Macarthur Maze! And of course, now the bridge is backed up. --TiVo is getting a lot of angry emails after the triumphant conclusion of American Idol was cut off by
SF News Your Commute: Huge Accident on 101 One report said that the cab of the big rig exploded with the driver trapped inside, and a rock from the debris flew up and shattered the windshield of another driver. The previous
SF News Smelly Gas By St. Luke's The smell itself wasn't poisonous or anything (beyond to the nose, of course) -- it turns out the pipe, which hasn't been used since the 1940s, had retained, along with some stale water,
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco World News - Tonight! In other local TV news items that have managed to make their way into our In Box, this Saturday, NBC 11 is airing a documentary called "Dreams to Dust: Americans Interned," which follows
Arts & Entertainment 'Wait. I've Got It. <i>This</i> Time The Lawyer's A Prophet!' There was that one a few years ago by David Kelly with the three nice looking young ladies, "Girls Club." Lasted for very few episodes in 2002. Well, there's a new pilot that
SF News Your Commute: "People Love To Talk About MUNI" Guess who's back talking about MUNI for the ABC 7 I-Team?????? (4:33 on the video). Since Gavin hasn't done anything outrageous lately, Dan Noyes turns his attention to the perennial favorite of
SF News Chicken-Free At 4FQT You could tell Mayor Gavin Newsom came in expecting the full costumed brigade this morning at Fourth Fake Question Time-- we saw Gavin flinch when SFist Elaine saw him coming into the Excelsior
Arts & Entertainment Honoring the 1906 Earthquake As usual, there was a bit of a commemeration of the '06 quake, although much smaller than last year's gala Earthquakepalooza. Instead of the thousands who showed up last year, there were only
SF News Gavin in the Clear City Attorney Dennis Herrera declined to give a comment but just told everyone to check out the report. So here it is. While the report says Gavin did nothing illegal, it did go
SF News Political Junkie: Gavin's Rubber, We're Glue Update: When we originally called this post "Gavin's Rubber, We're Glue," we didn't mean THAT kind of rubber. How the hell did we miss this? Check out the first few seconds of anti-Gavin
Arts & Entertainment Fake Question Time III- the Photos To paraphrase an old joke about hockey, we went to a Town Hall meeting last night and a protest broke out. Case in point, the above photo of an attendee making a calm
Arts & Entertainment Dan Noyes vs. Matier & Ross Somehow, Andy Ross got his hands on Dan's e-mails to Benefits Magazine head honcho Tim Gaskin and then contacted Dan to get a comment. Which Dan did and then to show he's got
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Shanghai Kiss</i> The world premiere of played on Saturday night at the Castro Theatre and the house was packed. One of the themes running through the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival last year
SF News Can You Take Me To The Bridge? For those who do drive that particular section, Caltrans is going to reroute you to an entirely new set of lanes and supposedly, you won't notice much in the way of a difference.
SF News Ticking Away the Moments That Make Up a Dull Day This of course is a no-no. Even Gavin's Chief of Staff, Phil Ginsberg said it was a no-no and that it won't happen again. The big question, then, is if all of this
SF News Well the Landslide Will Bring it Down This all happened around 3 in the morning and luckily all sorts of alarms went off alerting people that something was up. As a result, nobody was hurt. The landslide pushed a pile
SF News Everybody (Still) Loves Gavin ABC 7 is the latest people to do a survey on Gavin and all the recent Gavin news and found out that the dude is still pretty popular in town, all to the
