SF News Supremes To Decide On Grokster Later This Spring Well, oral arguments in the MGM v. Grokster case concluded yesterday, and the reports from the scene conclude that the justices were very pointed in their questioning of the plaintiff, MGM. Reading different
Arts & Entertainment Everybody Loves A Parade So good luck dealing with any state agencies tomorrow -- they'll be shut down in observance of Cesar Chavez Day (though that could all change if the Governator has his way). So if
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Radio and Dogs This Week And, well, you know the rest. Image of Nipper from this Japanese fan site.
SF News Gavin Gettin' Jiggy With It When the Guardian did their piece on the "New Bay," as coined by the EA-Ski-produced Frontline, maybe they didn't quite get it right. Does "New Bay" refer to a resurgence in local hip-hoppers
SF News Anarchy Out The EssEff Here in The City, hordes of anarchists are as mundane as hordes of shoppers at Union Square or crab-cracking tourists at Fisherman's Wharf. But in the rest of the country -- particularly over
SF News Do You Know The Way? Feel free to make your own "there isn't any there there" jokes; we here at SFist try to avoid cheap shots at our sprawling stepsister to the south. San Jose is the eleventh-largest
SF News Cal Faculty Board Faults National Merit Process In the ongoing debate between those who support a blanket meritocracy in school admissions versus a weighted approach that considers race, class and gender, the Faculty Board of Admissions and Relations With Schools
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: </i>Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents</i> The scene at the Kabuki for the last night of the Asian-American Film Festival was jam-packed, with three movies all starting at the same time, and people dressed to the nines for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Food Face-Off #1: Battle Oxtail That was, until now. Let the First SFist Food Face-Off begin. While we are building a giant kitchen set to host the battles at the SFist compound, as soon as the funding comes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Eatin' in Austin Well, okay, so this may not be so helpful to residents of The City, but considering how many people we've run into from home and folks around these parts who've spent time in
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: SFist Has You Covered SFist is proud of our coverage of local events, including SF IndieFest, SF Noise Pop, and Cinequest. We're really happy to continue this tradition with our coverage of the San Francisco International Asian
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: El Metate Of course, if you don't know, a Metate is the traditional stone bowl that is used to crush the limed corn, or hominy, into masa flour. Like a mortar and pestle, but much
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Kevin Shelley -- Hacked! California politicians are in a state of shock after hearing the news that soon-to-be-former Sec. of State Kevin Shelley's Palm Pilot was stolen from his Glen Park home. "It's crazy! I'm getting emails
Arts & Entertainment The War Memorial Code Philippines Founding Father Emilio Aguinaldo, while in exile from Spain in Hong Kong, conceived the flag. The flag incorporated various components of other Filipino flags and was designed to represent the Filipino rebellion
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: As Hollywood Preps for Their Prom And then there's something called The Academy Awards on this Sunday. Ahh. We kid. (Or pray at the Church of Ironic Detachment, take your pick.) Of COURSE TV is all about the Oscars
SF News Barry Meets the Press Oh sure, he played the usual cards. He denied ("I don't know Canseco, besides 'hello' and 'good-bye'), stonewalled (a moderator stepped in any time the Grand Jury testimony was mentioned), changed the subject
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P Hunter Thompson Gonzo journalist and counter-cultural icon Hunter S. Thompson died today of an apparent suicide. Thompson was the author of the classic , a book that inspired multitudes to take lots of drugs and go
SF News You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Merger's About You So Carly Fiorina is no longer the most powerful woman in business, or at least, the most powerful employed woman in business. Hewlett-Packard let her go today after months of speculation that there
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Superbowl Ads You see, America? You see what you get when you complain about a little boob action? You get the most boring halftime show imaginable featuring a snooze-inducing performance by Paul McCartney, AKA The
Arts & Entertainment Happy Parrot Day! February maybe the dreariest month, what with it being the dying days of winter and there being a dearth of sports on TV, but cheer up, San Franciscans, the Board of Supervisors has
SF News Roses As we joked to Chicagoist, "Google's offices are pretty much heaven on earth. It's like the clock stopped for them in February of 2000." How do we know? Well, when we let our
SF News I'm Rubber, You're Glue... The event was created two years by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network and we're glad to see that the organization is taking time out of it's busy agenda to save children
Arts & Entertainment Won't Somebody Think of the Children? Where do we even begin with this one? Like how when the episode aired years ago, it aired with an unblurry bottom. Or that the plot of one of the episodes that aired
SF News Cops Summit Kilimanjaro to Honor Officer Espinoza Slashdot today points out that Cops on Top, the organization that climbs peaks to memorialize fallen officers, has been keeping an audioblog from their ascent of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to honor SFPD officer
Arts & Entertainment New SFist Contributor: Rain Jokinen If you don't own a TV set, Rain might not have much to say to you, but to those who do, she will gladly debate the varied qualities of the latest "America's Next
