misc Craigslist Encounters: 267 Gays use Craigslist (more than 2,205 Straights) As reported (here among many other places) . Which would not really pique our interests, except that the survey also mentions Craigslist. So this morning we decided to dive right in and see what
SF News And It Burns, Burns, Burns, the Ring of Fire, the Ring of Fire The fire rings would be designated places where bonfires could happen. There would be signs letting everyone know what the deal is with the hope that people would only build bon fires in
SF News Oakland Airport Evacuated This all happened around 11 A.M. when a guy walked up to an Alameda County sheriff's deputy who was watching over the area where arriving passengers exit and enter the baggage claim
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Oliver Chin What's your favorite thing about them? Collaborating with fantastic illustrators and artists to give people worthy alternatives to the cookie-cutter commercial widgets that permeate our culture. What's on your holiday wish list? Please
misc Bay Area Wanderer: M_TINEE * Bay Area Wanderer: Market and Mason, San Francisco Headed down Market Street to Taqueria Can-Cun. Crazed people, drunk people, stoned people, business people. Scent of plywood wet with urine. An old moviehouse held
SF News Shorter Gavin in the Examiner As we all know, Gavin is up for re-election this year (and why 2007? Aren't big elections supposed to be in even-numbered years? Is this one more "only in SF" type of thing?
SF News T3 Line Ready To Roll And sadly, we spent a long time trying to do some sort of pun between those two bridges and Fergie's "London Bridge" but couldn't come up with anything. Even worse, we now have
SF News The Warriors: A Night at the Races, but No Payout The good news is the Warriors scored 135 points last night in Memphis against the Grizzlies. Bet you can't see where this one is going. Yup. The bad news is that they gave
Arts & Entertainment Check Out SFist MattyMatt! As we promised earlier, SFist MattyMatt was indeed on! NBC 11 News this evening -- in the sweet spot right before the weather! -- talking about his 33 MUNI bus video clip with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink No Scones For You The ban is being done in half the country, including SF. By the end of the year, Starbucks hopes to be totally fat free around the country. Turns out, Starbucks has been working
SF News Your SFist 2006 Sports Year In Review In fact, we tried to think about when we had a worse year and came up with maybe 1995 or 1996 when both baseball teams kind of sucked and the Raiders still in
SF News You Had To Be There The problem was that before there was no way of tracking who was attending and who wasn't. Besides the fact nobody really saw the records as they sat in the commission offices, the
SF News New Rules The biggest one is an increase in the minimum wage, from $6.75 an hour to $7.50. Next year, it'll go up to $8. In San Francisco, however, the minimum wage is
SF News Your Commute: One Dollar More While the extra money will go to retrofitting, the new snazzy Bay Bridge suspension bridge redesign is what triggered the increase in the first place -- you may recall that when Schwarzenegger tried
SF News Happy Days Are Here Again? Now for those of you thinking "wha?" here are the reasons given: -My, look at how clean downtown looks -Look at all those happy, smiling shoppers shopping -Aren’t those fancy, schmany restaurants
Arts & Entertainment What's Up For the New Year So with that in mind, what is there to do tomorrow night? Well, we don't know actually as it's looking like it'll be movie night, but for those of you looking to go
Arts & Entertainment Our Parting Gift to You As we come into the last weekend of '06 and the last few hours of the holiday week, we give you, our beloved loyal readers, this video: Journey's "When the Lights Go Down
SF News Stormy Weather But that's not the only repercussions from the storm. Sadly, a man was killed when a tree was knocked over into their home. For a few minutes, we saw that happening to us
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Becomes BustamanteWatcher for the Day If things felt a little different today here in the Golden State, it was only because due to California rules, Lt. Gov Cruz Bustamante took over as Governor for the two hours or
SF News Not So Sweet Charity To determine all of this, the people in the NewTithing Group measured everyone's income, including investments and all that stuff, and then measured it with the amount of money they gave to charity.
SF News Your Third (Third!) Berkeley Quake The Chron included a helpful link to a Google map of the area (why didn't think of that?), which shows that the epicenter was between Ashby Ave. and Highway 24, right off Claremont
SF News Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Skyscraper A bunch of developers have gotten together and proposed building some really fracking huge towers in the SOMA district at 1st and Mission We're talking taller than any other building in the city
SF News Tilting at the Windmills of Golden Gate Park The Murphy Windmill was put in the park in 1905 and was used to take advantage of all the winds to generate power. But when electricity, that cruel mistress, took over, nobody really
misc Bay Area Wanderer: May Your Days Be Merry And Bright * Bay Area Wanderer: Church and Market, San Francisco At the Expansion Bar, the time came when the candles needed to be lit. As the bartender worked at his task, the little balls of
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Happy Kitschy Crafting. One of our personal favorites this year was Leah Kramer's 'The Craftsters Guide to Nifty, Thrifty and Kitschy Crafts'. Kramer, a craft maven by every definition of the word, is responsible for starting
