Arts & Entertainment Big Changes at Tribe.net The very definition of a 'chilling effect' on free speech is when legislation or enforcement of new laws are so potentially onerous that people and organization self-censor out of fear and potential liability.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Oysters Holiday shopping and holiday parties leave us little time to cook this season. As we wandered the waterlogged Ferry Plaza market this weekend, we passed by the stalls of produce, knowing any veggies
SF News Another Muni Accident As with December 5th's fatal accident, the victim was crossing the street as the bus was turning, but was apparently unseen by the driver. The victim, a middle aged white man, was taken
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes To Austria Europe, of course, has banned capital punishment for years. As has much pretty much most of the Western world, as well as pretty much most of the rest of the world. Which is
SF News Rent-a-Tree Well, in San Francisco, it's definitely getting so it makes more sense to rent than it does to own -- so we're not entirely surprised to hear of a program where the Friends
SF News Bay Area Sports Franchises: Welcome to the Mediocrity So how did our local teams do? In short, meh (we would link to the article in question, but for whatever reason, IT'S NOT ONLINE! This is the 21st Century-- everything should be
SF News The Continuing Adventures of Amy Lee The appeal was filed by noted "eviction attorney" Andrew Zacks. Zacks filed it on behest of "Citizens for the Equal Treatment in the Permit Process” (CETPP?), a shady and mysterious new group whose
SF News A's Brand Baseball: We Got Game Like Parker Brothers After an unproductive week at the MLB winter meetings, the A's heated up the winter stove again: they traded minor league OF Andre Ethier to the Dodgers for major league OF Milton "Insert
SF News The Perils of Blogging Drunk What made us laugh even harder, though, was when John at The Legal Reader emailed to explain that it was all something of an accident. A BUI, if you will:I got home
SF News Four Out Of Five Unsolved We've gotten kind of into this show on A&E called "The First 48," which follows homicide detectives during the first 48 hours of a murder investigation. As the narrator intones over
SF News SFist Tech Labs: With a Name Like Yahoo, It Has to Be Delicious The del.icio.us announcement got a great big steaming pile of comments and website/blog coverage, much of it positive, but much of it taking part in a pre-emptive backlash dogpile against
SF News Pitcher or Belly Itcher? And the Giants got their man. Monday it was announced that Matt Morris, formerly of the Cardinals, is now a member in proud standing of the Black & Orange. As we said earlier,
misc The 'Fisties: Freaky Geekery 5th Place — Neogentronyx: As first reported by CNet, Carlos Owens is an Anchorage steelworker who moonlights as a designer of larger-than-life robots, known as Mech (or Gundam Mecha, if you're an otaku like
SF News SF Getting Its V Card If approved, Virgin'll be the only major airline based in California, and will have the potential to create as many as 2,000 local jobs, with an eventual additional 20,000-30,000 indirect
SF News Clemency Denied As many legal observers expected, Gov. Schwarzenegger denied Stanley "Tookie" Williams's request for clemency, stating that (.pdf) there was strong evidence supporting the jury's guilty verdict, and that he doesn't really believe that
SF News Fourth Runner-Up Gavin's number five! Gavin's number five! Mayor Newsom came in fifth in this year's World Mayor Awards -- a markedly better showing than last year, where he came in "less than 1500 votes
SF News Week 14 NFL Preview The biggest, most compelling reason to watch is that it is now official--the Rai-duhs have a new QB. Yep, it's Tui time as Marvelous Norv Turner has announced that Marques Tuiasosopo will indeed
SF News Jerry Tang Update In addition to posting fliers posted all over the city, they've created a wiki on the effort to find him, which is being constantly updated withinformatin on whom to contact if you can
misc The 'Fisties: Best Bar, or, Staggering Through FISTies It’s about that time again (for the first time). Time to heap a whole year’s worth of praise on to several lucky and talented establishments that did us the kind service
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a Copy of Smoke and Guns! As part of our big fun December, we're giving away lots of stuff, including review copies of materials previously discussed on the site. Why? Because we like you! For example, do you remember
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Elbert Chang Today’s interview subject, Elbert Chang, appreciates Fry’s. Which is what you might expect from someone who will repair friend’s guitar amps for free. When he’s not winning friends and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sunday Morning Coffee Conundrum First off, we should thank the powers that be (as SFist Jon alluded to in his recent rant) that we have so many options for good, local, independent coffee places here in the
SF News Your Commute: Fastrak Lanes Caltrans is warning us in advance that it's going to open up two more Fastrak-only lanes on the Bay Bridge. Why the advance notice? Well, because only 1/3 of drivers have Fastraks,
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Redux: Stuck in the Middle With You This week he got rid of his previous Chief of Staff, a Republican, and brought in one of Gray Davis' old aides, Susan Kennedy. The move has gotten conservative's panties all in a
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: The Media Is the Message Kaleidoscope We may not have the Xbox 360's awesome home media center capabilities, but we may not even need them, if Apple rumor site Think Secret's speculation is correct. They're claiming that Apple
