misc SFist is Home for the Holidays As you may have noticed, things have started to wind-down at SFist HQ. That's because a lot of us are back in the hinterlands visiting with family, family-in-law, potential family-in-law and family-in-law-if-the-law-allowed. Oh,
SF News We Heart BART As if fast, friendly, and efficient service isn't enough love, BART is now offering even more reasons to love it. Five hundred dollars worth of reasons. The “BART #1 Transit System in America”
Arts & Entertainment Always a Crowd-pleaser Alternately, you could spend the day at Pier 39, participating in a celebration marking the 15th anniversary of the sea lions' arrival at the docks. Fun! We look forward to encountering unpleasant, angry-looking
SF News No Gun For You We must have missed this in the midst of all the Apprentice hoopla, but last week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors did what they do best- passed a sweeping, half-baked but well-intentioned
Arts & Entertainment In the Bored Room What should have been an exciting finale full of spit and vinegar in the boardroom, instead turned into an endless series of "spontaneous" "Kelly is the greatest," and "Jennifer, booo!" comments from, seriously,
SF News A Bridge by Any Other Name? As if it’s not enough that the re-building of the Bay Bridge has turned into huge spat fight over money and design another spat is possibly brewing over the most important part
Arts & Entertainment Great White Nope, not that Great White, the even more lethal kind. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is currently playing host to a Great White shark. As you may know, Great Whites are NEVER in captivity
SF News We Want a Catcher, Not a Belly Scratcher After last season’s spirit-crushing, totally maddening season, Giants’ fans from around the Bay, like kids sitting on Santa’s lap, have all been screaming the same thing: “We want reliever! We want
SF News Fight the Power? San Francisco’s hep cat of a Board of Supervisor, Matt Gonzalez, made perhaps his final statement as outgoing President of the Board with his latest piece of artwork installed in his office-
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: One Scoop Or Two? Okay, we have to confess that we haven't really been paying much attention to the plans about developing the Hunters' Point shipyard (though we did note through our usual sporting interest in housing
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's Not Who You Know To paraphrase Norm, it's not who you know, it's who know. With that, this week's live theater recommendations consist of shows featuring friends of ours. Pretty good deal, being SFist's friend, isn't it?
SF News Say It Ain't So Barry And the next shoe dropped. After yesterday’s big scoop revealing Jason Giambi’s Grand Jury testimony, the Chronicle, which has been all Woodward and Bernstein about the BALCO trial, got an even
SF News We Feel Your Pain At the beginning of the year, our earnest Boy Wonder of a Mayor said that in the spirit of sharing the pain of the inevitable budget cuts, he would cut his own salary
SF News As the BALCO Turns Hold onto your hats, sports fans, as Victor Conte, the mad scientist in charge of the BALCO labs is all set to go on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20 this week and name
SF News Political Junkie: Say It With Flowers You didn't think we'd go a week without more postings on our favorite city supervisor, did you? Naw! The Body Politic reports that Chris Daly is the recipient of a lovely pot of
Arts & Entertainment Animal Instincts SFist isn't going to apologize for our unnatural love of anthropomorphized monkeys. Particularly when they're wearing pants. We love that! Ahem. What we mean is that we find the people/animal connection an
SF News Interview: Mimi Zeiger But we digress. Mimi is the editor of a very cool zine about architecture. After stints on the East Coast and even (gasp of horror) LA she returned to the Bay area. As
Arts & Entertainment Elephant Four Local filmmaker Ryan Junell went to New York for the Republican National Convention back in August and filmed what he saw. is the result. See the Elephant is a documentary that runs on
Arts & Entertainment Rising From the Depths... Nothing caps off a day at the office like the site of a misunderstood monster stomping the corporate towers of Tokyo. When we watch Godzilla we can almost imagine what it must have
SF News Down and Out in Berkeley So you know when the police come and roust some homeless person on the street and take away their shopping cart? Ever wonder what happens to the shopping cart? Do they become part
Arts & Entertainment Toy Story 3 Will Probably Be Really Crappy In another blow to an already failed relationship, Disney has begun ramping up production for Toy Story 3 at their new digital production facilities in Glendale -- meaning that it isn't likely Pixar
SF News The Condition of the Working Class in Redwood City -- Update And the saga continues. Electronic Arts seems to have pissed off one too many geeks, and now that this story has gone public details are beginning to emerge that don't look good for
SF News Another One Bites The Dust While we may not be big fans of golf, we are, however, big fans of the Chronicle's golf columnist Brian Murphy. Well, more like big fans of his Weekend Water Cooler column that
