SF News Day Around the Bay -- Explanation for last night's brief Bay Bridge light outage. [Oakland Tribune] -- Need a home in the Mission? And you're a web ninja and/or hacker? And a bit of an arsonist?
SF News A Room of One's Own...In Which to Shoot Up As mentioned in today's Chronicle, the idea of a safe-space in which intravenous drug users can shoot up -- without fear of arrests, beatings, rapes, or whatever happens in those movies after heroin's
SF News Umbrage Alert! Umbrage Alert! Last weekend, while conducting mass, the Archbishop was giving communion when up came two people "wearing bizarre makeup and costumes, including one dressed in a parody of a nun's habit." Hmm…couldn’t
SF News Measure H Math As part of its campaign against Measure H, the SF Bicycle Coalition has notified us that there are more parking spaces than cars in San Francisco: our fair but congested city has "603,
SF News Google Still Hating America If you may remember, Google first got in trouble when they didn't do one of those cute logo cartoons to Support the Troops. Now they're in some more trouble with conservatives for celebrating
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Poor Cal-- so close yet so far. Our theory about what happened is that the idea of Cal having the #1 ranked team in the country was so crazy that even in this
misc Week Around the -Ists DCist spent the week honoring some local heroes. First and foremost, they honored 75 year-old Mona Shaw, who smashed up a local Comcast cable office with a hammer after she got fed up
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers As is the custom around these parts, we would like to take a moment to thank this weeks' advertisers on SFist. NY Times Home Delivery, with 50% off home delivery. Cazadores, the one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: Holy New Whole Foods! What would Batman and Robin think? With its chic industrial/gothic design, the new “market hall” style Whole Foods that opened recently near Lake Merritt in Oakland certainly could be used for a
SF News It's a Motherf------ Column-Off dueling press conferences and memo-leakage, the Homeless issue is becoming the Issue du Jour, leading to a full-fledged reporter dogpile. First came CW Nevius who weighed in with yet another story on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Burke-Lewis Apartment Manager Hate A reader snapped these pictures taken inside of their infamous Burke-Lewis Apartments on Bush Street. It seems that someone in the building printed one of the many negative reviews (this one being almost
Arts & Entertainment New (ish) Contributer Interview: Julie Feinstein Adams I wanted to write for SFist because: I need attention. Lots of attention. You should read my pieces because: You'll eat better, look nicer, be more surrealist, and give interesting holiday gifts. Best
Arts & Entertainment "Absoludicrous" Found Footage Fest Back in Town This Weekend All of you YouTube addicts out there are probably familiar with many of the "absoludicrous"* found video clips from Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett's touring Found Footage Festival (*Mr. T makes an appearance
SF News Muni Almost Kills Someone The man being dragged was fine. The driver of said L-line, of course, was pissed, "yelling, 'Who pulled the release bar?'" Muni spokeswoman Maggie Lynch says that streetcar doors aren't designed like
SF News Rotten Neighbor's Naming-Names Hilarity As we mentioned before, we love us some Rotten Neighbor. And we recently found a couple of brief but choice testimonials on it. Behold: But we would love to see SF's section explode,
SF News Muni - Wanna Guess Where This Is Going? If you're unlucky enough to be a regular Muni rider, you may have followed the ongoing ridiculousness involving the NextMuni displays at Church Street Station. As you can see above, the display now
SF News Baskets Are the New Minimalism It’s a classic example of fixie bike lust: the carefully accented color coordination, expensive but mismatched wheels, improbably narrow handlebars, and, of course, lack of any unsightly “extras” such as gears and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Mail: Stop Using "the" Before Freeway Number I have been enjoying SFist. Thanks for the neat articles, links, etc. As a native San Franciscan, one of the things that I would like you to please consider is how the writers
SF News UPDATE: Safeway "Giving" We hear from our Safeway mole, that things did not stop there. As you may as well already know, the Safeway crusade of the month is breast cancer research. (For those heavy-drinking ladies
misc We Are All Equal...Except You, Tranny Queer rights groups freaked out, threw a tizzy (understandably), and nixed their support for a workplace discrimination civil rights bill "after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #3 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. 2. Marjorie de Muynck - In The Key of Earth: Within four epic musical movements named: Pulse, Light,
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Seahwaks 23 49ers 3- Remember when the Niners, like, beat the Seahawks, like all the time? And remember how their impressive displays against the Seattle Blue Men made people think the Niners were
Arts & Entertainment Our Glass Runneth Over As a prelude to the big event, the world premiere of Appomattox next Friday at the opera house, composer Philip Glass was hosting a night of chamber music at Herbst Theater last night.
