Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *CRAFT: Knitters and crocheters come together in harmony tonight over at the (newly remodeled!) Three Dollar Bill Cafe. Don't know how? No worries. Someone will be there to teach you. Happens every Monday.
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #19 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Other CD's being released today: 1. Nancy LaMott - Ask Me Again 2. Morrissey - Greatest Hits* 3.
misc Ask SFist -- Tonight? Under the impression that SFist is a bastardized form of Ask Jeeves, a readers writes in to ask: What should I do tonight? This town sucks. Hangout at a Marina sports bar? Snort
misc Ask a Muni Security Guy How do you handle food on MUNI? Technically it's not allowed but everyone kind of does it. It's basically ignored. We've had good luck with cooperation for the most part. We tell the
misc SFist Tonight Paul Auster: Sure, metafictionist Auster wrote the screenplays to Smoke, Blue in the Face, and The Brooklyn Follies, but he also penned the phenomenal collection of PoMo detective-fiction tales, The New York Trilogy,
misc Ask a Librarian New feature alert, folks! Ever want to know more about your local library? Or anything about libraries of the world. The art of receiving a masters in library sciences? Or why people use
SF News Ask a Muni Driver Here's the question: Do cops ever stop a Muni driver for anything like speeding or running a red light? In theory, yes. In practice, no. Or at least, I've never seen it or
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Golem: Sadly, this has nothing to do with The Lord of the Rings' heroin addict creature. Joyously, this has everything to do with the fact that this is a mist rocking six-piece
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Pipettes: This all-female, British, Phil-Spector-sounding band gains more and more popularity by the day. See them tonight so that by next year when they're too big for SF venues, you can
misc Blocker: 3600 Balboa Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Avenue Q: This tee hee-inducing musical features un-Seaseme Street-like puppets (e.g., a closeted homosexual republican, for starters) and an ode to racism. What's more, the indie production won a surprise Tony
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy what i want to know is who the bald security guy is and his female coworker. they are EVERYWHERE! seriously, those two must be cloned for the number of times i see them
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week Hey folks, we're back again with our favorites amongst the comments and opinions you, the readership, made about SFist's stories that ran the week of July 1. Despite the weird holiday schedule, there
SF News Ask a Muni Driver Anyways, back to the show. This week I’ve decided to go a little bit off the grid and throw some stuff out there that nobody asked for. Here’s my Things That
SF News Who's Running For Mayor: The Chicken And The Wolf Okay, okay, okay, okay -- we hear you about Laughing Squid's scoop that Chicken John running for mayor, folks! We were totally slammed at work today, that's why we're getting this up late.
SF News Ask a Muni Driver Anyways, here we go, yo... “Why do some buses turn around mid run?” There can be several reasons why buses turn around mid-run. An important first point to make is that there are
SF News Ask a Muni Driver Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start.... ...as for the bathroom, this is a HUGE problem. A lot of drivers carry around empty plastic bottles… There’s something
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Phil Bronstein Phil Bronstein is the Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. In no small part thanks to Eve Batey (our "Editrix Emeritus" and the Chron's current blogging and interactive editor), Mr. Bronstein agreed to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Geek out! At Ask a Scientist SF, a monthly lecture slash happy hour with a guest speaker on some sciencey topic. This month's meet-up touches on everything you ever wanted to know about
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: "Things" His latest defense? That whole thing where his house didn't have water? Jew's response: "Ask yourself this: When it comes down to government run operations, do they ever make mistakes?" It is when
SF News The Return of Ask a Muni Driver And, as always, if you have a question you'd like to ask, e-mail us at editor at SFist.com {Disclaimer: I am not an official spokesperson for anything except my opinion as a
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy As always, if you have any questions to either the driver or the security guy, e-mail us at [email protected]. Now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast. Earlier this week, the Examiner
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy It goes without saying that if you have any questions, drop us a line at editor @ sfist.com. First question, what exactly is Muni Security MUNI security detail entails: There are a bunch
SF News "Ask a Muni Driver" Bids You a Farwell If anything, we hoped to show that not every Muni driver is bad and that they're well aware of the problems with our transit system. There are bad drivers out there, but there
SF News There's a New Eleven in Town That's right -- 311 is doing the work that 511 promised but never delivered. Five-eleven still can't provide you with NextMuni info for buses, and you can't submit complaints about shoddy service; but