misc Ask SFist -- Bay Guardian vs. SF Weekly? What's the deal with the Guardian going up against the SF Weekly in court? For a multitude of reason, we're not personally touching this lawsuit. (The main reasons being it's confusing, plodding, doesn't
SF News Yahoo Layoffs Happening Right This Very Second According to a Valleywag tipster: FYI - I've heard the word from my peeps over at Yahoo Search Marketing in Burbank CA that the layoffs are going down as we speak, and people
SF News East Bay To Get Even Louder Tonight Anti-war fans, pro-war zealots, '60s fetishists, barely-legal Marines, the unshowered, and young college students trying to impress their boyfriends will be out in full force on the other side of the Bay later
misc Photo du Jour <del>666</del> 55 While it's not very Bay Area-ish, Jesus is allegedly in all of our hearts. And now look what happened? We blame the sodomites. And Code Pink. Read more about Rio de Janeiro's wonder
Arts & Entertainment Valentine's Day Pillow Fight! Piff! Pow! Zwap! On Valentine's Day at precisely 6 p.m. at Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco will play host to its third annual public pillow fight. And they're looking for a few
SF News Marina Plays Host to International Intrigue After Man Makes Threats Outside Egyptian Consulate Last night, according to an SFist tipster: A few blocks in the Marina around Cervantes and Beach were shut down to traffic and residents for about an hour and a half this afternoon.
SF News Is Your BlackBerry Screwed Up, Too? Ours was. And how. It would neither send nor receive email for hours. The horror. Hitting all carriers, it turns out the BlackBerry outage afflicted enterprise users across the United States and Canada
SF News Day Around the Bay Your Black Muslim Bakery women treated like "slaves." (Hot fish sandwiches don't make themselves, ladies.) [Oakland Tribune] Dan Noyes sticks it to Muni again, and not in a good way. Be sure to
Arts & Entertainment International Bear Rendezvous 2008 Starting this Thursday (Feb. 14) and going until next Monday (Feb 18) will be the International Bear Rendezvous, a yearly party for bears and bear lovers, sponsored by the Bears of San Francisco.
misc Photo du Jour 54 We shamelessly stole today's photo of the day from SF Metblogs. It was reportedly taken at the Ferry Building's farmers market. And while we can imagine such a gruesome display occurring in more
SF News Broadway Community Meeting to Open Soon This is most exciting news, folks. The theater scene here sucks so hard now that even the San Francisco Police Department is working on the problem. Check it: Subject: Broadway Community Meeting with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight READING: Idiolexicon Poetry Series brings together different types of poets -- from slam to experimental, hip-hop and academia -- having them share a stage. Tonight, the lineup includes performances by poets Stephen Meads
SF News SFist Blotter Police believe that a Santa Rosa man, who recently stabbed himself with a homemade spear just seconds before the fuzz burst through his front door early Sunday morning, is possibly connected to last
Arts & Entertainment (Belatedly) Celebrate Shrove Tuesday! At iHOP! For what it's worth: "In celebration of National Pancake Day on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., IHOP, one of America's favorite restaurants for breakfast, lunch and
SF News Sunday's Scientology Protest And honk they did. Yesterday a worldwide Scientology protest took place by "Anonymous" (AKA Project Chanology, an Internet-based protest against the Church of Scientology), and we caught a few images of the action
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour 53 We suspect that the Sharpie artist might have been in on the joke, but since it's vandalism, it tickles us nevertheless. Image credit: Lulu Vision
misc Week Around the -ists Gothamist was amazed after the Giants won the Super Bowl, the city went wild, and it witnessed a ticker-tape parade. Barack Obama drew 20,000+ ahead of Seattle’s Saturday caucus. Londonist had
misc Photo du Jour 52 Found at Wunder Beer Brewing Co., this trumps the tic-tac-toe games and four-letter words we normally scribble on restaurant tables. (We're not exactly sure what the drawing's accompanying text says -- "human ______ grown
SF News Yahoo Dares to Say No to the Great Microsoft It looks like Sunnyvale-based Yahoo plans on rejecting the $44.6 billion rose Microsoft offered it earlier this month. A move that would have merged the two tech giants won't happen, it seems,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Lucas (1986), Say Anything (1989), My Bloody Valentine (1981): The first film has socially-retarded Corey Haim falling head over heels in love with a sensitive football player, Charlie Sheen, or something like that;
Arts & Entertainment SF Zoo Cleans Up Its Act Because Valentine's Day is about necking, red roses, and Whitman's Samplers -- and not about making that special someone your creampie cutie for the night, you perverts -- the San Francisco Zoo's annual
misc Legos Collide Into Super Mario Brothers, With Precious Results Scott Beale over at Laughing Squid came across these adorable videos, which he dedicates to his "Super Mario Brothers obsessed" nephews, that bring together two important turning points from our youth: Legos and
SF News EBay, Media Company? You know that site where you bid on and bought your vintage designer duds? That Thundercats lunchbox? Or those garish home accents your girlfriend has all over her apartment? It seems that they
SF News Behold, Your New Tiger Grotto Wall! Glorious, isn't it? Raising the walls of the grotto 16.4 feet, in order to meet the minimum guidelines of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the first phase of improving the SF
Arts & Entertainment Let the Valentine's Day Marketing Machine-Slash-Reasons to Feel Suicidal Because You're Single Commence Next Thursday is Valentine's Day. And the pressure is on, couples of the Bay Area, especially for those of you approaching the seven-year-itch mark. Really, this Valentine's Day could be a make-or-break kind
