Arts & Entertainment 24 Hour Nerdy People Tonight: The Canvas Gallery is hosting "Ask a Scientist," with Nancy Garland, a Technology Development Master at the U.S. Department of Energy, discussing Alternative Energy: A Cleaner Future for Cars. Tuesday: The
SF News Pac Zen: The Way of Bay Football This SFist was actually kind of excited about the chances of the college football programs around the Bay this season, with the Pac 10 looking wide open. Then Cal got whipped like cream
Arts & Entertainment Josh Wolf Receives Bail The 'Gate is reporting that Josh has been granted bail by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, to wit:In a brief order, two judges of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of
misc Get Ur Geek On: Don't Call it a Comeback It's been a while since we published a tech roundup. But the Internet turned 15 last Sunday, we got a new laptop from an entrepreneur and friend who'll be enabling this 'Fister's addiction
Arts & Entertainment Dirty, Dirty Bloggers Q: Are you going to be trading up, a la One Red Paperclip? A: I wasn’t, but after pondering this question for the entirety of my morning commute, I decided that I
Arts & Entertainment Journalist Josh Wolf Jailed for Video Screw getting Dooced, Josh Wolf has set the blogger bar a bit higher than getting fired. He's been jailed. Judge William Alsup, presiding over a federal grand jury case investigating the attempted burning
Arts & Entertainment Wanted, Dead or Alive: BNE While we'd like to be able to sympathize with grumpsters who foretell of the fall of Western Civilization at the hands of taggers, we just can't. Graffitti is as old as the first
Arts & Entertainment Why We Call it 'The Comical' Geez, we all know about Gavin's struggle with dyslexia, but even SFist wouldn't be mean enough to make fun of it, much less in a one-inch front page headline. Photo by Stacy Wong.
Arts & Entertainment Larry Clark on <em>Wassup Rockers</em> While at times funny and entertaining, the movie seemed to shy away from the provocative sensationalism of his earlier work, which may have something to do with Clark's difficulty getting US distribution for
SF News Warning: May Cause Legal Leakage After the jump, paranoid former Tower of Power bassists, plucky Chronicle reporters, and embarrassing details about professional athletes that the goverment doesn't want you to know!
SF News The Vista from the Valley on Microsoft Of course Microsoft is not an empire that will fall quickly. We doubt Ray Ozzie will pull a Nero and set the Redmond campus alight or feed open-source advocates to lions (that's Steve
SF News 4.7 Quake on Calaveras Fault Anybody else feel the seismic alarm clock go off this morning at 5:24? A 4.7 magnitude earthquake shook the Calaveras Fault, centered approximately six miles from San Martin, California. It was
Arts & Entertainment Vloggercon 2006 Video geeks are descending on San Francisco this weekend for Vloggercon 2006 (or 'video blogger conference' if you're not a fan of tech neologisms). It was inspired by Webzine and the original Vloggercon
Arts & Entertainment Bay Guardian Down, But Not Out Maybe there is something to this 6/6/06 numerological weirdness after all. The mood seems dark and sinister for an election day. And it was certainly some devilish characters who have shut
Arts & Entertainment Online Journalists 1, Steve Jobs 0 This is a *huge* win! Now journalists can feel safe knowing that they can protect their sources’ identity no matter in which medium they choose to disseminate news (as we argued in our
Arts & Entertainment SFist Unintentional Party Crash: Wired Rave Awards Honest to goodness, we weren't even planning on going to the Wired Rave Awards, much less wandering in uninvited (we've been, it's not all that). We just dropped by to hand off some
Arts & Entertainment Bedbugs, Bedbugs, Whatcha Gonna Do? But by the morning of the 27th, my arms, legs and other parts of my body were full of bug bites (I took some pictures of the bites). As I was sitting on
SF News Happy May Day It warms our red hearts to see workers marching here at home and around the world on International Workers' Day, otherwise known as May Day. Protests and demonstrations happened from Berlin to Indonesia,
SF News San Francisco is Being Invaded! You may have already noticied the surprising tactical move to seize local public transportation, or the advance battalions who've landed on the Embarcadero, sending skirmishers down Market street. Word is that their supported
Arts & Entertainment Backfence Moves Into Our Backyard A new neighbor has moved into an old house in the 'hood, renovated the place and promises to be part of the community -- going to PTA meetings, Little League games, community centers
SF News Wikipedia Dumps 'Marina Girls' A battle has been raging behind the scenes at Wikipedia. No, it's not over copyrights or veracity or how well an article explains its premise. It's over whether or not the entry on
SF News Rich A** Ofays Still Some Racist Motherf**kers Between a skyrocketing homicide rate, brutal and incompetent police, moves to completely redevelop the last community stronghold in The City, the shutdown of a school named after a famous local civil rights leader
misc Bay Blogger Special: Nicks Invade The City Last night Spot-On's Chris Nolan held a swanky fete at her Russian Hill apartment to introduce folks around. Lots of familiar faces were there -- Nick Denton and fellow Gawker Media minion Boi
SF News Did the SF Weekly Scapegoat Harmon Leon? Well, L'affaire Leon at the Weekly certainly didn't come to a conclusion we expected. We crawled out of bed this morning only to read that he'll no longer be appearing in their pages.
Arts & Entertainment SF Weekly To Issue Correction Once again, SFist is here to stick up for ol' Harmon, as he's run into controversy yet again in his most recent SF Weekly Infiltrator column, "Dieter Gone Wild." In this episode, Harmon's
