SF News CCA To Feed The Homeless In a press release from the California Culinary Academy we received today, the executive chefs and students at the CCA will be serving 1,000 lunches to the local homeless at the Bill
SF News Odeon: Sold-eon? SFist had just recently been introduced to the venue, but had heard about the exploits of its patrons all the way over on the east coast before even getting out here. Nearly every
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Eat At URL's The first time we had lunch at "URL's" (har har) was a while back when we were working down Mathilda a piece at Hewlett-Packard and our friend was at Yahoo. He gave us
SF News New Pope! With the election of a second non-Italian Pope in a row, we're hoping that this kind of "outside the box" thinking bodes well for the heavenly reign of Pope Benedict XVI, and that
SF News Get Ur Geek On: Breaking News Edition SFist has been using products from both companies every day for the last few years, and would like to point out that this is a huge blow to the market competition for creative
Arts & Entertainment Tom Dolby Reads On Tuesday Tom also says that he may well be reading new material (scroll down) from his second novel, tentatively titled , for the first time in public -- which would be a special treat for
SF News Humanitarian Marla Ruzicka Claimed By Violence In Iraq In a terribly tragic irony, Marla Ruzicka, who grew up in Lake County, and worked tirelessly for Medea Benjamin's Global Exchange before founding her own organization, "The Campaign For Innocent Victims of Conflict"
SF News Verizon CEO Craps On The Gavster Hey, you know that municipal wireless system that fair Gavin plans to build here in EssEff? Of course it makes our AirPort Express card drool to think about city-wide connectivity, for free (or
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Good Seats Still Available We hope the crowds will start doing the same as nights at the Coliseum get warmer, as much as we enjoyed having the stadium to ourselves (announced attendance: 15,860). It's great baseball,
Arts & Entertainment Painted Rooms: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly The good? Kelly Tunstall's work and room were fan-f**king-tastic. We also loved the big cartoon acrylics of Isis Rodriguez. And the international art collective Vinyl Killers had up a huge series of
SF News Paying More For Less We rant and we rave, but the fact is, SFist is stuck for local transport without Muni. Even if we had a car, where the hell would we park it? So when we
SF News Tax Day Blues If you're in the mood to cheer, put on your best togs and get in touch with the Billionaires for Bush to laud the administration for making their lives so much easier at
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Borf'd Amongst the graffitos, San Francisco has a reputation for being uber-tolerant of their guerilla art. Which is why folks from as far away as Washington, D.C. drop by on occassion to throw
Arts & Entertainment Painted Rooms At The Hotel Des Arts The Hotel Des Arts, a boutique downtown, will be throwing open their doors to the public to view the now thirty rooms that have been covered in the liquid whimsy of some of
SF News Wanted: N'Awlinsist Editor We've joked on the site before that the only other editorial job in the nascent 'ist empire that we'd like to take would be the one in Crescent City, AKA The Big Easy,
SF News Dogster Nominated For Webby In the interest of full disclosure, SFist Ted, our new weatherman, also happens to be Dogster Ted. And while we've harshed on the Webby Awards only just recently, we're still proud. You can
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Central Coffee Central Coffee obviously serves coffee -- we've tried it, it's good. But they also have a small menu of healthy options for food, as well. And except for their signature lox-bagel plate, everything
SF News SFist Est Amicus Curiae Well, SFist got our legal history off to a good start -- we're involved in a court case, and we're not the defendant! Nor are we the plaintiff -- though if you don't
SF News Wah-huh? Now SFist is all about consensus and compromise and bi-partisan politics, but unless the cake was chock-full of laxatives, we don't see how getting friendly with a man who Ted Kennedy accused of
SF News Supes Lurve Electronic Electioneering Bill So it looks like the Electronic Electioneering resolution has passed, with the unamended version winning in a nine-to-two vote, with Supervisors Elsbernd and Alioto-Pier voting no, meaning that the board has enough votes
SF News Back To Oakland The promising new and/or young players have so far delivered upon their, uh, promise: Nick Swisher hit two home runs against the Orioles on Wednesday, Danny Haren struck out six in six
SF News Crotchmas Comes But Once A Year Our favorite Bay Area funnyblogger and jazz musician, Ian over at Wrapped Up Like A Douche, is staging a pledge drive -- kind of like fellow funnyman Jerry Lewis. Except instead of exploiting
Arts & Entertainment Pet Noir Party Well, we didn't actually go to the Pet Noir party prepared to cover it on the site. We just went to drink and see some art, maybe run into some friends. But we
SF News Spat At The Sentinel It seems that after contributing to Pat Murphy's San Francisco Sentinel for nearly five years, Jim Meko, of the SOMA Leadership Council, is taking his point of view elsewhere, much to the dismay
Arts & Entertainment Bono Makes Appearance At Glide Bono also spoke on the Pope, but graciously called Reverend Williams "The Pope of San Francisco." "Whenever this rock star is in the Bay Area, I have to visit Glide." About John Paul,
