SF News Anarchy Out The EssEff Here in The City, hordes of anarchists are as mundane as hordes of shoppers at Union Square or crab-cracking tourists at Fisherman's Wharf. But in the rest of the country -- particularly over
Arts & Entertainment Eyes Wide Open If you made it by Civic Center in the last few days, you probably noticed a very somber art installation occupying the plaza. Row upon row of boots and shoes stood at quiet
SF News An SFist Easter Miracle! As our loyalty to all things Apple has been on the wane of late, in large part due to the Apple v. Does case, we figured we take the lifeless carcass down to
SF News Auntie Em, Auntie Em! There Was A Twister! What an uneventful week to start as SFist Weatherman. Last week had all the action. We love to make fun of folks that live in hurricane, tornado and blizzard regions (but it's okay
Arts & Entertainment Adaptive Path's Fourth Anniversary Party It had certainly been a while since we made the walk from Market to Brannan. Why, it seemed like just yesterday we were working at Wineshopper.com on their brand-new website and eating
SF News Game, Set And Match Granted, we get lyrical on days like yesterday, when the rain clouds clear and the sun shines over The City. But the ancient game of tennis has made the tales of no less
SF News David Versus Goliath -- And Goliath's Bigger Brothers, Backed By The Persian Army Buried inside the Chron's Bay Area section a while back, we found a story about an East Bay blogger who is currently embroiled in a court battle against Kaiser Permantente. As we're always
Arts & Entertainment Weirdest. Conference. Evar. That said, for $25 in advance or $30 at the door (space is limited, though) you can listen to folks with masters degrees help you come to grips with your soul and your
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Dos Tortas "Sandwiches," you ask. "But I thought those were an American thing, or at least British, what with the Earl of Sandwich and all." We take particular delight in schooling people on the torta,
SF News Do You Know The Way? Feel free to make your own "there isn't any there there" jokes; we here at SFist try to avoid cheap shots at our sprawling stepsister to the south. San Jose is the eleventh-largest
SF News Cal Faculty Board Faults National Merit Process In the ongoing debate between those who support a blanket meritocracy in school admissions versus a weighted approach that considers race, class and gender, the Faculty Board of Admissions and Relations With Schools
SF News One Hundred Blogospheres Anil's gone and put together a bunch of observations on how individual blogospheres mutate and evolve, as well as interact with existing blogospheres. Remember that weird program "Life" on your Tandy? Or how
SF News Jessica Coen For A Day Speaking of creepy aging British rock stars with a habit of philandering, SXSW Music keynote speaker Robert "Whole Lotta Love" Plant dropped by to say hello. At that very moment, the baby boomer
SF News Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? Over here at SFist's fortress of solitude (above Jerry's Tattoo and Java), we've just been informed that "Big" Dick Cheney is currently ensconced at the Mandarin Oriental downtown, and an entire block of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo Essay: East Bay Rats At It Again All photos copyright Bayete Ross-Smith.
SF News Get Ur Geek On Special Edition: We Guessed Right! While at first we were concerned about whether or not Yahoo was going to let folks still fool with Flickr's API after a purchase, after said discussion on Friday, it looks like Yahoo
Arts & Entertainment First Third Friday At Ross's Office The refreshements? Uh, free. SFist would like to suggest that if you want to score the wine and snacks, show up early -- they were all gone in a little over an hour.
SF News Iraq War Anniversary Protest The rain held out just long enough for the march from Dolores Park to arrive and the speakers and performers to get through the rally. Thousands upon thousands were there, though it seemed
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part Five -- Technoblogf**k Tonight we got to hang with our local A-list, which may be B-list as far as the major media mentions go. But we take heart when a BARBARian gets a mention in the
SF News Bay Blogger Thursday: Austin Edition So of course we're surrounded by Bay Bloggers all week here in Austin, but didn't think to ask "Hey, you wanna do Bay Blogger Thursday?" We know, stupid. Luckily we also hadn't remembered
misc SFist at SXSW: Part Four -- Subterranean Homesick Blues Sorry to plagiarise the title, but there's something about Austin that makes us think of Dylan, both the good parts and the bad. If Austin were a person, we have a feeling that
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part Three -- Tremendous Delirium Oy. That Gawker party was a doozy. We're going to have to give Krucoff some credit -- we're going to have to face off in a liver-busting tiebreaker to claim best two out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Eatin' in Austin Well, okay, so this may not be so helpful to residents of The City, but considering how many people we've run into from home and folks around these parts who've spent time in
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part Two -- Bloggie Nights For those of you who were wondering, yes, we are actually here for the panels. Kind of. We're also here to get drunk and make out. But only after discussing copyright reform, comment