SF News Plot to Kill President <b>Not</b> by Bay Area Resident So apparently everyone was shocked -- shocked! -- to hear that someone wanted to kill our dearest President George W. Bush. Of course, SFist's first thought was to call most of our friends
Arts & Entertainment More Paris Hilton Sidekick Fallout So we had to go put our tale of "San Francisco Secret Service" callback woe up on Scott Stereogum's post requesting stories of calling the numbers in Paris Hilton's hacked Sidekick. While there,
Arts & Entertainment Save the Gizmos! The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hosting an event tonight to highlight "endangered gizmos," or technology products that are on the cutting edge of innovation but that could fall prey to increasingly more restrictive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Westside Organics Haiku Contest Winner! The first runner up sure knows how to get us all hot and bothered: But the artistry of the following we think tipped the scales in favor of our winner: O delicate pea
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Are You Really That Desperate? Okay, SFist admits that the dating scene is ugly. Really, really ugly. We've never had much luck at hooking up with folks at bars or clubs, though granted the line between consuming enough
Arts & Entertainment Springfield's Winter of Love Well, add "inspiration for an episode of the Simpsons" to the Gavster's resume. Apparently "Springfield is for Gay Lovers of Marriage." Thanks to Bart pranking a Matt Lauer-esque perky morning show host, who
SF News Photogs Of The World: Unite! The question of the day was, "Did we win?" By all indications, that answer is "yes," although the difficulty in declaring victory will be in proving the negative -- how will we necessarily
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: 'Shoot-In' Tomorrow We would like to sincerely thank everyone who has offered their stories, thoughts and support in this matter. We were honestly expecting maybe half a dozen people to show up tomorrow, but now
SF News A Suggestion From Seattlest Our man on the PNW sport beat, Seattlest Seth, has a modest proposal that could be just the thing to turn around the fortunes of the Golden State Warriors, and it has nothing
Arts & Entertainment <strike>Marin County's</strike> San Francisco's Robin Williams Harshes on Disney -- Loves Pixar In the "d'oh, we totally forgot" department (we've been sharing a blunt with Al Gore), yesterday evening our snarker-in-arms down south Defamer (who we swear is actually Thomas Pynchon drinking away his career
SF News Sutter Students No Longer Chipped and Tracked To follow up on our previous story regarding RFID tags being the Mark of the Beast, it looks like evangelicals will have to wait just a little longer for the Rapture, since their
SF News Let's Go Out To The Court-Room... Spring is in the air -- can you smell it? It's that intoxicating mix of grass, red clay, pine tar and chaw. That's right -- pitchers and catchers report in just a few
Arts & Entertainment Al Gore INd Bay Area Really, of course, it's because of his new project, INdTV (pronounced "indie TV" -- such clever use of case). INdTV is currently accepting video entries for consideration -- you can register and then
SF News Our Pot Plants Bring All The Boys To The Yard -- Damn Right, They're Better Than Yours In the "it would be funny and surprising if you didn't live here" department, the Mendocino County assistant agricultural commissioner, Tony Linegar, is asking the state to regulate Marijuana cultivation so that the
Arts & Entertainment Muni Photography Ban: Update To follow up on our previous story, we're not sure whether the Muni photography ban is the biggest threat to our personal freedom, but we have a feeling that if we don't blow
Arts & Entertainment SFist: En Français? ¿En Español? In English? Por favor. Nosotros buscamos a escritores excepcionales. [email protected] es el contacto de corréo electronico. Nosotros amigos en la Mission, el condado de Alameda, la valle de San Jose y en todos
SF News Virtual Book Tour: An Interview With Author Tom Dolby As part of local literary impresario Kevin Smokler's "Virtual Book Tour," Tom will be spending the day online shilling his paperback edition of his debut novel. While we didn't get a chance to
SF News Muni, Muni, Muni! We all know how much our readers (and our staff) lurve to complain about the Muniserable. And it's not just when they're sticking it to the First Amendment. In fact, and every progressive
SF News SFist Team Party Crash: CodeCon Reception The party was for CodeCon, San Francisco's very own indie coder convention. As Technorati's Niall Kennedy put it, "When I was growing up, I loved Microsoft. Now I'm here at CodeCon." Founded in
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban on Muni? We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to
Arts & Entertainment Lose Those Extra Pounds: Laugh Your Ass Off Friend of SFist and Bay Blogger Alex Blagg doesn't need us anymore. Sniff. His shows at the comedy club 50 Mason have been written up in the Chronicle, so he reports "[T]he
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's Time Again for Free Stuff From SFist! The sun in the sky, Heirloom tomatoes are here! Call New York and gloat. Avocados free, Over your neighbor's tall fence. When ripe, steal at night. Safeway sucks ass. Berkeley Bowl: No parking.
Arts & Entertainment Googler Dooced? So we're up late last night, checking Susan Mernit's blog to see if she had already posted on the dinner at Yahoo yesterday, when we catch her post from earlier in the afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment Emerging Technology Conference: New Media Sticking It to Old Media. But How's the Food? Of course our first mission was to find Yahoo News Editorial Director Bill Gannon and his loyal band of editors who were nice enough to take SFist out for a drink and give
