SF News Just Us In the "No s**t, motherf**ker" department, John over at the Legal Reader recently posted an excerpt to an AP story which points out that under California's weapons registration law, the chances
Arts & Entertainment Barbarians to Invade the Uptown As Scaramouche points out, there should be quite the turnout, so if you're into blogs or are a blogger, and you qualify as a Bay Area resident (we doubt anyone from Eureka, Sacramento
SF News Tsunami Aftermath in Sri Lanka -- A Personal Experience Friend of SFist Hank Thomas forwarded this story by photographer Wyatt Gallery to us recently. It's a despatch from Wyatt's recent trip to Sri Lanka with friend and fellow photographer Kareem Black (pictured
SF News Oh No She Didn't Remember how we warned people that hell hath no wrath like a blogger scorned? Well, in the interest of all that is weird and interesting and fun in this blogosphere we share, we'd
Arts & Entertainment Light a Candle, Go to the Beach We'd like to take a moment to remind you that tomorrow will be officially one month since the Tsunami disaster. Friend of SFist HiMY SYeD is asking that folks drop by the site
misc Inside the Hotel Vitale Mark over at HotelChatter tipped us off to some anonymous photos taken from the inside of local hotelier Joi de Vivre's new boutique hotel on the Embarcadero, Hotel Vitale. While the project was
SF News Talks Begin Between Guild, Chron Guild negotiators said their members have been skeptical about recent management claims that labor concessions are needed to put the newspaper on a more solid financial footing. In particular, [Writer's Guild Executive Officer
SF News SFist Was Robbed! Next time we're sending out schwag bags to all the voters. Looks like we've been snubbed by the august nominating committee (read: random cranks on the internets) for this year's Bloggies. Oh well.
SF News Hell Hath No Wrath Like a Blogger Scorned And the award for serving the news needs of people in trapped in caves, living under rocks, or named Rip Van Winkle goes to the Chronicle today: "The rise of easy-to-use software to
Arts & Entertainment Scribes Snit at Sundance [] Tiburon's Robert Redford was busy wining and dining indiewood out in Utah at his Sundance Film Festival this weekend. Netflix Film Critic and blogger James Rocchi (who recently attended a panel organized by
SF News Ballin' Bay Bloggers to be Beset with Bling The ghost of Malcolm Gladwell has come to haunt Silicon Valley tastemakers. You know those schwag-bags you're always hearing about on Defamer? It's all part of massaging the 'Connectors,' the folks of
SF News Barely Legal Coeds in the Buff to Help Tsunami Victims Patrick of the Cal Patriot blog points out a rather risque effort by freshmen residents of Stanford's Larkin residence hall to raise funds for Tsunami victims -- fan out around campus, get naked,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Party Crash -- SFMOMA 10th Anniversary The people are beautiful, the music is trendy, the booze is incredibly expensive. If you are an SFMOMA member, you would have received an invite for two in the mail, and you probably
Arts & Entertainment A Children's Book About Ganja? We weren't even stoned and we had to laugh. But after we had a chance to read an advance copy of It's Just a Plant: A Children's Story of Marijuana posted online by
SF News Berkeley Ballot Initiative Recount Challenged By EFF So while we want to play up the reefer angle on this -- the Bay Area being pothead heaven and all -- since we've been so politically inspired, we're going to have to
SF News SFist Loves a Protest Okay, San Francisco. Admit it. Protests are big old parties. There's people smoking pot, hooking up, screaming, cheering, dancing, drumming and maybe even breaking stuff. It's nothing to be ashamed of. The fact
SF News Britney Spears' Baby -- How Can We Help? In light of that big hullabaloo that's going down in D.C. tomorrow, something SFist is trying as hard as possible not to think about (we prefer the hand over the ears and
SF News Get Ur Geek On Special Edition -- Warbussing EssEff We decided to take a day trip on the Muni. And now that we have our wireless card, we decided to warbus the city. Live blog updates after the jump. Ever since we
SF News The President Has Some Balls Hey, looks like it runs in the administration! Sister-site DCist is at ground zero for the inauguration festivities. Take a moment to peruse their special inauguration coverage -- including a bit that a
SF News The Battle for the Golden State Northern California and Southern California are locked in battle. It's not over the quality of coffee, the issue of transportation, of taxes or water or real estate or celebrity sightings. It's a battle
SF News Documentarian Secretly Films Suicides Okay, we try not to pull story ideas from the front page of the Chron too often. After all, you can scan the headlines above the fold in the box without actually having
SF News Boxer Lambasts Rice Nothing like senate confirmation hearings to get the partisan juices flowing. Kos reports that Senator Barbara Boxer would speak her mind [link via 1115] as part of Dr. Condoleeza Rice's confirmation as Secretary
SF News Remember When I Said I'd Kill You Last? I lied. Clemency has been denied in the pending excution of death-row inmate Donald Beardslee, and the first execution in California since January of 2002 should go on as scheduled tonight at 12:01am. The
Arts & Entertainment Eyes on the Rightsholder's Prize Just a few minutes ago, Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow published an excerpt and link to a Toronto Globe and Mail article that describes how a classic documentary on the civil rights movement, Eyes
Arts & Entertainment Are You Stoned and Have Twenty Large to Burn? We love to watch a meme spread on the internet. In this case we can trace the explosion of the JL421 Badonkadonk from Palo Alto's NAO Design. It looks like it first appeared
