SF News Thank you! So many people to thank! If we forget you, rest assured that a warm, fuzzy thanks is in our hearts. First, we'd like to thank our contributors, without whom this site would be
SF News "Rent" Not Paying Rent? From what we understand of the deal, the San Francisco Film Commission is paying $12,000 rent each month to the Treasure Island Development Authortiy, but is subtracting the cost of the work
SF News The Glory of Words [] There are sagas, and then there are the sagas about sagas. There are even sagas about saga sagas, but Derrida's dead -- let him rest in peace, for God's sake. We have the
SF News Bay Blogger, Erm, Friday We're worried about Kat Hunter. Oh, we think she'll be fine. What we're worried about is the legions of lonely gamers out there who dream about meeting a smart, sexy woman who they
SF News WWJD? Okay, so SFist isn't always as impartial as we'd like to be. We're bloggers - our prejudices are bound to shine through from time to time (well, okay, always). With all this talk
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet More Free Stuff From SFist! SFist is proud to welcome our first local advertiser, Westside Organics! You may have noticed their handsome banner up there. We gave them a break on price because, well, we need the money
Arts & Entertainment Toy Story 3 Will Probably Be Really Crappy In another blow to an already failed relationship, Disney has begun ramping up production for Toy Story 3 at their new digital production facilities in Glendale -- meaning that it isn't likely Pixar
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Even Sweeter Science In the darkness of midnight, boats from Bodega to Half Moon Bay loaded up their traps and headed out to sea as the opening of the local crab season has officially begun. What
Arts & Entertainment Let the Stalking Commence Filming has started for the upcoming Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo romantic comedy "If Only It Were True," based on an adaptation of local novelist Marc Levy's 2000 novel of the same name.
SF News Jury to Scott: Murderer! The verdict is in, and it doesn't look good for Scott Peterson. He probably should have left for Mexico while he still had a chance (granted, the cops had been tracking his car
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Spot the International Superstar No, not that choad in the middle -- dude on the left, Iron Chef Rokusaburo Michiba! Hell, if we'd known you get to fly all-expenses-paid to Japan to meet Michiba-san (and eat at
SF News The Condition of the Working Class in Redwood City -- Update And the saga continues. Electronic Arts seems to have pissed off one too many geeks, and now that this story has gone public details are beginning to emerge that don't look good for
Arts & Entertainment The Condition of the Working Class in Redwood City We've been playing EA Games practically forever - they're one of the biggest makers of both PC and console games on the market. But it seems all is not well in Redwood City
Arts & Entertainment SFist Is Giving It Away For Free It's come to this. We don't know if it's a failure of the imagination or simply a lack of inspiration, but we're just not getting enough questions to fuel the acerbic wit machine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Medical Marijuana -- Mmmm Mmmm Good Sorry hippies, but your beloved marijuana plant is being poked, prodded and perverted by evil scientists trying to unlock the mysteries of its benefits beyond "getting" 2001: A Space Odyssey. In a fascinating
Arts & Entertainment So That's How they Make Cameron Diaz Ugly Not geeky enough? If your Wednesday (next) is free (SFist has book club, sorry), check out "The Making of Shrek 2" presented by the SF Bay Area Chapter of the ACM. The presentation,
SF News The Masses: Consider Them Risen Up You know, it's getting so that we can't leave the house these days without running into an angry mob. This evening, during our nightly constitutional through downtown San Francisco, we were startled to
Arts & Entertainment GTA: San Andreas Review - San Fierro Edition [Be sure to check out the coverage of Los Santos on LAist!] We loved the last Grand Theft Auto, Vice City. The eighties music and cars, the neon glow of faux deco, the
Arts & Entertainment New Release Tuesday Sure, there are new releases this week by Britney, Eminem and Shania, but what love have they ever shown to San Francisco? "Talkin' in the Mission / Over coffee, this is my utopia," sings
Arts & Entertainment 9th Circuit to Beasties: "You Have The Right to Party" In a victory for the Beastie Boys, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today declined to review an earlier decision which upheld a lower-court dismissal of a case brought by James
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Has Great Mexican Food. Psych! New York is such a big city full of bright lights and superstars, and you can get anything (and we do mean anything) you want delivered to your door at almost any time
Arts & Entertainment In Levi's World Wrangler is King The rodeo, livestock show and other related events lasted the whole week, but we showed up at the end for the event finals. We don't know much about the rodeo -- everything we
misc Crazy About Cats, or Just Plain Crazy? SFist loves animals. But even we got a bit of an allergic sniffle when we read about the more than 80 cats taken from a home in San Carlos on Friday. Achoo! And,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Untacky Tiki Technology Ah, if only. Trader Vic's - now a global chain, but in the 1930s the world's first Tiki restaurant - doesn't skimp on the atmosphere. You feel it in the wallet, of course,
Arts & Entertainment Comic Relief Getting the Boot Annoyingly, Christmas seems to come earlier every year -- an egregious example of this being that new flick with Ben Affleck and Tony Soprano. However, we'd like to spread the word about an
