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Like New Yorkers Give a Damn About Us

SFist is a little miffed. We were forwarded a tip by the beautiful Jessica Coen, currently busy being paid to blog for Gawker, to a rather funny local Craigslist post. We're

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DOJ Cries Uncle - Oracle To Purchase Half Their Competitors

In breaking news, the Justice Department has given up trying to block the hostile takeover of Pleasanton's PeopleSoft by Oracle, clearing the way for Oracle to begin negotiations with PeopleSoft over

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The Land Alone Would Cost A Million

Everyone's favorite cube dweller and corporate critic Dilbert just moved into new digs - Dilbert's Ultimate House. Teaming up with Home and Garden Television, Danville's Scott Adams synthesized

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Athletics Seesaw Into Tie With Angels

Cries of "Chokeland" echoed forlornly off the empty facade of Mt. Davis as the A's lost to the hopeless Mariners four to two last night. Even though it was

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Calling All Libertarians

SFist loves the healthy California lifestyle like anyone else. We love being outdoors, eating healthy foods, getting our exercise. But we also love drinking and smoking. Is that a crime? That seems to

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Monster Park

Update @ 11:35: We managed to get our grubby little hands on the press release about an hour before the conference - and it was sent out only an hour before we put up

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SFist Scoop! Candlestick May Potentially Have It's Name Changed by Electronics Accessories Manufacturer and New Leasee of Naming Rights Monster Cable, Inc.<center><hr width="450"></center><span style="font-size:.8em">Supervisors Likely Nonplussed</span>

Monster Stadium? Sure, and then they might actually build one. Monster Cable Stadium at Candlestick Park? Candlestick Park presented by Monster Cable? Monster Cable Presents Candlestick Park? The Catch Park? Say Hey Field?

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Warrant Issued in Murder of Timothy Griffith

The San Francisco Police Department has issued a warrant for the arrest of Rafael Antonio Cuevas, who is suspected of being the man who murdered Timothy Griffith after the Giants game on Friday,

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Your Boss is Watching

Sipping our coffee and doing the morning blog rounds we stumbled on this short item in Gizmodo - it looks like the boss will finally be able to see through your lame "I&

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How to Make a Manwich

No, we're not talking about this Manwich, or even this manwich. We're talking about a classic San Francisco manwich, the kind many likely threw together after the Folsom Street

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Sapp in The City

Brian over at Jockzilla tipped us off to this little gem from Raiders defensive lineman Warren Sapp, quoted on the issue of living in San Francisco instead of Oakland in Sports Illustrated'

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Caressing the Hand That Feeds You

SFist brings you another update on the Governator's bill-signing binge -- and this one will hit you right in the gut if you're an unrepentant file-sharer like we

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Where's the Alka-Seltzer?

Wow, that was a doozy. Who knew journalism would involve so much drinking? Oh, wait, that was actually just SFist medicating our neurotic anxiety. That's right, we went and listened to

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Farewell, Mr. Meyer

Nicknamed "King Leer," he released his first film, , in 1959 with the backing of Peter DeCenzie, owner of Oakland's El Rey Burlesque. At the time Russ was working as

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SFist Speaking Tonight

That's right, we're putting on clothes and emerging from behind the computer to go out in public and speak! We're not sure why we were invited - something

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Even Lard is Better For You

For starters, Stephen L. Joseph, who runs the site, is the Marin-based lawyer who sued Kraft foods over their use of trans fat in Oreos - which prompted Kraft to announce they were

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How Berkeley Can You Be?

What do you get when you combine dozens of crazily decorated cars, tricked out bikes, local politicians, mounds of sarcasm, and a few naked folks on a Sunday? It can only be the

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Get Some Balls

[] The big news in San Francisco over the weekend was, of course, Barry hitting home run #700. Oh, and the Giants are still up by a half game in the pennant race, but

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This Week in SFist

Barry Bonds has done it! Steven Williams of Pacifica emerged from the scrum with the ball, which some have valued at two million bucks. SFist hopes that a least a little of that

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Party on Valencia Guilt-Free

SFist is proud to be a product of public high school. Not only did our sports teams lay waste to the local private schools (well, except for the Catholic schools), we beat them

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Beauty and the Beast

We love animals, if you can't tell. All of 'em. Cats, dogs, rabbits. Our sister site Gothamist started it all with their unabashed love of giant pandas. But we'

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Gettin Jiggy With It

While drinking some beer and reading some of our favorite blogs, we stumbled across this Reuters item linked to from The Wit and Wisdom of Martin Van Buren, who generally has the ability

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Thinly Veiled Prank Goes Awry

You can add Mormons to the list of groups the Stanford Band has managed to offend as Stanford Athletic Director Ted Leland issued an apology to Brigham Young University for the band'

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Lewis Black Brings the Scary Funny

SFist Jon, contributing.

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Me Love You Long NY Times

The article has that arch tone of "oh those wacky Californians," but SFist would like to point out that those hotbeds of New Age, Granola-crunching, Yoga-posing Hippiedom, Nevada and