SF News Could the Message Be Any Clearer? We'll we've got an update in the oh-so-exciting negotiations between the Media Workers Guild and the management of the San Francisco Chronicle (as you should know by now, part of the Hearst publishing
SF News How the Mighty Have Fallen Spending a day watching crappy television, we caught their new 'Faithful' ad, which was apparently being developed . Basically, the ad is an older character actor (we can't place him for an IMDB link,
misc SFisting: Fantastic Foreskin Far be it for us to resist any opportunity to rock out with our cocks out around town, but when we read about the Penile Sensitivity Touch-Test Evaluation to be conducted in San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vote Early, Vote Often Okay, so we got an email from Gridskipper asking us to nominate some of the World's Sexiest Cities in different categories, but the catch was, we couldn't nominate our own. Since Gridskipper has
SF News AB 849 Clears Early Hurdle Funny, we didn't see this in the Examiner, Chron or Sacramento Bee. Yesterday, the state's Senate Judiciary Committee passed Assembly Bill 849, the "Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act," by a vote
SF News <b>BREAKING: SANDOVAL FOR CITY ASSESSOR</b> Sandoval is alerting people to the fact that he's running for Assessor. The election will be in November; if there's an incumbent, it will be an appointed incumbent, as Mabel Teng has resigned.
SF News The Internet Archive Versus the DMCA Well, the fine folks over in the Presidio who run the Internet Archive are being sued, along with Philadelphia firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey. It seems that the firm used the Internet
Arts & Entertainment Wednesday: The New Thursday Arlene Ackerman's BFF Wade Randlett and SFSOS are hosting the "San Francisco Homeownership Summit" [PDF] tonight. Panels include "How to Protect Yourself from the Board of Supervisors," and "Why Thurgood Marshall's Legacy is
SF News Tour de Lance: A Conspiracy? While our friends at Austinist will probably take offense that we're being too hard on Lance, and our new friends at Parisist might claim too easy, we'd like to float some sheer, unverifiable,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sorry, You'll Have to Leave, As You're Not a Member You know, we really wish there was some place in San Francisco to go that was stylishly exclusive. Really, we'd go out more, but everytime we go to some club we're surrounded by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink MeredithWatch Okay, there are three bloggers in town who at one point in their lives asked themselves, "Am I the only person who thinks Meredith Brody's restaurant reviews stink?" Well, thanks to the magic
SF News Ist'wonderful So say 'Ni hao' to Shanghaiist, 'Bonjour' to Parisist and 'Yo' to Phillyist. While the last two haven't 'officially' opened (in other words, our globe-trotting publisher didn't send us the email yet), thanks
SF News Taking One for the Team SFist Ted, Weatherman, set a new standard for self-sacrifice that is going to be hard to top yesterday. On a cool evening at Jackson Park, SFist and friends took on Wired Magazine in
SF News iTunes Prudery: The iTipper Fast forward to the 21st century: We finally resurrected our PowerBook from beyond the grave (thanks for not putting in the motion protection for hard drives in the 12" model, Apple -- we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All Hail the Burrito SFist works so hard for you, San Francisco, that when we're not blogging here, we're off blogging somewhere else (and sometimes even getting work done at our day jobs). And sometimes we get
misc SFisting: Porn by the Bay San Francisco holds many distinctions you'll never find touted in the latest "best of" issue of a certain magazine, but while one of those unique experiences is surprising pairs and trios of men
SF News Ain't No Sunshine When She...Signs a Confidentiality Agreement Ah, yes, the City of Berkeley. You might have thought back room dealing and hiding documents and meetings from public review was just a San Francisco thing, but Berkeley has its share of
SF News Gavin in Ought-Six? Well, Randy Shaw apparently got the news that the Gavster's strategists are looking into the possibility of running for the Democratic nomination for the gubenatorial race next year. He writes in Beyond Chron:
SF News Last Call... We were a little slow to pick up on this sad note. Seems that Betsy Culp has decided to turn out the lights over the San Francisco Call. The call has existed in
misc SFisting: Practice Your Rolls While we can think of about fifty places in the Mish to practice your Downward Dog without even trying, it's nice to find places where we can practice our favorite set of postitions
SF News The Lines are Drawn While you're worrying about how you're going to get to work next week if there's a strike on the BART, we're worrying about our friends who toil for Hearst over at 5th and
SF News Where's Chris Tucker? Only the Gavster Knows So if you tuned into KRON this morning to catch Phil Matier (and really, who doesn't love that moustache?), you might have noticed that he was a bit cranky, since a certain be-gelled
Arts & Entertainment Piedmont Bird Callers Do Letterman Piedmont is known for being full of seriously nice houses -- we always joked that the city's raison d'etre is so that rich folks wouldn't have an address in Oakland (okay, we bear
SF News May Just Look Official Enough Via the Flickr blog (disclosure: Yahoo owns Flickr, Yahoo pays some of this SFist's bills, but this isn't officially from Yahoo) we find out about an ID generator for photographers who use Flickr.
SF News Potential BART Strike Set for July 6th While of course most folks probably kind of wanted BART workers to strike on Friday (four day weekend!), the union has tentatively set the date of a strike (video here) for midnight on