SF News Jan Wahl, Mad as a Hatter Oh man, is this rich. Eric over at Rangelife recounts the following tale of impassioned activism against the evil movie studios who are scared shitless that someone might make a crappy copy of
SF News Supremely Choadly Well, if you're trying to create the next generation of digital content distribution, put down that laptop. Maybe you're an industrial designer working on a piece of hardware that would make it easy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads Special Edition: Leonce Gaiter's <i>Bourbon Street</i> San Francisco knows noir. It's been 75 years since Dashiell Hammett's seminal masterwork, which set the standard for the genre, was finished on Post street. And just as Hammett used the crime novel
Arts & Entertainment A Critical Look at Current TV Josh Wolf, a local vlogger, posted the following recently on his "The Revolution Will Be Televised" blog about Current TV's new rights agreement and payment schedule for content submitted to Current: Under the
misc Bay Blogger Thursday Special Edition Okay, we all know what the internet is best at -- porn, porn, rants and porn. Sure, blogging is nice, but it doesn't really pay all that well. There was certainly a point
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wanna Be a Pundit? We received a nice note from Wendy over at KQED's Bay Area Bites Blog who tipped us off about the following opportunity: A heads up for all you local foodies out there...KQED
SF News And So it Begins... Hey, did you think that local authorities wouldn't cooperate with federal agents who are out to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries? Think again! Impassioned opinion pieces by Kamala Harris and Board of Supervisor
SF News Patriot Act Author Questions Supreme Court, Bush Adminstration We'll admit it, one of our favorite political blogs is written by a Republican. That's right, we said it. Hey, it's all about 'balance' here at SFist, if not moderation. Shades of gray,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deliver Us From Yet Another Burrito You know we love San Francisco. You should also know that we hate the fact that nobody f**king delivers (coming soon to an SFist Rant near you). So when we heard about
SF News God Bless the Patriot Act Best part? The response from Idema's lawyer calling ANG Newspapers patsies: Meanwhile, Idema's lawyer, John Tiffany of New Jersey, when asked about the allegations that Idema received money from Alocozy's transfer service, said
SF News Is the IT Guy Stoned or Something? Berkeley may have a reputation for cannabis tolerance, but that hasn't penetrated to the city's public education establishment. A few days ago, Cal NORML received a call from a Berkeley High School student
Arts & Entertainment Stand Up Guys Okay, we see why Gothamist loves Todd Barry. But local boys Ryan Stout and Jim Short made good last night, too. If you haven't been to the Purple Onion yet, it really is
SF News Frameline 29: <i>Crustaces et Coquillages</i> Okay, okay, the 'English' title (and the one on the program) is , but this is the first time we can remember that a distributor actually chose an alternate title in the same language
Arts & Entertainment Todd Barry at the Purple Onion One of Gothamist's favorite comedians, Todd Barry, will be performing six shows starting tonight at eight at the Purple Onion and running through Sunday. Who is Todd Barry? Well, find out for yourself
SF News Is This Why Health Insurance is so Expensive? Thanks to Engadget, who reads CNet News, who read Matier and Ross (we've given up), we find out that Waldo, a medicine-delivering helper robot at the UCSF Medical Center went bonkers, zooming down
SF News SchwarzenWatcher: Commencemental Inside the stadium, the drone from hundreds of rowdy protesters threatened to drown out the governor's voice at times. Many in the crowd erupted in boos when a police officer pulled down a
SF News Legal Guide for Bloggers Okay, you know we love the EFF. They, like, totally stand up for our rights online! And win! From porn to rants to rants about porn, everybody who publishes on the web can
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Photologgers at the Apple Store The photo event at the Apple Store was, in SFist's opinion, a smashing success. People crowded the presentation space -- many there from the crew at Bay Area Photologgers, others who were just
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival 2005 Photographer Rob Kunkle spent last week taking pictures of the acts at the Mission Creek Music Festival, which was held at multiple locations across The City last week. Pictured are The Gentlekin. Check
SF News Abercrombie and Fitch: They're Not Nazis, They Just Like Blonde People Better So for all of you who got on our case (comments from AdRants strangley deleted) for someone who expressed their distaste at the perceived culture of conformity at A&F, how does
misc SFist Raves: La Mission We're pretty inclusive when we say "The Mission." To us, it's anything from 16th to 24th, Dolores to Potrero. The Mission is one of the few places where we really feel like we're
SF News Do You Want Results? Engage the Expand-o-Tron (nee "After the jump") for our analysis of the (spectacular) results.
SF News Best By the Bay! We've gotten shout-outs from some local media types who we really respect since we've been around -- Annalee Newitz, P.J. Corkery, Bill Picture (hey, we love gossip) and the staff at the
SF News Best. Picture. Evar. We love you too, Gavvy-Gav! Stay funky! Photo by Matt Cohen of 1115.org -- and there's more Gavvy goodness on Flickr. And SFist totally reserves the right to use that title again.
SF News The Verne Kopytoff Award So we have a little joke here at SFist. When a mainstream journalist pens an article about blogs that is either dismissive, overly broad in its approach or ill-informed, we give them the
