misc SFist Ticket Giveaway: Closing Night of SF Sketchfest The performers will be the Kids In the Hall's Bruce McCulloch and will feature both music and comedy. Also performing will be Craig Northey, Hard 'n Phirm, and Dragon Boy Suede. Yes, that'll
SF News And Now...More Gleegate You can read the whole thing (it's pretty good), but there are several points to be had in the piece. -There was booze at the party but people brought it with them-- it
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to SF Sketchfest's First Annual Filmed Sketch Night Why gather with strangers in a theater to stare at funny films on a screen when you could . . . sit at home on your couch and stare at funny films (even these most of
SF News Gavin's Sock Puppet Now, the internets is a free place so if Peter wants to respond, he's more than welcome to. In fact, welcome aboard, Peter-- we're actually a little flattered that he's joining our little
SF News Stuck on a Tarmac You Can't Get Out Of Says Kate Hanni, one of the passengers, "there were people getting ill, the toilets did begin to overflow." We've done a lot of flying and can thankfully say, we've been through some bad
SF News Free Parking According to Budget Analyst Harvey Rose San Francisco's 23,000 meters or so average between $2.61 and $5.59 a day. That's about three hours of usage on the meters. Over the
Arts & Entertainment I'm From Rolling Stone We finally got around to watching MTV's "I'm From Rolling Stone", the Almost Famous-meets-The Hills-meets-The Apprentice reality show about six twenty somethings who get "the internship of a lifetime": a summer associate position
SF News The Flu Boat The trip over didn't quite set a course for adventure, however, as several days after setting out to sea, an outbreak of the norovirus hit the boat. The norovirus is a nasty little
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Cool Web Sites For the Day First up is Menutopia. Ever want to go to a restaurant but not sure if they'd have anything you'd like? Or want to plan ahead in advance? You could go to Citysearch but
SF News Bikes on Octavia As a result, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is not happy. Not happy at all. They are demanding something to be done about that particular intersection at Octavia and Market Street and to
SF News Moving Up the Primary The reasons for the move are mainly that we get a bit more say in electing the President. You could also make the argument that since we're more representative of America than, say,
SF News Bags Redux Luckily, we might not have to ponder these things anymore, something for which we are entirely grateful as it'll allow us more time to ponder more meaningful questions such as whether to watch
Arts & Entertainment Your Guide to Tonight's State of the Union Address Yes, tonight is the State of the Union speech which means it's a good time to do something that doesn't involve watching TV. But to help you survive tonight, here is the Official
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Paul Reubens Tribute The scene at the Palace: No kids. Just adults who were once in various stages of kidness and under Reubens' thrall. "We've all grown up," observed Big Sis. The show opened with a
SF News Cold Case: San Francisco Two people were arrested this morning in San Francisco, and others were arrested in Los Angeles, Florida, and New York. Two more are already in prison and a ninth is wanted but has
SF News RIIIIIII-COLA!!!! And it's not necessarily because he's missing Question Time. No, he's also missing out on the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a less exciting but probably more relevant meeting featuring a Special Guest
SF News Greening San Francisco Bring your own bag Paper bags are just as bad as plastic in their own way, so whenever possible, bring your own bag to the grocery store. Pretty much every grocery store carries
SF News Crack Kills So here's what we know. A man was pulled over by the cops for not having a license plate. That's where they discovered the bag. The cops say they brought him out of
SF News Gas Leak in the Inner Richmond The leak was reported around 10 this morning causing the area from 4th to 8th avenues and from Fulton to Anza streets to be blocked off. Around twelve, the all clear was given
SF News Hub This For those who've taken MUNI all the way down, a lot of buses (the 10, 30, 47 and 49) kind of end up there as it's a bus hub. It's one of those
misc SFist Paul Reubens Contest Tonight at the Palace of Fine Arts, noted journalist Ben Fong-Torres will have a "conversation with Paul." We don't know if you've been to one of those "conversation" type things, but it's rather
SF News Cabalicious Turns out that one of the biggest complaints members of the Taxi cab commission hear is that there isn't enough cabs?. Really? So the obvious answer is adding new cabs, as well as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Kasper Hauser/Elephant Larry Now, before tomatoes get thrown at us, we don't mean it in a negative way. It's not like we didn't enjoy Kasper Hauser-- we very much did-- it's just that we liked Elephant
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
SF News Travelling Riverside Blues On Friday, a judge ruled against the union but said that the city could redact or black out personal information as they see fit. If this was the Bush administration, that would mean
