Arts & Entertainment A Little San Francisco History On PBS Every now and then, we try to watch the national news so we'll get the jokes on the Daily Show the next day. So, even though Comedy Central's fake news outlets are on
SF News Recycling Your Christmas Tree Well, you're in luck! The godlessness of the town of San Francisco is offset by its environmental zeal -- so if you've got a tree you need to get rid of, drag it
SF News Oakland's New Last-Minute Mayor Yeah, we don't remember any dramatic hand-on-the-Bible or inaugural speechifying either -- it turns out they threw together a somewhat slapdash inauguration when someone realized that the Oakland city charter required Dellums to
SF News Wait, Isn't He Supposed To Be In Jail? So we're reading this morning in the Chronicle about the "Frozen Bun Run" on Bethel Island in Contra Costa County, where fun-loving polar bears go water-skiing on the Sacramento River every New Year's
SF News Your Commute: One Dollar More While the extra money will go to retrofitting, the new snazzy Bay Bridge suspension bridge redesign is what triggered the increase in the first place -- you may recall that when Schwarzenegger tried
SF News SFist Rita's 2006 From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? There was BUSH TER DOWN; the
SF News State Senate Shenanigans Well, the latest rumor (from the Bay Area Reporter) is that folks have heard tell that Aaron Peskin is now thinking about running for the State Senate seat as well. Whaaaaa? The tea-leaf
SF News Your Third (Third!) Berkeley Quake The Chron included a helpful link to a Google map of the area (why didn't think of that?), which shows that the epicenter was between Ashby Ave. and Highway 24, right off Claremont
SF News Did You Feel That? At around 10:50 p.m. tonight, there was a second earthquake almost in the exact same spot on the Hayward Fault (3 miles ESE of Berkeley) and at almost the same intensity
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Bay Area Daiso! Daiso (or "The Daiso," as its website occasionally refers to it) is a cult-fave upscale Japanese 100-yen store -- like a dollar store, but stocked with awesome Japanese houseware items. We cannot overemphasize
SF News Who Wants To Be The Mayor (Declared) Look who's launched his "reelect me in 2007" website! (Thanks, Usual Suspects!) Mysteriously, Gavin and his handlers didn't choose the domain name gavinnewsom2007.com, but went with actlocallysf.com instead. ActLocallySF.org is
SF News Who Wants To Be The Mayor (Maybe) Okay, so we've covered the people who aren't running against Gavin Newsom for mayor in 2007, and we've covered the people who are. Who next but the undeclareds? Here's your list of the
SF News Who Wants To Run For Mayor? We'd have a sad face too if the Chron came out against our position on Question Time, some mayoral pipsqueak in Santa Clara was out to eat our Niners lunch, and our chief
SF News Political Junkie: Daly Stache Sighted! Don't worry, folks, we have word that . This picture is going to haunt our nightmares tonight. Thanks to Luke Thomas from the Fog City Journal for passing it along! he's shaving it off
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Misses SFist Ced: Weird Fish and Peter And The Wolf Before heading out to the SF Youth Orchestra's holiday concert this afternoon, we grabbed brunch at new trendy Mission bistro Weird Fish. Weird Fish is a combination seafood/vegan restaurant at 18th and
SF News Political Junkie: Chris Daly Mustached We went to our very first Ross Mirkarimi Third Friday art show yesterday, and had a very nice time -- loved the eggnog! We also picked up the following piece of gossip: Chris
SF News Can Someone Explain The Significance Of This To Us? Breaking news on a Friday afternoon -- Gavin Newsom's chief of staff Steve Kawa has resigned. Stated reason: "I want to spend more time with my amazing family." Okay, an announcement made at
Arts & Entertainment Actual Celebrities Come To San Francisco! Yeah, we know, we're stuck here at SFist fetishizing weirdo wonks like Gavin Newsom and Ross Mirkarimi because we don't have any actual celebrities in town that we can follow around and talk
SF News I'm Sorry, Did You Have A Question? Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME! Wow, Gavin doesn't want to take your questions -- he won't even take live questions on this morning's Energy 92.7 commute-time show. (We tried listening to the .mp3s
SF News Who's Newsom Attacking Now! It's a slight variation on our Who's Attacking/Defending Newsom Now columns -- Gavin goes on the offensive! The gay-focused Bay Area Reporter runs a column this week in their Political Notebook about
SF News Tension On The Barbary Coast? So you know when you see the bright green headline on Usual Suspects that says "Supes Question Giving Contract To Lobbying Firm" and the note in bold from Usual Suspects publisher Alex Clemens
SF News He's Declared Thumb War Chronicle book review editor (and proud member of the SFist Gentlemen's Auxiliary) Oscar Villalon is the reigning three-time thumb-wrestling champ at 826 Valencia. In his honor, the fey letterpressers who bring you McSweeney's
SF News Sad News In The -Ist Family So we were stunned to hear that always-hilarious Phillyist editor Star C. Foster died suddenly over the weekend. Star's emails always saw the lighter side of our server problems, spam attacks, and other
SF News W Magazine By The Numbers The number of ramekins Ann Getty is filling with souffle batter for San Francisco's newest social institution, Super Supper Sunday: 40. The length of time Ann Getty's BFF Jo Schuman Silver has lived
Arts & Entertainment The Glide Red Carpet is based on the true story of a homeless man in San Francisco named Chris Gardner who turned his life around in the 1980s with the help of Glide Memorial and became a
