SF News Simple Plan Sighting Our friends at HotelChatter.com pass along the following tidbit about, and YouTube footage of, third-string TRL band Simple Plan when they stopped by San Francisco. We have footage of Simple Plan's lead
SF News Your Commute: On The Bright Side, No Bomb Threats (Yet) Commuters cannot get a break -- it's enough to make you answer those ads you see tacked up on telephone poles, "earn money while working at home." Today's traffic woes included a fatal
Arts & Entertainment Total Eclipse Of The Sun -- Eclipse of the heart, eclipse of the moon, eclipse of the sun -- same diff! So at 2:55 a.m. PST tonight, there's going to be a total lunar solar [do
SF News A Real Keeper Oh, you did not go there, Mr. John Claassen! This Oakland-based attorney (now in solo practice, previously affiliated with the law firm of Skadden Arps) is suing online dating site eHarmony. eHarmony won't
SF News Your Commute: Are We SFist Jon Today? Are we SFist Jon today or what? Not only do we feel slightly cranky about this new Bonds on Bonds TV show (it should at least be Barry Bonds talking about low-risk investment
SF News -Ist-A-Palooza Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival
SF News Your Commute: TGIF Thank goodness it's Fridays, all you folks who don't work at home. Boy, it's been an almost comically-bad week for commuting: doesn't the Gitmo Montgomery shutdown seem like it happened ages ago? Well,
SF News Googling Gavin Go Chronicle! We were so pleased to see a piece of investigative local journalism on the front page of today's paper, as Verne Kopytoff digs into the relationship between Mayor Gavin Newsom and
Arts & Entertainment Creativity Explored Portrait Auction Creativity Explored is an organization that fosters the artistic talents of developmentally-disabled adults, not only to provide independence and self-sufficiency to the artists but also to give the general public access to their
SF News Political Junkie: Gavin/Chris An excerpt from our torrid San Francisco romance novel, "One Carlton B. Goodlett Hall, Room 200." Chapter LXVIII: That's The Way I Roll: Spent, Chris ran his fingers through Gavin's hair. I need
SF News Craigslist Encounters: The Darker Side Of Craigslist We here at SFist don't have that much bad to say about Craigslist. We've found housing, bought and sold things which we never thought possible and maybe even watched a movie about it.
Arts & Entertainment Save The Mercury News Last week, San Jose newspaper publishing company Knight-Ridder was purchased by another company, McClatchy. McClatchy then decided it didn't want to keep publishing the hometown newspaper of the company it had just purchased,
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Memories In The Mist</i> Hey, we scored a free fan! NBC 11 was giving out free handheld fans to SFIAAFF-goers attending last night's screening of Bengali movie . We're not really sure what the fan had to do
SF News Your Commute: (No) BART Bomb For once, a BART delay not caused by "switching problems" at Millbrae -- those of you trying to cross the Bay this morning probably heard the repeated announcements about "police activity" at the
SF News Earthquake Alert Man, not only did we not see Tom Cruise in our work place today, we also missed the earthquake. The USGS is reporting a 3.7 quake centered in Moraga at about 1:
SF News [email protected] Nothing good ever happens in office. Tom Cruise stopped by Yahoo today, with pregnant Katie Holmes in tow. A beloved SFist tipster reports as follows: His visit didn't really make much sense, until
SF News Political Junkie: Itchy and Scratchy Is Daly Itchy or is Newsom? You guys pick! The eternal conflict between the cat and the mouse flared up again today as Newsom called up the Chronicle editorial board all special, just
SF News Your Commute: Accidents Lots of accident-related news today. First off -- crank up "Livin' On A Prayer" because like Bon Jovi says, it's slippery when wet. A sudden downpour in Santa Clara led to 13 --
SF News GitMo-ntgomery Man, our office is by the Montgomery BART/MUNI stop and we didn't see this. Well, we did overoptimistically think we wouldn't need an umbrella today, so we were a little distracted by
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Achievers</i> In doing a little due diligence before writing this review, we turned up an entry on the Hyphen blog noting that reviewers are not supposed to reveal any of the plot to this
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Chinese Restaurants: Latin Passions</i> Long-time SFist readers will remember that we were so inspired at last year's SFIAAFF by "Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents" that we gave it our prestigious Best Film We Saw On SFist award for
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>No Sleep Til Shanghai</i> The crowd at the Kabuki Theater on Friday night had more hip-hoppers than usual, as SF Int'l Asian-American Film Fest attendees eagerly lined up three-deep for the sold-out showing of No Sleep Til
SF News Craigslist Encounters: Hot Or Not? Recently, a lot of discussion has been going on about Craigslist design. From magazines to blogs, blogs, and more blogs, people have been weighing in with on question of whether Craigslist design is
SF News Your Commute: Road Rage Kills Folks, you've just gotta learn to let it go: today's fourth-runner-up in the Great SFist Blotter Crime News Gathering (i.e., a frantic search of all the area news sites to find something
SF News Newsom Pile-On (Post 2 of 2) Newsom's beleaguered this week! So beleaguered we broke it down into two posts! While the Chron calls up all the supervisors to get an explication of their beef, the Examiner reports that representatives
