SF News Craigslist Encounters: How Much For That Scary Dolly In The Window? Craigslist trollers, such as us, oftentimes wonder how much thought goes into these values. For some goods, such as cars and baseball cards there are places to get rough estimates. But what about
SF News Craigslist Encounters: Not-So-Free Parking One of the best things about Craigslist, other than its amazing ability to waste our time, is that it shows us that whole beauty is in the eye of the beholder thing. For
SF News ChronicleWatch Watch -- Day 1000! In Roman numerals, it's the letter M -- ChronWatch hits its very first one-oh-oh-oh of civic inaction, as the Berkeley fountain it first began pestering back in June 2003 remains in the exact
SF News CSI: Plumpjack (Enter the Naming Contest!) We've got Gavin-Sofia fever! Thanks, SFist Jackson, for the bang-up Photoshop job showing what the union of Mr. Newsom and Ms. Milos might look like! (Scientology Sea Org cap added by Jackson.) And
misc Name That Couple! Brangelina..... TomKat.... Bennifer 2.... Filliam H. Muffman -- every celebrity couple of the moment has a fun blended name! So help SFist come up with the it name of the moment for our
SF News Look Who's In The Situation Room We have got to program our TiVo DVR to get a season pass for CHRIS DALY -- we missed our favorite moonbat left wing District 6 Supervisor yakking it up about impeachment with
SF News Save The Trees Alas, Stanford University is currently mascotless, after the debacle involving a tree drinking a little too much of its own sap. We're not Stanford folks, so we can't explain to you why their
SF News Shake Shake Shake Man -- we were so distracted this morning with that spam attack that we totally missed the earthquake! Two quakes rumbled through the area this morning, around 11:30 a.m. The first
SF News Political Junkie: Free Stress Test Oooh, we hope Mayor Gavin Newsom starts jumping up and down on Bruce Pettit's City Desk Newshour couch next! Matier and Ross report that Gavin, a tireless warrior for nookie, eagerly accepted an
SF News Your Commute: Time For New Shock Absorbers It's not just that you're bad drivers, folks! DPW says that over half of SF needs to be repaved and it's going to need $340 million to do it. DPW says per year,
SF News There Oughta Be A Contest State Senator Joe Simitian (pictured at left) has announced the finalists for his "There Oughta Be A Law" contest, where state citizens can submit their proposals for a law that California needs. You
SF News Bay Area Hardware The Olympics are done -- the last broom has been swept by the curling team, the snowboarders are done Fakey McTwistying, or whatever their jumps are called, the last ice skater has fallen
misc The Fake Tales Of San Francisco Contest Like the Arctic Monkeys say: . In honor of the soon-to-be-released JT LeRoy movie, "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things," we've got a new contest! "The Heart Is Deceitful" is based on JT
Arts & Entertainment Blame Canada: When Performance Art Goes Bad Last Friday, a performance art piece got ugly -- and we don't just mean because it failed to critically explore the (mis)/dissemination of the capitalist hegemony: Novato performance artist Joe Canada promised
SF News Political Junkie: A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Mayor Sure, SF's Gavin Newsom's legalized gay marriage, and San Jose's Ron Gonzales built a city hall (and transacted some funny business with garbage collectors, but that's a separate story) -- but they got
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Rice Retiring Again (Probably) Okay, we didn't watch Dancing With The Stars last night because we were watching ladies' figure skating, but we understand that the inevitable is about to come down on our boy Jerry Rice.
Arts & Entertainment Santana Row On the bright side, at least matchbox 20's Rob Thomas won't be here: Gavin Newsom took some time out from romancing to regretfully announce that a planned free Santana concert at the Civic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sofia Milos Newsom? Gavin'll try anything to lower the crime rate around here! Leah Garchik triumphantly reports that Gavin was seen kissing CSI: Miami detective Sofia Milos goodbye at a North Beach cafe last Monday morning,
misc More Redevelopments In J-Town San Francisco Japantown's seen a lot in the last 100 years -- from the influx of Japanese-American immigrants after the 1906 earthquake and the development of an ethnic community, to its forced displacement
Arts & Entertainment The Sputnik Legacy At this rate, we're totally going to beat the Soviets to the moon! The Randall Museum is sponsoring the 24th Annual San Francisco Middle School Science Fair (scroll down), where middle schoolers in
SF News The Heartbreak Of Reply-All There are so many good reply-all stories: the person in the office who accidentally distributes their snide response to an office-wide email; the fun-loving fake email sent to #ALL PERSONNEL from the computer
Arts & Entertainment Fire (Preparedness) In Noe Valley Ready, aim.... and look out for firebugs this Saturday at the Noe Valley Farmers Market, as the Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) and the SF Fire Department highlight this month's safety theme, "Light
Arts & Entertainment Classic Cars In The Rain So we're out on our lunch break, with no umbrella, trying to cross Market Street. , we grumble to ourselves. We look up, and -- hey, wow! A parade of classic cars coming down
Arts & Entertainment Hotsy-Qatsi Is it wrong that when we saw the movie Koyaanisqatsi, about not despoiling the earth, we left the theater thinking, "wow, San Francisco would be a great city to live in!" Well, San
SF News Red Staters Welcome! See that guy over there on the right? That's Barry Goldwater, accepting the Republican nomination for president in our fair city back in 1964, in the same venue where we now try out
