Arts & Entertainment 15 Years Later On Sunday the 17th at 5:04 p.m., it'll be the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. We still live with reminders of the quake every day -- from the
misc Getting Hitched Those of you paying attention may have noticed the lack of a certain warm, witty, and meticulous voice of reason on theater, social issues, and graphic design on this site as of late
SF News Shhhhhhhh You might want to express your support for our city's striking laborers with just the big smile and the thumbs-up for the next few days: the police have started fining people who honk
SF News Busy Day Marcia, Marcia, Marcia -- oh, we're just the good ol' reliable Bay Area in Election 2004, no one cares about us -- no one's wooing us, no one's filling up our airwaves with
Arts & Entertainment Psych! What better way to celebrate the original date of Britney Spears's nuptials than at feminist pop culture zine Bitch Magazine's release party for its latest issue, on the theme of Fake? The party
SF News Where There's Smoke No, it's not just your eyes today -- there's a huge 25,000 acre fire north of Lake Berryessa in Napa and Yolo Counties, the smoke from which is hazing up the sky
SF News Our Lady of Sadness We know, we can't believe the Senate would throw California a bone either! Barbara Boxer has gotten the Senate -- unanimously, no less -- to pass the California Missions Preservation Act, which will
SF News Wild Kingdom So it turns out that one of the main draws of the Almaden Valley subdivisions in San Jose are their proximity to beautiful nature -- squirrels, birds, deer, and every now and then,
Arts & Entertainment I Read the Earth Moved Litquake started two years ago when groups of Bay Area writers decided it was high time they put on events like those put on by music, film, and arts groups in the area.
SF News Some Follow-Ups Mimi the pregnant toe-licking Japanese Chin dog has been found, wandering University Avenue in Palo Alto. Since being taken home, Mimi has mostly been hiding in a closet. The City of San Jose
SF News East Bay Pro-Choice Doctor Targeted All of the doctor's neighbors within two or three blocks of the doctor's North Oakland home have been receiving letters accusing their neighbor of "perpetuating the American Holocaust" and "bringing the shame of
SF News [SIC] Alquilar is unapologetic. "The mistakes wouldn't even register with a true artisan," she says. "The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake's concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the
SF News These Folks Should Partner with Evite The cards include a drop-box menu of eight disease options (chlamydia, molluscum contagiosum, and non-gonorrheal urethritis being three), but do not include HIV. ("the designers feared that spammers might use that attribute to
Arts & Entertainment In the Navy Now, Fleet Week's cool with the ships and the planes and the firecrackers and all, but SFist's got penciled into our calendar two events of note: the Robot Fighting League Championships at Fort
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Idol The line starts at 6 a.m. today, but it's unclear whether you should have camped out last night or should expect to camp out tonight (bring a jacket and keep your vocal
SF News Just Hook The IV Directly Into Our Brain As of now, this is still a pipe dream, though -- TiVo and Netflix admit that it will be an uphill battle coaxing reluctant fascist movie companies that they can ensure against piracy.
Arts & Entertainment While You're At It, You Can Pay Your Late Fees Too For those of you who love the antiquarian hunt, there's also a separate section for the "Best of Book Bay," with rare and unusual books (between $20 and $250), including the first ever
misc Chihuahua Monster Be a good citizen and call 415-554-9400 if you were hanging out by Monster Park at dusk last night and saw anything. As for the chihuahuas, they're being held by Animal Control while
Arts & Entertainment I Love(a)Parade The parades in Europe now bring in 50 truckfuls of musicians and over a million ravers, and the organizers decided to bring the rhythms to San Francisco for the Love Parade's debut. A
SF News Pick Up Your Own Towels After six weeks of fruitless negotiations, the San Francisco hotel workers union, UNITE 2, has called for a two-week strike against a number of local hotels. The boycott is against the San Francisco
SF News 5.9 Earthquake The quake was felt as far north as San Francisco and Santa Ana (though SFist must confess we were so engrossed in Wonkette this morning that we didn't notice a thing), and it
