Arts & Entertainment Bluepulse CEO Ben Keighran Brings Us Out Of The Stone Age Bluepulse, which recently acquired $6 million in funding, is all about mobility: it's a phone-based social network of more than 2 million people in 150 countries. It's accessed via software on your phone
Arts & Entertainment Ignatz Award Nomination For SFist Favorite 'Minty' Lewis' P.S. Comics Even though he defected to Los Angeles, we were tickled when local fave Keith Knight took home a Harvey Award. Now another Bay Area sequential artist is up for a prestigious comics industry
Arts & Entertainment VIDEO OVERLOAD: 9/11 Memorial At SF State Goes Awry Readers, sorry about the video overload today -- but suddenly there's a lot of interesting stuff out there! Here's a video posted on YouTube by the San Francisco State College Republicans. Boo, hiss,
SF News New Auto Shop Takes Green Pretty Seriously Wired Magazine has an interesting feature piece on what we believe to be one of those "only in San Francisco" kinda businesses: a mechanic who not only specializes in hybrids, but attempts to
Arts & Entertainment Get Inside The SFFD With 'The Battalion' There's been much ado about SFFD screw-ups from the top (Mr. h. brown over at sfbulldog.com has actually provided some really interesting insight . . . not that he'll see this hat tip, since he
Arts & Entertainment In Case Your Parents Wouldn't Let You Go Sept. 11, 2007 -- Megadeth at the Warfield. Enjoy.
Arts & Entertainment 'Wine By The Bay' Event: Good Wines, Great Cause, Old Friends This Saturday at the San Francisco Embarcadero Hyatt Regency from noon-4 p.m., you can join KGO Radio and the Mendocino Wine Growers Foundation in celebration of the wines and other good stuff
Arts & Entertainment Eggers And 826 Get A Little Ketchup Money Dave Eggers, well-known author and tutoring activist via 826 Valencia and its affiliates, has been awarded a grant from the Heinz Family Foundation. $250,000 smackers. Eggers, who had never heard of the
Arts & Entertainment Education Prognostication From George Lucas' 'Edutopia' Mag San Rafael-based Edutopia Magazine, which is brought to us by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, looks to the future in its latest issue, identifying 10 ideas or trends that its experts believe can
Arts & Entertainment Frank Chu At The Giants Game: Greatest Tip Ever It seems the guy behind a photo blog called "whatimseeing.com" left us a tip in the contribute section that he treated Frank Chu to an extra baseball ticket he had yesterday. (Please
Arts & Entertainment A Little Noe Valley Local Color: Pee-Pee Tree A reader that wished to remain anonymous took this pic of a sign affixed to a tree on Chattanooga St. in lovely Noe Valley, where there are dogs (and children) aplenty. The text,
Arts & Entertainment Cartoonist Keith Knight Wins Harvey Award! The 20th Annual Harvey Awards (named for Harvey Kurtzman, genius cartoonist, founder of MAD Magazine, and lont-time Playboy contributor to boot) were announced this weekend at the Baltimore Comic Con. The awards are
Arts & Entertainment Socialite Jailbird Launches Clothing Line In San Francisco? Where does Paris Hilton stay when she comes to San Francisco? Does she try to get a discount at the family biz? We feel way dirty for posting this, but maybe someone cares
SF News American Airlines Forces You To Purchase Crappy Airline Food Via Credit Or Debit American Airlines flights leaving the San Francisco area will soon be testing an in-flight program that eschews cash. From Sept. 10-Sept. 30, certain flights from the carrier will allow you to purchase cool
Arts & Entertainment Edward Gorey's Dracula Stuff At Cartoon Museum of Art!! Edward Gorey's art is perhaps the greatest combination of cute and grotesque we've seen. And it's not just for goth kids; everyone can enjoy the new exhibit at the Cartoon Museum of Art
Arts & Entertainment Former Vallejo Councilman Is <i>That Much Closer</i> To Being Whipping Boy Why on earth would an almost 60-year-old former city councilman from Vallejo want to be on Hell's Kitchen? To be continually called a "donkey" ("don-keeeeeh!") on route to embarassing himself on national television?
Arts & Entertainment MediaBistro Takes Its Turn With Phil Bronstein; SFist Community Guest-Stars Today, we really enjoyed an interview of Chronicle Executive Editor Phil Bronstein by Julie Haire, an L.A.-based freelance writer, that was published on MediaBistro. And, yes, we confess, part of that
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week Ahhh, the lazy days of summer keep on keeping on, yet the commentary here on SFist continues to be fast, furious, fierce, and even funny. We really enjoy that pretty much any reader
misc Don't Let Them Increase Your Property Tax Payments We know we're treading in slightly dangerous territory here -- while we're fairly sure a good chunk of our readership are homeowners (condo, single-family, multifamily, whatever), we know an even larger chunk are
Arts & Entertainment 826 Valencia's Five-Year Anniversary Fair With their usual whimsy, those folks from 826 Valenicia celebrated their five-year anniversary on 8/26. They did so with a community festival at Mission Playground, which is right near the store. Entry
SF News 'Roid Rave: Celebrating Bonds At Justin Herman Plaza If there's a widespread contingent of San Franciscans that feel Bonds is a cheater unworthy of praise, that sure wasn't reflected in the celebration down at Justin Herman Plaza today. Music, tons of
Arts & Entertainment We're Number One! San Francisco Is Top City For Singles Hey, all you singles in San Francisco/Oakland, looks like you live in the right place. Our fair city was tops in Forbes 7th Annual Best Cities for Singles Report. The magazine made
Arts & Entertainment 500 Burrito Reviews; Innumerable Mustaches While we interviewed him, shortly before he started contributing, Charles made the big time this morning, with a short interview being printed -- yes, printed, as in newsprint and and ink and stuff
Arts & Entertainment This Crow's Gotta Fly -- A Plan For Burning Man Hannah Watson's really into crows. In June 2000, surrounded by family, her mother passed away. Hannah tells us that right outside, just after her mom died, "the crows cawed, hollered at one another,
Arts & Entertainment Is Digg Going To Be A 'Classified Killer' Too? Much of the decimation of newspapers' revenues from classified ads has been attributed to the proliferation of craigslist, which, to our experience, is a generally cheaper, easier, and more effective place to list
