SF News Oh No Ed Jew! Please, Please Mr. Postman Sorry, readers -- Rita's not around today -- hope you can enjoy this Ed Jew update nonetheless! Still not a lot of info on Ed Jew's prelim court proceedings, but there is a
Arts & Entertainment From The 'Why Isn't Everyone Worried About This' File The way Wired's Noah Shachtman sees things struck us as astonishingly clear and pragmatic. "The Lawrence Livermore lab, outside of San Francisco, already has a pretty iffy security record -- barely-armed guards, affairs
Arts & Entertainment Oooh, We Feel A Little Dirty Oddly compelling stuff from Melissa Gira over at Gridskipper. "The Sugar Daddy Guide to San Francisco" answers that burning question of what leisure activities one can enjoy under the good graces of said
Arts & Entertainment More Bay Area Print Media Jobs Getting Axed Oy gevalt. The Denver Biz Times is reporting that Denver-based MediaNews Group -- the owner of the Alameda Newspaper Group (which includes the Oakland Tribune) and the Contra Costa Times, will be reducing
SF News Ohh, Snap! Costas Makes Bonds Look Silly Notes to self for when we become famous: memorize the phrase "no comment." Utilize it frequently. Take the high road. Don't respond to critics in the media. Monsters & Critics brought our attention
Arts & Entertainment Mass Of New Bat Segundo Interviews Include Berkeley Breathed Two-Parter! Holy Cow, Bat Segundo! What do you mean you moved to Brooklyn?!? Gah. A podcast that's truly fun, quirky, and valuable for fans of literature, this pseudonymously produced program made its home base
SF News Poll Dancing: Field Research Corp. Making A Move? We've gotten a tip that the well-respected pollster, Field Research Corp. (who generate the oft-cited "Field Polls"), is closing its San Francisco offices. The tipster cites the reason for the closure to be
SF News Digg and Microsoft, Sittin' In a Tree, A-D-V-E-R-T-I-S-I-N-G Hey, remember our friends at local Internet innovator, Digg? We talked in brief with the founder, Mr. Kevin Rose, a little while back. Well, according to a press release issued by Microsoft Corp.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Today's Delicious Prize For Using Embarcadero Station We were rather pleased Monday, yesterday, and again today to be subjected to nice young lasses offering free gum to those exiting the Embarcadero Station on the corner of Market and Spear. In
Arts & Entertainment The Bay Guardian 'Does It Right'?! First, there was reporter G.W. Schulz's award from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for his "Scumlords" series. Now Mr. Bruce Brugmann's San Francisco Bay Guardian has been named to Editor & Publisher
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week You guys know what this is about by now: our readers' commentary is the sheen on the apple that is SFist, and we like to recognize those whose input has amused, educated, or
SF News Pete Wilson, Local Anchor And Radio Personality We just heard on KGO newstalk 810 that Pete Wilson, the local channel 7 news anchor and afternoon radio talk show host, died last night from complications in what was thought to be
Arts & Entertainment Final Harry Potter Book Tranforms Noe Valley Into Diagon Alley We hate lines and we shy away from new things -- we're definitely a second- or third-generation adopter for tech, and a wait-for-the-paperback guy for books. But we guess this Harry Potter and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'In Vino Veritas' -- And Sometimes Other Stuff: SFist Alum Writes About 'Fruit Wine' Derrick Schneider has an excellent food-focused blog called "Obsession With Food." He also wrote for SFist regularly for quite a long time, most notably his still-popular SFist in the Kitchen series. So of
SF News 'VideoGate' Officer Andrew Cohen Responds To Critics With A 'Call To Arms' SFist recieved two missives from Officer Andrew Cohen, who is best known for being the focal point of the so-called "VideoGate" scandal. As with his responses in our recent interview with him, we
Arts & Entertainment Ritual Roasters Event For Bikes To Rwanda This Saturday Ritual Coffee Roasters' two locations are only about three miles apart. Not so bad on a bike, right? Well, what if you're biking with 130 pounds of coffee? Yeah, a little tougher. This
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week Plenty of interesting stuff happened in San Francisco last week, and our readers, as always, added funny, insightful, and interesting angles to the stuff we wrote about. Our furious, fabulous five for last
misc Week Around The -ists Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into
SF News <i>The Economist</i> On Our City's Economy It's always interesting to take an "outside-in" look at our fine city, like when the L.A. Times wrote about the Haight a couple months back. This time, it's the venerable UK-based that's
Arts & Entertainment Media Critic Singles Out Chron For Most Likely To Go All-Electronic When we talked to Phil Bronstein, the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, a few weeks back, he told us that "the Chronicle will continue to be packed with talented journalists who will
SF News Airline Passengers' Rights Group Taking Off It's the middle of July, and many of us have summer travel ahead of us. It's a good time to check out the state of the airline industry. The Napa Valley-based Coalition for
Arts & Entertainment 'VideoGate' Officer Andrew Cohen Doesn't Hold Back Officer Andrew Cohen made headlines in recent years for the videos he produced spoofing the SFPD. The videos were intended to be a humorous sendoff to former police captain Rick Bruce and poke
Arts & Entertainment Sing-a-long With Dick and Condi As we told you last week, the San Francisco Mime Troupe performed in Dolores Park for the public on the 4th and last weekend. It was the premiere of the group's show "Making
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Another <i>Comic Book Challenge</i> Team We told you a few weeks ago about Platinum Studios' "American Idol"-style contest for comic creators, through which the winners will get a "multimedia development and publishing deal" based on their concept.
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week Hey folks, we're back again with our favorites amongst the comments and opinions you, the readership, made about SFist's stories that ran the week of July 1. Despite the weird holiday schedule, there
