Arts & Entertainment Can We Exchange These NetFlix? Los Gatos-based NetFlix has one of the greatest products around, and we give them a lot of leeway despite the company's annoying, ever-present pop-up ads. The company just announced a summer concert series
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Megan Morrone You may remember Megan Morrone from TechTV -- or you may have heard her filling in on a podcast here or there. We've recently become reacquainted with her works through Jumping Monkeys, her
Arts & Entertainment Must Destroy Fleshy Humans! (In a few minutes . . .when we're ready) While Laughing Squid has the goods on The Cardboard Robot Rumble that took place in the city on Saturday, we happened across these terrifying titans of titanium ourselves . . . perhaps a little too early.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Menuism: Like Yelp With No Content, More Bugs, And Superfluous Features It's really nice that folks with a new product or service like to bring stuff to our attention. In the spirit of being forthright, we'd advise you that you should have a fairly
Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Comments of The Week! In any case, check out the podcast to find out exactly which funny, witty, and/or informative comments made by Suckafree, Seamus Furr, el Greco, Persona non Bergman, and Bikescape made the cut!
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
Arts & Entertainment Swords & Sorcery Anthology: Homage, Send-up, And Wonderful Surprise Please allow us to let our geek flag fly for a few moments. If you've never read a comic book, never participated in a pen-and-paper role playing game, or if you don't know
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 3 Questions For A Gelato Slinger The other day, we told you our impressions of Naia Gelateria (nutshell: pretty good overall; you should particularly dig it if you enjoy having a ton of varieties to choose from). We wanted
Arts & Entertainment Local Realtor Weighs In On Wilting Newspaper Biz A realtor called Chris Iverson was commenting on the "death of the newspaper industry" over at the 3 Oceans real estate blog. You may think "who the hell is this guy" to comment
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hens Can Rest A Little Easier . . . some of them, anyway. The Rainbow Grocery Co-op is the first San Francisco-based store to announce that it will exclusively carry cage-free eggs. The news was spread by animal advocacy group East Bay
Arts & Entertainment L.A. Times Covers The Haight "Punk kids have invaded the Haight, they're mean, it's not what it used to be, etc, etc." Yeah, that's old hat for those of us that have been in the city for even
Arts & Entertainment Sea Invaders: Marine Biology Is Cool There's been much ado about the rather large sea dwellers that have recently visited our general area. On KQED's blog, we saw that Amy Miller, a coordinating producer for QUEST, posted about a
SF News Another Way That Google Owns Us Have you checked out the latest hack to Google Maps? Somehow they've added street views, which lets you take a look at an intersection (say, 16th and Mission) from a street-level camera. You
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For A Graphic Novelist Yesterday, we posted a contest in which we're giving away a copy of Matt Silady's "The Homeless Channel," a new graphic novel. Matt, a Berkeley resident, was both the writer and artist of
SF News California Bullet Train -- 'Steel Wheels' Only From Here To Disneyland? We mentioned a few weeks ago that the funding for California's oft-proposed bullet train system is suspect. Things are looking up in a way, as the High Speed Rail Authority approved the project's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Naia Gelato: Local, Innovative, Cavalcade of Flavors Okay, so nobody ever accused us of being especially observant, but we only recently recognized that "Naia", at 451 Castro Street, was a gelateria. See, the sign only says the name, and there's
Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Comments For May 20-26 Hey everyone -- episode two is in the can for your listening pleasure information. Thanks everyone for your contributions; this week we turn our white-hot spotlight onto Kerbot2000, KWillets, "T", Marc, and classydave.
Arts & Entertainment Win 'The Homeless Channel', A New Graphic Novel A few months ago, when we talked to Larry Young, the frontman of San Francisco-based comic book publisher AIT/Planet Lar, he pointed to Matt Silady's then-pending book, "The Homeless Channel," as one
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All The News You Can Booze For many of us with standard 9-5 jobs, a long weekend is coming up. Naturally, our minds turn to libations (take a look to the left for some insight into our personal plans)
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For The Burritoeater We enjoy visiting Charles Hodgkins' Web site, Burritoeater. Not necessarily for the opinions within his numerous reviews of taquerias (which can be a valuable resource), more because we just like his writing. He's
SF News Seriously, Who The Hell Doesn't Know What A Magnetic Strip Is? Pssst! See that black strip on your BART card? Does that maybe remind you of anything? They are very similar to the black strips on all those hard little plastic cards you carry
misc Tales From The Workplace: Application Flagellation SFist received the following note from a local hiring manager that was annoyed at a particular response regarding a position she posted on Craigslist. We found it amusing. Please note that details have
Arts & Entertainment The Stranger Thinks That We Are Awesome We complain a lot about San Francisco -- MUNI is a disaster, the homeless guy down the street left his post-digested lunch on our doorstep again, our bicyclists are psychopaths, our supervisors accept
Arts & Entertainment Design Remix Here At SFist This top menu lineup will soon change; keep those eyes peeled. We're thinking we'll put up easy links to search by category, like MUNI, politics, and burritos -- so let us know if
