SF News Giants Add Another Alou and Look Real Old Doing It The Giants, who just love their history, are getting ready to sign manager Felipe Alou's son Moises to a two year deal worth something like thirteen or fourteen million bucks, making him their
Arts & Entertainment The Essefficist, Rabbi, Leaves, End. Huh? The Essefficist apologizes for the unexcused absence last week, but we don't recall getting any threatening letters (or any lonely ones, for that matter), so we're over it already. If you are. So
Arts & Entertainment Bay Blogger Thursday (Night) Links to Giants blogs pop up once in a while on SFist. Have you ever looked at them? If you have, hopefully you got to Waiting for Boof, where you'll find not only
SF News More Baseball? It should be noted that the Giants, as indicated yesterday, have indeed locked up Armando Benitez to a three year deal. Also, the A's recieved catcher Jason Kendall in a trade with the
SF News The Giants Add a Good Strong Armando First thing is, you gotta understand that at least one SFist writer obsesses over the Giants to a damned near unhealthy point and scours the internet on a fairly regular (constant?) basis looking
misc One Fewer Car with the Essefficist I'm checkin' e-mails, I'm checkin' e-mails, hey hey! I'm checkin' e-mails, I'm checkin' e-mails, hey hey! Our question this week comes from Rita, a frequent contributor and fellow SFist staffer: I have a
misc The Essefficist: So Strong <i>and</i> So Bad? Welcome back to the wonderful world of the Essefficist, gentle reader. Our first question this week comes from our main man Sam in Concord: Um... Shim-Sham Sam... I think you sent this to
SF News The Giants have a Really Good Left Fielder Not to hit you over the head too much with Giants news in the middle of November, but it seems worthwhile to note that Barry Bonds has been named National League Most Valuable
SF News Short Bread In their first foray into this year's gi-normous free agent market, the Giants signed longtime Cleveland shortstop Omar Vizquel to a three year, $12.25 million deal yesterday. It seems kind of bananas
Arts & Entertainment In the Eye of the Beholder Criticism is a funny thing. One person loves a piece of art and another hates it. Happens all the time. But today there's a particularly delicious example of this phenomenon to relish. Robert
Arts & Entertainment A Classy Move at the Chron Did you notice that article on the front page of the Food section of today's ? There's a big picture, showing a snazzy santoku hollow-edge knife on a green cutting board, illustrating an article
misc Thinking About Laundry With the Essefficist First things first: Hurray! John Ashcroft is stepping down. Second things second: Big ups to Jackson and Eve for coming up with the new Essefficist mascot over there on stage left. What says
SF News Warriors... Come Out to Play-ay! Remember when we told you we were going to see the Warriors on opening night? Well we did, and they lost, which wasn't that surprising, since, you know, it was the Warriors. Our
SF News At Least We Have the Warriors While all may to be lost here in the Bay Area, at least we can all take solace in the fact that the Golden State Warriors are opening their season tonight at the
misc The Essefficist Votes It's election day Q & A. Whoo hoo! First, let's hear from loyal reader Redd Harrington: Kerry! We love that guy! Thanks, Redd. You're a trooper. And from loyal reader Frog Dog: Dear
SF News Last Minute Activism What are you up to in the next five days? If you've got some spare time and you're itching to do something worthwhile, maybe you should get yourself hooked up with Driving Votes.
misc Why, if it Isn't Your Favorite Question and Answer Column, the Essefficist! It's politics week around SFist, so we here at the Essefficist thought we'd do our civic duty by chipping in with answers to political questions we received about one thing that on next
misc The Essefficist Fills More Recycling Containers Than You Can Imagine Once again, the Essefficist is back, a day late and at least a dollar short. We could go on all night about what a piece of junk this column is -- she may
Arts & Entertainment High Falooting with SFist The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, at 401 Van Ness, is holding Commission 04, its third annual benefit auction and limited edition art collection release party tonight. SFist is going and thinks you
misc All Tied Up With the Essefficist You may recall from our post on Tuesday that the Essefficist is working on answering our colleague Rita's question as to how the Power Exchange works. While we still haven't heard back from
misc Tit for Tat with the Essefficist Tuesday is here again, and so is the Essefficist, but only to tease and titillate you, dear reader. Every once in a while it takes a little longer than we'd like to gather
SF News Dodger Blues Although, after getting crushed 8-3 by the Cardinals yesterday, the Los Angeles Dodgers haven't actually won a post-season game since beating the A's in the 1988 World Series, giving them an unmitigated sixteen
misc Recycling Old Ideas With the Essefficist Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, again with the weekly column! Ayyyeeeeeesh! Once again back is the incredible, the rhyme animal, the untypeable E, public enemy number one. This week the Essefficist returns with a question
SF News Monday Morning Crow-eater What an ignominious weekend for Bay Area baseball. Saturday, 2 October 2004 will long be remembered as a dark day for Northern California baseball fans. After a big win over LA on Friday
SF News Go Team! SFist brings you yesterday's baseball madness in a nutshell or two: with only three games left this weekend to finish the season, the Giants, Dodgers and Athletics all won, the Angels lost, and
