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Tell Us About Yourself For A Chance To Win An Apple Watch

Arts & Entertainment

Tell Us About Yourself For A Chance To Win An Apple Watch

Corgis via istockphoto Interested in winning a free Apple Watch? Yeah, we thought that sounded pretty sweet too. Of course you are! We're conducting a short survey to get to know

A Look At San Francisco's St. Patrick's Day Parade And Its Gold Rush History

Arts & Entertainment

A Look At San Francisco's St. Patrick's Day Parade And Its Gold Rush History

San Francisco St. Patrick's Day Parade, 1946. (LIFE) San Francisco has long been host to big St. Patrick's Day celebrations though the parade's gotten a bit smaller

Arts & Entertainment

Daisy Does The Niners: SF Beats KC 22-17 On The Hottest Day Ever

by Daisy Barringer As I sat in traffic waiting to exit the Levi’s Stadium parking lot last night after the 49ers 22-17 win over the Chiefs, I couldn’t help but

Win an iPad Mini from SFist!

Win an iPad Mini from SFist!

We'll be honest: we're looking to update our SFist Daily subscriber info. But don't worry! If you sign up after the jump, we'll enter you

Take Our 2013 SFist Survey and Tell Us Your True Feelings!

Take Our 2013 SFist Survey and Tell Us Your True Feelings!

This? This is just a cat that enjoys ruining dinner plans. And what do you enjoy? Talking about yourself, probably! SFist is doing a readership survey for 2013 and we'd love

Conventionist: Lessons Learned from DNC Day 2

Conventionist: Lessons Learned from DNC Day 2

(By DCist's Sommer Mathis, one of the few official bloggers who is attending the DNC as official member of the state blogger corps.) Tuesday was Hillary Clinton Day at the Democratic

Conventionist: Highlights From DNC Day 1

Conventionist: Highlights From DNC Day 1

(By DCist's Sommer Mathis, one of the few official bloggers who is attending the DNC as official member of the state blogger corps.) One day down and three more to go

What the DNC State Blogger Corps Really Gets You

(By DCist's Sommer Mathis, one of the few official bloggers who is attending the DNC as official member of the state blogger corps.) DCist is participating in a first of its

Protester Detained by Police Outside Colorado Convention Center

Protester Detained by Police Outside Colorado Convention Center

(By DCist's Sommer Mathis, one of the few official bloggers who is attending the DNC as official member of the state blogger corps. Be sure to sign up for her Twitter

Conventionist: Inside the DNC Media Swag Bag

Conventionist: Inside the DNC Media Swag Bag

(By DCist's Sommer Mathis, one of the few official bloggers who is attending the DNC as official member of the DNC's state blogger corps. Be sure to sign up

Pope Benedict XVI's D.C. Popemobile Ride in Photos

Pope Benedict XVI's D.C. Popemobile Ride in Photos

Pope Benedict XVI took to his popemobile after meeting with President Bush at the White House this morning. The pontiff, who is celebrating his 81st birthday today, rode west beginning around noon on

Christian Brando Has Died

Christian Brando Has Died

Christian Brando, an actor like his father, was known less for his movie roles and more for the trouble he found himself in. In 1990 he pled guilty to the charge of manslaughter

Breaking News: Baseball is Full of Effing Cheaters

Breaking News: Baseball is Full of Effing Cheaters

Former Senate Majority Leader (and current Boston Red Sox director) George Mitchell just announced the results of his 20-month, $20 million investigation into allegations of widespread steroid usage in baseball. The long-

Nothing More Appreciated Than a San Francisco Summer

Nothing More Appreciated Than a San Francisco Summer

What we want to point out is that even our traditional calendar summer was much more temperate than average. There's something about human societal relationship with the weather that causes people

Yes Siree Bob, It's Winter

Yes Siree Bob, It's Winter

The atheists and earthists out there (wish we had a hand sign we could flash right now) know today is the last crucial day of our year. It's the winter solstice.

Sometimes We Have To Wait Until November To Get Our September Summer

Sometimes We Have To Wait Until November To Get Our September Summer

The only thing missing from this full-blown summer are the extra hours we lost to Daylight Takings Away a couple weeks back. (Did you know the federal government has already legislated extending

Falling Into The Fall

Falling Into The Fall

For the last couple weeks the deciduous trees have bequeath their surroundings with fall-like leaves, and offer pleasant browns and appealing rustling sounds to passersby. Rain, or what would be better termed

Yepper It Sure Blew Last Night.

Of course it turns out that yes, we still live in coastal Nor Cal and we're at the mercy of the Pacific Ocean's weather cycles when they confronts the

2pm - Did You Hear That Thunder???

So far there have been at leat 2 LOUD thunder rolls, the air has a distinct mid-fall feel to it and rain is still possible if not imminent in SF and around

Black Rock City Weather Report

Black Rock City Weather Report

To see realtime and recent temp, rain, cloud cover and wind historical data look no further than the Black Rock Station and for forecasts, the closest to best is the Nat'l

A Tale Of Two Fogs

A Tale Of Two Fogs

For the last month (besides last weekend) it feels like we've been living in dc city, as is dichotomy city. It's been a tale of two fogs. Either you&

High 72, Low 51: Fog Scattering by Mid-Morning

We keep lookin' and expectin' to be living in fog blanket city but the white menance is already breaking by the time we're done with our beignets at Just

Hey Now It's The Sun ... And It Makes Me Feel

Hey Now It's The Sun ... And It Makes Me Feel

Today is the Summer Solstice and please, you don't need to be a pagan or Laplander to celebrate. It's funny how there are so many holidays pegged to the

That Rain? Fogettaboutit! Summer Is Here.

In the last 155 years of area record keeping (yes if you didn't know there was a SFist weatherist way back in 1850) it's only rained 12 times on

Screw The Fog It's Summer Time

So with no further ado we present our top-five beaches and swimming holes. Add yours in the comments and we can keep the list going. #1 Black Sand Beach. After Alexander Avenue