SF News Say No to Snowballs According to DataQuick, January's sales dropped 20% from their pace in January 2005, although the average price paid for a home was up 12.9% from the year-ago at $628,000, and the
SF News Political Junkie: Lucky For Us No Buckshot Was Involved Man, there isn't Bay Area connection to Dick Cheney shooting that 78-year-old guy in the face? We're so jealous of DCist and Austinist right now. Well, we gotta content ourselves instead with reporting
SF News Fourteen-Year-Old-Men and Other Faithful Logic Awhile back, we somehow found our way onto the mailing list of "San Francisco Faith: the Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter." Though we have no particular beef with Catholicism, we just can't quite
SF News Fancy Rich Person Magazine Bestows Approval On Fancy Rich Person Museum Our last move to make our travel easier and more stylish involved our pretending not to speak English to avoid conversation with our lecherous coachmate. Somehow, we suspect that that's not what they're
Arts & Entertainment SFist checks out the 510: the Get into the Groove edition Two of the Bay Area's cultural treats combine tonight as the feminist pop culture magazine kicks off its 10th anniversary celebrations with an 8 p.m. 9:15 showing of Desperately Seeking Susan.
SF News The Rich Get Richer in Real Estate Although the closest the WSJ gets to the Bay Area is Los Angeles -- which saw an 88% surge in inventory compared to a year ago -- a little digging around reveals that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Fennel We fell under this vegetable's spell long ago (as opposed to the Fennels on Veronica Mars, which are more recent faves) and we're happy to see it back at area markets, where it
Arts & Entertainment Surf's Waaaaay Up Forget the four-foot rollers at Ocean Beach, the stylish left-break splendor of Fort Point, or even the creepy minefield of Potato Patch, when it comes to surfing, there is one place in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Million-Dollar Bake-Off We love those Food Network cookoff challenges! Make a birthday cake for Elvis! Decorate the best gingerbread house! Who can make the tallest ice/pastry sculpture? So we can't wait for Food Network's
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Twitch</i> is a vignette about an unnamed teenaged girl (none of the characters has a name) whose mother has multiple sclerosis. The daughter (Emma Galvin in the film's strongest performance) pities her mother (Toni
SF News SFist Checks Out the 510: The Space-Faring Edition Out in Sacramento -- classified as "Bay Area" for KQED's fund-raising purposes, anyway -- the Discovery Museum will be holding a memorial for the astronauts, then turning the focus toward continued space exploration
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Google China and Spin Control The issue now is Google's decision to censor search results on its Chinese site. In an interview with Reuters (vectored via CNet news.com), Sergey Brin acknowledges that the decision will be criticized,
SF News Giant killers? The Zags are 15-3 overall this year and once again steamrolling through the West Coast Conference (WCC), while the Dons lug an unwieldy 7-10 record into the game. The Men in Robes are
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The Vibrant Economy Edition See "East Bay: More Affordable, But Only Compared to Its Neighbors" (January 18, 2006) and "California's East Bay Area Offers Relative Bargains" (January 19, 2006). SFist is always interested to read about bargains
SF News Root, Root, Root for the Seattle Team The resolution was kind of a half-joking (although one never knows in this city) attempt to help out sports bars which apparently have been hurting this year due to a lack of good
Arts & Entertainment T to Zed Tis the season to be snowboarding and skiing. And for San Franciscans, that means road trips to Tahoe a plenty. For us the big question always is where to eat? You may well
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Shake It Up From the cultural legacies of black radio and French writers to physical theater and psychology, there's something for just about everyone in this week's offerings by Bay Area theaters. at The Marsh Berkeley
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: A Nano In Your Pocket Not everybody has love for Apple in their pants — a new update to iTunes was released and bloggers are outraged. The issue is a new MiniStore panel underneath the library view. As you
SF News SFist checks out the 510: Happy Birthday, Jack London The Oakland High School attendee went on to extract revenge against schoolchildren everywhere by writing a series of books guaranteed to be used in classroom lessons on everything from symbolism to manifest destiny.
SF News Riders Up! It may be January, but if you're a mountain biker in the Bay Area, it's never too early to start planning out your riding season. Especially if you have any interest in racing.
SF News Neither a Buyer Nor a Renter Be One of our sources is RealFacts. The research firm specializes in data on multifamily housing, and they send out a regular newsletter. Today's includes the following interesting comments made by its president, Sarah
SF News Keep Keith In SF Doesn't anyone in the 415 want a Keith Haring mural? A local SoMA day care center for underprivileged youth puts its Keith Haring mural on the block, with no local takers. Back in
Arts & Entertainment The Man Who Rates Espresso: SFist Interviews <i>The Shot's</i> Greg Sherwin A few months ago, we stumbled across a really interesting coffee-related Web site -- www.coffeeratings.com, which (obviously) rates Bay Area cafes primarily according to the espresso they serve. The site's companion
SF News SFist checks out the 510: Public Access TV Edition To call it "the Bay Area's homage to 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000'" is to sell both TV shows short. We tuned in for 'Monster Island's' broadcast of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and
