SF News Bubble? What Bubble? Although the CBIA expects a "modest" drop-off in construction employment, UCLA economist Christopher Thornberg's not so optimistic: he sees a 25% drop in related jobs. Flickr photo by TheBeege724 By SFist Lisa, contributing
SF News American Football Spectacular: We've Been Used. Our 49ers won over the Houston Texans. Yet we write this with a sneer, for the fix was in. Houston had but to lose this game to garner the top pick in the
SF News And What is Tit Play? Chopped Liver? Okay, folks. Here's what we're facing: in the December issue of "Faith: The Bay Area Catholic Newsletter," the editor writes that "if it should be the case that homosexual desires are related to
Arts & Entertainment New Contributor Interview: Chuck Jordan You may also have noted a trend among new SFist contributors—they are not lovers of the Mission Burrito. Before you scream “un-SanFranciscan”! we’ll hasten to point out that Chuck is a
misc Where's Our Butterstick? We want a panda! We want a panda! Our cries to Gavin to pick us up one when he was in China went unheeded -- and now we've been stymied again! Oakland City
Arts & Entertainment New Contributor Interview: Karen McKevitt Karen has lived in the Bay Area most of her life. After picking up an MFA in creative writing (poetry, no less) at SFSU, Karen decided to get into the only-more-slightly practical field
misc SFist Cares ... About Respect If you watch any late night television you may have seen a series of commercials jointly produced by the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Comcast. They started airing in mid-November and will
misc The 'Fisties: Best Vegetarian Food In fact, it's pretty easy for the garden-variety lacto-ovo vegetarian to find something to eat on almost every menu in the Bay Area. No more are the days of having to settle for
misc The 'Fisties: All Winners: The Best of New Bay Area Restaurants We were going to award the Best New Restaurant award of 2005, to Jack Falstaff which opened exactly a year ago, and which we reviewed here on SFist after our third visit. Although
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads, Late Edition: The Boulevard Cookbook. It is not a surprise that such a successful restaurant spawned a cookbook, aptly named Boulevard, following the path of many of the top restaurants in the Bay Area: Chez Panisse, Zuni Cafe
misc The 'Fisties: Favorite Athlete Truth be told, it's not that easy to choose our favorite Bay Area athlete these days. We don't think it's a stretch to say that twenty years from now, some barfly isn't going
SF News 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. Today at
Arts & Entertainment Big Changes at Tribe.net The very definition of a 'chilling effect' on free speech is when legislation or enforcement of new laws are so potentially onerous that people and organization self-censor out of fear and potential liability.
SF News Farewell Joseph Owades Okay, one could argue that he didn't invent the computer or some new fangled gadget that changed the world. And he didn't come up with the cure for AIDS or polio or acid
SF News Gothamist Rocks The Strike We'd like to interrupt our Bay Area coverage to direct y'all over to Gothamist, which is providing awesome coverage of the New York transit strike. Our brother, who lives in Spanish Harlem and
misc The 'Fisties: Best News Story 2005 So here's a random selection of our favorites from 2005. Did we leave out yours? Best Daly: Our favorite post this year? The provocative interview of Chris Daly's better half, of course! In
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Mara Sohn How did you get involved with Yerba Buena? I have been in the arts world for the last 5 years. I started out at a large regional theatre planning fundraising events. There was
SF News Shake It A 3.4 magnitude earthquake hit the Hercules area of the East Bay around 10 a.m. this morning. But we didn't feel anything here in San Francisco, how about you? This report
SF News Houstonist to SFist -- Drop Dead (Soccer) Hey, do you remember way back to two weeks ago when the latest member of the -ist family came on board and SFist Eve said we couldn't think of a reason to hate
SF News Bay Area Sports Franchises: Welcome to the Mediocrity So how did our local teams do? In short, meh (we would link to the article in question, but for whatever reason, IT'S NOT ONLINE! This is the 21st Century-- everything should be
misc SFist Raves: Food Loving Fund Raising Not only could you score a food photography lesson with local cookbook writer Heidi Swanson who took the pretty picture on the left, you could win a $200 voucher towards dinner at feted
SF News A's Brand Baseball: We Got Game Like Parker Brothers After an unproductive week at the MLB winter meetings, the A's heated up the winter stove again: they traded minor league OF Andre Ethier to the Dodgers for major league OF Milton "Insert
SF News We're Still Poor, How About You? The California Budget Project* today released a report that "examines how the Bay Area’s workers and their families have fared before, during, and since the boom and subsequent bust." Their findings (beware,
SF News The Perils of Blogging Drunk What made us laugh even harder, though, was when John at The Legal Reader emailed to explain that it was all something of an accident. A BUI, if you will:I got home
misc The 'Fisties: Freaky Geekery 5th Place — Neogentronyx: As first reported by CNet, Carlos Owens is an Anchorage steelworker who moonlights as a designer of larger-than-life robots, known as Mech (or Gundam Mecha, if you're an otaku like
