SF News SF Getting Its V Card If approved, Virgin'll be the only major airline based in California, and will have the potential to create as many as 2,000 local jobs, with an eventual additional 20,000-30,000 indirect
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ted Weinstein Ted Weinstein is a fierce proponent of the Bay Area’s literature scene. He is also good at getting the authors he represents to finish their manuscripts. His methods are a trade secret,
Arts & Entertainment The 'Fisties: Music Gillian Welch and Victoria Williams sat and watched Emmylou Harris perform, the guys from Los Super Seven hung out with some of the Knitters, and Patty Griffin stood by as Buddy Miller performed.
misc SFisting: Sex Machines Slideshow: The Squeaky Thing Gets the Grease With San Francisco as the home of Survival Research Laboratories, the birthplace of Combots and Robolympics, and the location of Fucking Machines secret lair, we have to wonder just what is in that
misc The 'Fisties: Best Place to Shop For Food The Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market gets plenty of press, and we do love the high-quality ingredients you'll find there. But it's not perfect: High prices make for expensive visits, and the many tourists
misc R to Zed This week, on our travels, we are are coming up roses as we share two favourite eating spots we return to again and again. Rosamunde's Sausage Grill and Rose's Cafe could not be
misc The 'Fisties: Pizza Pizza Schmizza. It's just a piece of dough topped with tomato and cheese. What is all the fuss about, really? Why are people so impassioned about their opinions of what makes the best
Arts & Entertainment Ken Garcia Lands Job at the Ex "This is a great chance for me to write about what I love: San Francisco and the Bay Area and all the politics, personalities and eye-opening exploits that entails," Garcia said. "I'm looking
Arts & Entertainment Shop Early and Often! The Small Business Commission of San Francisco recognizes both the benefits of keeping our spending close to home and our desire to buy cool stuff with its Shop Local First Week. All this
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Elbert Chang Today’s interview subject, Elbert Chang, appreciates Fry’s. Which is what you might expect from someone who will repair friend’s guitar amps for free. When he’s not winning friends and
misc The 'Fisties Through a painstaking and highly proprietary process, we've come up with 15 or so awards about which we're most passionate -- from the highly debated best burrito, to the hotly (heh) contested best
Arts & Entertainment Bike Likers Unite That climatic consistency, we assume, is one of the reasons bicycle culture is so very strong in San Francisco. Take part in this cultural force at tonight's Winterfest 2005, the San Francisco Bicycle
misc Keep your Eye On The 'Fist This December First, you'll wanna come see us pretty regularly, because we'll be giving away fabulous prizes every stinkin' day of December. That's right, 31 days of free stuff from SFist! Some of our contests
SF News Pelosi Calls For Withdrawal So the President gave his big "Wait! I got a Plan! I swear" speech today which went over as well, as, well, we don't know how well it went over, but we did
misc SFist Rants: Hating on Starbucks And yes, we're totally serious. Let's go to the way back machine and take a look at those bleak, dark days before Starbucks entered the world. You remember what that was like? The
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Some Holiday Alternatives Last week we featured some of the more usual holiday fare, but the San Francisco Bay Area is known for its unusual holiday shows as well. with gears and hammers? Clowns and toilet
Arts & Entertainment The Incendiary Adventures of the SuperFisters (Prologue) It was a day like any other, we recall, when Isotope Comics suddenly fell into our lap -- and then, in a blur of capes and shotguns, we were off on the wildest
misc Q to Zed Do you know how many eating establishments there are in San Francisco that begin with the letter Q? The answer is not many. You could probably count them all on three fingers. Our
SF News SF Examiner Letters in Reruns? The always-vigilant Bay Area Transit News gets credit for pointing out the apparant Xeroxing. Only a few words were changed between his letter published on September 5th and the one published yesterday; that's
Arts & Entertainment <i>San Francisco: The Unknown City</i> Reading a guidebook about your own town is always interesting. What did they forget? What did they get wrong? Not to mention what they found that you still haven't. And we have to
SF News And Now For Some Wet Hot Juicy Religion It was almost a year ago that someone put our names on the mailing list of "Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter," and it's been an eye-opening couple of months. For example,
misc Win a DVD of <i>Saving Face</i>! Not only did we see local director Alice Wu's fantastic film , but we got to meether and later interview her. We even gave away passes to see the movie when it played in
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Rachael Sbuttoni Hey, what's with the new cool SFist banner and block ads you can see all over the -ist network? Well, after an intense, breakneck reader contest, we had our winner, with Rachael Sbuttoni's
SF News Finally! We've been looking forward to the opening of a Bay Area H&M like it's the damn Rapture or something, especially since it seems like they're everywhere else in the country already.
SF News The Golden State Warriors: More Groucho than Karl On a special promotional page of the Warriors' official website, Bay Area students ages 7 to 12 are encouraged to "write a 300-word essay to Baron's grandmother telling her about the most influential
