SF News New Book Links Computers With Counterculture Yesterday on Slashdot was a review of local NYT tech correspondent John Markoff's new book, "What The Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry." Quoting the review: Most histories
Arts & Entertainment Letters to the Editor We always there was something disingenuous about the conservative letters they publish in the Chron! The Contra Costa Times discovered that an enterprising Republican named Kyle Vallone had written at least 200 fake
SF News Been Thinking About The Wind A Lot Lately. Of course that did not stop us in our compulsive pursuits of all things wind the last couple days which led us to one of our favorite applets ever. The San Francisco Bay
SF News California Recall: Where Are They Now? So whatever happened to those 135 people who ran for governor in the 2003 recall election? Well, a bunch are in the Bay Area news today! Cue up the end-of-the-movie montage music! Arnold
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink D to Zed No self-respecting Londonist would ever move to San Francisco in search of curry. Yes, London. The home of no less than two Michelin-starred Indian Chefs and more curry houses than you can shake
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Prince, from Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue (full disclosure: Grateful Dogs saved our dog from certain death, so we're totally biased on how awesome they are), which was established
Arts & Entertainment Shopping Saturday! We're always happy to give new and emerging fashion design talent showplace R.A.G. love, because we think they're cool as heck. They join fellow Hayes Valley retailer Manifesto for this Saturday's
SF News SFist Raves: The N Judah We complain about MUNI all the time, and we're not about to take it back. But like all great passionate affairs, our hate, anger, frustration, and disappointment is tempered by deep love, like
SF News Dogster Nominated For Webby In the interest of full disclosure, SFist Ted, our new weatherman, also happens to be Dogster Ted. And while we've harshed on the Webby Awards only just recently, we're still proud. You can
misc Doing the Math with the Essefficist Once again, here to answer yet more inane questions from our gentle readers, it's the Essefficist. Today's topics: elementary math, bay windows, and the Transbay Terminal redevelopment project. Here we go... What's one
SF News Crotchmas Comes But Once A Year Our favorite Bay Area funnyblogger and jazz musician, Ian over at Wrapped Up Like A Douche, is staging a pledge drive -- kind of like fellow funnyman Jerry Lewis. Except instead of exploiting
Arts & Entertainment Bono Makes Appearance At Glide Bono also spoke on the Pope, but graciously called Reverend Williams "The Pope of San Francisco." "Whenever this rock star is in the Bay Area, I have to visit Glide." About John Paul,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gourmet de l'Ouest: Cybelle's Front Room Everybody and his brother is on the lookout for the holiest of grails, the great Bay Area Pizza. Cybelle's Front Room is not that pizza, we'll be the first to admit. There is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Bay Area Hog the Camera This Week Well, after checking out what goes on on some of these local programs, we don't think that'll really be an issue. First up is "Bay Area Focus", which airs Sundays at 8:30
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink C to Zed Even we can suffer from food fatigue from time to time and begin to tire of trying and writing about too many new restaurants. So when looking for somewhere to review beginning with
SF News It's Opening Day! Even so, the other teams in Major League baseball will play 162 games this year. That includes your Oakland Athletics, now Lewis Wolff's and Billy Beane's Oakland Athletics as well. (Try to share.
SF News SFist Has Sold Out We have to be transparent about such things, so we'd just like to let our readers know that SFist has been purchased by SF Metblogs, who in turn have been purchased by Yahoo.
Arts & Entertainment Fred Korematsu, 1919-2005 The Asian-American civil rights community has lost a hero with the passing of Fred Korematsu yesterday in his daughter's home in Marin. Korematsu, an American citizen and Bay Area resident, was 22 years
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Pizza in the Western Addition Whether you are a Ralph Barbieri fan that enjoys Amici's, a Berkeley-ite that swears by Zachary's, a fan of Chesh's recent discovery Pizza Fiesta, or you, like friend/idol of SFist Pim, enjoy
SF News Smoky Halls and Kidneys Battered Until They Bleed With the preponderance of world class gyms and fighters in the Bay Area, SFist has always wondered why the San Francisco Golden Gloves has evolved into more of a fighter friends and family
Arts & Entertainment Who's Blogging Now And for those of you wondering just what Glenn writes about on his blog, it's what every other blogger is- Britney pregnancy rumours and are the Killers merely cool or way cool. No,
Arts & Entertainment Fear This Anyone who reads our weekly movie posts knows that SFist loves the fantastic side of cinema. Give us a werewolf, serial killer, and a box of Red Vines and you'll see an all-to-rare
SF News Anarchy Out The EssEff Here in The City, hordes of anarchists are as mundane as hordes of shoppers at Union Square or crab-cracking tourists at Fisherman's Wharf. But in the rest of the country -- particularly over
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ted Rheingold If pets are the new children (as one might think by wandering around any big city) then Dogster and Catster are the ultimate brag books for proud parents. For those of you without
