SF News Auntie Em, Auntie Em! There Was A Twister! What an uneventful week to start as SFist Weatherman. Last week had all the action. We love to make fun of folks that live in hurricane, tornado and blizzard regions (but it's okay
SF News Interview: Harmon Leon As you know, SFist reads the weeklies so that you don't have too. While our love affair with Bay Area weeklies is long and sordid, we vividly recall the fateful summer day we
SF News David Versus Goliath -- And Goliath's Bigger Brothers, Backed By The Persian Army Buried inside the Chron's Bay Area section a while back, we found a story about an East Bay blogger who is currently embroiled in a court battle against Kaiser Permantente. As we're always
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Knows Nuthin' 'bout Birthin' No Babies Even those of us who are due to give birth in 6 weeks admit to being somewhat clueless about what the childbirth experience is all about. So what do we do? We do
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink B to Zed Last week, SFist and its international possy of culinary investigators headed off to Clement Street in search of somewhere to eat beginning with the letter B. Intrigued by the promise of food from
SF News Do You Know The Way? Feel free to make your own "there isn't any there there" jokes; we here at SFist try to avoid cheap shots at our sprawling stepsister to the south. San Jose is the eleventh-largest
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Flutastic We're not being dramatic or anything, but we've had the flu for a week now, with massive pain behind our eyeballs and pretty much zero appetite. But you can't all come over and
Arts & Entertainment Pass the Mic Billed as a battle for $300 and Bay Area "supremecy," the battle features Subverse (Dubphonics), Infinite (Felonious), Won Way (Thinkbeat), Orukusaki (Forensic Science), Radio Active (Spearhead), Franco, Shush, and Thesaurus. SFist can say
SF News Bay Blogger Thursday: Austin Edition So of course we're surrounded by Bay Bloggers all week here in Austin, but didn't think to ask "Hey, you wanna do Bay Blogger Thursday?" We know, stupid. Luckily we also hadn't remembered
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: 62 Years and 6500 Miles Between First of all, we want to apologize for having to miss the Asian Am Film Fest screening of the Taiwanese comedy on Tuesday -- we got sick. We're totally going to try and
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part One -- Austin On Zero Dollars A Day So begins our sordid tale of nerd debauchery here in Austin. The San Francisco Bay Area is representing to the fullest extent of the law here in Texas, and we've had a hard
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Caitlin Atkinson Today’s interview subject has a literal lens trained on the Bay Area. Caitlin Atkinson is a photographer whose art focuses mainly on her experiences (both real and dreamed). You can catch her
Arts & Entertainment 2005 Photobloggies West Coast reprazent! They're taking nominations for the 2005 Photobloggie awards -- click through and make sure our Bay Area photographers and their gorgeous art get some love! (Full disclosure: Our cuddly publisher
Arts & Entertainment Wake the Dead With Dr. Hunter S. Thompson moving on to bigger and better things, writers, critics, stoners and other hangers-on are organizing tributes around the country and around the world. But we have a feeling
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Meredith Arthur Meredith Arthur is in charge of stra-T-gery at CHOW. Besides having her job cut out for her (you have to be a wee bit jealous of any one who works a foodie job)
SF News Interview: Jeff Chang Tell us all about your new book It's a 500+ page love letter to hip-hop and an alternative cultural and political history of the last three decades. Um, it's actually a lot more
misc SFist Cares ... About Growing Things No kidding that SFist loves libraries. But libraries aren't just books you know, sometimes they're collections of other things. BASIL is the Bay Area Seed Interchange Library. Yes, seeds. Like, growing things seeds.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Gets Stuffed: Real Meals Under Ten Bucks We live in the Mission, which is pretty much ground zero for cheap eats. If the terrorists/communists/homosexuals/bloggers/what-have-you wanted to imperil the ability for the cash-poor and culture-rich to feed
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Earlimart Afternoon shows at the Bottom of the Hill, like Saturday's Earlimart Noise Pop show, are so excellent -- the buses are running, the sun is out, you don't have to worry the whole
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Christopher Appelgren Although Christopher is way too diplomatic to play favorites with Lookout’s current roster of artists, he does have a few tips to local artists, as well as other ideas about what to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Are You Really That Desperate? Okay, SFist admits that the dating scene is ugly. Really, really ugly. We've never had much luck at hooking up with folks at bars or clubs, though granted the line between consuming enough
SF News A Suggestion From Seattlest Our man on the PNW sport beat, Seattlest Seth, has a modest proposal that could be just the thing to turn around the fortunes of the Golden State Warriors, and it has nothing
SF News A Good Lay Be still our hearts, the latest issue of our favoritest newsletter ever is finally out: "San Francisco Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter." This issue's highlights include a balanced look at Baptism
Arts & Entertainment Have You Heard The One About Incompatibility of Military Heroism & Love? Skyler Cooper is one of the most beautiful women in the Bay Area. SFist has been vacillating between envy and infatuation since we saw her in the title role of Impact Theatre's (Full
Arts & Entertainment GRAMMY Report: Green Day's Still Blowin' Up We went through the pains of watching Sunday night's GRAMMY Awards telecast so you didn't have to. Ray Charles was unsurprisingly the top winner, but our Bay area homeboys in Green Day made