SF News Monster Park Update @ 11:35: We managed to get our grubby little hands on the press release about an hour before the conference - and it was sent out only an hour before we put
SF News One-for-Three is Okay in Hitting, But Not in Series It was a big weekend for Bay Area baseball but things didn't go as well as the local teams had hoped against their division rivals from the Southland. (Nor for SFist in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies Thie Weekend Pocket-Sized Edition SFist wishes we had more time to tell you about movies this weekend, but our server is going down in 10 minutes! So, we want to encourage anyone out there who loves zombies
SF News You're So Money, Baby SFist is shocked to see that we failed for the 31st year in a row to make the Forbes list of the top 400 richest people in America. Much like those US News
Arts & Entertainment Where's the Alka-Seltzer? Wow, that was a doozy. Who knew journalism would involve so much drinking? Oh, wait, that was actually just SFist medicating our neurotic anxiety. That's right, we went and listened to a number
SF News Political Junkie Those of you who page through the Bay Area section of the Chron on your way to the funnies may have noticed the words "nepotism" and "cronyism" buzzing around the name "Mabel Teng.
misc The Essefficist is All Wet It's Tuesday again? Already? Damn, how often does the Essefficist have to answer your nagging questions? Nag, nag, nag! You're always after us for the bestest answers to anything that ever crawled up
Arts & Entertainment Unleash Your Inner Coen SFist wants to encourage all of you Bay Area folks to get out there and actually use your degrees in film for something other than the local pub quiz. That's right, people. it's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Speaking Tonight That's right, we're putting on clothes and emerging from behind the computer to go out in public and speak! We're not sure why we were invited - something to do with being 'citizen
Arts & Entertainment Party on Valencia Guilt-Free SFist is proud to be a product of public high school. Not only did our sports teams lay waste to the local private schools (well, except for the Catholic schools), we beat them
misc Namaste Ok, that's not really fair. More than 20 million people across the US practice some form of yoga, so it's not just us here in the Bay Area. But we do have an
Arts & Entertainment Pimp My Ride Those of you longing to start airbrushing flames on or supergluing action figures to the side of your car, it's your weekend! Starting today through Sunday, it's Art Car Fest 2004! Intended to
misc Beauty and the Beast We love animals, if you can't tell. All of 'em. Cats, dogs, rabbits. Our sister site Gothamist started it all with their unabashed love of giant pandas. But we're no wusses. Our tastes
misc Shana Tova! SFist is so happy to be living in the Bay Area, where celebrations of the Rosh Hashanah holiday are as diverse as the populace itself. "What's Rosh Hashanah?" you might be wondering. (You've
misc Bird Hunting with the Essefficist It's Tuesday again so the Essefficist is back with more Q&A for our loyal readers. Today we bring you answers to your questions about weird hamburgers and pruney toes. Also, for
SF News Me Love You Long NY Times The article has that arch tone of "oh those wacky Californians," but SFist would like to point out that those hotbeds of New Age, Granola-crunching, Yoga-posing Hippiedom, Nevada and Germany, have decriminalized prostitution
SF News Help Us Help You We here at SFist are working really hard to bring you the best damn city blog you can find here in the Bay Area. But we can't always maintain the critical distance we
SF News Don't Go Into the Water Stinson Beach reopened today, after the sighting of a great white shark forced a beach closing for swimmers. (Click here for shots from the Stinson Beach shark cam.) The beach had just reopened
SF News Spare the Air On the down side, it's still hot and, eeeegh, it looks really gross out. On the up side -- free BART! As part of the Spare the Air program, BART is working with
misc The Essefficist Needs Your Help We here at the Essefficist, SFist's weekly question-and-answer/advice column, have been striving to bring you honest answers to life's nagging questions for the past couple of weeks now. However, we're a little
Arts & Entertainment Things to Do this Weekend: Theater SFist is usually more energized by small theater than large, but we'd be remiss if we didn't give props to A.C.T., which just opened , a collaboration between the renowned avant-garde master
Arts & Entertainment Three Guys, a Girl, and Pizza Place Basement... SFist had a great time at , Impact Theater's ninth season opener. If you don't know Impact Theater, they're a Berkeley-based company focused on "producing new plays by emerging playwrights that are relevant, interesting,
misc Labor Week: Calling All Cube Dwellers The technology sector here in the Bay Area has taken a big hit over the last few years. We all know it, even if we don't work in Silicon Valley. Restaurants struggled, retailers
misc We Only Work When We Need the Money! The roll out of the new Fair Labor Standards Act seems to have everyone confused. All that seems clear now is that no one really knows how many people will be impacted by
SF News Watch Where You're Blowing That Fan Usually, when SFist hears that a former industrial brownfield is being cleaned up and rehabilitated, we think of that as good news. But apparently not everyone does. SIMEON real estate developers and Cherokee