SF News Watching and Learning We do love our protests here in the Bay Area. We love them so much that we follow protests in other cities like some folks follow football. Except it's always the same two
SF News Do You Know The Way to the New San Jose City Hall? San Francisco's not the only Bay Area city rife with local political scandal! San Jose has been roiled for the last month about allegations that city officials worked a secret deal with local
Arts & Entertainment You're Hired, San Francisco! Boo yeah! San Francisco's repping large on this season's Apprentice -- with not one, not two, but three 415 area contestants vying for the affection of Donald Trump. So John is a 2003
SF News Olympics Roundup It's finally time to get off the couch and get back to work. That's right, the Olympics are over, nothing went horribly wrong, everybody was smitten with being at the sites of the
misc Labor Week: Sex Workers Unite! [Ed. Note: Labor Day is not just the cut-off point for wearing white shoes - it's a day to honor the workers who make this country great. In our honor (we're workers too!
SF News Hey -- You Never Know! If that flashing $100 million lottery sign on the other side of the B of A clock on 101 had you dreaming like it did SFist (if SFist won, we were going to
SF News Viva Hate SFist knew there was a reason we moved here! Recent polls show the Bay Area to be the most negative region of California, with 59% of people saying they think the state is
Arts & Entertainment Attention Cheapskates: Virgins, Whores, and Pizza in Berkeley One of SFist's favorite theater companies, Berkeley's Impact Theatre (full disclosure: one of us is heavily involved with the company, but we wouldn't be if the company weren't so damned good), launches its
SF News BAAAAAART!!! SFist has its hand over its heart as the BART flag is raised and its national anthem ("Dublin/Pleasanton train arriving, platform 2") is played BART was named the best public transportation system
SF News Senate Leadership Stays by the Bay Yesterday the Democratic Caucus of the California State Senate voted to replace termed-out senator John Burton [D-San Francisco] with Don Perata [D-Oakland] as the new President Pro-tempore of the senate. Considered the 'second
Arts & Entertainment Oh You Pretty Things SFist is frequently complimented on our glowing skin and healthy hair. Is it clean living? A healthy diet of fruits and vegetables? Yet another unplanned pregnancy? No, we owe it all to Kiehl's.
SF News It's a Gas SFist is not personally a car owner, but our frequent companion is. We can't tell you the number of times we've driven from our home in the Sunset to the cheap gas station
SF News Attack of the Hacktivists While the New Yorkers and the nation are gearing up for the Repbulican National Convention in New York City this weekend, protesters are gearing up for what is likely going to be the
Arts & Entertainment Photobloggers Unite [] SFist was invited to a gathering of Bay Area Photobloggers recently, and wanted to let other shutterbugs know that if they want to trade tips or just learn more about photoblogging in general,
SF News Caltrans Must Be Loaded...Part Deux SFist first brought this story to you last week...Bay Area bridge costs are way over budget. We aren't talking a few hundred or thousand dollars here. The San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge
SF News Touchdown! SFist is not the biggest football fan in the world, but we definitely love video games. And while many have tried, nobody is taking John Madden Football's spot in the starting lineup. With
Arts & Entertainment Rental Coup One of the many great things about living in the Bay Area is the number of great places from which to rent movies. While folks in the fly-over are stuck with Hollywood, Blockbuster,
SF News Absentee-Minded Printer in the East Bay Our SFist Emeryville correspondent received, unsolicited, an Alameda County permanent absentee voter application in the mail yesterday and noticed that it was addressed in a bizarre order: middle-first-last. His fiancee's was addressed the
SF News Down In the Mouth-Bling The ice is a little less shiny these days, with these reports that the Bay Area gold teeth market has come upon hard times. The Bay Area is a nationwide center for mouth
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chicken and Waffles Make Triumphant Return to Oaktown Soul food options just haven't been the same since Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles closed up shop in Oakland a couple of years ago. The bay area offshoot of the L.A. institution was
misc Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo SFist has had zoos on the brain lately. We're three-fourths of the way through A Carnivore's Inquiry, where in which the heroine (or is she an anti-heroine? We haven't finished the book yet,
Arts & Entertainment Join the Indie Pop Revolution Not Lame Records has released , a three-cd, 69-song set featuring the best of indie pop bands, including three Bay Area-based bands: The Bobbleheads, The Veronicas, and Preoccupied Pipers. IPO bands just finished a
Arts & Entertainment Too Cool for School Man, the entire Bay Area publishing community seems to be jumping on the DJ instruction phenomenon. First it was the East Bay Express with their "School of Scratch" feature. The next day the
misc The Sweet Science Andre Ward, born and raised in Oakland, is currently in Athens, Greece getting ready to take on the world in the boxing ring. America's best shot for gold as a pugilist, he is
misc Pass the Dutch Auction The last five or ten years have seen the Bay Area go from boom to bust, and while SFist didn't have to pack up a truck and move back to Palookaville like some
