misc Craigslist Encounters: Very Slow, Very useful Time and time again we've been struck by how stuck in the mud Craigslist is. On one hand this is completely nice, in that American Gothic, old-timey, nothing ever changes way. Yet on
misc What's In A Name? SFist Spotlight On Ritual Roasters, Part II In part one of our spotlight on Ritual Roasters, we told you the backstory behind one the the Mission's most popular new cafes. We did, however, save one important component of that story
Arts & Entertainment The Sea Otter Does It Again The mud is barely dry on the bikes but already racers and spectators alike are looking forward to next year's Sea Otter Classic (April 12-15, 2007). The acknowledged kick-off to the road and
SF News Fight For Your Right To Party Party One of our readers just forwarded along an email announcing the creation of a new political animal in town -- not the Green Party, not the Democratic Party (and the press release seems
Arts & Entertainment Rain On, Ride On So what's a fat tire to do in the Bay Area for a little wet-weather action? You could brave the conditions and hit the trails anyway, or you could look for some lower-impact
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and SFist Want You To Fall In Love Cyclist-specific Dating Game will be played, prizes will be given (three dinners for two -- you can find your date at the event, or elsewhere), and Single Exposure's professional photographers will be manning
SF News Sarah Tucker, 1979-2006 We saw the saddest obituary last week in the Chron, for the death of Sarah Tucker, a 26-year-old Mission resident who was killed in a hit-and-run bicycle accident on Polk and Geary Street
SF News Squint When You Ride That Based on the homicidal meanderings of SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan, this tour covers about 10 miles, stopping off at specific locations seen in the 1971 antihero vehicle, "Dirty Harry". Tour Captain Brandon Baunach
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 SFist Answers Pities The Fool THIS WEEK: Fools, border crossings, weed vs. your heart, bikes on BART, and an easy way for SFist Answers to make millions. We took our title this week from Yueben Duped from Los
SF News He Told You So Chris Daly's being remarkably unsmug about the way the whole SF Grand Prix bike thing went down, isn't he? You may remember a few months ago, Daly staged a mock bike race to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Cancun Pigs Before we introduce the participants, a few words on the rule: we did a one-on-one comparison, which we judged based on two dishes from Yucatan, the peninsula at the bottom right of Mexico
SF News I Want to Ride My Bicycle The Board of Supervisors voted 6-5 to allow the sponsors of the San Francisco Grand Prix Bicycle Race, otherwise known as the T-Mobile International, to have around $200,000 in costs waived by
SF News SFist Was Robbed! Next time we're sending out schwag bags to all the voters. Looks like we've been snubbed by the august nominating committee (read: random cranks on the internets) for this year's Bloggies. Oh well.
misc One Fewer Car with the Essefficist I'm checkin' e-mails, I'm checkin' e-mails, hey hey! I'm checkin' e-mails, I'm checkin' e-mails, hey hey! Our question this week comes from Rita, a frequent contributor and fellow SFist staffer: I have a
Arts & Entertainment Self-Powered Marshmallows If you were walking down 24th east of Mission yesterday around 6:15 like SFist was, you may have been treated to the sight of a few dozen bicyclists tricked out in white
Arts & Entertainment Music + Fun + Bikes = Social Change Or so says Vikter Veysey, who first approached SFist as we were riding our bike to the Caltrain Station along the Embarcadero. Although we turned town his invitation to be a bicycle ballerina
