Arts & Entertainment Big Brother Casting Call In San Francisco, 4/7 Have you always wanted to live your life in front of TV cameras, with a sundry of people ranging from skinny and attractive to skinny and young? Now's your chance: On April 7th,
Arts & Entertainment Big Brother 13 Open Casting Call In San Francisco While we loathe most competitive TV shows, Top Chef and the CBS's epic Big Brother are the notable exceptions. Compared to Bravo's Emmy Award winner about scallop searing, molecular gastronomy and fauxhawks, Big
misc Russell Evicted from "Big Brother" Although Julie Chen described Russell as being a "Mixed Martial Arts Fighter from San Francisco," this hot-tempered Commercial Real Estate Broker from Walnut Creek was evicted from the Big Brother house last night
SF News Get Ready for Your Close Up: Muni to Install Cameras SFist loves cameras. Public, private, wherever, whenever -- we want them up, we want them rolling. So, we were tickled exuberant after hearing that San Francisco transit officials plan to install continuously-running cameras
SF News SF Surveillance Cameras Fail According to research done by the UC Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, surveillance cameras installed around the city in 2005 have failed to reduce serious crimes like murder
SF News BART Erases "Rude Rider Hall of Shame" Crestfallen doesn't begin to describe how we feel what we're about to tell you. Akit's Complaint Department informs us that BART has removed their much-loved, nascent "Rude Rider Hall of Shame." They leave
SF News "Rude Rider Hall of Shame" Asks BART Riders for Help Deliciously big brother-y, BART is now asking riders to snap photos of rider at its worst and post them them to BART's Facebook page. It's called "Rude Rider Hall of Shame," and we
misc Security Cameras - A Help or a Boondoggle? Our experience with the cameras in the Lower Haight has been, well, mixed. When they went up, one of the locals told us we couldn't take photos of the cameras. Not inspiring. On
SF News Earthquake Clips: Big Brother, Judge Judy Since there's no reason every other blog and MSM outlet out there gets to milk yesterday's 5.4 LA earthquake and not us, check out these two pieces of caught-on-tape footage fun. First
Arts & Entertainment Your Locals On Reality TV: Big Brother Edition The guy's name is Brian Hart, he was in the Air Force, and he's in telecommunications, which is to say, he sells cell phones. His introduction showed him playing basketball somewhere in the
misc Google's Street-Level Team is Out There... We were out running this morning, and caught a weird site cruising up Masonic. A bright red Toyota Prius with what looked like a conning tower on top. We followed it for nearly
Arts & Entertainment Humiliated Yourself, Anger Audiences, Gain Brief Notriety By Going On <i>Big Brother</i> Are you an "outgoing, intriguing, competitive" person who is "up for anything and everything?" Also, are you an asshole? Yes? Then head over to Sugar Cafe (679 Sutter) this Saturday night from 8
misc Google Maps Street View Sees All LA-based comedy troupe The Vacationeers fears Google Maps Street View Big Brother-ness. And ever since we saw a shot of our bedroom window on it, featuring our awful interior decor, so do we.
SF News San Francisco's Big Brother Cinéma Vérité Sucks, Claim Critics And speaking of cameras... While Chicago has seen crime rates plummet to their lowest numbers in over four decades due to the windy city's Big Brother program, San Francisco's attempt at panopticon-ish camera
SF News Daly Family Scorecard -- XX: 2; XY: 2 From your SFist editor's district supervisor's blog: A day before the polls open, local reporters already started writing their Election winners and losers stories. While I won’t make any big predictions, I
Arts & Entertainment And Speaking Of The Dangers Of Posting.... Wonkette did something we find most awesome: commenter-cleansing. Hee: Oh, hi everybody. A lot of comments have been fun & good & whatever, but a lot of comments have also been painful to
Arts & Entertainment Time to Double Check DVR Lineup This is all on KPIX tomorrow (8/30), kids. If you're excited about the big game between the 49ers and the Chargers, that all gets under way at 7 p.m. Go 49ers!
misc Week Around the -ists With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even
Arts & Entertainment CA NOW Fed Up With Dick NOW is responding to Dick’s tirades against Jen from a few weeks ago. Dick showered a mélange of offensive words at Jen, including, but not limited to; bitch, cunt, whore, and crusty
misc Wow, a Whole $100,000. Gracias, America! We can only hope that every single news outlet has printed a typo when reporting the amount of cash the United States is sending Peru, which is still experiencing severe aftershocks. As the
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Blue Angels to be banned in SF? [Examiner] -- Islamic Center of the East Bay's recent blaze decried as an "act of terror" by local Muslim leaders. [Chron] -- Man who attacked
Arts & Entertainment Big Brother 8, Jews, Jesus, Big Noses, and Disclaimers It's no secret that we adore -- that's right adore -- watching Big Brother, especially this season. If you're not familiar with BB, it's like this: twelve Type A personalities get locked in
SF News Chicken v. Wolf v. Audience Last night's innovative Chicken John/Josh Wolf Mayoral debate brought in "a dozen or so citizens," artists, and political fetishists. Even though it was on a Sunday night, anyone who cares about politics,
SF News San Francisco's Mayoral Pick Via the Old Gray Lady Here we have le Gav looking lover-ly while kicking it with some tired Ethel Merman tranny (excuse me, fabulous "Ethel Merman impersonator") in Jesse McKinley's stellar New York Times article about our personality-littered
SF News Bus Stop, Bus Go, She Stays, Love Grows Gavin is also proposing that in an order to speed up bus routes, he wants to eliminate some stops. Or, as Beyond Chron would call it, declare "...War on Transit-Dependent Populations." Which stops
