Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Blog Pulse All anyone can talk about is the snow, snow, snow. (OK, those last two are actually tagged as "hail," but you get the point and the pics are pretty.) In our eyes, all
Arts & Entertainment Review: Voxtrot Hipster posing, shoegazing indifference, emo angst, and punk anger have taken the joy out of being a rock star. A lot of bands make it seem like they would rather be somewhere else
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Mysterious Origami As for us, we're just confused by the marketing. Early teaser ads (which have since been removed from the internets) showed the predictable groups of young, attractive hipsters exchanging pictures and e-mail and
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes to the Human Cockfights Our Governor is SO not like your Governor. This particular match is between Team Gracie and Team Hammerhouse and kicks off the "Arnold Martial Arts Festival," which is part of the whole Arnold
SF News About Those Photographs, Pictures Of.. What is there to say about the Barry in Drag photos that hasn't already been said? Like everyone else, our first reaction was "what the..?" followed quickly by "that's pretty funny" with a
SF News The Raiders Are Kickin' It Old School. Again. Walsh was a long-time assistant with the team, from 1982 to 1994. After being fired along with Shell by the Al-ster in 1994, Walsh was a head coach at Idaho State (where he
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An Obsession With Coffee? Oh, and you can consider the above set of links the Trimethyldioxypurist's guide to getting started as an enthusiast. Obsessive is a whole other level, and you'll know it if you're there*, and
SF News Red Staters Welcome! See that guy over there on the right? That's Barry Goldwater, accepting the Republican nomination for president in our fair city back in 1964, in the same venue where we now try out
SF News Fourteen-Year-Old-Men and Other Faithful Logic Awhile back, we somehow found our way onto the mailing list of "San Francisco Faith: the Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter." Though we have no particular beef with Catholicism, we just can't quite
Arts & Entertainment The South Bay {Hearts} You But if you're looking for smoochy, cuddly things to do down in the south bay (and really, who isn't?) we have some ideas for you. Of course, they're ideas from our bitter, black
SF News Assembly Required? You know what we haven't had in awhile? Some fercockt plan to reform politics in this state. Well, get ready, cause a new one is headed our way! And, actually, it's not half
SF News Balls Out or Ballhog? In his last game, Koh-bee dropped a mind-boggling 81 points on Toronto, and the talk is that he might be able to match Wilt Chamberlain's 100. Alas, he's had four days to rest
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Aziz Ansari at the Punch Line Aziz's proactive approach to counter this possible image marring bit of PR was to implore his fans to post on their blogs and websites "Aziz Ansari is a f**king badass" up to
Arts & Entertainment SF360 Revealed! Part Two: Cool Tools "How much is this going to cost people to use?" we asked him. "Zero," he replied. We paused. It didn't compute. "How much is this going to cost people to use?" we said
SF News We're #11 The report, which you can read here, calls out San Francisco for anti-pan handling measures, issuing citations, handing out one way bus tickets, and for having "negative reactions" to homeless people. As opposed
SF News More New Stuff! The practical upshot is this: now, when you do a search, instead of combing through everything online (including slash fiction about on PAX TV) you can press a button and constrain your search
Arts & Entertainment The Man Who Rates Espresso: SFist Interviews <i>The Shot's</i> Greg Sherwin A few months ago, we stumbled across a really interesting coffee-related Web site -- www.coffeeratings.com, which (obviously) rates Bay Area cafes primarily according to the espresso they serve. The site's companion
SF News New Features! More new features: check out our new footer! You'll have to scroll to the bottom of the page to see it, but trust us, it's totally cool. Subscription info, Rollyo searches of SF-based
SF News Jackson's So Best Posts of 2005 In that spirit, I'd like to present my So Best: Jackson's Top Ten Posts, If Measured Quantitatively by Pageviews Logged and With a Chronologically Fore-weighted Data Sample. Since I get to use the
Arts & Entertainment Big Changes at Tribe.net The very definition of a 'chilling effect' on free speech is when legislation or enforcement of new laws are so potentially onerous that people and organization self-censor out of fear and potential liability.
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a Copy of <i>Julie and Julia</i> Ced, in his enviable thoroughness, read to prepare for his interview with the author, and has agreed to pass his review copy on to a winning SFist reader. So, enter below by midnight
Arts & Entertainment TypePad Down, Joins Growing Club But today, we got an IM from Om Malik letting us know that TypePad, SixApart's hosted blog service, has had 'an incident.' But we woke up late this morning, and figured it
misc SFist Raves: Food Loving Fund Raising Not only could you score a food photography lesson with local cookbook writer Heidi Swanson who took the pretty picture on the left, you could win a $200 voucher towards dinner at feted
SF News The Perils of Blogging Drunk What made us laugh even harder, though, was when John at The Legal Reader emailed to explain that it was all something of an accident. A BUI, if you will:I got home