SF News Short Bread In their first foray into this year's gi-normous free agent market, the Giants signed longtime Cleveland shortstop Omar Vizquel to a three year, $12.25 million deal yesterday. It seems kind of bananas
Arts & Entertainment Silver Lining Well, on the bright side, at least someone around here won . The only good thing about the Bush victory is that our adorable editor SFist Jackson won 1115.org's electoral map contest! SFist
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Free H. Brown! ... and the District 5 race claims another victim. Last-place candidate H. Brown, a writer and self-described homeless man who garnered 43 votes in the election, had spent Tuesday night, like us, drinking heavily.
Arts & Entertainment B-boy Battle in the Blogosphere! Forget Mount St. Helens - there's been an eruption right here in the blogosphere! While checking out 1115.org's debate recap, we kept scrolling to a post on Nelly dissing political MCs (classy
SF News Where's the Whoop? Does anyone remember Big Whoop magazine? It ran for a couple of years and was a great SF and pop-culture zine. If it was a blog, it would have been huge. I think
SF News When Mohr is Less The Cubs and Dodgers both lost last night, but, in one of the most painful games of the year, so did the Giants. To make matters worse, the Astros won, thereby giving themselves
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 Gettin Jiggy With It While drinking some beer and reading some of our favorite blogs, we stumbled across this Reuters item linked to from The Wit and Wisdom of Martin Van Buren, who generally has the ability
Arts & Entertainment Bay Blogger, uh, Friday Posts are usually excerpts from newspaper articles, wire services and legal rulings, generally about the personalities in the courtroom and precedent setting cases. It's a great digest for the news junky or legal
Arts & Entertainment Photo-Friendly, Photo-Averse Thomas Hawk, local San Francisco photo/blogger, posted an interesting essay on his experiences taking pictures at different private cultural venues around town. SFist found the link on Boing Boing, which often covers
Arts & Entertainment Welcome to the Family As a short note, we wanted to welcome our new friends DCist to the Gothamist family. SFist has a bunch of talented friends from art school who graduated from Duke Ellington School for
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,
Arts & Entertainment Welcome, Anil SFist would like to present photographic proof that life exists outside of New York City. That's right, as lamented by Gothamist and cheered by SFist, Anil Dash, Internet Superstar, has officially landed here
Arts & Entertainment Something for your Ear Being able to afford vinyl records is one of the things that keeps SFist coming in to work every day instead of laying on the couch and scratching inappropriate places. There's nothing like