SF News Airline Marketing Oakland As 'The Wild Side Of San Francisco' Angers Residents It's well established that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn, right? Well, maybe not according to international Australian airline Qantas, which is excitedly marketing the other city by the Bay to its many customers
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Spotlight, Love The Coopers, By The Sea Spotlight - Metreon and Kabuki It's both a good thing and a sad thing that I went into the movie Spotlight not knowing all that much about the molestation scandal that rocked the
SF News Chicken Daycare 'Qoopy' Is The Startup Parody That Could Finally Wake Us Up It looks like a startup: You've seen the minimalist, mobile-friendly design before. It squawks like a startup: Twitter account? Check. But Qoopy, which purports to be a "waitlist only" doggy daycare for your
Arts & Entertainment 1956 Travel Movie Poking Fun At SF Is Super Charming, Somewhat Racist "It's the only town that goes in 6 directions," Brooklynite Phil Foster says of San Francisco in this 1956 travelogue, "East, South, North, West, Up, and Down." The gem of a short, shared
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan: 'We're A Little Bit Like Brooklyn' In an interview with the National Journal published this week, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan discussed her beleaguered city's biggest challenge for the future. Which, surprise, is not "ensuring public safety," but rather the
SF News Weird Lights Over The Mission Fuel Nationwide UFO Rumors. Are They Coming For Our Hipsters? Proving that a good UFO story never gets old, a Mission man's admittedly tequila-influenced witnessing of lights in the sky has gotten some traction on the Web, with the Drudge Report linking to
Arts & Entertainment COPPER Crime Contest Answer: The Mystery Of The Mutilated Man, Solved As the new BBC America crime drama COPPER shows, 1860s New York was a dangerous, backstabbing place. And the real-life 1864 murder of "John Smith", whose body was chopped up, packaged and dropped
misc Photo du Jour "In the Tenderloin, By Way of Brooklyn" by Travis Jensen. (Thanks for the image recommendation, Beth Spotswood.)
misc This Week in Le Rock: Jan 28 - Feb 3 Barton Carroll (seen above) will be headlining, on Tuesday, at Hotel Utah. Carroll's new CD, The Lost One, comes out the same day. His genuine, story-telling folk songs creates the perfect North Carolina
misc SFist Tonight Paul Auster: Sure, metafictionist Auster wrote the screenplays to Smoke, Blue in the Face, and The Brooklyn Follies, but he also penned the phenomenal collection of PoMo detective-fiction tales, The New York Trilogy,
misc NYC Mugging Leads to Safer SF Relocation? Festishizing that "authentic, old-school New York experience," Adam Fisher moved to NYC to frolic with hipsters, sing selections from Rent, or snap his fingers to the jazzy beats along with the other bohemian
misc Week Around the -ists The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on
misc Week Around the -Ists Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come
SF News North Beach One of the Top Places To Call Home It really is all about the other side of Market Street now. Along with neighborhoods that we've heard of before like Pike Place in Seattle; Hillcrest in San Diego; and Park Slope in
Arts & Entertainment Crafts, Books, & Booze Ever think of starting your own crafty business? Want to meet a bunch of people who have, including a local author who wrote a book on the topic? Or maybe you just want
Arts & Entertainment JT Leroy/Laura Albert, Back In The News Okay, there's a very troubling article in today's New York Times about a road trip with Laura Albert (reg. req'd.). Laura Albert is, of course, the 41-year-old mother and local literary scenester who
SF News We Have a Weiner! So why Brooklyn? Well, it's a little bit of a non-sequitor and we like non sequiturs. Also, because baseball is about tradition and the passing of baseball lore from father to son and
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the East Bay Express: Letters about the bloggers fighting in small claims court. A Berkeley activist opposed to B-Town Dollar Stores, moves, says it's reverse racism. A fun-loving amputees' group called
Arts & Entertainment Mass Of New Bat Segundo Interviews Include Berkeley Breathed Two-Parter! Holy Cow, Bat Segundo! What do you mean you moved to Brooklyn?!? Gah. A podcast that's truly fun, quirky, and valuable for fans of literature, this pseudonymously produced program made its home base
misc Week Around The -ists This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going
misc Week Around The Ists What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Roller Derby Over the weekend, photographer Matt Cohen went to the Roller Derby to see the SF Bay Bombers vs Brooklyn Red Devils last weekend. These are the totally cool photos of the event. There
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Matt & Kim It was a show of nonstop manic glee, as cuddle-pop indie couple-duo Matt & Kim returned to San Francisco to play Noise Pop at the Bottom of the Hill Thursday night. So much
SF News The San Francisco-New York Neighborhood Comparison Table Quick -- which one of those pictures above is of Valencia Street in SF and which is of Williamsburg in Brooklyn? Bay Area blogger Overstated has put together his list of what New
misc Interview: JL Aronson What is the best thing about the Danielson movie? It’s done. No, just kidding. But seriously, it took a long time and I’m still shocked that it’s completed. The best
