SF News Gary Gygax, Co-Creator of Dungeons & Dragons, Dies Laughing Squid broke the news that game designer Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (1974)/co-founder of Tactical Studies Rules, died today at the ripe age of 69. According to LS, his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... Plain (and Slightly Boring) White T's They released their fourth full-length album this summer as they set off for their small headlining tour. They finally found major success when Higgenson sang a very simple plea to Delilah in his
Arts & Entertainment Bluepulse CEO Ben Keighran Brings Us Out Of The Stone Age Bluepulse, which recently acquired $6 million in funding, is all about mobility: it's a phone-based social network of more than 2 million people in 150 countries. It's accessed via software on your phone
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy So Ken MacDonald is good, eh? Tell us more. That I've seen, Mr. McDonald has been very good. He's been out to almost every service disruption in person and not just standing there
SF News Ask a MUNI Driver This week's installment: Bus comfort, back door hard-ons, and -- surprise! -- no official MUNI policy. When do you decide to make an effort to try and affect things on the bus (telling
SF News Chris Daly's Not Running We imagine Heidi Klum Germanically intoning, "Chrisss Daaly: are you IN, or are you OWT?" Well, folks -- he's out. The Guardian has the entire text of his statement, but here's the paragraph
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: Win Tickets To The Closing Night Movie <Strike>And Party</strike>! It's the end of the week -- and it's our last Frameline LGBT film fest ticket giveaway. The last one's a blowout, though -- it's passes for you and a friend to the
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Juror By now, you’ve heard it reported that Ed Jew got called up for Jury Duty on Monday. Well, I was actually in his juror pool and got to see the whole thing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Raul Sanchez of Penny Arcade Tonight, come celebrate Penny Arcade's Two-Year Anniversary at the Make-Out Room with the following stellar line-up: Mumlers, The Dodos, Nathan Moomaw & Raul and more! Penny Arcade Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, SF
Arts & Entertainment Why Aren't <i>You</i> Paying For The Chron? You know we love the Chronicle around here at SFist -- where else would we get breaking news updates, steal pictures, and follow the lives of the Gettys and Trainas? So we're still
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For SFist's Founding Editor It's mostly this guy's fault. Jackson West, who was the first editor here at SFist, got the ball rolling with this post, "The City that Knows How." He helped to grow the site
SF News Gary Delagnes In The News Man, the San Francisco Police Officers' Association president Gary Delagnes is all over the news these days! We're setting up a Google News Alert for Delagnes even as we speak! --On Heather Fong's
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Matt Costa What’s the best show you’ve ever played and what made it great? My favorite my favorite was the first show I ever did which was at a party when I was
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Emmett Malloy You're appearing in Apple stores to discuss how to use Macs in Film and Editing, what is the BEST thing about them? WELL, THESE DAYS I JUST LIKE HOW SMALL AND SIMPLE EVERYTHING
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your Oakland Raiders 2006 Draft Picks, "The Heady Snapper" * Picked round 7, pick 47; 455 overall / Kevin McMahan / WR / Maine / 6'2" / 196 * Picked round 7, pick 6; 214 overall / Chris Morris / C / Michigan State / 6'4" / 305 Story: Chris Morris is big guy
SF News Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part One Nathaniel Ford: Thanks for coming in. Eve Batey: Oh, thank you for having me. NF: By all means. I guess this will be an opportunity for you to get to know me and
Arts & Entertainment Harmon Juices Us Up That's right, Harmon and OJ, sharing the screen. In Harmon's words: Some (let’s call them the sane) would be apprehensive to work with OJ. But I couldn’t pass up the gig.
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping Takes it to the Streets Submissions go to Yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Customer at Good Vibrations: "Oh, that's the one I use in the car." -- From Jonathan, via Amy Geezer pushing a grocery cart, to no
Arts & Entertainment An Entire Week's Worth of Eavesdropping, Knocked Off in a Single Busride Sniff. Mom, I'm fine. I have like an AMAZING immune system right now. I take vitamins every day. Sniff It's just a cold. What kind of doctor are you going to go see
SF News Political Junkie: He's Just Not That Into You Dear Political Junkie: I'm a very attractive woman with a great job in New York and lots of dating prospects. The problem is my ex. I mean, he said it was over and
SF News Something's Fishy So, yesterday the a Board of Supervisors committee approved a proposed ordinance Monday that would require seafood restaurants to post English, Spanish, and Chinese signs warning of the dangers of mercury contaminated fish.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Myleen Hollero And yet, Myleen, for various reasons has moved to the -ist down south, LA! Understandably, we begin our questioning of her there: What has been the hardest thing about moving to LA from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Dos Tortas "Sandwiches," you ask. "But I thought those were an American thing, or at least British, what with the Earl of Sandwich and all." We take particular delight in schooling people on the torta,
SF News A Million for Tsunami Relief? By a 2-1 margin, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Finance Committee Ok-a-lee-do-keed a proposal to give one million dollars out of the San Francisco General Fund for tsunami relief. The two supervisors
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Week Now that we've finally gotten that good time over with and those pesky Holidays are at last behind us, we can get back to the things that are really important. Like watching the
