SF News American Football Spectacular: Indy's Race Against Themselves When looking at the 2005 schedule of your San Francisco 49ers' season, the Week 05 matchup against the Indianapolis Colts didn't bode well. The Colts've had one of the most overwhelming offenses in
SF News Yepper It Sure Blew Last Night. Of course it turns out that yes, we still live in coastal Nor Cal and we're at the mercy of the Pacific Ocean's weather cycles when they confronts the western extremities of the
SF News Growl on Sproul It's the UC Berkeley homecoming weekend! What better way to show off your school spirit than participating in the first annual "Growl on Sproul" contest? The Berkeley alumni association brought out a mike
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Smorgasbord This week we take you from Orinda to Fort Mason to the Artaud Building for Shakespeare, an Irish story and a reimagined Greek myth. at Bruns Amphitheater It's your last chance to catch
SF News Genius Grants The only MacArthur we've ever encountered is the last BART stop to change from the Pittsburg/Bay Point and Richmond lines! Four folks in the Bay Area, though, have slightly different associations with
SF News Who Reads Yesterday's Posts So what happened with all those stories we've been telling you about all week? Fret no more! Here's your answers! *Madison Nguyen beat Linda Nguyen, 62% to 37%, for the District 7 San
SF News Protestor Watch Where's Frank Chu these days? Maybe at one of these protests: Over 800 hospital workers walked off the job at Cal Pacific this morning, to protest their lack of input on appropriate patient
SF News Mammoth Mania Comes to a Close Well, the archaeologists from Cal have packed up their trowels and carted off the bones of what they believe is an adolescent Columbian Mammoth that were discovered last month in a San Jose
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: TransGeneration It would be easy to associate the subjects of the documentary with the people in other docs about self-reinvention -- the realness-craving drag kids of Paris is Burning, for example, or the folks
SF News Patriot Act Author Questions Supreme Court, Bush Adminstration We'll admit it, one of our favorite political blogs is written by a Republican. That's right, we said it. Hey, it's all about 'balance' here at SFist, if not moderation. Shades of gray,
SF News Is the IT Guy Stoned or Something? Berkeley may have a reputation for cannabis tolerance, but that hasn't penetrated to the city's public education establishment. A few days ago, Cal NORML received a call from a Berkeley High School student
SF News SchwarzenWatcher: Commencemental Inside the stadium, the drone from hundreds of rowdy protesters threatened to drown out the governor's voice at times. Many in the crowd erupted in boos when a police officer pulled down a
SF News All Over for Le Chateau The neighbors have spoken, and it's all over for the kids at Cal Berkeley's Le Chateau co-op (called an "Animal House" in the East Bay Express). Friend of SFist Patricia Johnson penned a
SF News What's the Dilly-o, Delio? The question we have to ask is this: were journalists just traipsing about the country side, fabricating quotes and anecdotes merrily for years without repercussion or something? For all the old media bleating
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: We Are Beautiful, No Matter What You Say SFist has lived in San Francisco for a long time and has been to our fair share of parties. We've been to hoity toity parties, arty parties, everyone tripping their balls off parties,
SF News C Plus! Everyone is about San Francisco! The results of the San Francisco residents' poll about San Francisco are in, and the city scored a C+. Not quite at "SEE ME" levels, but you ain't
SF News Dogster Nominated For Webby In the interest of full disclosure, SFist Ted, our new weatherman, also happens to be Dogster Ted. And while we've harshed on the Webby Awards only just recently, we're still proud. You can
SF News Cal Faculty Board Faults National Merit Process In the ongoing debate between those who support a blanket meritocracy in school admissions versus a weighted approach that considers race, class and gender, the Faculty Board of Admissions and Relations With Schools
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Weekend Getaway: Tahoe North Shore We stayed at a friend's beautiful home in Incline Village, which is just over the border in Nevada. Unfortunately, the county is too populous to have legal prostitution, but if you're in to
Arts & Entertainment Living in the Pollan Nation Pollan is the author of and a couple of other books, as well as countless articles for Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and elsewhere. He is a master of investigative
SF News Barely Legal Coeds in the Buff to Help Tsunami Victims Patrick of the Cal Patriot blog points out a rather risque effort by freshmen residents of Stanford's Larkin residence hall to raise funds for Tsunami victims -- fan out around campus, get naked,
SF News Berkeley Ballot Initiative Recount Challenged By EFF So while we want to play up the reefer angle on this -- the Bay Area being pothead heaven and all -- since we've been so politically inspired, we're going to have to
Arts & Entertainment Eyes on the Rightsholder's Prize Just a few minutes ago, Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow published an excerpt and link to a Toronto Globe and Mail article that describes how a classic documentary on the civil rights movement, Eyes
SF News Political Junkie: Across the Bay Your intrepid junkie takes the lower deck of the Emperor Norton to report on some news from the Oakland City Council: city councilman Danny Wan, who represents Oakland's District 3 (Grand Lake and
SF News Ew, Ants It just keeps raining and raining and raining -- and we all know what rain brings: besides lovely May flowers and extended flight delays, rain in San Francisco means.... ants. When their dirt
