SF News E-Voting? Try E-Lawsuit! Obviously SFist loves computers. We're here, aren't we? But we are still not sure about this whole electronic voting thing. It sounds good doesn't it? Heck, if we could vote from the comfort
SF News Proposition It Seriously, reading through all the ballot initiatives is one, big-huge time suck. While we were waiting in line at a store over the weekend, we heard one guy behind us talking to a
Arts & Entertainment FIGHT!!! One of the reasons we read the weeklies is because, thankfully, we live in a town big enough for two of them. They don't always see it that way, however - the relationship
Arts & Entertainment The Soundtrack Alone is Worth Fitty Bones! There are video games that are popular with gamers - Counter Strike, Half-Life, Halo - and then there are video games that become cultural phenomena. The audience is drawn not so much by
Arts & Entertainment 15 Years Later On Sunday the 17th at 5:04 p.m., it'll be the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. We still live with reminders of the quake every day -- from the
SF News Gaming the System As the days to the November 2nd elections wind down, many folks are getting anxious over the potential for impropriety at the polling stations. After the debacle in Florida in 2000, many people
SF News Our Lady of Sadness We know, we can't believe the Senate would throw California a bone either! Barbara Boxer has gotten the Senate -- unanimously, no less -- to pass the California Missions Preservation Act, which will
SF News Crazy Carmelites Strike Again Okay, we'll admit it, Californians have a reputation for being wacky. Nutso. Bonkers. Flakey. Weird. Crazy. So maybe we are. Certainly the folks of Carmel-By-The-Sea have had their fair share of "Only in
SF News Wild Kingdom So it turns out that one of the main draws of the Almaden Valley subdivisions in San Jose are their proximity to beautiful nature -- squirrels, birds, deer, and every now and then,
Arts & Entertainment SFist First Thursday Tonight at Lisa Dent's gallery at 660 Mission will be a special viewing of the work of Hank Willis Thomas, local photographer and recent California College of the Arts MFA graduate. SFist has
SF News Monday Morning Crow-eater What an ignominious weekend for Bay Area baseball. Saturday, 2 October 2004 will long be remembered as a dark day for Northern California baseball fans. After a big win over LA on Friday
SF News Calling All Libertarians SFist loves the healthy California lifestyle like anyone else. We love being outdoors, eating healthy foods, getting our exercise. But we also love drinking and smoking. Is that a crime? That seems to
SF News One Ball to Rule Them All and In The Darkness Bind Them shocker- the man who “caught” Barry Bonds’ home run ball #700, Steve Williams, is now being sued over possession of said ball. Remember in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory how whenever one
SF News 5.9 Earthquake The quake was felt as far north as San Francisco and Santa Ana (though SFist must confess we were so engrossed in Wonkette this morning that we didn't notice a thing), and it
SF News You're So Money, Baby SFist is shocked to see that we failed for the 31st year in a row to make the Forbes list of the top 400 richest people in America. Much like those US News
SF News Literacy and the Election It must be Literacy Day here at SFist! We want to alert you to a publication geared for new and busy voters called the . Right now, as the website undergoes updating in time
SF News Caressing the Hand That Feeds You SFist brings you another update on the Governator's bill-signing binge -- and this one will hit you right in the gut if you're an unrepentant file-sharer like we are. It is now a
SF News Domestic Partners: Know Your Rights On January 1, 2005, Assembly Bill 205, "The Domestic Partners Rights and Responsibilities Act of 2003," goes into effect. According to the National Center for Lesbian Rights (which has a good info page
misc Housing Bubbles: The Real Estate Column In what we're forced to accept as celebrity gold in this two-bit horse town, a B-list actress who no longer lives here and is no longer married to the local newspaper's editor in
misc Namaste Ok, that's not really fair. More than 20 million people across the US practice some form of yoga, so it's not just us here in the Bay Area. But we do have an
Arts & Entertainment La Casa in the House One of SFist's favorite local charities is La Casa de las Madres, a domestic violence shelter with offices in the Mission district that runs great programs for San Francisco's at-risk women, teens, and
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
SF News Me Love You Long NY Times The article has that arch tone of "oh those wacky Californians," but SFist would like to point out that those hotbeds of New Age, Granola-crunching, Yoga-posing Hippiedom, Nevada and Germany, have decriminalized prostitution
Arts & Entertainment Academy Fight Song The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 on the back of an envelope as he saw with pride that the American flag still flew over Baltimore's
SF News Conservative Pundit to Brave Berkeley One of Rush Limbaugh's pet pundits Michelle Malkin has been invited by California Patriots, the politically conservative campus group at Cal, to speak about her book In Defense of Internment: The Case for
