misc Craigslist Encounters: This "Crook"-ed Saga Continues Just as we were putting away the original Jason Fortuny Seattle Craigslist scandal, a copy-cat comes along and tries to run the same prank again. This time with "better" results (Better only in
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Craig Newmark As you probably know, Craig Newmark is the genius (and we really mean it here) behind craigslist, the most addictive place on the internets. SFist Nick Ross covers all things craigslist for us,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Little Mental at The Marsh We never understood how antidepressants could actually increase suicidal thoughts, especially in teenagers. How messed up is that? Well, Jennifer Berry is happy to tell you. After signing up for
Arts & Entertainment The Oakland Hills Fire, 15 Years Later We weren't living in California at the time, but we remember the Cal student in our dorm the next semester telling us her harrowing stories of escaping with nothing more than her cat
Arts & Entertainment It's O'Reilly vs. Carroll What with PageF-----gate going on, Fox News has to be desperate these days to stir things up. After all, misidentifying politicians' political parties can only work for so long before even Fox News
Arts & Entertainment Bad Reporter! Down! So we immediately snapped up his very first book when we saw it on the shelf at Stacey's the other day: Dog v. Cat, an expose of the 2004 pet election that tore
Arts & Entertainment The Character-Driven Adventures of the Superfisters Perhaps it's golden-silly dialogue like "I've sworn many oaths in my day, to every being from Hoggath to Watoomb... but the first oath I swore was the Hippocratic." It's all just so freaking
SF News Greetings and Salutations But wait! Don't erase us from your bookmarks just yet! Eve maybe going to greener pastures, but Rita is not going anywhere. Nor is any other of the SFist gang. As for what
misc East Bay: Animals Gone Wild Contra Costa Times columnist, Sarah Jacobson, writes about a raccoon cocktail party on the front porch of her Pittsburg home in the wee hours of the morning.And while we would disagree with
SF News Across The -ist Network Breaking the law, breaking the law We -ist folks love us some crime, and no misdemeanor is too petty for a post on any of our sites. This week, join us for a
SF News The Chron Behind Bars If life were a Monopoly game, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada just rounded the Free Parking corner -- the next roll might put them in jail. Do not pass go, do not collect
Arts & Entertainment Perplex City Hunt Clue We're not just announcing today's live Perplex City event, we're also one of the destinations on the citywide scavenger hunt. Solvers today will find some puzzle that brings them here, and the ultimate
Arts & Entertainment The Girl-Crazy (and Crazy Girl) Adventures of the Superfisters In issue one of "Jack and Lucky," Jack fails to flirt with an artsy gal at a bookstore (she is later revealed to be involved with an oaf resembing Ron Jeremy); he and
SF News Mountain Bike Racing and the Upside of Global Warming The best professional road cyclists in the world are competing for the maillot jeune on the rolling plains and brutal mountain passes of Europe right now, but this weekend, we've got our own
misc Rat Trap Animal hoarding's always been a lurid fascination of ours, along with people who have sextuplets, and Chris Daly. So have you been following this story about the guy who had over 1000 rats
SF News Barry in '07? Just Say No While most of the speculation has it that Barry will be AL-bound, to some place where he can just DH and while away his time on the bench during the other team's ups,
Arts & Entertainment The Frolicking Adventures of the Superfisters How can you not love Long Tail Kitty, you heartless fiend? The answer is that you cannot. You are powerless to resist his high-spirited capering. Drawn by local artist Lark Pien, sees LTK
SF News R.O.T.C in the U.S.A First up, the School Board, as a member of the Board, Mark Sanchez, has introduced a measure that will ban JROTC (Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps) programs. Apparently, every school child in the
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Hot Aluminum Roof It also reminded us how Apple is the quintessential San Francisco company. The products are expensive. They're not quite as fast as the others, but make up for it with style. There's constant
SF News Your Commute: Road Slowdowns Isn't it ironic? Don't you think? Our press-loving governor thought it'd be a fun stunt to sign a bill to reduce congestion at the always-jammed Caldecott Tunnel. Isn't it ironic, then, that as
SF News Adventures In Babysitting We must admit we're kind of fascinated, in the bad way, by people who steal babies and pretend the babies are theirs. It intrigues the same part of our brain that reads stories
Arts & Entertainment The Chron In the Blogosphere Anyways, first they started off by letting some of their hipper writers-- Peter Hartlaub, Mark Moford, and Aidan Vaziri (for the record, we're pro-Vaziri)-- let loose on the Culture Blog. That was
Arts & Entertainment The Doe-Eyed Adventures of the Superfisters Glenn's adventures are unremarkable -- throwing a rotten apple out for the squirrels, catching a bug in the basement, watching a pigeon wander through traffic -- but the quiet, meditative patience of the
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Feist John Vanderslice may well own the hearts of the San Francisco crowds he plays to, at least it seems that way. Taking the stage at 9:20 (SFist isn’t at all ashamed
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Rogue Wave tickets! Listen to "Publish My Love" or watch the video. Enter to win two tickets to see Rogue Wave, Aqueduct, Octopus Project, Scrabbel @ Bimbo's on Thursday night. (Contest ends Thursday at 2pm. Winner will
