SF News Fourth Runner-Up Gavin's number five! Gavin's number five! Mayor Newsom came in fifth in this year's World Mayor Awards -- a markedly better showing than last year, where he came in "less than 1500 votes
misc New Customers From New Coffee--'Intelligentsia Design' or 'B.K. Joke'? Okay, so Burger King has introduced this new coffee, B.K. Joe, available in regular, decaf, and (wait for it . . .) TURBO ("40 percent more caffeine!"*). * A lot of places hope to lure in
SF News Welcome to the Front Row: The Warriors Season Preview So it is, yet again, with this year's East Bay ballers. For about the fifth year in a row, the Warriors' marketing department is trying to hype us on the upcoming season as
Arts & Entertainment One City, One Book Maybe this is just stemming from a misplaced nostalgia for our fourth grade class, where everyone was required to buy the exact same edition of The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander, but we
Arts & Entertainment The Reviews Are In: Nobody Likes Current TV Well, we haven't had a chance to watch Current TV because somehow it ended up in Comcast's "Premier Tier," and we're not about to pay an extra five dollars a month after reading
Arts & Entertainment We Built This City On Rock n' Roll We personally think the whole "Top Whatever" lists thing to be totally overdone and usually laughably wrong. On the other hand, they are darn fun to ruminate over. Especially a particularly juicy one
SF News A's Brand Baseball: 41 Losses Never Felt So Good The Giants and the Mariners are bad this year. Here at A's Brand Baseball, we take no special pleasure in writing that, nor do we do so in order to taunt the other
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wanna Be a Pundit? We received a nice note from Wendy over at KQED's Bay Area Bites Blog who tipped us off about the following opportunity: A heads up for all you local foodies out there...KQED
SF News Root, Root, Root for the Home Team Hey Bay Area baseball fans, take a deep breath of relief as your offensively challenged, injury riddled, questionably GM'ed baseball team faces off against another offensively challenged, injury riddled, questionably GM'ed Bay Area
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Do We Hear Three in a Row? Here at SFist, we think a win is a win is a win and we’ll take those two. We’ll also take it if the Seattle Mariners, in town for three games
Arts & Entertainment Stuff You Totally Missed Bonus: Overheard in the ladies room by some fans who were there for the headliner, Rooney: Where are you from? Canada, Yah, we’re here from Omaha. That’s right; people came to
SF News Gap Announces New Brand "Forth & Towne" -- Snark Now, Or Forever Hold Your Peace How anything the Gap Empire was up to escaped our attention is beyond us, but Chicagoist let us know that Gap, Inc. will be test marketing their Talbot, J. Jill and Lane Bryant
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The Cruelest Month The anemic run production—3 shutouts and an AL-worst 70 runs scored in 19 games—has caused some A’s fans to push the panic button, and frankly it doesn’t have SFist
SF News FBI Not LOL on Schiavo Threat Ms. Jones, who was once in a band called Fatalblastwhip, is now facing federal charges for threatening both Michael Schiavo and a Federal Judge. In light of the recent shootings of Judges in
SF News Richmond & Oakland Want Reparations Supporters behind the bill hope that the laws passed will pave the way for slavery reparations. It also continues with a trend of suing companies that are believed to have profited from slavery.
Arts & Entertainment Gridskipping This is sort of like if the native Americans in Mission Bay had noted on their blog Ohlonist in 1776 that some crazy dude named Junipero Serra was having a party for his
SF News Wait, Wait Just a Minute H&M, Now Wow, this news just keeps getting older. We were aghast, we were agog, and now were still awaiting. From that nation up north that brought you irresistibly spiffy furniture with funny names: more
Arts & Entertainment Nineties Nostalgia Remember the nineties? Back when nobody knew Scott Weiland was a big junkie, but wondered why every single that Stone Temple Pilots came out with sounded like a song recorded by Nirvana or
Arts & Entertainment Kamau's Going to Yuk It Up Like It's His Birthday Kamau has been working it on the local scene, performing his own stand-up, writing his own plays, creating an internet cartoon, and being a notarized public (apparently, he's got the notarized skills to
Arts & Entertainment Duck and Cover We warn you because the DMB is around town all the time, and boy do we have lots of bridges. Many of their top albums were recorded accross the Golden Gate at The
SF News Baghdad By the Bay While we've been working on SFist for a few weeks now, today we opened our (virtual) doors to you, the general public. This week will be your chance to tell us exactly what
Arts & Entertainment Forget Something During Your Stay? New York gets apples, DC gets donkeys and elephants, and Chicago cows - so naturally, San Francisco is filled with decorated hearts. I left my HEART in San Francisco, get it? (nudge nudge
SF News The City that Knows How "I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is
