misc SFist Cares ... About Sick Kids Pretty much they continue to do the good work they're known for - providing a comfortable place to stay for parents and families of seriously ill children undergoing long-term treatment in San Francisco
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Porter, From Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. Aw, Porter. Who doesn't
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ian Lendler Today's victim of the SFist interview has only been in our fair city for a couple of weeks, but that doesn'r mean we're going to take it easy on him! His new book,
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Pepper, From Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. Look at Pepper's spooky
SF News We've Got a Feeling We're in Kansas Religious organizations filed suit in a Los Angeles federal court last week claiming that the UC system discriminates against religion for not allowing classes taught in Christian schools to count in regards to
SF News Another Victim of Globalization Krueger's comments may not have been intentional and he could be the the kind of person who loves cute puppies, but it still doesn't change the fact that what he said was, in
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Teddy, from Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue (check out their fancy
Arts & Entertainment Blah...Blah...Harry Potter...Blah... In order to provide you, dear readers, with the best content we can provide, SFist occasionally has to delve into things with which we might not want to delve into. Case in point
Arts & Entertainment Wednesday: The New Thursday Arlene Ackerman's BFF Wade Randlett and SFSOS are hosting the "San Francisco Homeownership Summit" [PDF] tonight. Panels include "How to Protect Yourself from the Board of Supervisors," and "Why Thurgood Marshall's Legacy is
SF News iTunes Prudery: The iTipper Fast forward to the 21st century: We finally resurrected our PowerBook from beyond the grave (thanks for not putting in the motion protection for hard drives in the 12" model, Apple -- we
SF News Fire on 16th Street Six people were injured, and around 64 people are homeless, after an early morning fire destroyed the apartment building across the street from Mission Dolores on 16th Street. The firefighters rescued two women
Arts & Entertainment They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To: Trouble in Paradise at the Pacific Film Archive 1. No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Infiltrates the Flaunt! Fashion Show Last week's Flaunt! fashion show, presented by f.r.e.s.h. (Fund-Raising Events to Spread Hope) had a lot going for it. First, it's for a great cause: all proceeds went to
misc SFist Cares ... About the Family JFCS (Jewish Family and Children's Services) is also all about family. Contrary to what the name might evoke, they are non-sectarian and they offer classes on everything from Potty Training to Parenting as
misc SFist Raves: La Mission We're pretty inclusive when we say "The Mission." To us, it's anything from 16th to 24th, Dolores to Potrero. The Mission is one of the few places where we really feel like we're
misc SFist Rants: Kids In Public Boy, do we feel like a grumpy old man writing this. According to a recent AP article, only 14.5% of the population in San Francisco are children under 18. This is the
SF News The Verne Kopytoff Award So we have a little joke here at SFist. When a mainstream journalist pens an article about blogs that is either dismissive, overly broad in its approach or ill-informed, we give them the
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Bingo, from Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. Any shelter or resuce
misc SFist Cares ... About the Long Weekend Memorial Day is also meant to honour those service men and women who have died in military service to the United States. Memorial Day services will be held at the Presidio, at the
SF News Sympathy From California Supremes? Three estranged lesbian couples presented their cases to the California Supreme Court in San Francisco yesterday, seeking legal clarification [via The Legal Reader] on their rights as parents. Two women are seeking custody
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Literary Events We first heard of Tayari Jones when we read her novel , which details the coming-of-age experiences of three children under the shadow of the (recently reopened) Atlanta child murders. We've been reading reviews
Arts & Entertainment Punk Farm Then he emailed us about his newest opus, . He told us, "I'm especially excited about it, so any plug that you could give it would be so appreciated (Ed note: Ask, and ye
SF News The Huffington Roast Okay, we're going to go ahead and put our two cents in on this, while scrupulously avoiding actually linking to it -- we will, however, link to the LA Weekly's Nikki Finke's thoughts
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Betty, from Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (she'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. We think she's adorable
misc A Bear By Any Other Name What the what is that the San Francisco Zoo has gotten themselves in a bit of a pickle over the naming of two new grizzly bears that they rescued from Montana. The zoo