Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Funions Send your Bay Area finds to found at sfist.com! We call on you to submit discarded photos, objects, letters, and other items that you plucked from the streets, used books, thrift stores,
SF News Another Way That Google Owns Us Have you checked out the latest hack to Google Maps? Somehow they've added street views, which lets you take a look at an intersection (say, 16th and Mission) from a street-level camera. You
Arts & Entertainment The Stranger Thinks That We Are Awesome We complain a lot about San Francisco -- MUNI is a disaster, the homeless guy down the street left his post-digested lunch on our doorstep again, our bicyclists are psychopaths, our supervisors accept
SF News Fly, Mighty Cushman! They're more than just ticket-issuing vehicles, or the futuristic transport vehicles in the movie Space Mutiny. They're awesome fun! We featured a casually attired Cushman a few weeks ago, and the owner wrote
SF News Third Sunday in May: Not The Best Day For An Emergency Room Visit There's never a good time to visit the emergency room, but being forced to do so on the same day as Bay to Breakers would have to be an even bigger bummer than
Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Comments Of The Week Hi, folks -- as promised, here's our very first "Top 5 Comments Of The Week Audio Podcast." While there's a clear reason we're not in radio, we hope you'll check out this five
SF News Swells by the Numbers SFist Rita is out of town for work, so we are donning our tiara and gown for this weeks Swells analysis. Tra-la-la! Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column:
SF News Treasure Hunt: Bringing in the Dough Despite its strong following, we felt completely let down by Trader Joe's 99-cent whole-wheat dough: once rolled, we could not get it to remain stretched. In fact, its ability to retract to the
SF News Love, San Francisco Style The funny thing about all this, however, is that just a few years ago, San Francisco was listed as not one of the best places for singles. Hmm... Anyways, all you need to
SF News What Would Mike Brady Think? The types of buildings were listed in five categories: religious, residential, commercial, historic, and civic. To decide the winners, the AIA had a secret meeting in a dark tomb somewhere and drew lots
SF News Treasure Hunt- What the Jesuits Have Done for You Lately. The Koret has an Olympic indoor swimming pool, two batting cages, several racquetball courses and state-of-the-art weight and cardio rooms graced with natural daylight. More importantly, it is open for drop-in to non
SF News Fixing a Hole Where the Rain Gets In Will wonders never cease? It turns out they are fixing the streets from 15th & Valencia to 19th & Valencia. And thatt's not the end of it. The plan will include all sorts
SF News Supes Making Moves on Healthy Saturdays in Golden Gate Park(ing Lot) In two weeks, Healthy Saturday comes on a Monday! April 9, City Hall, 1pm: those party animals on the Land Use and Economic Development Committee will be throwing a sure-to-be-fun public hearing about
SF News Treasure Hunt: What's Cookin' Cookin', located on Divisadero between Oak and Page, enjoys all the romance of the fabled elephant burial ground, and boasts of as many hidden treasures. None of them seem to be made of
Arts & Entertainment Compromise Can Be Healthy Too The battle over Healthy Saturdays was sort of at a stalemate until a study was released saying that attendance to the museums were up on Sundays when John F. Kennedy Drive was closed.
SF News Treasure Hunt: Claymate of the Month Tucked away in the Yerba Buena Gardens, the multimedia arts and technology museum with the sweet name of Zeum (pronounced "Zee-uhm") is a heaven of creativity and fun. Its digital studio, music production
Arts & Entertainment McLaren Park: It's Time Us Full-figure Girls Get Noticed To Little Miss Golden Gate Park, princess of the City, Honey, I'm sick of you and your flat-ass panhandle getting all the attention. You think you're the only park in the whole City
misc Puppy Love We want a dog so bad we've taken to following strangers in the street in the hope that they'll stop at the “don’t walk sign” and let us pet Fido. One may
misc Meet Me at the Coffee Shop/We Can Dance Like Iggy Pop It's two in the afternoon, doesn't anybody have jobs? And it's the worst kind of coffee shop denizens too, the kind who have their laptop on and are pretty much camped out there
SF News Treasure Hunt: An Ounce of Bliss Their name's the stuff our dreams are made of but the first minute we spend at The San Francisco Chocolate Factory doesn't bode well. "Do you make the chocolate here?" We ask, our
SF News Taking Out the Trash But as we've started up with the recycling, we’ve started to remember the downside of recycling, mainly the mess it creates. Our tiny, tiny kitchen is now overwhelmed with bottles and cans
Arts & Entertainment Octavia Blvd: A dangerous illegal turn every 3 minutes. Yet another morning commuter makes an illegal right turn onto the new freeway onramp at Octavia this morning. Monday's serious accident at the intersection of Octavia and Market is focusing attention upon drivers
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Hunt: Stop Bitching and Start Stitching Of all the classes we skipped to play fossball in high school, we never though we'd regret cutting Home Ec. But truth be told, after spending yet another $15 on getting slacks hemmed
SF News Treasure Hunt: Hot Tongue Action Nothing gets our treasure hunting heart pounding as fast as a crowded taco truck tucked away on a parking lot. Unfortunately the delicious meal we wolf down sometimes makes our stomach heave just
SF News Treasure Hunt: A Touch of Huitzilopochtli What were we thinking? With Martin Luther King day approaching, it dawned on us that we missed our big chance, that blessed time between Christmas and New Year when we can actually take
