Arts & Entertainment Welcome to SFist, Sparkletack-Richard! We are giddy with glee to welcome Richard, author of the Sparkletack blog and podcast, to the SFist family. Richard's encyclopedic knowledge of San Francisco's past makes his history podcast mandatory listening for
SF News We're In Bad Reporter! We're In Bad Reporter! This is totally our dream come true. When we started SFist, we would muse idealistically to SFists Eve and Jackson, "hey, wouldn't it be great if this site really does go somewhere, and
Arts & Entertainment Club Six: Going Violently Into That Good Night? For his part, Club Six owner Angel Cruz points out that he's spent a lot of money on soundproofing, and that he doesn't know of any stabbings caused by his club. (Neighbors claim
SF News SFist Blotter There was a murder at Laguna and Eddy around 10:30 a.m. yesterday morning, ending three months of no homicides in District 5. There were also two shootings on Tuesday, one in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Can you still remember how to roller skate backwards? How about shoot the duck? For $2 skate rentals, you can give it your best shot at Mighty to the tune of really bad
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Residency Requirement And the hits keep on coming! Now the Chron's reporting that Ed Jew's been told he has five (5) days to prove that he lives in San Francisco, through tax records or a
SF News Don't Hate Esther Because She's Beautiful Hwang claims that she was outside the North Beach bar Dolce last week, celebrating the end of her law school finals and waiting for her boyfriend when she saw some police officers. She
SF News Your Commute: Huge Accident on 101 One report said that the cab of the big rig exploded with the driver trapped inside, and a rock from the debris flew up and shattered the windshield of another driver. The previous
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Who needs a little culture after a weekend of mayhem? (We do, we do!) Here are a few things going on tonight that might pique your interest. Spring Art Auction at Mezzanine Visual
SF News Let's Go! As we all know, cars are the worst things ever invented, and owning one makes you a terrorist. Fortunately, it's easy to go carless in SF -- we tearfully gave our beloved station
SF News Ed Jew Update! We considered calling this post "And then they came for Jew, and we said nothing," but decided that was in poor taste. So what's been up with our favorite beleaguered conservative Sunset Supervisor?
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 PG&E: Here, Sit on This Garbage PG&E claims that the pop-up cafes will appear periodically around San Francisco all summer thanks to their Let's-Green-This-City ad campaign, an attempt to distract us from how unsustainable and grey the
SF News Day Around The Bay --Whoa, Ed Jew! See below. Aaron Peskin told the I-Team that the FBI was searching Jew's City Hall office for "$100 bills with specific serial numbers listed." That does not sound good at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight This weekend is gonna be ginormous, with Bay to Breakers,the Maker Faire, the Prince and Bjork shows - so dive right on in with tonight's top picks: Party with Viv! and celebrate
Arts & Entertainment We Didn't Get 'Wicked Pissed', But We Still Got A Little Aqua Teen Cash So, Beantown sorta flips out a few months back (not that we blame them!) at little lite-brite signs depicting Aqua Teen Hunger Force characters flipping the general populace off. City grinds to a
SF News SFist Blotter A San Bruno family is looking for their missing father -- Noah Myoung, a 60-year-old Korean limo driver, left home for a job at 7 p.m. on May 1 and hasn't been
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For SFist's Founding Editor It's mostly this guy's fault. Jackson West, who was the first editor here at SFist, got the ball rolling with this post, "The City that Knows How." He helped to grow the site
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Bike to Work Day Bike to Work Day in San Francisco is ongoing. Pictured is the ride of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Program Director Andy "The Boss" Thornley, complete with large flag just for today. (Yes, that's
SF News Political Junkie: Scheduling Conflicts Soooooo.... guess who is having a mayoral event that very same day???? In order to qualify Mayor Gavin Newsom for the ballot this coming November, we need your help. We are going to
SF News Day Around The Bay --It's San Francisco Cocktail Week! Drink specials galore. --One of the Google founders got married. In a swimsuit. At David Copperfield's house. --In other Google news, you may have noticed they've redesigned the
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy As always, if you have any questions to either the driver or the security guy, e-mail us at [email protected]. Now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast. Earlier this week, the Examiner
SF News Yahoo Maps Digging A Little Deeper Into SF According to an article on PC World, Yahoo's mapping product is undergoing some improvements. The company is switching from a third-party data provider to an in-house platform that it hopes will prove more
SF News Cities in Bloom A couple good points came out of a talk by SustainLane's Warren Karlenzig at the Commonwealth club last week. He was talking about Green Economies (sustainable) versus Grey Economies (unsustainable), and pointed out
Arts & Entertainment Today's Anti-Daly WiFi Protest Thanks to multiple readers, who sent in the following pictures from today's anti-Chris Daly, pro-corporate wifi protest on the steps of City Hall! One reader described it as "Fake Protest Time" and reports
