SF News A Peek Into the Secret, Exciting Life of the MTA Board The excitement begins with a call to order! Then a roll call, an announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices, approval of minutes, and then, at long last, "communications." Communications with whom? We're
SF News American Football Spectacular: Baltimore vs Indianapolis vs Baltimore vs Cleveland * Indianapolis vs. Baltimore Saturday, January 13, 2007. 1:30 PM, PST. 2007 Divisional Playoffs The Battle Of The Stolen Much has been made of the Colts' exit from Charm City -- one of
Arts & Entertainment Harvey Milk Sculpture Competition SFist Jim (hardest working man in the biz!) sends along these pictures from City Hall, at the unveiling of the three finalists in the Harvey Milk sculpture contest. Harvey Milk is, of course,
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Places we like on the Interwebs. Before we go into our craft blog round-up for the week we wanted to be sure to give a nod to the great work Lisa Congdon and her family did on the art
SF News Political Junkie: Booooo! It's a bad sign when the Oakland City Council (and its participating public -- see notes in the comments below) takes the "worst behaved political activity" award on a day where not only
SF News Shorter Gavin in the Examiner As we all know, Gavin is up for re-election this year (and why 2007? Aren't big elections supposed to be in even-numbered years? Is this one more "only in SF" type of thing?
Arts & Entertainment A Little San Francisco History On PBS Every now and then, we try to watch the national news so we'll get the jokes on the Daily Show the next day. So, even though Comedy Central's fake news outlets are on
SF News You Had To Be There The problem was that before there was no way of tracking who was attending and who wasn't. Besides the fact nobody really saw the records as they sat in the commission offices, the
Arts & Entertainment Our Parting Gift to You As we come into the last weekend of '06 and the last few hours of the holiday week, we give you, our beloved loyal readers, this video: Journey's "When the Lights Go Down
SF News Who Brought Back the Electric Car The plan is to allow speeds of 25 on roads that up til now have a speed limit of 35. This will make it so people could get out and ride one of
SF News American Football Spectacular: Disappointment Is The New Black * Kansas City vs. Oakland Saturday, December 23, 2006. 5:00 PM, PST. Week 16 The Battle Of Festivus Let the Airing Of Grievances begin! We're disappointed that we are having to think about
SF News Did the Lawyer Leak? Late last night, Yahoo! of all sites was reporting that the leak in the BALCO case was Victor Conte's defense lawyer. Or at least that's what the FBI is thinking as they've launched
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Bay Area Daiso! Daiso (or "The Daiso," as its website occasionally refers to it) is a cult-fave upscale Japanese 100-yen store -- like a dollar store, but stocked with awesome Japanese houseware items. We cannot overemphasize
SF News Who Wants To Run For Mayor? We'd have a sad face too if the Chron came out against our position on Question Time, some mayoral pipsqueak in Santa Clara was out to eat our Niners lunch, and our chief
SF News Political Junkie: Daly Stache Sighted! Don't worry, folks, we have word that . This picture is going to haunt our nightmares tonight. Thanks to Luke Thomas from the Fog City Journal for passing it along! he's shaving it off
misc This Is Good: AlertSF.org Welcome to This Is Good, a new recommendation column for SFist about things that are good. If something is good, we'll tell you. Simple as that. * http://AlertSF.org Is Good. AlertSF is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Chocolatier Michael Mischer at Fog City News We like what we saw and heard from Fog City News owner Adam Smith and suave Chocolatier Michael Mischer today on our lunch break. Fog City News is a nice, clean space on
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Values A visitor from the Midwest expressed surprise about the "holiday tree" sprouting up in San Francisco's Civic Center. The tourist mentioned to us that he had heard a lot this year about San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Smells Like Faux Cookies Have the agency folks ever tried waiting for a 14 Mission or 45 Union bus, or even done that routine lately? Itís never, ever about comfort, but maybe thatís the ad folks point.
SF News Random Political Odds And Ends We can't be bothered to type up all these intriguing little political news tidbits into that many separate posts for the day! So we're compiling them all here. --That map above is from
Arts & Entertainment Hot Stuff: Anthony Bourdain Meat and Greet We’ve got our things-to-be-thankful-for list ready. Easy peasy! One item shines a bit brighter than others. That would be hanging out with author/chef/TV personality Tony "Cast Iron Stomach" Bourdain after
SF News American Football Spectacular: Don't Drink & Drive; You May Die, Kill, Or Lose Your Chance To Be A Deep Threat Bryant had two catches for 21 yards in the game. And later, 'round midnight, Mr. Reformed Hothead was clocked above 100 mph in a 2005 Lamborghini between Redwood City and San Mateo. Moron.
Arts & Entertainment Is Green A Verb? As we discussed earlier today, PG&E and ReadyMade magazine are co-sponsoring "Let's Green This City," which is aiming to raise environmental consciousness by putting sofas covered with grass around the city.
SF News It's Thursday-- Do You Know Where Your Baseball Team Is? The thing most outsiders don’t understand about Oakland is that sentimentality is not one of its remarkable traits-- the Raiders beat that out of us in 1981. We are use to teams
SF News It's Wednesday-- Do You Know Where Your Football Team Is? And so Doctor Fatass commences the 49ers steady march to Los Angeles. Today Santa Clara, tomorrow King City, 2030 Los Angeles. Is nothing in this town sacred? The 49ers have been playing in
