SF News From the 1 California to the 108 Treasure Island If your weekend was anything like our weekend, you spent three days mewling like a kitten about the heat and canceling all plans to go anywhere at all. Not these four SFSU students
SF News O Tannenbaum San Francisco has one less shady spot, as city workers stripped down a 100-foot pine tree in the Tenderloin. The pride and joy of city arborists, the tree was the only 'loin-area tree
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Culinary Digest We do the reading so you can concentrate on eating. Gerald Hirigoyen is at it again, adding Bocadillo to his empire of French Basque eateries here in The City - coverage by Paul
SF News Do You Know The Way to the New San Jose City Hall? San Francisco's not the only Bay Area city rife with local political scandal! San Jose has been roiled for the last month about allegations that city officials worked a secret deal with local
Arts & Entertainment The Circus Comes to Town Well, it's that time again: The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the self-proclaimed Greatest Show on EarthTM, is coming to the Cow Palace tomorrow and staying until next Monday. Then it's
misc Labor Week: Rubbing the Wrong Way Ahhhh, nothing soothes like tension at Berkeleys Claremont Resort and Spa. Along with your signature "Mayan Temple Journey massage and exfoliation, or your "Moor Than Mud" bath, the Claremont also offers a
Arts & Entertainment Sussing Out the Fuss Few bands can believably be compared to Joy Division, the Cure, Duran Duran, and Echo and the Bunnymen. Especially if they are from Las Vegas. Yet The Killers, the newest indie dance sensation,
misc Labor Week: Sex Workers Unite! [Ed. Note: Labor Day is not just the cut-off point for wearing white shoes - it's a day to honor the workers who make this country great. In our honor (we're workers too!
SF News Hope Is On The Way -- to the Fairmont So what are you doing for lunch today? SFist is going out to lunch with The Legal Reader. But if you have $5000 to blow, John Kerry is having a fundraising lunch in
Arts & Entertainment La Playa en Fuego Every Labor Day tens of thousands of geeks, nerds, hippies, frat boys and all other sorts of disaffected rejects pile into vehicles and make a pilgrammage to one of the most inhospitable places
Arts & Entertainment Photo-Friendly, Photo-Averse Thomas Hawk, local San Francisco photo/blogger, posted an interesting essay on his experiences taking pictures at different private cultural venues around town. SFist found the link on Boing Boing, which often covers
SF News It's a Gas SFist is not personally a car owner, but our frequent companion is. We can't tell you the number of times we've driven from our home in the Sunset to the cheap gas station
Arts & Entertainment Welcome to the Family As a short note, we wanted to welcome our new friends DCist to the Gothamist family. SFist has a bunch of talented friends from art school who graduated from Duke Ellington School for
SF News Attack of the Hacktivists While the New Yorkers and the nation are gearing up for the Repbulican National Convention in New York City this weekend, protesters are gearing up for what is likely going to be the
Arts & Entertainment PJ Harvey Rocks SF The indelible "Polly Jean Harvey" rocked "the Great American Music Hall" Thursday night. The sold-out show was a must see for PJ fans, who have only dreamt of seeing her in such a
SF News Conventional Wisdom As Boston takes stock after the shock of the recent Democratic National Convention and New York braces for impact in preparation for the soon-to-hit RNC, SFist recalls that twenty years ago it was
SF News Touchdown! SFist is not the biggest football fan in the world, but we definitely love video games. And while many have tried, nobody is taking John Madden Football's spot in the starting lineup. With
SF News Did You Ever Know That You're My Hero? and then SFist found out about the SF women politicians karaoke night -- yikes! Will we survive? The San Francisco branch of the National Womens Political Caucus is sponsoring a sing-along with
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 Welcome, Anil SFist would like to present photographic proof that life exists outside of New York City. That's right, as lamented by Gothamist and cheered by SFist, Anil Dash, Internet Superstar, has officially landed here
Arts & Entertainment I believe I can Fly Ever since SFist started bartending school, we have looked at bartenders a bit differently. We have always respected service professions after having worked plenty of them in the past. However, since we have
SF News West De-Nile Now that the West Nile virus has been found in dead birds in San Mateo County and Santa Clara, officials are bracing themselves for the first human infections in the Northern California region.
SF News I Guess I Can't Wear Those Red Pants Anymore Making your world a little more paranoid, the reports that gang wars are back in the Mission. The (red-wearing) Norteno gang considers the South Mission their turf, while the upstart (blue-wearing) Sureno gang
Arts & Entertainment SFist Weekend Getaway - Marin Headlands It's hump day, which means it's time to start planning that trip out of the city this weekend. Last weekend, SFist had a car, so we decided to take a trip across the
