Arts & Entertainment SFist Reader Meet-Up Deemed A Roaring Success! Thursday night at Virgil's Sea Room on Mission Street a slew of good looking and well-read people came together to drink beer and eat hamburgers. It was our first SFist reader meet-up since
SF News Comment of the Day: Tea Party Parody SFist commenter fizzandpop captures the mule-like tone of the entertaining Tea Party sect via the following comment on President Barack Obama's re-election bid. Behold: I think he's going to have a fight on
SF News Texas Resident SFGate's Most Prolific Commenter Daring to go where no online writer in their right mind should ever, ever, ever go, SF Chronicle's Ryan Kim profiles SFGate's most "prolific" commenters, Kimble McSweeney, a Dallas resident. (!) During the first
misc Commenter Blog Spotlight: Generic Generic's blog features lots of interesting local anecdotes. For instance, this man looks perfectly presentable, yet he's talking to himself. He's also wearing an AC Transit pin -- even better! Sadly, a local
misc Commenter Blog Spotlight: AngryBat's 40 Going on 28 This post marks a brand new feature, in which we give SFist's blogging commenters some props, as a thank you for helping make SFist great. Upon viewing AngryBat's blog, 40 Going on 28,
SF News 'Map of Prop 8 Donors' Heats Up One of the perks of being behind-the-scenes here at SFist is that we get to read all of the angry comments that come after a story has moved away from the home (or
SF News Um, Would You Please Shut It, <i>Chicago Tribune</i> Readers? Thanks. The Chicago Tribune is, in 2008, finally getting around to dealing with the glorious, frustrating, and all-knowing voice of the commenter. This week the Tribune shut down their comment boards on all of
SF News Defy Newsom And Face His Wrath We like one of the SFGate commenters' take on the sitch: hit by a car "after getting thrown under the bus by Newsome [sic]." We hit the recommend button on that one! You
SF News Tomorrow. Milk Club Showdown. Be There. Ever since that childish display of local politicking, all sides have been more or less civil and relatively respectful of one another. It goes without say how disappointed we are in both sides.
SF News Beating a Dead Pony: Open Casting Call for <i>Milk</i> Yeah, we plan on running this bit into the ground. And then some. Well, well, well. Well. Huh. It looks like Mr. Van Sant is having yet another open casting call for his
Arts & Entertainment SFGate Dupes a Few Trolls In an effort to tame the trolls, SFGate's site (as well as a few others like ThinkProgress) use software from an outside company that implements a unique "block user" function. This feature blocks
SF News Carole and the Case of the $397,000 After paying up last year for disclosure violations, Senator Carole Migden is once again under investigation for not disclosing or itemizing credit card charges that total $397,000. According to the LA Times,
SF News UPDATED: Muni's Guide to this Weekend: Dia de los Muertos, US Half Marathon UPDATE: Oh man! How could we have missed this one? There's also going to be a Falun Gong march! We're sick and tired of trying to figure out whether we want to make
SF News Join Us, Won't You? We're looking for contributors in the following areas: Politics (and the local political machinations, people, and slap fights), arts & entertainment (what's happening in clubs or on the Internets), and general city news.
SF News Vawanda Vindicated: Shocking Muni Confessional is 100% True! But our John-Stossel-Like hunger for the truth was unsatisfied. So we got in touch with Judy Morgan at the SF Arts Commission; and as it turns out, all of the posters are totally
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Commute Clot's 15th Anniversary Tonight A small goup of San Franciscans started an international trend about fifteen years ago when they participated in the first Commute Clot bike ride. Now it's called Critical Mass. What do you call
Arts & Entertainment MahTlerT In our haste on Tuesday, we forgot to mention that you could hear more MahTlerT (MTT and Mahler have become so imbricated that we had to create a shortcut) here (links to sound
Arts & Entertainment And Speaking Of The Dangers Of Posting.... Wonkette did something we find most awesome: commenter-cleansing. Hee: Oh, hi everybody. A lot of comments have been fun & good & whatever, but a lot of comments have also been painful to
SF News Today's Afternoon SF Murder Post We're starting to run out of ways to introduce these stories about the murder count in SF, so we're going with a clip of "Miss Murder" by AFI, above. So here's the latest:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Nimbies Kill Off the Panhandle Bandshell Find out why after the jump. [Update: What's that, commenters? Strong opposition from just one particular Commissioner out of seven is the problem? We don't know how to figure this out, as the
SF News Laughing Along with the Laughing Squid We got a chuckle when local thought leader and former Ferrari test-driver Scott Beale drew our attention to the perils of allowing unfettered commentary by linking to a hilarious, quasi-NSFW two-minute video. Which
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week We're both flattered an saddened by our witty betters at Gawker -- flattered that they stole our idea to spotlight comments (not that we're especially innovative in doing so, but still); a little
Arts & Entertainment Win Tickets To The Fray! Hey, want to win tickets to see the Fray at Shoreline this Saturday? That's their sensitive pop ballad on the YouTube clip above, and Gomez and the SFist Krissy endorsed Eisley are opening!
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Garbage Confirming what we heard yesterday, quote-unquote "District 4" Supervisor Ed Jew, along with Michela Alioto-Pier and Jake McGoldrick, showed up for yesterday's committee hearing to find out who exactly took those 300 trash
