SF News Marines Banned From Filming Commercial On SF Streets We stuck it in Day Around The Bay already, but thought we would let you hash it out here in its own pad, readers. It seems that, according to the preciousness that is
misc Go Guests, Get Gone As you have probably already noticed, we've made some changes around here. Yesterday morning SFist, its publisher Gothamist, and our sister sites unveiled a new option: guest comments are automatically not displayed for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Jonathan Coulton: "Code Monkey" has gained a heavy, cult-of-nerd following. Yay! Join the club tonight at 9 p.m. at Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell; $18. -- The Legend of Billie
SF News MUNI - Inscrutable, or Just Wasteful? If you're like us, you noticed that MUNI put up these little paintings in several stations a few weeks ago. The one pictured above is at the Church Street station, right when you
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
SF News Ross Saving The Day -- Vigilantes In The Backstory So hey, remember that shooting that Ross Mirkarimi helped solve? According to the Chron, the cops are saying it was a vigilante father-son duo, out for revenge after the victim stole a gold
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 Latest Murder News (And A Suggestion To The Chron) Following up on yesterday's blotter, we're sorry to pass along word from today's Chronicle that one of the murder victims over the weekend, David Sterling, was killed on the way home Monday afternoon,
Arts & Entertainment Peeping Tom Wants Smut Returned Really, who would nowadays? And more to the point, who prefers videos and magazines to the clean and ease of blue footage found on l'Internet? Unless his collection holds some priceless and rare
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight coarse language = a wee bit NSFW -- The Boys in the Band: Mart Crowley's work, which takes place one night during a birthday party, details what happens to the gays after leaving the
SF News We Win Best Apology!!!!! Yay! We're so excited!! In today's Chron Datebook Peter Hartlaub article, on the various types of lame apologies, SFist wins!!!!! Well, technically, Gavin Newsom "we're still dating!! we are we are we are!
SF News The New Muni Hybrids: Hot or ... Hot? We've ridden Muni's new hybrids along both the 27 and 48 routes for a couple of weeks now, and our experience has been slightly mixed. The good aspects are that the buses are
SF News That Smell Yum! Did you smell something nasty in downtown SF yesterday? Some people described it like raw sewage, and others like rotting meat. Turns out it was from the sewage holding system, which was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Leanne on the Televisions Tonight! Although she won't be discussing her fine found images, Leanne will be featured on CBS 5 tonight during the six o'clock news, talking about SF's current rental market. Which we hear kind of
SF News Another Earthquake! As we only learned from reading the comments on our whiny post about the weather, there was just an earthquake in Berkeley about 30 minutes ago. It was a 3.0, centered near
SF News Burning Man's Premature Ignition During last night's total lunar eclipse in Black Rock City, Nevada, someone set the Burning Man figure ablaze prematurely. Chortle. Hey, maybe that was their art? Their statement? Their message? Or their coke
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Total lunar eclipse starts tonight. [NASA] -- GNS doesn't care for the new progressive candidate, Quintin Mecke. But after looking him over, we want to ask Quintin out for some coffee, maybe
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week Ahhh, the lazy days of summer keep on keeping on, yet the commentary here on SFist continues to be fast, furious, fierce, and even funny. We really enjoy that pretty much any reader
misc Week Around the -ists With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even
Arts & Entertainment Permit to Engage in Expressive Activity, SFShenanigans! Checking out Laughing Squid, we came across yucksters SFShenanigans' Christmas-In-August calendar item. (Similar to last month's reverse trick-or-treat, which we hear was spooktacular.) Fun! But in the comments section of the Laughing Squid
SF News Tenderloin Housing Clinic Update: Things Still Kind of Awkward and Uncomfortable Firings! Lies! Non-lies! It's so fucking exciting! A few hours after our post last week about Jeff's cameras in the THC's Seneca Hotel, we caught word of some firings. OMG did we get
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
Arts & Entertainment <i>American Fusion</i> Even though there's no film fests in town, we stopped by the movie theater and checked out American Fusion, which opened this past weekend at the Sundance Kabuki. This film totally reminded us
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
