Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Comments of The Week! In any case, check out the podcast to find out exactly which funny, witty, and/or informative comments made by Suckafree, Seamus Furr, el Greco, Persona non Bergman, and Bikescape made the cut!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: RiffTrax Live We say almost only because the movie they did, which they kept secret until the night of the show, was the Sylvester Stallone arm-wrestling epic and all the comedic riffing in the world
Arts & Entertainment First Chron Layoff Announced And the layoffs begin -- a source tells us the first person to be let go from the Chronicle in their 25% reduction-in-staff campaign is managing editor Robert "Rosey" Rosenthal. We got the
Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Comments For May 20-26 Hey everyone -- episode two is in the can for your listening pleasure information. Thanks everyone for your contributions; this week we turn our white-hot spotlight onto Kerbot2000, KWillets, "T", Marc, and classydave.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Cafe in Need is a Cafe Indeed He writes, In the past, we’ve tried comedy, live music, wine events, family nights, and various “get-something-free” promotions. ... In our perfect world, we’d find some sort of evergreen event that is
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy Part II And away we go... Why do the fare inspectors seem to cluster together in packs of 4 or more? Safety in numbers? Or because it's an easier way to check for passes/transfers?
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy Then there's last week's story about Aaron Peskin trying to propose new rules to make paying Muni fines easier then we guess the process is now (as we've never been fined-- we once
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: A Trip To China Aaron Peskin seems to have moved away from his original "let's see what happens and maybe it's all a big mistake" position, since he's now saying Jew has brought "dishonor" to the Board
SF News SFist Blotter There was a shootout by the ocean over the weekend -- a man stealing a bicycle at around 1 a.m. Saturday morning near 48th and Taraval fired shots at the cops, hitting
Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Comments Of The Week Hi, folks -- as promised, here's our very first "Top 5 Comments Of The Week Audio Podcast." While there's a clear reason we're not in radio, we hope you'll check out this five
SF News Eyewitness Account of Muni Meekness I thought the head of Muni was very forthcoming when stating that things did not go so well with the launch of the T and it's ripple effects on the system. Unfortunately the
SF News Another Bicycle Deathmatch We can barely bring ourselves to write about this excruciatingly uncomfortable incident in Berkeley, in which, to our dismay, bicyclists successfully provoke car drivers into behaving very poorly indeed. Who's at fault here?
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
SF News Bring Your Game, Commenters! Make The Weekly Top 5 The coolest thing about writing for SFist is that often we introduce a topic, then all of y'all weigh in with insightful opinion, crazy knowledge, or even some amusing smarminess. The groupmind of
misc Week Around The -Ists The nicer the weather gets, the busier we get across the Ist-A-Verse. But we like being busy. Here's a peek at what we've been up to since last week! Chicagoist had an interview
Arts & Entertainment Letters To (Another Pub's) Editor--Martinis At The Mark Five parts vodka, one part gin is a "San Francisco Martini?" And it may have originated at a San Francisco institution? While our personal martini recipe is different (all gin plus a misting
SF News Selamat Pagi, Lee Hsien Loong! What were they doing in town? Our sources won't say. (But how many high-profile destinations can think of in that neck of the woods? Speculate wildly in the comments!) We also don't know
SF News Another Textmarkular Update Fear not: simply create a Textmark so you can get arrival times via SMS. Check our handy guide to existing marks after the jump, and you'll never be caught waiting and waiting and
SF News Rescue Geary As always, the project's being held up by a one or two critics who insist that nobody wants to move any faster on Geary than they already do, and that people who ride
SF News Your Commute: Oy Vey Part Deux So those stories out there saying the commute this morning wasn't so bad didn’t quite tell the whole story . Turns out there were some problem spots out there, just not throughout the
SF News Amy Lee Gets Her Revenge On San Francisco Well, Lee filed a suit with the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing for having to go through all that nastiness. She eventually got her position after another raucous hearing but felt
SF News May Muni Payout: $61,176.13 We can't get any details on this month's cases, sadly, because the SF Superior Court website seems to have been completely demolished. (Maybe the SFMTA website ran into it.) We have it on
SF News Mr. Ford Assesses So let's start with the story in the Chron, the main gist of which is "happy days are here again." Or, as they call it "Transit chief upbeat on Muni." The story is
SF News Wanna Edit SFist? So hey, we've got some sad news. SFist is sorry to report that our beloved sports guru and fun-loving grammar anarchist Jon Shurkin is stepping down as editor. We're going to miss him
SF News What to do About the Angels Blue? But surely you jest, said supporters, those things never crash! Oh, but they do. Over the weekend, a Blue Angel crashed at an air show in South Carolina, killing the pilot. An investigation
