misc Arnie Presents a Very Special Election What to expect over the next few months? Wall-to-wall TV ads, Arnie going across the country to suck up more corporate money, totally lame witticisms from political hacks, one side yelling "you are"
Arts & Entertainment Current Mood: Live, Local, Latebreaking About a hundred folks showed up (though only 60 or so RSVPed -- naughty bloggers!) and included folks from Craigslist, Technorati, Six Apart, Wordpress, Feedster, Blogger, and so forth. Mark Tamayo, aka SFist's
misc Win Passes for <i>Saving Face</i> If we lived in New York we'd be tempted to stalk director Alice Wu's. In fact, we're coming pretty damned close by reviewing her latest film, , making her pose for a picture with
misc A Bear By Any Other Name What the what is that the San Francisco Zoo has gotten themselves in a bit of a pickle over the naming of two new grizzly bears that they rescued from Montana. The zoo
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Cancun Pigs Before we introduce the participants, a few words on the rule: we did a one-on-one comparison, which we judged based on two dishes from Yucatan, the peninsula at the bottom right of Mexico
SF News Dogster Nominated For Webby In the interest of full disclosure, SFist Ted, our new weatherman, also happens to be Dogster Ted. And while we've harshed on the Webby Awards only just recently, we're still proud. You can
Arts & Entertainment So Long, Logo We suspect that this may be related to the Indiefest's recent announcement that they're currently holding a Design-Our-New-Logo Contest in the hopes of replacing the old, somewhat worn, clearly mentally unstable one. According
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ted Rheingold If pets are the new children (as one might think by wandering around any big city) then Dogster and Catster are the ultimate brag books for proud parents. For those of you without
Arts & Entertainment They, Robots Why watch the cartoons when you can see the real thing? SF State is hosting the second annual RoboGames this Saturday and Sunday. Robots will set things on fire, sumo-wrestle, bartend, and open
SF News The Giants Want You! Doing what hasn't been determinted, but the job does carry with it the title of "Special Assistant." Why, you’ll be just like George Costanza, although we don’t think Sabean will allow
Arts & Entertainment This Octavia House Duboce Street's loss is Hayes Valley's gain, as the City and Caltrans laboriously rebuild the Central Expressway offramp one block over from where they laboriously tore it down, but leave Octavia to become
Arts & Entertainment Mavericks! (maybe) I don't want to be caught calling "wolf", but I'm hearing from my friends that the surf contest at Maverick's is going to be held this Wednesday. (This is the second time I've
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's Time Again for Free Stuff From SFist! The sun in the sky, Heirloom tomatoes are here! Call New York and gloat. Avocados free, Over your neighbor's tall fence. When ripe, steal at night. Safeway sucks ass. Berkeley Bowl: No parking.
Arts & Entertainment All-Star Game Reach a hand across the blogger/print media divide and get your weekly buzz on at the Indie Mag All-Star party this Saturday from 8-10. Locally-published magazines Kitchen Sink, Bitch Magazine, Other Magazine,
SF News I'm Rubber, You're Glue... The event was created two years by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network and we're glad to see that the organization is taking time out of it's busy agenda to save children
Arts & Entertainment Creative Commonists It's good to be a nerd. At least that's how SFist feels after hanging out at the Swedish American Hall, taking full advantage of the open bar, nodding our head to the DJ's
SF News Political Junkie: Gossip Talk Oh, what the heck, let's go so-best one more time! Tongues are a-waggin' in town (and not just like that, you sick pervs) over the Gavin-x-Kim news and we're here to give you
misc Redefeat Bush Rallies are being called throughout the day tomorrow, including several large ones in D.C., and we can bet your bottom dollar that there’ll be some sort of rally here. Meanwhile, people
SF News We Heart BART As if fast, friendly, and efficient service isn't enough love, BART is now offering even more reasons to love it. Five hundred dollars worth of reasons. The “BART #1 Transit System in America”
SF News A Bridge by Any Other Name? As if it’s not enough that the re-building of the Bay Bridge has turned into huge spat fight over money and design another spat is possibly brewing over the most important part
SF News Political Junkie: World Mayor Pretend He's (almost) Miss World, can't look us in the eye -- Hizzoner Newsom announced that he was nominated but did not win in the online World Mayor 2004 contest. (That Giacometti-like figure to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet More Free Stuff From SFist! SFist is proud to welcome our first local advertiser, Westside Organics! You may have noticed their handsome banner up there. We gave them a break on price because, well, we need the money
misc The Essefficist: So Strong <i>and</i> So Bad? Welcome back to the wonderful world of the Essefficist, gentle reader. Our first question this week comes from our main man Sam in Concord: Um... Shim-Sham Sam... I think you sent this to
Arts & Entertainment Silver Lining Well, on the bright side, at least someone around here won . The only good thing about the Bush victory is that our adorable editor SFist Jackson won 1115.org's electoral map contest! SFist
