Arts & Entertainment Paris Hilton (probably bringing) Breasts and Viagra to Oscars We have to admit disappointment that The Incredibles, product of local wunderkinds Pixar was overlooked in the nominations for Best Picture, and instead received nods for Best Animated Feature, Original Screenplay, and Sound
SF News There's Stairs, of Course, but Some Prefer to Take the Fast Way Down Can you stand to hear even more news about gravity-complicit suicides at the golden gate bridge? An editorial in last week's Chron that argued in favor of an anti-jumping
SF News Remember When I Said I'd Kill You Last? I lied. Clemency has been denied in the pending excution of death-row inmate Donald Beardslee, and the first execution in California since January of 2002 should go on as scheduled tonight at 12:01am.
SF News SFist Blotter Did you hear sirens last night? There was a high speed chase starting from Turk and Gough in San Francisco around 12:15 a.m. that went for 30 minutes, reached speeds of
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City We reckon a good percentage of San Franciso music-lovers will be at Great American Music Hall this week, whether it's at one of the three sold out Arcade Fire shows
SF News Yahoo In Fight with Dead Soldier's Family Way back in May, Slashdotter dacar asked "What Happens To Your Data When You Die?" Your computer, your web accounts, your password-locked digital devices would all be rendered useless to
SF News Political Junkie: The Gossip Passing along news about public figures in an attempt to distract ourselves from the pain of everyday existence: your Political Junkie gossip roundup for the day! Our soon-to-be-former first lady
SF News Gwen Araujo Murder Trial Update Last we'd heard, in June of last year, the jury ended in a deadlock on all three defendants, resulting in a mistrial. Though a number of subsequent developments were reported in
SF News Denny's Stabber Freed (For Now) Amber Oberholtzer, the 21-year old woman who stabbed 16-year-old Frankie Mead to death on New Year's Day in Fisherman's Wharf, was freed last night while the
SF News Remembering Robert Matsui Walking dejectedly back to the first day of work in 2005, we noticed that the flags in town are flying at half-mast in honor of Sacramento's Democratic congressman Robert Matsui.
misc rita: 2004's So-Bests It was a good year, it was a bad year. Here's my list of the so-best parts of 2004, in no order at all. So-Best photo: Nope, not Gav+
SF News Remembering Daniel Price Almost exactly one year ago, a normally-jaded San Francisco was stunned by the news of a man shot to death on Gough Street. Daniel Price was escorting his wife home from a
SF News 'Tis The Season -- For Sentencing People to Death Nothing the like Jesus' birthday around the corner to get juries in the hangin' mood, apparently. We understand that getting home to your family for the holidays after a long sequestration
SF News Jury Recommends Death We were going to be all like, "we're sooooo above the whole Scott Peterson trial when there's a civil war in the Sudan," but okay, we'
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Come for Dinner, Stay for the Hell We know, you've got a lot of pulls on your time these days, what with company holiday parties and SFist's first Bay Blotto tonight, but you really should know
SF News The Glory of Words [] There are sagas, and then there are the sagas about sagas. There are even sagas about saga sagas, but Derrida's dead -- let him rest in peace, for God's sake.
SF News WWJD? Okay, so SFist isn't always as impartial as we'd like to be. We're bloggers - our prejudices are bound to shine through from time to time (well, okay,
SF News Think Global, Act Local In all the hubbub about Bush's "mandate," new dark allegations about possible voter fraud in Florida and Ohio, and general wailing about the death of the Democratic party, it&
Arts & Entertainment This Week in DVDs Here's a look at some of the things that are being released this week: Shrek 2- Unlike a lot of sequels, we were thoroughly entertained and blown away by how good
Arts & Entertainment Telebrate Good Times, C’mon [] True San Francisco hipsters and locals with the finest taste in indie rock will convene for a Tiny Telebration this Friday at Café du Nord and the Swedish American Hall. What’s a
SF News Giants Fan Killed In all the (justified) glory for Barry Bonds hitting the big seven-oh-oh, there's some sad stories as well. A Giants fan was killed after the Giants beat the Padres
SF News Honoring the Fallen Derek over at Ephemera emailed us this morning to point out that he had visited the candlelight vigil in the panhandle organized by Berkeley's MoveOn.org and Win Without War and
Arts & Entertainment Curious About The Curiosa Festival? The Curiosa Festival rolled into our very own SBC Park on Saturday. We were originally horrified at the choice of venue. Um, death rock and Barry Bonds? However, upon entry to the stadium,
SF News Sudden Oak Death Hits the Bay Area Last week, sudden oak death, was confirmed to have infected two oak trees at the National AIDS Memorial Grove. Sudden oak death, also known as the pathogen , has been disasterous in the west
