SF News The Internet Archive Versus the DMCA Well, the fine folks over in the Presidio who run the Internet Archive are being sued, along with Philadelphia firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey. It seems that the firm used the Internet
Arts & Entertainment Calling All Font Film Auteurs The Typophile Film Festival is now accepting entries for its 2005 edition, to be shown at TypeCon 2005 in NYC this July. Last year's festival featured two of the shorts we created (catch
Arts & Entertainment Webby Award Winners Even though the Webbies award ceremony is moving to the East Coast this year, Bay Area-based websites cleaned house in the actual awards. A big liver-flavored rawhide with a ribbon on it to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Staff of Life Pass the basket, please! The San Francisco-based US Bread Baking Guild competitive team won this year's Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, described as "the World Cup of bread baking." The team coach
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Mark Wasserman & Irene Ng SFist waited in line? Yup, We first hit up this duo exactly five months ago, after hearing tall tales of the their dynamism and creativity. Turns out that we weren't the only ones
SF News Get Ur Geek On: Breaking News Edition SFist has been using products from both companies every day for the last few years, and would like to point out that this is a huge blow to the market competition for creative
SF News Verizon CEO Craps On The Gavster Hey, you know that municipal wireless system that fair Gavin plans to build here in EssEff? Of course it makes our AirPort Express card drool to think about city-wide connectivity, for free (or
Arts & Entertainment Shopping Saturday! We're always happy to give new and emerging fashion design talent showplace R.A.G. love, because we think they're cool as heck. They join fellow Hayes Valley retailer Manifesto for this Saturday's
Arts & Entertainment Glossy-ing It Up Hey, congratulations to local magazine (on contemporary design and architecture) for winning the National Magazine Association's prestigious "Ellie" award, for best magazine with circulation from 100,000 to 250,000! Dwell beat out
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 Your Commute: Sucks News flash! Traffic is really bad around here! The Examiner is starting a six-part series looking at specific traffic jam spots, what's wrong with them from a civil engineering perspective, and what we
Arts & Entertainment 2005 Photobloggies West Coast reprazent! They're taking nominations for the 2005 Photobloggie awards -- click through and make sure our Bay Area photographers and their gorgeous art get some love! (Full disclosure: Our cuddly publisher
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
SF News Interview: Jeff Chang Tell us all about your new book It's a 500+ page love letter to hip-hop and an alternative cultural and political history of the last three decades. Um, it's actually a lot more
SF News Jef Raskin, RIP The dean of Macintosh design, Jef Raskin, succumbed to pancreatic cancer on Saturday in his home of Pacifica. A true visionary, he helped bring computing to the masses by thinking of new and
Arts & Entertainment Emerging Technology Conference: New Media Sticking It to Old Media. But How's the Food? Of course our first mission was to find Yahoo News Editorial Director Bill Gannon and his loyal band of editors who were nice enough to take SFist out for a drink and give
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jared Rusten Functionally beatiful, since Jared encourages looking and touching. Not something many artists encourage you to do when you see their art, but Jared hopes that you will feel compelled to touch his chairs.
misc Inside the Hotel Vitale Mark over at HotelChatter tipped us off to some anonymous photos taken from the inside of local hotelier Joi de Vivre's new boutique hotel on the Embarcadero, Hotel Vitale. While the project was
Arts & Entertainment We've Got Big Balls The gala begins at the Opera House where there will be cocktail receptions, seated dinners, and a gala performance of among other things “Romeo and Juliet.” For the celebration, the Opera House will
Arts & Entertainment Are You Stoned and Have Twenty Large to Burn? We love to watch a meme spread on the internet. In this case we can trace the explosion of the JL421 Badonkadonk from Palo Alto's NAO Design. It looks like it first appeared
SF News SFist Cheshire Remembers 2004 Like SFist Emily, I'm bad at lists. So I'm just going to relish the chance to write in the first person singular for a moment and break down the highlights and lowlights of
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 Troubled Bridge Over Local Waters It was reported at the end of last week that the Govenator rejected the suspension design for the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, opting instead for a skyway design not unlike the
SF News Temporary Reprive for Local Theaters Update and Clarifications: Thanks to Jerry Threet, legislative assistant to Supervisor McGoldrick, for his great follow-up! He noted that the primary sponsor of the ordinance to create a CU process (as described below)
misc Getting Hitched Those of you paying attention may have noticed the lack of a certain warm, witty, and meticulous voice of reason on theater, social issues, and graphic design on this site as of late
