Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising, Part Three There's so many 1906 earthquake related events, we've gotta do a third post rounding up your tourism options! Keep sending those events on in! Previous posts here and here. Additional events listings here,
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping Takes it to the Streets Submissions go to Yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Customer at Good Vibrations: "Oh, that's the one I use in the car." -- From Jonathan, via Amy Geezer pushing a grocery cart, to no
Arts & Entertainment It's Chappelle's Show, We Just Live In It Subject: Just overheard on the 6th bus heading downtown At 4th and Market, this average young white guy gets on all excited and calls his friend on his cell. He says, "oh my
SF News -Ist-A-Palooza Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival
SF News Things Fall Apart Now that worrying about infrastructure is so 2002 Strokes hot, everyone's starting to worry about the state of SF's infrastructure. We know that our streets are a mess, but that's not the half
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Buddha Bar Is nothing sacred? Canines have very few opportunities to really perform work in this modern society, and now we can’t even pull kegs around in shopping carts? The teams do stop at
SF News Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow It snowed in the Bay Area this weekend -- the first March snowstorm since 1896. And we're not just talking snow like in the Sierras or maybe on the top of Mount Tam
SF News Your Commute: Fire On The Bart , we thought, as we stared blankly out of our downtown office window this morning. That's an awful lot of cop cars speeding down the street. Then we got an email from SFist Karen,
Arts & Entertainment An Entire Week's Worth of Eavesdropping, Knocked Off in a Single Busride Sniff. Mom, I'm fine. I have like an AMAZING immune system right now. I take vitamins every day. Sniff It's just a cold. What kind of doctor are you going to go see
SF News Honk If You Can See Frank Chu I just realized this morning on my way to work that I have not seen Frank in like 2 weeks! What is the deal? Is he on vacation? Is the SFist investigative team
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: W♥WL Chef Daniel Patterson -- whose new restaurant Coi is about to open downtown -- wrote an op-ed in the New York Times, pointing out the influence of Alice Waters of Chez Panisse. Hers
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Patrick Roddie's <i>Hips</i>! Photographing people shouldn't be intimidating for the photographer -- or the model. San Francisco based photographer Patrick Roddie explains how to put your subjects at ease, find the best light and come away
SF News Cab Fare Increases Are the New MUNI Fare Increases The reason for all this is due to the standard reasons: increases in gas rates and cost of living expenses. We would have a measure of sympathy about this, but as we all
misc SFist Rants: 80W and 101 to San Jose: No, the Other Right Lanes What’s the problem with the 5th Street exit? It’s simple: really bad signage. You’re driving west, just getting off the bridge, and you know that you should be in the
SF News A Tree Grows in the 'Loin There is, however, a catch. And that catch is that more trees mean more maintenance and more maintenance means more people and more people means more money. Money that we don't have and
SF News We're #11 The report, which you can read here, calls out San Francisco for anti-pan handling measures, issuing citations, handing out one way bus tickets, and for having "negative reactions" to homeless people. As opposed
SF News Subway Disruption Illuminated At about the same time that Nathaniel Ford takes over as the new head of Muni, using the subway is going to get very confusing. But don't panic: we've got tips here for
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The One City, One Book Edition Or maybe we'll just head back into the bookstore for a copy of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices. It's the inaugural selection for Oakland's "One City, One Book" campaign. Oakland Library
misc The 'Fisties: Most Ineffective Activism But all those totally unsuccessful efforts pale in comparison to 2005's greatest activism-loser: the Muni fare strike. Because it could've been so awesome, if it had worked. There is no organization more loathed
misc The 'Fisties: Best News Story 2005 So here's a random selection of our favorites from 2005. Did we leave out yours? Best Daly: Our favorite post this year? The provocative interview of Chris Daly's better half, of course! In
Arts & Entertainment From Wessels to Wodka The decommissioned Alameda Naval Air Station isn't just where the nuclear wessels used to be kept -- it's now home to plenty of businesses who are taking advantage of all the space the
SF News Houstonist to SFist -- Drop Dead (Soccer) Hey, do you remember way back to two weeks ago when the latest member of the -ist family came on board and SFist Eve said we couldn't think of a reason to hate
SF News SF Examiner Letters in Reruns? The always-vigilant Bay Area Transit News gets credit for pointing out the apparant Xeroxing. Only a few words were changed between his letter published on September 5th and the one published yesterday; that's
SF News What's Going On In Union Square? Dumb us, we just thought it was H&M party hoopla, but nooo, apparently there's glamour beyond economically priced clothing going on this week. Who knew? We've heard from one source that
