Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Blogspotter What did we tell you, Chris? Switch to blogger.com! The Chron, fresh from learning that "blog" is short for "Web-log," (gosh! You can read them any old time and they can be
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Christopher Appelgren Although Christopher is way too diplomatic to play favorites with Lookout’s current roster of artists, he does have a few tips to local artists, as well as other ideas about what to
SF News SFist Team Party Crash: CodeCon Reception The party was for CodeCon, San Francisco's very own indie coder convention. As Technorati's Niall Kennedy put it, "When I was growing up, I loved Microsoft. Now I'm here at CodeCon." Founded in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's What? It's the Essefficist, Silly! Snarkity snark snark, ya know? Fetch the comfy chair. Anyways, it seems only right that the Essefficist bring you crucial information about tasty, locally produced, cooling treats as we enjoy this unseasonably warm
SF News Your Commute: Casual Day The East Bay's Casual Commute just got a little more codified with today's Chron cover story about the cheapest way to get across the Bay Bridge. We've never been able to find a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Party Crash -- East Bay Rats' Fight Night If you don't know the legend of the East Bay Rats Motorcycle Club, think of it as having an aesthetic somewhere between Mad Max and Edward Gorey. Rather than tricked-out Harleys with glitter
SF News Wait, Wait Just a Minute H&M, Now Wow, this news just keeps getting older. We were aghast, we were agog, and now were still awaiting. From that nation up north that brought you irresistibly spiffy furniture with funny names: more
Arts & Entertainment Barbarians to Invade the Uptown As Scaramouche points out, there should be quite the turnout, so if you're into blogs or are a blogger, and you qualify as a Bay Area resident (we doubt anyone from Eureka, Sacramento
misc The Essefficist! The Essefficist! The Essefficist! So without further adieu, let's hear from Carnal Carl: I hope you can help me with my recent moral quandary. There is a charming young woman who goes to grad school in the
SF News Former Raider Pro-Bowler Shot The tale of former Raider's center Barrett Robbins just got a lot sadder yesterday, as he is currently in crtical condition after being shot in an apparent robbery attempt inside a Miami nightclub.
Arts & Entertainment Hope On a chilly but still night on Ocean Beach, SFist and HiMY SYeD joined interested passerby in sending a message of hope to the victims of the Tsunami, assembling HiMY's message in luminaria
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Culinary Piracy Our idea of being a foodie outlaw is eating ribs in front of a vegetarian or putting chicken on pizza (which we're still not entirely comfortable with). Cheap thrills, we know -- but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Freebird! For the rest of us who want to assuage our guilt by picking up an expensive free-range bird, make sure you check out East Bay Animal Advocates' website. Apparently, it doesn't take much
SF News What Big Game? It's the Big Game this weekend! Tips on how to take that wacky "BART" train to "the East Bay" are exchanged, history is retold, anecdotes about marching band and intra-school antics are fondly
SF News Hurrah and Huzzah for Chronicle Watch! We may kid the Chronicle every once in awhile, for, oh, laying people off, getting rid of good columnists, and shoddy editorial standards, but sometimes you gotta give credit where credit is due.
Arts & Entertainment 15 Years Later On Sunday the 17th at 5:04 p.m., it'll be the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. We still live with reminders of the quake every day -- from the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Culinary Digest We do the reading so you can concentrate on eating. Gerald Hirigoyen is at it again, adding Bocadillo to his empire of French Basque eateries here in The City - coverage by Paul
Arts & Entertainment Bed Down with the Bard Tonight So apparently this is the deal: for $28 per member ($35 nonmembers), you get dinner, stargazing, camping out, breakfast the next morning, and a guided nature walk after breakfast. Tickets for the actual
SF News Your Commute SFist hasnt seen "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3," but after Mondays East Bay BART commute trauma, the flick described as "the Godfather of subway hijacking movies" is definitely moving to the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: One of SF's Own Think about how many people you know who are actually from San Francisco. Not from the South Bay, not from the East Bay, but from the city itself. Most of us come up
Arts & Entertainment Nothing Ever Happens in San Jose The San Jose Museum of Art plays host to the first major solo U.S. exhibit of work by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Citing influences such as Disney and Punk Rock, Nara is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chicken and Waffles Make Triumphant Return to Oaktown Soul food options just haven't been the same since Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles closed up shop in Oakland a couple of years ago. The bay area offshoot of the L.A. institution was
Arts & Entertainment Too Cool for School Man, the entire Bay Area publishing community seems to be jumping on the DJ instruction phenomenon. First it was the East Bay Express with their "School of Scratch" feature. The next day the
SF News Onion Yes! Si se puede! The Berkeley Bowl has finally unionized. Its been a long fight to get worker-friendly arugula in the no-nukes City by the East Bay. When talk of unionizing first arose,
SF News Binding Nemo? But according to the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), the city didn't go nearly far enough in asking for concessions from Pixar in terms of contributing to the local community.
