SF News People Have Been Bitching About San Francisco Losing Its Soul Since Literally Forever Following on my own two rejoinders to the recent pieces in the New Yorker and Washington Post about San Francisco irreversibly going to shit, the Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub and Mission Local's Joe Eskanazi have each penned their own responses.
SF News Washington Post Calls San Francisco 'Patient Zero' For America's Urban Ills Another day, another "elegy" for the unrelenting wasteland that is our fair city. In exactly the same vein and tone of that irritating New Yorker piece last week, the Washington Post has published a piece in the Style section all about how San Francisco has finally, irreversibly gone to hell.
SF News Depressed-Sounding New Yorker Writer Describes Bleak, Dystopian San Francisco A new piece in The New Yorker, part of a recently popular genre of bleak takes on San Francisco losing its soul to tech wealth and tech everything, stands out in part because it was written by someone who moved here for a tech job.
SF News Day Around the Bay Dear sky: Please stop raining. You're being a jerk. Sincerely, everyone. [SFGate] The Palms defended. Sort of. [Curbed] Weeeee: Q4 earnings fell at Google. [SFGate] Although all of their hair currently looks like
SF News Happy Birfday, Alex Tourk If Alex Tourk had a MySpace page, he would have moved Gavin from the #1 spot on his Top 8 after he heard about the affair, and deleted Gavin as a friend. So
SF News Houston, We're Still Having Problems One of the things we have noticed, however, is that comments posted do actually appear, even if our site tells you there's some sort of problem. Usually, it will take a few minutes
SF News Do We Have a New Feature for You Want to know why all the MUNI buses always come at the same time? Wonder why they're always late? Or maybe your just curious about what they do if they have to go
misc Tales of Parking Woes Peggy writes: "I live in the Sunset on 41st Avenue across the street from West Sunset Playground. For years we had a neighbor who made watching out for our street her full time
SF News SFist on TV And the best part? Now that we've managed not to embarrass ourselves too much on the radio, you get to see if we can survive going on TV and not completely embarrass ourselves.
SF News Houston, We Have a Problem We're working on it. What this means to you, dear readers, is that you might have problems posting a comment. Bear with us. And also know that if you've posted something, there's a
SF News SFist on MySpace But in the meantime, you know what we need? Friends! We just don't have enough friends on our page, or at least enough to make our insecure selves feel the MySpace love. So,
misc It's a Hard Knock Life in California To determine all this stuff, the people behind the study, the nonprofit Editorial Projects in Education Research Center (got that?), factored in things like level of income, types of families, language and education.
Arts & Entertainment SFist on the Radio Again The show we'll be on is Irene McGee Show on 106.9 FREE FM. Apparently we're supposed to help co-host and show off our expertise on all things media and San Francisco. As
SF News The Kim Family Story Our thoughts, sympathy, and condolences at SFist go out to the family, friends, and coworkers of James Kim. We weren't the only ones following the story -- SFGate reports that the story has
SF News A Sort of Homecoming People's reactions to us always fall into two categories. There's the "Oh my God, I love your city" reaction, which we always love because it's always great to hear. You know, validation of
SF News SFist Gives Thanks So for those of you not on your way elsewhere or already there (like us and for those of you wondering how we could post this while up in the Moutains somewhere, all
SF News We're Going Through Changes Over the next three months or so you'll start noticing a few other new things. One of them will be upping the amount of postings. That'll mean more news, more politics, more arts
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink CHOW Down Seeing what's new at CHOW offered us a chance to eat Bruce Hill's food, while finding out what’s new in the CHOW/CNet/Chowhound world. The menu included: Tomales Bay oysters, Serrano
SF News Greetings and Salutations But wait! Don't erase us from your bookmarks just yet! Eve maybe going to greener pastures, but Rita is not going anywhere. Nor is any other of the SFist gang. As for what
SF News SFist Editorial: Edward Champion on Muni But this Wednesday morning was a different routine with a different set of rules. I should note from the onset that I've found most MUNI drivers to be kind and helpful. Even when
