SF News American Football Spectacular: Hope And Tragedy * San Francisco vs. St. Louis Sunday, November 26, 2006. 10:00 AM, PST. Week 12 The Battle Of Momentum Wow, after beating the Seahawks last weekend, the Niners are riding a wave of
SF News Brittanie Mountz Wins! Your results are in pie graph form above -- but if you can't read the names and numbers in those little wedges, here they are in legible form: --Brittanie Mountz -- 68.3%
SF News About O.J. Well, all of that is true. So here's your bit of O.J. news for the day: all things O.J. are being cancelled, the book and the TV interviews. In fact, it
SF News Well, Uh, So Now What? The big question to be answered is whether it's even worth doing at all. Whether or not we do it should probably be figured out, like, now because if we are, people can
SF News Hairwatch (Brittanie Mountz) We're looking around for pictures of the new do for you to check out (check back to see if a link has magically appeared here in the next few hours!), but meanwhile, the
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Operates in the Park. --Friday was the Opera opening night at the opera house, and I was one of the penguins there, in that March of the Penguins. --I read in the paper there was a report
SF News The SFist NFL Preview: The American Football Spectacular Previews the Raiders Thank goodness. It is here. Let the games count once more, o sweet departed St. Tagliabue, let the National Football League's Regular Season mercifully come. Once more for our entertainment, the 32 franchises
Arts & Entertainment Local Publisher's Graphic Novel Highest Placer on USA Today List? BELIEVE IT! Viz Media is a local publisher that, among other things, imports all sorts of great Japanese comix ("manga") and cartoons ("anime"), translates them, and distributes them to the U.S. markets. Naruto Volume
SF News The SFist NFL Preview: We Break the Season Down a Day Late And a Dollar Short There's usually two ways we go about doing this. One of them is to compare something in sports to something in pop culture. Like "What Member of the 2006 Yankees is Like a
SF News The SFist Football Preview: Your 2006 49ers-- "Separating Wheat From <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff>Chaff</a>" Thank goodness. Let it come. Let the games count once more, we pray you, let the National Football League's Regular Season begin. Once more for our entertainment, the thirty-two franchises will clamber over
misc Keep Your Hands to Yourself Testifying for the proposed rules was members of the Commission on the Status of Women, currently residing in the top five of our "Things We'll Slash Out of the Budget for Being a
Arts & Entertainment Reversal Of Fortune Ain't no better way to celebrate the Fourth of July than by watching the Coney Island Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition: our buddies at the mothership Gothamist even liveblogged the whole thing! (yes,
Arts & Entertainment New Contributor Interview: Chris Johnson I wanted to be an SFist contributor because I needed the structure. Name The TruthMaker. My glass is always half empty, deal with it. Age and Occupation Youngish late thirties. Laborer. Home Town
Arts & Entertainment Vloggercon 2006 Video geeks are descending on San Francisco this weekend for Vloggercon 2006 (or 'video blogger conference' if you're not a fan of tech neologisms). It was inspired by Webzine and the original Vloggercon
Arts & Entertainment War! It was a typical day on the front. A battle was brewing, but people continued to live their lives, knowing that the day might well be their last. Women in hoop skirts made
SF News Answer Hazy, Try Again Somehow, your crack SFist political team missed this story from the Examiner last week. In this instance, the use of the word "somehow" means 1) we can't navigate the Examiner website anymore and
Arts & Entertainment Supersize Us Are fast food joints the blight Schlosser and company would have us believe, or are you "lovin' it"? (Incidentally, have you seen that McDonald's commercial where the prone McD's customer slides along the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Labs: Boobs The story began when the Entertainment Software Ratings Board announced a re-rating for the game, bumping it up from its original "Teen" rating to "Mature." [] The ESRB claimed that Bethesda and publisher Take-Two
Arts & Entertainment We're So Proud of our Hometown Whore Even though she once made fun of our blog's name (and who hasn't) we've always loved that lovable scamp, Peaches Christ. So we're pleased as punch to hear that the queen's finally hitting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Roundup: Super Boss-Fight Mega Edition Xtreme Nintendo gave bloggers-who-think-they're-funny a present on Thursday by announcing the new name for their upcoming Revolution console (). It's going to be called "Wii." Seriously. With a "distinctive ii spelling" that's pronounced like "we,
SF News SFist Tech Labs: The Revolution Will Be Podcasted The MacBook Pro has a new 17" model with a faster SuperDrive, an additional USB port, and the FireWire 800 port that's missing from the 15" version. So if you were holding off
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Lower City</i> We were thankful that our friend, a native of Salvador, Brazil, quickly agreed to see "Lower City" with us. We never doubted the raw beauty of her hometown, and the film confirmed what
misc Win A Ticket To The High Times Comedy Festival! There are going to be some exceptionally funny comedians playing these shows... the scathing, biting humor of Tom Rhodes, who has been seen on Comedy Central and his own NBC sitcom. Doug Benson
Arts & Entertainment We Take It All Back, Mick LaSalle. OK, Not Really. The Mission District of San Francisco is the kind of place where transgender bike messengers live chockablock with marketing executives, thrift stores brace for the encroachment of Starbucks, and heroin addicts nod off