SF News Do You Have Prince Albert In A Can? Har har! We were going to post about this yesterday too, but forgot until today. Some wag managed to do an entire interview with KTVU Tuesday night about that fire near the Altamont
SF News Terrorize This Luckily, reports have been coming out saying that yes indeed, the Bad Guys have been looking our way and plotting some terror. A new report that was released by the California Department of
misc SFist Raves: Little Otsu, Our Hero We're so delighted by Little Otsu that we're posting a Rave on Friday! So we've been meaning to check out Little Otsu since the switch from clothing products to paper, along with the
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we've never seen
SF News The Vista from the Valley on Microsoft Of course Microsoft is not an empire that will fall quickly. We doubt Ray Ozzie will pull a Nero and set the Redmond campus alight or feed open-source advocates to lions (that's Steve
Arts & Entertainment Mike Taylor from The Court and Spark One word to describe The Court & Spark: Affable. One word to describe your music: Shady. What's it take to get a gig in this town anyway? Other than the belief that what
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Zuni West That's seven, right? There are definitely worse models to emulate, we surely will not complain. We had a dinner there the week after the restaurant opened, and had they stumbled, we would not
SF News Castro Car Fires Wow, this is pretty awful. Yesterday around 6:30 p.m., a guy running the red down the Castro hill across Market drifted into the northbound lane and slammed into a BMW turning
SF News Fiona v. Janet: Bring It On! Anyone who's played one-on-one against Mayor Newsom's gotta have some game! Look at the fire in Fiona's eyes in this picture! Bring! It! On! After a fairly moribund start (for our purposes, "moribund"
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cartography Of Ashes</i> It is to tell people that an outdoor movie screening at the fire station on 19th and Folsom, begins at 8:00 p.m. and to get there early to ensure a seat,
SF News Off To The Village Voice Our secret boyfriend is breaking up with us! The Village Voice media juggernaut has just announced that our WRTW crush Rob Harvilla is taking over the New York flagship alt-paper's music editorship, replacing
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco International Film Festival: SFist Has Got You Covered From tonight's opening night gala and screening of , to a projection of Cartography of Ashes against the firefighter's training tower at the SFFD Fire Station #7, we'll be reporting back to you with
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day A lot going on: *A pedestrian by the old US Mint on Fifth and Mission was hit and killed by a 26 Valencia bus shortly after 9 a.m. today. Footage from the
SF News Set Your Alarm For 5:12 A.M. We're just trying to spare you some panic tomorrow morning, folks -- if you hear bells and sirens at 5:12 a.m., no need to wonder about the cosmic coincidence of an
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising One hundred years ago this month, San Francisco survived an earthquake. You may have heard of it. Well, despite the odds (and the sky-high earthquake insurance rates), people keep moving here, and San
SF News Your Commute: Are We SFist Jon Today? Are we SFist Jon today or what? Not only do we feel slightly cranky about this new Bonds on Bonds TV show (it should at least be Barry Bonds talking about low-risk investment
SF News Your Commute: TGIF Thank goodness it's Fridays, all you folks who don't work at home. Boy, it's been an almost comically-bad week for commuting: doesn't the Gitmo Montgomery shutdown seem like it happened ages ago? Well,
SF News Your Commute: Road Rage Kills Folks, you've just gotta learn to let it go: today's fourth-runner-up in the Great SFist Blotter Crime News Gathering (i.e., a frantic search of all the area news sites to find something
Arts & Entertainment Beyond Linkin Park Every Asian-American music listener has that list of Asian-American stars they whip out at a moment's notice: Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park, the half-Japanese violinist (of course he's a violinist) from Yellowcard, Karen
SF News Your Commute: On The Blotter Lots of death and transit events to report today: Did you hear the helicopters whirring overhead in the Mission last night? The SFPD came in full force after reports of a serious shooting
Arts & Entertainment Review: Voxtrot Hipster posing, shoegazing indifference, emo angst, and punk anger have taken the joy out of being a rock star. A lot of bands make it seem like they would rather be somewhere else
SF News BART Fire Aftermath Now that yesterday's BART fire is out and trains are moving again, the inevitable finger-pointing has begun. Who bears the blame here? Is it BART? Why does BART use flammable solvents on its
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 Fire (Preparedness) In Noe Valley Ready, aim.... and look out for firebugs this Saturday at the Noe Valley Farmers Market, as the Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) and the SF Fire Department highlight this month's safety theme, "Light
SF News Bush/Cheney Escape Another Close Call So why did Elsbernd push it off to committee, a sure-fire way to delay the sucker and keep the thing from ever being voted upon? Says Elsbernd in Matier & Ross: "I have
