Arts & Entertainment Shake, Rattle, and Browse You may want to metaphorically brace yourself under a solid table (and not in a doorjamb, for crying out loud!) -- 2006 is not only the year of the Congressional midterm elections, but
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Upright Citizens Brigade: A.S.S.S.S.C.A.T. at SF Sketchfest The show was frickin' great. The cast was on, barely breaking a sweat throughout their performance, and almost completely in-synch with each other. Every bit that they did was brought to an almost
Arts & Entertainment SF360 Revealed! Part Three: It Wouldn't Be SF If It Wasn't At Least Slightly Orgiastic Whew. Let's catch our breaths, here. Celebrity chefs? Srsly? We're not totally sold on this one. While we like the whole one-city/one-book thing that the SF Public Library hosts, this "expanded theater"
SF News "The Daily Show" Takes on the Perils of Pelosi Yes, our beautiful city and it's congressional representative once again made the "Daily Show." Yay! And could we be more provincial? Anyways, the bit was on latest political meme being that despite all
misc SFist Raves: Moving Pictures We're kind of on a pro-BART kick today -- which may be due in part to the fact that we've been taking the BART down to Millbrae all week. We understand that not
SF News Search For Jerry Tang Continues On January 7, the Financial District, North Beach, and SOMA were canvassed based on a December 16 possible sighting by a security guard in the 1 California area. In that sighting: (A) security
SF News SFist checks out the 510: Public Access TV Edition To call it "the Bay Area's homage to 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000'" is to sell both TV shows short. We tuned in for 'Monster Island's' broadcast of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Goes Back to School Now, yes, the fees wouldn't have to be increased if it wasn't due to some agreement with the UC system to raise fees or else lose funding. And Arnie could have given that
misc 'Fisties: Best Place to Shop -- Retail Our favorite place to shop for non-essentials is, bar none, Super 7. We wander their tiny store for ages, certainly inciting suspicions of shoplifting. But we swear we're not! We just love everything
SF News Pitcher or Belly Itcher? And the Giants got their man. Monday it was announced that Matt Morris, formerly of the Cardinals, is now a member in proud standing of the Black & Orange. As we said earlier,
misc SFisting: Sex Machines Slideshow: The Squeaky Thing Gets the Grease With San Francisco as the home of Survival Research Laboratories, the birthplace of Combots and Robolympics, and the location of Fucking Machines secret lair, we have to wonder just what is in that
SF News Jerry Tang Update In addition to posting fliers posted all over the city, they've created a wiki on the effort to find him, which is being constantly updated withinformatin on whom to contact if you can
SF News Safe Havens What with the news today about the dead baby found in a dumpster in Redwood City, we'll copy KTVU and pass along some information about the Safe Haven (or Safely Surrendered Baby) law.
Arts & Entertainment Come Download Uncle John's Band We would say that something like this is "the death of the 60's" but that corpse has been long dead, ridden with more wounds than Sonny Corleone (speaking of which, has anyone else
SF News Follow-Ups We know you're probably just dying to know what's been happening on all those fascinating news items we've been telling you about. Well, fret no more! Your prayers have been answered! Supervisor Gerardo
misc SFist Rants: Hating on Starbucks And yes, we're totally serious. Let's go to the way back machine and take a look at those bleak, dark days before Starbucks entered the world. You remember what that was like? The
SF News Suspects Arrested for Oakland Vandalism Two suspects have been arrested in the Oakland convenience store vandalism case. According the Chronicle, two men have been taken into custody and four more warrants have been issued for other suspects. As
SF News Recall Gavin Chief of Police Heather Fong, bless her heart, says she's doing the best she can and has authorized more hires for the PD, and her deputies keep emphasizing that there's only so much
SF News Sometimes We Have To Wait Until November To Get Our September Summer The only thing missing from this full-blown summer are the extra hours we lost to Daylight Takings Away a couple weeks back. (Did you know the federal government has already legislated extending Daylight
SF News Oh Really, O'Reilly? As you might imagine, Bill O'Reilly's comments about our fair city deserving a terrorist attack managed to raise a few hackles, including Chris Daly's, who was so angered by Bill's hot-headed comments that
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: sunday Sunday SUNDAY! ComBots are coming to Fort Mason next weekend, so you can all knock yourselves out watching robots with sawblades and blowtorches cutting each other up and setting each other on fire. We've already
Arts & Entertainment Deadly Juice Squeeze Things got a little ugly on Fifth and Mission yesterday, as the World Can't Wait protestors struck a blow against George Bush by tossing Molotov cocktails at the right-wing bastion of the San
SF News Kaboom Yeah, so, a building in the Mission was totally just on fire. Near 17th and Shotwell. Crap! We're following the story and we'll have more news as soon as someone throws a heavy
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Tomorrow Dies Forever Today You'd think that for a city on a fault line, situated right next to the world's biggest proving ground for new technology, the Bay Area could come up with a better class of
SF News SFist Blotter Special Edition We usually run the blotter crime roundup on Tuesdays and Fridays, but we're sorry to say that there's been enough breaking news in the area that we're running a special edition today. Everyone's