SF News Gary Gygax, Co-Creator of Dungeons & Dragons, Dies Laughing Squid broke the news that game designer Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (1974)/co-founder of Tactical Studies Rules, died today at the ripe age of 69. According to LS, his
Arts & Entertainment 'Wine By The Bay' Event: Good Wines, Great Cause, Old Friends This Saturday at the San Francisco Embarcadero Hyatt Regency from noon-4 p.m., you can join KGO Radio and the Mendocino Wine Growers Foundation in celebration of the wines and other good stuff
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: <em>The Bridge</em> We watched the movie on DVD recently, and that was the reaction we had during more than one scene. We also shed a few tears. The movie isn't for the faint of heart,
Arts & Entertainment Free Movie At Dolores Park About Coffee/Fair Trade Friend of SFist James Guzzi, who is with TransFair USA, alerted us to a cool event his group is holding tomorrow night in Dolores Park. Black Gold is about coffee farmers in Ethiopia
Arts & Entertainment Every Day is Right-Handers' Day Friend of SFist Steve found the attached image in a bookstore window: apparently there's some store called "The Great Overland Book Company" that's offering 20% off on August 17, 18, and 19, but
SF News <i>Yelp!</i> Guns Drawn In Front Of Yelp's Offices? Friend of SFist Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp's CEO and co-founder, just shot us this note: Guns drawn in front of Yelp office... Jeremy (That would be Mission & New Montgomery.) According to Jeremy's comments
SF News Did You Feel The Earthquake? No, you didn't dream it! There was a 4.2 temblor this morning at around 4:42 a.m., centered two miles east of Oakland on the dreaded Hayward Fault. It knocked out
Arts & Entertainment Ritual Roasters Event For Bikes To Rwanda This Saturday Ritual Coffee Roasters' two locations are only about three miles apart. Not so bad on a bike, right? Well, what if you're biking with 130 pounds of coffee? Yeah, a little tougher. This
Arts & Entertainment Pretty Home Run Derby Pictures And, after the jump, David has one more photo, this time of Lou Seal trying to get some action from Alyssa Milano.
SF News Like The Surface Of The Sun Friend of SFist, Burritophile's Cate, alerted us to this amusing error over on sfgate's weather page. (Well, either an error or someone over there is pretty funny!) Stay out of Concord, people. Unless
SF News No Danger-Flags Here, No Sirree Friend-of-SFist Matt V passes along these photos of a verrrrry safe looking taxi, sighted outside a Starbucks in the Abandoned Warehouse district of the Mission. "You choose what you pay," it says on
misc When The Lights Go Down In The City Our friend Will who runs New & Used Records is celebrating a CD release this week for The Passionistas. God's Boat, produced by Kelley Stoltz, may sound lo-fi, but the band isn't afraid
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Epicugenerous There's a bunch of activities around National Hunger Awareness Day, but we would like to mention one: a fund raiser organized by epicurious.com at Farallon tomorrow (Friday). Proceeds benefit the Second Harvest,
Arts & Entertainment The Finest Kind of Writer Friend of SFist Charlie Anders reminds us that her nifty and unusual spoken-word group, Writers With Drinks, will be experiencing yet another stupendous explosion of literary greatness this Saturday, the 9th, from 7:
SF News Oh No Ed Jew! "I, we Have a Number of Attorneys ... and so Forth." Ed Jew alert! Friend-of-SFist Dan N. (or, if you like, D. Noyes) alerts us to a brand spanking new Ed Jew interview on the I-Team's website! Oh, faithful I-Team. Here's the juicy bit:
misc The Doubtful Guests Depart General consensus is that the whales have disappeared off into the ocean as mysteriously as they came. Possible next stop on their itinerary: the feeding areas near the Farallon Islands. We'll keep you
Arts & Entertainment First Chron Layoff Announced And the layoffs begin -- a source tells us the first person to be let go from the Chronicle in their 25% reduction-in-staff campaign is managing editor Robert "Rosey" Rosenthal. We got the
SF News SFist Tonight Friend of SFist judy b. is moderating a discussion about San Francisco's criminalization of poverty at the Little Roxie tonight, which is co-sponsored by the People of Color Coalition of the SF Green
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Singles events are always awkward, but you've got it easy tonight with a killer line - Did you ride your bike to work today? Head over the supperclub for Date My Friend where
Arts & Entertainment Dan Noyes: Original Gangsta We found this vintage clip of our favorite hellraiser/Facebook Friend, Dan Noyes, dropping the F-bomb. We're not sure why the dude holding the yellow sign in the background thinks KGO is "bad
SF News SFist's I-Team Report on City Proclamations Burrito Day Barry Bonds' Entourage Day Kate Should Totally Hit Jack Day No, Kate Should Totally Hit Sawyer Day Save Sean Preston & Jayden James Day Transgendered Native American Anarchist Day Journey With
Arts & Entertainment Inside the Armory On February 23rd, Kink.com opened the doors to the armory and let five lucky winners of the Kink.com golden ticket to see the wonders of what the armory had in store.
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
misc SFist Needs Your Help Friend of SFist, Julie, sent us an e-mail this morning about yet another assault, this time in the Marina. Believe it or not, the cops weren't that much of a help in this
