SF News Flash Pillow Fighters to Pay $35,000? See, this is why a brick fight would've worked so much better. The Department of Public Works is fuming after the clean-0up cost for this year's annual flash pillow night at Justin Herman
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Real couples tell the stories of how they first met while improv actors reenact the scene through sketches and songs at How We First. 8 p.m. // Herbst Theater (401 Van Ness
misc A Few of SFist's Favorite Holiday Things Tis the season, folks. Here are a few of SFist's favorite holiday moments. Whether they be food, TV shows, movies or songs, each of these things get us in the holiday mood. And
misc <i>Homes For The Homies</i> "Homes For The Homies" 2009 from Master Mind Productions on Vimeo. Bernal Heights native, artist and film director Abo Greenwald interviewed a lady who makes homes for Homies. You know, those collectible figures
misc Film du Jour: <s>Pie</s> Shaving Cream Fight San Francisco played host to some sort of massive, public pie fight at the Powell Street cable car turnaround last week. Real pie, however, wasn't used. No filling, crust, or whipped cream was
misc Camera + Sushi Boat = Fun We know we're piling on the video clips today. Sorry. But since it's a stormy day, we figured why not. Also, some of you might have seen this already. To those of you
SF News New B2B Rules Prompt Outcries of Anguish, Anger Now that boozing, urinating, and nudity have been banned from the ING Bay to Breakers race, a run famous for boozing, urinating, and nudity -- seriously, we're sorry; this is partially our fault
misc Happy Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day Did you know that today is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day? It is. And whether or not this is a holiday drummed up by the fat cats in the bubble wrap industry, we feel
SF News Tree Sitters Lose Yet Another Round More time is being wasted over in Berkeley over those damn oak trees. This time the Berkeley City Council voted last night that they it "will not seek a stay of a judge's
SF News No Matter What, Berkeley Tree Sitters Lose After a judge ruled that the University of California can cut down those cumbersome old oak trees, the kids still stuck up in the grove aren't coming down. What else is new, right?
SF News Another Berkeley Tree-Sitter Arrested, Standoff Continues While police have tried to starve and cutoff supplies to the few remaining protesters up in the UCB oak grove, another tree-sitter was arrested yesterday afternoon at around 5 p.m. Performing yoga
misc Sports Facility Plans Put On Hold, Trustifarians Feel Like They've Accomplished Something UCB's plans to mow down an oak grove and put up a sports training facility were put on hold. It seems a judge halted the plans until "the university can prove the project
SF News UC/Berkeley Uses Force to Oust Tree-Sitters The battle to save an oak grove on the UC-Berkeley campus turned even uglier yesterday. Protesters sang bizarre Native American-ish sounding songs (seriously, check this out) and threw buckets of urine at police
SF News Save the Oaks Protesters at UC/Berkeley Plucked? Five remaining tree climbers over at the University of California at Berkeley -- you know, the ones who have been protesting the school's plan to tear down the Memorial Oak Grove to put
SF News Global Monopoly Game Embroiled in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict In January we mentioned a global Monopoly board game where you could vote on which cities you want on Hasbro's latest version of the popular board game, Monopoly Here and Now: The World
SF News UPDATE: Two San Francisco Skiers <del>Still Missing</del> Found Safe Patrick Frost, 35, and Christopher Gerwig, 32, of San Francisco are still nowhere to be found since reported missing since reported missing last Saturday night at Alpine Meadows, just north of Lake Tahoe.
misc SFist Cyclist of the Year: Fixie-Riding Andy He truly exemplifies the Japanese concept of Jinba-Ittai (人馬一体), the unity, the oneness between rider and horse. He's not cloistered inside with the Nintendo Wii or the Guitar Hero. No, he's out there
misc <i>The Bitter End</i> Bathroom Warning Whether the parenthetical information was added after the original "Fuck him" graffiti or not, we were pretty stoked about finding a layered message in a bar restroom. Does anyone know J. Brandon T.
misc It's Got to be the Morning After Man, that Jamie Lynn Spears story is tremendous. Just stupendously tremendous. And you know, of course, that Mrs Spears, mother of Jamie Lynn and Britney, actually had a contract to write a book
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur): Birds! We tend to think nothing of them here in the Bay Area - well, as far as the homely and picked upon poor pigeon goes -
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Kenneth Ryan Kenneth Ryan, Prop Master of the San Francisco Ballet has undergone and SFist interview below. As a San Francisco native he’s got all kinds of good tips about the city. As someone
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Taxing Soda Whether you call it soda, pop, or cola, you'll have to pay more to buy it if Gavin Newsom gets his way: Matier and Ross report that Mayor Newsom is thinking about taxing
Arts & Entertainment Hey, Where'd First Stop Go? Ever since the SFist Reads column turned us back onto the awesomeness of checking books out of the SF Public Library, we've been big fans of the First Stop area of the Main
