misc Week Around the -Ists This past week, Phillyist got a little naughty, snapped a few pictures of Bigfoot (or maybe it was just a skinny bear...), and sized up the Sixers (the short version? Maybe next year)
SF News UPDATED: Muni's Guide to this Weekend: Dia de los Muertos, US Half Marathon UPDATE: Oh man! How could we have missed this one? There's also going to be a Falun Gong march! We're sick and tired of trying to figure out whether we want to make
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight (All Hallow's Eve Edition) So much to do, so much not to do. What's a girl to do? Well, here is just a smattering of what's going on tonight. (An aside, is there any reason to buy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight (Eeek! Edition) -- Eraserhead (1977): More than just a t-shirt you saw all the art majors sport in college, it's one of David Lynch's first films. And it's sort of spooky in that David Lynch
misc SFist Answers -- Park at Scott and Waller? But we received this urgent question from someone about a park we've neither seen nor frolicked in. Maybe you have an answer regarding this mystifying Scott and Waller area? (Do check out Google's
SF News Gavin Newsom's <del>Power Point Demonstration</del> SotC Address Did you see or hear about Gavin Newson's State of the City address? We did. For a few minutes. It seems the Gavin went on for over 100 minutes, as SFist Jim already
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After -It appears Scott Ostler was not the only one to start the Mike Nolan Death Watch. Over at the Merc, Tim Kawakami started the clock up too. On KNBR, the natives are getting
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After F---ing Red Sox. Saints 31 49ers 10- We think we can describe this game in two words: oy and vey. How bad was this stinkeroo? The Saints scored on the first drive and
SF News That Was Muni's Guide to the Weekend that Was Sorry we're so late with this feature this week. Our tardiness involves a sordid tale of broken 2Wire gateways and AT&T not being terribly helpful. But anyway: on with the show!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Carmen Jones: Based off of Georges Bizet's famous French opera Carmen, the adaptation was made into a successful Broadway musical, and then a '50s film staring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Pearl
SF News Friday Fun: Gavin's Wikipedia Page! Hey, remember the Wikipedia scanner that tells you who's edited what page on the ol' Wikepedia? Well, we decided to have a little fun with it and see who's been playing with the
SF News Aaron "Payback's a Bitch" Peskin Tries to Slash SF's Environment Dept. Mere days after the head of the environmental department broke with Aaron Peskin and other city leaders on a Public Utilities Commission policy, this week he introduced a wee bit of legislation that
SF News 6 a.m. Oakland Drug Raid: One of the Largest Busts Ever Although a press conference happening this afternoon will tell us all of the gory details, this morning an Oakland drug bust went down. It was one of the largest of its kind in
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #6 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Looking at the fact that Serj Tankian's concert at Slim's on October 28th is already sold out, we
SF News What an Excellent Question. Next? Via Slog comes this excellent debate candidate. They're doing that thing again where they make the presidential contenders watch YouTube videos before speechifying, and this is possibly one of the best questions we're
Arts & Entertainment Muni's Guide to this Weekend As previously noted, one of the best weekend guides in the city is produced by Muni and sent out exclusively to the press. (The PresidiGo, meanwhile, extends that courtesy to its riders.) So,
SF News Question Time, Unwillingly Mine Hey, remember that Question Time thingy? You know, that non-binding measure that voters passed which called for Gavin to appear in front of the Board of Supes and answer questions thrown his way
SF News Berkeley-ish Berkeley Protest About Something In Berkeley Which one is the annoying old white person in support of military recruiting, and which one is the annoying old white person against it? At today's U.S. Marine Corps recruiting center protest
SF News A Room of One's Own...In Which to Shoot Up As mentioned in today's Chronicle, the idea of a safe-space in which intravenous drug users can shoot up -- without fear of arrests, beatings, rapes, or whatever happens in those movies after heroin's
SF News Don't Forget to Tip Your Driver, or Brakeman When our relative from out of town just had to ride a cable car before his departure from our superior city, we decided to indulge him and follow some tracks until we caught
misc Week Around the -Ists DCist spent the week honoring some local heroes. First and foremost, they honored 75 year-old Mona Shaw, who smashed up a local Comcast cable office with a hammer after she got fed up
SF News Muni's Weekend Guide (And of course, if you enjoy online scavenger hunts, you can also attempt to get this info on Muni's website.) So what's on Muni's radar this weekend? The Noe Valley Harvest Festival! The
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond says the Navy is the gayest armed services branch. Well, sure. Cars are worse than homeless people, says a letter writer. Halloween will suuuuuck. A
SF News It's a Motherf------ Column-Off dueling press conferences and memo-leakage, the Homeless issue is becoming the Issue du Jour, leading to a full-fledged reporter dogpile. First came CW Nevius who weighed in with yet another story on the
SF News Zombietime's Folsom Street Fair Imagery Over a week has passed, well enough time for your teeth to stop grinding and jaws to stop aching, so we present to you in your sober state, zombietime's Folsom Street Fair 2007
