SF News Better Streets Survey Anyhow, we just got forwarded the SF Better Streets survey, where you get to rate your favorite and least favorite pedestrian streets in the city. Fun! The survey is relatively short, and they
misc Week Around The -ists Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight But brace yourselves for tonight's edition: an "honest" look at the (dying? dead? necessary?) state of print publishing. Such inky icons as Ben Fong-Torres (from Rolling Stone), Lynn Peril (publisher of Mystery Date)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Chocolate Salon at Fort Mason If you like learning about and consuming chi-chi/artisan/premium/hand-made chocolate in all its forms, there's lots to love at the Chocolate Salon, taking place today and tomorrow in Building A at
misc Oh Yeah, Bricky Baby, Your Facadism Gets Me Hot But check out their PR's garish and surprisingly epic promotional video for the new pads. The best part? How they seamlessly weed out your more unsavory tax bracket dwellers (i.e., you, us)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Anthony Gordon of Loquat Update!: We got the contest entry form working (we think) -- sorry about the mixup. Go on, enter now! San Francisco pop darlings Loquat are peeking their heads out from inside their studio
SF News Seeing Stars at the All-Star Game We love seeing these games on TV for reasons already spelled out, mainly because it's a great way to show off the city and our little jewel of a park. And while watching
Arts & Entertainment 'VideoGate' Officer Andrew Cohen Doesn't Hold Back Officer Andrew Cohen made headlines in recent years for the videos he produced spoofing the SFPD. The videos were intended to be a humorous sendoff to former police captain Rick Bruce and poke
SF News Republicans Also Want You To Cut Your Hair, Hippie Associated Press' Scott Lindlaw reports that at yesterday's federal building grand opening, as Nancy Pelosi was in the middle of playing the time-honored role of ribbon cutter, "anti-war protestors" audibly chanted such gems
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Now, "On the Lot" is a show with a lot of problems. It probably would have been cancelled a long time ago, but since Steven Spielberg is one of the producers, it's been
Arts & Entertainment Chris Daly Has A Blog Man, we were reading the Chron on the plane out of San Francisco on July 4 for vacation, balling our fists in frustration over missing the stories on Ed Jew's "part-time lover" response
Arts & Entertainment The SF Jewish Film Festival's On The Way! You've got a wide array of movies to choose from, including movies about Jewish boxers and documentaries from Israel -- but also, the always-fun film festival staples of romantic movies set in Paris
misc Week Around The -ists LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today To celebrate 07/07/07, local modern Japanese theater troupe Theater of Yugen is presenting The Cycle Plays, an all-day festival of pieces influenced by Japanese Noh theater traditions. The performances use Noh
misc This Whole Town Could Be Yours . We're not sure how the pending sale of Red Rock Island is going, but if you miss out on it (or are not quite rich enough), here's another fun alternative: buy this town.
misc From The Editor's Inbox: The Mission Post Office So it seems that the Post Office in San Francisco, or at least the Mission District, is so inept that local branches no longer handle package pickups after a failed delivery attempt. Now
SF News Who's Running For Mayor: The Chicken And The Wolf Okay, okay, okay, okay -- we hear you about Laughing Squid's scoop that Chicken John running for mayor, folks! We were totally slammed at work today, that's why we're getting this up late.
SF News Day Around The Bay --Who owns the new East Bay Express? [the EBX's 92510] --Oh, Newsom's all for foot patrols. [KCBS.] --The Bike Coalition and Ross Mirkarimi want lights at Fell and Masonic. [Examiner.] --Wanna pay someone
SF News The SF Board Of Supes Clown Show An old crank's written a piece for the SFGate today either decrying or praising (we must confess we can't quite tell) our current crop of city supervisors as "a clown show." A clown
Arts & Entertainment Oh No, Ed Jew!: Swear To God SFist Christopher Rogers sends in this picture he got outside the bar Shanghai Kelly's (in District 3) last Thursday. No other news to report, it's just a fun picture.
SF News Day Around The Bay --This is an awesome picture from the Pride celebration yesterday. [37°C (we learned how to make the degree sign! Thanks, commenters!), from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Left in SF's Robert Haaland had
Arts & Entertainment Sicko On Buildings Now, you could either watch the trailer for Michael Moore's new movie Sicko (about HMOs and universal health care) here on your computer (above)... OR, you could go outside and watch it projected
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: <i>Itty Bitty Titty Committee</i> is a tongue-in-cheek portrayal of the fun and frustrations of radical feminist politics, and an affectionate exploration of its inherent hypocrisies. Whether it's adorable baby dykes who have no clue about women's history,
SF News Day Around The Bay --Pride was fun! (Have you noticed we always have great weather for Pride?) [Chron, ABC 7, CBS 5.] --Who were the bloggers floating the Newsom coke rumors? We don't it was us. [Chron.
SF News The Last Swells By The Numbers Hey -- we're not doing our usual light-hearted romp through the Swells society column this weekend, because we've got sad news. The doyenne of Swells, Catherine Bigelow, announced in this week's column that
