Arts & Entertainment Jesus Presents: Noise Pollution They're not there to persuade anyone; like Critical Mass or Dore Alley, these aggressive displays of difference just reinforce the gulf of "we're totally unlike you," rather than adopting the shrewd Scientology approach
Arts & Entertainment Good Magazine Will Do You Good (Block Party This Sunday!) We've been big fans of Good Magazine since their premier issue came out last fall. We love the inspiring stories they cover and the ways they present them -- graphics, design, and concept
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Your Carbon Footprint Off The Dinner Table "Low carb diet" had a lot of buzz in the past few years. Perhaps "low carbon diet" is next. A while ago we wrote about the possibility of saving the world through cuisine.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Well, you could either go to Carnaval this weekend -- or you could go to the State Green Party Convention. Ross Mirkarimi (seen here going into the dunk tank) is giving the keynote
SF News Market-Oriented Fees And Rebates For Vehicles Can Help Planet, Pocketbook The University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute has just published a study on the effectiveness of a new method to reduce greenhouse gas emission in California. While it may seem strange that an
SF News Apocalypse Comes Full Circle There's probably some kind of remarkable statement to be made here, about how it's a carbon-neutral film about monsters frozen in ice by climate change millions of years ago. Discursive wheels within wheels!
Arts & Entertainment Big Wheels, Bill Clinton, And You Hey, there's lots of stuff going on this weekend! And in exchange for telling you about it, we're going to ask again for a favor in return -- if you go to any
SF News Gavin Speaks! The big money quote? Gavin channeling Popeye to say "I am who I am, imperfect and a work in progress." He also denied cocaine use, said he was going to Delancey Street almost
SF News I Only Want 2 See U in the Purple Rain Well, the good news for those of you who like rain is that we're about to get pummelled by a bunch of storms, starting possibly tonight. In fact, February is looking like it's
SF News Update on SFistGate! Eh, we made that up. Barbara Taylor actually got a hold of Gavin at some Global Climate Summit (probably the one about what to do with all the reservoirs and our lack of
SF News ...And They Have a Plan In order to do this, we'll need to do things like go bike riding instead of driving, use car pool lanes, plant more trees and keep those trees that we have from dying,
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings' Semitriumphant Return Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave
SF News RIIIIIII-COLA!!!! And it's not necessarily because he's missing Question Time. No, he's also missing out on the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a less exciting but probably more relevant meeting featuring a Special Guest
Arts & Entertainment SFist Christopher's Best From The Past 365 Days * Album Of The Year: Mogwai -- "Mr. Beast" The mostly-instrumental music of Glasgow's Mogwai has been described as big instrumental rock music for a soundtrack. The soundtrack of your whatever-you're-doing. If whatever-you're-doing really
SF News You're My Blue Sky, You're My Sunny Day See, according to Global Change Research Act of 1990, the Government is supposed to produce a report on Global Warming every four years. The last one was due in November 2004 meaning that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: District 8 Candidate Alix Rosenthal Alix is an attorney and civil servant, known for her love of burning man, her advocacy for SF's handgun ban, and for being of a generally lefty-artsy disposition. And with BeyondChron pointing out
SF News Gas Guzzling Government <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goo-goos>Goo-Goos</a> Lest you think every politician is running around driving gas guzzlers, 27 out of the state's 120 lawmakers now get to smugly tell everyone just how much gas mileage they get these days
SF News <a href=http://gorillamask.net/videoelnino.shtml>El Nino Is Spanish For the Nino</A> El Nino is a weather pattern that occurs every so often, in which temperatures in parts of the Pacific warm up and change weather patterns. In California, it'll usually means more rain, the
SF News Our Little Nancy In Profile So this week, Time Magazine has a big feature on our very own Congressperson. Wonkette already summed up the gist of the article, but they did miss the fun fact that she likes
SF News Cycling: Horsing Around with the Barnabe Trail More than 70 percent of this planet is currently covered by water. Between global warming and privatization, the remaining 30 percent is quickly disappearing from public view. So, it's only natural to expect
SF News Catch A Wave and You're Sitting On Top of the World How this thing would work is that the turbine put near Ocean Beach would convert the energy given off by waves into electricity. The other one would go somewhere under the Bay Bridge
SF News Why Does Google Hate America? You know what this means, of course? That while the rest of us think Google is a once cute tech company now about to take over the world, full of fresh faced engineers
SF News Saturdays In the Park Yesterday, the Board of Supes approved by a 7-4 vote a measure to close off part of Kennedy Drive on Saturdays just as it is on Sundays. Well, for a "six-month" trial run
misc How Green is Your Valley? Nancy Pelosi maybe the second most powerful Dem in the country, but that doesn't mean she's getting any love from us hometown folks. For some, it's because if it wasn't for the fact
SF News It's Getting Hot In Here Aside from the personal glee that SFist took from having an air of moral superiority snatched from the current administration, we were moved by Gore’s talk. Inspired actually. Environmental issues are something
