SF News Delays In Service It's not often that we have sympathy for agencies' delayed-service problems, but allow us to go all BART apologist Linton Johnson and/or SFPD apologist Neville Gittens on you here and offer our
SF News Our Extreme Makeover You astute readers have probably deduced that something's afoot at the 'Fist, what with all these newfangled layouts and buttons and whatnot -- along with some weird problems with comments and post uploading
Arts & Entertainment Reversal Of Fortune Ain't no better way to celebrate the Fourth of July than by watching the Coney Island Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition: our buddies at the mothership Gothamist even liveblogged the whole thing! (yes,
misc Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where
Arts & Entertainment Online Journalists 1, Steve Jobs 0 This is a *huge* win! Now journalists can feel safe knowing that they can protect their sources’ identity no matter in which medium they choose to disseminate news (as we argued in our
Arts & Entertainment 10th Annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival Sunday kicked off the 10th annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival featuring over 170 music acts, most of them local but some of them national (Vincent Gallo) and international (Ane Brun). The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Combing the Beard's Results. Our side of the country still hold its own in the award count. Running in the 100m dash of these Olympics, Thomas Keller won a gold medal for Outstanding Restaurant. That means the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beard Papa Brings Cream Puffs To SF As we were cadging a ride home from SFist Eve on Saturday night, we squealed with delight as we drove down Mission Street. Right by Yerba Buena Lane, there's a big sign: BEARD
SF News Elsewhere in -istville Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get
SF News -Ist-A-Palooza Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival
Arts & Entertainment SFist at SXSW Given the staggering variety of music and mayhem going on at all times, it's impossible for any one person to have the same SXSW experience. So here is ours, in words and photos.
SF News Newsom Pile-On (Post 2 of 2) Newsom's beleaguered this week! So beleaguered we broke it down into two posts! While the Chron calls up all the supervisors to get an explication of their beef, the Examiner reports that representatives
Arts & Entertainment Review: Voxtrot Hipster posing, shoegazing indifference, emo angst, and punk anger have taken the joy out of being a rock star. A lot of bands make it seem like they would rather be somewhere else
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Just Take Me With U And that's why the Gothamist Brain Trust has brought us mobile versions of all your favorite -ist sites, SFist included. Just go to http://www.sfist.com/pda.htm to see us in
Arts & Entertainment Are You Going To Austin? South by Southwest! We never get to go. But if you're heading out to Austin, you're cordially invited to our sister -ists' after-party next Wednesday at the Red Bull House from midnight to
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: F*CK The Women's Building auditorium on Sunday night was filled with IndieFesters cramming themselves into uncomfortable purple plastic seats and giggling about the naughtiness of the upcoming film. Us, we were just thrilled to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Aziz Ansari at the Punch Line Aziz's proactive approach to counter this possible image marring bit of PR was to implore his fans to post on their blogs and websites "Aziz Ansari is a f**king badass" up to
SF News Take it to the Streets, and Take it Politely There's a lot going on in this picture, snapped last night in the Castro Muni station (click it for a larger version), so let's begin our reading with the original author's intent. Those
SF News New Year's Eve See that? See how I said "we're" back there? I know we've all mentioned it, but the "we" thing really insinuates itself into your brain. I've sent work email in the "we", notes
SF News Alert Buffaloist! We love the idea of interstate extradition. We're imagining a style situation, except with a way less charming cast -- hey, do you think that Dog was the guy who brought him back
SF News Gothamist Rocks The Strike We'd like to interrupt our Bay Area coverage to direct y'all over to Gothamist, which is providing awesome coverage of the New York transit strike. Our brother, who lives in Spanish Harlem and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads -- Or Listens to Others Read A couple literary events have made their way into our inbox lately, and we want to tell you about them. It's just that simple. Sometimes we like to watch people reading, it's like
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Interviews Julie Powell Julie Powell first got her fifteen minutes of fame as the author of the Julie/Julia Project. She decided to cook every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking over
misc Make Us Pretty Everybody wins: you get your work looked at by folks in other cities; our logo looks less beige, and everyone feels all fancy and artistic. What's not to like? Banners must be 728
misc Win Passes to <i>Quality Of Life</i>! Bay Area filmmaker Benjamin Morgan shot , his cutting-edge directorial debut film in our very own Mission district. The story of two young graffiti artists arrested for vandalism, this film has gotten a lot
