SF News Ewwwwwwwww! Okay, SFist was already a little grossed out by the very idea of "The Universe Within" show at the Masonic auditorium. Leave it to some German dude to come up with a way
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Honey - ABBA Gourmets often say that cheese is the food world's analogy to wine, but we think honey is a better candidate. Our food writing idol Edward Behr wrote that "honey, in its
misc FDA Guarding Against Fabulous Sperm We must confess that we're rather attached to our bodily fluids. But not everyone hoards theirs as selfishly as we, and that's got the FDA all riled up: under new recommendations, gays will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Raves: Cinco de Mayo Before we moved to the Bay Area, all our knowledge on Cinco de Mayo came from our time spent at our local Chi-Chi's, (which played host to a perennially broken sign reading "17
SF News Punctuation: The New Currency At the corner of Market and New Montgomery this afternoon, we spied a large sign reading, "#%*&! IF YOU HATE TAXES! UP WITH FREEDOM!" And we're a little confused. What exactly are those
SF News David Versus Goliath -- And Goliath's Bigger Brothers, Backed By The Persian Army Buried inside the Chron's Bay Area section a while back, we found a story about an East Bay blogger who is currently embroiled in a court battle against Kaiser Permantente. As we're always
SF News SFist Rants: Clean Up Your S**t SFist feels very lucky to wake every day in a city that lives the legacy of Harvey Milk. His awareness of how simply powerful being publicly gay could be lead to a freedom
SF News The Old Lady Who Lives in a Hospital The story began two years ago when Nome fell and couldn't get up, breaking her legs. Her legs were set and she was sent to a convalescent home and somewhere along the way,
Arts & Entertainment A Cultural Exchange (of Fluids) We're baffled by the party's omission of any local professional pervert (NSFW) and burlesque performers, not to mention the near-total heterosexuality of the event -- fer pete's sake, by SF standards, this event's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares Special: Hordes of Boards So do you think your a leader with good judgement? Do you have a lot of professional qualifications but feel that you could be using those skills for the betterment of humankind? Well
SF News Yahoo May Have Already Bought Flickr Google and Yahoo want to buy it outright, while venture capital firms are flooding it with all kinds of creative proposals. "We get four or five calls a week from VCs," says Stewart
Arts & Entertainment Wanted: Penises. Pubic Hair Optional. BoingBoing's David Pescovitz recently posted a call for models by his friend Richard Hansen. And when we say "models" we mean "people with penises," since Richard is working on a book project about
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist In The Kitchen: Blood Oranges We're getting a bit tired of winter's oranges, but juicy, so-red-they're-violet blood oranges caught our attention at the Civic Center Farmer's Market and we to buy some. We like the hallmark taste that
SF News Our Pot Plants Bring All The Boys To The Yard -- Damn Right, They're Better Than Yours In the "it would be funny and surprising if you didn't live here" department, the Mendocino County assistant agricultural commissioner, Tony Linegar, is asking the state to regulate Marijuana cultivation so that the
misc Moving in with the Essefficist There you are, wondering once again why you even bother to turn on your computer at all, and whaddayaknow, here comes the Essefficist, just in time to answer all your nagging questions and
SF News Barry's Bum Knees If Giants fans are looking a little more nervous these days than they already were, it’s because it was reported today that on Monday, Barry Bonds went in for his second knee
SF News Oh No She Didn't Remember how we warned people that hell hath no wrath like a blogger scorned? Well, in the interest of all that is weird and interesting and fun in this blogosphere we share, we'd
SF News If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em ... and THEN Beat 'em. The women on AskMen.com's tedious list are all extremely thin, coiffed, and wealthy...in other words, probably not you. Big yawn. We'd much rather have seen a list of "Top 99 Women
SF News Hell Hath No Wrath Like a Blogger Scorned And the award for serving the news needs of people in trapped in caves, living under rocks, or named Rip Van Winkle goes to the Chronicle today: "The rise of easy-to-use software to
SF News There's Stairs, of Course, but Some Prefer to Take the Fast Way Down Can you stand to hear even more news about gravity-complicit suicides at the golden gate bridge? An editorial in last week's Chron that argued in favor of an anti-jumping barricade has gotten folks
misc They're Just Big Boned While both SF and LA were on the "Fittest" list, our fine city was close to the best at #4, while the City of Angels was a mere, pitiful #21. San Jose whupped
SF News Political Junkie: You're A Mean One Mayor Gavin the N, fresh from meat-slicing duties, found his press conference on how he plans to use funds from Prop 63 (money for mental health services) upstaged by caroling progressives protesting his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Vitamin Express Okay, so it's off the beaten path. But this is EssEff, what would be more appropriate? Vitamin Express is a great place for vitamins (duh), supplements, healthy snacks, lotions, aroma therapy, gum, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Rainbow Grocery The inagural entry in our shopping guide goes to Rainbow Grocery. We've made no secret of our fondness for Rainbow in the past, but wanted to bring it to your attention as a
SF News The Bell-Ringer Brouhaha of Ought-Four Could there be more to the story of Salvation Army's bell ringers being asked to leave the grounds of Target stores than what the Chronicle is reporting? Founded over 120 years ago in
