Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Words Well, surely you have $5. Five whole dollars buys you all the pizza you can eat at Poetry and Pizza on Friday. That's tomorrow. We double-checked the hipster central calendar. You're free. Don't
SF News Anaheim or San Francisco: Which is Safer for the Children? So we're cruising Defamer today for pretty, young gossip, and we stumble across a map of Anaheim, centered on Disneyland, from the Megan's Law Database via southland blogger Flagrant Disregard. Even we were
SF News It's Wednesday. Do You Know What Your Baseball Stadium is Named Today? Even though we've always disliked the naming of stadiums after corporations (but think the voting on it is silly) we took a shining to Pacific Bell Park. Shortened to its nickname, Pac Bell
Arts & Entertainment We've Got Big Balls The gala begins at the Opera House where there will be cocktail receptions, seated dinners, and a gala performance of among other things “Romeo and Juliet.” For the celebration, the Opera House will
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City We reckon a good percentage of San Franciso music-lovers will be at Great American Music Hall this week, whether it's at one of the three sold out Arcade Fire shows or Saturday's sold
SF News Take Action for Tsunami Relief Two dear friends of SFist wrote in to let us know about local tsunami relief events. Your Waitress wants photobloggers and everyone else to know that HiMY SYeD, Toronto native and current Bay
misc Redefeat Bush Rallies are being called throughout the day tomorrow, including several large ones in D.C., and we can bet your bottom dollar that there’ll be some sort of rally here. Meanwhile, people
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: New Movies This Weekend In other words, if you haven't seen "House of the Flying Daggers" yet, go see it. Now. Happy New Year!
SF News "Rent" Not Paying Rent? From what we understand of the deal, the San Francisco Film Commission is paying $12,000 rent each month to the Treasure Island Development Authortiy, but is subtracting the cost of the work
SF News Get Ur Geek On - Election Style If you're not stationed in front of the tube or out on the town (without WiFi) might we suggest monitoring the election via the innerweb? There's all sorts of resources out there, whether
SF News Gaming the System As the days to the November 2nd elections wind down, many folks are getting anxious over the potential for impropriety at the polling stations. After the debacle in Florida in 2000, many people
misc The Land Alone Would Cost A Million Everyone's favorite cube dweller and corporate critic Dilbert just moved into new digs - Dilbert's Ultimate House. Teaming up with Home and Garden Television, Danville's Scott Adams synthesized reader input from over three
Arts & Entertainment Ready For Our Close Up Watching last night's premiere of "Lost" (by the way, that show kicks total a**) brought back fond memories of Lost star Matthew Fox's previous show, "Party of Five." While SFist isn't necessarily fond
SF News He Hits it High, He Hits it Deep, He Hits it Outta Here! Back in the halcyon days when SFist was launching and the Giants were getting their collective ass handed to them by the lowly Cincinnati Reds, it was looking pretty grim down at Third
SF News This Week in SFist Barry Bonds has done it! Steven Williams of Pacifica emerged from the scrum with the ball, which some have valued at two million bucks. SFist hopes that a least a little of that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fine Dining Returns to the Golden Gate Last weekend we got in touch with our inner tourist and took part in the rebirth of a San Francisco legend - the Cliff House. Since January of 2003 it has been largely
Arts & Entertainment Got Some Spare Time in November? SFist spent a nice day at the beach on Sunday with some friends and learned about a rather interesting project over drinks at the new Sutro's at the Cliff House (a review of
misc Labor Week: Calling All Cube Dwellers The technology sector here in the Bay Area has taken a big hit over the last few years. We all know it, even if we don't work in Silicon Valley. Restaurants struggled, retailers
misc Love Rescue Me Every time SFist hears tales of the exploits of our single bretheren, we give thanks that we're no longer "out there". We appreciated our frequent companion all the more when we saw this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chicken and Waffles Make Triumphant Return to Oaktown Soul food options just haven't been the same since Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles closed up shop in Oakland a couple of years ago. The bay area offshoot of the L.A. institution was
SF News Pumping Up...The State Deficit SFist is a big fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, at least a few of them. We're not necessarily so pleased with his latest project. In fact, not a single Bay Area county voted
misc Bless the Beasts and the Children SFist is going to take a bold stance and say that we feel cruelty to animals is wrong. And ever since reading Watership Down as a child, we have felt a special afinity
SF News Classy While Dems accross the country swoon for the handsome Barack Obama and John Edwards, San Franciscans had a lot to be proud of - being the bluest town in the bluest state in
