Arts & Entertainment Goodbye, Leslie Harpold Leslie Harpold has died. A writer, designer, editor, and web pioneer of prodigious skill, she was 40. Why did Leslie Harpold matter? To those who never met her, it was because she "was
misc Wanted: Pissboy What, pray tell does it take to have the job of personal peon? Well, you have to live in San Mateo and have access to a car. Which is great because you'll have
SF News It's Monday-- Do You Know Who is Playing On Your Baseball Team Roberts has achieved God-head status in New England as the man who started the 'Sox rally during the '04 playoffs against the Yankees and gets a little love from stat-heads for his decent
Arts & Entertainment Help Homeless Connect Connect The problem is that under the rules of Care Not Cash, most of their welfare money goes to their rooms with only a little bit left over to make ends meet. The eighty
SF News Is This the Beginning of the End For GooTube? Remember back to the giddy days of Napster? Remember how everything could be found online and for free and everyone did nothing at work other than download their favorite songs? Remember how there
SF News Can You Bring Your Chris Daly Voodoo Doll To Your Polling Place And Other Burning Questions If you've got any legal questions about what to expect at your polling place, they're taking questions on their site now, and will publish a FAQ of the questions asked, on a state-by-state
Arts & Entertainment Podcasting Frankenstein As part of SF's Free Night(s) Of Theater (details are still being finalized), on Monday, October 30, Black Box Theatre is performing , a new adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, before a live
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: SF For Democracy Remember those heady days of 2004, when the Democrats thought they might have had a chance to take back the White House with Howard Dean? Well, we all know how that turned out.
SF News Blackout! We don't know much of the details as there doesn't seem to be a lot of news on it out there right now. We just know we were halfway through reading Deadspin when
SF News Turmoil At The Sentinel Pat Murphy, as you guys probably know, edits the local political blog San Francisco Sentinel, the publication that showed us how Chris Daly rolls, and which provided us with some stiff competition for
Arts & Entertainment Annalee Fery from Monsters are Waiting Put yourself in their shoes, you’re really busy and you haven’t been in LA long, but you really want the kind of internet superstardom that only an SFist interview can confer—
misc Get Ur Geek On: Don't Call it a Comeback It's been a while since we published a tech roundup. But the Internet turned 15 last Sunday, we got a new laptop from an entrepreneur and friend who'll be enabling this 'Fister's addiction
Arts & Entertainment Eat My Shorts, Man! Tickets for each program (including the keynote by San Winston Studio's Richard Landon) are 9 bucks. You can see a list of every program and featured film here, or buy tickets here. Though
SF News Don't Panic! However, all the -ist sites are going to be missing from the internet for much of Sunday, as Gothamist's technical team is going to be physically moving the network's boxes from one place
SF News SFist Helps Gavin Get a Date This made us sad. After all, if a rich, good looking, Mayor often referred to as the Future of the Democratic Party can't get a date, what hope do we have? We're just
SF News Everybody Loves Livermore? Money Magazine has published its annual list of "Best places to live" in these here United States, with the highest ranking Bay Area city coming at number 31. While we've never visited the
misc Craigslist Encounters: 15 minutes of Craigslist Fame Last year a Canadian blogger (Kyle MacDonald) started a quest to turn his one red paper clip into a house using Craigslist and his bartering skills. After completing 14 trades he finished his
Arts & Entertainment Screw It, We're Moving To Busy Town Our pals at Shanghaiist tipped us of to David Friedman's blog, Ironic Sans. We already had an internet crush on David from his site on GameBoy camera photography (a not so secret obsession
misc Craigslist Encounters: Craigslist Review Board We were getting ready to write yet another post about using Craigslist as a scapegoat for the evil Internet while blatantly ignoring all the good it serves. So we began the arduous task
SF News Cody's Books, 1956-2006 Happy 50th birthday, Cody's Books, and rest in peace, Cody's Telegraph Street -- the most iconic branch of the Cody's Books triumverate is closing for good tonight at 8 p.m. Folks are
Arts & Entertainment How to Get the Guy: Third, Hammer Him With Questions Previously on "How to Get the Guy," four single-girls-in-the-City began their quest to find love, with the help of some very dubious "love coaches." JD's claim to fame is he's a guy. And
SF News DiFi Sucks And so the question is raised, why DiFi, why? In her speech to her fellow Senators, DiFi put up that famous picture of marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima and talked about
Arts & Entertainment The Legal Reader Takes A Bite Out Of Crime Bay Blogger alum The Legal Reader's got quite a claim to fame now -- he helped capture Darren Mack, that guy in Reno who stabbed his wife, shot the family court judge that
misc Unskinny Bop This is actually part of a long standing battle in the city over the private booths. Critics have called them exploitive as club owners make it so the women who work in the
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we've never seen