misc Week Around the -Ists Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant -
SF News Burning Man Suicide It looks like Black Rock City visitors now have an actual tragedy on their hands. One for them to eventually personalize, of course. Today, sadly, someone hanged himself to death at Burning Man.
SF News Steve Wozniak+Kathy Griffin, Anne Rice+Baby Jesus According to le Hilton, Kathy Griffin is dating Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. (Yay! It's nice to see a redhead making good.) Is this true? Are they really spooning each other? We have no
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Giants 9 Braves 3-So some of y'all might be wondering, what's up with calling Tim Lincecum "the Enchanter." Well, ever since he came up and started dazzling, there's been a bit of a
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Verified Identity Pass. Scary. But kind of cool. [Chron] -- Mark Leno, the scribe. [SFBG] -- After yesterday's fire in the Castro -- or as the Examiner still calls it, "Eureka Valley"
Arts & Entertainment Faux Blow Gets Addict/Consumer Watchdog Arrested The spectrum of coke rage runs wide. It can go from harmless rolling of the eyes and a sigh to unnecessary shouting to Lindsay Lohan. For some, it goes much further. Take, for
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Dodgers 6 Giants 4- Before we begin the fun, we'd like to draw your attention to a pretty interesting article by the LA Times' Bill Plaschke who writes how that two game series
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 SFist Finds: Philosophical Bathroom Debate This deep philosophical exchange on a bathroom stall door at Crissy Field appears to be between three or four different people. It was captured by SFist reader Cassie, who was nice enough to
misc Power Outages?! Is anyone else's power going out every five to ten minutes today? Annoying. So far we have reports from One Market, Harrison/Fourth Street, UCSF Mission/Bay, parts of the Financial District --
SF News Society Snaps (So Send Us Your Society Shots) San Francisco socialites have been fellated for far too long by such hard-hitting glossies as 7x7 Magazine and San Francisco Magazine. Hell, even the pages from new society (excuse me, “philanthropy”) rag Benefit
Arts & Entertainment Sister Easter, Oh the Time Has Come One of San Francisco's great traditions is the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's Easter Party in Dolores Park. The highlight of the event is a Hunky Jesus contest and thanks to SFist reader Joe,
misc Pooh-Poohing Pooh The reason for the suspension is because the girl, Toni Kay (now an 8th grader) apparently ran afoul of the school's pretty strict dress code. The code says that thou shall only wear
misc Dear Gaviffer, We decided not to post your picture because we've seen enough of y'all to last a lifetime. Here's Gwen Stefani's video for "Sweet Escape" instead. As our blog hero, Perez Hilton, once said:
misc Of Course, You Know, This Means War City spokesman Brad Rovanpera said that nobody seemed to notice anything until news trucks started showing up in the Creek to report on all this. The reason, of course, is that now we
SF News Mark Leno Kicks Things Off Today, at the Yerba Buena Gardens, officially Mark Leno kicked off his "Stick it to Carole Migden" campaign. In attendance were such notables as Phil Ting, Kamala Harris, and the Ma-ster. Leno is
SF News American Football Spectacular: Two Bad Ideas Stumbled across two ideas while walking through the Powell cable car area. First up, no. Just no. Yes, Jeff was good. He is good. It is hard to watch him now making the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>Jesus Christ Superstar</em> at the Orpheum Theater But that's just us. We were pretty excited about seeing the play at the Orpheum Theater primarily because it's the first time we've ever seen it actually produced on a stage by professionals.
SF News Bye Bye Nativity Sheep Of course, the question is what would somebody want with a couple of fake, plastic animals? Says Jan Lundquist, the church's secretary, "I can't imagine this is something you auction off on eBay,
SF News Who Wants To Run For Mayor? We'd have a sad face too if the Chron came out against our position on Question Time, some mayoral pipsqueak in Santa Clara was out to eat our Niners lunch, and our chief
SF News American Football Spectacular: Niner Hope Unlooked-For In 2006 Wow. was unforeseen. That's a sweep of the division series on the year, keeping the Niners' tiiiny window of playoff chance alive. How could this have happened? Here's how: The whole enterprise began
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Worms Go In, The Wine Comes Out The church, the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, says they're mainly making it for sacramental purposes but if it happens to have a good taste, well why not sell it? So the church is hiring
misc Sister Christian, Oh the Time Has Come Why did the appearance of the Sisters upset people? Because it's "a direct affront to Jesus Christ," said Nick Andrade, the Parish Council president at Holy Redeemer. He then took it to the
Arts & Entertainment Debates Around The Districts So we're trying to compile a handy-dandy list of all the forums we can find, arranged by district and by date -- but we can barely find anything out there! So we're posting
misc Week in -Ist Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect it's beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned. They also seem to be concerned about which subterranean
