Arts & Entertainment The Glide Red Carpet is based on the true story of a homeless man in San Francisco named Chris Gardner who turned his life around in the 1980s with the help of Glide Memorial and became a
misc Craigslist Encounters: Jobs are Expensive One of the reoccurring problems with Craigslist is that once it becomes popular many of the sections lose their usefulness as spammers, solicitors and other nefarious elements sick their claws into that once
SF News SFist Editorial: Edward Champion on Muni But this Wednesday morning was a different routine with a different set of rules. I should note from the onset that I've found most MUNI drivers to be kind and helpful. Even when
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Smith Ray Liotta is another. His heist drama "Smith" premieres tonight on CBS at 10 p.m. If you have hopes that this heist series will do more for the genre than last season's
SF News SFist Wants You To Get (or Give) A Job! Our friends at JobThread want to help kick off this new way for SFist readers post and find jobs, so they're offering the first first 25 30-day job postings for FREE FREE FREE.
SF News The Totally Obvious Title Of: iSettle But you know who all be winners? Apple and Creative Labs, who claim to have come to an "amicable" $100 million settlement of Creative Labs' claims of patent infringement against the iPod's technique
misc Keep Your Hands to Yourself Testifying for the proposed rules was members of the Commission on the Status of Women, currently residing in the top five of our "Things We'll Slash Out of the Budget for Being a
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your Oakland Raiders 2006 Draft Picks, "The Ivy League Hotelier and The Match-up Solution" * Picked round 7, pick 47; 455 overall / Kevin McMahan / WR / Maine / 6'2" / 196 / "Mr. Irrelevant" * Picked round 7, pick 6; 214 overall / Chris Morris / C / Michigan State / 6'4" / 305 / "The Heady Snapper" * Picked
SF News The Bubble Taketh Away, And The Bubble Giveth Okay, so it’s not a great time to flip your house, and rents are rising, but there are still some real estate developments that are not bad news. Retail rents across San
SF News Yeah, It's Always Sunny in San Francisco-- What Of It? This morning while drinking our coffee and surfing the Web, we went to Deadspin and saw this little blurb about Giants' fans treatment of Phillies pitcher Brett Myers. Myers was cited for taking
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 How to Get the Guy: First, Stand Uncomfortably Close to One Ahhh. Beautiful San Francisco! Apparently our "little city by the bay" is full of single woman who "just can't seem to find love on their own." Yay! These two love coaches are going
SF News Sue You, Sue Me, Sue It Together, Naturally Well, the business types are saying that so far, no economic impact report has been reported and that the Board is still doing what it does so well, proposing this and proposing that
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Fired!</i> There's no question that getting fired, canned, axed, rif'ed, or booted SUCKS. We were back at one of our favorite SF theaters, the Roxie, for the SF debut of Annabelle Gurwitch's at Docfest
SF News Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part One Nathaniel Ford: Thanks for coming in. Eve Batey: Oh, thank you for having me. NF: By all means. I guess this will be an opportunity for you to get to know me and
Arts & Entertainment Harmon Juices Us Up That's right, Harmon and OJ, sharing the screen. In Harmon's words: Some (let’s call them the sane) would be apprehensive to work with OJ. But I couldn’t pass up the gig.
SF News Happy May Day It warms our red hearts to see workers marching here at home and around the world on International Workers' Day, otherwise known as May Day. Protests and demonstrations happened from Berlin to Indonesia,
SF News SFist is Talking Baseball: Day 3 SFist Chris: The National League West? Holy crap what a mess. There's only room for one Pacific Coast League fellas. Of course it isn't that bad, but the NL West is pretty bad.
SF News Wikipedia Dumps 'Marina Girls' A battle has been raging behind the scenes at Wikipedia. No, it's not over copyrights or veracity or how well an article explains its premise. It's over whether or not the entry on
misc SFist Tech Rant/Roundup: Finger-Pointing Leander Kahney of Wired News got some flak for his commentary about the relative merits of Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates. He says that the popular perception of Gates as evil monopolistic robber
SF News Assembly Required? You know what we haven't had in awhile? Some fercockt plan to reform politics in this state. Well, get ready, cause a new one is headed our way! And, actually, it's not half
Arts & Entertainment SF Weekly To Issue Correction Once again, SFist is here to stick up for ol' Harmon, as he's run into controversy yet again in his most recent SF Weekly Infiltrator column, "Dieter Gone Wild." In this episode, Harmon's
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: A Nano In Your Pocket Not everybody has love for Apple in their pants — a new update to iTunes was released and bloggers are outraged. The issue is a new MiniStore panel underneath the library view. As you
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Speculate Different What actually happened was a little less earth-shattering, more a confirmation of what had already been announced. Apple's big push was the release of the first two Intel-based Macs: the iMac and the
SF News Bubble? What Bubble? Although the CBIA expects a "modest" drop-off in construction employment, UCLA economist Christopher Thornberg's not so optimistic: he sees a 25% drop in related jobs. Flickr photo by TheBeege724 By SFist Lisa, contributing