SF News But It's the Haight Man..... The urchins in Haight Street sure are in the news a lot these days. First there was the super-excellent story in this week's SF Weekly. But of even more significance is that Gavin,
Arts & Entertainment Dirty, Dirty Bloggers Q: Are you going to be trading up, a la One Red Paperclip? A: I wasn’t, but after pondering this question for the entirety of my morning commute, I decided that I
Arts & Entertainment Journalist Josh Wolf Jailed for Video Screw getting Dooced, Josh Wolf has set the blogger bar a bit higher than getting fired. He's been jailed. Judge William Alsup, presiding over a federal grand jury case investigating the attempted burning
Arts & Entertainment Every Man for Himself: The Man Box and Beyond Opens at the Lab was originally an idea born out of the Oakland Men’s Project as an exercise used to open up discussions about how gender roles are enforced in society and how notions of masculinity
SF News Googling Gavin Go Chronicle! We were so pleased to see a piece of investigative local journalism on the front page of today's paper, as Verne Kopytoff digs into the relationship between Mayor Gavin Newsom and
Arts & Entertainment Save The Mercury News Last week, San Jose newspaper publishing company Knight-Ridder was purchased by another company, McClatchy. McClatchy then decided it didn't want to keep publishing the hometown newspaper of the company it had just purchased,
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Magazine Caves We keep saying we're going to start a We Read The Glossies column to cover San Francisco Magazine and 7x7, but you know, we just can't do it. As a very wise co-editor
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Steve Jones Snark aside, Steve has kindly submitted himself to the SFist interview process. Despite the fact that we’re thrilled that Steve was kind enough to answer some real questions, we promise that his
Arts & Entertainment Local Kids Make Good TV Sometimes, video games journalists seem vaguely Colbert-ish: earnest, confident, utterly out of touch. (Case in point: G4's "Judgment Day," with the slogan "all verdicts are final" -- oooh, the are final, OMG, they're
SF News Political Junkie: Meet The Assessor We're so excited! We've never actually someone we've written about in the Political Junkie column before! Usual Suspects is reporting that 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place is abuzzzzzzzz with the word that
SF News Your Commute: We're Waiting.... ....and waiting.... and waiting.... and there's still no word on whether we're having a BART strike or not. Even getting bored of hitting "refresh" on the sfgate.com window, and as you guys
SF News The Verne Kopytoff Award So we have a little joke here at SFist. When a mainstream journalist pens an article about blogs that is either dismissive, overly broad in its approach or ill-informed, we give them the
SF News Dan Gillmor Makes His Move The promise of the Internet was simple, but incredibly powerful: to be a medium through which we could connect and collaborate, for mutual benefit. It's happening. As the Net matures, we are learning
Arts & Entertainment Stuff To Do If You're Bored We already mentioned this in our interview with Craig Newmark, but the cool kids (read: blog nerds) will be at the Citizen Journalism meet-and-greet at the Varnish Gallery at six and then yukking
SF News SFist Does Not Cause International Incident When we found out that the representatives from the different publications represented a readership numbering in the tens of millions across India, Pakistan and Nepal (the national Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, for instance,
SF News What's the Dilly-o, Delio? The question we have to ask is this: were journalists just traipsing about the country side, fabricating quotes and anecdotes merrily for years without repercussion or something? For all the old media bleating
SF News Sacto Weekly Asked For Retraction It seems that Harmon's piece, "My Dinner At Applebee's With White Supremacists" (linke to in We Read the Weeklies the following Thursday) was retooled for the Sacramento News and Review as "My dinner
Arts & Entertainment SF International Film Festival: SFist Has You Covered One of the many perks of SFist, (besides the private jet, sumptious office spaces, and Gavin calling round-the-clock "just to say 'hi'"), is that we are forced to get out of the house
SF News SFist Est Amicus Curiae Well, SFist got our legal history off to a good start -- we're involved in a court case, and we're not the defendant! Nor are we the plaintiff -- though if you don't
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part Three -- Tremendous Delirium Oy. That Gawker party was a doozy. We're going to have to give Krucoff some credit -- we're going to have to face off in a liver-busting tiebreaker to claim best two out
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part Two -- Bloggie Nights For those of you who were wondering, yes, we are actually here for the panels. Kind of. We're also here to get drunk and make out. But only after discussing copyright reform, comment
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Caitlin Atkinson Today’s interview subject has a literal lens trained on the Bay Area. Caitlin Atkinson is a photographer whose art focuses mainly on her experiences (both real and dreamed). You can catch her
Arts & Entertainment Wake the Dead With Dr. Hunter S. Thompson moving on to bigger and better things, writers, critics, stoners and other hangers-on are organizing tributes around the country and around the world. But we have a feeling
SF News Get Ur Geek On: Apple Bites At stake is something that SFist holds very dear to our heart -- the concept that bloggers have what journalists working in any other medium have, namely, journalistic privelege. We have our own
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P Hunter Thompson Gonzo journalist and counter-cultural icon Hunter S. Thompson died today of an apparent suicide. Thompson was the author of the classic , a book that inspired multitudes to take lots of drugs and go
