Arts & Entertainment Living in the Pollan Nation Pollan is the author of and a couple of other books, as well as countless articles for Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and elsewhere. He is a master of investigative
misc Not Looking Good For Apple... ...and this time, at least, that's what we want to hear. John at the Legal Reader points to a piece quoting Terry Gross, partner in San Francisco-based Gross & Belsky LLP, who contends
Arts & Entertainment Eyes on the Rightsholder's Prize Just a few minutes ago, Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow published an excerpt and link to a Toronto Globe and Mail article that describes how a classic documentary on the civil rights movement, Eyes
SF News Kos the New Armstrong Williams? Not at all. Armstrong Williams was paid through taxpayer dollars to sell the Administration's terrible No Child Left Behind Act, possibly infringing upon all sorts of anti-propaganda laws and definitely kicking the mangled
SF News Week in SFist SFist would like to point out that if you haven't had a chance to give for the Tsunami effort, you still can. We know it's hard in the weeks following Christmas, what with
SF News SFist Macworld Lunchbreak Because of the potentially inclement weather, we were confused as to where the meeting place would be. We tried Chevy's (hey, Jason, the hostess there wanted me to tell you that they only
SF News Political Junkie: Across the Bay Your intrepid junkie takes the lower deck of the Emperor Norton to report on some news from the Oakland City Council: city councilman Danny Wan, who represents Oakland's District 3 (Grand Lake and
misc SFist is Home for the Holidays As you may have noticed, things have started to wind-down at SFist HQ. That's because a lot of us are back in the hinterlands visiting with family, family-in-law, potential family-in-law and family-in-law-if-the-law-allowed. Oh,
SF News Interview: Mimi Zeiger But we digress. Mimi is the editor of a very cool zine about architecture. After stints on the East Coast and even (gasp of horror) LA she returned to the Bay area. As
Arts & Entertainment A Classy Move at the Chron Did you notice that article on the front page of the Food section of today's ? There's a big picture, showing a snazzy santoku hollow-edge knife on a green cutting board, illustrating an article
Arts & Entertainment Where's the Alka-Seltzer? Wow, that was a doozy. Who knew journalism would involve so much drinking? Oh, wait, that was actually just SFist medicating our neurotic anxiety. That's right, we went and listened to a number
Arts & Entertainment SFist Speaking Tonight That's right, we're putting on clothes and emerging from behind the computer to go out in public and speak! We're not sure why we were invited - something to do with being 'citizen