SF News The Year In Sports That's the thing about this Internet. In a way, it makes it easier to listen to new music but it's also easier to just pull yourself into some sort of musical bubble in
SF News Dogs And Kids Work It Out Who was it who said "never work with children or animals?" Well, whoever you are, Bevan Dufty's proving you wrong, as he proudly announces that he's united the two famously-warring factions in San
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Labs: OK to Play We're happy about the injunction, and not just because it guarantees kids will be able to develop the skills they'll need to survive in an increasingly zombie-slaying and drug-dealing economy. The bigger picture
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: How 'Bout Some Christmas Falafel? In the market Safeway (please let us know if you have seen this elsewhere in comments), a 10 feet tall cardboard structure depicts a cartoonish Santa on a sleigh holding cartoonish snack packages:
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Blobby Farm For the not-so faint of heart there is “Shark Dog 2 (The Revenge) is the most versatile of predators. He can stalk his prey in the water, he can crawl up on to
misc The 'Fisties: Best Playground Bring your kid there, have them play on the state-of-the-art structures which look like they have been designed by Santa during a sabbatical at NASA**, have them network with the neighborhood kids, take
misc SFisting: Trying Not to Make Jokes About Wrapping Your Box Because many people celebrate some version of a gift-giving holiday this time of year, it seems like a responsibility of ours to cough up some kind of locally focused sexy shopping guide. No
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Linden, From Grateful Dogs Hey, this coming Saturday is the third Saturday, so why not go check out Linden? Linden is a good size, good-looking golden retriever/chow mix, about 60 lbs. and just an all around
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: the Abduction from the Seraglio. While some of the singers sounded better than others, the leading roles impressed us. The tiny theater does not require the stronger pipes to fill a larger space, the same way we sound
SF News It's Tui Time Yes, Rai-duh fans, we have ourselves a full-fledged QB controversy as yesterday, in his press conference, Norv Turner said that he was maybe, sort of, possibly thinking about benching Kerry Collins and replacing
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to IndieFest's Rock N Roll Horror Show! Doors open at 7, screens at 8, and at 10 musical acts Stolen Babies and The Graves Brothers Deluxe hit the stage, with between sets by Church of Elvis DJs Bishop and Moonshine.
SF News Recall Gavin Chief of Police Heather Fong, bless her heart, says she's doing the best she can and has authorized more hires for the PD, and her deputies keep emphasizing that there's only so much
SF News Bill O'Reilly? You Have Been Served With San Francisco's honor besmirched by the falafel loving Bill O'Reilly, it was only a matter of time before Gavin the Good marched on in and made with the chivalry. After all, he
SF News The Golden State Warriors: More Groucho than Karl On a special promotional page of the Warriors' official website, Bay Area students ages 7 to 12 are encouraged to "write a 300-word essay to Baron's grandmother telling her about the most influential
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Racer, From Grateful Dogs We were looking at The Grateful Dogs alumni page, and we were happy to see that almost all of the dogs we've written about have found homes. We're totally not saying that we
Arts & Entertainment Combots Finals Last night we took a long bus ride out to Fort Mason to check out the final rounds of the Robot Fighting League's Combots National Championship. SFist Chuck reminded us to make it
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: sunday Sunday SUNDAY! ComBots are coming to Fort Mason next weekend, so you can all knock yourselves out watching robots with sawblades and blowtorches cutting each other up and setting each other on fire. We've already
misc SFist Cares ... About Your Spare Change We suppose this change in the entreprenurial charitability of young children explains why we're always sitting around SFist headquarters with a full bag of change at the end of the night but the
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Just Like You They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if the same goes for intellectual property theft and encroaching on other people's business, then a lot of people should be feeling
misc Doin' The Evolution Jeanne Caldwell, whose husband, Larry Caldwell runs an organization that sues schools over the teaching of evolution, filed the suit. Because it's for the kids, you know-- they might not be able to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Norma Norma is the ultimate bel canto opera, this beautiful singing style which places the emphasis on the lyricism and vocal agility of the singer. It is also an extremely powerful story, and yesterday's
Arts & Entertainment Don't Worry.....Don't panic Assuming you aren't going to the SF Weekly Music awards tonight, and that you have "$30, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford", and you feel like drinkin', you should head out to
SF News Sunset Residents Contine to Bury Head in (Smoking) Sand It seems like just yesterday that we were sniggering over Sunset residents' concerns about illegal bonfires, but it was actually a few weeks ago. Since then, we've attended a (legal -- we were
Arts & Entertainment Interview: The Primitive Screwheads Oh, how we adore the Primitive Screwheads. Our first experience with them was at the final (sob) performance of their most glorious Evil Dead: Live, in which the guerilla (to wit: they rehearse
SF News Who Reads Yesterday's Papers -Worried about mercury levels in fish? So is the Board of Supervisors! This week they approved an ordinance that will call for restaurants to post warnings, in English, Chinese and Spanish, about mercury
