Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: An SUV for San Francisco Sidewalks How would you pilot six kids down Russian Hill? One foot on the brake, the other hopping like a kangaroo trying to keep up? Sounds like fun.
SF News Baskets Are the New Minimalism It’s a classic example of fixie bike lust: the carefully accented color coordination, expensive but mismatched wheels, improbably narrow handlebars, and, of course, lack of any unsightly “extras” such as gears and
SF News Maria Shriver Visits the Tenderloin For Family Day Destination Turk Street in the TL, our First Lady Maria Shriver is coming to town to celebrate Family Day ("a day to eat dinner with your children"), and in part for "It About
SF News Weekend Blotter You know we usually try to hoard up all the crime-type news for the Tuesday and Friday blotters, but there was enough vaguely unsettling news this weekend to warrant a post a little
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After There's a gym at the Super Mondo Corporation where we work and today there was some big volunteer thing going on with a bunch of kids learning basketball moves. Attending the big goings
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Bans Meat At The Fillmore Morrissey is coming. And you know what that means? Clever lyrics, melancholia, and no tender morsels of tasty beef. Or chicken. Or even a Hot Pocket. Last month Leah Garchik mentioned that, "word
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Fall TV Premieres Tonight Abandoned kids, wannabe models, sitcom groaners, socialite teens, and a screaming Brit. It must be Wednesday! Firstly, we have CBS's "Kid Nation," at 8 p.m., in which a bunch of kids are
Arts & Entertainment Poop And Pee. For Your Little Blessings. Also, it's a Swedish concoction, which might explain why we found it at a mildly chic Hayes Valley boutique. (HV wouldn't touch the stuff if it were hecho en México.)
SF News SFist Blotter In a somewhat-better type of neighborhood self-policing in Berkeley, neighbors are now going in large groups to Becky Temko Tot Park in downtown Berkeley, so another neighbor won't yell at them. Local parents
SF News Hasta La Vista <strike>Les</strike> Los Gigantes >Sorry to spread the bad news, Giants fans, but last night's 9-4 loss to the Diamondbacks mathematically eliminated them from the playoffs. We know, we know, wha? Well, statistically, the Giants could
SF News Shakedown 1979 h, 1979…"I Will Survive" topped the charts and Bette Midler gave us "the Rose" (love, it is a river, you know). ESPN came into existence, the kids were into "Captain Caveman," and
Arts & Entertainment Education Prognostication From George Lucas' 'Edutopia' Mag San Rafael-based Edutopia Magazine, which is brought to us by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, looks to the future in its latest issue, identifying 10 ideas or trends that its experts believe can
SF News It's Got to be the Morning After, Bitch Lions 36 Raiders 21- And so what are we to make of the Raiders game? They absolutely sucked for a half, rallied to make a game of it, and then just as soon
Arts & Entertainment Lion House Reopens Today -- Hooray! Look how cute and cuddly these guy are. We’re sure these African lions think what Tatiana, the Siberian tigress did was totally déclassé. If you’re still suffering from PTSD after nine
SF News American Airlines Forces You To Purchase Crappy Airline Food Via Credit Or Debit American Airlines flights leaving the San Francisco area will soon be testing an in-flight program that eschews cash. From Sept. 10-Sept. 30, certain flights from the carrier will allow you to purchase cool
Arts & Entertainment Edward Gorey's Dracula Stuff At Cartoon Museum of Art!! Edward Gorey's art is perhaps the greatest combination of cute and grotesque we've seen. And it's not just for goth kids; everyone can enjoy the new exhibit at the Cartoon Museum of Art
SF News Latest Murder News (And A Suggestion To The Chron) Following up on yesterday's blotter, we're sorry to pass along word from today's Chronicle that one of the murder victims over the weekend, David Sterling, was killed on the way home Monday afternoon,
misc Week Around the -Ists Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. As LAist melts away in their
Arts & Entertainment CalTrain of Thought Other local trains featured in the book include MUNI's F-line and the famous cable car, with a cameo appearance by your very own Golden Gate Bridge, of course. (Yay! The next generation of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Food Books For Labor Day We also enjoyed some of the essays on cooking and eating alone in Jenni Ferrari-Adler's Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant, particularly Steve Almond's hilarious anti-snotty take on how to make a
SF News Your Commute: Did You Spare The Air? And for those of you commuting by car today, don't you you spared the air? A truck overturned right at the 92/101 S interchange (those ramps are pretty steeply banked) around 4
Arts & Entertainment Time to Double Check DVR Lineup This is all on KPIX tomorrow (8/30), kids. If you're excited about the big game between the 49ers and the Chargers, that all gets under way at 7 p.m. Go 49ers!
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week Ahhh, the lazy days of summer keep on keeping on, yet the commentary here on SFist continues to be fast, furious, fierce, and even funny. We really enjoy that pretty much any reader
Arts & Entertainment 826 Valencia's Five-Year Anniversary Fair With their usual whimsy, those folks from 826 Valenicia celebrated their five-year anniversary on 8/26. They did so with a community festival at Mission Playground, which is right near the store. Entry
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After-- Rebuilding Edition Let's talk about rebuilding in honor of Matt Cain actually winning a game... Giants: With the Barry Circus over, everyone is now moving onto what to do about next year. What? Like people
