misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
SF News Your Commute: You're Bumming if You're Going Home on the Bay Bridge... Traffic was stopped to make way for ambulances and other emergency related cars. Bay Bridge commuters, we feel for you.
SF News Your Daily Dose of Whatever Gate We're Calling It Talk about tension city-- here was the political rival of the Mayor chatting it up with the Mayor's ex-wife. And according to Matier & Ross, Kimberly signed off with these words: "all right,
SF News The Yale Choral Group Story At Yale First the good news. In the grand tradition of show biz, the show went on and the choir group was able to continue on in their West Coast tour. That's why they were
SF News Let's Catch Up on Choirgate Anyways, not much has gone on in the past few days but there have been a few developments. First up is that police investigators flew down to LA over the weekend to finally
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Andrew from Trainwreck Riders Best show you've ever played and what made it great? Too many great remember-able shows to pick, but the last GREAT show was this past New Year's Eve at Balazo gallery here in
SF News More on the Yale Choir Story The major source of controversy stems from the police response. According to the Chron, the police went to go check it out but deemed it not that much in a way of a
SF News Your SFist 2006 Sports Year In Review In fact, we tried to think about when we had a worse year and came up with maybe 1995 or 1996 when both baseball teams kind of sucked and the Raiders still in
SF News New Rules The biggest one is an increase in the minimum wage, from $6.75 an hour to $7.50. Next year, it'll go up to $8. In San Francisco, however, the minimum wage is
SF News Not So Sweet Charity To determine all of this, the people in the NewTithing Group measured everyone's income, including investments and all that stuff, and then measured it with the amount of money they gave to charity.
Arts & Entertainment And the Winner Is.... Anyhoo, the winner for best picture is Little Children and no, it's not the prequel to "Little Woman." It's a movie that was out for a bout a week, starring Kate Winslet about
Arts & Entertainment Caption Action Ed Jew: I heard Vanessa Getty talked smack about you in W Magazine. Gavin Newsom: Oh, no she didn't! Ed Jew: Oh, yes she did. Gavin Newsom: Then I'm telling everybody how she
SF News Biting the Bullet Train Well, stay tuned for more talk. The problem is that with the passing of the big bond measures this past election, supporters are afraid that people might not want to get the state
SF News Paris Hilton Is Coming. We Repeat, Paris Hilton is Coming Yes, it’s true, the lovely and talented Ms. Hilton herself will be in town tomorrow as she signs autographs to promote her new perfume, Heiress. Yes, Heiress, the perfume for people who
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Emmett Malloy You're appearing in Apple stores to discuss how to use Macs in Film and Editing, what is the BEST thing about them? WELL, THESE DAYS I JUST LIKE HOW SMALL AND SIMPLE EVERYTHING
SF News Insert Clever Feature Title Here Needless to say, we do have some Pelosi & Pals news today as the Washington Post has a big feature on some anti-lobbying bill she's been working on for awhile that could see
Arts & Entertainment The Curtain's Chris Cohen Chris’s band, The Curtains, has a new album out which you can check out here. Even if you’ve never heard of Chris, or The Curtains, you’ve likely heard of local
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Review and Preview at Berekley Repertory Theatre The best theater experiences happen when you go in not knowing what to expect, and then the show blows you away. If you agree, then stop reading right now
SF News SchwarzenWatcher: Big Mouth Strikes Again Now why would somebody running for office say something so dumb? After all, rule #1 of running for an election is to try and not piss off people whose vote you want. Well,
misc Week in -Ist Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect it's beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned. They also seem to be concerned about which subterranean
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Spinach Recall Turns out about 75% of the country's spinach comes from California, and the company whose spinach has been linked to the outbreak (Natural Selection) is from San Juan Batista on the central coast
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Gets Hacked Anyways, after the tape was leaked, Arnie's office announced that they had proof that somebody had broken into the computer system. They suspected someone from the Angelides camp and had proof to back
SF News Schwartzenwatcher Has a Big Mouth Your latest victim of taped recordings is our Governor who is occasionally taping himself for all the future historians out there to document his governing genius. As if. A six minute part of
Arts & Entertainment Annalee Fery from Monsters are Waiting Put yourself in their shoes, you’re really busy and you haven’t been in LA long, but you really want the kind of internet superstardom that only an SFist interview can confer—