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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

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Alfred Peet, 1920-2007

Mr. Peet, born in Holland, opened the first Peet's at Walnut and Vine in Berkeley in 1966, and watched it spread nationwide (there's Peet's in New England now?). And the rumors you've heard

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

Arts & Entertainment

We Read The Weeklies

Next, the SF Weekly. [For some reason, they haven't updated the website at the time we're writing this. We'll try and add the links in when they update their site. Does this have

Muni Alert: Get Out of Town, and Stay Out

Not only is Muni adjusting service levels to accommodate the bridge closure, they're actually reducing service levels on one of the days. On Monday, Sept 3rd, a bunch of lines will be suspended

Where We Whine About The Weather

So it's going to be stiflingly hot for the next few days (yes, we know, it's not as bad as it is in every other part of the country, but ) -- but in

Day Around the Bay

-- Paranoia, feeding faux stories, and NYT's Laura Albert (AKA Miss Leroy) article. Depressing is right, Rita. [CultureBlog] -- Newsom defends Halloween shutdown. [BAR] -- San Francisco's other (but not nearly as stellar!

Arts & Entertainment

De-Union-ification At The Tribune

Well, first the MediaNews conglomerate moves the Oakland Tribune from its iconic downtown Oakland tower (at left) and then they take away recognition of the Tribune's Newspaper Guild labor union. MediaNews claims they're

Day Around The Bay

-- Michelangelo Antonioni dies; Mick LaSalle suspects Eric Rohmer will fade to black next. [Chron blogs] -- Chronicle wanted Gonzalez in the mayoral race. Alas. [BeyondChron] -- A baseball trader "shocker" happened involving

A Brutal Murder In San Jose

Last Sunday, San had walked a mile from her home in East San Jose at 6 a.m. to catch the bus to her job as a janitor at a doughnut shop in

Bring Out Your Trash, Alameda

An Alameda County judge has ordered Waste Management to start picking up the garbage again. The City of Oakland, who filed suit, says they're gratified by the ruling, since this means, you know,

blah blah blah MUNI blah blah PESKIN blah MCGOLDRICK

Here's a condensed version of what the amendment would do: give Muni more money (it's currently underfunded by millions and simply can't afford to meet its service requirements), make it easier to fire

Schools, Airports, And Garbage

Just some random news items on the wire: There was a three-alarm fire at Thurgood Marshall Alternative High in the Bayview this afternoon. School's out for the summer, so there weren't any students

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Today

Other events: --The workers united -- have a whole month to celebrate! July is Laborfest month, and you can celebrate today at a poetry reading about growing up working-class at City Lights (5

Sensual Solidarity

Ahem. Anyway, the Carnival's happening this Thursday, the 7th. Short notice! Better start polishing your buckles and straps now. They're raising funds for erotic services workers to attend labor training camps. That's labor

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

All The News You Can Booze

For many of us with standard 9-5 jobs, a long weekend is coming up. Naturally, our minds turn to libations (take a look to the left for some insight into our personal plans)

Arts & Entertainment

Interview: Mari Naomi

Mari Naomi is one of the most prolific bay area artists we know-- just when we think she's going to rest for a while she unveils a new set of kick ass clown

An Update on Text-Messaging Muni

(Actually, as a commenter points out, the next best thing would be a smart automated solution. Any engineery readers want to tackle such a project? That would be totally awesome.) If you'd like

Downtown Train

Now that the T-Third is up and running, we can all start focusing on the next big MUNI project, the central subway. This is a proposed underground that would go from near the

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Interviews: Bevan Dufty

I guess the first question should be is what is your reaction to critics who say you don't vote progessive enough for a progessive district? Many people view the Board of Supervisors in

The Newest Guilfoyle Villency Is On The Way!

Our tipster also reports that Kimberly is trying to go natural -- so it'll probably be another 36 hours or so before we can report the actual arrival of Ronan Anthony Guilfency. Keep

Guess We're Growing Up!

As some of you may already know, this is a period of growth for us here at SFist. SFist is a labor of love for everyone on our staff -- but as we've

Has Anyone Seen this Man?

Yes, it's only been a few weeks into the main part of the campaign for Governor, that being after Labor Day, but questions are already being asked about whether Phil's campaign is either

Your Commute: BART and Caltrain

Isn't everyone glad the Bay Bridge is reopened? Well, maybe not BART -- they're reporting a 13% increase in ridership over Labor Day weekend, including 10,200 riders who used the overnight service.

Your Commute: No Bridge, Just Tunnel

You know how everyone says San Francisco is a little bubble utopia isolated from the realities of the rest of the world? Well, you might as well embrace it this Labor Day, because