SF News Your Commute: Up, BART, Up After two hours of debate, BART voted to raise its fares again, starting in January 2006, upping the minimum fare from $1.25 to $1.40. South Bay fares are going up an
SF News No Happy Ending When we saw the headline "Sex-Slave Win Leads to Malpractice Suit" on The Legal Reader (who reads Law.com so that we don't have to), we just had to take a closer look
SF News The Littlest SFist OK, not yet, but we have high hopes. Until then, big ups to SFist Amanda for what was not the easiest labor ever (but your hair looked good throughout), and our best wishes
SF News Smoky Halls and Kidneys Battered Until They Bleed With the preponderance of world class gyms and fighters in the Bay Area, SFist has always wondered why the San Francisco Golden Gloves has evolved into more of a fighter friends and family
SF News The Art Of Compromise So we're pro-union, as you well know. Which means we're on the side of labor in the ongoing hotel disupte -- just like Gavin! Which means we support the union's efforts to starve
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Knows Nuthin' 'bout Birthin' No Babies Even those of us who are due to give birth in 6 weeks admit to being somewhat clueless about what the childbirth experience is all about. So what do we do? We do
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: </i>Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents</i> The scene at the Kabuki for the last night of the Asian-American Film Festival was jam-packed, with three movies all starting at the same time, and people dressed to the nines for the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Slow Jam King A friendly crowd greeted Filipino-American filmmaker Steven Mallorca at the San Francisco screening of his labor of love, for the Asian-American Film Fest -- about three rows of seats were reserved for his
SF News Chron Management to Media Workers Guild: How Shall We Screw Thee? Let Us Count The Ways... The company says the changes are necessary to cut labor costs, reverse the newspaper's financial losses and forestall the possibility of an asset sale. Despite the major changes proposed, the company is still
Arts & Entertainment SFist To Rock Austin That's right, SFist is getting on a plane early tomorrow and will be flying deep into the heart of Texas in order to bring you wall-to-wall reporting of the internerd/hipster fest that
SF News Burning For School So apparently the San Francisco school board held some public meetings to decide on the start of the new school year. Before Labor Day? After Labor Day? Decisions, decisions, decisions. Everyone was pretty
misc The Essefficist! The Essefficist! The Essefficist! So without further adieu, let's hear from Carnal Carl: I hope you can help me with my recent moral quandary. There is a charming young woman who goes to grad school in the
SF News Talks Begin Between Guild, Chron Guild negotiators said their members have been skeptical about recent management claims that labor concessions are needed to put the newspaper on a more solid financial footing. In particular, [Writer's Guild Executive Officer
Arts & Entertainment It's Abortion Protest Saturday There will be, of course, an anti-anti-abortion counter rally to be held in response. In fact, some pro-choice organizers are responding with all the love of open-mindedness and civil discussion that makes this
SF News Butt-wielding Buttheads at the Chron This just slipped into our inbox from a mole at the Chron. It was forwarded to the all-staff mailing list by none other than Sharon Stone's former paramour and glurgy TV shill Phil
SF News Gimme a Break Although it’s been awhile since we’ve had non-cubicle related jobs, we often occasionally look back not so fondly at our manual labor type jobs. One of the things we remember was
SF News Fox Jocks to Rock De Anza Sean Hannity brings his Fox News ventriloquism act (look, Hannity's lips hardly move when Alan Colmes is talking!) to De Anza College's Flint Center for the Performing Arts tonight. Topic: Why godless liberals
SF News Alta Bates to Disgruntled Employees: Take Your One-Day Strike and Shove It The Chron quoted Alta Bates Summit's vice president for medical affairs, Dr. John Gentile, as suggesting the sympathy strike is meant to unify the unions so that they can bargain collectively for a
SF News SFist Cares... About Cold People in Other Countries And now we can put our skills to greater use. Afghans for Afghans is an organization that takes handmade afghans (duh), scarves, mittens and sweaters and distributes them to people in Afghanistan (duh,
Arts & Entertainment Models of Solidarity? If they cancel an international fashion show that no one's heard of, does it make a sound? The San Francisco International Fashion Week extraganza, originally scheduled for this week, have been postponed until
Arts & Entertainment Open Studio in the 'Town One of the things SFist loves about Oakland in all its post-industrial glory is that it's a great place for young artists to find studios. Take a walk through Temescal, West Oakland or
SF News Some Follow-Ups Mimi the pregnant toe-licking Japanese Chin dog has been found, wandering University Avenue in Palo Alto. Since being taken home, Mimi has mostly been hiding in a closet. The City of San Jose
misc Recycling Old Ideas With the Essefficist Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, again with the weekly column! Ayyyeeeeeesh! Once again back is the incredible, the rhyme animal, the untypeable E, public enemy number one. This week the Essefficist returns with a question
SF News Pick Up Your Own Towels After six weeks of fruitless negotiations, the San Francisco hotel workers union, UNITE 2, has called for a two-week strike against a number of local hotels. The boycott is against the San Francisco
SF News Me Love You Long NY Times The article has that arch tone of "oh those wacky Californians," but SFist would like to point out that those hotbeds of New Age, Granola-crunching, Yoga-posing Hippiedom, Nevada and Germany, have decriminalized prostitution
