Arts & Entertainment Oxford Dictionaries Chooses A F***ing Emoji As Word Of The Year It's either the end of civilization as we know it or a terrific step in the academic recognition of the evolving importance of the visual language of emoji, depending on your perspective. But
SF News Sad: Boonville's Weird Boontling Dialect Swiftly Dying Off If you've been around Northern California for a while, you should know about Boontling, the weird, charming, very country sounding dialect that was invented about 150 or so years ago in the Anderson
Arts & Entertainment San Franciscans Talked Funny 30 Years Ago Is there a San Francisco accent? According to a 1984 article written by then Chronicle reporter Carl Nolte, there is a unique San Francisco way of speaking. Or at least, there was. "There
SF News If You're Glue, Gavin's Rubber: Newsom Pledges End of 'R-Word' Today, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom asked for people to stop using the "r-word" (in vulgar parlors: "retard," "retarded") in conversation and written text. Although we suspect any campaign to end argot has
misc ‘Muni’ or ‘the Muni’? The former, obviously. However, according to this Bank of America ad, it's just dandy to preface "Muni" with a definite article. Wanna fight about it? Fine. Head over to Muni Diaries or Language
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learn to Pronounce German Beer Styles, Brands For us, beer means only one thing: constant streams of urine. However, many of you love a frothy brew, which is why the kind folks at SF Weekly want to help you learn
misc Local Media Nothing But a Bunch of Cockteasing Bitches We hate shit like this. 66-year-old Santa Clara ice cream man Santokh Singh Sajan made some dirty comments to underage ice cream patrons the others day. Sounds bad, right? And according to the
misc It's Got to be the Morning After Warriors 120 Suns 118- No, Shaq Diesel didn't play, thus depriving ESPN hours of blathering, but he was spied by our overlord Brock at a hotel and was described as "very tall." Monta
misc SFist Photo: The Orphanage -- A New Film From Spain If you're hankering to see a Sixth Sense-ish "horror-drama hybrid," look no further. Don't bother reading the reviews. Pft. Just get on out there and check it out. We're not saying is perfect,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Marga Gomez: Multiaward-wining lesbian/Latina comic makes her Plush Room debut with Joshua Raoul Broday on the ivories, and former Mornings on 2 personality and comedian, Mark Pitta. Show starts at 8
Arts & Entertainment Dan Noyes: Original Gangsta We found this vintage clip of our favorite hellraiser/Facebook Friend, Dan Noyes, dropping the F-bomb. We're not sure why the dude holding the yellow sign in the background thinks KGO is "bad
SF News News About The Mayor Hey, does anyone know what the mayor of San Francisco's up to? --M&R report that Gavin has been attending rehab sessions every day this last week -- some as individual sessions
Arts & Entertainment There is Only One Thing That Can Kill The Movies, And That is Education This is the part of SFist where we talk about movies that are opening this weekend, but we're just so thrilled we can barely type since this weekend sees the opening of Alien
