misc California Highways Still Safe for Porn Last week, the legislature defeated a bill by Assemblyman John Benoit (R-Palm Desert) that would have made it illegal to watch porn from the comfort of your car. The problem with watching porn
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part Five -- Technoblogf**k Tonight we got to hang with our local A-list, which may be B-list as far as the major media mentions go. But we take heart when a BARBARian gets a mention in the
misc Happy St. Pat's from the Essefficist Like we said, it's Irish month around here. So here's the first annual Essefficist St. Patrick's Day column you've all been waiting for. We've got two questions today: one about a St. Pat's
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: 62 Years and 6500 Miles Between First of all, we want to apologize for having to miss the Asian Am Film Fest screening of the Taiwanese comedy on Tuesday -- we got sick. We're totally going to try and
SF News SFist Rants: Clean Up Your S**t SFist feels very lucky to wake every day in a city that lives the legacy of Harvey Milk. His awareness of how simply powerful being publicly gay could be lead to a freedom
SF News Richmond & Oakland Want Reparations Supporters behind the bill hope that the laws passed will pave the way for slavery reparations. It also continues with a trend of suing companies that are believed to have profited from slavery.
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part One -- Austin On Zero Dollars A Day So begins our sordid tale of nerd debauchery here in Austin. The San Francisco Bay Area is representing to the fullest extent of the law here in Texas, and we've had a hard
Arts & Entertainment Bad News For Bloggers SFist Jackson's not here today, but we know he'd want us to let you know that, as expected, Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Kleinberg ruled against the bloggers and for Apple. Judge Kleinberg
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
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Blogspotter What did we tell you, Chris? Switch to blogger.com! The Chron, fresh from learning that "blog" is short for "Web-log," (gosh! You can read them any old time and they can be
SF News SFist Rants: We Want Our NBC We're fine, that is, until someone starts talking about, like, "Law and Order: Shoplifting Diversion Program" or something. For cable-free SFists do not receive NBC, since the local NBC affiliate switched from KRON
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Momma's House Getting pregnant is a wonderful, beautiful thing. There’s the special joy in knowing that a life grows inside you, the hormones make you all blissed out, and suddenly your mother-in-law treats you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Isn't Too Cool For Traffic School Sometimes we at SFist break the law. Not necessarily in a "hold up the local 7-Eleven" kind of way, but in a "oh crap that schoolbus had its lights flashing" kind of way.
Arts & Entertainment The Odd Couple Now you may be wondering why the Christian Coalition is taking such an interest in people downloading illegal Beck mash-ups or musical Buffy goodness, but the reason is fairly obvious in that one
SF News Good News on the Homeless Front. Maybe. The best news and the most controversial news was the report claiming that there are 2000 fewer homeless people living on the streets of the city compared to 2002. The census was undertaken
Arts & Entertainment Save the Gizmos! The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hosting an event tonight to highlight "endangered gizmos," or technology products that are on the cutting edge of innovation but that could fall prey to increasingly more restrictive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist In The Kitchen: Blood Oranges We're getting a bit tired of winter's oranges, but juicy, so-red-they're-violet blood oranges caught our attention at the Civic Center Farmer's Market and we to buy some. We like the hallmark taste that
SF News Photogs Of The World: Unite! The question of the day was, "Did we win?" By all indications, that answer is "yes," although the difficulty in declaring victory will be in proving the negative -- how will we necessarily
SF News Our Pot Plants Bring All The Boys To The Yard -- Damn Right, They're Better Than Yours In the "it would be funny and surprising if you didn't live here" department, the Mendocino County assistant agricultural commissioner, Tony Linegar, is asking the state to regulate Marijuana cultivation so that the
Arts & Entertainment Muni Photography Ban: Update To follow up on our previous story, we're not sure whether the Muni photography ban is the biggest threat to our personal freedom, but we have a feeling that if we don't blow
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Case You Missed It: King Cakes That said, there are things about Mardi Gras that do appeal to us -- those metallic purple, gold, and green beads, for example. We got our annual fill of those from our brother-in-law,
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban on Muni? We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to
SF News Save the Old Church The Archdiocese has been looking to sell the church to a developer as the church has been closed since 1994 due to the fact they can’t afford the $7-$8 million in
SF News Anaheim or San Francisco: Which is Safer for the Children? So we're cruising Defamer today for pretty, young gossip, and we stumble across a map of Anaheim, centered on Disneyland, from the Megan's Law Database via southland blogger Flagrant Disregard. Even we were
Arts & Entertainment Winter of Love Doc Trailer Online , a documentary about our Winter of Love, has footage of the Mayor's meetings in the days leading up to the Valentine's happening, as well as footage of the ensuing exchanges of heartfelt vows
