SF News Proposition It San Francisco Style After exploring the whacky world of state-wide propositions, we now turn to San Francisco City & County Propositions where we find matters to vote upon both great (housing initiatives and tax issues) and
Arts & Entertainment SFist interview: Michael O'Connor There's a whole lot of competition in Michael's race -- 21 other candidates, to be exact. No doubt many candidates were spurred on by the new ranked choice voting, which will allow people
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Alexander Tonisson More importantly you, like us, will have to reexamine your ideas about what it means to be an altruist and if your desk job really does have meaning. In addition to being a
Arts & Entertainment So Delicious! SFist always has a good time in Japantown. We enjoy the bookstore, the many restaurants, and the chance to pretend we're in The Executioner. And there's another reason to head down to the
misc Animal Beat It's high time for a roundup of Bay Area animal news! (Does anyone know when Animal Cops San Francisco is going to start? We're dying here!) Lock up your tasty dogs and kids!
Arts & Entertainment FIGHT!!! One of the reasons we read the weeklies is because, thankfully, we live in a town big enough for two of them. They don't always see it that way, however - the relationship
SF News And They're Out of the Fajitagate! If you've been living under a rock for the last year, then you'll have no idea what we're talking about. But then we had enough trouble getting DSL in our home, so it
SF News Interview: Lessley Anderson As part of this plot, we are pleased to bring you an interview with Lessley Anderson who writes for SF Weekly. Even if she didn't love the Musee Mechanique as much as SFist,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Toby Dixon By the way, Toby - we were gonna totally run that other picture you sent, honest, but we're lame. Feel free to call us prudes in the comments.
SF News You May Not Be Able to Buy That Hummel Figurine SFist was finally looking forward to some ad revenue from BlogAds when we noticed an AP story noting that San Jose's PayPal, a division of eBay, is experiencing glitches in the wake of
SF News Oakland Panda-ring to China Chang has just returned from a trip to Chengdu, Sichuan province, where he traveled with representatives from architecture firm Y.H. Lee Associates - who were there to examine the local panda research
SF News In My Tribe Unless you're really active in using these sites as they're intended - that is, to meet new people - things get old pretty fast. And we don't really want to meet new people,
Arts & Entertainment SFist First Thursday Tonight at Lisa Dent's gallery at 660 Mission will be a special viewing of the work of Hank Willis Thomas, local photographer and recent California College of the Arts MFA graduate. SFist has
SF News Where's the Whoop? Does anyone remember Big Whoop magazine? It ran for a couple of years and was a great SF and pop-culture zine. If it was a blog, it would have been huge. I think
SF News Debate This We here at SFist were totally going to blog this debate because blogging is, from what we hear, the new black, but since we were also playing the officially sanctioned Wonkette Vice-Presidential Debate
SF News Like New Yorkers Give a Damn About Us SFist is a little miffed. We were forwarded a tip by the beautiful Jessica Coen, currently busy being paid to blog for Gawker, to a rather funny local Craigslist post. We're miffed because,
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Idol The line starts at 6 a.m. today, but it's unclear whether you should have camped out last night or should expect to camp out tonight (bring a jacket and keep your vocal
SF News DOJ Cries Uncle - Oracle To Purchase Half Their Competitors In breaking news, the Justice Department has given up trying to block the hostile takeover of Pleasanton's PeopleSoft by Oracle, clearing the way for Oracle to begin negotiations with PeopleSoft over the share
Arts & Entertainment While You're At It, You Can Pay Your Late Fees Too For those of you who love the antiquarian hunt, there's also a separate section for the "Best of Book Bay," with rare and unusual books (between $20 and $250), including the first ever
SF News Calling All Libertarians SFist loves the healthy California lifestyle like anyone else. We love being outdoors, eating healthy foods, getting our exercise. But we also love drinking and smoking. Is that a crime? That seems to
Arts & Entertainment I Love(a)Parade The parades in Europe now bring in 50 truckfuls of musicians and over a million ravers, and the organizers decided to bring the rhythms to San Francisco for the Love Parade's debut. A
Arts & Entertainment Rockin' Out with the Pixies We were reminded recently how much we love the Pixies while at Trannyshack. The weekly show at The Stud happened to be dedicated to the group, much to our surprise. Imagine a bloody
Arts & Entertainment Hey, Im the one with no soul Let's see -- you're a psychotic, drug-addled rock star just out of rehab and out on bail who has also just recently been hospitalized for some mysterious ailment. So what do you do?
misc Behind the Wheel San Francisco sure does love its bicycles. Every time we get on the Bay Bridge in our *gasp* car, we wish there was a way to ride our bike across the bridge to
Arts & Entertainment Party on Valencia Guilt-Free SFist is proud to be a product of public high school. Not only did our sports teams lay waste to the local private schools (well, except for the Catholic schools), we beat them
