misc Week Around The Ists What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly,
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For The Founders Of Yelp We enjoy Yelp quite a bit. During our rare moments of free time, we often have fun slogging through the site's multitudes of oft-useful, oft-comedic opinions on local services, establishments, and especially restaurants
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Jury Duty Many were a-twitter today when Ed Jew showed up at the Hall of Justice this morning for jury duty. Apparently he received his summons at his Sunset "home" address. And apparently, he had
Arts & Entertainment Oh No, Ed Jew!: Rally You guys are THE BEST. Thanks for all the great pictures of today's Ed Jew rally outside City Hall! We can't find any coverage of it online yet, but your reports to us
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Gets Made: Spending time with the SF Craft Mafia Who needs the Sopranos when there’s the San Francisco Craft Mafia? That’s right, we said craft mafia. You got a problem with that? We hope not, because this group is taking
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Phil Bronstein Phil Bronstein is the Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. In no small part thanks to Eve Batey (our "Editrix Emeritus" and the Chron's current blogging and interactive editor), Mr. Bronstein agreed to
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go To The Movies: Frameline SFist Sara gives you the lowdown on what to expect from the Frameline GLBT film fest, which starts up TODAY! Starting today, The Frameline LGBT Film Festival will be rolling out its rainbow
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: LOLJEW What's the latest? Poor Tapioca Ed! His legislative aide Barbara Meskunas spoke to the media this afternoon to let them know that her boss took the day off work and was "explaining the
SF News Day Around The Bay --A source passes along these pictures of Gavin Newsom and Carole Migden at a Pride event some time back. We saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus! --Steve Jobs speaks at the Apple Conference today.
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go To The Movies: Big <i>Ocean</i> This week's Big Movie: ! It’s a real surprise how divided the critics are about this one! Sure it’s franchising, sure it’s full of top shelf men in designer clothes and
SF News Chris Daly Backs Down (Blue Angels) Quick, look out your window! Are pigs flying? Mark this day on your calendar, because pugnacious Supervisor Chris Daly has actually backed down on something he's proposed (other than running for mayor, that
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Megan Morrone You may remember Megan Morrone from TechTV -- or you may have heard her filling in on a podcast here or there. We've recently become reacquainted with her works through Jumping Monkeys, her
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Two Houses Thank goodness the Chron got those pieces translated! The Chinese newspaper Sing Tao reported that the Sunset house appeared "sparsely decorated and furnished." On Monday, when the Chron drove by the Sunset house
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Don Giovanni Was it, as this Berkely Daily Planet op-ed conjectured, due to the new media suite, which will record every performance on high definition from this Don Giovanni on and thus will put some
Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Comments of The Week! In any case, check out the podcast to find out exactly which funny, witty, and/or informative comments made by Suckafree, Seamus Furr, el Greco, Persona non Bergman, and Bikescape made the cut!
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
misc No Whale News Is Good Whale News The authorities noted that a number of other dead whales have beached in the area recently, so it might not necessarily be our directionally-challenged cetacean friends -- and searches this morning have turned
SF News Day Around The Bay --Ha! The guy to your right ran for mayor of Barcelona, and doesn't he look like Matt Gonzalez? By copatbark from the SFist Flickr stream. --John Edwards was in town at Google. So
SF News Dog Maul Case Back In The News We are deeply, deeply regretful that the cityblog format had not been launched back in 2001 and 2002, when we were totally obsessed with the Diane Whipple dog mauling case. For those of
Arts & Entertainment Local Realtor Weighs In On Wilting Newspaper Biz A realtor called Chris Iverson was commenting on the "death of the newspaper industry" over at the 3 Oceans real estate blog. You may think "who the hell is this guy" to comment
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Chinese Media Yay, Tapioca Ed! We're counting down the days until he's scheduled to get back! (5 days to go.) Today's Chronicle runs a story about how Ed Jew's travails have been covered in the
SF News Do You Dare Say No To The Yes Men? It wasn't a cheap stunt to produce, and their next one won't be, either. So they need your help. They're asking for PayPal donations, which seems a bit sketch to us -- you
Arts & Entertainment L.A. Times Covers The Haight "Punk kids have invaded the Haight, they're mean, it's not what it used to be, etc, etc." Yeah, that's old hat for those of us that have been in the city for even
misc Whale Watch Update: Mean! Aw, mean! Someone hacked into the telephone hotline that the whale rescuers set up for you to leave messages on how to help directionally-challenged Delta and Dawn get back to the Pacific Ocean,
Arts & Entertainment First Chron Layoff Announced And the layoffs begin -- a source tells us the first person to be let go from the Chronicle in their 25% reduction-in-staff campaign is managing editor Robert "Rosey" Rosenthal. We got the
